Sentences with phrase «environmental data as»

This used to be the case and is still the case in some civilized countries like the United States, but other countries with a less well developed sense of public interest, such as England and France, hold environmental data as proprietary.

Campaign vigorously and unceasingly to get governments around the world to treat government - funded environmental data as a public good.

If it worked for medical data, Sawe thought it could work for environmental data as well.

Not exact matches

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds with billions of people sharing a wide and deep array of data — texts, tweets, GPS coordinates, all manner of photos, videos, environmental data, clickstreams, status updates, likes and reposts, pumping trillions of real - time signals into the digital universe — what does the future hold?

1 is 1 project, to become the digitalization assistant for all industries; 3 is the three roles of connector, toolbox and ecosystem builder; 5 is the five remits of civic services, consumption, manufacturing services, health and environmental protection; and 7 refers to the seven tools of public accounts, mini programs, mobile payments, social media advertising, safety capabilities and something referred to as big - smart - cloud: big data, AI capabilities and cloud computing.

Description: Open environmental data can be viewed as infrastructure for society: the data is available to the public and can be meaningfully used to understand nature - based solutions to environmental issues.

There is a global movement to liberate government - «owned» data sets, such as census data, environmental data, and data generated by government - funded research projects.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Dr Chito Medina, MASIPAG partner scientist, said that Health Impact Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments as required under the JDC should be done by an independent group of experts, and the process can not be confined from the data presented only by the proponents.

Operational monitoring is undertaken for all Commonwealth environmental watering actions and involves collecting on ground data with regard to environmental water delivery such as volumes delivered, impact on the river systems hydrograph, area of inundation and river levels.

Cristina Grandi, IFOAM Food Security Campaigner, presented a poster on the «Benefits of organic farming systems» examining environmental, economic and social aspects as well as data on soil health, water efficiency, biodiversity, energy efficiency, yields, profitability, nutrition and employment.

These metrics were selected by CSWA's Sustainable Winegrowing Joint Committee, comprised of 50 growers and vintners from throughout the California wine industry, because they met specific criteria, such as economic and environmental impact, data availability, ease of use, and state of the science.

As for environmental friendliness, the data on cotton is damning.

While describing his «swift» reaction as incumbent, he said, it is important for clarity to state that what the Ministry has acquired with the said sum of money is an integrated IT infrastructure which comprises two Data Centres, an off - site recovery centre, civil and environmental works on the

Productive environmental regulations have been made, such as the ban on hydrofracking in 2015 — though data collected by the Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumpedenvironmental regulations have been made, such as the ban on hydrofracking in 2015 — though data collected by the Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumpedEnvironmental Advocates of New York (EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumped in New York.

With full understanding of ridership and revenues4 on different routes (through better data collection) the metro mayor should seek to offer services to connect people more quickly and affordably to job and training opportunities across the city region, as well boosting health, environmental and social outcomes.

A coalition including cooling industry representatives and environmental activist Erin Brockovich called on the state to enforce federal water regulations, regularly test the water supply and improve New York's water infrastructure, as data show the state has the highest number of Legionnaire's disease cases in the nation.

«If you look at data from around the country, it seems pretty consistent that there are around three times as many kids with 5 - 9 [micrograms] as there are kids with greater than 10 [micrograms],» Katrina Korfmacher, a lead poisoning prevention expert and associate professor for the Department of Environmental Medicine at University of Rochester Medical Center, wrote in an email.

Despite this lack of critical data, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has classified Hudson River waters from north of the Bronx Borough line all the way to the northern end of Columbia County as acceptable for swimming.

And he sat impassively at an open cabinet meeting as two of his appointees — acting health commissioner Howard Zucker and Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens — recommended that the state not allow natural gas hydrofracking, citing public health «red flags» and a lack of scientific data supporting its safety.

Mayor Sheehan came prepared with data to back up her successes in environmental planning over the past years — such as the Energy Smart Community Plan, the $ 1.4 million awarded to the city by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to reduce Albany's carbon footprint and the city's investment in the water and sewer departments.

These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.

The State's Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens, says the report from the advisory committee, will be not be issued next month as originally planned, partly because data on costs of fracking to other state agencies, including the departments of health and transportation, aren't ready yet.

