Sentences with phrase «how ecological systems»

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What is needed — besides more capital to build up the sector over time — is an integrated and strategic effort to bring all this together and show how, in total, it forms the lineaments of a radically different system capable of delivering superior social, economic and ecological outcomes.

Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population growth — something that can be broadly applied to infer how much resource loss a species can survive.

Maine EPSCoR Assessment and Guidance On March 12th, RCP completed an assessment of the University of Maine's Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET)- a statewide effort to develop a transdisciplinary understanding of how social - environmental systems (SES) interact with sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and eEcological Aquaculture Network (SEANET)- a statewide effort to develop a transdisciplinary understanding of how social - environmental systems (SES) interact with sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and eecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and ecosystems.

The volume, which grew out of an August 1998 symposium in Crested Butte, Colorado, provides a good overview of how butterflies can serve as model systems for understanding ecological and evolu - tionary patterns and processes.

I researched the interaction in various areas between rabbits, arthropods, coyotes, plants, and weather information in order to determine how these factors interact with one another to create a complete ecological system.

The studies quantified how changes humans make to streams by withdrawing water impact the ecological health of aquatic systems.

With approximately 15 % of the world's population living in desert regions, Wright stresses the importance of his findings: «the implications for how we change ecological systems have a direct impact on whether humans will be able to survive indefinitely in arid environments.»

Toby Tyrrell, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study, said: «In the future ocean, the trade - off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.

helps young children explore, experience, and collect data to understand how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecological systems, and how humans and trees interact.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

Do you agree that a nation that refuses to reduce its ghg emission to its fair share of safe global ghg emissions on the basis of cost to it is implicitly taking a position on how high atmospheric concentrations of ghgs should be allowed to rise and that the higher atmosphere ghg concentrations rise the more people and the ecological systems on which life depends will be harmed?.

Do you agree that a nation that refuses to reduce its ghg emission to its fair share of safe global ghg emissions on the basis of cost to it is implicitly taking a position on how high atmospheric concentrations of ghgs should be allowed to rise and that the higher atmosphere ghg concentrations rise the more people and the ecological systems will be harmed?.

This is the first of three articles on understanding complexity, and how our energy, economic and ecological systems, like unruly children, tend to defy our attempts to change them.

How the myriad uncertainties in the physical climate system, and the human and ecological response to warming, can be incorporated into carbon pricing is a matter of research.

Food Tank had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Harpinder Sandhu about the application of the principles of ecological economics in agriculture and food systems and how the TEEBAgriFood report thinks outside the lens of productivity.

This effort is a critical component of NOAA's research into the future of the earth as a system under the influence of anthropogenic forcing to better understand how emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, land use decisions and climate and ecological interactions will determine future carbon dioxide levels and the corresponding climate change.

She's also drawn to ecological ways of interrogating how systems change and respond to their environments, rather than looking for one - size monolithic solutions.

Future research should examine how to mitigate risk factors from multiple ecological systems.