Sentences with phrase «environmental impacts of human activities»

The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems.

Here at SkyTruth, we are always looking for new ways to visualize the environmental impact of human activity, so we've been playing with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data and digital elevation models (DEMs).

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But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

The need to foresee the probable consequences of human activities has generated new techniques for monitoring environmental change and for assessing the impact of present and proposed actions upon the natural and social environment.

For a long time I've sought some fresh, non-threatening approach to disarm readers» apprehensions about environmental destruction long enough that they might consider the impacts of unbridled human activity on the rest of nature — and on our own fate.

This documentary project closely follows the long - term impact of environmental policies and investigates the interrelationship between human activity on the land and its effect on water.

Most responses to today's environmental woes aim to limit the impact of human activity by minimizing pollution and waste.

Augment the Renewable Energy Guidelines by, for instance, requiring wind energy developers to comply with more rigorous criteria including scientific research on setback allowances, noise, wind velocity, human health issues, property values, agricultural animal productivity and welfare, air traffic flight paths (commercial passenger and cargo plus light aircraft including air ambulance), environmental and ecological impact, health and safety issues for domestic animals, longterm adverse effect of cement pedestals on ground water, depletion of finite local aggregate supply and induced seismic activity on faults.

When Cynthia Rosenzweig — from the climate impacts group at Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York — and colleges analyzed articles published between1970 - 2004 they reported that 90 % of environmental damage could be attributed to rising temperatures driven by human activities.

Our collection of resumes for Civil Structural Engineer reveals the following work activities: designing structures that can withstand weather conditions and human use, undertaking complex calculations, estimating project costs, managing budgets, and assessing the environmental impact of projects.