Sentences with phrase «within planetary»

It's time to wake up and smell the ecological deficit and start living within our planetary means.

An economist by training (Erasmus University Rotterdam), with hands - on experience in sustainable development, her career has been guided by a motivation to ensure dignified living conditions for all of human society within planetary boundaries.

If all people are to lead a good life within planetary boundaries, then our results suggest that provisioning systems must be fundamentally restructured to enable basic needs to be met at a much lower level of resource use.

Perlwitz et al. (2001) estimate that this feedback reduces the global dust load by roughly 15 %, as dust radiative forcing reduces the downward mixing of momentum within the planetary boundary layer, the surface wind speed, and thus dust emission (Miller et al., 2004a).

However, if all people are to lead a good life within planetary boundaries, then the level of resource use associated with meeting basic needs must be dramatically reduced.

«Even under best - case scenario conditions,» Hickel argued, «absolute decoupling of GDP growth from material use is not possible on a global scale,» and certainly is not enough to reduce material use sufficiently to stay within planetary boundaries.

Such a reframing could be a step toward a clearer strategy for keeping within our planetary boundaries for the sake of both humanity and nature.

Within the planetary boundary layer, in situ instrumentation includes towers, tethered balloons, and surface data collection platforms.

«I believe people can live within planetary boundaries and continue to get richer and have much greater numbers, maybe up to 9.5 billion people.

NOAH is a grassroots organisation founded in 1969 working for equal access to the Earth's resources for current and future generations staying within planetary boundaries.

Thus the two types of energy exchange are governed by different rules and it is the failure to realise how the two sets of rules interact within a planetary atmosphere that has caused climate science to get bogged down in a conceptual impasse.

This is the only way the world can remain within the planetary limits.

A joint program between EAT and WBCSD, Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) is designed to accelerate transformational change in global food systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within planetary boundaries.

6:57 p.m. Addendum For relevant work with somewhat different conclusions review the presentations from «Intensifying agriculture within planetary boundaries,» a session at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London last March.

Suppose... in 100 years time... biodiversity has ceased its dive into mass extinction; CO2 is under control; global population is in a manageable decline;... damage to ecosystems is being reversed and healed; and we are living within our planetary means.

There is no reason sustainability need be defined this way because living within planetary boundaries can be achieved well above those thresholds.

Note that unforced temperature variations are caused by a redistribution of the heat within the planetary climate system.

twelve «strange pairs» are known, suggesting that extra, unseen mass beyond Neptune's orbit affects long - period comets but is not felt within the planetary region.

If the history of planetary exploration is any indication, then New Horizons is bound to provide the next paradigm shift in our understanding of the many different and fascinating worlds within our planetary family and possibly beyond as well.

Dr. Stern: Well, it depends on what the consensus really is within the planetary science community.

Such a large temperature difference indicates that the planet's atmosphere absorbs and re-radiates starlight so quickly that the gas circling around it in the outer atmosphere cools off quickly — unlike Jupiter, which appears to have a relatively even temperature within planetary bands of atmospheric circulation.

New research suggests the diamonds packed inside these meteorites could have only formed within a planetary body the size of Mercury or Mars — a planet that no longer exists.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

Just one month before Voyager's arrival, a research team had published the first serious model laying out how a liquid ocean could exist within a planetary body in the chilly outskirts of the solar system.

Dreier was also pleased to see the boost, since Earth science funding was often targeted as a way for Congress to support rises within planetary science.

Also within planetary science, the bill boosts the budget of the low - cost, competitive Discovery program to $ 189 million, which is a good sign that the agency will be able to get on to a faster path with its launches.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

Not exact matches

With decades of experience in both the business and environmental spheres — helping companies braid them together profitably for more than 15 years — Shel helps you identify profitable business opportunities within your organization's existing expertise and interests that help turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

Within three or four years, it will be possible to operate, with growing political force, «the planetary première».

The formation of the stars, the creation within those stars of the periodic table of elements and the formation of the planets and planetary systems can be seen as the «free will principle» of the material dimension of the universe.

For example, they're hate towards African Americans until it no longer became socially acceptable to hate them, the teaching that «more kids equals more planetary real estate when you're dead» and the fact they still treat and look at women as having «their place» within the religion and at home.

And what can this mean except that, like those planetary orbits which seem to traverse our solar system without remaining within it, the curve of consciousness, pursuing its course of growing complexity, will break through the material framework of Time and Space to escape somewhere towards an ultra-center of unification and wholeness, where there will finally be assembled, and in detail, everything that is irreplaceable and incommunicable in the world.

Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future of all planetary life.

Within the continuum of planetary life there have evolved many interconnected systems, each of them in symbiotic relationship with its environment.

All that we (our bodies) are is as being an atomized cosmos of cellular formed mini universes living upon a planetary cosmology of atomized bi-products made by celestial stabilities created in sequential productivities of sedimentary allowances made from the very beginnings of cosmological creations sanctifications afforded breathes of the cosmic being our universe is found being within!

Within NASA, Senate appropriators would carry out a large $ 234 million or 12.7 percent cut to Planetary Science, while keeping Earth Science funded at last year's levels — the inverse approach to their House counterparts (see chart at right).

Within NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the budget provides Planetary Science with a 4.5 percent increase, including a $ 150 million boost above FY 2017 omnibus funding, to $ 425 million total, for a planned mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

Within the directorate, funding for planetary science, astrophysics and heliophysics would increase, while Earth science would take a slight hit.

Peter Thomas, a planetary geologist at Cornell, got a good look at Vesta when it came within 110 million miles of Earth last May.

At present, the Outer Space Treaty sets guidelines for planetary protection, but it is up to nations to ensure that their spacecraft — and any commercial flights launched within their territory — comply.

Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.

Most of the attention in exoplanet research has so far focused on the inner parts of planetary systems, roughly within a distance equivalent to the orbit of Jupiter, for the simple reason that that's all existing detection methods can see.

The big winner within the division is planetary sciences, which received $ 160 million more than the president's 2015 request in March.

The region's birth in a giant impact must have excavated so much ice from Pluto's surface that watery slush welled up from deeper within, plumping up to form a heavy, planetary - scale bruise beneath the thinner crust.

The south pole also intrigues planetary scientists who believe some of the rocks there may have originated deep within the lunar interior.

Within that total, the agency's planetary science coffers get an even bigger raise, a 20.7 % increase to $ 2.2 billion, the highest level ever after adjusting for inflation and programmatic changes over the years.

The authors note that their study supports the existence of a planetary object within the range of parameters considered both in the Planet Nine hypothesis of Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin from Caltech, and in the original one proposed in 2014 by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institute and Chadwick Trujillo from the University of North Arizona; in addition to following the lines of their own earlier studies (the latest led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), which suggested that there is more than one unknown planet in our Solar System.

The third process, tidal dissipation, has recently become a focus in planetary science as a potential heat source sufficient enough to create and maintain subsurface global oceans and viscous processes affecting ice flow in which disturbances within the crystal lattice allow ice to flow like honey (over long enough time periods).