EcosystemsRestorationSustainabilitySocio-ecologicalMomentaryAssessmentBiodiversityEcologyNational InstitutCrisisEvolutionaryOrganismsCrisesWorld'sFootprintAbioticDisparitiesMainMonitoringConservationEnvironmental scienceBasinProcessesDisasterFrameworkDegreesEnvironmentResearchVariationIntroducesSystemsStudySpeciesOutreachKnowledgeProducesGroupAreasExamplesScienceHumanInboxPracticesComplexityMethodsIssuesSocialRange
Ecosystems3
  • degree in Ecological Restoration , Canada's first professional graduate degree specializing in restoring degraded ecosystems and is a joint program offered by BCIT and SFU . (bcit.ca)
  • Ecological Restoration is a scientific discipline that has recently emerged due to the increasing need to restore degraded and damaged ecosystems. (bcit.ca)
  • Assessing ecological condition has become important, as broad scale stressors such as land use, invasive species and climate change alter the processes and benefits that ecosystems provide. (wa.gov)
Restoration17
  • The latter phenomenon can be temporary or permanent, depending on whether the environmental degradation that leads to the loss is reversible through ecological restoration/ecological resilience or effectively permanent (e.g. through land loss). (wikipedia.org)
  • in Ecological Restoration , one of Canada's first degrees in ecological restoration 1 . (bcit.ca)
  • for the advanced training in ecological Restoration with the prerequisite entry requirements. (bcit.ca)
  • Ecological Restoration practitioners apply knowledge of: ecology, hydrology, geochemistry, geomorphology, and engineering to address ecological health issues 2 . (bcit.ca)
  • BCIT's Ecological Restoration M.Sc. (bcit.ca)
  • 1 Both BCIT and Trent University initiated their degrees in ecological restoration in 2009 - the first two in Canada. (bcit.ca)
  • Islamabad:Special Assistant to Prime Minister Malik Amin Aslam on Monday said that Pakistan was committed to the global efforts for ecological restoration through nature-based solutions. (com.pk)
  • Ecological integrity is interpreted in light of reference conditions based on natural ranges of variation, and with a practical interpretation of site information that can inform management decisions and guide conservation and restoration activities. (wa.gov)
  • Ecological restoration is the art and science of helping degraded natural areas recover to healthy condition and function. (greenbiz.com)
  • This new push for ecological restoration also created jobs for engineers, surveyors, hydrologists and foresters as well as opportunities for investors, construction companies and others who specialize in rehabilitating nature. (greenbiz.com)
  • Restoration professionals have their own industry association, the Ecological Restoration Business Association (ERBA), which advocates for environmental policy and regulatory frameworks that open the door for companies to make a business out of conservation. (greenbiz.com)
  • This month, leaders in the industry are heading to Washington, D.C., for an event convened by ERBA that aims to position ecological restoration as the answer to several big challenges facing the United States right now, including much-needed investment in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, and protecting communities and their assets from disasters such as the one that hit Houston this summer. (greenbiz.com)
  • Mitigation banking, a subsector of ecological restoration, has posted a history of reliable demand and strong performance in meeting or exceeded projected internal rates of return for investors. (greenbiz.com)
  • Both could spell opportunity for the ecological restoration industry: After all, restoration companies have years of experience working with developers and regulators to ensure that environmental permits are issued as quickly and smoothly as possible. (greenbiz.com)
  • Policy-makers must look for innovative procurement mechanisms to be used in conjunction with the increased level of private-sector capital focused on providing high-quality ecological restoration," explained Elliott Bouillion, president and CEO at RES . (greenbiz.com)
  • It's important for the ecological restoration industry and its members to remain relevant during so much political change in D.C. (greenbiz.com)
  • It's important for the ecological restoration industry and its members to remain relevant during so much political change in D.C.," said Travis Hemmen, vice president of business acquisition at Westervelt Ecological Services and an ERBA board member. (greenbiz.com)
Sustainability1
  • The Sustainability Science Award recognizes the authors of the scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences. (esa.org)
Socio-ecological4
  • Socio-ecological transformation refers to the interaction processes of societies with nature. (ihs.ac.at)
  • The manifold societal relationships with nature have become critical in the last decades and are described as socio-ecological crisis which needs to be encountered by a global sustainable development. (ihs.ac.at)
  • To better understand the factors contributing to these DBM increases, researchers proposed the socio-ecological model (SEM) as a more holistic approach that acknowledges multiple levels of influence (i.e., individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, and policy) that affect health outcomes. (nih.gov)
