Sentences with phrase «human dimension»

And yet, such surveys are the foundation of human dimensions research, the investigation of attitudes, beliefs, and values — along with their underlying drivers — surrounding a particular issue.

Then I realize that I'm talking human dimensions again.

It is in this unique human dimension that increased sexual intimacy is found.

My view is that the benefit of establishing a personal connection / human dimension outweighs the benefit of having one additional line for «real» experiences.

The organizers of this conference originally proposed to add yet another Bonn Declaration to the list, one laying out the way forward for research on human dimensions of global change.

He has worked on human dimensions issues related to subsistence, climate change, and adaptation in the Arctic and served on numerous boards and commissions such as the Gwich» in Council International, International Porcupine Caribou Board, and the Yukon River Panel.

Formerly he was Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was the only faculty member to have won both the Dean's award for research in the social sciences and the Chancellor's award for research in the humanities.

«Titan simulations show importance of close two - way coupling between human and Earth systems: OLCF's Titan advances delivery of accelerated, high - resolution earth system model with human dimensions.»

«All told, the report concludes that «there is significant potential for unanticipated, unmanageable, and regrettable consequences in multiple human dimensions from albedo modification at climate altering scales.»

The Global Environmental Change Programmes (DIVERSITAS, International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change and World Climate Research Programme) with the International Council for Science convened the Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards Solutions conference to assess the state of the planet and explore solutions to impending global crises.

«The alternative to the existing world order can only emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress.

None of characters here are based on any specific real - life figures, and as such they fall for the most part into conventional character types; that said, they are all lent human dimension by the actors.

Most unsettling, though, was the conviction with which both researchers presenting human dimensions work * responded — utterly unconcerned, it seemed, with the suggestion that the results of their hard work may not, in the end, be terribly meaningful.

The ecological theologian sometimes falls prey to the traditional romantic danger of submerging the distinctively human dimension of the created order in nature, thereby undercutting the biblical norm of social justice.

This transcendence which is the human person's openness to what is to come, unlimited openness, is in Marxism a human project in a definite historical situation, a human choice to remain open to the future as limitless human dimension, an absence of any final boundary.

«These are not just political conflicts or economic choices; they are moral choices with enormous human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last week.

Gehrt investigated the causes of the most troubling conflicts as a co-author of another paper published in November 2009 in the journal Human Dimensions of Wildlife.

The model — now a part of the ACME human dimensions component — is being merged with ACME in preparation for ACME version 2.

«It's also pushing toward a more comprehensive simulation capability by including human dimensions and other advances, yielding the most detailed Earth system models to date.»

«Our discovery adds a really rich human dimension — a culinary and therefore cultural depth to what we already know about these people.»

The change in the title of the book, Father of Frankenstein, is an indication of the shift from the novel: James Whale is made more human, as he is measured against the all too human dimensions of his gardener, a beautiful young man who knows very little of the world and even less of the homosexual world and its pleasures.

The nameless other, or the one who can not be seen, lurks in the background, allowing the viewer to conjure upon these unseen figures his or her own human dimensions.»

At the November 9, 2009 meeting of the National Research Council Human Dimensions of Global Change Committee, the Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health reported on its progress.

She received a paralegal certificate from Salt Lake Community College and holds a master's of science degree in human dimensions of ecosystem science and management from Utah State University.

The development of iESM started before the ACME initiative when a multilaboratory team aimed to add new human dimensions — such as how people affect the planet to produce and consume energy — to Earth system models.

According to Jody Enck of Cornell's Human Dimensions Research Unit, «By the middle of the 21st century, there may be no more hunters unless those concerned about hunting can initiate an aggressive and well - funded effort to address problems.»

This year's fellowship is made possible by EJN's Human Dimensions of Climate Change project, funded by the Oak Foundation.

The human dimensions should also be considered: This means IT security and program managers should work alongside senior operations and business managers to ensure all approaches are in sync and fully functioning.

Art Markman, PhD is a professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations, which brings the humanities, social and behavioral sciences to people in business.

Britt, who grew up working long hours on her family farm, stood out in my MBA classes with her insights into the human dimension of business problems.

With Howard, it's about the human dimensions and social realities, and how everyone is responsible for creating tyrants.»

This fearful explosion of environmental wantonness takes no account of the human dimensions of the debacle.

If in this connection we would only refer to the testimony of the Spirit who speaks in and through Scripture, this would indeed be correct and would be acknowledged also in Catholic theology; but we would not yet have reached the question where the dialogue touches the human dimension as such.

Moral and rational good, expressive of man's ideal aspects and thus characteristic of this human dimension, stands under the judgment of a sensitivity more consonant with the freedom of spirit, a structure of sensitivity and grace transcending man's level.

Despite the mythic scale of their prowess, the human dimensions of their personalities are almost always poignantly visible.

One of the major implications of this naturalistic absorption of the human dimension is that the categories of thought we employ to understand nature are not irrelevant to our understanding the nature of man.

But what the other implications of Scripture's «God - breathedness» are, and how its divine origin correlates with its human dimension, are nowhere delineated.

It has often been argued that an excessive anthropocentrism (overemphasis on the human dimension of our world) is the main source of our current environmental crisis.

In the East another human dimension has been preserved.

The gay community has been so exercised to deny that homosexual orientation is chosen that it runs the danger of draining homosexual behavior of its human dimension as a chosen act or life.

Here's one example among many of the wise moderation of the new encyclical: In his Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens of 1971, Paul VI reflected on the meaning of politics, and the danger constituted by utopian and ideological visions that place its ethical and human dimensions in....

Our human dimension is like the first dimension compared to God's greater dimension.

His approach takes seriously the «human dimension» of Scripture and sees it not as an unhappy condescension but as a mark of God's love and of how far He will stoop to commune with His people.

One must of course be realistic about the human dimension of the Church, but to nurture an antagonism towards «that instrument needed by the Pope for the fulfilment of his mission» must in the end be subtly detrimental to one's faith.