Sentences with phrase «at societal risk»

My point is the selfish one, that for a social scientist looking at societal risk perception and adaptive capacity in flood risk areas, this research represents a dilemma.

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Samir Goswami, director of Government Professional Solutions at LexisNexis, described a pilot product called SmartWatch that scans over 26,000 information sources each day and alerts a client company or government entity when it finds indications of societal risks somewhere in its supply chain, including for human rights.

Is it the societal expectations for young adolescent girls or the way in which young girls are socialized that places them at risk for interpersonal stressors?

«There is an urgent need for looking at perfectionism with a person - centred approach as an individual and societal risk factor, when formulating clinical guidelines for suicide risk assessment and intervention, as well as public health approaches to suicide prevention,» says Flett.

He believes that while researchers do have a right to hold and disseminate their opinions, at the same time, they need to evaluate their opinions against societal benefits and risks.

The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Viola Davis as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny - three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk.

While the most severe cases are managed clinically, there is growing evidence that many of the ongoing difficulties experienced by at - risk students begin early in life, and have societal or behavioral origins.

Because of their increased dropout rate, as well as societal stigma surrounding them and a number of other factors, teenage parents and their children are at risk of experiencing worse psychosocial and socioeconomic outcomes than their peers (Kiselica & Pfaller, 1993; Coren et al., 2003).

With that much demand on a societal level (even the government pretty much tells you that you should be going to college no matter what) and loans that are subsidized so that the lender faces minimal risk in case of a default, even state and city public schools are priced at a ridiculous premium.

The vast majority are at the mercy of governmental and societal decisions as to how they live, where they live, and their levels of exposure to many risks and disasters, both natural and of society's own creation.

The long - term objective of climate change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing additional shared humanitarian necessities, including providing reliable and affordable energy to improve global living standards.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

The most probable outcome (at least on the 100 year time scale) has risks that are probably manageable, but as Marty Weitzman at Harvard has pointed out, we need to pay attention to the tail of the risk distribution, because the economic and societal risks can be very large there.

Yet, one can also hypothesize that the various societal responses may have more than compensated for population growth and in fact fewer people are today at risk.»

«The long - term objective of climate - change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing shared humanitarian necessities,» Exxon Mobil General Counsel Ken Cohen wrote in the post.

New legislation or Rules, technologies, or societal trends mean lawyers can be at risk of claims if they don't adapt.

An effective child welfare system works to ensure that children grow up in safe, permanent, and loving homes while strengthening families and minimizing trauma through timely and appropriate action.45 Researchers believe that societal attitudes and lack of knowledge regarding children with disabilities place them at greater risk for abuse and neglect.

Thus, most risk factors identified at community and societal levels are derived theoretically.

Advocacy regarding neglect may be at several levels as outlined in the following examples: 1) at the child's level, for example, explaining to a parent that responding to a crying infant does not risk spoiling him / her is a form of advocacy on behalf of a preverbal child; 2) at the parental level, helping a depressed mother access mental health care or encouraging a father to be more involved in his child's life; 3) at the community level, supporting efforts to develop community family resources; and 4) at the societal level, supporting government policies and programs such as those that reduce access to health care, food benefits, and subsidized child care.

Children exhibiting elevated levels of disruptive behaviors [oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD)-RSB- and / or the problems from the broadband externalizing spectrum often follow a life - course trajectory of conduct problems (i.e., repetitive and persistent patterns of behavior that violate the rights of the others and major age - appropriate societal norms or rules, respectively) that place them at greater risk of later antisocial behavior during adolescence (Odgers et al., 2008; Hyde et al., 2013).