Sentences with phrase «based economies and societies»

Islamic topics are now of great importance all over the world as economies are moving towards Islamic teaching based economies and societies.

And while it's a cliche to say that we're now part of an information - based economy and society, «our future... is almost certain to be an intensification of our present reality: greater and greater information dependence in every matter of life and work,» all relying on an open Internet.

Don't you think people freed from the constraints of a clock - based economy and society are more likely to go a little Mad Max, especially if they have to buy their clothes on Etsy?

Not exact matches

«Like other nations that have merit - based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation,» Shah said.

Canadian economy and society will continue to be petroleum - based — from energy to plastics and other synthetic products — for the foreseeable future.

Supporters of the Weberian perspective have countered that this is, indeed, an extreme view, based more on a narrow reading of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism than on an understanding of Weber's more extended and mature works, especially Economy and Society.

A few decades ago it was a tribal society with an economy based largely on fishing, pearl harvesting and camel and horse breeding.

The internet is the basis of a digital economy and a digital society, and it is not for the government to prescribe that legal content can not be viewed here, nor for legal and law - abiding activity to be recorded at all times.

It is at this radical end of the republican spectrum that its ideas come to resemble more and more the kind of decentralized society and economy based on mutual aid that anarchists have historically proposed.

It is based on a reactionary ideology that conflicts with the reality of a globalised economy and a multicultural society.

But it is clear that a fairer and more balanced economy would mean — a more reliable and resilient tax base — as well as fairer outcomes and more resilient families and communities so as well as delivering a stronger economy and a fairer society, a more responsible capitalism will also help us deliver long term fiscal sustainability.

The post-recession economy that is being created is based upon reinforcing the distribution of power between capital and labour that has been imposed upon our society since the 1980s.

I think what he needs to do is to embrace that model of a market - based economy where we are supporting business success, but where we also want to see a socially inclusive society with principles of social justice where we're creating opportunities for people and leaning against inequalities of society in everything we do.

I think what he needs to do is to embrace that model of a market - based economy where we are supporting business success, but where we also want to see a socially - inclusive society with principles of social justice where we're creating opportunities for people and leaning against inequalities of society in everything we do.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

Climate change scenarios are based on projections of future greenhouse gas (particularly carbon dioxide) emissions and resulting atmospheric concentrations given various plausible but imagined combinations of how governments, societies, economies, and technologies will change in the future.

FET Flagships represent a new model for research and innovation in Europe: they are large scale, long term, science - driven and roadmap - based initiatives that are supposed to have the potential to bring transformational impact on science and technology, as well on economy and society at large.

Living in a society with a resource based economy, you know there will always be greedy and conniving people trailing behind wealthy individuals in hopes to somehow benefit from their success.

Many films address the economy and our consumer - based society; few films offer answers.

The functional integrity and resilience of the ecological processes, ecosystems, and biological diversity that is the basis of all life on earth, respecting which entails a realization of the ecological limits within which human economies and societies must restrict themselves.7

The persistent gap in the UK, which is wider than in most other countries and has existed for generations, is commonly attributed to our class - based society, with its greater inequalities than, say, those in Scandinavian countries or the tiger economies of the Far East.

Aligned with college and work expectations; Clear, understandable and consistent; Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high - order skills; Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards; Informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and Evidence - based.

My thesis is that the theoretical foundation for privatizing school and all aspects of American society is based on a fanatical faith in unfettered market economies.

«The industrial - age, assembly - line educational model — based on fixed time, place, curriculum and pace — is insufficient in today's society and knowledge - based economy,» said Gene Wilhoit, executive director of CCSSO.

In response to an increasingly complex society and a rapidly changing, technology - based economy, schools are being asked to educate the most diverse student body in our history with higher academic standards than ever before.

A focus on test scores and other goal - based incentives stifles rather than encourages the creativity and inventiveness that is essential to a dynamic society and economy.

Falk, a partner with Illinois - based Focus Consulting Group, reminded the audience of (mostly) financial advisers that the concept of retirement is still relatively young — about 120 years — going back to agrarian societies when bodies gave out earlier than minds do in today's service economy, and life expectancies were far lower.

Often incorporating references to place and geography, these works not only extend the possibilities of contemporary painting but also offer an unusual and highly individual reflection of the class -, race -, and gender - based economies and realities that make up urban society in the United States.

Best known for his large - scale abstract paintings that examine the class -, race - and gender - based economies that structure urban society in the United States, Bradford's richly layered and collaged canvases represent a connection to the social world through materials.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

It would greatly benefit our transition to a sustainable economy based on alternative energy, resource conservation, green jobs and creative partipation by all sectors of our society.

One of the major limits to climate change adaptation is the context in which it needs to take place and efforts to slow or reverse negative impacts need to engage the long - term place based change in economy, nature, and society.

We are witnessing the inauguration of new instruments of cooperation, which will act as a basis for supporting other national and international efforts directed toward the search for economies that are in harmony with society, nature and the planet.

The event highlighted the proven solutions from exiting fossil fuel - based economies and transitioning to low - carbon societies based on Green to Scale.

Our economy and our society are based on the idea that we can have economic expansion ad infinitum.

Philosophically, pragmatically and sustainably a society based solely on profit is fading so how do we transition to an economy that is built on scientific principles and societal preservation and expansion?

This activity report is based on the Asia and the Pacific megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, which are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

It is this, what I am calling «secondary», moral responsibility that can be the basis of action as citizens and consumers start upon the road of transforming societies and economies.

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AAAS joined the leaders of 17 other leading organizations in signing a letter sent 21 October 2009 to the U.S. Senate, emphasizing based upon rigorous research that human - induced climate change is ongoing and will have broad impacts on society — including the global economy and the environment.

The IPCC report is designed to change human behavior in the future based on theories of a different type of society and economy.

DavidMHoffer - all the redesigning of people's behaviors, society, and the economy is based on 2 premises according to NASA, NOAA, and NSF Geosciences.

(Logical basis — mass market advantage, experience, overcoming habitual practices — costs could come down as industry grows and matures and becomes an integral part of the economy and society) Etc..)

Regardless of the causes of the transition, we can only do it fairly and justly if we make a profound change, beginning right now, from a global economy dominated by big polluting billionaires and corporate executives who defy any consideration of the public good, towards a more sustainable economic future based upon fairer, more equitable, healthier societies.

If we are to submit to the will of the IPCC and make the costly changes to our society and economy recommended in the policy documents, I believe it is not asking too much for rigorous validation and verification of the software upon which these policy recommendations are based.

The 12th Five ‐ Year Plan for the Development of National Economy and Society (2011 — 2015)-- The Five ‐ Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, or the Five ‐ Year Plan aims to create more socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth and boost domestic consumption that will begin to re ‐ orientate the Chinese economy away from heavy industry and resource ‐ intensive production towards a more consumption ‐ based and resource ‐ efficient eEconomy and Society (2011 — 2015)-- The Five ‐ Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, or the Five ‐ Year Plan aims to create more socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth and boost domestic consumption that will begin to re ‐ orientate the Chinese economy away from heavy industry and resource ‐ intensive production towards a more consumption ‐ based and resource ‐ efficient eeconomy away from heavy industry and resource ‐ intensive production towards a more consumption ‐ based and resource ‐ efficient economyeconomy.

The goal of this book will be to provide scholars, university administrators, scholarly societies, librarians, and policymakers with a basis for sorting out and resolving the research economy's current contradictions that will include forging new relationships and initiatives among the players in this economy.

His keynote will focus on what new innovations are emerging based on blockchain technology and how these might solve some of the biggest problems in the economy and society.