Sentences with phrase «environmental shaping force»

Now that we know that human actions can be a major environmental shaping force, I would suggest we'd better understand that force as much as anything.

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What is emerging is a new idea: that qualities like grit and resilience are not formed through the traditional mechanics of «teaching»; instead, a growing number of researchers now believe, they are shaped by several specific environmental forces, both in the classroom and in the home, sometimes in subtle and intricate ways.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

Instead, there are almost always very powerful environmental forces pressing in on the body and forcing it to assume its present shape (such as the «shape» of an overtrained body).

Simms» three photographs on the second level of the gallery attest that environmental, social and cultural forces can shape and alter a person's identity.

Environmental forces, for example, are subtly contrasted with human touch in his «Essere fi ume» (To Be a River), 1981 — 95: In this series Penone paired two hefty stones, one shaped by a river's water over millennia, the other an identical copy recently carved by hand.

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

These days, certainly, the issues that matter most — terrorism and environmental change, for example — are laden with uncertainty and shaped by interwoven forces like religion, poverty, greed and technology.

I'll add more thoughts about Mendes later, from scientists, environmental campaigners, and other people familiar with his life and legacy and the forces shaping tropical forests around the world.