Sentences with phrase «impact on adaptation»

In particular, it has been well documented that parental abuse and neglect have a negative impact on the adaptation of children (Patterson, DeBaryshe & Ramsey, 1989).

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The fact is that this syndrome of overextended conditions has persisted since March of last year (about 1400 on the S&P 500), so the impact of that adaptation will only be observed over time.

Also offers Climate Ventures 2.0, a 12 - week program for entrepreneurs focused on innovations in climate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urban areas.

Users can also consult IFOAM experts with regards to the appropriateness of certain adaptations, and whether they would likely have an impact on the credibility and acceptability of the national system at the international level.

Mitigation of environmental impact and adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the upcoming IDF Symposium on the Role of Dairy in Sustainable Diets, Seville, 1st and 2nd February 2018...

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Key topics discussed are: • Climate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestration.

Mass Audubon served on the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediately.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

Dr. Dow is a social environmental geographer focusing on climate impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation.

«Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation result in pressure on yields from important crops in much of the world,» says IFPRI agricultural economist Gerald Nelson, an author of the report, «Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Impacts and Costs of Adaptation to 2050».

The results suggest that recent changes in global vegetation have had impacts on local climates that should be considered in the design of local mitigation and adaptation plans.

Genomic RNA editing and its impact on Ebola virus adaptation during serial passages in cell culture and infection of guinea pigs

The paper, «Intact ecosystems provide the best defense against climate change,» published in Nature Climate Change, discusses how certain adaptation strategies may have a negative impact on nature which in turn will impact people in the long - term.

«Until now, few reports had given us any insight into the long - term impacts of rising CO2 over multiple generations and none have been undertaken on the molecular signature underpinning such adaptation.

I've written on mitigation, adaptation, geoengineering, impacts of climate change.

«The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality» by Dr Carlo Fezzi, Dr Amii Harwood, Prof Andrew Lovett and Prof Ian Bateman is published in the March edition of Nature Climate Change.

Adaptation may have an impact on water availability, wildlife, biodiversity, carbon policies, and the amount of recreation space.

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

«Apparently, the adaptation has its limits, and the negative impact on the growth rate can not be compensated completely by evolution,» says Schlüter.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

Our findings highlight the need to study the physiological mechanisms underlying the impact of urbanization on wildlife in order to better understand present and future threats to populations and the adaptations animals make to counter these.

(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.

Scott continues to work on climate impacts and adaptation in Northwest irrigated agriculture and on forecasting the impacts of climate change, demographic change, and technology adoption on the western U.S. power grid.

As a result, life on Earth has flourished for over four billion years by recycling its own wastes and exploiting new habitats with physiological adaptations, through occasional environmental disasters such as catastrophic meteoric impacts.

It tracks progress on health and climate change across 40 indicators divided into five categories: climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability; adaptation planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement.

• Editor and Lead Author, «The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability», IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) • Lead Author of IPCC Technical Paper No. 3, «Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio - Economic Implications,» (1997) • Editor, Working Group II Contribution to the Second Assessment Report Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (Scientific and Technical Analyses), (1996).

By instituting adaptation and mitigation programs, forest managers can act now to lessen the likelihood and magnitude of climate change impacts on Montana's forests.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

-- 4) Improved fire models and projections directly related to Montana's forests; 5) Long - term monitoring of forest insect and pathogen response to recent climate changes and improved projections of likely future impacts; 6) Better understanding of disturbance effects on microclimates and refugia and implications for forest productivity, mortality, and adaptation.

James J. Dooley • Expert Reviewer, «Carbon Dioxide Transport, Injection and Geological Storage,» IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006) • Lead Author, «Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Cross-Cutting Chairman for «Market Deployment,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Lead Author, «Technical Summary,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Expert Reviewer, Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Climate change may be perceived most through the impacts of extremes, although these are to a large degree dependent on the system under consideration, including its vulnerability, resiliency and capacity for adaptation and mitigation; see the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Additionally, if we ask our visitors to look at an illuminated screen for, say, 15 or 20 minutes while we discuss various objects on the screen, even turning the display to low intensity levels would be enough to severely impact their dark - adaptation and would potentially ruin their views of objects through other telescopes.

Our model should allow studies of the impact of aneuploidy on molecular adaptations and cellular fitness.IMPORTANCE Aneuploidy is usually detrimental in multicellular organisms, but in several microorganisms, it can be tolerated and even beneficial.

Released on April 6 from Brussels, Belgium, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability presents years of research by IPCC Working Group II.

The other major benefit of using VESPA during this phase is it will dampen some of the negative impacts on fat - adaptation due to re-introduction of concentrated carbohydrates and sugars into the diet and fueling.

This will aid in evaluating the impact of carbohydrate re-introduction on fat - adaptation and isolate it in case the athlete needs to continue restriction.

They touch upon the inevitable nature of fan complaints to adaptation, the atmosphere of the productions, actor acne, the movies» impact on their lives, and Radcliffe's early allergic reactions to contact lenses and Harry's glasses.

Since then, Steve has been making quite an impact on the comic world, including supporting roles in «Anchorman» and «Bruce Almighty,» as well as the lead role in the NBC adaptation of the award - winning BBC comedy «The Office.»

It posits an Earth where the dinosaur - ending comet misses impact, leading to millions of years of evolved adaptations and ending, as the film begins, with the emergence of homo sapiens on schedule, but skittering around on all fours and howling at their saurian masters.

In the big screen adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel, the 24 - year - old actress plays Florence, a young English woman whose disastrous attempt at intimacy with her husband on their wedding night impacts on their marriage.

13.3 improve education, awareness raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and early warning

While these are wonderful and needed modifications and adaptations to provide students, it took me longer than I care to admit to become cognizant of the fact that my version of differentiation had little, if any, impact on student learning.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

The most recent report is a meta - analysis of over 200 experimental studies of social and emotional learning which have demonstrated that SEL programs not only impact social cognitions and behavioral adaptation, but in addition such programs have a substantial effect size on academic achievement.

The report provides transportation professionals with an overview of the scientific consensus on current and future climate changes of particular relevance to U.S. transportation, including the limitations of present scientific understanding as to their precise timing, magnitude, and geographic location; identifies potential impacts on U.S. transportation and adaptation options; and, offers recommendations for both research and actions that can be taken to prepare for climate change.

We conduct necessary research for the continued enhancement of the following outreach services: research development and adaptation of diagnostic tests and protocols, research and investigation of livestock and companion animal diseases impacting the health and well being of the animals and citizens of Louisiana, and research on selective diseases impacting the economics on the animal industries of Louisiana.