Sentences with phrase «measuring human adaptation»

The biosphere's public relations team tried to put a brave face on the situation, announcing that the «experiment in measuring human adaptation to lower oxygen levels» was ending.

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Previous adaptations of the Morris water maze for humans varied significantly from the original in their design and performance measures.

-- change its brief and focus away from simply investigating human - induced climate change and its impact, consequences plus possible mitigation and adaptation measures to truly researching all aspects of our planet's climate and

The evidence illustrates loss and damage around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

That those who are causing climate change have an ethical responsibility to protect those who could be seriously harmed by human - induced warming by funding responsible adaptation measures is a conclusion that follows from numerous ethical theories and several international law principles.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.

In addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadership.

Kroemker, D. and Mosler, H. J. (2002) Human Vulnerability — Factors Influencing the Implementation of Prevention and Protection Measures: An Agent based Approach, Global Environmental Change in Alpine Regions: Recognition, Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 93 - 112.

Instead, well - validated measures of positive phenomena should become routinely incorporated into a broader array of health psychology studies to provide a rigorous test of their role in human health and adaptation to disease.