Sentences with phrase «for local ecologies»

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With the future of the Murray - Darling Basin Plan in doubt, southern communities call for full delivery of the agreement to support local ecology still rebounding from the Millennium Drought.

The Chicago Academy of Sciences has been a leader in local ecology and scientific education for 159 years.

GBBC is great for getting nonexperts interested in birds and the role they play in local and global ecology, MacFarland says.

Their loss could have far - reaching consequences for the diversity and ecology of arid lands and for local communities dependent on wild - harvested fruit and stems.»

European editor Anne Forde discovered, in an interview with Hannah Kokko, an evolutionary ecologist in Helsinki, Finland, that one of the keys to Kokko's professional success is her ability to balance opposing approaches and points of view: life with work, the organismal approach of evolution with the population approach of ecology, and an appreciation for the local environment with the mind - broadening value of more exotic and distant locales.

Researchers have offered various explanations for the recurring outbreaks, including temperature shifts and the changing ecology of local water bodies, but they haven't had enough evidence to nail down the cause.

Ecologies and complex interrelations between global networks and local communities provide inspiration for this fascinating show.

Here's a mitigative strategy: since anti-RE zealots love to slag solar farms as allegedly «devastating» to local ecologies due to land clearance, let's put solar farms on lands already «so battered and bruised by pollution as to be useless» for most purposes:

Each group had participant food producers informing the dialogue, from local farmers, fishermen, restauranteurs, cheese makers, and community gardeners, bringing home the message that being able to source our food locally is critically important for reasons pertaining to health, economy, ecology, and community.

It's open to the public, and especially meant for schools, churches and community centers to use as a place to study sustainable development and the local ecology.

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local wildlife, the change in the global average is an absolutely useless measure.

But proponents of indigenous rights and cultural integrity tend to see it as causing cultural erosion, with the attendant negative impacts to the ecologies that have been cared for by local cultures forever, precisely through their subsistence activities.

The situation is indeed clear; we can logically conclude from geology, physics, climate science, ecology, and economics that a few hundred more ppm of CO2 would most likely be net beneficial globally and even for those areas or circumstances in which global warming would not be beneficial it would be considerably more feasible and cost effective to implement local adaptations than attempt global mitigation which comes with no money - back guarantees should the entire (100 %) world not play ball.

The CSR - interested tourist is willing to pay a little extra to ensure that social and humanitarian measures are practiced at their destination, that the local ecology is respected, and for environmentally friendly construction or emissions - reduced travel.

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

Covering all the walls and ceilings, this soil - based artwork presents an immersive visual experience to the students, plus an aesthetics lesson grounded in ecology and the local customs of using cow dung for fuel and fertilizer.

In an article on Huffington Post, Gleick writes of three types of peak water: renewable, where water flows are constrained over time; nonrenewable, such as groundwater sources, where we pull more than can be naturally replenished; and ecological, which is the point beyond which the cost to the local ecology of using the water is higher than the value of using it for human consumption.

On - board film screenings, larger outdoor film events, ecology lectures and tours, link ups with a local museum and screenings on architectural backdrops along the canal route are all part of the fun planned for this summer.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

USA About Blog The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.

For example, to examine how local ecology influences preferences for relationship length and partner type, Little et al. [40] used vignettes to suggest the local ecology was harsh or safe, and Cohen & Belsky [51] used vignettes to suggest the local environment was predictable and safe, predictable but risky, or unpredictable and fluctuating between safe and risFor example, to examine how local ecology influences preferences for relationship length and partner type, Little et al. [40] used vignettes to suggest the local ecology was harsh or safe, and Cohen & Belsky [51] used vignettes to suggest the local environment was predictable and safe, predictable but risky, or unpredictable and fluctuating between safe and risfor relationship length and partner type, Little et al. [40] used vignettes to suggest the local ecology was harsh or safe, and Cohen & Belsky [51] used vignettes to suggest the local environment was predictable and safe, predictable but risky, or unpredictable and fluctuating between safe and risky.