Sentences with phrase «how environmental systems»
[Anyone who does not totally understand that, doesn't understand how environmental systems work, nor understand the scientific arguments of climate change!
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I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.
«We are starting to think more creatively about how to coordinate the use of all the water in the system - for both operational and environmental needs.
Professor Paul Berryman will speak at Food Matters Live on Examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.
I hope to see you at my Food Matters Live seminar on 24th November, when I will be examining how food and agriculture systems and technology need to be modified to respond to environmental change.
The Department of Environmental Conservation has since installed a water filtration system that has made the town's water safe to drink again, but questions remain for McLaughlin over how to prevent the next contamination.
Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.
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 ecosystems.
It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.
In the second part of her research, Liljestrand reviewed how the environmental impact from transports in the food logistics system can be reduced.
«It is incredible how far we have come in environmental engineering, advancing recycling and waste management systems to protect human health and the environment, in a relatively short amount of time,» she said.
«Since the system is underground, we can't see how truffles are affected by different environmental conditions, or even when the best time to water them is.
But how a single system exhibits both the necessary precision and flexibility to achieve this — particularly in the face of developmental and environmental challenges — remained unclear,» said Richard Mann, PhD, principal investigator at Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the paper's senior author.
In addition, the analysis provided some hints about how chemotaxis evolved from a simple signaling network that responds slowly to environmental cues — primarily by turning on genes — to a multiprotein system that can quickly alter a cell's course.
«The origins of communication signals have long fascinated evolutionary biologists, and multiple potential mechanisms for these origins have been proposed,» says co-lead author Hannah ter Hofstede, an assistant professor at Dartmouth who investigates how sensory systems evolve to encode the environmental cues that are crucial for an animal's survival and reproduction.
«We've been trying to figure out how to pull people together and look at numbers to understand impacts,» said Susan Brantley, distinguished professor of geosciences and director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State.
Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»
The survey's three main authors, Manuel Lopes - Lima and Ronaldo Sousa from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR) and Professor Jürgen Geist / Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology at TUM, describe how crucial mussels are for aquatic ecosystems: they form around 90 percent of the biomass in the bed of a water body.
Results of the study by Janet Yang, a University at Buffalo expert on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, suggest that holding a collective, communitarian belief system contributed to altruistic behavior, while those who hold more individualistic values are less likely to be altruistic regardless of how much risk is triggered.
For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.
«We know very little about how rapid environmental changes are in Antarctica,» he says, and yet «what happens in Antarctica will spread like ripples throughout the global system.»
This workshop will bring together some of the world's leading experts in social and environmental safeguards as well as bring in some of the local community leaders from Brazil and Mexico to discuss what types of systems work, which don't, and how to build off the existing ROW recommendations for developing successful programs.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently started a process to determine how to best address genetically modified algae, while the White House in July convened a process to evaluate and update the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology, the Reagan - era system for evaluating biotechnology products.
The CCP is engaged in numerous multidisciplinary projects in other model systems (e.g. fly, zebrafish, yeast) that aim to determine how complex molecular circuits function and evolve in response to genetic and environmental changes, cellular differentiation, evolution and disease.
We will use this system to conduct the first thorough investigations of how environmental factors, social interactions and individual experiences affect the behavioural trajectories of workers.
In particular, IIASA researchers will focus on how potential phosphorus market crises might put pressure on the global food system and create environmental ripple effects ranging from expansion of agricultural land to phosphorus price - induced changes in land management, which could exacerbate the already existing imbalance between carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.
Today's workshop on «Benefits Sharing and Safeguards» for policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) also included newly released recommendations for how California can bring REDD + offset credits into its statewide cap - and - trade system with environmental integrity and social equity.
Scientists worldwide use the agency's field data, together with satellite observations and computer models, to tackle environmental challenges and advance our knowledge of how the Earth works as a complex, integrated system.
With ever greater power and speed, computers should be able to sort through bewildering mazes of data about genetic and environmental factors to help determine how their effects in one organ influence other physiological systems.
Functional Medicine incorporates the latest in genetic science, systems biology, and understanding of how environmental and lifestyle factors influence the emergence and progression of disease.
A new French study — designed to examine how environmental and genetic factors affect the immune system — was intended to shed light on the complex subject of immune variation.
The issue is not how many chemicals or heavy metals a test shows are in your body but whether your immune system is reacting to these environmental compounds.
And, we'll tie together the previous levels by connecting how inflammation related to the previous system discussions - poor digestion, immune dysfunction, hormonal dysregulation, genetic snps, and environmental toxin exposures (including emotional toxins)- contribute to an increased risk of chronic rehab challenges, including chronic joint pain, poor surgical or injury recovery, obesity, memory loss or dementia, diabetes, or even poor sports performance.
Figure 1 shows how scientific and technological, economic, social, environmental and political and moral systems must operate on a rational basis to reach your goals or a desired standard of performance.
Geography: International trade, including access to markets, inequality and «fair trade»; the nature of economic, political, social and environmental interdependence in the contemporary world; inequities of global systems and how they can result in unemployment, poverty and declining welfare standards for some people and localities, and advantages for other people and localities; food production, circulation and consumption.
She thinks schools need to give kids «a basic environmental literacy, a basic understanding of how earth systems and human systems interact, and how decisions individuals make will impact those systems.»
Tesla told Consumer Reports the company has improved the software for the Model 3's anti-lock braking system to adapt to variations in how the brakes might be used and to respond to different environmental conditions.
The Glory Kill system — which delivers immediate health boosts in reward for brutally satisfying melee kills once you've softened up an enemy — is a marvellous piece of design, ensuring marathon runs against seemingly impossible onslaughts as a long as you maintain staunch environmental awareness and a constantly vigilant ability to balance the need to kill any given demon against how useful it may be as a resource later on.
BN: There are many potential environmental benefits from aquaponics, but a lot depends on your lifestyle, where you get your fish / produce from, and how you set up your system.
The project shows how improving systems for observing and analyzing environmental trends are brightening prospects for better management of resources and risks in struggling regions — even when governments might not want the information revealed.
I know this is over my head and I'm surely missing something, but when I read, «I envision a web - based global system for monitoring the state of the natural environment around the world; scientifically determining how much of the environment is available for economic use; allowing those rights to be bid to their natural level in the market; incorporating those environmental costs into economic decisions; and channeling the money generated to the holders of environmental resources, who are in effect, selling their environmental goods and services to the world», I cringe.
I envision a web - based global system for monitoring the state of the natural environment around the world; scientifically determining how much of the environment is available for economic use; allowing those rights to be bid to their natural level in the market; incorporating those environmental costs into economic decisions; and channeling the money generated to the holders of environmental resources, who are in effect, selling their environmental goods and services to the world.
The ruling came as a surprise to environmental and indigenous activists around the world who were well aware of corruption in Guatemala's legal system and had been skeptical of the court's ability to see how egregious these violations had been.
Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.
How well does a cap - and - trade system stimulate technological innovation, as compared with an environmental policy that sets performance standards, specifies technologies for reducing pollution, or both?
When we talk about the environmental benefits of solar power, we often talk about how installing a solar energy system can have the same effect on the environment as planting trees.
The ISO 14000 series of international environmental management system standards provide organizations around the world (both large and small) with guidance on how to manage the environments aspects of their activities, products, and services more effectively.
She is an environmental anthropologist currently researching how fishery systems are being remade by enclosure and privatization processes and the total environment of change facing Arctic Indigenous communities.
But the rule will only reap the savings if the Environmental Protection Agency continues to look at the electric system as a whole, as it did in its recent draft rule, while adding more guidance to the states on how they can achieve and document the savings.
Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.