Sentences with phrase «understand global change»

So, for the fan who can not understand global change, it seems like it is the fault of the manager.
These frustrations, compounded by the growing need to understand global changes, have spurred researchers to design the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)-- a $ 330 - million project that promises to herald the next generation of oceanographic study.
Earth science would grow from $ 1.439 billion to $ 1.797 billion in 2012, though House of Representatives Republicans are sure to attack a program focused on understanding global change.
An important key to cure or alleviate the symptoms of these diseases therefore lies in understanding these global changes in the brain circuitry.
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) acknowledges the AGU's careful review of the current body of knowledge using sound scientific methodologies, and recognizes its collective expertise in scientific subfields central to assessing and understanding global change.
So Lewis et al. (2009) have made a great contribution to understanding global changes in the carbon cycle that contribute to global warming.
Natural spatial and temporal variability in the pH / pCO2 conditions experienced by marine populations provide the potential for different levels of adaptation (genetic) and acclimatization (phenotypic) to decreased pH and elevated pCO2, emphasizing the importance of understanding physiological variation existing along natural environmental gradients (macrophysiology) in understanding global change impacts [29].
Issue Paper No. 1 from the Proceedings of «Understanding Global Change and Arizona,» 1989, edited by Ford N. Furkhart, et al..

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Gathering additional perspectives and an understanding of the overall global perception about your industry, and those similar to it, can help you to anticipate upcoming changes and adapt to them ahead of the time.»
We work with some of the leading family business owners around the world and have a deep understanding of the key challenge they face: how to sustain a complex, successful family enterprise across generations under ever - changing global economic conditions.
Through their in - depth understanding of changing investor demands, industry trends and market dynamics, our global capability leads ensure that the products and services MFS develops align directly with client needs
To better understand what's happening now and what may be ahead, read the «Policies of Change: Guiding Principles That May Help Shape the Global Economy» report from Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII).
The key to understanding the implications of global reserve changes is knowing that these changes are mostly driven by attempts to manipulate exchange rates.
APF Canada is dedicated to strengthening ties between Canada and Asia with a focus on expanding economic relations through trade, investment and innovation; promoting Canada's expertise in offering solutions to Asia's climate change, energy, food security and natural resource management challenges; building Asia skills and competencies among Canadians, including young Canadians; and, improving Canadians» general understanding of Asia and its growing global influence.
By paying attention to these four expressions of the church, we can all better understand some of the personal and institutional struggles Christians are experiencing during these times of global change.
Friedman understands that most nations do not have the infrastructure or culture needed to participate in the global economy and may balk at making the necessary changes.
Abusing their trust, global governance agents of change use the fuzzy expression «gender equality» in the developing world allowing it to be understood as a policy enhancing a greater recognition of the inherent equal dignity of the woman, while in fact it hides their own agenda.
This simply makes it easier to overlook the point that these factors are in turn linked to broader patterns of change in the global order and that taking these broader patterns into account may give a fuller understanding of what is happening.
«With approximately 20 percent of Sonoco's sales emanating from our consumer and industrial packaging businesses in Europe, we are extremely pleased to add an experienced senior executive to our board who understands the changing European and global markets,» said Harris DeLoach, Sonoco's executive chairman.
Understanding, continually monitoring and making strategic decisions based on long - term changes in global markets will be critical for the sustained success of export focussed businesses.
I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.
Katrina Neale, President of Global Essence, a natural essential oil and ingredient company, told NOSH that she has concerns about both brands and consumers understandings of how the environment and climate change affects the natural flavors world.
With increased emphasis on male involvement in the reproductive health care and decisions in global health, it is important to understand where engaging men as a social and behavior change approach, broadly speaking, may support EBF practice and if it could hinder it.
A progressive capitalism can only be forged with an enabling state that understands the global environment in which today's business leaders operate: where survival depends on profitability, where the world is awash with investment opportunities beyond the UK, and where arbitrary interventions in markets and constant changes in government policy discourage the long term investment Britain needs.
There is also growing understanding of the links between atmospheric problems such as local air pollution, acid rain, global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion.
The Aquarius instrument will measure the ocean's salinity in a bid to better understand the global water cycle — and climate change
Dr Paschalis added: «Understanding the responses of plants to elevated concentrations of CO2 is of major importance with potential implications on the global economy and water and food security under a changing climate.»
«The fact that we don't see the presently understood meteorological signature of global warming in changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent increases are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.
«The broader idea is that we must understand and include the effects of forest loss when modeling global climate and trying to predict how climate will change in the future,» said Swann.
«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.
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«We're really interested in understanding how these systems will change as we experience global warming or climate change,» Medvigy said.
It seems that changes in shear are more important, but we don't yet understand why those have happened and if they're related to global warming.»
By combining that with modern tools such as the Global Positioning System and remote sensing, a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of the ice can be gained as it changes.
To understand how global carbon in soils will respond to climate change, the authors stress, more data are needed from under - and nonrepresented regions, especially the Arctic and the tropics.
The answers to these questions will refine our ability to understand how forests respond to global change
By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.
WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch programme will therefore continue its crucial monitoring, research and assessment activities to provide scientific data needed to understand and ultimately predict environmental changes, as it has done for the past 25 years» said Mr Jarraud.
Predicting future biodiversity in these pools will help researchers understand whether unique fauna will be lost from the park due to climate change and contribute to global research attempting to understand how climate change will affect whole ecosystems.
This paper «is timely and an important step forward in understanding changes in the global methane budget,» says Isobel Simpson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the study.
To understand ecosystem changes, including global warming, ecologists need ways to incorporate physical as well as biological data into their thinking.
Their findings could help scientists understand how tropical forests will respond to global climate change.
«It is important to take the global projections and zoom them in to regional and local levels to better understand the societal impacts of climate change,» Pal says.
«Understanding which environmental cues link migration timing to patterns of global change is key to forecasting future responses of migration systems,» said Kelly.
The work was motivated by a desire to understand what forces generate and maintain distinct species, and how shifts in the ranges of species (for example, due to global change) may impact species and speciation.
According to Professor Judith Stephenson: «Bringing together natural and social scientists with people from different organisations and communities in the global South and global North is essential to improve understanding of the interactions between consumption, demographic change and the climate, and to devise more scientifically and politically integrated solutions for global health.»
«Studying the PETM helps us understand the mechanisms that aid recovery from global warming, thereby helping researchers reduce the uncertainties surrounding the Earth's response to global climate change,» Ridgwell said.
Finney believes that changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.
«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.
The impact of these results is wide - reaching, and Dr Pullen suggests that it may even change how we think about global climate data: «Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.»
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