Sentences with phrase «ecological relationships in»

However, reliance by humans on cultural adaptations means that it is difficult to extrapolate from ecological relationships in other animals.»

Organic farmers use cover crops and sophisticated crop rotations to improve ecological relationships in the field.

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If what is needed in our ecological, nuclear age is an imaginative vision of the relationship between God and the world that underscores their interdependence and mutuality, empowering a sensibility of care and responsibility toward all life, how would it help to see the world as the body of God?

Those who are doubtful point to the deepening misery of the poor, the loss of traditional values and community relationships, the looming ecological crises, and the structural dependence of prosperity on decisions made in financial centers in other parts of the world.

It is interesting to note in this context that family therapy broke out of purely intrapsychic relations into wider systems of relationships that characterize and condition us all; and now we see the more recent birth of «ecological» therapy, where the concern broadens to include human relationships to the fullest extent possible (see FFT 256ff.).

It means restoring a good relationship between humanity and its ecological home, stirring the heart, setting about work in a spirit of thanksgiving, discovering power under the authority of the Spirit, confronting evil with confidence in the sovereignty of God and sharing in the generous economy of God so that nothing is wasted.

The word «ecological» is added because of the emphasis on relationships in the development of postmodern thought that has been influenced by process philosophy and in particular the thought of A.N. Whitehead.

In this paper, I shall present a more adequate mechanistic position based on a contemporary image of a machine and attempt to show its relationship to the ecological model of Birch and Cobb.

The author presents a mechanistic position based on a contemporary image of a machine and attempts to show its relationship to the ecological model of Birch and Cobb, in which a classical mechanism is presented based on an outdated image of a machine.

Relationship, as we now see more clearly in the emergence of ecological consciousness, is the substance of all being and of life itself.

Some contemporary theologians, in response to the ecological crisis we currently face, deem it crucial that we reevaluate and refine the classic Christian doctrines regarding God's relationship to the natural world and humanity's place within the created order.

It could also be called ecological in that it starts from a network of relationships between interdependent beings, rather than from separate beings or dialogic pairs.

The basic images grow out of ecological studies of the relationships of organisms to each other in physical space.

It demands a knowledge of the ecological dynamics and the relationship that humans have in each region.

Dr Booth said studying the relationships between predators and prey, and the interactions between different predators that hunt the same prey, were important in ecological research.

While previously there was a general understanding that ecotheology surfaced only in the late 1960s, Pihkala found many examples of earlier ecological engagement in the texts contributing to achieving a sustainable human - earth relationship from the early 20th century archives both in Europe and beyond.

This big - picture, ecological view on a growing healthcare concern emphasizes the important relationship between antibiotic resistance in the clinic and environmental microbiology, the researchers say.

«We intended to create not just a place for classes but rather a building that would help to redefine the relationship between humankind and the environment — one that would expand our sense of ecological possibilities,» said David Orr, the director of Oberlin's Environmental Studies program, at the center's groundbreaking ceremony in 1999.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and morIn their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and morin which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

They then used a modeling approach developed by Scripps ecologist George Sugihara and colleagues to detect cause - and - effect relationships in ecological systems.

The alterations have been greater under rapidly - climbing global temperatures, suggesting key ecological relationships could be disrupted in the future.

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean.

We undertook a multi-disciplinary study to elucidate the ecological relationships between krill and baleen whales relative to oceanographic processes in the embayments of the Antarctic Peninsula at the onset of winter.

These dramatic advances in spring flowering were successfully predicted by historical relationships between flowering and spring temperature spanning up to 161 years of ecological change.

The ability to maintain important social relationships is believed to have direct fitness benefits for individuals, allowing them to maximise survival and reproductive success in constantly changing socio - ecological environments [1, 2, 30].

We need in our schools to excavate the relationship between capitalism and ecological sustainability.

The critical ecopedagogy of scholar / activists such as Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder, Tina Evans, and David Greenwood operates within an overall dialectics of justice in which environmental justice and ecological justice (the former relating to the unequal distribution of harmful environments between people and the later referring to the relationship between humans and the rest of the world).

