Sentences with phrase «rapid local changes»

The biosphere consists of animals and vegetation and normally changes relatively slowly; reduced rainfall might take years to alter vegetation cover significantly, although certain components (such as humankind) are capable of inducing quite rapid local changes (by setting oil - fields ablaze, for example).

Not exact matches

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

In some places the way in which we saw rapid influx of in particular eastern European migrants after the accession of those countries to Europe definitely caused downward pressure on wages, definitely caused changes to local terms and conditions to some workers in some sectors.»

Budget and Finance Chair Kevin Whitney says the local I - D - A board along with Executive Director Gary VanGorder understand the needs of the local business community and can respond quickly to the rapid changes that occur.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

The findings from New Mexico indicate the rapid changes were not local to Greenland, but global.

In this presentation, I will explore concepts, methods and applications directed towards effectively engaging local communities in conservation planning in an era of rapid environmental change.

The National Education Association has announced the first recipients of a fund that supports state and local projects to improve teaching — the latest salvo in a push to reorient itself during a time of rapid change in K - 12 education that has produced angry debates, exhausted and sometimes frustrated teachers, and left state and local affiliates scrambling to respond.

We did some rapid prototyping of ideas, worked in local urban districts like Trenton to see what worked, made changes based on what we saw, and tried again.

However, staying current with compliance is no easy task, especially when company protocols and local regulations are changing at a rapid rate.

How can residents with decades of history in the neighborhood continue to shape local culture in the face of rapid change?

The local frameworks comprised the rapid modernization of the country through political and economic changes, as well as various conflicting East vs. West identities.

It is again a heterogeneous world with less rapid, and more diverse technological change but a strong emphasis on community initiative and social innovation to find local, rather than global solutions.

In any case, a sudden local sea level rise via rapid subsidence is most unlikely and such a rapid change due to proglacial lake release (or whatnot) even less so.

These parts might not have very high human populations, but they tend to live near the shores, and the local plants and animals can be affected by these rapid changes.

It's a global compact signed on a voluntary basis by Local and Regional Authorities willing to adapt their water infrastructure and services to the emerging challenges they are increasingly facing such as climate change, rapid urban growth, depletion and pollution of water resources or ageing infrastructure.

The ultimate aim is a national declaration of Climate Emergency with its ability to unlock all the required policy changes and funds for a rapid climate emergency response, but local councils can start the ball rolling by demonstrating successful climate emergency initiatives at the local level.

In both areas the economies have been supported by immigration, but in both areas the local populace is now concerned by this uncontrolled immigration and the rapid change to their culture.

stability — that is, that conditions in a region are not altered frequently by some important extrinsic challenge, such as rapid local climatic changes.

While rapid population growth in any urban centre provides major challenges for its local government, the need here is to develop the capacity of local governments to manage this with climate change adaptation in mind.

For example, a relatively slow shift in the distribution of precipitation could give rise to relatively rapid changes in precipitation patterns in regions that lie at the interface of dry and rainy regions (see Figure 2.8), potentially altering a location's local climate with possible ramifications to water supplies and / or agriculture for example.

It is an open question whether the climatic tolerances of local populations can evolve fast enough to keep up with rapid climate change (Aitken et al., 2008; Hoffmann and Sgro, 2011; Moritz and Agudo, 2013).

Will rapid transitions and species invasions lead to sudden changes in plant community balance, killing large numbers of trees or otherwise upsetting the local carbon cycle, and will those disruptions put more CO2 and methane into the air or remove it?

Permafrost melt is resulting in permakarst formations leading to changes in local hydrology resulting in rapid erosion and slumping of carbon materials into rivers.

According to Saarnisto (1986), small lakes respond to rapid environmental changes faster, but are more easily affected by local disturbances.

Devolution to the local is just the most pernicious of idle fantasies, even in the absence of rapid climate change.

This conference has highlighted just how much local leadership there is on the issue of climate change and how many innovative new projects are going on in cities around the country: Seattle's incentives for greening existing buildings, Los Angeles's million tree initiative, Miami's bus rapid transit program — and the list goes on.

Zucker says Booj's efforts to honor local territory allows a sort of think tank of independent real estate businesses to form across the country, potentially positioning the industry to better respond to rapid technological change.