Sentences with phrase «ecological value as»

Rather than simply using conventional economic metrics to try to reconcile apparent conflicts between environmental concerns and the bottom line, Ford's leaders began to examine how smart design decisions could grow not just profits but social and ecological value as well.

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By mono - culture we mean the undermining of economic, cultural and ecological diversity, the nearly universal acceptance of technological culture as developed in the West and its values.

Thus the particular historical exigencies and social possibilities in our own age will necessarily affect the ways in which these values are translated into norms on such issues as women's rights, sexual ethics, social justice, property rights, energy policy or ecological concerns.

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

It is the difference between pursuing knowledge as power only and pursuing knowledge as power at the service of values and responsible to social and ecological justice and to the people whose welfare is affected by the exercise of that power.

With «increasing recognition for the value of restoring ecoystems to their natural condition,» Strowd sees a need for scientists trained in ecological areas, including biology, zoology, chemistry, and geology as well as environmental, civil, and mechanical engineers.

This paradox not only applies to the circumstance in which some ecological treasure gains value as it becomes rarer but to the inverse case as well, in that something endangered will lose value as it creeps back from the edge of extinction.

NOC would set up ways to prioritize those needs, as well as guidance on tasks like identifying which areas are of high ecological value.

They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.

As a field biologist, he values experiential learning and believes hands - on experiences are essential to understand ecological concepts and organisms.

Although mined areas are supposed to be reclaimed, as in the case of mountaintop removal, there is no expectation that the ecological value of reclaimed areas will be equivalent to predevelopment condition [141], [155].

Quinoa has been considered as a crop for NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System due to its high protein values and unique composition of amino acids.

BC Hockey is a not - for - profit organization and member branch of Hockey Canada in charge of governing amateur hockey at all levels in British Columbia and British Columbia's incredible system of provincial parks protect internationally significant ecological and cultural values, and offers experiences as

Most schools need to drastically alter their approach to designing the school day, if they are ever to achieve a consensus amongst students that there is genuine value in such things as Ecological sustainability.

Stretching over 123 kilometres along the southern coast of Queensland, Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world, and was inscribed on the World Heritage List in recognition of its natural values as an outstanding example representing ongoing ecological and biological processes and as an example of superlative natural phenomena.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

«The view that we should prevent predation underestimates ecological considerations, as we see from the dire consequences of eliminating keystone predator species, and it is committed to a narrow view of value: only pleasure and pain count,» said MacClellan.

As the boat continued sliding silently along the Grand Union Canal we learnt from Rob that the average dog in the UK has a bigger ecological footprint than the average African person, and that we (people in the UK) are very good at producing waste, but poor at recovering the value of it.

A new taxpayer - funded NASA / Penn State «scientific» study warns that «ecosystem - valuing universalist» (really «green») aliens might realize that we have been altering «the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere,» conclude that we have «ecological destructive tendencies,» and «wipe humanity out in order to preserve the Earth system as a whole.»

But what if we redefined value with principles of product quality that generate not only economic growth, but social and ecological well - being as well?

Carbon credits & markets seemed like a high finance scam mostly; I researched carbon sequestration & coal gasification for some meetings, but I took the science at face value — warming as just one aspect of oncoming ecological apocalypse.

The psychological value of the films as a tool to teach youth about climate change has been discussed at meetings of a number of prominent institutions including the National Education Association, EPA, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, Ecological Society of America, the National Science Teachers Association and the North American Association for Environmental Education — groups that are embracing the use of the films to change the pedagogy of teaching about climate change.

But as both economic actors and citizens, designers can contribute to redesigning the economy for a better balance of human and ecological values against monetary ones.

It also helps protect and improve water quality, as well as the river's unique historic, cultural, scenic, ecological, and recreational values.

Because nature does not charge for the ecosystem services it provides, pricing these externalities is a matter of public policy, which can be addressed through a wide variety of financial as well as regulatory mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, land - value assessments, and / or various forms of ecological - use fees (Sanderson 2013).

Culminating World Environment Day itself, backing up this year's theme of Forests: Nature At Your Service, UNEP has highlighted the social, ecological and economic value of forests — as well as the massive benefits of reducing deforestation.

In an article on Huffington Post, Gleick writes of three types of peak water: renewable, where water flows are constrained over time; nonrenewable, such as groundwater sources, where we pull more than can be naturally replenished; and ecological, which is the point beyond which the cost to the local ecology of using the water is higher than the value of using it for human consumption.

Productive green roofs combine food production with ecological sustainability, such as reduced rainwater run - off, temperature benefits such as potential reduction of heating and cooling requirements (resulting in reduced emissions), biodiversity, improved aesthetic value and air quality.

Indigenous knowledge of customary and traditional water use are identified (such as the high value cultural and ecological water systems and areas)