Sentences with phrase «for environmental adaptation»

«Basically, most of our knowledge of what genes are important for environmental adaptation of trees has been educated guessing built on studies in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which is a member of the mustard family» said Amy Brunner, an associate professor of molecular genetics in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

«Basically, most of our knowledge of what genes are important for environmental adaptation of trees has been educated guessing built on studies in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which is a member of the mustard family» said Amy Brunner, associate professor of molecular genetics in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

The results help researchers understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic association provides host plants with beneficial traits for environmental adaptation.

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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.

The Hindu Kush - Himalayas Climate Impact Adaptation Assessment Programme will run for five years, carried out by Norway's Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, the U.N. Environment Programme and the Katmandu, Nepal - based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.

«The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience against the numerous environmental degradations contributed by humans across the landscape,» said Dennis, who has a joint appointment in the UI College of Science and College of Natural Resources.

Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

What would amount to ex-situ conservation for the moved populations, could amount to in - situ conservation of the recipient populations, if the new genetic material assists in adaptation to higher environmental extremes.

The study, «Ecological genomics meets community - level modeling of biodiversity: mapping the genomic landscape of current and future environmental adaptation,» was published by Matthew Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Steven Keller of the Universitenvironmental adaptation,» was published by Matthew Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Steven Keller of the UniversitEnvironmental Science and Steven Keller of the University of Vermont.

Perhaps the most dramatic environmental adaptation for a whale is deep diving, which can induce hypoxia.

As a result, life on Earth has flourished for over four billion years by recycling its own wastes and exploiting new habitats with physiological adaptations, through occasional environmental disasters such as catastrophic meteoric impacts.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

When applied consistently, positive reinforcement and environmental adaptations to mitigate response to the stimuli are the best remedies for behavioral barking problems.

More on environmental taxes: Environmental Duties Make Flying Significantly More Expensive (Der Spiegel) Carriers Criticize German Air Fare Tax (NYT) German Government Adopts Flawed CO2 - Based Car Tax Poor Countries Ask for Aviation Tax to Help with Climate Adaptation Easyjet Steps Up Itsenvironmental taxes: Environmental Duties Make Flying Significantly More Expensive (Der Spiegel) Carriers Criticize German Air Fare Tax (NYT) German Government Adopts Flawed CO2 - Based Car Tax Poor Countries Ask for Aviation Tax to Help with Climate Adaptation Easyjet Steps Up ItsEnvironmental Duties Make Flying Significantly More Expensive (Der Spiegel) Carriers Criticize German Air Fare Tax (NYT) German Government Adopts Flawed CO2 - Based Car Tax Poor Countries Ask for Aviation Tax to Help with Climate Adaptation Easyjet Steps Up Its Eco-campaign

I recently moderated a conversation on climate, food and security at the Asia Society involving some informed and influential figures, including Maria Blair, who's directing analysis of climate adaptation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Human societies have, through the centuries, often developed the capacity to adapt to environmental change, and some knowledge about the implications of climate change adaptation for sustainable development can thus be deduced from historical analogues (Diamond, 2004; Easterling et al., 2004).

Yohe: For a very long time, it seems to a lot of us that the environmental community has looked at adaptation as something to be avoided, to be ignored, to be eliminated from the conversations.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

Biographical notes: Koko Warner is a Section Head (Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation) and Executive Director (Munich Climate Insurance Initiative) at the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU - EHS).

She is a long - time advocate and trailblazer for community organizing around just, sustainable development, environmental justice and community - led climate adaptation and community resiliency in Sunset Park.

The potential for both sequestration and emissions reductions in the AFOLU sector is thus large, but it must be ensured that AFOLU mitigation does not compromise adaptation, food security or other social and environmental safeguards.

This report intends to make an assessment of what the fight against climate change — prevention, mitigation and adaptation — means for the world of work, of the challenges and opportunities involved, and of how to contribute to the just transition to environmental sustainability that will serve to advance both decent work opportunities for all and the protection of the planet.

