Sentences with phrase «global land use develops»

In each model, global land use develops according to assumptions about future trade, technology and world population.

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The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Further, all data sets were masked using the vegetated (burnable) land area defined by a global landcover data set developed from AVHRR satellite data67.

Jerry's research team has developed and uses a simulation model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to consider the impacts of various aspects of global change — climate, chemistry of the atmosphere and precipitation, land cover and land use — on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe.

Both the type of feedstock and the manner in which it is developed and harvested significantly affect land use and life - cycle global warming emissions impacts of producing power from biomass.

New global land use datasets are being developed that indicate that human use of land may have been far more extensive at much earlier times - most of the terrestrial biosphere may have been transformed by humans long before the 20th century - maybe even by 3000 years ago!

UNEP Publications: This report explores how the management of land - based biomass production and consumption can be developed towards a higher degree of sustainability across different scales: from the sustainable management of soils on the field to the sustainable management of global land use as a whole.

The aim of the project was to develop a service capable of delivering global composites and land cover maps using observations from the 300 meter MERIS sensor on board the ENVISAT satellite mission.

As a result of this emphasis and the prior absence of adequate tools, theory, and data, quantitative global land - use histories for earlier periods of the Holocene have only recently been developed (4, 19 ⇓ — 21).