Sentences with phrase «for human activities»

A decade was chosen as a real measure for human activities and the way we are affected by relatively short periods of changes in the climate.

A diagram from a paper defining «planetary boundaries» for human activities shows areas of greatest risk in red.

She is an independent curator, co-founder of Cartel de Kunst (an international collective based in Paris), currently working for Raw Material Company (Senegal), EVA International — Ireland's Biennial, and The Institute for Human Activities (The Netherlands, Belgium, Congo).

Expect a robust series of events surrounding the opening, including a lecture on gentrification (Renzo Martens and the Institute for Human Activities), a dedication of a tombstone in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (singer Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and Danh Vo), a conversation between two of contemporary art's preeminent artists who write (Liam Gillick and Hito Steyerl), and a performance by Nástio Mosquito.

He is internationally known as the founder of The Institute for Human Activities, a research project at KASK — University College of Ghent.

A study published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation may help field conservationists better understand the potential for human activities to disturb endangered giant pandas in native habitats.

Within the Islamic code, which provides guidance for all human activities, the distinction between worship and dealings is made for convenience in the exposition of Islam.

This disturbance has implications for human activity too.

Should planetary limits on the alteration of critical environmental systems be used as guidelines for human activity?

But because the plan emphasizes provision of water for human activity, some scientists worry that it may end up diverting water from wetlands and other fragile ecosystems.

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing an accounting for human activity in even the most basic ecological models

The Atlas goes on to note the bird's «high tolerance for human activity,» concluding that «the gray catbird's future in Maryland seems secure.»

The place for human activity amidst these swirls of cosmic color is further complicated by Hunters, which comprises a clothing rack hung with mysterious garments such as dyed robes, swatches of fur and other fabrics.

Her works in all media integrate her vision of vivid backdrops for human activity.

Even though the scenery paintings date back to the ancient Greeks and the Romans, after the fall of the Roman Empire nature scenes became just a backdrop for religious stories or a mere setting for human activity.

Is it possible that some part of this energy could be harnessed for human activity?

The projects investigates the climatic sensitivity of Arctic land surface processes and associated hazards for human activity.

Finally, adequate soil moisture is an essential resource for human activity.

My understanding is that the socioeconomic variables are a proxy for human activity & infrastructure — waste heat & asphalt — which are more concentrated in urban areas, and are probably on the rise throughout most of the world through the post-war 1950s - 80s.

Our studio's work in creating places for human activity explores the social, cultural, ecological and historic contexts that shape these environments.

Not exact matches

Humans can fully focus on one digital activity for about eight seconds before distraction sets in.

Misdials are human errors, but on other occasions technology being used for illegal activity has let down its master.

SST (Steady State Topography) «is a methodology for observing and measuring human brain activity.»

This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

Frankly, most industries, indeed most human activities, are harmful to the environment, so the question for the public is what are we willing to condone for our own comfort and well being.

The executive who started his business selling books said activities that require the most energy should be performed in space, in order to leave Earth clean and habitable for humans.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

These tools are most useful for traders because they allow us to look at price activity in an objective way (without the human error that is associated with other types of forecasts).

An amendment added to a farm bill that was approved by the House Agriculture Committee would bar people from «knowingly slaughtering a dog or cat for human consumption,» as well as transporting or participating in other commercial activity related to eating pet meat.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Speaking eloquently about the need to protect endangered species, Francis mounts this impassioned plea: «The great majority become extinct for reasons related to human activity.

If a Republican candidate would say, — yes even if a messiah is coming, people had been saying that for 2000 years, therefore, we are all obliged to preserve the planet for future generations and human activities do excessively cause global warming.

First, it came to be believed that «work» (this activity of exploiting the natural resources of the world for the satisfaction of human wants and the attitude towards the world that went with it) was not only typical of mankind but was our proper attitude and occupation.

Thus, for instance, the self - conscious freedom of human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life on this earth and the complexity of the human body.

«The economist... considers how the distribution of human activities affects the satisfaction of human wants, the wants being taken for granted» (MDS 103).

Such concrete knowledge of God is for any such occasion, even a human occasion of experience, largely unconscious, because it is the organizing center of the concrescing activity.

Some, like St. Augustine, have argued that many apparently antireligious activities — including drunkenness, carousing, promiscuous sex, harsh athletic training, committed political activism, incessant material consumption, and drug addiction — actually represent deeply driven human religious longings and searching, which happen to be misdirected quests for the true religious good.

For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.

They estimated a «human freedom index» for each country based on 1985 figures for forty different indicators among them the right to travel, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful detention, independent press, homosexual activities between consenting adults.

The strong still exploit the weak, the important human values of freedom and privacy are effectively denied, and incentives for productive activity are undermined.

I understand the Dogma aspect of it is observable evidence for something is king however, that in no way shape or form changes that various activity that Atheists preform which which reflect the human activity that people of faith preform.

I am trying to find out more of what we can do too, but since there is so much criminal activity involved in human trafficking, most of what can be done is reserved for law enforcement.

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

Lord Jesus, you who are the Saviour of our human activity because you bring us a motive for acting, and the Saviour of our human pain because you endow it with a life - giving value: be also the Saviour of our human unity by compelling us to repudiate all our pettiness and, relying on you, to venture forth on to the uncharted ocean of charity.

It was in this ardent zone of growth and universal recasting that all that makes man what he is today was discovered — or at least must have been rediscovered, for even those things which had long been known elsewhere achieved their definitive human value only when they were incorporated into the system of European ideas and activities.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Economists should also recognise that while we always aim for the good in economic, as in all human, activity, we are also morally weak.