For instance, in February, Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee called for submissions to an inquiry into the public's understanding of climate change, following a report that had advised that «should scepticism continue to increase, democratic governments are likely to find it harder to convince voters to support costly environmental policies aimed at mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change.&raqFor instance, in February, Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee called for submissions to an inquiry into the public's understanding of climate change, following a report that had advised that «should scepticism continue to increase, democratic governments are likely to find it harder to convince voters to support costly environmental policies aimed at mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change.&raqfor submissions to an inquiry into the public's understanding of climate change, following a report that had advised that «should scepticism continue to increase, democratic governments are likely to find it harder to convince voters to support costly environmental policies aimed at mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change.»

Just happened to go to a UW lecture by Nives Dolsak an energy researcher at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs yesterday on Breaking the Adaptation Taboo: How Information on the Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Influences Support for Mitigation, where I - 732 came up as an example of putting a price on climate change.

This approach pays landholders or farmers for actions that preserve the services to public and environmental health provided by ecosystems on their property, including services that contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.

A 2012 research report from Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national security.

Many negotiators from developing countries and activists across the globe pushed instead for a dedicated climate fund under the UN Climate Convention that would put the adaptation and mitigation needs of people in developing countries first — an institution based on sound environmental integrity, socioeconomic justice, and efficacy.

Article 6 establishes two new provisions for voluntary cooperation and carbon trading, recognizing that such approaches «allow for higher ambition in their mitigation and adaptation actions» and «promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.»

Beatrice started fruit tree growing after joining the Kwatanisa Womens Group, a local group in Uganda's Hoima district that aims to empower local women with modern farming techniques for environmental conservation and climate change adaptation.

Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate - Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources - A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, S.H. Julius and J.M. West, Eds., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, A-25 - A-31.

The paper made the case for developing alternatives to fossil fuels, ensuring that economic development doesn't wreak environmental havoc and recognizing the importance of adaptation to climate change.

In his Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, President Obama said that the task force was by that time «already engaged in developing the domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. strategy for adaptation to climate change» and should «develop approaches through which the policies and practices of the agencies can be made compatible with and reinforce that strategy.»

In addition to providing mitigation of GHG emissions, improved public health, and environmental benefits, solid waste and wastewater technologies confer significant co-benefits for adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development (Table 10.7; see also Section 12.3.4).

Most of the energy devoted to discussing climate - change adaptation focuses on responding to the direct environmental risks of climate change, for example by switching crops, building flood defences, moving homes and building dwellings differently.

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This technical document provides guidance for governments, health agencies and environmental and meteorological institutions in both industrialized and developing countries on how to assess vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability.

This activity report is an output of the World Bank project Adaptation Strategies to the Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of El Niño for Rural Communities in Ecuador and Peru.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

Building on the Green Environmental Facility's (GEF) solid experience in financing climate change adaptation, the Strategy presents the programming priorities for the next four years.

Timeline illustrating the lifetimes (sum of lead time and consequence time) of different types of decisions, compared with the time scales for some global environmental changes, and the changing implications for adaptation.

Natural spatial and temporal variability in the pH / pCO2 conditions experienced by marine populations provide the potential for different levels of adaptation (genetic) and acclimatization (phenotypic) to decreased pH and elevated pCO2, emphasizing the importance of understanding physiological variation existing along natural environmental gradients (macrophysiology) in understanding global change impacts [29].

We recommend that the new scenarios be used not only in the IPCC's future assessments of climate change, its impacts, and adaptation and mitigation options, but also as the basis for analyses by the wider research and policy community of climate change and other environmental problems.

A March 13, 2017 workshop explored the implications of climate change for population health and the potential mitigation and adaptation strategies for public health, environmental health, health care and other stakeholders.

(iii) Can organisms» capacity for phenotypic buffering and adaptation offset the consequences of environmental change?

Arivudai Nambi Appadurai, India Adaptation Strategy Head for the Climate Resilience Practice and WRI India, distills how they can adapt, with a focus on the dynamics of environmental justice and sustainable development.

Evolutionary Life History Theory (LHT) is a powerful framework that can be used for understanding behavioral strategies as contingent adaptations to environmental conditions.

Strategies for mitigation and adaptation must be holistic, taking into account not only the ecological dimensions of climate change, but also the soclal impacts, human rights, equity and environmental justice.

Further, Von Doussa urges governments to ensure that «Indigenous peoples custodial role over traditional lands, flow on impacts for environmental protection and caring for country, are fully taken into account when developing strategies for mitigation and adaptation».