While our food is rooted in a vast chain of ecological relationships, it's also part of an increasingly complex and problematic system of our own design.

SDGs pursue an ecological sustainability that requires deep and paradigmatic changes in the interdependent relationships that humans have with natural ecosystems.

She is particularly interested in the ways in which children use the varied data representations and their daily experiences to reason about complex ecological relationships.

Michael Moon is the ranch manager, and he began the morning by speaking to the group about the mission of Chico Basin Ranch, a working cattle ranch dedicated to working collaboratively with neighboring ranches and with people and organizations in the local community and nearby cities to establish relationships that enhance the ecological and economic stability of this ranching operation.

Ji's particular focus is the harsh realities of life in China today as traditional relationships between its people and the land have been unmoored by social, political, economic and ecological upheavals.

Both authors will discuss the relationship of the idea of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)

It also fits in with recent debates about natural history and our relationship to a world that has undergone unprecedented ecological and geopolitical change.

On a Saturday in November of 2016, during his exhibition Continuous Services Altered Daily at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut (May 1, 2016 — February 5, 2017 and on view at the Bemis Center in Omaha June 1, 2017 — August 26, 2017), David Brooks, an artist recognized for his commitment to illuminating our complex human relationship with the natural world, sat down with Greg Lindquist to talk about his current show, ecological activism, and scientific fieldwork.

Ecological thinking views citizens and citizenship within co-defining relationships from the start, and by doing so it incorporates ecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on thEcological thinking views citizens and citizenship within co-defining relationships from the start, and by doing so it incorporates ecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on thecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on this system.

But to those who had a closer relationship to the river, the working - class residents who could not afford to vacation in far - away places, or the recreational and commercial fisherman, the river was the depository of a tremendous ecological diversity and was in fact capable of being restored to a healthier state.

Although he successfully addresses the climate issue, it is clear that Stoknes has something bigger in mind as he expertly describes contemporary human relationships with the natural world and offers hope for a revitalized ecological link.

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

The emergence of the climate crisis seems sudden only because of a relatively recent discontinuity in the relationship between human civilization and the planet's ecological system.

In fact, Graff has designed a vertical farm project that is an arcology, or a» a web of symbiotic resource flow relationships that enable the building to operate with a self - sufficiency similar to that of ecological systems.»

No, the bark beetle outbreaks have little - to - no relationship with trends in area burned or the ecological severity of fires.

By promoting social and ecological sustainability in all our festival operations, and forging relationships with organizations and individuals who have similar goals Planet In Focus is walking the talk on the environment.&raquin all our festival operations, and forging relationships with organizations and individuals who have similar goals Planet In Focus is walking the talk on the environment.&raquIn Focus is walking the talk on the environment.»

Single motherhood, rather than reflecting an avoidant strategy in which close relationships are devalued, is often the result of ecological conditions in which paternal investment is desired but unavailable.

Indigenous peoples have a «special interest» in climate change issues, not only because through their physical and spiritual relationships with land, water and associated ecosystems, they are particularly vulnerable to climate change; but also because they have a specialised ecological and traditional knowledge relevant to finding the «best fit» solutions.

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METHODS: Recommendations from the special issue were categorized and discussed in relation to the Social - Ecological Model and the... prevention efforts targeting individuals, relationships, communities, and society.

«Ecological theory,» as advanced by renowned developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, emphasizes the multiple, interdependent «ecologies,» or environmental systems, in which children develop.67 In this theory, which has been tested and confirmed by numerous studies, the most important ecologies for children are the «microsystems» — those ecologies that contain the direct relationships children have with caring adultin which children develop.67 In this theory, which has been tested and confirmed by numerous studies, the most important ecologies for children are the «microsystems» — those ecologies that contain the direct relationships children have with caring adultIn this theory, which has been tested and confirmed by numerous studies, the most important ecologies for children are the «microsystems» — those ecologies that contain the direct relationships children have with caring adults.

The Human Ecological Lens posits that we are all greatly influenced by our surrounding circumstances and that individual needs motivate a wide range of choices regarding how we act, react, and interact in our romantic relationships.5