Sentences with phrase «including environmental adaptations»

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Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

Physiological / biochemical / genetic adaptations of marine invertebrates, including early life history stages, to environmental stress.

Includes graph skills and data collecting of continuous and discontinuous data Covers inherited and environmental variation, adaptation, ecosystems and environments, predator - prey relationship, changes to ecosystems and their effect on populations.

I recently moderated a conversation on climate, food and security at the Asia Society involving some informed and influential figures, including Maria Blair, who's directing analysis of climate adaptation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

GEI provides evidence of the contributions green investments can make to economic performance, social development and environmental improvement, including climate mitigation and adaptation.

The International Development Finance Club (IDFC)-- a group of international, national, and regional development banks based in the developed and the developing world — released its annual report on green investment (i.e. mitigation, adaptation and «other» environmental finance which includes environmental protection and remediation related projects)-- as the world's climate negotiators were meeting in Lima, and its numbers are significant.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

Key recommendations presented in the document include: adopting migration and conflict - sensitive adaptation policies; promoting regional environmental cooperation in addressing climate change, migration and conflict; rooting national adaptation policies in the Green Economy and promoting the creation of green jobs; strengthening preventive action; and using conflict and / or migration risk to prioritize investments and build donor commitment to long - term engagement in the Sahel.

The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.

This approach pays landholders or farmers for actions that preserve the services to public and environmental health provided by ecosystems on their property, including services that contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.

We expect a decision that mandates all countries to make «intended contributions» on adaptation, finance, technology, and capacity building that are gender responsive and include social and environmental safeguards.

- The people of Masig are prepared to participate in a process of adaptation to environmental and climate change which may include things such as:

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andenvironmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andEnvironmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.