Sentences with phrase «scale social changes»

There was large scale social change and governmental reform in the 1960s and as part of that the Church lost a lot of its power and influence.

Collective impact, as defined by Kania and Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, is the concept that large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination of nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public around a common agenda to create a collective impact.

This piece, originally featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2011, discusses how large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

This potential can be explained this way: «[L] arge - scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations» (Kania & Kramer, 2011, p. 38).

In this 2009 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Mark Kramer argues that traditional philanthropy is too limited to achieve large - scale social change, and lays out a model of catalytic philanthropy that has proven to have measurable impact.

Yet the emergence of global warming as an issue in the 1980s with its potential for large - scale social change needed to ameliorate its threat was seen as more threatening to conservatives in regard to industry, prosperity, life - style, and the entire American - way of life, than were traditional pollution problems.

Sociology studies how large scale social change is produced by social movements (Caniglia, B., S., Brulle, R. and Szasz, 2015, p. 235).

Not exact matches

But the impact, scale and permanence of (a social change) is a much bigger one.»

MissionPoint empowers a select group of families, foundations and institutions to achieve social change at scale while preserving rigorous financial oversight, with an extensive history of investing in and launching new impact - driven ventures.

The 2010 Skoll World Forum focuses on Catalyzing Collaboration for Large - scale Change, recognizing that social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to critical issues can not achieve impact at scale without forging cross-sector partnerships and alliances.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

Social change is still accelerating and on a global scale; the population is expanding exponentially; technology is ever more powerful; the environment is under acute pressure.

Nevertheless, it takes seriously the developments in critical Bible studies, the new insights gained from the social sciences of cultural anthropology and sociology, the impact of technology and political theory in rapid cultural change and the issues raised by cross-cultural communication on a global scale.

However, if the vulgar incomes of the richest Americans result from relaxed social norms rather than from productive forces inherent in the market economy, as Krugman surmises, then social and political changes, such as those advocated by Hollenbach and Hicks, can extend the structure of accountability to these upper echelons of the income scale.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

So a user's data is itself being used to change the behavior of user - it's social engineering at large scale, but this data should be off the limit of a private company's servers.

Even climate change, which threatens the living condition of all traditional social orders and civilisations, discloses the scale of calamities brought about by this distinctively novel social sphere.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.

The Review is a super refined weekly web publication curated by subject matter experts from Yale who summarize important research articles from leading natural and social science journals with the hope that people can make more informed decisions using latest research results.The Review launched this week and covers a wide range of topics, like this brief about climate change and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitychange and biodiversity («Biodiversity Left Behind in Climate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversityChange Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitychange simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity loss.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

She championed Women and Girls Lead, a multi-year campaign reaching 59 million viewers in the U.S., which scaled into a global program mobilizing communities in 5 social change countries.

For example, scaling up voucher programs would surely change the social composition of private schools.

«Our fund will work to unlock this inspiration by scaling up proven mentoring programmes to help boost social mobility and give young people great life changing experiences.

Positive change from from baseline to end line was also seen in the various Social - Emotional Learning scales.

We recognize that each small problem is part of larger social issues and inequities that affect it, but that every large - scale change begins with deliberate, focused steps.

Our work in Atlanta is part of Morningside Center's plan to scale up, to share The 4Rs program and our approach to school - wide change through social & emotional learning with school systems beyond New York City.

Bridging three generations and shaped by distinctive historic events, the large - scale tableaux of Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas open compelling perspectives on Black culture and representation in an ever changing social and political landscape.

Sometimes dubbed India's Damien Hirst, Subodh Gupta is one of India's leading contemporary artists, who creates mainly large - scale sculptures and installations (from stainless steel Indian kitchenware and other found objects) that address the country's changing social landscape.

Future Shock is a large - scale exhibition of works by international artists that articulates the profound impact of the acceleration of technological, social, and structural change upon contemporary life.

Often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, this work reflects the unprecedented changes in China's economic, social and cultural life over the past tumultuous decade.

Small Scale, Big Change explores 11 new architectural projects redressing the social responsibilities of architecture and debunking grand manifestos.

Purifoy dedicated himself to the found object and to using art as a tool for social change in the 20 years that followed the rebellion, after which he relocated to California's Mojave Desert, where he spent his final 15 years creating large - scale installations.

Surveying acclaimed works that have effected social change; Unveiling new large - scale public murals

Between October 2011 and March 2012, each institution made its own contribution to this grand - scale story of artistic innovation and social change, told through the multitude of simultaneous exhibitions and programs on post-World War II art in Los Angeles.

Xu Bing is known for large - scale installations that incorporate a variety of materials, such as tobacco, silkworms and corn husks, that address issues of cultural and national identity, social change, environmental advocacy and surveillance.

These two bodies of work reveal young, innovative artists exploring contemporary social and cultural change on a global scale.

His work has also been selected for group exhibitions Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) and Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy, London (2014).

Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.

But this human adaptation time scale may be longer than the time over which climate change affects storms, so that comparatively small changes in the frequency of generational events can have large social consequences.

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

Industrial scale «biochar» is the latest dangerous planetary geoengineering proposal to save the Earth and humanity from climate change without personal sacrifice or social change.

So I'd like to throw this back to you Geoff — if things like the NEP are flawed, and if you see our scales for measuring climate change scepticism and its relationship to ideology as not capturing the essence of why people are sceptical about climate change, how should social science seek to understand people's beliefs about the environment and climate change?

What are the large - scale consequences of ongoing ecological changes for social systems and human security, and are the impacts gender - differentiated?

What kind of catastrophe can not be predicted, but numerous candidates have been discussed in this book: ecological collapses of various kinds, large - scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to social problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermonuclear war.»

There is now overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and with it comes a range of social issues — unprecedented in scale — that must be addressed.

Social Justice and Environment Preservation (achieving the Millennium Development Goals with food, water, and energy security; sustainable economic development; non-intensive agriculture; education on climate change and environment to inform and change behavior; public health; mental health; support for small - scale farmers, women and children; rights of small - island and coastal peoples; sustainable forestry; conservation; humane treatment of animals, avoiding species extinction, maintaining biodiversity).

Such changes might depend on a social movement for climate stabilization that supports long - term changes in social norms (e.g. about family size), greater availability of mass transit, climate - friendly urban design, or other actions that are impractical on the short term but on a longer time scale increase the plasticity of potentially high - impact behaviors.

With the scale and pace that social and environmental change demands, there is a great need to teach environmental literacy to young students.

The fact that even the green movement is itself so split — pro- and anti-capitalist, pro- and anti- technology, pro- and anti- humanity itself — should demonstrate to Lynas the scale of the task of uniting the entire world, never mind a nation, in a social consensus, never mind a treaty under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is well and truly beyond his abilities, or the abilities of climate science.