  • This conference will examine the recent etiological and socio-ecological factors contributing to this increased DBM prevalence, and the implications for long-term health outcomes among children and adolescents (ages 3 to 18 years) in LMICs. (nih.gov)
Momentary1
  • Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data consist of multiple series of real-time self-reports, sampled over the course of several days or weeks. (nih.gov)
Assessment3
  • Ecological integrity is a broad and useful endpoint for ecological assessment and reporting. (wa.gov)
  • The goal of an ecological integrity assessment (EIA) is to provide a succinct assessment of the current status of the composition, structure, processes, and connectivity of a particular occurrence of an ecosystem type. (wa.gov)
  • An Ecological Integrity Assessment (EIA) is an approach to systematically rate the current ecological integrity of an occurrence of a plant association or ecological systems. (wa.gov)
Biodiversity4
  • Because of the impact of humans on the natural environment in the recent geological period, the term ecological crisis is often applied to environmental issues caused by human civilizations such as: the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution which have emerged as major global challenges during the first few decades of the 21st century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Curry begins by providing the reader with context of our current ecological crises: from climate change, loss of biodiversity and natural habitat to the chemical pollutants found in air and water as well as population growth and all the pressures that entails. (theecologist.org)
  • Focus on important ecological and environmental topics such as climate change, biodiversity and conservation. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Here, and across the world, extreme events caused by climate are leading to dramatic ecological changes, threatening biodiversity. (audubon.org)
Ecology2
  • Honorary Membership is given to a distinguished ecologist who has made exceptional contributions to ecology and whose principal residence and site of ecological research are outside of North America. (esa.org)
  • British Ecological Society has published the 2022 winners of its annual photo contest, Capturing Ecology . (diyphotography.net)
National Institut1
  • Tribal Ecological Knowledge Workshop / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH. (nih.gov)
Crisis1
  • Current trends will only deepen the ecological crisis while failing to eliminate social shortfalls. (nature.com)
Evolutionary2
  • Some of the important causes include: Degradation of an abiotic ecological factor (for example, increase of temperature, less significant rainfalls) Increased pressures from predation Rise in the number of individuals (i.e. overpopulation) The evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium sees infrequent ecological crises as a potential driver of rapid evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biosphere dynamics ' are the ecological and evolutionary changes that occur as biological systems respond to, and contribute to, environmental change. (uib.no)
Organisms3
  • 1. What organisms make up the ecological community identified in the article? (sciencenews.org)
  • 2. What are the general interactions among the organisms in the ecological community? (sciencenews.org)
  • The livelihoods of the rural poor are literally consumed by other organisms in complex ecological systems," said co-author Matthew Bonds, a visiting assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. (stanford.edu)
Crises1
  • An ecological or environmental crises occurs when changes to the environment of a species or population destabilizes its continued survival. (wikipedia.org)
World's1
  • The World Ecological Land Units Map and its data are important for understanding and managing our world's ecological resources. (esri.com)
Footprint7
  • You can reduce your ecological footprint by using less material goods. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Organic farms leave a much softer ecological footprint in terms of runoff damage to the surrounding areas. (yourdictionary.com)
  • The global Ecological Footprint was 13.5 billion global hectares in 2001, or 2.2 global hectares per person. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Organic farming and manufacturing produces less harmful runoff and leaves a smaller ecological footprint on nature, animals, and even people, which is an investment into our future that cannot be taken lightly. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Eco-conscious yogis love this mat for its earthy natural look and feel, and the low ecological footprint it creates. (yourdictionary.com)
  • Find similar words to ecological-footprint using the buttons below. (yourdictionary.com)
  • For references , please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/ecological-footprint-time-series-by-land or scan the QR code. (europa.eu)
Abiotic1
