Sentences with phrase «in ecological approaches»

These families are likely to need flexible, multi-modal programmes, grounded in ecological approaches, spanning at least two generations, which respond to individual circumstances.

In an ecological approach to the family and the institutions that support it, the school cases, especially, would benefit from reconsideration.

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Liberating Life: Contemporary Approaches in Ecological Theology, published 1990 by Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 10545.

In the following chapter I attempt to outline an approach to the future using an ecological model in which life becomes the central categorIn the following chapter I attempt to outline an approach to the future using an ecological model in which life becomes the central categorin which life becomes the central category.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

With education and other social services, an ecological approach would favor local experiments, such as the pilot projects carried out in the 1960s with income maintenance.

The report in question is published independently in the book Liberating Life: Contemporary Approaches to Ecological Theology (LLCA).

We live in a world where social morality must recognize that planetary society is approaching the ecological limits of the earth.

In short, the formation of the planetary society, the approaching of the earth's ecological limits, and the attainment of certain built - in or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futureIn short, the formation of the planetary society, the approaching of the earth's ecological limits, and the attainment of certain built - in or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futurein or intrinsic boundaries all are coming at a time when the scientific and technological capabilities of men are enlarging the range of alternative futures.

We have in recent years witnessed a number of new theoretical schemes — or attempts to revive old schemes in which collective, behavioral, observable variables predominate: ecological theories, economistic models, market metaphors, notions of moral order and moral economy, and cybernetic and behaviorist approaches, to name a few.

Important to AAA inspectors are ecological sustainability in an establishment's approach, as well as the use of noted technology trends such as easy to use alarm clocks with device docks and device mirroring panels.

All too often innovations are marketed as «green» based on gains in a single metric, when the complex landscape of ecological challenges requires a holistic approach.

As well as highlighting industry best - practices in ethical sourcing and food ingredients, this North American edition aims to showcase popular approaches to measuring ecological impacts.»

In our workshops, we utilize local habitats to learn about ecological principles, local habitats, and species identification and how to teach these lessons in the classroom through a hands - on, and inquiry driven approacIn our workshops, we utilize local habitats to learn about ecological principles, local habitats, and species identification and how to teach these lessons in the classroom through a hands - on, and inquiry driven approacin the classroom through a hands - on, and inquiry driven approach.

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iEcological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition.

FSU Professor of Biological Science Nora Underwood, a co-author of the study, said this research will be vital in broadening scientists» approach to the study of major ecological disturbances.

This foundational course provides a broad overview of approaches in applied mathematics, covering both deterministic and stochastic methods, with an emphasis on ecological questions, and is taken by general mathematics students who wish to obtain an introduction to graduate - level applied math, as well as by our students who are specifically interested in mathematical biology.

More specifically, she focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to identify the determinants of disease transmission in different ecological settings, providing evidence for the improvement of current control policies, as well as the development of new ones.

Well, it's a big planet with some very complicated climatic and ecological systems, and there's no guarantee that any approach will actually work in real life.

They then used a modeling approach developed by Scripps ecologist George Sugihara and colleagues to detect cause - and - effect relationships in ecological systems.

«It's such an amazing approach,» agrees Richard Nevle, an environmental scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who has studied the ecological effects of the American Indian population crash.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coEcological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

In the new study, Kharrazi and researchers at IIASA applied an approach first developed to study ecological networks in order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade systeIn the new study, Kharrazi and researchers at IIASA applied an approach first developed to study ecological networks in order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade systein order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade system.

«Our study took a unified approach to understanding egg shape by asking three questions: how to quantify egg shape and provide a basis for comparison of shapes across species, what are the biophysical mechanisms that determine egg shape, and what are the implications of egg shape in an evolutionary and ecological setting,» said senior author, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics at Harvard.»

«Future challenges in Australia will be to protect a marine environment that contains growing humpback whale populations and to develop alternative approaches to ecological sustainability,» said Dr. David Johnston of Duke University USA, co-author of the study.

Both of these approaches let us examine evolutionary and ecological processes in ways that would be difficult with real living populations.

While serving as Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, I participated in numerous animated exchanges with yoga therapists, teachers and researchers from around the world regarding whether or not scholars should engage in «a reductionist approach to the study of yoga» as the author of the critique recommends, or adopt a holistic, ecological framework that honors yoga's complex interplay of philosophies and practices, rather than its constituent parts.

You will learn about how spending time inside can alter the makeup of your microbiome, and how a new approach to farming — called Ecological Farming — can improve the state of our soil and maintain important ecosystems in food production.

