Widening the scope to the environment and looking through many different lenses from ecological and policy perspectives has helped me become more conscious of the consequences of my actions and more appreciative of nature.
With this change in medical editorship, we wish to take the opportunity to present our views on the scope of the "environment" and "environmental medicine" and what we believe is the expanding nature of the field.
While such predictive capability must remain a major longer-term scientific goal, the scope of the Environment and Human Health programme in its first phase has been of necessity more pragmatic, with a focus on exploratory ("proof-of-concept") research and building the interdisciplinary community required for the task.
The broader quality of life measures such as WHOQOL-BREF [ 34] and the patient-generated questionnaires SEQoL [ 33] and PGI [ 32], all had aspects that related to self-concept, but they were considered too broad in scope (including the environment, finances and social capital) and were long and complicated.
Toothed whales use echolocation as a highly accurate tool for scoping out their environment.
Scope refers to the environment that has been extended both in space and time, so that people recognise the possibility for entering and spending their time there (Hartig et al. 1997a, b).
SCOPE, Effects of increased ultraviolet radiation on biological systems, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Paris, 1992b.
SCOPE, Effects of increased ultraviolet radiation on global ecosystems, Proceedings of a workshop arranged by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Tramariglio, Sardinia, October, 1992a.
The pace, complexity, and scope of change in the environment demands an organization change approach that is pervasive, complex, agile, and integrated.
Many of us woke up to the environmental cost when over a century of industrialization finally surpassed the capacity of nature to assimilate it.International in scope, Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for Their Removal discusses wetland functions and heavy metal contamination.
Approaches and attitudes of students evaluated according to variables of age, gender and their attended programs and grades within the scope of protection of the environment, human-environment-nature relationship, the use of natural resources, environmental issues, economic growth and industrialization issues.
