Sentences with phrase «natural adaptation processes»
IPAs are generally larger areas of land with high biodiversity and cultural heritage conservation values and therefore have a greater capacity to be able to withstand climate change impacts and allow for natural adaptation processes.
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The mechanism of the evolutionary process is natural selection, the successful, that is to say capable of survival and propagation of the species, adaptation of species and populations to their environment.
Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.
Hence, biological adaptation may be viewed as an entirely «natural» or organic process wherein there is no apparent design or overarching purpose in the evolutionary scheme.
(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.
«Because of the short generation times of planktonic organisms and the rapid succession of different populations, it becomes possible to study adaptation processes in the natural environment.»
Additionally, even if gluten digestion abilities were to be improved through evolution and natural selection, the process would take so long, we wouldn't expect to see a genetic adaptation for improved gluten digestion until the year 102,000, at the soonest.
Natural selection, the major driving force of evolution, is a process leading to greater adaptation of organisms to their environment.
(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.
Adaptations employ a diverse portfolio of planning and practices that combine subsets of • Infrastructure and asset development • Technological process optimization • Institutional and behavioral change or reinforcement • Integrated natural resources management (such as for watersheds and coastal zones) • Financial services, including risk transfer • Information systems to support early warning and proactive planning Although approaches vary according to context and the level of government, there are two general approaches observed in adaptation planning and implementation to date: top - down and bottom - up.