  • The EIA is a multi-metric index of ecological integrity based on measures of biotic and abiotic condition, size, and landscape context. (wa.gov)
Disparities5
  • Francisco Alejandro "Alex" Montiel Ishino, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.P.H., leads the NIEHS SocioEnvironmental and Ecological Disparities (SeEDs) Group. (nih.gov)
  • That term refers to the cooccurring and synergizing social, environmental, and ecological determinants of health that can exacerbate observed and latent chronic health disparities among at-risk groups. (nih.gov)
  • A recent article by ORWH Associate Director for Science Policy, Planning, and Analysis Samia Noursi, Ph.D., and colleagues published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities examines the causes of MMM racial disparities through the lens of ecological systems theory and published studies. (nih.gov)
  • Dr. Noursi and colleagues apply this theory to research on MMM to identify the multiple ecological systems contributing to MMM racial disparities. (nih.gov)
  • Dr. Noursi and colleagues also use ecological systems theory to identify interventions that might mitigate MMM racial disparities. (nih.gov)
Main1
  • It contains all the necessary information on an ecological process: a clear, detailed but not too lengthy definition, some practical examples, the main mathematical models which have been used to describe the process, the key interconnections with other ecological processes that must be known in order to apply what has been learned from the book. (routledge.com)
Monitoring2
  • Ecological integrity concepts provide valuable information for assessing ecosystem condition and management effectiveness, and are an important component of ecologically based monitoring. (wa.gov)
  • Ecological Monitoring of Genetically Modified Crops: A Workshop Summary. (nih.gov)
Conservation1
  • How do you transform a lavish, exclusive gala whose headliner requires a private jet into a study in ecological conservation? (politico.com)
Environmental science3
  • A combination of both ecological science and environmental science is vital for understanding and tackling environmental challenges. (ed.ac.uk)
  • You can find out more about our ecological and environmental science programme on the degree finder including information on programme structure, optional courses, learning outcomes, career opportunities, field trips, entry requirements, and fees and funding. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Ecological and environmental science with management is for those who are passionate about interactions between humans and the natural world, and our impact on the planet. (ed.ac.uk)
Basin2
  • Other ecological regions of Burundi include Malagarasi-Moyowosi, Lake Tanganyika, and Kagera-Lake Victoria Basin. (worldatlas.com)
  • I investigate social-ecological relations in the Magdalena basin in Colombia, especially focusing on rivers that were dammed in the 1980s and 2010s. (lu.se)
Processes1
  • Written with this in mind, this book introduces ecological processes, ranging from physical processes, to chemical processes and biological processes. (routledge.com)
Disaster2
  • In addition to the social strains created by population movements from ecological disaster areas, and the serious health risks, there is also concern that in polluted regions, where different ethnic groups live in close proximity, competition for increasingly limited clean water supplies could lead to conflict. (rferl.org)
  • Ecological disaster : cleaning up the hidden legacy of the Soviet regime / Murray Feshbach. (who.int)
Framework2
  • A new framework analyzes ecological, economic and epidemiological factors that can trap people in poverty. (stanford.edu)
  • It presents a first-of-its-kind general theoretical framework for modeling subsistence and health of the rural poor by analyzing ecological, economic and epidemiological factors. (stanford.edu)
Degrees1
  • Our ecological and environmental sciences degrees are ideal if you are passionate about interactions between humans and the natural world and our impact on the planet. (ed.ac.uk)
Environment2
  • Inspired by its heritage, culture and urban characteristics of Shenzhen, AECOM's plan for Da Sha River created a high quality public landscape space to enhance the city's ecological environment and rejuvenated Shenzhen with vibes and different layers of dynamics. (aecom.com)
  • HOPE concentrates on ' ecological dynamics ' - the changes and interactions in the Earth life system expressed as changes in taxon distributions and abundances and in environment. (uib.no)
Research4
  • The Shreve award supplies $1,000-2,000 to support ecological research by graduate or undergraduate student members of ESA in the hot deserts of North America (Sonora, Mohave, Chihuahua, and Vizcaino). (esa.org)
  • For information about the research of the Ecological Plant Geography group, please see this page. (uni-marburg.de)
  • In HOPE these are called ' ecosystem or ecological properties ' and represent HOPE's major research focus. (uib.no)
  • The Tribal Ecological Knowledge (TEK) workshop will explore the contributions that Native American (NA) and Alaskan Native (AN) tribal communities bring to the research enterprise. (nih.gov)
Variation3
