Sentences with phrase «impacts at different scales»

«The results show how important it is to consider environmental impacts at different scales,» said Brenner.

Not exact matches

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation argued in the legal case that its plan to build roads and harvest trees would have minimal impact on grizzlies because it called for logging of small areas at different times rather than a full - scale clearing operation.

«On a bigger scale, sensors could be placed at different locations at catchment scale to observe any changes in the level of salinity within a field over time, having a direct impact on irrigation strategies.

Harvard faculty will introduce different approaches to achieving impact at scale, drawing on case studies and experts from the field to illustrate successful scaling strategies.

They will look at the pros and cons of different paths to scale, such as brick - and - mortar versus online options, replication versus adaptation, collective impact models, and more.

«There are a number of different strategies that we can take from the work that was done here to be able to scale collective impact across our district, and help us improve student achievement one building at a time,» Driver says.

It is also a social - ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global.

The overall level of consistency between attribution results derived from different models (as shown in Figure 9.9), and the ability of climate models to simulate large - scale temperature changes during the 20th century (Figures 9.5 and 9.6), indicate that such model differences are likely to have a relatively small impact on attribution results of large - scale temperature change at the surface.

Climate change was assessed by means of two Long Ashton Research Station - Weather Generator (LARS - WG) weather generators and all outputs from the available general circulation models in the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse - gas Induced Climate Change - SCENario GENerator (MAGICC - SCENGEN) software, in combination with different emission scenarios at the regional scale, while the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) model has been used for projections at the local scale.

For example, in the forthcoming U.K. Climate Impacts Program (UKCIP08) scenarios that Lenny refers to (and in which I'm involved), we plan to supply information on changes in a number of climate variables, at a range of space and time scales, for different periods during the twenty - first century.

Might the «weather» of orbital cycles be impacted by K / T but not the «climate» — perhaps the trajectories of obliquity, precession and eccentricity would become completely different given sufficient time, but maybe with the same general character — periods and amplitudes and average values being similar enough that a casual glance at any given time segment (on the necessary scale to characterize the orbital cycle «climate») wouldn't look like anything different.

It appears that large - regional or national estimates of possible impacts may give a different picture of vulnerabilities than an aggregation of vulnerabilities defined at a small - regional or local scale.

The use of two different scales at alternative sweeps potentially presents some problems in relation to comparability, particularly as the MCS aims to assess the impact mental health problems have on everyday life, while the DASS is a more symptomatic measure.

This amazing river project looks at new definitions of the term «prosperity» and how reimagining the natural realm can impact the regional economy for future generations in terms of smart growth on a very different scale.