"Bob is the top of the top in tissue engineering, " says Bruce Hamilton , director of bioengineering and environmental systems at the National Science Foundation.
All this geographic mania amuses the de facto father of the mapping field: Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Environmental Systems Research Institute, the 37-year-old firm that is the Microsoft of mapping.
As an Environmental Systems teacher in Ecuador, I had begun to appreciate that energy is the key issue at the intersection of environmental and social issues for our country and the world.
The passion for learning about social and environmental issues in other cultures and educating youth led me to teach high school Environmental Systems for two years at Colegio Americano in Quito, Ecuador.
Efforts to improve international regulations regarding the certification, inspection and maintenance of aircraft environmental control systems are needed.
The MPs urge the Green Ministers Committee to "stop prevaricating" and adopt a firm target for the establishment of environmental management systems throughout government.
Expect that to change over the next few years as the U.S. and other governments scale up investments in the environmental monitoring systems and data infrastructure assets.
But when you actually look closely, as you have done repeatedly, at the major flaws in the nuclear reculatory and environmental monitoring systems, and see these clear imminent dangers from current plants it is startling and discouraging.
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Local and indigenous knowledge systems and environmental management practices provide valuable insight and tools for tackling ecological challenges.
The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.
Adopting new systems of social and environmental accounting imposes further burdens.
The fact that people have used industrial chemistry to short-circuit the nitrogen cycle, by making fertilisers out of nitrogen in the air at a rate which greatly exceeds what natural systems can manage, has real environmental effects.
Add to this the realities of changing regulations and potential environmental tracking requirements, and you need information systems that provide the flexibility to evolve, deliver fast time to value, and that can integrate with our suppliers and customers.
So in the future, organizations need to consider how they will use specialized intelligence systems and services to capture knowledge on environmental issues, social change and competitors.
Miller also is reanalyzing the data to see if there are variations when sunlight was blocked by a weeks-long dust storm on Mars, with the idea being that biological systems would have acted differently to the environmental change than geologic ones.
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Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.
The attraction of cap and trade systems is that they provide a more certain environmental outcome (a set level of allowable emissions), but at the cost of price volatility.
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The moderated discussion session advanced global sustainability by building synergies among knowledge systems so as to enhance equity and effectiveness of environmental governance.
They can take advantage of environmental characteristics, like cool climate, to design more-passive systems.
Still, revamping its internal server systems could save Sun money and create less of an environmental footprint.
The heir to the throne has been particularly outspoken on environmental issues and in the last 12 months has visited eco-systems in Indonesia, Borneo and Brazil.
It does however remark that, to be fully effective, science curricula need to interact properly with local experiences and systems of traditional knowledge, particularly in the biological and environmental sciences.
The Obama Administration has dismissed spent-fuel reprocessing systems already used in France and Japan because of security and environmental risks.
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Countless certification systems from around the world help travelers determine which providers are committed to environmental and social sustainability.
This situation requires a new approach to research that is integrated, international, solutions-oriented and policy relevant, combining social, environmental and economic factors, across all domains of research as well as local knowledge systems.
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