  • Ecological integrity can be defined as "the structure, composition, and function of an ecosystem operating within the bounds of natural or historical range of variation. (wa.gov)
  • Ecological speciation can sometimes rapidly generate reproductively isolated populations coexisting in sympatry, but the origin of genetic variation permitting this is rarely known. (nature.com)
  • Our results highlight an overlooked outcome of secondary contact: ecological speciation facilitated by admixture variation. (nature.com)
Introduces1
  • animation series, introduces key components of ecological pest management and is intended to complement more detailed training materials. (sare.org)
Systems2
  • This analysis reveals the ways that the social relations of capitalist agriculture tend to produce interconnected ecological problems, such as those in terrestrial and aquatic systems. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Ecological systems provide subsistence, but also spread high rates of infectious diseases through pathogens carried by agricultural pests, rodents, parasites and other vectors. (stanford.edu)
Study2
  • We conducted an ecological study to determine whether parking prices are associated with active commuting across US cities. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of our ecological study was to determine whether parking prices are associated with walking and bicycling to work in US cities. (cdc.gov)
Species2
  • 3. Relationships between different species shape how ecological communities form. (sciencenews.org)
  • With 22 regional parks, two ecological conservancy areas, three regional reserves and five greenways, Metro Vancouver Regional Parks provide vital habitat for countless plant and wildlife species. (meetup.com)
Outreach1
  • Eugene P. Odum Award recipients demonstrate their ability to relate basic ecological principles to human affairs through teaching, outreach, and mentoring activities. (esa.org)
Knowledge3
  • Methods based on local ecological knowledge (LEK) have just recently started being considered as a potential method in the scientific community for wildlife abundance estimates. (eurekalert.org)
  • While hosted by the National Park Service, this site is a service for all those interested in Indigenous Knowledge (IK) or Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). (nps.gov)
  • Understanding the process of speciation and its constraints requires knowledge on the origin of alleles under ecological, sexual or incompatibility selection. (nature.com)
Produces1
  • When an ecosystem is healthy, this graph produces a standard ecological pyramid . (wikipedia.org)
Group1
  • But perhaps the most visible group of ecological migrants are those who fled in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in April of 1986. (rferl.org)
Areas1
  • The US Geological Survey (USGS) , with help from Esri, has created a global map of ecological land units (ELUs) to identify nearly 4,000 ecological areas that are unique combinations of four factors: bioclimate, landforms, rock type, and land cover. (esri.com)
Examples1
  • Ask your students to read the online Science News article " Here's where bacteria live on your tongue cells " and answer the individual questions, which ask them to define and give examples of ecological relationships. (sciencenews.org)
Science1
  • House Speaker Pelosi has been key in advancing the science portions of this bill and many professional organizations including the Ecological Society of America will be sending letters of thanks. (esa.org)
Human1
  • With Ecological Ethics , Patrick Curry sets his stall up at the other end of the spectrum, far away from the concerns of human self-interest. (theecologist.org)
Inbox1
Practices1
  • These so-called 'ecological migrants' are a relatively new phenomenom in the former Soviet Union, where a total of some four million square kilometers have been badly affected by nuclear, industrial, and agricultural installations and practices adopted during the Soviet era. (rferl.org)
Complexity2
  • The Ecological Fallacy [ 1 ] and the complexity of the appropriate weightings to apply for aggregated vs individual data, has recently been subjected to scrutiny in this journal. (medscape.com)
  • But their complexity also makes it challenging to characterize their ecological condition. (wa.gov)
Methods1
  • For that reason, ecologists have pursued a variety of methods to track and respond to declines in ecosystem condition, including ecological integrity methods. (wa.gov)
Issues2
  • Ecological and environmental sciences will help you understand these issues, uniquely positioning you to address some of the biggest environmental challenges that face our planet. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Sometimes, it's difficult to disentangle what were the exact situations or factors that shaped that "LUMES" perspective on social-ecological issues. (lu.se)
Social1
  • Fig. 3: Extent of shortfall below the social foundation versus extent of overshoot beyond the ecological ceiling across countries, 1992-2015. (nature.com)
Range1
  • The book covers the range of expressions of ecological philosophies, from light green to deep green to eco-feminism and more. (theecologist.org)