Sentences with phrase «provide environmental contexts»

«Our job as parents is not to educate our children but to provide environmental contexts that optimize their ability to educate themselves.

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Very complex open systems, however, are capable of recording and reordering the impress of experience, thereby generating alternate programs of action in response to, and often in spite of, environmental stimuli.6 Such imaginatively envisioned goals or purposes may then provide the impetus even to alter the prevailing context to favor their realization (ISP 266).

And, since laws of nature are abstractions from environmental order, the inference provides a context for inferring predictions about entities in the environment E as well.

Nevertheless, the symbolic expression of concern embodied in this side - agreement, and the existence of a new type of institution may provide a context from bringing environmental issues into trade considerations in new ways.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

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.

«The Tara Oceans expedition provided a platform for systematically sampling ocean biota from viruses to fish larvae, and in a comprehensive environmental context,» said Sullivan.

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

«The Tara Oceans expedition provided a platform for systematically sampling ocean biota from viruses to fish larvae, and in a comprehensive environmental context,» Sullivan said.

An analysis of potential consequences of interspecies hybridization for the aquaculture industry, especially in the context of changing environmental conditions, was provided.

The occasion of the conference provides an opportunity to place sustainable land management (SLM), land tenure, LDN, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a regional and global context, providing the means to enhance or adapted underlying theoretical paradigms, encourage the radical renewal of research methods and the validity of environmental change predictions, as well as to strengthen the integration between social and environmental branches of geography.

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.

We believe that a reason for the ineffectiveness of an information - based approach is that the context of pet ownership in terms of environmental ethics does not necessarily shift due to new information provided in what may turn towards an antagonistic debate.

This presentation provides context to WTO Doha round trade negotiations to reduce or eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in environmental goods and services.

This report provides context for evaluating Walmart's sustainability promises and brings new data to light that expose the company, not as an environmental leader, but as a massive, and committed, polluter.

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.

In the context of models that include cloud processes, ranging from small - scale models of clouds and atmospheric chemistry to global weather and climate models, the unified theoretical foundations presented here provide the basis for incorporating cloud microphysical processes in these models in a manner that represent the process interactions and feedback processes over the relevant range of environmental and parametric conditions.

Refsgaard et al. provide a framework and guidance for assessing and characterizing uncertainty in the context of environmental modeling.

A collaboration of several energy and environmental organizations with experience in distributed solar provided some badly needed context for the contested values of solar.

This is not to say that environmental campaigners should ditch all existing efforts around closing coal power plants in favor of advocacy for CCS — instead, CCS can provide another valuable option for which these campaigners can advocate in contexts where the rapid shutdown of coal is undesirable and / or politically infeasible.

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.

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.