When goals conflict, competition is the surest lodestar.
Yet life is about more than conflict, competition, and controversy — about getting what one wants.
Furthermore, the effects of climate change are likely to compound those of other transformations going on in pastoral systems, including poverty, human and livestock population growth, conflict, competition for land and rangeland fragmentation (Behnke 2008; Galvin 2009; Reid et al. 2014).
Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change.
Intergroup behavior is influenced by conflict, competition, cooperation, the nature of personal interaction within and between groups, the relative power of the ingroup and outgroup, the position of individuals in groups, their personalities and other pertinent factors.
Jean Shinoba Bolen, M.D., writes in her book The Millionth Circle about how when enough women gather in circles, we will create a worldwide healing force by bringing feminine values of relationship, nurturing and interdependency into our global culture which currently values hierarchy, conflict, competition, power over others and exploitation of the earth's resources.
The terms 'sexual conflict pollen'sexualual conflict pollen competition') generates 46 (13) hits, while 'sexual conflict sperm'sexualual conflict sperm competition') gives 742 (489) studies, which indicates that these areas of research are about 16 (38) times more common in animal biology.
Four versions of the scenario were randomly administered, varying based on the nature of the conflict and the level of intimacy with the conflicting party: disagreement (intimate), competition for resources (intimate), disagreement (recently acquainted), and competition for resources (recently acquainted).
The increasing complexity of environmental decision problems, the growing number of subjects involved and keen competition between conflicting interests make decisions and decision support difficult.
Bistable perception is thought to result from neural competition between conflicting perceptual representations.
