Sentences with phrase «issue of ecosystem health»

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

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The global community is generally improving on a number of issues, such as health outcomes related to drinking water and sanitation and protection of marine ecosystems, while on other issues significant challenges remain.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

A range of health issues have been linked to the ecosystem of microbes that lives inside us, and babies born by C - section are thought to miss out on bacteria from their mothers» vaginal canal.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

And many chronic health issues start when this ecosystem gets out of balance.

Through these areas, the College prepares the next generation of veterinarians and veterinarian scientists, conducts bench and clinical research to solve animal and human health problems, addresses critical ecosystem and public health issues, helps protect the U.S. food supply, and promotes a clearer understanding and appreciation of the human - animal bond that is at the center of these concerns.

But we also should connect the web of the issues within the overpopulation problem with larger, more comprehensive issues connected with human rights, the health of our ecosystems, the loss of natural habitat and the imbalances of nature we are experiencing across the planet, the introduction of non-native plants, the use of croplands for «livestock» raising, the human overpopulation problem, and so on.

educate members of the public about the ecology of marine ecosystems, their value, threats to their health and solutions to those issues.

Discuss how food choices have an impact on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, factory and farm worker treatment, and our global economy.

Each session addresses the impact of individual food choices on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, the treatment of factory and farm workers, and the global economy.

The new course will also be six sessions, with sessions exploring food systems — from how agriculture contributes to climate change and how climate change affects global food supply, to food justice and food politics issues, to the health of our bodies and the health of ecosystems.

Putting ecosystems at the center of our understanding of human health thus offers a promising way forward on some of the toughest human health issues, whether the scale is global or local.

M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.

This manual shows how science and policy actions have led to innovative solutions to environmental issues, reconfirming the critical role of the environment in maintaining and improving people's and ecosystems» health.

What are the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, of which added CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a part, but also from other social and environmental issues?

Land cover information is critical for local, state, and federal managers and officials to assist them with issues such as assessing ecosystem status and health, modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff, understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity, land use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policies.

Each session includes readings, short assignments and accompanying discussion questions that address the impact of individual food choices on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, the treatment of factory and farm workers, and the global economy.

China was the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, ranking at number 118 out of 178 countries in Yale University's Environmental Performance Index from 2016, which ranks countries based on their performances on environmental issues regarding protecting the health of humans and ecosystems.