Sentences with phrase «human economies and societies»

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

And both human economies and societies are themselves located within and completely dependent upon the non-human world.

Not exact matches

According to The Society for Human Resource Management, the «Silver Tsunami» is well underway.The cohort of workers 45 to 64 is growing faster than any other generation, and the economy is already grappling with two retirements for every new entrant in the workforce.

... The family understood in this way remains the first and principal building block of society and of an economy on a human scale.

Like the convict workforce who made up the bulk of the human cargo on the First Fleet, the livestock, purchased mainly at the Cape of Good Hope, were considered necessary to transplant a British society and economy in Antipodean soil.

Many assume that civil society is a neutral term, meaning the realm of human activity outside the state and outside the economy.

So, as a human society, where so much of the emphasis has been on preparing and improving the productivity of the workforce, and people's lives center around the labor they contribute to economies, what do you do when you don't NEED everyone to work?

«It can sometimes feel like we are preparing for a world in which artificial intelligence, algorithms and automation, rather than human endeavour and hard work, will shape every aspect of our society and our economy.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

Holt and talk - show host Thom Hartmann discussed a non-partisan 28 June letter sent to policymakers by 31 leading scientific societies, including AAAS, which warned of negative climate - change impacts to the global economy, natural resources, national security and human health.

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.

The increasingly global nature of human society, with interdependent economies, international communications networks and intermingling cultures, has created, according to Gregory Stock, the conditions for the emergence of a new type of being — a social super-organism bound together by technology, which he calls Metaman.

Now a group of international scientists has published a report outlining five key areas of concentration necessary to protect the environment, as well as human societies and economies.

«This is happening for the failure of the market economy to equally account for many of the negative human and environmental impacts that are imposed upon society and the life support system.»

The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, aims to be a leader in the demographic analyses of human capital formation and its impact on society, the economy and the environHuman Capital, aims to be a leader in the demographic analyses of human capital formation and its impact on society, the economy and the environhuman capital formation and its impact on society, the economy and the environment.

«There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources and human health,» the letter states.

Through our head office in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and our branches in Ottawa, New York and Geneva, we apply human ingenuity to improve the well - being of the world's environment, economy and society.

Nowadays we may witness that human society and economy do not just interact.

We have a higher purpose; to build stronger economies and happier societies by unlocking business and human potential.

This book examines how our economy works, how it affects societies and bioregions, and offers a model for redirecting it to enhance both human and non-human communities.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

In a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies today reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

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.

These changes and other climatic changes have affected and will continue to affect human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on the American economy and quality of life.3

Human - induced climate change could have enormous impacts on economies and societies if we persist with «business as usual».

It's humans who live in societies that see material consumption as a paramount virtue, and who insist that their economies de...

If you look at an economy's GDP, the spending for land — not created by anyone's labor and capital — typically is greater than society's spending for goods and services that are products of human effort.

Just about every issue that affects Canada — building a modern high tech economy, integrating newcomers and members of traditional societies, and promoting human rights in the face of various internal and external pressures — applies to Israel.

We have a higher purpose; to build stronger economies and happier societies by unlocking business and human potential.