Sentences with phrase «from ecological thinking»

It arises from a failure to make the cognitive leap from ecological thinking — the science of the relationship between organisms and their local environments — to Earth system thinking, the science of the whole Earth as a complex system beyond the sum of its parts.

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They come from persons influenced by ecological concerns, from feminists, from those influenced by Eastern forms of thought, by those interested in parapsychology, and by those who reflect on the implications of recent developments in physics.

The ecological model, when abstracted from possible negative uses, provides us a way of thinking of e pluribus unum that avoids taking one extant culture as normative or just leaving the many as many.

Nature may kick back at us from time to time — with erosion, pollution, holes in the ozone layer and so on — but we like to think that these are simply impersonal matters of ecological imbalance.

I don't think the week at Quillasascut changed any of my viewpoints on food necessarily, but through it I was able to move away from hyper - focusing on what any one food was doing to me individually and instead look at it from a broader lens, taking into consideration the communal and ecological connections to what I was eating.

It does not make sense to the Menominee to think of animals as divorced from their ecological contexts, Waxman says.

«It's a very exciting idea, but I think we're very far away from being able to take advantage of it, because we don't know which parts of the genome are important,» says Christina Richards, an ecological genomicist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that for instance, local, labor — intensive, low - input agriculture is the smartest option from much of the world, both in terms of providing jobs, security, stability and food, and in making those ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming, that's already here.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

Such thinking — recently popularised by Timothy Morton's book «Being Ecological» — has emerged partly from the environmental crises of the moment: climate change, mass extinction and widespread plastic pollution.

From early photographic practice to forward - thinking developments, these exhibitions are receptive to social, ecological and artistic change.

When I brought this piece back from Iceland in 2011, I was thinking about issues of dislocation, and about the difficulties in navigation as we look for an exit from the worsened ecological crisis.

Ecological thinking views citizens and citizenship within co-defining relationships from the start, and by doing so it incorporates ecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on thEcological thinking views citizens and citizenship within co-defining relationships from the start, and by doing so it incorporates ecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on thecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on this system.

Re posts 8 & 3: I think only photosynthetic organisms gain a direct benefit from higher CO2, and fishes are certain not to benefit (although some fish species may be less sensitive to HCO3 than others and receive an indirect benefit via ecological interactions).

'' In thinking about global extinction we've got to free ourselves from this human time scale,» said Dr. John Alroy, an ecologist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.»

Among them, to you Leonard, are: what do you think constitutes «small AGW» and catastrophic AGW, and to what extent have you reviewed the biological / ecological literature that address the ecosystem's functional sensitivity of different warming levels (sufficient CO2 - driven ocean acidification alone likely qualifies as «catastrophic» — or are you separating warming from the other effects of high CO2?)

There are bound to be some ecological knockon effects from all these activities but I think it's worth it to achieve the zero carbon society we should be aiming for.

Meanwhile, the «ecomodernists» behind the manifesto — a cadre of environmentalists, many of whom are associated with the Breakthrough Institute, a center - left think tank — have faced accusations of apostasy from their liberal and environmentalist brethren for endorsing nuclear power, criticizing the idea that we can live in harmony with nature, and generally rejecting the ecological orthodoxy that we need limits on growth.

They will also have the opportunity to look at climate change and GHG from a unique angle: they will discover that carbon emissions make up the largest component of the Ecological Footprint (globally and in most countries), and will start thinking of carbon emissions in relation to the area of forestland required to absorb them.

Building on an ecological model that explains multiple levels of influence on psychological development, 16 and a recently proposed biodevelopmental framework that offers an integrated, science - based approach to coordinated, early childhood policy making and practice across sectors, 17 this technical report presents an EBD framework that draws on a recent report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University to help physicians and policy makers think about how early childhood adversity can lead to lifelong impairments in learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.1, 6