Sentences with phrase «environmental driver of this change»

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You are directly affected by * soemone * having knowledge of evolution when you consume all agricultural products (meat, veggies, fruits), go to the doctor, see a geneticist for counseling before having a child, take medication, or are impacted by poilicies concerning environmental change, which is a driver for forcing adaptation vs extinction.

«Synthetic chemicals understudied drivers of environmental change: Huge global change factor merits increased attention and funding.»

In trying to predict the impacts of environmental changes, it is crucial to look at multiple environmental drivers and how their co-occurrence and interactions are likely to shift geographically, Kroeker said.

«There are many potential benefits to concentrating our environmental impact by intensifying drivers of land - use change, such as agriculture and forestry, in exchange for gazetting large remote undisturbed reserves.

The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change and one of the great drivers of biodiversity loss.

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.

The overlapping drivers of disease and environmental change, as well as their development implications, point towards the need for, and benefits, of «One Health», a more integrated view and approach to human, animal and environmental health.

But, as Mendelson writes, that would miss the wider point revealed when putting this species» interruped story in wider context of Earth's unfolding «Anthropocene» — a span, duration as yet unknown, in which humans are the dominant driver of environmental change.

The initial driver of this push for regulatory change has been a steadily increasing concern over the environmental sustainability of concrete and steel buildings.

This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.

«Many other important impacts of climate change are difficult to quantify for a given change in global average temperature, in part because temperature is not the only driver of change for some impacts; multiple environmental and other human factors come into play.»

Gore, who is pushing his environmental agenda in his newest book, «The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,» acknowledged «there are some things I miss about» politics.

Anthropogenic climate change and land use change in the form of agricultural expansion («habitat conversion» — a sweet description for deforestation) act as synergistic drivers of biodiversity loss — in a Costa Rican environmental experiment — literally drying out the... Continue reading →

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

Environmental groups, both national and local, are opposing coal plants because they are the primary driver of climate change.

According to the report, if current trends are not reversed, the Asia - Pacific region could be the most important driver of global resource use and related environmental impacts, including resource scarcity and climate change.

Neither of us has a history of environmental activism, but both of us are moved by the compelling scientific evidence emerging from multiple, independent lines of study implicating human industry as the driver of worldwide climate change.

Cox C. J., R. S. Stone, D. C. Douglas, D. M. Stanitski, G. J. Divoky, G. S. Dutton, C. Sweeney, J. C. George and D. Longenecker (December 2017): Drivers and environmental responses to the changing annual snow cycle of northern Alaska.

Agriculture and food consumption are identified as one of the most important drivers of environmental pressures, especially habitat change, climate change, water use and toxic emissions.

In addition, ocean acidification is co-occurring with other drivers of environmental change (including warming, eutrophication, hypoxia, eutrophication, pollution [12]-RRB-, yet the interactive effects and relative importance of multiple stressors on species physiology, life history and ecology, as well as species — environment interactions and ecosystem function remain poorly understood [13 — 17].

Second, we argue for the primacy of urbanization as a driver of change in demographics, resource consumption, and ideation and, in turn, develop a qualitative model of how changes in those factors drive environmental impacts, harming and then potentially helping nature in a broadly predictable way.