Sentences with phrase «human societal condition»

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However, a rise in wildfires still will mean significant societal challenges, such as higher pollution levels, which can affect human health and aggravate respiratory conditions.

In these times of diversity and multicultural experience, the artist's image is both a cypher for the human condition as well as the foundation for complex iconography in which the cultural object stands to reflect the impact of societal norms on the individual.

Dubos was one of our founding fathers, present at the creation, and the first part of his essay traces his sometimes - painful steps from bench scientist as a bacteriologist to someone profoundly focused on the human condition and the ways that the world that humans inherit, alter and leave behind shape human health, not only in the narrow sense of healthy people but in the larger sense of societal health and well - being.

This paper finds that under a wide range of assumptions about future growth in wealth and population, and about the effects of human - caused climate change, in every case there is far greater potential to affect future losses by focusing attention on the societal conditions that generate vulnerability to losses.

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

As the Joint Institute for the Study of the Oceans and the Atmosphere says, from â a societal impacts perspective, recognition of PDO is important because it shows that «normal» climate conditions can vary over time periods comparable to the length of a human's lifetime.â