• One survey of German economists found that ecological and environmental economics are different schools of economic thought, with ecological economists emphasizing strong sustainability and rejecting the proposition that physical (human-made) capital can substitute for natural capital (see the section on weak versus strong sustainability below). (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological economics shares several of its perspectives with feminist economics, including the focus on sustainability, nature, justice and care values. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ostrom E. A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems[J]. Science, 2009,325:419-422. (progressingeography.com)
  • The proposition of this book is that successful adoption of sustainability, at all scales, needs new narratives to facilitate the emergence of meanings of sustainability conducive to the inclusion of nature and argues for the need to create a new social imaginary (ies) to support ecological sustainability. (samfundslitteratur.dk)
  • Sustainability is a complex concept that can be applied globally, institutionally, and personally. (cdc.gov)
  • Sustainability has evolved from simply meaning "the ability to be maintained over a period of time" to "the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an ecological balance. (cdc.gov)
  • A logical framework of rural-urban governance from the perspective of social-ecological resilience. (progressingeography.com)
  • Applying ecological resistance and resilience to dissect bacterial antibiotic responses. (cdc.gov)
  • The Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2019 revealed that maintaining and designing connectivity are essential for the functioning of many ecological systems and processes and highlighted how mainstreaming connectivity into economic growth and development is essential to achieve the 2030 Agenda. (cms.int)
  • I could find few papers in the ecological literature that discuss this general problem of inference from the particular to the general (Ives 2018, Hauss 2018) and only one that deals with a real-world situation (Ducatez 2019). (ubc.ca)
  • Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 49th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which will be held September 9-13, 2019 at the Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Muenster (WWU). (gfoe.org)
  • To repair and restore ecosystems, restoration specialists apply concepts from the field of ecology . (britannica.com)
  • While China has a ministry of ecology and environment, it uses ecological civilisation in a conceptual and ideological way to frame environmental issues, both nationally and internationally. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • The Robert H. MacArthur Award is given biannually to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious contributions to ecology, in the expectation of continued outstanding ecological research. (esa.org)
  • Ecological futures: building an ecology of the long now. (esa.org)
  • There are a lot of ecologists in ecological economics, and it's always said that economists don't understand ecology. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • IUS is committed to the balanced development of ecology, empowering technology and industry-oriented financialization of the ecological industry through digital driving. (graphdaily.com)
  • This entire module can be completed in one 2 to 3-hour lab period, two 75-minute lecture periods, or three 1-hour lecture periods for introductory undergraduate students in Ecology, Environmental Science, Ecological Modelling, and Quantitative Ecology classes. (carleton.edu)
  • Why macrosystems ecology and ecological forecasting? (carleton.edu)
  • Macrosystems ecology is the study of ecological dynamics at multiple interacting spatial and temporal scales (e.g. (carleton.edu)
  • Macrosystems ecology recently emerged as a new sub-discipline of ecology to study ecosystems and ecological communities around the globe that are changing at an unprecedented rate because of human activities (IPCC 2013). (carleton.edu)
  • According to Fritjof Capra , "In the coming decades, the survival of humanity will depend on our ecological literacy - our ability to understand the basic principles of ecology and to live accordingly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Theories, concepts and conflicts regarding sustainable tourism in relation to natural area ecology. (lu.se)
  • Archetype analysis in social-ecological system governance research: Concepts, methods and prospect[J].PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 40(8): 1430-1438. (progressingeography.com)
  • While not being a new conservation topic, ecological connectivity has not been effectively reflected or implemented in the global biodiversity strategy that concluded in 2020. (cms.int)
  • DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT "AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE" Project of this sphere, and the average annual growth rate in the non-oil sector over the past 10 years reached almost 11 per cent. (who.int)
  • Forests are valued not only for their economic potential, but also for the biodiversity they contain, the ecological services they provide, and the recreational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities they provide. (routledge.com)
  • Non-technical summary Investing in stricter biodiversity conservation and wildlife protection to reduce the number of emerging diseases and, consequently, the risk of pandemics such as coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), must integrate a social-ecological perspective. (researchgate.net)
  • The ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity: A search for general principles. (esa.org)
