Environment-friendly tourists: what do we really
... measures that identify tourists with a small ecological footprint and attempt to attract them to a destination rather than taking for granted the kind of tourists arriving at the destination. To date, only a small number of studies have attempted to assess whether tourists assumed to have a small ec ...
... measures that identify tourists with a small ecological footprint and attempt to attract them to a destination rather than taking for granted the kind of tourists arriving at the destination. To date, only a small number of studies have attempted to assess whether tourists assumed to have a small ec ...
1 Chapter 2.3. Natural Capital, Services and Human Wellbeing by
... management systems provide useful comparative information about tradeoffs among multiple services, and qualitative description of curves relating various levels of management activities to service flows may help decision makers recognize thresholds that should not be transgressed. 2.3.4. Links to Hu ...
... management systems provide useful comparative information about tradeoffs among multiple services, and qualitative description of curves relating various levels of management activities to service flows may help decision makers recognize thresholds that should not be transgressed. 2.3.4. Links to Hu ...
Big Data Approaches to Study Discourse Processes
... has been put into the construction and validation of annotated text corpora. The largest repository of such databases is the Linguistic Data Consortium (https://www.ldc.upenn.edu). Annotated corpora allow for supervised training of language comprehension models and algorithms, compared to the unsupe ...
... has been put into the construction and validation of annotated text corpora. The largest repository of such databases is the Linguistic Data Consortium (https://www.ldc.upenn.edu). Annotated corpora allow for supervised training of language comprehension models and algorithms, compared to the unsupe ...
Module 6 Ecological Principles - Members
... systems and the participating organisms are still evolving because the region is very young in geological and evolutionary time scales. It is only a few thousand years since the last ice age ended; the climate is continually changing and other factors (globalization) are increasingly important. We h ...
... systems and the participating organisms are still evolving because the region is very young in geological and evolutionary time scales. It is only a few thousand years since the last ice age ended; the climate is continually changing and other factors (globalization) are increasingly important. We h ...
The Great Transition
... trillion, while the cost of addressing social problems related to inequality will reach £4.5 trillion. We appear to be locked into this state of affairs, but are we really? ...
... trillion, while the cost of addressing social problems related to inequality will reach £4.5 trillion. We appear to be locked into this state of affairs, but are we really? ...
Reports
... 1 3 1 m plots (;1 m apart from each other) within each block. We used open top chambers (OTCs) with an inside diameter of ;1 m, and with qualities as described in Marion et al. (1997) to increase temperature. OTCs are commonly used in climate change experiments to raise the temperature while minimiz ...
... 1 3 1 m plots (;1 m apart from each other) within each block. We used open top chambers (OTCs) with an inside diameter of ;1 m, and with qualities as described in Marion et al. (1997) to increase temperature. OTCs are commonly used in climate change experiments to raise the temperature while minimiz ...
Desertification and climate change—the Australian
... when grazing is centred on artificial waters, it produces a radial or star-shaped pattern of land degradation (e.g. Lange 1969, Pickup et al. 1994a). In the cattle grazing areas of central Australia, these patterns usually extend 4 to 6 km from water but where degradation is extensive, they may be d ...
... when grazing is centred on artificial waters, it produces a radial or star-shaped pattern of land degradation (e.g. Lange 1969, Pickup et al. 1994a). In the cattle grazing areas of central Australia, these patterns usually extend 4 to 6 km from water but where degradation is extensive, they may be d ...
Ambio 22 - Ecosystem Ecology: The CBL Gonzo Group
... terms of their unique biodiversity characteristics and the implications of these characteristics for management. With the exception of coral and other reef communities, coastal and estuarinesystems are generally low in species diversity. But estuaries are tv~icalivdominated by strong aperiodic physi ...
... terms of their unique biodiversity characteristics and the implications of these characteristics for management. With the exception of coral and other reef communities, coastal and estuarinesystems are generally low in species diversity. But estuaries are tv~icalivdominated by strong aperiodic physi ...
