Sentences with phrase «how societal changes»

Although he spends much time discussing how societal changes — the moving of persons and property into harm's way — make us increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, he fails to seriously consider the idea that when you add global warming to said societal changes, the result could be a double whammy.

The Future of Learning Institute focuses exclusively on how societal changes and technological advancements affect students» abilities to learn and their impact on educational practice.

Offered by Project Zero in collaboration with Programs in Profession Education (PPE), FoL, now in its second year, focuses exclusively on how societal changes and technological advancements affect students» abilities to learn and their impact on educational practice.

Not exact matches

THE FIXERS How business moves forward — with or without the help of Washington — to address today's most critical societal issues Ideas That Change the World Track hosted by Salesforce Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman, Bank of America Helena Foulkes, Executive Vice President, CVS Health; President, CVS Pharmacy Jeanne Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, MSP Capital Moderator: Nina Easton, Fortune Introduction: Amy Weaver, President, Legal and General Counsel, Salesforce

But the fact remains that there are clearly societal and circumstantial oppression which will continue to make such change impossible for some no matter how hard they try.

It is NOT a self help book aimed at telling us how we can improve our lives or better ourselves It is NOT a book with the primary aim of introducing societal changes such that the earth becomes a better place.

But the assumptions underlying Putnam's claim should inspire faith communities, and all those who value witness in the public square, to reflect on how — or how effectively — we have responded to the societal changes Putnam is concerned with.

And despite how Societal views have changed (mostly), the Church «Can't Budge», or that implies a wrong reasoning at some point in time, and «The Church can NEVER BE WRONG».

Getting there requires convincing less conscious consumers that they can have their cake and eat it, too (drive positive change and indulge their needs), and helping them learn how to choice - edit for the best personal, planetary and societal impact.

Hopefully, after reading how far some people will go, just to grab the attention of a nursing mom, some societal changes may take place.

How much these priorities are changed depends on the degree of preceding societal change that establishes this new grievance.

The number of things done by government could be one measure (such as the number of tax returns or passport applications processed, or the number of prisoners in the criminal justice system) but how should we measure how well those functions are carried out, and how should we separate the effects of government reforms from those of technological and societal changes?

The top aide in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Wednesday called for a change in how society respects women in professional life and societal life, recalling moments of condescension and harassment from men in politics and the media.

While it may be difficult to change engrained societal assumptions about how to become cool, Warren hopes this research will increase awareness about how people perceive one another.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

Making his research findings open access was important to Dr Thorsen, as his research «is concerned with examining how journalism, in different ways, engenders societal change or holds power to account, it is crucial that it has as wide a reach as possible.

The Life Technologies ™ Foundation is dedicated to advancing science education and changing perspectives on how the application of biology can address societal needs.

A study published earlier this year and led by Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.

It highlights the major research challenges that still persist, and how the training and education of health professionals will need to change and adapt to meet the societal challenges of the next generation.

By honoring the biomechanical design of your body and using it the way nature intended - minimizing sitting and avoid wearing positive heeled shoes (read about what high heels do to your uterus here), moving in alignment and changing our societal beliefs about how women should sit and walk (tailbone tucked, feet close together - you know, «like a lady»).

In a CNN.com commentary, Dean Kathleen McCartney discusses how parental roles — particularly the role of the mother — are a societal construct that needs to change.

The chapter does include the need to integrate schools, which is not presented as a reform in how schools operate but as a change in the societal composition of schools.

«Through Portrait of a Tyrant, students will experience how to identify societal grievances, craft solutions, and argue for change — skills at the core of civic agency.»

Programs in Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced a new leadership development program designed for library leaders looking to gain insight on how to function effectively within rapidly changing societal and...

Programs in Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced a new leadership development program designed for library leaders looking to gain insight on how to function effectively within rapidly changing societal and institutional contexts.

To determine the real value of rising high school graduation rates in the wider societal context, it is important to look at how youth outcomes have changed across other indicators.

How have societal beliefs and behaviors changed over your lifetime, and how has it impacted yHow have societal beliefs and behaviors changed over your lifetime, and how has it impacted yhow has it impacted you?

The unprecedented survey demonstrates how 29 Japanese artists and photographers enlisted the camera to make experimental and conceptual shifts in their artistic practices during a time of radical societal change.

He urged his students to rethink the possibilities of these practices and to envision how they could become vehicles for societal change.

Some 250 photographs, photo books, paintings, sculpture and film - based installations reveal how contemporary art changed during a time of radical societal transformation.

Their latest exhibition, «Irreversible,» at New York's Sean Kelly Gallery, presents a series of new work rooted in the semiotics of public art, and scrutinizes how political and societal changes, community, and the role of the anonymous citizen intersect.

I also fail to understand how verification and validation is wrong within the context of making economic and societal changes based on a theory.

Ultimately what is needed are not more scenarios of Anthropocene Apocalypse but more ideas of how a «good Anthropocene» might emerge with the help of new societal values, new economic rules, landmark political decisions, individual behavior changes and, yes, new technologies.

Other uncertainties include how much effort and resources will be put into improving the adaptive capacity of public health systems to prepare in advance for the health effects of climate change, prevent harm to individual and community health, and limit associated health burdens and societal costs.

For example, as law - makers consider how to vote — and consider how seriously to take the problem of climate change — they should do so with an awareness that if they don't face and address climate change via their decisions and votes, then at least some people will likely begin to embrace other approaches to societal change, including NVCD, and justifiably so.

As we wrote: «The clips provide a poignant, historical insight into what scientists knew about climate change almost four decades ago — and how the world was beginning to react in terms of the resulting geopolitical, technological and societal ramifications.

Climate change communication could (and should) be used to encourage people to demonstrate (for example through public demonstrations) about how they would like structural barriers to behavioural / societal change to be removed.

The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press coverage, including a prominent story in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and environmental consequences.

FUME (2009 - 2013) Project aimed at evaluating how climate variability and change, and societal changes in the last decades have affected forest fires in Europe.

The researchers asked 1,215 Audubon Society members to write a short essay on (a) The extent to which they personally engage in behaviors that produce greenhouse gases; (b) How climate change is exacerbated on a societal level, such as through the pervasiveness of fossil fuels; or (c) Their daily routines.

HOW and WHY climate changes is obviously of scientific interest and, given the impact of a future ice age, of great societal importance also.

As the law strives to stay abreast of societal change, law firms necessarily must recognize that how they deliver legal services must evolve as well.

His most recent book, The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, he goes beyond the legal profession to discuss other fields and the impact of societal changes on them.

Martin Seligman and Philip Zimbardo will discuss how the science of positive psychology is changing the way we live our lives on an individual, societal, and global levels.

The authors then integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into the core concepts of ten major family therapy models, paying close attention to the «how to's» of change processes through a highly diverse range of case examples.