  • The concept and the role of ecological connectivity has become increasingly important in the past decades due to habitat modifications, such as overexploitation and fragmentation that have led to the consequent decline of biodiversity. (cms.int)
  • This report outlines general concepts that underlie biological diversity analysis and management, and discusses methods for considering biodiversity in current and future NEPA analyses. (unt.edu)
  • Focus on important ecological and environmental topics such as climate change, biodiversity and conservation. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Ecological restoration , the process of repairing sites in nature whose biological communities (that is, interacting groups of various species in a common location) and ecosystems have been degraded or destroyed. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological restoration focuses on repairing the damage human activities have caused to natural ecosystems and seeks to return them to an earlier state or to another state that is closely related to one unaltered by human activities. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological restoration is distinguished from the practice of conservation , which is primarily concerned with preventing further losses to ecosystems. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological economics, bioeconomics, ecolonomy, eco-economics, or ecol-econ is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological forecasting is a tool that can be used for understanding and predicting changes in populations, communities, and ecosystems. (carleton.edu)
  • To be ecoliterate means understanding the principles of organization of ecological communities (i.e. ecosystems ) and using those principles for creating sustainable human communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • [5] David W. Orr has stated that the goal of ecological literacy is "built on the recognition that the disorder of ecosystems reflects a prior disorder of mind, making it a central concern to those institutions that purport to improve minds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Georgescu-Roegen, who would later mentor Herman Daly at Vanderbilt University, provided ecological economics with a modern conceptual framework based on the material and energy flows of economic production and consumption. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this perspective, we explore the potential of a traits framework for understanding social-ecological patterns, dynamics, interactions, and tipping points in complex urban systems. (nature.com)
  • The promise is that a traits framework can further our understanding of patterns, dynamics, interactions, and tipping points within and across complex social-ecological systems. (nature.com)
  • Theoretical flow chart linking the entities of a social-ecological system to its traits, demonstrating how a traits framework-as outlined in this article-might be positioned to support the analysis, interpretation and governance of urban systems. (nature.com)
  • The framework for ecological literacy is based on how the knowledge of the environment is necessary for informed decision-making. (wikipedia.org)
  • The more recent framework of ecological literacy also emphasizes ecological thinking, cognitive thinking, and particularly scientific inquiry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Metabolic organisation is defined as a multi-scalar systemic framework comprising three interdependent concepts: metabolism, values and enmeshment, and brings together three distinct strands of theory: social and biological metabolism, value theory and ecological theories. (samfundslitteratur.dk)
  • Country-level data was sourced from multiple publicly available sources using the social-ecological framework, logic model, and IHR capacity monitoring framework. (who.int)
  • By offering a varied and broad theoretical and methodological framework, the author demonstrates ways to approach the work using concepts like transmediality, intermedial reference, meta-reference, iconicity, semiotics, paratext, psychoanalysis and ecological psychology. (lu.se)
  • At the same time, it offers the opportunity to apply the best insights about how to reach an Ecological Civilization and a Beautiful China. (cciced.eco)
  • This Special Policy Study analyzes the key challenges China faces in working towards an Ecological Civilization, in the light of international experiences. (cciced.eco)
  • But if that is so, how do we explain the fact that ecological Marxism has been embraced as readily (or indeed, more readily) in the East as in the West, leaping over cultural, historical, and linguistic barriers and leading to the current concept of ecological civilization in China? (monthlyreview.org)
  • The Needham thesis, as presented here, can also throw light on the spurious proposition, recently put forward by cultural theorist Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct , that the Chinese conception of ecological civilization is derived entirely from China's own traditional philosophy, rather than being influenced by Marxism. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Ecological Civilization (EC) represents a constituted effort on the part of China to utilize its developing regional linkages to promote a form of globalization that places the bioeconomy as a foundational core of sustainable global development. (brill.com)
  • Considerations of Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management. (routledge.com)
  • The connectivity of urban green spaces promotes their ecological functionality and the ecosystem services associated with it. (cms.int)
  • Ecological forecasting is an emerging approach which provides an estimate of the future state of an ecological system with uncertainty, allowing society to prepare for changes in important ecosystem services. (carleton.edu)
  • Thus, restorationists must understand the ecosystem's pattern of ecological disturbances. (britannica.com)
