Sentences with phrase «more ecological science»

And we really act with more urgency, and more ecological science, than I think the average campaign organization.»

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As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

This shift can not only shape what research happens, but how research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.

One common tool is applicable to the vast array of ecological and social science interactions at the critical wildfire / urban interface: more effective land - use planning, along with the regulations that guide it.

The Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network is a grassroots network of more than 600 members in 50 + countries conducting innovative science to understand, predict, and communicate the role and response of lakes in a changing global environment.

It is an ecological Aladdin's Cave of natural science, from its towering ancient mountains to its broad river valleys and... read more

This is all good for understanding more regional / local impacts — for adaptation, for strengthening the science, and inspiring people to implement mitigation measures — but from an ecological citizen's view, all we need to know at a low level of confidence is that AGW will be causing some bad things or other to be happening somewhere or other, sometime or other, to people and other creatures to feel the heavy responsibility to mitigate here and now.

The basics of global warming science remain robust — more greenhouse gases will continue to heat the planet, erode ice, raise seas and present challenges to many human and ecological communities.

One that spans disciplinary boundaries (especially between the social and ecological sciences) and embeds researchers much more intimately in development processes.

In other words, the kinds of arguments environmentalists deployed, the nature of environmental conflict, shifted and became more ecology - focused in part because as a quantifiable science ecological arguments were more persuasive in court.

The study, by the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University, shows the ecological footprint of solar power development could grow to more than 27,500 square miles — roughly the land area of South Carolina — if the U.S. were to adopt a more ambitious climate goal.

The recent hype about declining moose populations is just one more example of global warming advocates hijacking and denigrating ecological science.

We'll present a couple illustrations before we'll get to the actual publication we hope to discuss — one that compares methodology of science - based and «science - denying» climate websites but that also touches on a subject we personally find far more interesting: what's actually going on in the Arctic, an area that is not only experiencing major physical consequences of climate change, but that is subsequently also set to be a stage for a cascade of ecological consequences of this climate change — both in the Arctic tundra biome and in the adjacent Arctic marine ecosystem.

For more information on the effects of last year's spill and to further consider what is happening in the Gulf today, watch this 4 minute video on the science of last year's spill, where one year after the largest oil spill in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are trying to determine the long - term ecological effects.