scholarly journals Water sustainability: future directions

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Simon Toze
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Water Usage ◽  
Water Sustainability ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Rainfall Patterns ◽  
Current Impact

Water sustainability: future directions Whether you?re a believer or a sceptic about global warming and the influence of human activity on the climate, there is little argument about the current impact of drought and changing rainfall patterns on Australia. The Australian community is coming to grips with the fact that we need to be cleverer on how we use water. This has resulted in a significant increase in interest about water sustainability and has increased demands on governments at all levels to improve water usage and efficiency.

scholarly journals The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 09): A Report

AI Magazine ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Vic Callaghan ◽  
Achilles Kameas ◽  
Dolors Royo ◽  
Angelica Reyes ◽  
Leandro Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Intelligent Environments ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Technical University

The development of intelligent environments is considered an important step towards the realization of the ambient intelligence vision. Intelligent environments are technologically augmented everyday spaces, which intuitively support human activity. The IE conferences traditionally provide a leading edge forum for researchers and engineers to present their latest research and to discuss future directions in the area of intelligent environments. This article briefly presents the content of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE09), which was held July 20–21 at the Castelldefels campus, of the Technical University of Catalonia, near Barcelona, Spain.

scholarly journals Current impact and future directions of high throughput sequencing in plant virus diagnostics

2014 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 90-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastien Massart ◽  
Antonio Olmos ◽  
Haissam Jijakli ◽  
Thierry Candresse
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Plant Virus ◽  
High Throughput Sequencing ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Virus Diagnostics ◽  
Current Impact

Social Origins of Scientific Deviance: Examining Creationism and Global Warming Skepticism

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua C. Tom
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Scientific Consensus ◽  
Young Earth Creationism

Scientific communities maintain respected authority on matters related to the natural world; however, there are instances where significant portions of the population hold beliefs contrary to the scientific consensus. These beliefs have generally been studied as the product of scientific illiteracy. This project reframes the issue as one of social deviance from the consensus of scientific communities. Using young-earth creationism and global warming skepticism as case studies, I suggest that consensus perception in light of public scientific deviance is a valuable dialectical framework, and demonstrate its utility using logistic regression analyses of the 2006 Pew Religion and Public Life Survey. Believing there is no scientific consensus is one of the most important factors in predicting scientifically deviant beliefs, along with political and religious effects, eclipsing education. The inability of consensus perception to explain all variation in scientific deviance lends further credence to the framework, suggesting future directions in the study of this phenomenon.

Menggagas Dakwah Penyelamatan Lingkungan

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Fajar Hardoyono
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
Endangered Animals

Environment has important role for supporting human activity. Basically, Environment gives resources which ishelpful for human activity to increase prosperity by exploring natural resources. As far as now, environmental qualitydegradation occurs in many countries in the world especially in Indonesia. Indonesia, one of the greatest forest areas andthe richest natural resources has been occurring environment degradation caused by irresponsible activity of many people.In several regions in Indonesia, people have to be ready for coming of natural disaster such as flood in rainy season anddrought in wet season, caused by degradation of environmental quality. Illegal logging, unsolvable rubbish management,and global warming are our problem today because we aren’t still fully aware about environment quality surrounding us.However, our religion has been teaching us about awareness in environment such us for keeping cleanness, not wasting ofrubbish arbitrarily, and conserve endangered animals and plants. How to improve our environment? Let’s go to campaignfor saving our environment

Global warming: Trends and effects

Parasitology ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 106 (S1) ◽  
pp. S5-S9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Tickell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Human Displacement

SUMMARYAs animals we have been a remarkably successful species; but also as animals we are vulnerable to environmental, in particular climate change. Such change is accelerating as a result of human activity, and global warming may already be taking place. Although we can foresee the trends, we cannot yet be specific about the results. Change usually proceeds by steps rather than gradients. But warming would probably include new risks to human health and contribute to an increase in human displacement. Of course climate change is only one among other complex problems facing human society, but it is closely related to them all, including population increase, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity. We cannot prevent global warming but we can anticipate and mitigate some of its worst effects. Peoples and governments still need persuading of the need for action and of the magnitude of the issue at stake.

scholarly journals Food production in an age of global warming and weirding

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Stuart Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Rainfall Patterns ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

Some estimates suggest that we will need to double food production by 2050, and do so despite the effects of climate change on crop yields. The competing demands of agriculture and human populations upon water supplies can only become more extreme with time and are likely to be exacerbated by the impact of increased evaporation due to global warming and changes to rainfall patterns. Therefore, this article will examine some of the ways that we can produce food using less water.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document