  • Ecological disturbances are another way for an ecosystem to clean its slate of competitive conditions and allow the various species to start over. (brighthub.com)
  • In order to restore a deforested site, restoration ecologists often attempt to reverse the ecological changes caused by the removal of trees and other plants, the displacement of animals, and changes to the now-exposed soil (which may be more prone to drying and erosion after deforestation). (britannica.com)
  • This is a comprehensive assessment of ecological forest management. (routledge.com)
  • Fish are among the main target groups when conducting biomonitoring and ecological assessment of aquatic environments. (mdpi.com)
  • The context-dependence of social-ecological dynamics makes it extremely difficult to draw general conclusions about the determinants of effective governance. (progressingeography.com)
  • Timescales, dynamics, and ecological understanding. (esa.org)
  • We can reach conclusions about specific local areas, and that is valuable, but much of our current ecological wisdom on populations and communities relies on the faulty model of non-random sampling. (ubc.ca)
  • He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Ecological Modelling and the International Journal of Forestry Research , and is also associate editor of Ecoscience . (routledge.com)
  • The integration of basic concepts with the tools and techniques of modelling is strengthened-and grounded-by the thoughtful discussion of indicators and their role in maintaining forest health and productivity. (routledge.com)
  • Conceptual and practical, Roads and Ecological Infrastructure will influence the next decade or more of road design in ecologically sensitive areas and should prevent countless unnecessary wildlife fatalities. (nhbs.com)
  • Ideas for the future: Conceptual drawing of possible development opportunities around the W. 65th Street Rapid Station (from the EcoVillage concept plan by City Architecture). (ecocitycleveland.org)
  • A contribution of this book is to provide the frame of metabolic organisation, a different conceptual foundation to the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, environmental and social, to stimulate the creation of new ecological imaginaries. (samfundslitteratur.dk)
  • Highlighting habitat connections and the challenges and solutions from both transportation and ecological perspectives, Roads and Ecological Infrastructure covers various themes, including animal behavior related to roads and design approaches to mitigate the negative effects of roads on wildlife. (nhbs.com)
  • Ecological economists have questioned fundamental mainstream economic approaches such as cost-benefit analysis, and the separability of economic values from scientific research, contending that economics is unavoidably normative, i.e. prescriptive, rather than positive or descriptive. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2014). These characteristics necessitate novel approaches for making predictions about how systems may change to improve both our understanding of ecological phenomena as well as inform resource management. (carleton.edu)
  • It is structured in five parts ranging from proto-ecological thought since early modern times (part I) to major theoretical approaches (part II), environmental history (part III), and ecocritical case studies (part IV), to ecological visions in different media and art forms (part V). The four editors have widely published and are actively involved in ecocritical literary and cultural studies. (rowman.com)
  • Another core piece to understanding ecological sin is looking at it not just through personal actions but also its social dimensions. (ncronline.org)
  • Mill thereby anticipated later insights of modern ecological economists, but without having had their experience of the social and ecological costs of the Post-World War II economic expansion. (wikipedia.org)
  • The present paper which was conducted with descriptive-analytical method tried to explain design dimensions of ecological greenways in three urban physical, environmental and social-economic systems by studying suitable experimental concepts and samples in the world. (scirp.org)
  • The complex, multi-causal contributors to insect decline require a broad interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach that addresses ecological and social a. (researchgate.net)
  • What kind of framing, what research, would allow traits-classically understood as a different representation and interpretation of well-established and known properties of the social-ecological system―to fully work as "mediators" for understanding the behavior, functions, and needs of urban systems under pressure? (nature.com)
  • Expanding from the original "characteristics which have demonstrable links to the organism's function" 6 , we see traits as a nexus where different theories and conceptualisations about social-ecological systems can connect, intertwine and comprehensively allow us to assess the current state of a system-and even more importantly, evaluate the implications of change (Box 1 and Fig. 1 ). (nature.com)
  • Fig. 1: Traits within social ecological systems. (nature.com)
  • A key challenge of social-ecological system governance is to effectively accumulate and transfer successful strategies across heterogeneous contexts. (progressingeography.com)
  • This article clarifies the concept and characteristics of archetype, expounds on the significance of archetype analysis, and reviews the progress of archetype analysis in the key research fields of social-ecological system governance. (progressingeography.com)
  • 3) Archetype analysis can promote the accumulation and transfer of case study knowledge, is compatibility with multiple research methods, and can achieve a certain degree of predictability in social-ecological system governance. (progressingeography.com)
