Sentences with phrase «local ecology systems»

Well - versed in educating trail users on backcountry techniques and local ecology systems.

Not exact matches

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

Although the general approach and results are «positive and useful,» says economist Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, «we don't learn very much about how levels of community development, government policies, local ecology, prevalent farm systems, and social organization influence the outcomes.»

A state's education system comprises distinct subsystems or local ecologies.

Interweaving elements of local history and ecology with reference to Michael Faraday, baroque music and the Camberwell Beauty butterfly, Lincoln proposed a complex system of music, botany and a mechanical pansy cutter, triggered each day by a JS Bach score, its blades creating a labyrinth in a bed of genetically modified pansies.

The exhibition features contemporary artworks that address various systems perpetuating global warming and those systems» impact on local ecologies.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

USA About Blog The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.