Sentences with phrase «ecological systems approach»

Applying a developmental ecological systems approach, this study investigated contextual influences on immigrant and refugee gang involvement across three ecological systems (i.e., ontogenic system, microsystem, and exosystem).

Not exact matches

Current approaches to ecological agriculture such as integrated pest management, integrated plant nutrition systems and conservation tillage, consider only one aspect of the farming system components: pest ecology, plant ecology and soil ecology, respectively.

March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition.

Stewart Ibarra and her colleagues use a social - ecological systems (SES) approach to conduct their research.

Well, it's a big planet with some very complicated climatic and ecological systems, and there's no guarantee that any approach will actually work in real life.

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

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coEcological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

In the new study, Kharrazi and researchers at IIASA applied an approach first developed to study ecological networks in order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade system.

This integrative, multidisciplinary team will consider feedbacks between climate, ecological, and human belief systems using a quantitative modeling approach.

Maintaining a sustainable community using a systematic approach enables the meeting of multiple objectives benefitting ecological systems and human populations, who are dependent on the stability of them.

Keywords: Sustainable communities, systematic approach, ecological systems, algorithm, plant species, programming, functional approximation, photosynthesis, strategy, collaborative proposals, policy makers.

By using a blended approach you can easily run a few seminars live, in class, and the remaining ones by using a videoconferencing app, you can also distribute your class materials through the Learning Management System (LMS), which is both simple and more ecological.

Perhaps a better approach is to allow for people to act the way people tend to do, but design systems such that people have their own ecological niche, which, through good design, allows them to behave in self - interested ways that benefit the common good.

The SGP offers a community - based approach in international waters management that generates not only global environmental benefits but also increases adaptive capacity for communities and ecological systems.

Building from scratch permits a comprehensive, whole systems approach, and more degrees of freedom than adaptation of an existing city (just as new green buildings can generally deliver better ecological performance than retrofits).

ms approach, this study investigated contextual influences on immigrant and refugee gang involvement across three ecological systems (i.e., ontogenic system, microsystem, and exosystem).

School social workers approach their direct practice from ecological systems and justice - oriented perspectives.