  • 4) Archetype analysis is based on "type-subtype" multi-level analysis, which helps to find the "strong" causality of the complex social-ecological system. (progressingeography.com)
  • Study on adaptive governance of social-ecological system: Progress and prospect. (progressingeography.com)
  • Ecological economics formally emerged in the late 1980s in response to the failure of mainstream economic paradigms to deal adequately with the interdependence of social, economic and ecological systems. (e-elgar.com)
  • Systems thinking is necessary to understand complex interdependence of ecological systems , social systems and other systems on all levels. (wikipedia.org)
  • The social ecological model conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • The social ecological model understands health to be affected by the interaction between the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments (Israel et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Both the community engagement approach and the social ecological model recognize the complex role played by context in the development of health problems as well as in the success or failure of attempts to address these problems. (cdc.gov)
  • To inform its health promotion programs, CDC (2007) created a four-level model of the factors affecting health that is grounded in social ecological theory, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. (cdc.gov)
  • An article about an analysis of interviews with nine mine safety trainers using a social ecological model to examine factors that could be addressed both during and after mine safety training. (cdc.gov)
  • Ecological Civilisation': China's Ideological Counter-View? (rsis.edu.sg)
  • China's concept of ecological civilisation is meant to counter the Western view of sustainable development and assert its thought leadership on environmental issues. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • 3 The Marxian materialist dialectic, with its deep-seated ecological critique rooted in ancient Epicurean materialism, was in Needham's view, so closely akin to Chinese Daoist and Confucian philosophies as to create a strong acceptance of Marxian philosophical views in China, particularly since China's own perennial philosophy was in this roundabout way integrated with modern science. (monthlyreview.org)
  • By treating the economy as a subsystem of Earth's larger ecosystem, and by emphasizing the preservation of natural capital, the field of ecological economics is differentiated from environmental economics, which is the mainstream economic analysis of the environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological economics was founded in the 1980s as a modern discipline on the works of and interactions between various European and American academics (see the section on History and development below). (wikipedia.org)
  • According to ecological economist Malte Michael Faber [de], ecological economics is defined by its focus on nature, justice, and time. (wikipedia.org)
  • The antecedents of ecological economics can be traced back to the Romantics of the 19th century as well as some Enlightenment political economists of that era. (wikipedia.org)
  • European predecessors of ecological economics include K. William Kapp (1950) Karl Polanyi (1944), and Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971). (wikipedia.org)
  • Some key concepts of what is now ecological economics are evident in the writings of Kenneth Boulding and E.F. Schumacher, whose book Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973) was published just a few years before the first edition of Herman Daly's comprehensive and persuasive Steady-State Economics (1977). (wikipedia.org)
  • And I concentrate on, I guess you would call ecological economics. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • But I actually have a lot of disagreement with much of what goes on in ecological economics. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Yes I've seen you associated both with ecological economics and evolutionary economics. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • The main disagreement that I've had with ecological economics is that I actually don't think ecological economics in a lot of ways has a real good handle on the economic system. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • And if you were to just briefly describe ecological economics, how you see it? (p2pfoundation.net)
  • What is ecological economics? (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Ecological economics basically derives from the basic idea that the Earth is a subsystem of the biosphere and therefore some attention has to be paid to how big this economic system can be. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Ecological Economics has gone in two different directions - there are two branches. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • One is this eco sphere studies branch of ecological economics, and that branch is sort of associated with putting prices on things that aren't priced in the economy. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • The other branch of ecological economics, which is the more revolutionary branch, is the branch that talks about the issue of scale. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • But in the conversations about how we might do that - and in particular dealing directly with the problem of whether or not you can have a capitalist system that doesn't grow - I think that's where that branch of ecological economics has not been as clear as it needs to be. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • In this course you will explore theoretical and practical concepts of sustainable tourism planning in natural areas and how GIS may facilitate the planning and management of tourism. (lu.se)