International Capital vs. Local Population: The Environmental Conflict
... Despite a long history of local environmental conflicts and several cases of heavy pollution and local people intoxication due to accidents or mismanaged private or state mining enterprises (for example, the cases of La Oroya, Cerro de Pasco, Hilo, Huarmey, Choropampa, Tintaya, etc.), the Peruvian g ...
... Despite a long history of local environmental conflicts and several cases of heavy pollution and local people intoxication due to accidents or mismanaged private or state mining enterprises (for example, the cases of La Oroya, Cerro de Pasco, Hilo, Huarmey, Choropampa, Tintaya, etc.), the Peruvian g ...
Evolutionary responses to environmental change: trophic
... so it does not have to adapt through evolution or it may maintain a large enough population size to eventually allow adaptation. However, some studies show an intermediate niche width to lead to longest persistence of a single species [5,23], while a study that includes species interactions shows th ...
... so it does not have to adapt through evolution or it may maintain a large enough population size to eventually allow adaptation. However, some studies show an intermediate niche width to lead to longest persistence of a single species [5,23], while a study that includes species interactions shows th ...
AP® Environmental Science
... This course provides students with scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationship of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and anthropogenic, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and t ...
... This course provides students with scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationship of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and anthropogenic, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and t ...
Small, So Simple? Complexity in Small Island Developing
... 3. Why SIDS? Developing small states21 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in particular have long been seen as sharing characteristics that pose specific development challenges.22 In addition to small size and insularity, shared characteristics also may include: a) geography - remoteness, b ...
... 3. Why SIDS? Developing small states21 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in particular have long been seen as sharing characteristics that pose specific development challenges.22 In addition to small size and insularity, shared characteristics also may include: a) geography - remoteness, b ...
WHAT IS MEANT BY DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?
... whether illocutionary force is a matter of speaker intention (as in Searle's version of speech act theory) or of hearer interpretation (as is more or less presupposed in Austin's stress on hearer uptake - e.g. recognising an utterance as a command, else it cannot have that force). Some researchers n ...
... whether illocutionary force is a matter of speaker intention (as in Searle's version of speech act theory) or of hearer interpretation (as is more or less presupposed in Austin's stress on hearer uptake - e.g. recognising an utterance as a command, else it cannot have that force). Some researchers n ...
Application of Neural Networks for the Environmental Quality
... The tourism industry has become the rapid development of the economy in the world. According to conservative estimates, tourism income has surpassed more than 6% of global GNP. About 1.3 billion people join into the tourism industry, which covers more than 6% of the global human resource. Tourism in ...
... The tourism industry has become the rapid development of the economy in the world. According to conservative estimates, tourism income has surpassed more than 6% of global GNP. About 1.3 billion people join into the tourism industry, which covers more than 6% of the global human resource. Tourism in ...
Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability
... perspective, the relationship of humankind to the rest of the ecosphere is similar to those of millions of other species with which we share the planet. We depend for both basic needs and the production of artifacts on energy and material resources extracted from nature and all this energy/matter is ...
... perspective, the relationship of humankind to the rest of the ecosphere is similar to those of millions of other species with which we share the planet. We depend for both basic needs and the production of artifacts on energy and material resources extracted from nature and all this energy/matter is ...
chapters 1
... Chapter 1 An Intro. To Environmental Science Case Study: N/A Essential Questions 1. What is environment? 2. Why are natural resources important to human life? 3. How does the scientific method work and operate? 4. What are some pressures on the global environment? 5. What is sustainability and susta ...
... Chapter 1 An Intro. To Environmental Science Case Study: N/A Essential Questions 1. What is environment? 2. Why are natural resources important to human life? 3. How does the scientific method work and operate? 4. What are some pressures on the global environment? 5. What is sustainability and susta ...
Climate, Ecosystems, and Resources in Eastern California
... human economy of East-Central California will probably be profoundly affected. What form will climate change take in this region? What will be the nature of ecosystem responses to climate change? How will particular plant and animal species respond? How will ecosystem changes affect services on whic ...
