Sentences with phrase «on socioeconomic changes»

Okwui Enwezor, curator of the 56th International Art Exhibition, underlines the traditional role of the Venice Biennale as an event focused on socioeconomic changes and historical breakdowns in art, culture, politics and economy.

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ref It will also be important to encourage socioeconomic research on the impacts of ocean acidification, the projected timing of impacts, and the ways to increase adaptability and resilience of socioeconomic systems in the face of changing ocean chemistry.

The director took up residence in Marmato for over five years to document the Medoro (later Gran Colombia Gold) takeover firsthand, and the result is a film with a precise and complex sense of place, picking up not just on administrative changes, but subtler shifts in communal psychology and socioeconomic standing.

With technological advancements continuing to change our world and daily lives, the need for more focus on the socioeconomic, political, and environmental trends youth will face in the future is a critical part of the discourse on the learning that matters most.

To this point the analysis has assumed that children of different races will respond similarly to changes in their socioeconomic status, home environments, and so on.

To find out how the individual states performed in 2000 compared with what we might expect on the basis of conditions in each state, I computed the correlation of completion rates with expectations based on three factors: state average socioeconomic characteristics (family income, education, and occupation); the percentage of two - parent families; and the rate at which students change schools.

Since schools already collect information on the race and ethnicity of students, and have access to socioeconomic data through the National School Lunch Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and other sources, reporting on the year - over-year changes in these numbers would require minimum effort.

Camblin's vision of Atlanta puts it on the cusp of dynamic change, not only within the overlapping art communities that already animate it, but also in the city's public consciousness of itself as a historical site of divisive socioeconomic and racial policies.

• establishing an international mechanism on loss and damage associated with climate change impacts — extreme and slow onsets, and includes non-economic and socioeconomic losses.

The Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) approach recommends a baseline of information at the LME management scale on changing states of productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, and socioeconomic and governance conditions.

This technical document measures the impact of climate change on freshwater resources through an integrated assessment, in order to identify the related underlying causes of socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability in the Arab region.

The intention is that by not incorporating such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental conditions described in the SSPs.

This article is part of the Special Issue on «A Framework for the Development of New Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Research» edited by Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Robert Lempert, and Anthony Janetos.

The resolution implied that man - made climate change was responsible for impacts on global women, stating «food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health.»

• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research

The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates the production and submission to the President and the Congress «no less frequently than every 4 years» scientific assessment reports of global change that include the impacts of such change on the environment and on various socioeconomic seChange Research Act of 1990 mandates the production and submission to the President and the Congress «no less frequently than every 4 years» scientific assessment reports of global change that include the impacts of such change on the environment and on various socioeconomic sechange that include the impacts of such change on the environment and on various socioeconomic sechange on the environment and on various socioeconomic sectors.

Calling for «a comprehensive, proactive national planning and preparedness strategy for limiting and adapting to the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of climate change,» Climate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legislation.

My lectures included something about climate change as background material for energy policy, and I was the editor and one contributor to a book on socioeconomic dimensions of climate change mitigation in 1999, but I didn't make any real effort to understand much more about the atmosphere and the physical climate before retiring.

However, the answer is ultimately a subjective judgment that depends on values and culture, as well as socioeconomic and psychological factors, all of which influence how people perceive risk in general and the risk of climate change in particular.

Assuming that only socioeconomic factors — rather than rising emissions — influence losses may yield ill - founded policy recommendations that focus exclusively on adapting to climate change while dismissing energy policy as a legitimate part of the toolkit for responding.

Future climate change impacts will depend on past and future socioeconomic development, which influences emissions of heat - trapping gases, the exposure and vulnerability of society and ecosystems, and societal capacity to respond.

Evidence exists in recorded local observational accounts as well as in the peer - reviewed scientific literature of the cumulative effects of climate - related environmental change on Native communities in Alaska; these effects combine with other socioeconomic stressors to strain rural Native communities (Ch.

Socioeconomic development, natural climate variations, and human - caused climate change have an influence on climate - and weather - related disaster risk.

Compared to earlier reports, the evidence presented is robust since it is based on a larger body of scientific, technical and socioeconomic evidence of climate change.

Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of socioeconomic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact of climate change.

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

Climate change and socioeconomic drivers, and their effects on intersectoral dynamics, are also considered.

The Technical Summary of the 2001 WG II report states: «WGII's mandate for the TAR is to assess the vulnerability of ecological systems, socioeconomic sectors and human health to climate change, positive and negative, on these systems.

Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is Member of the United Nations Secretary General High - Level Technical Group on Sustainable for Energy for All Initiative; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review; Co-Chair, Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project (GCP); Member of the Board, Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA); Member of the Working Group of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (AG - APCC); Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology, and Member of the Earth League.

Note that a new practice at the IPCC is the back - to - back holding of an expert meeting on scenarios with lead author meetings, to ensure coordination with the scientific community which is developing a new generation of socioeconomic scenarios for climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation research.

What if ethics committees were required to consider the impact of proposed rule changes on access to justice for those of middle and low socioeconomic status?

Resources in this section are focused on family instability, changes in family structure, socioeconomic issues, and other issues that may affect the behavioral health and well - being of Hispanic families.

Third, although there are some data about various child and family characteristics that predict outcome (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, severity of child behaviour, maternal adjustment problems, treatment barriers), there has been a relative dearth of attention paid to a) the actual processes of change that are induced by PMT and b) whether there are certain subgroups (e.g., based on child gender or minority status or family socioeconomic status) for whom PMT is more or less effective.15 - 17

On March 22, 2016, the federal government tabled its firsbudget, which «proposed to invest $ 8.4 billion over five years -LSB-...] to improve the socioeconomic conditions of Indigenous peoples and their communities and bring about transformational change.»