  • account for the concept sustainable tourism · account for possible conflicts of interests regarding development of tourism · account for how a simple decision support system for planning of tourism can be built · discuss and problematise theoretical concepts to analyse the ecological sensitivity of an area · describe how field data collection can be carried out and be used together with GIS for mapping tourism influence in a region. (lu.se)
  • Ecosciences, Inc. focuses on building, acquiring and investing in businesses around ecological and life sciences. (ecosciences.company)
  • It focuses on how the concept is variously interpreted and used by different people. (ou.nl)
  • Assessing Abundance, Biomass, and Complexity in the Context of Ecological Forest Management. (routledge.com)
  • The second dimension is grounded in human perceptions and appraisal of diversity to highlight the different cues and characteristics people use to detect change or articulate value narratives, and it is linked to the role of traits in ecological literacy. (nature.com)
  • Ecological literacy (also referred to as ecoliteracy ) is the ability to understand the natural systems that make life on earth possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological literacy is a powerful concept as it creates a foundation for an integrated approach to environmental problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecological literacy and systems thinking implies a recognition of the manner in which all phenomenon are part of networks that define the way that element functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Others have reiterated the urgent importance of ecological literacy in today's world, where young people are faced with escalating environmental challenges, including climate change, depletion of resources, and environmentally linked illnesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • With an understanding of ecological literacy, perceptions naturally shift. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the face of the increasing capacity of industrial systems to destroy habitats and the climate system , the explicit declaration of the principles of ecological literacy - and the resulting awareness of the importance of living within the ecological carrying capacity of the earth, is increasingly necessary. (wikipedia.org)
  • The interview, conducted by Della Duncan and featuring political and ecological economist Lisi Krall, was originally published in Evonomics . (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Spatial sensitivity analysis based on a natural area's physical and biological properties with respect to ecological sensitivity. (lu.se)
  • In his new book, The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in '70s America , Daniel Belgrad tells the story of this odd and influential idea's development and spread. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • and the Centre for Ecological Civilisation was established in the Chinese Academy of Governance. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • In ecological succession, different groups of species take turns being the best possible fit in the ecosystem, then get outcompeted by the next group. (brighthub.com)
  • Traits are attributes that speak to biophysical limitations, pressure on species, ecological functionality, and interactions. (nature.com)
  • Ecological Connectivity is the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on Earth. (cms.int)
  • The fact that lobomycosis is en- demic in humans in the Amazon basin could logically raise the suspicion that other animal species in this area may act as reservoirs or even be affected by the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Together with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the FFU organised a workshop, where challenges and opportunities of ecological industrial politics were analysed and thus fields of action and strategies developed. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions. (routledge.com)
  • The first organized meetings of ecological economists occurred in the 1980s. (wikipedia.org)
  • We are delighted to welcome you to today's webinar Advancing the One Health Concept through Collaborations that Connect, Create, and Educate. (cdc.gov)
  • abstract = "The concept of Ecological Networks is popular in nature conservation policies. (ou.nl)
  • At its centre is the concept of joint production. (e-elgar.com)
  • In his book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt (1926), Soddy criticized the prevailing belief of the economy as a perpetual motion machine, capable of generating infinite wealth-a criticism expanded upon by later ecological economists such as Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Herman Daly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Issues of intergenerational equity, irreversibility of environmental change, uncertainty of long-term outcomes, and sustainable development guide ecological economic analysis and valuation. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this sense, the volume demonstrates in twenty-six essays from different disciplines how German literature, philosophy, art, and science have contributed in unique ways to the emergence of ecological thought on national and transnational scale. (rowman.com)
  • Since 2006 we have had a certified environmental management system according to DIN EN ISO 14001. (trioglobalkabel.de)
  • Spatio-temporal evolution and impact mechanism of socio-ecological system vulnerability in poor mountainous tourist distinations: Taking Dabie Mountain area as example. (progressingeography.com)
  • It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment. (bvsalud.org)
  • We propose to define ecological sin as an action or omission against God, against one's neighbor, the community and the environment. (ncronline.org)
