Sentences with phrase «on environmental context»

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«As expected, we found that the vulnerability of migratory animals varied depending on the regional, environmental, behavioral and taxonomic context of the species,» explained lead author Molly Hardesty - Moore, a graduate student in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

The exposures of sedimentary strata there allow us to place these activities in a detailed environmental context, and to tightly constrain their age» notes geologist Craig Feibel of Rutgers University, a co-author on the study.

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

A coalition of 16 science and environmental groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a joint statement praising the assessment, while others said it provided much - needed context for sticky debates on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the land.

Much of her work has examined this environmental justice question in the context of ambient air pollution and indoor chemical exposures, prenatal exposures and effects on birth outcomes and children's health, often using community - based participatory research approaches for data collection and risk communication.

And it's no indictment on character — far from some sort of personal failure, psychological and emotional problems stem from something greater than you, being either inherited genetically, or learned from parents or other environmental contexts.

Westchester and NYC About Blog GreenLaw is the weblog of Pace University School of Law's top - ranked environmental law program and aims to provide information, context, and commentary on current events and developments in the field of environmental law.

Mapping the context of your project is critical, because it helps you identify the environmental, political, cultural, and other factors that will have an impact on the outcome of your implementation efforts.

Some of the challenges surrounding these activities relate to the complexity of environmental problems, diversity of concepts and language, to counter this, we focus on the implementation of activities in two complementary strategies: accessible language and context.

Another thing that needs to be said in this context is that sooner or later, in order to meet environmental problems, there will have to be international cooperation across all national boundaries on a much larger scale than we have seen up to now.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery oEnvironmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery oenvironmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

The works on view in the Whitney exhibition continue to push further in this direction, introducing varied skin tones and more experimentation with bright color and background imagery giving environmental context.

Carbon dioxide, the bubbles in beer, is a pollutant in the context of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday.

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

In 2013, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace published Energy, Justice and Peace: A Reflection on Energy in the Current Context of Development and Environmental Protection.

Within this context, the company strives to produce a reliable and quality product that society values, and to deliver long - term economic value to capital providers while meeting stakeholders» expectations on social and environmental responsibility.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Positioning themselves as Obama's conscience, particularly in the context of Tar Sands Action, they might be able to attack Republicans for their non-green attitudes, but could also provide ammunition for the right who want to criticise Obama for reneging on environmental promises.

Throughout this blog, and in our last two posts in the context of Climategate, we have argued that environmental politics, not environmental science, underpins the war on climate change, and that at the centre of that politics sits the precautionary principle.

The selection of LEED credits often depends on the project's environmental context, particularly current energy use and site conditions.

More broadly, draft White House guidance to federal agencies on environmental impact assessment of proposed federal actions such as energy development permits, which has languished for four years, could move the system toward analyzing specific proposed projects within a larger context of cumulative global warming impacts.

In the case of GGR, we have started to see a shift, e.g., with a major programme funded by the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/ggr/).

The CEED workshop on the Clean Power Plan provided community members with a deeper understanding of what this rule means for power plants in environmental justice communities.This toolkit describes key elements of the CPP within the context of the power system, pathways for implementation, and challenges to maximize environmental justice for locally impacted communities.

In this context, we develop national projections of the urban and non-urban coastal population on the basis of four environmental and socio - economic scenarios which account for sea - level rise (for the flood plain analysis), population distribution, trends in urbanisation and coastal population growth.

Anderson, who teaches politics in the context of environmental policy making at the Bren School, and Harbridge, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, based their conclusion on a quantitative analysis of U.S. budgetary spending reports from 1955 - 2002.

In this case, the Court found that ClientEarth could not rely on the Aarhus Convention to challenge the Public Access to Documents Regulation (Regulation 1049/2001) in order to obtain commissioned studies on compliance by Member States with EU environmental law in the context of infringement procedures.

It remains to be seen how this will apply to a broader public consultation on a complex area by an expert decision - maker, particularly in the context of environmental decision - making, where the Aarhus Convention and Mr Justice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to environmental decision - making, where the Aarhus Convention and Mr Justice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consultation.

Acted on several matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, including one of the country's leading equality rights cases (R v Kapp) and the leading case in Canada on environmental claims within the context of insolvency proceedings (Re AbitibiBowater)

He also offers transactional environmental due diligence counsel and direction on liability allocation in the context of real property acquisitions, dispositions and leasings.

Prior to joining Lewis Wagner, Meghan was an associate in the New York firm Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry's insurance coverage group, where she represented insurance company clients in insurance coverage litigation, and advised insurers on exposure and liability issues in wide array of tort and commercial contexts, including mass tort and class action litigation involving pharmaceuticals, chemical, transportation, news and entertainment, and oil and gas; environmental suits; FDA compliance claims; unfair competition and false advertising claims; intellectual property claims; construction defect; personal injury; product liability; and associated breach of contract claims.

In the context of environmental assessment, for example, this may mean assessments carried out by collaboratively managed institutions such as the plethora of co-management boards enabled by northern land claims agreements (see for example those established under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act), or it may mean enabling parallel assessments by Indigenous nations and the Crown (for an example see this independent assessment by the Tsleil Waututh Nation of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tankers and pipelines project), followed by reconciliation negotiations to reach agreement on outcomes.

Ms. Connolly is a well - respected transactional environmental lawyer, advising clients on a wide range of global environmental compliance and liability issues, most notably in the context of mergers & acquisitions, real estate transfers, financing transactions and infrastructure projects.

They do not, on the other hand, have a long history in the environmental law context, and their inclusion here can indeed be controversial, bearing in mind that it was governments» miserable record of taking environmental concerns into account that spurred the development of environmental laws in the first place.

When asked by one member of parliament about the «speculation» that «Facebook can, through the Facebook app on your smartphone, listen in to what people are talking about and discussing and using that to prioritize the advertising as well,» Wylie said the audio apps can capture data from the microphone in mobile devices and are able to be used «for environmental context,» adding, «So if, for example, you have a television playing versus if you're in a busy place with a lot of people talking versus a work environment.»

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andenvironmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco andEnvironmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

The increasing value and intact environmental nature of much of the Indigenous estate across the North of Australia in a carbon trading context offers opportunities that could create sustainable on - country development for traditional owners in the region through new and exciting economies.

Thus, for the past decade, research into the effects of early child care for infants and toddlers has been based on an ecological model of development that addresses environmental influences in family and child care contexts in conjunction with child characteristics and how experiences in one setting may shape the effects of experiences in the other.

Therapy relies on understanding the individual, interpersonal, and environmental context as well as the unique resources and needs of the family and its members.

Achieving self - determination is difficult because of the dichotomy of a government that focuses on the pursuit of individual wealth creation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who may pursue self - determination as individuals or groups within a cultural context that focuses more broadly on social, cultural and environmental as well as economic benefits.

[jounal] Morisset, C. E. / 1990 / Environmental influences on early language development: The context of social risk / Development and Psychopathology 2: 127 ~ 149

Examining biological vulnerability in environmental context: Parenting moderates effects of low resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia on adolescent depressive symptoms.