Sentences with phrase «global human migration»

Axel Timmermann and Tobias Friedrich constructed a numerical model that quantifies the effects of past climate and sea - level change on global human migration patterns over the past 125,000 years.

If the latter, it would challenge current genetic data placing global human migration out of Africa perhaps 80,000 years ago.

Filmed on location in the ravishing and remote Guangxi province and at the famous Shanghai Film Studios and various sites around Shanghai, TEN THOUSAND WAVES combines fact, fiction and film essay genres against a background of Chinese history, legend and landscape to create a meditation on global human migrations.

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In a future which will increasingly be characterized by mass migration and the shifting of political borders, the Ocean Model of Civilisation can serve as a constructive paradigm for greater global security — especially its transcultural dimension — by promoting better and more dignified treatment of human beings, tolerance of diversity and respect for differences.

He has analyzed genetic relationships among diverse groups of people and finds that today's humans show evidence of interbreeding among Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and other early hominids over a wide span of time, from as far back as 1.5 million years ago until the last hypothesized global migration, around 80,000 years ago.

Maguire's most recent paintings directly confront issues of migration, displacement and human dignity in the face of the current global unrest.

Major topics include the worldwide production and dissemination of photographic images; the local and global character of specific genres, such as portraiture and photojournalism; the photographic representation of human movement and migration; and (post) colonial photographies.

The eloquence of their work in reflecting on the nature of the societies from which they departed, and the character of those in which they came to be rooted anew, will give us much to consider against the backdrop of the cataclysmic global events that have caused massive human migrations in our own time.

Projects address the Anthropocene — climate change; industrialization and urbanization; bio-diversity; water; the use of natural and human resources; human migration; global capital, commerce and consumption; energy production; and waste.

Bucak draws from her personal background of belonging to a Kurdish minority in Turkey and from global conditions in which repression, dispossession, migration and violence have transformed human existence considerably.

Work presented in the exhibition specifically addresses human migration and nationalism in the Mediterranean area, investigating the dual nature of this geographic feature to the extent that it connects and separates, acting as both a junction as well as a barrier between the Global North and South.

His current body of work deals with global, cross-border migration, exploring why humans are forced to leave their countries to escape from war and violence.

Global warming is the subject of «Migrations of the Arthropods», Paul's 2012 photo and video work in which wearable structures are created using recycled plastic bottles to affect a transformation from human to insect, thus re-envisioning Kafka's «Metamorphosis» as an evolutionary survival mechanism.

It's still unclear whether the jet stream migration and tropical expansion were triggered by natural climate variation or human - caused global warming, the researchers said.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

This briefing launched the latest report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills» Foresight programme, examining how the profound changes in natural and human environments across the world will influence and interact with patterns of global migration over the next 50 years.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

Cryptocurrency pundits on r / BitcoinMarkets attributed the price jump to the end of the Spring Festival break in China, a weeklong holiday that's gained global significance as the world's largest annual human migration, as workers return to their hometowns to celebrate.

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