Visual Art unit featuring bugs of all kinds in a n inquiry based approach inspired by ecological artists Katherine Owen and Laurie Mitchell.

By using a blended approach you can easily run a few seminars live, in class, and the remaining ones by using a videoconferencing app, you can also distribute your class materials through the Learning Management System (LMS), which is both simple and more ecological.

«Solutions to many of our ecological problems lie in an approach that celebrates, empowers, and nurtures the cultural, artistic, historical and spiritual resources of each local community and region.

Most schools need to drastically alter their approach to designing the school day, if they are ever to achieve a consensus amongst students that there is genuine value in such things as Ecological sustainability.

His article «A Complementary Ecological Model of the Coordinated School Health Program,» initially published in Public Health Reports (2010) and subsequently in the Journal of School Health (2010), provided the first reconceptualization of this approach in more than 20 years.

I helped to field - test and validate neuter / return in 1991 - 1992 as an effective means of humanely eradicating feral colonies with minimal ecological impact, and as an effective approach to rabies control in the path of the mid-Atlantic raccoon rabies pandemic of 1976 - 1993.

In showcasing projects completed or conceived in the past six years, this exhibition adds to the rich history of ecological art, demonstrating the wide range of approaches taken by artists in seriously engaging the environmenIn showcasing projects completed or conceived in the past six years, this exhibition adds to the rich history of ecological art, demonstrating the wide range of approaches taken by artists in seriously engaging the environmenin the past six years, this exhibition adds to the rich history of ecological art, demonstrating the wide range of approaches taken by artists in seriously engaging the environmenin seriously engaging the environment.

Combined with ideas stemming from the social sphere such as ecological protests and utopian scientific experiments, this project takes an approach that links to current theoretical developments in the areas of cultural identity, models for communities and social and political activism.

Diverse in subject, materials, and approach, each site - specific work addresses social, ecological, or political issues that are pertinent to the past, present, and future of the park as it celebrates its 30th anniversary year.

Lucid Art Foundation (CA), Call for Applicants: Artist - in - Residence 2018 Deadline: November 15th, 2017 The Lucid Art Foundation encourages exploration of nonrepresentational art through multimedia, conceptual, ecological, and interdisciplinary approaches.

The title, «metamodernism,» is a term proposed by Dutch scholars Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker to describe how contemporary artists oscillate in attitude and approach between enthusiastic modernism and ironic postmodernism, while addressing contemporary concerns with financial instability, ecological destruction, and post-digital existence.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Perhaps a better approach is to allow for people to act the way people tend to do, but design systems such that people have their own ecological niche, which, through good design, allows them to behave in self - interested ways that benefit the common good.

We are biologically homogenising the biosphere, overharvesting certain species and functional guilds, altering a range of biogeochemical cycles, fragmenting vast landscapes down to local ecological communities, and saturating the planet's surface in a number of synthetic compounds: the slash and burn approach to global habitat management.

The SGP offers a community - based approach in international waters management that generates not only global environmental benefits but also increases adaptive capacity for communities and ecological systems.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.

IPBES is particularly looking for fellows with a scientific and / or practical background in: ecological and environmental economics, environmental and sustainability sciences, environmental ethics and philosophy, environmental sociology and anthropology, environmental psychology and behavioral science, environmental history, science and technology studies, political ecology, human geography, human ecology, cultural ecology, environmental policy and law, political sciences and trade, and from other fields related to integrative approaches to human - nature relations and linking knowledge to policy and practice.

My opinion, which I tell my students, is that knowing the fundamentals, knowing the basics — whatever area you work in, climate economics or ecological sciences — addressing and studying climate change problems requires an interdisciplinary approach and sooner or later that person who is very much well - versed in the fundamentals of his or her own choice of areas will see the avenue directing to the major issue of climate change or climate science.

The ecomodernists and Pope Francis approach our ecological problems in very different ways, the former emphasizing growth, technology, and separation from nature, the latter emphasizing restraint, charity, and the interconnectedness of all things.

In State College, Pennsylvania, I had the opportunity to tour the 2,400 square feet Matson & Associates Eco-Building, home to three ecopreneurial enterprises: Matson & Associates, an environmental assessment services company, often engaged to provide «expert witness» testimonials on some of the most timely waste processes issues; Envinity, a green building and home energy audit consultancy; and Matson Biofuels, a company developing a more ecological and non-toxic approach to making biodiesel called Green Biodiesel.

A combined approach that explores the biological and psychological functioning of individuals and at the same time locates the individual in an ecological context which is at the heart of an indigenous contribution to best practice.