Sentences with phrase «limited economic resources»

In parent - centered interventions, those at risk for failing to engage include low - income families and those with limited economic resources (Fontana, Fleischman, McCarton, Metzler & Ruff, 1989; McKay et al., 1996; Spoth et al., 1997).

You (neither has anyone else actually) have not shown that a CO2 mitigation activity is likely to have any positive benefit and these activities use limited economic resources, therefore is does not make sense to support their implementation.

Both Detroit's charter and traditional public - school sectors serve predominantly African American families (roughly 85 percent) with limited economic resources (in charters, 84.5 percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch versus 81.6 percent in district schools).

Individuals with limited economic resources and limited access to high - quality education have fewer opportunities to develop science literacy and health literacy, the report says.

Not exact matches

This ideology insists that «everything from the necessities of economic competition to limited resources requires «cramming» future populations in ever smaller spaces.

Yet even Adam Smith, whose book The Wealth of Nations (1776) has become the bible of today's protagonists of free trade, conceded that his theory of economic growth broke down at the point where human expansion reached the limits of the Earth's resources.

Such public parables must undergird all of the policies, programs, pronouncements, speeches, resolutions, action plans, studies and reports that we make on the limits of natural resources and the unjust distribution of economic costs and benefits.

Rationing is an organized effort by a public or private institutions (e.g., Medicare or a private insurer) to equitably limit the availability of some desired or needed medical treatments in the name of preserving the economic sustainability of the institution as a whole or equitably distributing a scarce resource.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resourceseconomic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resourcesEconomic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resourceseconomic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

A rising world population and economic growth is placing an increasing burden on the world's limited natural resources such as water, energy and land.

A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a hospital based protocol (similar to the baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.

«He is a man who serves with passion to ensure that no one suffers even in the face of limited resources and daunting economic situations, Aregbesola has done excellently well.

While we are a strong advocate for spending constraint, we note with concern that while most major spending categories are subject to limited spending reductions, the Executive Budget proposes a significant contraction in the state's economic development resources.

Gov. Cuomo went on to explain how the government will spur private sector job growth and limit government spending by creating public / private sector partnerships that leverage state resources and assets to generate billions in economic growth.

«There are critical environmental limits to resource - dependent economic growth,» the authors state.

Although rural dwellers provide the food and resources that keep urbanites alive, the urbanites in turn develop the vaccines, economic systems, and entertainments enjoyed far beyond city limits.

I greatly appreciate the President's understanding that despite having more limited funding to allocate, we must continue to devote additional resources to the research that will lead to future economic gains.

Although mentoring has helped increase diversity over the past 20 years, these efforts have been carried out on an ad - hoc basis with limited human and economic resources.

Encouraging the uptake and use of biodegradable bags and materials is advantageous as this moves society away from a linear economic model based on «take, make, dispose», which relies on there being an infinite supply of resources and energy, to one that enables us to maximise the limited natural resources available.

Endowments for museums and universities across the country have been hit hard by the economic recession, but the Field Museum has been pushed to its financial limits in part by recent expansion projects, including the $ 65 - million Collections Resource Center, a storage and laboratory facility that opened in 2005.

* The notion «low - resource environments» is used to specify an environment where: (a) resources assigned for genomics research are scarce, (b) access to genomics knowledge and information is low, (c) implementation of Genomics is limited, (d) genomics education is relatively poor, and (e) collaborative opportunities in genomic research with other institutions are rare for geographical, societal, economic or political reasons.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

However, we are a small school district with limited financial resources and can not afford to spend the amount of economic funds to defend the Philosophy of Design class in the court system.»

Alfa's delay has been partially due to outside forces, as European economic troubles and the emergence of Maserati has limited Fiat's resources.

In general, smaller capitalization companies are also more vulnerable than larger companies to adverse business or economic developments and they may have more limited resources.

She is interested in poetically articulating the incongruities between our current economic growth paradigm (conceptually unlimited) and our emerging notion of sustainability (limited by finite resources).

Therefore given resource limit issues, we can not escape some level of simplification as well in the meantime, in the form of reduced consumption and reduced rates of economic growth.

«There are critical environmental limits to resource - dependent economic growth,» the authors state.

One can be concerned with the recovery from the current serious recession, a matter of one or two years; one can be concerned with the economic development of the United States and of the world in the next decade; and one can be concerned with the long - run evolution of a world of limited resources, the matter to which you give stress in your address to Professor Daly and in your reference to the puberty of the economic world.

Perhaps now is an appropriate occasion to discuss how the family of humanity could begin the limit INCREASES ONLY in the growth of unrestricted per - capita consumption of Earth's resources, untethered economic globalization, and skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers.

It's obvious that economic and population growth can't continue at current rates without crashing into finite resource limits with painful results, and possibly abrupt reductions in growth.

What alternative lifestylers need imho is a science / maths / economic model: A whole earth model that incorporates consumption, gdp growth, population, resource limits etc..

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to be unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion people, by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we «free wheelers and dealers» desire.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

If left to our own devices, we will continue in the exercise of our «inalienable rights» to outrageously consume Earth's limited resources; to recklessly expand economic globalization unto every corner of our natural world and, guess what, beyond; and to carelessly consent to the unbridled global growth of human numbers so that where there are now 6 + billion people, by 2050 we will have 9 + billion members of the human community and, guess what, even more people, perhaps billions more in the distant future, if that is what we desire.

But such moves seem unremarkable, for now, in a world seeking to manage limited, shared natural resources while also spurring economic growth — whether the resource is the global atmosphere or an extraordinary half - ton, ocean - roaming predator.

Even high economic growth and / or population growth can only push resources limits with possibility of abrupt population decline, but certainly not extinction of every person on the planet.

We religiously promote our widely shared and consensually - validated fantasies of «real» endless economic growth and soon to become unsustainable overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, and in so doing deny that Earth has limited resources and frangible ecosystems upon which the survival of life as we know it depends.

On the other hand, we could choose to stay the current «business as usual» course by maximally increasing production and dissipating limited resources, thereby causing economic globalization to continuously grow to the point of its unsustainability.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Gleick explained how water and energy are linked, how limits to the availability of both resources are beginning to affect one another, and how recognizing this link when developing national energy and water policies can lead to many substantial economic and environmental benefits.

The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.

How your company can focus limited resources on key areas to create positive environmental and economic result

My comments on reaching the limit of California's wind resources are based on the fact that California has but three onshore areas where wind turbines are economic at this time.

Resource managers, planners, and leaders of public and private organizations to incorporate information on ongoing and projected changes in climate and its ramifications into their decision - making, with goals of limiting emissions, reducing the negative consequences of climate change, and enhancing adaptation, public well - being, safety, and economic vitality; and

Climate Change and Himalayan Cold Deserts: Mapping vulnerability and threat to ecology and indigenous livelihoods The remote cold desert stretches of high altitude Himalayas, having a fragile ecosystem are characterized by complex interplay of climatic and geo - morphological processes, availability of limited natural resources and economic conditions leading to accelerated resource degradation and associated environmental consequences [continue reading...]