Sentences with phrase «for effecting social changes»

In addition, I believe there is a need for specialized institutions that will bring together a group of theologians and a variety of secular futurists trained in the various sciences and the humanities to anticipate future developments, to elaborate visions of ideal futures, and to devise strategies for effecting social changes leading toward their attainment.

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Tuesday was also the first day of F8, the social network's annual developer conference, where it was expected to address many of the privacy changes and quality - control measures put in effect since it was reported that data firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly abused the private information of up to 87 million Facebook users for political operations.

While the Evangelicals» concern for the social problems of their day was mainly practical and philanthropic, trying to effect change through Acts of Parliament and by giving relief to those in need, the response of the Church of England's High Church party, known as the Tractarians or Oxford Movement, was more theological.

Here I have in mind specifically those immediate social effects that can account for changes in religious establishments perfectly well by themselves.

For a discussion of «the system of territorial segmentation» and the effects of social change on such old boundaries, see Eric J. Miller, «Caste and Territory in Malabar,» American Anthropologist, Vol.

This apparent conflict has never been a problem for the paid - time broadcasters, who consider it beyond the scope of Christian concern to effect social change except through the conversion of individuals, a process which can take place regardless of contexts and suggested identifications.

There is no spiritual significance or necessity for effecting any change in the social structure.

In addition, his research has involved the remarkable effects of continuous emotional and social support for the mother by a skilled labor support woman (the doula) on decreasing the complications of labor, changing the psychology of the mother and improving her behaviour with her infant.

Staff members typically have a passion for their work and are committed to effecting social change.

The immediate effects can be subtle — changes to an animals» heart rate, physiology, stress hormone levels and social behaviour, for example — ...

Saren is the vibrant creator of The Glow Effect (TGE), a personal and sustainable development movement that believes women's leadership is the most important tool for social change, and...

While the two were determined to help the King bring the social and economic changes he so desperately sought for his country, Caroline and Struensee failed to recognize the destructive effects their actions could have on the king and all of Denmark.

Bolstered by an impressive social impact campaign by distributor Radius - TWC — not to mention a terrific song by Lady Gaga — The Hunting Ground has been screened on campuses across the U.S., while providing resources for students to effect change at their schools.

I nevertheless thank Karen Mapp because I know that her request for me to «dig deep» had an immediate effect on how I navigate the work of social change.

CHICAGO — Possible changes to Medicare and Social Security have become the top political concern for older U.S. voters this year — and not just because of the effect on their own pocketbooks.

The combination of continued State withdrawal from service provision, the deep and persistent effects of the global financial crisis that begun in 2008 and profound changes in the type of demand for social housing across North Western Europe call for a reflection on the implications of these phenomena for social housing providers.

Spaying and neutering, and rescuing animals from cruelty, abandonment, and other dangerous situations are laudable goals — but a well - crafted and thoughtful humane education program has the potential to effect social change, thus reducing the need for animal welfare services in the future.

It focused on global changes and future scenarios highlighting political, social, technological, and environmental drivers for change and their effect on tourism flows and investment.

Touching on the struggle for gay rights and the gun control movement, he charged the graduates with carrying on the school's tradition of helping to effect social change.

Contemporary African photography has emerged during a period of significant historical and social change, including the post-World War II de-colonization movements, the quest for independent national identity, and the effects of globalization and modernity.

One of the pioneers in promoting the feminist approach to art - making, Judy Chicago has been a leader and model for an art that seeks to effect social change.

Dr. Pielke's work on climate change effects has been criticized by Dr. Stephen Schneider, who said that with Pielke «one consistent pattern emerges - he is a self - aggrandizer who sets up straw men, knocks them down, and takes credit for being the honest broker to explain the mess - and in fact usually adds little new social science to his analysis [3].

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

The «scientific consensus» that late 20th century warming can be attributed to human activity is routinely confused with the putative consequences of climate change — particularly social effects — and the political arguments for climate change mitigation.

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

«Using the series as a tool to bring attention to the poles and the effect climate change has had on them, the organizations are planning various activities around the FROZEN PLANET premiere including: hosting sneak peek screenings for their members, where attendees will see the premiere episode Ends of the Earth before it's U.S. debut; engagement on Facebook, Twitter, GetGlue and other social media platforms; letter writing campaigns and other grassroots efforts to ensure our polar regions are protected for generations to come.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

It means there can be more mining, which is good for the economy, but it will have unpredictable effects on social change».

For instance, along with possible carbon fertilisation effects and a longer growing season (Chapter 5), many mid - and upper - latitude areas see quality - of - life benefits from winter warming, and some areas welcome changes in precipitation patterns, although such changes could have other social consequences.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

What this means, informally, is that the condition for a rule change to take place is on a social context that includes both the current effects of the law and the future effects of the law.

If law societies regulated fees, I suggest it would have two effects (1) increase both the availability of legal services to the poor generally, and the size of the pool of potential clients who could seriously even consider retaining a lawyer, and (2) in the long term, change the character of the legal professional (as a collection of individuals) for the better by making the practice of law more like social work, rather than drawing in the sorts of people who's skills are better employed in such fields as sales and business entrepreneurship.

MCA 1937 had clearly had an effect, but it was the social and economic change in the immediate post-war years that had really fuelled the increase and which prompted the call for reform.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda today also wrote about his concerns about the Budget, saying changes to benefits for young unemployed people could have a devastating effect on young Indigenous people and that GP co-payments are «another cause of great anxiety».

There are changes coming into effect in April 2020 regarding the means test for providing social care.

«The transfer of all Indigenous programs to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, I believe, will make it more difficult, not less, to effect change through mainstream agencies that are not responsible for program delivery but which have very high stakes in delivering programs that have a broad impact on the social determinants.

There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief etc.).

This comparative analysis of interaction effects between two social contexts (parent connectedness and supportive friendships) is an established way to operationalize Bronfenbrenner's conceptualization of the mesosystem (Bronfenbrenner, 1977; Bronfenbrenner & Crouter, 1983), and the inclusion of supportive relationship data from both waves of measurement allows for the assessment of stability versus change within the family — peer mesosystem (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998).