The governor's announcement, articulated by his acting Department of Health commissioner Howard Zucker and Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens, delays any potential gas drilling in New York State for at least several more years as more data becomes available.

The journal article explains how comprehensive data - science methods were applied to a material - science degradation problem of PET films used as an environmental barrier in solar panels.

His data, which will appear in a forthcoming article in Marine Environmental Research, suggest that species of dogfish, as well as age and size, can have a significant effect on mercury concentrations.

Because this is the first study to take into account both so - called environmental DNA (eDNA) as well as more traditional types of data, he says, «we stand to learn a good deal more about how to interpret our records.»

WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch programme will therefore continue its crucial monitoring, research and assessment activities to provide scientific data needed to understand and ultimately predict environmental changes, as it has done for the past 25 years» said Mr Jarraud.

Pop - up satellite archival tag: This external tag collects detailed data on fish vitals, location and environmental information, such as light levels.

As for medical data, supporters of the bill say names and other private information could be scrubbed — but that would likely be expensive and time - intensive, and thus another factor limiting the number of studies the EPA could use to make its environmental protection rules.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

As neighborhood - level environmental data were not available for all years, most agents are represented by data from 2000 or 2001.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

Or as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put it in a June 23 statement, «EPA has no data, information or scientific basis that suggests that oil mixed with dispersant could possibly evaporate from the Gulf into the water cycle.»

Environmentalists who have challenged the world's large Internet technology firms, such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, to work harder to adopt clean power sources for their sprawling data centers praised Google's announcement as a hallmark for converting a long - standing environmental problem into an innovative solution.

In some countries data on vital environmental factors, such as river flows and management, falls into the category of national security and is closely guarded.

He hopes to sell satellite data to investors in oil and gas companies, such as hedge funds, and to government agencies, environmental groups and insurance companies that might want to monitor a company's progress in reducing emissions.

Bioblitzes have taken a remote - controlled submersible under Oakland's Lake Merritt, and in the future may take to the skies via drones, through a U.S. Geological Survey collaboration, to collect environmental data, such as the paths of migrating animals.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

Using detailed, ground - level data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Environmental Protection Agency, Cardenas and Kiel analyzed the waterways for sinuosity (how much they bend and curve); the texture of the materials along the waterways; the time spent in the sediment (known as the hyporheic zone); and the rate at which the water flows through the sediment.

But in environmental science as in medical research, the advantages go beyond data collection.

Since then, its ten instruments have supplied data on environmental factors such as air quality, the extent of Arctic sea ice and oil spills.

After the publication of this work in 2000 (as the AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment), Bromley stayed on and helped run international research projects on environmental issues in Russia and South America, assisting with data compilation, geographic information systems (GIS), and data analysis.

In place of accurate emissions data, Hsu said that China has more control over businesses than democratic governments do, so it can more easily bring them in line and maintain environmental integrity if, for example, allowances are too plentiful and their price crashes, as happened in the E.U.'s system.

For example, as a field - based Environmental Protection Officer you might draw on one of a number of scientific backgrounds: chemistry (assessing chemistry data for environmental discharges), biology (assessing the impact of pollution), or geology (assessing the risk to ground water from a surface - levEnvironmental Protection Officer you might draw on one of a number of scientific backgrounds: chemistry (assessing chemistry data for environmental discharges), biology (assessing the impact of pollution), or geology (assessing the risk to ground water from a surface - levenvironmental discharges), biology (assessing the impact of pollution), or geology (assessing the risk to ground water from a surface - level spillage).

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

He adds that drugs without environmental data are often classified first as high risk, but then changed to low risk once more information is obtained, which can be confusing to physicians and patients.

«We can use the lightning jump as a nowcasting tool for supercells if the jump is set in the context of that storm's environmental data,» said Dr. Larry Carey, a UAH associate professor in atmospheric science.

And five instrument stations in a nearby estuary that transmitted real - time weather and environmental data blinked offline this past Saturday night as Hurricane Harvey roared ashore.

«In contrast, changes in society, such as more leisure time, higher environmental awareness and better education only comparatively recently brought about a situation where biodiversity data is being collected in a systematic way,» the researcher explains.