Sentences with phrase «human infrastructure»

All of these systems are examples of human infrastructure, and are essential elements of society today.

The irony is that I think these companies will largely succeed in their expansion efforts because it has been slower, more organic and some now have enough human infrastructure to support it.

It is our goal to improve and grow the physical, financial and human infrastructure in Syracuse and Onondaga County, improving the area's ability to retain and recruit businesses.

Relatively rapid degradation of near - surface, ice - rich permafrost caused by atmospheric forcing is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Instead, it suggested homeless people were little more than «helpless pieces of privilege - extending human infrastructure,» as ReadWrite put it.

Not just physical infrastructure, but also human infrastructure.»

In the Capital Region water infrastructure tour, «We learned quickly it wasn't just capital and physical infrastructure but human infrastructure as well,» he said.

Questions of how human infrastructure or natural ecosystems might be affected are almost completely unexplored, he said.

«World Heritage sites getting hammered by human activities: Study says more than 100 natural World Heritage sites, including Yellowstone, are increasingly damaged by expanding human infrastructure and land uses.»

«This study demonstrates that human infrastructure development along coastal areas have long - term consequences on the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt to sea - level rise and other processes that reduce the size of coastal wetlands,» said Talib Oliver - Cabrera, the study's first author and a UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student.

Most of them are revolting, though Verhoeven is less interested in the inherent horror of rape than in rape as a kind of awful human infrastructure for the flow of power.

Adriane Colburn exposes the deep, dark spaces of our energy production in installations that investigate relationships between human infrastructure, earth systems, technology and the natural world.

At present all climate influenced human infrastructure (reservoirs, irrigation, water supply, sea walls, etc) is designed by analysing the past statistically and assuming it will occur with equal probability in the future.

Floods are inevitable and even beneficial functions of rivers except where humans and human infrastructure impose themselves upon the natural domain of flooding, which is the floodplain.

A new study finds 100 + natural treasures, including Yellowstone, are being severely damaged by sprawling human infrastructure and land use.

Impacts are felt in water conservation, water quality, species habitat, human health and human infrastructure needs.

The report discusses the impacts of a changing climate on ecosystems and human infrastructure in regions with significant presence of permafrost, as well as the impacts of thawing permafrost on global climate.

Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

«Unchecked, it has the potential to impact nearly every aspect of human infrastructure and our natural environment — from our cities and roads to our forests and fields.»

This year, Hillary Clinton's team raised hundreds of millions of dollars online, built a massive data and human infrastructure to turn out their voters, invested their money in targeted TV advertising, created opportunities for volunteers to work in their own social circles on behalf of the candidate — all pieces Obama had shown should work.

«The state has made massive investments in physical and human infrastructure in the last five years.

«I like the human infrastructure of the banking industry here in Buffalo and Western New York and I think that's what made First Niagara attractive,» said Higgins.

«This plan has ideas from across the community and lays the groundwork for growth and prosperity through strategic investments in physical and human infrastructure.»

Without this basic, human infrastructure, your 1:1 initiative — or any initiative — will not take flight.

One thing is for sure, unless we address the really serious problem of human infrastructure and population the details of whether it's CO2 or not, or whether the coastal mangrove will suvive, is moot.

We are not taking into account the potential for increased destruction (and cost) due to increasing population or human infrastructure.

Determine which components of arctic landscapes are most sensitive to permafrost thaw and pose the greatest risks to human infrastructure and ecosystem services.

Desire for more bike lanes was the clearest preference, but factors such as off - street bicycle paths, secure bicycle parking, and bicycling events — human infrastructure, in a sense — were important those surveyed as well.

Existing thawing is already destabilizing the human infrastructure, which require frequent repair.

Here, a collection of images from the past week of the new fissures, the lava flow, and its effects on the natural environment and human infrastructure.

In 2007, the Nobel Prize - winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted serious risks and damages to livelihoods, human infrastructure, societies, species, and ecosystems unless future warming is reduced.

Also, I always assume that corals build up atolls by building on top of themselves, which would mean that the foundation that the human infrastructure is currently built upon wouldn't be moving upward.