The work that I do around the world, particularly in developing countries, is primarily focused on showing how meeting
basic human needs using the world's best practices in sustainable technology can leverage the creation of real jobs and real businesses that lead to genuine economic progress for even the most marginal of peoples.
Not exact matches
We could
use progressive strategies of redistribution to make everyone in America a comfortable consumer and still face widespread personal, working - class dissatisfaction if we don't address the
basic human need for work, a
need more fundamental than the desire to possess twenty - first - century consumer goods.
In the light of the vast economic and technological changes that the UN has already contributed to the global system of what Vasak calls «solidarity,» it is now possible to classify the
basic human standards into three broad categories: rights (individual)
needs (collective) and
uses (world law).
I agree with what i think your
basic points are — we should consider downsizing the amount of plastic «gear» we parents think we «
need,» and that the infant seat shouldn't be
used so much that we don't neglect our babies»
needs for
human touch.
I believe many Dads, partners, and family members have perhaps
used their own style of the 5 S's, but, alas, we weren't the ones to write the book.The
basic premise of «Happiest Baby on the Block» is that
human babies are born too early and so in the «forth trimester» (the first three months of a newborn's life) we
need to recreate a womb - like environment for the baby.
It then follows the consequences of allowing those
basic human needs to be
used as raw material for financial speculation — which include financiers profiting from a rise rather than a decline in
human misery.
Many of those promoting stasis in the face of a clear
need for a global energy quest have
used this saga as a kind of «blackwash» that will long linger like a cloud, tainting public appreciation of even the undisputed
basics of science pointing to a rising
human influence on climate.
Peter developed one of the first analyses of climate change impacts on water resources, the earliest comprehensive work on water and conflict, and defined
basic human need and right to water — work that has been
used by the United Nations and in
human rights court cases.
Increasing the cost of
using energy by raising its cost will decrease its
use and thus
human welfare and economic productivity, which are strongly associated with an improved environment as
humans turn to such issues as their
basic needs are satisfied.
This is most defensible in places that have low per capita emissions, low historical emissions, and where new fossil fuel
use will address
basic human needs instead of luxuries.
And, we're combining that body of work with the work we've been doing in Afghanistan and other developing countries:
using best practices in sustainable technologies to meet
basic human needs.
It may also lead to the creation of a hierarchy of
use requiring that water
use be allocated for ecosystems and
basic human needs first, and not corporate
needs such as large - scale industrial projects or by bottled water companies.
Although different conceptualizations are
used, these theories emphasize a
basic human need for relatedness that underlies and explains interpersonal behavior in social contexts.
«Whenever you
use the D - word in an argument you are removing safety, security, and trust from a relationship, which are
basic human needs.»