Sentences with phrase «effect on the environment as»

Sánchez - Quiles said the question regulators and scientists will have to answer is what the trade - offs are between the economic benefits of tourism and personal health benefits of these chemicals and the harmful effects on the environment as a whole.
When used appropriately, these oils have powerful detoxing effects on your environment as well as your mood, energy, and vitality.
When we talk about the environmental benefits of solar power, we often talk about how installing a solar energy system can have the same effect on the environment as planting trees.

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Blue, Green Colors commonly found in nature, such as blues and greens, can have a calming effect on a stressful work environment, says Woodman.
Over time, as people became more and more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment, plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.
In all these cases the effect of debt deflation extracting interest is not only on spending — and hence on current prices — but on the economy's long - term ability to produce, by eating into natural resources and the environment as well as society's manmade capital stock.
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»
If doctrine might be represented by an object such as a chair, then theology would be the use to which that object is put, its effect on its surroundings and the perspective it gives on its environment.
Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.
So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.
@D U, Your environment creates you — Some name their environment as god — Your environment evolves, by how it affects you, and by how its» components effect it — Your environment changes by any activity from within or without — Your Destop Universe environment can evolve, simply by you pulling the plug on the computing device — Change is essential, Stagnation = Death
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms of its effects first on the broader symbolic environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.
Even though I come across in my blog as a tormented type of person, I take some comfort in the fact that the effect I might have on my environment is at times serene.
After going meat free she began to learn more about food and its effect on the human body, as well as to understand the impact of food production and consumption on the environment.
As with many things affected by the environment, climate change has an effect on agroforestry.
If the thought of America or the UK going fully meat free seems a bit of a stretch, consider how the popularity of veganism has rocketed in recent years, as people become more aware of the effect industrial livestock farming is having on the environment, their health and the welfare of animals.
Growing more interested in the effect of business on the environment, Katy worked as an environmental consultant and later a researcher on socially responsible investing, helping conscientious investors to find world - changing progressive companies and avoid corporations pushing profits above people.
The trend of organic baby clothes is part of a larger trend towards organic clothing, as more people become aware of the significant effects that the textile industry has on our environment.
On the other hand, advanced maternal age is associated with a more stable family environment, higher socio - economic position, higher income and better living conditions, as well as better parenting practices, [14] but it is more or less uncertain whether these entities are effects of advanced maternal age, are contributors to advanced maternal age, or common effects of a certain state such as personality type.
We confirmed this gene — environment interaction in two birth cohorts, and we ruled out alternative explanations of the finding involving gene — exposure correlation, intrauterine growth, social class, and maternal cognitive ability, as well as maternal genotype effects on breastfeeding and breast milk.
The major benefits of Forest School, as listed in the book, «Forest School and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years» by Sara Knight are increased confidence and self - belief; social skills with increased awareness of the consequence of their actions on other people, peers and adults and the ability to work cooperatively; more sophisticated written and spoken language; increased motivation and concentration; improved stamina and gross and fine motor skills; increased respect for the environment and increased observational skills; ability to have new perspectives and form positive relationships with others; a ripple effect to the family.
All of their fabrics are processed without the use of synthetic preservitives as they value sustainability and its effects on the environment.
One explanation for the protective effect of the pacifier is that the external handle may help to maintain air passages in sleep environments with decreased air flow, such as sleeping with the head covered or on soft bedding.
Threat to elections is defined as any activity, event or actions that are intended to have adverse effect on election staff, facilities or equipment as opposed to security risk, defined as those events or circumstances which exist in the operational environment but are not purposely directed towards election interests.
Each capital project request shall show: recommended priority; development; time schedule; estimated costs for planning, site of right of way, construction, equipment and other features; status of plans and land acquisition; anticipated effect of project on annual operating budget; possible sources of financial aid; recommended expenditures by years; and such other information as the Budget Director and Commissioner of Environment and Planning may deem advisable.
The 2012 government reshuffle was said to be a «rise of the right» moment but has made little discernible effect on the overall direction of the government, aside from possibly the work done by Chris Grayling as justice secretary and Owen Paterson as environment secretary.
Buratai identified Nigeria's weak industrial base, the effect of climate change on the environment and Nigeria's porous borders as some of the factors fuelling armed conflict in Nigeria.
She now works in extreme environments such as the frigid Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Siberia, gauging the effect of underwater ambient noise on marine mammals.
An environment that is not highly hygienic has a positive effect on the development of the immune system as it learns not to react to harmless materials as is the case with allergies.
The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity.
The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.
«What we have to do as a society is figure out how to move ourselves around in a way that is low - cost and has minimal effect on the environment,» he says.
Height is said to be 90 percent heritable, which means that the environment, such as childhood nutrition, has only a 10 percent effect on whether you're going to be shorter or taller.
«As a field, we've often focused on understanding and changing individual psychological processes, but these findings show that changing individual psychology can trigger important second - order effects with measurable benefits for everyone in the environment
Dr Sorichetta comments: «It's crucial we understand human mobility, so we can quantify the effect it has on our societies and the environment and provide strong evidence to support the development of policies to address issues, such as public health problems.»
So if, as Le Cao Dai believes, it is causing second and third - generation birth deformities, the likelihood is that they are congenital, caused by either the continuing presence of dioxin in the environment and human tissue, or lingering effects on the father's or mother's hormonal system.
Excess noise in the environment from sources such as traffic can have negative effects on animals that rely on sound to communicate and get information about their surroundings.
These findings lend support to the direct influence of genetic factors on creativity, as opposed to the effect of sharing an environment with individuals who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
The study focuses exclusively on the type of evolution known as purifying selection, which favors mutations that have no or only a small effect in a fixed environment.
Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.
Moreover, it is called the «green cancer» due to the negative effects it has on the environment as well as its invasive characteristics: rapid growth, short generation time, its ability to both reproduce alone and vegetative propagation, and profuse production of seeds which are easily spread.
Clinical trials of weight loss have been shown to improve participants» mood, but this could be a result of the supportive environment rather than the weight loss itself, as the effects are seen very early on in treatment and are not related to the extent of weight loss.
The researchers found just as many brown dwarfs in RCW 38 — about half as many as there are stars — and realised that the environment where the stars form, whether stars are more or less massive, tightly packed or less crowded, has only a small effect on how brown dwarfs form.
New research suggests that offering financial incentives for farming industries to mitigate the impact agriculture has on the environment, by reducing fertiliser use and «sparing» land for conservation, for example, actually has a positive effect on critical areas such as greenhouse gas reduction and increased biodiversity.
«As interest in space travel grows — for both research and commercial aims — it is increasingly important to understand the effect a microgravity environment can have on the human heart for both the traveler and their potential future children,» said Karen Ocorr, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.
These effects might be responsible for the decline observed in bee populations as they rely on sophisticated cognitive skills to collect food in the environment.
Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.
The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.
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