Sentences with phrase «global change topics»

At the Aspen Global Change Institute, Susan synthesized the content of interdisciplinary science meetings on a wide variety of global change topics and edited a series of five annual books titled Elements of Change, 1994 - 1998.

Features of the site include discussion of global change topics, full access to dozens of reports and assessments, educational material, an image library, and more.

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5:10 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Robert Hagstrom Author, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Legg Mason Topic: «Investing: The Last Liberal Art» 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle) Separate Registration Required Keynote Speaker: Tom Russo Topic: «Global Value Investing»

In distinctive ways, each essay demonstrates how a topic is influenced by, and in turn affects, global changes.

Topics at this year's conference include global waste, fermentation, the potential for seaweed to change the world, the chef activist and clean water for everyone.

Topic: Agriculture and food security, Behavior change communication Region: Global Publisher Source: IYCN

Topic: Agriculture and food security, Behavior change communication, Infant feeding and HIV, Maternal nutrition, Monitoring and evaluation, Policy and advocacy, Training and counseling Region: Global Publisher Source: IYCN

The Atlantic Food Summit will address topics like global scarcity, food education and the changing face of farming.

Topic: Behavior change communication, Monitoring and evaluation Region: Global Publisher Source: IYCN

The essays represent a wide range of scientific topics: neuroscience, biology, «Big Data», forensic anthropology, science policy, STEM education, wildlife ecology, environmental sustainability, sociology, medicine, global health, science ethics, stem cell research, materials engineering, crowd - sourcing, computer science, biotechnology, genetics, agricultural sciences, climate change, and information technology.

Now, she advises European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on scientific topics from global health to climate change.

My class may be one of few opportunities they have in their lives to learn about such vital topics as global climate change, sustainability, and human biology.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.

The meeting coincides with a gathering of climate change skeptics in New York City, who are debating topics like «Global warming: Was it ever a crisis?»

Instead, we discussed the global issues we face in science — ranging from climate change, green chemistry, carbon dioxide recycling and renewable energies to personalised medicine, antibiotic resistance and many other globally relevant topics, as well as science careers.

Editorial Happy 2018, a pivotal year for stepping up climate action The World Economic Forum's latest Global Risk Report places climate change as the number one threat facing the world in 2018 — a hot topic at this year's meeting of world leaders in Davos.

Topics: Research, School of Engineering, Civil and environmental engineering, Climate change, Environment, Climate, Poverty, Global Warming, India, Asia, Developing countries, Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)

This site has some interactive games and free downloadable resources, all with a North West relevance, concerning topics such as renewables, non-renewables, climate change, the greenhouse effect, global warming etc..

PowerPoints for Topic 7.1 and 7.2 Climate Change and Energy Resources Global warming Renewable energy sources Non-renewable energy sources

Included in resource are the following topics: Natural causes of climate change Evidence of climate change Global Warming Causes and effects of climate change Global atmospheric circulation Tropical storms causes, characteristics, location and frequency Causes of EL Nino Effects of the Big Dry Adaptation to drought At the end of the resources are pupil booklets.

These resources focus on OCR B Topics Revision; Distinctive Landforms, Ecosystems, Global Hazards, Climate Change and Fieldwork.

The discussion on these topics will be grounded on three large scale pedagogical change initiatives from the Global South (South Africa, Colombia, and Mexico), one from North America (the province of Ontario in Canada), and existing knowledge on a fast - growing student population: transnational students.

Some of the topics and tools preservice teachers have implemented with their students include using digital images and Google Earth to explore the Civil War and Reconstruction, using blogs and blogging to examine the issue of personal rights and freedoms, using video podcasts to examine issues of bias in global media reports of issues, and using Internet resources and video to explore changing political affiliations in post-World War II Europe.

She brings together theories and methods in cognitive psychology, epistemology, pedagogy and sociology of knowledge to explore how experts, teachers and K - 16 students advance interdisciplinary understanding of topics of global significance from globalization to climate change and migration.

Jim's wide - ranging commentaries on CTE - related issues have addressed such topics as national and international CTE practices, workforce development, the labor market and changing global economy, the role and impact of technology, and the perils and pitfalls of the «college for all» approach to education.

Man - made climate change is a hot topic and, regardless of your beliefs about the effect of man - made emissions on the global climate, it's inevitable that the internal combustion engine will eventually be all but wiped out of existence.

5:10 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Robert Hagstrom Author, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Legg Mason Topic: «Investing: The Last Liberal Art» 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle) Separate Registration Required Keynote Speaker: Tom Russo Topic: «Global Value Investing»

Starting with a presentation on the repercussions of global warming on the Bay Area by Bruce Riordan, Executive Director of Bay Area Climate Solutions, the Institute presented climate change to both environmental experts and community leaders who were unfamiliar with this all - too - important topic.

Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear nightmares, body hate, cultural identity, visions for the future and global justice.

Each of our academic programs is committed to infusing topics surrounding diversity and inclusion in order to prepare or students for an ever - changing global society.

In the big, wide - ranging world of global change effects, one would be hard pressed to find a topic that is more important — or of more interest to more people — than effects on human health.

The star - studded climate change campaign Global Cool announced a new effort last week that sounds vaguely familiar: a film competition on the topic of climate change.

The impact of global climate change on biota is a hotly debated topic, and its impacts on amphibians and disease is no exception.

In this video, Stott raises the big issue of «cosmic rays» and its contribution to climate change, but then backs off and says he didn't say it was causing global warming and that it's just a «hot topic» of research.

I find that even some of my most informed friends, people who explain to me what really happened with various space and aircraft disasters based on their own critical review of the available information on the subject, have problems discussing topics like global climate change, the end of oil as a fuel, because they haven't even asked some obvious questions, much less done any research.

Global climate change, dam safety, and the environmental effects of fuel additives were but a few of the topics addressed by Lave and his students.

It is tragic what Al Gore had done with topic of global climate change.

«Climate science experts who publish mostly on climate change and climate scientists who publish mostly on other topics were the two groups most likely to be convinced that humans have contributed to global warming, with 93 % of each group indicating their concurrence.»

Americans are not used to hearing that their decisions don't matter, particularly on the topic of global climate change, but that is exactly what Clemente argues.

Such reports could be on topics like climate change's influence on hurricanes, the so - called «pause» in the increase of average global surface temperatures or the climate implications of natural gas.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

Religious Right commentators from Calvin Beisner to David Barton and Bryan Fischer like to think of themselves as experts on the topic of global climate change despite their complete lack of scientific credentials.

The three principals of the Center's Management Team each hold Ph.D. degrees in fields that are central to the topic of carbon dioxide and global change.

Editorial Happy 2018, a pivotal year for stepping up climate action The World Economic Forum's latest Global Risk Report places climate change as the number one threat facing the world in 2018 — a hot topic at this year's meeting of world leaders in Davos.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

[10] The international awareness of global warming has focused scientific research on this topic since the 1988 creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Warsaw agenda includes numerous topics that raise profound ethical and justice issues which not only must be faced to achieve a global climate change solution but which are also increasingly at the center of the most contentious issues in the international climate negotiations.

There is no telling what it could be about, because the topics of global warming, climate change, sources of energy, and human misunderstandings are endless.

None of seven the topics are at all scientifically controversial within the scientific community: Global warning, often presented in the media as an inconclusive theory, is anything but, with 97 % or more of scientists agreeing that recent climate change is very likely due to human activity.