  • Ecological harms are not something that happens to our environment, 'out there,' as if it is separate from human existence," said Celia Deane-Drummond, director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute at Oxford University's Campion Hall. (ncronline.org)
  • Jennifer has a Master's degree in Geography with a focus on aquatic habitat from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which led to USGS research focused on GIS and ecological flows for fish habitat in in Virginia. (usgs.gov)
  • Ecological Flows for Fish Habitat and Public Water Supply in the Shenandoah River Basin, throughout Virginia, and Chesapeake Bay watershed: Conduct field research and modeling to characterize fish habitat needs and water availability. (usgs.gov)
  • Beunen, R & Hagens, JE 2009, ' The Use of the Concept of Ecological Networks in Nature Conservation Policies and Planning Practices ', Landscape Research , vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 563-580. (ou.nl)
  • The bottom line is that if your supervisor or research coordinator criticizes your field work because your study areas are not randomly placed or your replicate sites were not chosen at random, tell him or her politely that virtually no ecological research in the field is done by truly random sampling. (ubc.ca)
  • Does this make our research less useful for achieving ecological understanding - probably not. (ubc.ca)
  • In addition to the concepts just summarized, the literature provides models and frameworks for understanding health promotion and health research that can be helpful in the practice of community engagement. (cdc.gov)
  • Featuring contributions from experts on the three main forest types-boreal, temperate, and tropical-this book presents in-depth coverage of important issues in ecological forest management and includes case studies addressing ecological and socioeconomic issues. (routledge.com)
  • It illustrates how ecological forest management is a complex process that requires broad ecological knowledge while giving readers a deeper understanding of basic principles and applications. (routledge.com)
  • Talking about it as ecological sin makes sure that we keep front and center that it is isn't just that we may be destroying or harming the natural world," she said - for instance, destroying the rainforest and with it, the homes of indigenous communities - "but it's that this breaks our relationship with God. (ncronline.org)
  • IUS will work with global developers, communities, and all participants to improve the development of ecological empowerment. (graphdaily.com)
  • By recognizing this as ecological sin, Clark added, "It's a way of refocusing that ultimately the natural world does not belong to us but belongs to the Creator. (ncronline.org)
  • But ecological sin shows how the relationship can also be broken with the natural world, too. (ncronline.org)
  • Otto Neurath developed an ecological approach based on a natural economy whilst employed by the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. (wikipedia.org)
  • Protection of natural ecological systems, provision of extensive recreational opportunities for people in urban regions and rural districts, provision of economic benefits and protection of cultural values and historical heritage are the advantages of designing and creating greenways inside cities. (scirp.org)
  • One of these strategies is use of ecological green axes, which has multiple environmental, historical and cultural and recreational goals in addition to creation of continuity between natural and historical structures and protection of them and leads to stability of natural and historical structures. (scirp.org)
  • OVER THE last three decades, Chinese intellectuals, government officials, party stalwarts and state leaders have toyed with the concept of 'ecological civilisation' (EC) to frame their environmental ideology and management of environmental problems. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • Theologians who have examined ecological sin say this definition reinforces the idea that humans are a part of nature - God's creation - and not separate from it. (ncronline.org)
  • Most people would agree that such an approach to generalizing ecological findings is tantamount to saying the problem is "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin", and in practice we can ignore the problem and generalize from the studied reefs to all reefs. (ubc.ca)
  • An Imaginary Musical Road Movie revolves around two integrated objects: on the one hand, the programmatic and cyclic concept album Highway Rider (2010), which is jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's most complex instrumental work, and on the other hand transmediality, both as a concept and phenomenon. (lu.se)
  • Based on the American composer and jazz musician Brad Mehldau's (1970-) most complex instrumental works, the concept album Highway Rider (2010), this essay explores how such an album can be understood within an intermedial music culture. (lu.se)
  • In other words, the ecological crisis is in every way a crisis of education. (wikipedia.org)
  • This ecological crisis is widely acknowledged and there have been many attempts at organisational and societal levels to redress its negative impacts, yet despite the widespread effort there seems to be little progress being made. (samfundslitteratur.dk)
  • Yet the very presence of roads and the act of driving on them can impact the ecological infrastructure that supports an animal's daily life. (nhbs.com)
  • Roads and Ecological Infrastructure is the first book to focus on reducing conflict between roads and small animals. (nhbs.com)
  • The analysis section begins by looking at the peculiarities of Severian's discourse through the lenses of these two concepts. (lu.se)
  • Ecological determinism in the competition for space. (esa.org)