... human economy of East-Central California will probably be profoundly affected. What form will climate change take in this region? What will be the nature of ecosystem responses to climate change? How will particular plant and animal species respond? How will ecosystem changes affect services on whic ...
Oulanka Research Station, FINLAND September 8th – 11th, 2014
... Predicting responses of aquatic species and communities to climate change is a key scientific challenge. By linking species attributes to dominant environmental drivers that vary across the landscape, a traits-based approach can be used to help explain current variation in species abundance and loca ...
... Predicting responses of aquatic species and communities to climate change is a key scientific challenge. By linking species attributes to dominant environmental drivers that vary across the landscape, a traits-based approach can be used to help explain current variation in species abundance and loca ...
Climate change, hurricanes and - Global Raptor Information Network
... thermal expansion of the ocean (Wigley and Raper 1993). Thermal expansion, a steric effect induced by changes in the density of sea water, results from the fact that as temperature rises seawater density decreases (Wigley and Raper 1993). Freshwater melt both contributes to additional ocean volume a ...
... thermal expansion of the ocean (Wigley and Raper 1993). Thermal expansion, a steric effect induced by changes in the density of sea water, results from the fact that as temperature rises seawater density decreases (Wigley and Raper 1993). Freshwater melt both contributes to additional ocean volume a ...
The environmental factor in migration dynamics
... migration studies might benefit from taking this neglected aspect into account. This paper is not limited to a focus on climate change, but deals with the broader notion of the environment. Many changes in the Sahelian environment cannot simply be blamed on the climate. Socio-political factors such ...
... migration studies might benefit from taking this neglected aspect into account. This paper is not limited to a focus on climate change, but deals with the broader notion of the environment. Many changes in the Sahelian environment cannot simply be blamed on the climate. Socio-political factors such ...
ideology: a transdisciplinary contribution from critical discourse
... way, with a focus on relations between linguistic/semiotic elements of the social and other (including material) elements. ‘Discourse analysis’ is generally taken to be the analysis of ‘texts’ in a broad sense – written texts, spoken interaction, the multi-media texts of television and the internet ...
... way, with a focus on relations between linguistic/semiotic elements of the social and other (including material) elements. ‘Discourse analysis’ is generally taken to be the analysis of ‘texts’ in a broad sense – written texts, spoken interaction, the multi-media texts of television and the internet ...
Chapter 1 Multimodal Studies: An Emerging Research Field
... In the present volume we provide the forum for both interpretations or practices of multimodal studies: multimodality as exploring what it means to combine different semiotic resources and modes in artifacts and events, problematising the development of theory for such phenomena; and multimodality a ...
... In the present volume we provide the forum for both interpretations or practices of multimodal studies: multimodality as exploring what it means to combine different semiotic resources and modes in artifacts and events, problematising the development of theory for such phenomena; and multimodality a ...
Ecology in Global Scenarios - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
... Ecological feedbacks may accentuate human modifications of ecosystems. Changes in ecological functioning produced by unintended ecological feedbacks from human actions appear likely to amplify climate change, decrease agricultural productivity, reduce human health, and increase the vulnerability of ...
... Ecological feedbacks may accentuate human modifications of ecosystems. Changes in ecological functioning produced by unintended ecological feedbacks from human actions appear likely to amplify climate change, decrease agricultural productivity, reduce human health, and increase the vulnerability of ...
Ecosystem change and stability over multiple decades in the
... change. We show conclusively that local knowledge is essential for understanding the cause and potential futures of ecosystems at the wider pan-Arctic scale. This study also develops a platform and new geo-referenced baseline against which future projections of climate-driven ecosystem change can be ...
... change. We show conclusively that local knowledge is essential for understanding the cause and potential futures of ecosystems at the wider pan-Arctic scale. This study also develops a platform and new geo-referenced baseline against which future projections of climate-driven ecosystem change can be ...