Sentences with phrase «on human dimensions»

The organizers of this conference originally proposed to add yet another Bonn Declaration to the list, one laying out the way forward for research on human dimensions of global change.

Her research focused on the human dimensions of environmental change including development of collaborative processes in natural resource decision - making, behavior change, valuation of ecosystem goods and services, and modeling of human - ecosystem interactions.

He has worked on human dimensions issues related to subsistence, climate change, and adaptation in the Arctic and served on numerous boards and commissions such as the Gwich» in Council International, International Porcupine Caribou Board, and the Yukon River Panel.

The CRC contributed to work by the Transportation Research Board, the Institute of Medicine, Board on International Scientific Organizations, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, and other units.

************************************************************************ 2002 BERLIN CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Berlin, 6 - 7 December 2002 Plenary speakers include Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Oran Young, chair of the IHDP Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change project; and John Schellnhuber, director of PIK and research director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Paul C. Stern, the director of the National Research Council committee on the human dimensions of global change, has been involved in a decades - long string of studies of behavior, climate change and energy choices.

Occupying a suite of former military structures in the Presidio of San Francisco, Home Land Security brought together works by contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions and increasing complexity of national security.

Curated by FOR - SITE Foundation Executive Director Cheryl Haines, the thematic, site - responsive exhibition will be installed in former military structures overlooking the San Francisco Bay — some open to the public for the first time — and brings together work by 16 contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions and increasing complexity of national security, including the physical and psychological borders we create, protect, and cross in its name.

It has often been argued that an excessive anthropocentrism (overemphasis on the human dimension of our world) is the main source of our current environmental crisis.

It ends, as all superhero sagas must, in yet another destruction - cataclysm, but what they've done skilfully here is to keep the focus on the human dimension of the characters.

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If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The whole divine - human experience of God's taking on human nature in one person is an exemplar of suffering that works itself out in multiple dimensions of obedience.

It is on account of the quantity of a material substance (like a human body) under certain dimensions that it is located in a place.

Play's transcendent dimension, its experience of the meeting of the holy and the human spirit, is fully understood as transcendence only in light of the Spirit's further definitive work on Lewis's behalf, his introduction of Lewis to the person of Christ.

The irony in this is that these churches pride themselves on openness to the world, when really their minds are closed; refusing to engage God in all of God's dimensions, they can not engage human experience in its fullness or complexity either.

But he fails to show how this horizontal dimension does not exclude but rather depends on Paul's sense of the vertical dimension — how God's intervention in Christ has created the possibility for a new way of being human.

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

In «The Christmas Oratorio» his comic witnesses of the Nativity train attention on our common human foibles and show that the general drudgery and pettiness of our lives may contain an underlying dimension of significance and worth.

Today more than ever before we feel the need — and also see a greater possibility — of objectifying the problem of the subjectivity of the human being... [W] e can no longer go on treating the human being exclusively as an objective being, but we must also somehow treat the human being as a subject in the dimension in which the specifically human subjectivity of the human being is determined by consciousness.

dimension of human sexuality, reducing it to «outlets» on an animal level.

By thus divorcing this relation from the clear ethical implications which both Buber and Ferdinand Ebner have given it, Heim makes possible a dualism on the basis of which he characterizes man's relation with the eternal Thou as taking place in an altogether different dimension from his relation with his human Thou.

For the actuality of the faith of Biblical and post-Biblical Judaism and also for the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount, fulfillment of the Torah means to extend the hearing of the Word to the whole dimension of human existence.

I. David Pierce, in his doctoral dissertation on cognition and theology, found that a sample of theologically liberal women were less inclined to use polar dimensions — such as «human effort» versus «divine power» or «instrumental» versus «relational» «-- than either a sample of men or a sample of theologically moderate or conservative women.

A good growth group aims at a balanced emphasis on the three interdependent dimensions of human development — inreach, outreach and upreach.

Faith and its opposite Unbelief presuppose a universal spiritual dimension of human selfhood in which the self sees itself as poised between the world and God i.e. at once as an integral part of the world of matter and the community of life governed by the mechanical and organic laws of development respectively on the one hand, and having a limited power to transcend these laws through its spiritual relation to the transcendent realm of God's purpose on the other.

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

For human beings, of course, the plant and the forest have also other dimensions of value that depend on their overall organization.

There are many reasons why Kaufman went on to «de-reify» God and surrender his conviction that God is any reality other than a dimension of «our interpersonal relationships with our fellow humans.»

Jesus» proclamation includes the full dimensions of a truly human life — physical and mental healing, bringing new life to the poor; a new stewardship of all resources of the earth and the gifts of the grace of God for the flowering of human life, and to enable the principalities and powers on earth or in the air to perform their true political function.

McGrath suggests a new reformulation of natural theology, seeing its task as offering an interpretation of nature based on Trinitarian faith, including an account of human engagement with nature in the moral and aesthetic dimensions as well.

The dimensions of divine blessing on human enterprise and of the vast new responsibility it brings for creation and the quality of human life, have expanded beyond previous imagination.

Using the term «human» when denoting an individual is different from using the term «person»: whereas human signifies our place on the horizontal dimension of creation, the term person signifies our vertical likeness to God.

For a God who dwells in and relies upon the various strata of cosmic process would be «dependent» not only on the performance of sub-human emergent dimensions, but also on the considerably less predictable interpersonal processes of human self - integration (Or comparable «conscious» processes in other corners of the universe).

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

(1) In the year 1978 - 79 the Southern Baptist Convention's Radio and Television Commission received 8,223 requests for material offered on its four television programs «Human Dimension,» «JOT,» «Listen,» and «The Athletes.»

If that power has seemed to be on the wane in recent history, it is due in large part to the widespread assumption that reason and faith belong to different realms, or represent different, even conflicting, dimensions of human experience.

Thus a second position holds that Christian theology is a kind of wisdom, perhaps wisdom in being a person in any of the dimensions of human life, private or public (cf. Farley on theologia).

More seriously, we saw, it is open to the objection that it fails to show how theology bears on the public dimensions of human life; in this view, theology seems confined to the private realm of the interiority of consciousness.

«These are not just political conflicts or economic choices; they are moral choices with enormous human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last human dimensions,» Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said in a public letter last Human Development, said in a public letter last week.

Two of them pointed to the social dimension of the sickness when they wrote: «The Church's job, I think, is to shed the searchlight of the Gospel on the causes of human misery of which alcoholism is a symptom»; and «We can prevent it by helping people learn how to live in a complex world.»

The school does not embrace a specific religious doctrine, but the program is based on a belief that all humans — in fact, all living things — possess a spiritual dimension.

They espouse no particular religious doctrine but are based on a belief that there is a spiritual dimension to the human being and to all of life.

The school does not embrace a specific religious doctrine, but the program is based on a belief that all humans - in fact, all living things - possess a spiritual dimension.

The IUGB is a scientific conference focused on the biology, ecology and human dimensions of game species and hunters.

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The body dimensions used in the model — 30 kg for females, 55 kg for males — were based on a group of early human ancestors, or hominins, such as Australopithicus afarensis, the species that includes the famous Ethiopian fossil «Lucy.»

Cultural development added a technological dimension to the metabolism of human populations — increasing food production on the one hand, and lengthening lifespans on the other.

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