Sentences with phrase «other societal changes»

While some of these trends were already happening before the imposition of the carbon tax and are not unique to B.C., the policy is widely supported and appears to be working in concert with other societal changes.

Not exact matches

In other words, there are certain human needs and inclinations that are constant amid the sea of societal change.

Proponents of same - sex marriage hold that societal change is necessary to treat others as we would like to be treated, regardless of our views of morality and sin.

«Evidence from other countries shows that this type of tax does not deliver long term societal changes.

It offers information and a way for women from the Vancouver area to connect with each other in order to recover from their trauma and to seek ways to change the political, societal and health care systems that caused their trauma in the first place.

So, do you think changes in parenting styles or other societal factors over the years may have led to an increase in «picky» eating, or do you disagree with this premise?

And so with a group it like singlizes everything about this breastfeeding movement and you know people being happy and proud and empowered and support each other, taking a stand and sort of taking it to the streets you know I mean this is where I get a little very passionate about breastfeeding in public because of the overall societal changes and impact it makes.

Some believe their work's most important goal is advancing knowledge for its own sake, while others prioritize societal concerns such as contributing to social justice, helping fight climate change, seeking to cure disease, or educating the next generation.

Online dating has grown so much in part as a response to these societal changes, having become the third most important way we meet our significant others, even though it didn't even exist 15 years ago.»

Suspects include female participation in the labor force; changing social norms; young male isolation from the workforce, schools, and other societal institutions; and government subsidization of single parenthood.

Marx provides concrete strategies for school and district leaders to: • Engage students, staff, and colleagues in active learning and problem - solving skills, • Build adaptability and resilience in leadership roles, • Keep in touch with rapidly changing institutions and communities, • Understand and plan for the effects of societal development, and • Release ingenuity and creativity in others

The results are most useful when they are considered in combination with other knowledge about the student population and the educational system, such as trends in instruction, changes in the school - age population, and societal demands and expectations.

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.

Scenario 3: the student has a sincere interest in social justice and societal change, and believes that working as a TFA recruit will help them achieve those goals: the recruit's goals are not aligned with the organization's goals, creating tensions that lead to non-productive disruption among the teaching force and in the schools (see: Gary Rubenstein's work, among others).

Additional works from John Singer Sargent and Morton Livingston Schamberg, among others, open onto concomitant anxieties and societal changes during the era.

This is particularly true given the «super wicked» nature of this issue, which is complicated by competing societal concerns, embedded special interests, huge gaps between human energy needs and clean - energy menus and other impediments to swift change.

Humans at the societal / national level can cooperatively engage in the making of laws and other actions that will press these changes even further.

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.

It is not enough; as you say poverty has decreased a lot in the last decades and there is no other way but development and Societal change.

I am proposing then that we subdivide responsibility into three categories or levels with regard to climate change, though this type of subdivision may be applicable with other large scale societal institutions and events.

Climate changes interact with other environmental and societal factors in ways that can either moderate or intensify these impacts.

Other, smaller abrupt changes have been linked to societal disruptions.

I wrote the Climate Shift report to inform the decision making of environmental leaders, philanthropists, scientists, scholars and others as they consider next steps in the effort to mobilize societal action on the undeniable, human causes of climate change.

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) facilitates collaboration between Arctic researchers, funding agencies, and other stakeholders so that science can inform societal responses to Arctic cChange (SEARCH) facilitates collaboration between Arctic researchers, funding agencies, and other stakeholders so that science can inform societal responses to Arctic changechange.

If global warming continues unchecked, it will cause significant climate change, a rise in sea levels, increasing ocean acidification, extreme weather events and other severe natural and societal impacts, according to NASA, the EPA and other scientific and governmental bodies.

Like ExxonMobil, Chevron also emphasizes potential conflicts rather than synergies between climate solutions and other societal goals: «As we work to address climate change, we must create solutions that balance environmental objectives with global economic growth and our aspirations for a better quality of life for people across the world.»

However, for the most part it is very difficult to separate out the impacts of human caused climate change from natural climate change and from other societal impacts.

... In addition to climate research, scientists, industry, and government should implement measures to cost - effectively protect the climate and intensify efforts to develop technologies that — in addition to meeting other societal goals — could help us mitigate and adapt to the potential effects of climate change.»

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).

It not only acknowleges the changing nature of labour relationships in today's economy, but it is also an approach that is line with one of the fundamental purposes of the EU treaties: to create a social market economy which is sufficiently reflective of other societal interests than just protecting effective competition.

, he goes beyond the legal profession to discuss other fields and the impact of societal changes on them.

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.

Change will be driven more by economic forces brought not just from women leaving law firms but from clients, younger male lawyers, increasing global competition, rising costs in both housing and commercial space, technology — and a host of other societal and business factors that we can not even imagine.

There are those who desperately cry for the preservation of the planet's resources through societal change, and others who reject the existence of this emerging phenomenon.