Sentences with phrase «of human environment»

I regard the ability to manipulate the technical, non-social aspects of the human environment as essentially a good thing, which means the possession of such ability should strongly contribute to social status.

Read here - a peer - reviewed paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment.

Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment.

«Laissez - faire Capitalism is concerned with the constant improvement of the human environment.

An environmental impact statement must be prepared for «major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.»

In 1964, after graduating from Harvard University and before starting medical school, Michael Crichton taught an anthropology course at Cambridge University called «Evolution of Human Environment.»

This is a COMPLETE set of revision slides for Unit 2 Challenges of the Human Environment.

The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to conduct environmental impact statements on threats or boons to «the quality of the human environment» as well as the natural environment.

There's no substitute for forming your own conscious picture of what kind of human environment you like and how you can achieve it.

So figuring what the value of these environmental services are is really important to make sure the human side of the human environment system is really represented.

«The FERC staff concludes that approval of the proposed Project, with appropriate mitigating measures, would not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment,» federal regulators said in a statement.

As ecosystems of the human environment change during development, pregnancy, or with changing diets, which bacterial species remain or how these microbial species function may shift is slowly becoming understood.

«The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well - being of people and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the people of the whole world and the duty of all Governments.

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Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

Mining sites can be dangerous environments for humans, and Clearpath's slew of product and service offerings aim to mitigate that risk.

In these environments, there's little evidence of leaders» displaying compassion and empathy in seeing employees as valued human beings.

Corporate leaders and human resources executives can harness the power of these principles to reshape our work environment.

But the political environment surrounding the Olympics is fraught with the specter of human rights abuse.

One thing to watch out for is that as we humans start to disinfect more and more of our environment, our body's natural capacity to fight pathogens appears to be declining.

What it does: This microbe is extremely versatile and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water, animals, plants, sewage, and hospitals in addition to humans.

Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

A spokeswoman for the EPA declined to comment, but a top official said in an internal memo that EPA leaders «will do everything in our power to protect our ability to support the mission of the agency in protecting human health and the environment.»

«The interaction of genes, environment and nurture come together in complex ways to produce the variety of human behavior.»

Certainly, though, a superior level of humanity will be required to make wide - ranging decisions and consistently act in the best interest of actual humans involved in work - related encounters in fully automated environments.

«I was reading about things that were of concern to me, the environment, hunger, animals, human rights.

Joris Luijke, VP of people at Grovo, is another human resources expert who knows all about recruiting and retaining in fast - growth environments.

Through its sister organization — the Better World Campaign — the UN Foundation works to support a fully funded United Nations so that it can continue to be an effective voice for international cooperation on behalf of peace, development, human rights and the environment.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests, «Roughly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted.»

Kenneth Freeman, Ambius» head of innovation, has been with the company since the 1990s and has since evolved his understanding of why humans are drawn to keeping plants in indoor environments and why doing so improves health and well - being.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Beyond Meat, for example, professes its portfolio has high levels of «clean» nutrients and is better for animals, the environment, and human health.

Biomica is using big data to analyze the interface between the bacterial environment of human beings and the human body.

BOEM seeks a wide array of input, including information on the economic, social, and environmental values of all OCS resources, as well as the potential impact of oil and gas exploration and development on other resource values of the OCS and the marine, coastal, and human environments.

Foundation funding also flows for a range of other causes, including education, human rights, arts, health and the environment.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.

Through this initiative, post-secondary students and young professionals investigate an issue that matters to the Canada - Asia relationship in terms of politics, diplomacy, economics, education, the environment, culture, human rights, or other area.

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

The case would clarify whether the province has authority to prevent and manage releases into the environment of substances like diluted bitumen that could endanger human health, the environment or communities, even on federally regulated infrastructure like inter-provincial pipelines or railways.

The United Nations Environment Programme reports that roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tons — gets lost or wasted.

The Area of OB / HRM at the Rotman School of Management aims to create a collegial environment in which faculty can pursue high - quality research in the fields of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management.

In turn, an environment of low, stable and predictable inflation allows productivity - enhancing investments in physical and human capital.

Returning to Shell Jackpine, while Canadians might be able to guess which policy factors were considered, they have no way of knowing how they were considered in light of the government's obligations pursuant to section 4 to ensure that projects «are considered in a careful and precautionary manner» and that the government exercises its powers «in a manner that protects the environment and human health and applies the precautionary principles.»

«Modern waste to energy recovery facilities that are designed and operated in accordance with current stringent regulations do not adversely impact human health or the environment,» asserted Sarah Foster a founding member of Maryland based scientific research and consulting firm, CPF Associates.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

Some objections are related to harmful effects of the project on humans and the environment.

«In an adversarial environment where the algorithm is under attack, it's YouTube's responsibility to design the system in such a way that it is resilient to this kind of manipulation, even if that means including human moderators,» Wilson says.

They are a murky regulatory environment, where states seem to be taking individual initiatives while the industry awaits rulings from the new administration's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; concerns about both reliability and cybersecurity in hackable robot cars; and the as yet unknown liability guidelines in the inevitable event of autonomous vehicle crashes and human injuries.