Sentences with phrase «human dimensions of»

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

Najam Adil (2003), «The Human Dimensions of Environment Environmental Insecurity: Some Insights From South Asia», ECSP Report, Issue 9, pp.59 - 73; online available at: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/najam.pdf

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.

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.

Another Professor — Diana Liverman at Oxford University — specialises in «human dimensions of global environmental change» — Geography is a social science too.

Since 2011, the Global Diversity Foundation (GDF) has organised GESA to broaden and deepen the knowledge, networking and communication skills of activists, postgraduate students and professionals who are concerned about the human dimensions of environmental challenges.

Her research focused on the human dimensions of environmental change including development of collaborative processes in natural resource decision - making, behavior change, valuation of ecosystem goods and services, and modeling of human - ecosystem interactions.

These disciplines assume that addressing the human dimensions of climate change is in essence a matter of incentivizing, persuading and encouraging individuals to do their bit and to quit the habit of excessive resource consumption.

In addition, this new assessment from Working Group II greatly expands the use of the large body of evidence from the social sciences about human behavior and the human dimensions of climate change.

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.

The CRC contributed to work by the Transportation Research Board, the Institute of Medicine, Board on International Scientific Organizations, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, and other units.

Prior to this, he was Deputy Director of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme at the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme in Stockholm, Sweden.

************************************************************************ 2002 BERLIN CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Berlin, 6 - 7 December 2002 Plenary speakers include Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Oran Young, chair of the IHDP Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change project; and John Schellnhuber, director of PIK and research director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Paul C. Stern, the director of the National Research Council committee on the human dimensions of global change, has been involved in a decades - long string of studies of behavior, climate change and energy choices.

Dr. Richard Tol — Principal researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, at Carnegie Mellon University, calls the most influential global warming report of all time «preposterous... alarmist and incompetent.»

Lohr, C.A., Human dimensions of introduced terrestrial vertebrates in the hawaiian islands, in Natural Resources and Environmental Management2012, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

«Her expertise, particularly in the area of the human dimensions of climate change, will be quite valuable as the committee begins its work.»

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.

He is also senior fellow at the Milken Institute and president of the Council for Technology and the Individual, a nonprofit foundation addressing the human dimensions of technology.

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.

Aucott will feature the joint study as an example in his 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting presentation, Big Data Clinical Realities and the Human Dimensions of Interoperable Data.

The IUGB is a scientific conference focused on the biology, ecology and human dimensions of game species and hunters.

Eating for a Healthy Planet: A Conversation with Canadians has been produced as part of the Human Dimensions of Climate Change programme at the University of Victoria.

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

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.

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.

It encourages a sense of distance from the world; it attends only to the human dimension of the world; and it supports attitudes of either domination of the world or passivity toward it.

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.

«If child poverty really is to be abolished, the Government's anti-poverty programme must reach beyond raising incomes, and address the human dimension of poverty in a holistic way - increasing good parenting, aiding family stability, raising levels of educational attainment and healthcare and thus boosting children's life chances.»

Nowadays, within a world that is increasingly turning to science and technology for solutions to persistent socio - economic and development problems, the human dimension of science also receives increased attention, including the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

«We need to wrap this earth system problem inside an understanding of the human system as well,» said Schimel, describing the human dimension of the carbon cycle questions.

The human dimension of pastoralism is equally interesting and important.

It ends, as all superhero sagas must, in yet another destruction - cataclysm, but what they've done skilfully here is to keep the focus on the human dimension of the characters.

However, they also draw attention to the importance of the human dimension of eLearning, which is as important as its technological aspect.

- The Rumpus «As we enter year two of the Donald Trump presidency, Castillo's first novel challenges readers to look beyond the headlines to grasp the human dimension of America's lure to immigrants in this big - hearted family saga.»

Discover the human dimension of Katmai.

The Heart of Sustainability by Andres R. Edwards, delves into the human dimension of this burgeoning international movement to build a better world.

The human dimension of climate spillovers includes migration and health effects.

By continuously revealing the human dimension of the law, which is exactly what Adam Dodek and Alice Woolley accomplish in their masterful book In Search of the Ethical Lawyer.

Not exact matches

Keeping score (leader boards, result tabulations, rankings, etc.) and comparing ourselves to others is natural human behavior that social media and the ubiquitous connectivity of the web have exploded to dimensions we never anticipated.

Recalling that internationally - recognized human rights include social, economic, and cultural rights as well as political and civil rights, we should acknowledge that economic relations and human rights are mutually supportive dimensions of our mature relationship with China.

But so many other dimensions of history, law, human rights, justice, finance, and climate change motivate the campaign to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.

In Canada, human rights remain an embedded principle of Canadian law and governance, embracing both civil / political dimensions and economic / social / cultural dimensions of human rights as indispensable to the operation of our political and legal systems.

When the time is right, he leaves that reality for the bigger, truer reality, where he is able to see another dimension to human life, and he finds that he is no longer bound by the laws of the universe that once held him.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations.»

In truth, democratic capitalism requires all three dimensions of human flourishing: economic, political, and moral.

Morally, as Ruether has noted, the individual is ambivalent, fundamentally good but capable of great evil; consequently, a feminist critique must keep hold of a judging as well as an affirming dimension if it is truly to respond to the human condition.

Today I think that the religious dimension of human life is one of the irreducible roots of language, and I suspect that quite a few of our words developed from religious origins.

Nevertheless, as Buddhists first call attention to this character of all events, including each moment of human experience, and then explain how a mediator is inwardly affected by the realization of this truth, Christians can listen and open themselves to dimensions important to them.