Sentences with phrase «social climate by»

Grants are awarded to organizations working to improve the social climate by addressing inequality in its many forms.

Spanning the years 1962 - 1968, Actionism was a provocative performance movement with roots in postwar gestural abstraction (Action Painting) that sought to transgress the conservative Viennese social climate by using the body as material in violent, explicit, sometimes sexual Aktions.

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«For a long time, climate change was pushed by EU diplomacy and the U.S. was largely absent,» said Edward Cameron, managing director of the New York - based Business for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP 21.

After Trump's announcement in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to withdraw from President Trump's advisory councils, saying «climate change is real» — a sentiment shared by many other CEOs and businesses on social media.

Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

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They're generally highly educated, they've had strong awareness of social and environmental issues from an early age and are keenly aware of the challenges faced by climate change.

[8] Like vegetable growth, it requires a climate and nutrients that, Plato believed, must be provided by the social atmosphere of the city.

A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism, which aims to provide a better understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the social setting, historical circumstances, and climate of thought in those times.

In a classic experiment, pioneer social psychologist Kurt Lewin found that different group climates could be created by varying the leadership from autocratic, to laissez faire, to democratic.

And no doubt Tom was influenced by the radical social climate of the sixties when he wrote this.

My own inclination is to think that the attention given to certain new developments, and their effect on the general theological scene, are largely explicable in terms of the social climate, but that the ideas themselves can only be understood by study of their separate histories.

Our Mission: To improve the business climate for members by playing a proactive role with the legislative process, public safety entities and the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, as well as implement innovative and useful membership services to promote the moral, social and intellectual advancement of members of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association.

The health care provider and community health worker can help create a social climate supportive to breastfeeding women by promoting evidence - based practices within their organizations.

Indeed, all cases have distinct individual features (as I wrote, particularly around family / personal background), while doubtless also being affected by the broader social climate.

By thinking hard about what gets shared and liked on social media, they are helping to counter the «climate silence» and ensure that the issue remains interesting and relevant, particularly to younger audiences — something the legacy media would do well to take note of.

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

A controversial piece on climate change by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens sparked a «#ShowYourCancellation» movement on social media over the weekend.

Delaying infrastructure decisions is no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected by the adverse consequences of climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science

RISE Project on Thursday released a report alleged drawn up by DIGIPI called «Note on aspects affecting the social and economic climate of Teleorman County,» that speaks of «a crime ring made up of the county's decision makers,» including PSD's Dragnea, who previously was the county's prefect, misappropriated European and national budget funds.

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.

He said no fewer than five million people living in the Lake Chad Basin countries had been displaced by the depletion of the lake due to climate change, noting that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, a former island sea, had resulted in increased social conflicts, high rates of migration and cross border movements.

Cutting energy bills by scrapping outright social and green levies punishes the fuel poor and punishes the future generations who will confront the full force of climate change.

The Green Party of New York State joined today with other environmental, social and economic justice activists to demand action on climate change by government at all levels.

Researchers conducted 3,269 household surveys, more than 100 focus group discussions and open interviews about the economic, social and cultural losses incurred by a changing climate in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique and Nepal.

By, for example, examining what people in the area use different trees and shrubs for and look at how the landscape changes, we can better understand how land use, social change, climate and ecosystems interact, even in ways that can be unexpected,» says Lowe Börjeson, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

Most relate to climate, environmental, and social science, but the new request appears to reflect a much more ambiguous filter: For the first time, it contains several awards in the physical sciences, including one that has led to patented software to detect whether a computer has been taken over by malicious software and another that explores a long - standing mathematical puzzle.»

That difference became clear last week after the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 2016 spending bill that does not call for the steep cuts to climate and social science programs approved a week earlier by the House of Representatives.

Mulvaney's past comments suggest technology demonstration and industrial productivity programs — especially those on clean energy manufacturing favored by the Obama Administration — may find themselves under scrutiny, joining climate research and social science as potential targets.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

Opportunities are expanding for natural and social scientists who wish to take on the scientific and practical challenges posed by climate change.

The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.

Among other things, the proposal — which will have to be approved by Parliament — calls for increased consultation with Canada's indigenous groups, expanding reviews to include social, economic and climate impacts, and making greater efforts to explain the kinds of information regulators are using in evaluations.

He says he gained this expertise early in his career by hobnobbing with social scientists at places like the Aspen Institute: «I taught them climate, they taught me economics.»

The exhibit featured the work of 16 artists, including textiles, photography, illustration and paintings, inspired by subjects including public health, social media, technology, national security and climate change.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

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 biodiversitclimate 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 biodiversitClimate Change Scenarios»): They find that simply using the traditional classification of a species in climate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversitclimate change simulations can underestimate the true scale of biodiversity loss.

The Syrian war has now taken on a life of its own... however, a drought made worse by climate change was one important factor that initiated the social unraveling.»

But it comes on the heels of «a series of commitments» by big corporations to deal with environmental and social issues, says Glenn Hurowitz, managing director of Climate Advisers, a Washington, D.C. - based consulting firm.

He notes recent work by social science researchers has shown this «underrepresentation by choice» idea to be false, and said climate leaders need to highlight the reality of deep minority community concern.

It works by providing sustainable social benefits for a local community within climate change adaptation practices.

Climate scientists must collaborate with psychology and the social sciences, and these research partnerships need to be supported by academic, public and private institutions alike.

Unsustainable, inefficient, often violent, and marked by stark inequalities of wealth and opportunity, cities are increasingly vulnerable to social and economic crises, natural disasters, climate change, and other challenges of the coming era.

To investigate if this would affect social recognition in fish, schools were kept under elevated levels of carbon dioxide, similar to those projected for 2100 by models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

We propose that the remarkable quantitative stability of the climate sensitivity range has helped to hold together a variety of different social worlds relating to climate change, by continually translating and adapting the meaning of the «stable» range.

Will editorials and social media comments labeling The Silurian Hypothesis as a crackpot paper written by a crackpot climate scientist help or diminish the hard work of all climate scientists and many others?

Dr. Keener coordinates an interdisciplinary team of social and physical scientists that aims to reduce Pacific Island communities vulnerability to climate change by translating academic research into actionable knowledge for a variety of stakeholders at the local, state, and regional level — especially regarding the management of fresh water resources.

The current political climate, influencing and being influenced by a social upheaval in a certain demographic circles, is characterized by «turning brown».

Per the official show description, the revival centers on «the eponymous broadcast news legend, played by Candice Bergen, and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24 - hour cable, social media, «fake news» and a vastly different political climate.»