Missing or altered voices in a soundscape tend to indicate broader environmental problems.
"The public concern about the air pollution has helped raise awareness about broader environmental problems," said Mr. Jiang, a researcher at the Energy Research Institute, which advises the Chinese government.
Last summer, as the agency was finishing a broad assessment of environmental problems, the White House ordered so many changes in the global warming chapter that Christie Whitman yanked all but a few paragraphs.
It extends our earlier article cited by Keyfitz that focuses on climate change by examining a broader range of environmental problems.
As a former resident of New Orleans, I thank you for offering a broad view of the environmental problems facing that wonderful city.
It is therefore futile to attempt to deal with environmental problems without a broader perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and international inequality".
The project was supposed to document environmental problems of the time, but wound up illustrating the broad fabric of life across the country.
Bourtourault entered the French engineering Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris in 1995, where he gained "a broad education in chemistry, physics, and biology,... the three components of environmental problems or issues".
Studying these kinds of 'macrosystems ecology' questions (sensu [ 9]) that can inform environmental problems and developing continental or global ecological assessments, requires both data and understanding at broad spatial and temporal scales.
When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad-based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.
