I collage historical publicized images - advertisements, campaign posters, newspaper photographs and printed textiles - that parallel our current political and
social climates into a singular narrative composition to document the cyclical and systemic nature of marginalization in America.
Not exact matches
It will also provide an in - depth look
into innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities, how to address common communication barriers between clinicians, healthcare executives, and IT, how the current
social and political
climates are impacting the industry, and much more!
Apart from providing an excellent opportunity for alliteration, what can research
into social media tell us about the «contributors, content, connections, and contexts» of
climate communication?
And what are the implications for research
into «
climate communication» on
social media?
Researchers also point to irreversible cultural and
social impacts that could exceed monetary loss as a topic that should infuse
climate negotiations this year and
into the Paris talks in 2015.
Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research
into the major
social and environmental challenges from
climate change as they emerge over coming years.
He tells Newsweek the findings play
into a bigger picture, where we see large volcanic eruptions having an impact on the global
climate that causes a chain effect resulting in
social unrest.
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.
It's really no surprise that
climate change is bringing heat waves with it, but the research team hopes that their study will inspire other researchers to incorporate
social factors as well, such as population change,
into studies of
climate change impacts.
That's not to say he doesn't want to date; it's merely that the
social climate doesn't favor him until an opening arises with Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), a schoolmate who blackmails him
into kissing her so she can snap Polaroids of their «tryst» to annoy her ex-boyfriend.
The audience is sort of thrust
into Gilles life, and if you don't have any prior knowledge on the political and
social climate in early 70s France, like I admittedly didn't, then you'll likely be confused.
The first installment of Ryan Murphy «s anthology series explores the
social climate that transformed the Simpson case
into the trial of the century.
It is a wise idea to indulge in your curiosity and delve
into a number of subjects from
social psychology and behavioral economics to
climate study and seismology.
And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of
social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with
social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school
climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it
into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.
Explicitly writing
into the plan the need for creating a strong culture and
climate, which «emphasizes environment and supports needed for the sustainability of a safe school where productive work can occur (e.g., data competency, resource management, building leadership capacity, cultural awareness, communication strategies, professional learning communities, Universal Design for Learning,
social and emotional learning).»
They were loaded and significant works that delved deep
into the current political,
social, and economic
climate of the globalized world.
In both pieces, Ward endeavors to bring the experience of living in a community surveilled by the police
into the gallery, using everyday objects that create a tangible link to the reality of our current political and
social climate.
«I was blown away by the Bowdoin students» enthusiasm and passion for this show — and the launch of Fifty Years Later represents a very exciting moment as their critical research
into the original exhibition's complex «set of players» and political and
social climates will be shared with an audience far beyond our campus,» said Byrd.
Some of the paintings shown in this volume provide insight
into China's current cultural,
social, and political
climate while drawing on methods and styles of traditional Chinese art — delicate and intricate ink painting, calligraphy, etc..
The Drawdown EcoChallenge provides the tools and inspiration to turn intention
into action, and gives participants a fun and
social way to reduce carbon and reverse
climate change, one of the biggest threats to our planet and to future generations.
But behavioral and
social scientists keep telling me they find little evidence that the public will can shift sufficiently — without an extraordinary signal from the
climate system, perhaps — to get the politicians
into high gear on an energy transformation.
Tech start - up Collactive has thrown its hat
into the rough - and - tumble world of
social networking applications, and one of its first offerings, the Worldcoolers desktop, is designed to give people concerned about the
climate crisis the means to connect with one another, organize their efforts, and reach out to the larger community.
While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and
climate into economic and
social policies.
There's lots of literature about how
climate change has developed
into a far more complex «
social problem / issue», as it's moved from scientific journals onto the policy agenda.
Albert Camus» 1947 novel The Plague describes the strategies deployed by those trapped in a plague - ridden town to avoid facing up to the truth, and the courage of the few who do.The phenomenon of
climate denial suggests that three centuries ago the forces of Enlightenment science had entered
into a contingent alliance only with the commitment to a rational
social order, and that the «subjectivity» that allowed us to extract Nature's secrets also gave us the self - certainty to ignore the knowledge if it proved too discomforting.
Sensitivity of the
climate to carbon dioxide, and the level of uncertainty in its value, is a key input
into the economic models that drive cost - benefit analyses, including estimates of the
social cost of carbon.
This analytical report, using the city of Semarang, argues for the necessity of a more localized response that takes
into account the ways in which exposure to
climate hazards overlap with the
social and demographic factors that influence vulnerability.
These impacts will also be monetized and aggregated to produce the world's first empirically - derived estimate of the
social cost of carbon — the cost to society done by each ton of carbon dioxide we emit — which will be designed to be fed directly
into energy and
climate policies around the world.
Such impacts are consolidated
into integrated assessment models to calculate the
social cost of carbon and perform global cost - benefit analyses for
climate policy.
It also presents action to advocate a multidimensional approach to
climate change policies to take
into account the potential
social co-benefits of effectively addressing
climate change as well as opportunities to focus on the most vulnerable and to develop
climate - related policies and measures to provide better living conditions in their societies as a whole.
• COREM (Community - Owned Renewable Energy Mullumbimby)-- website • CORENA (Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia)-- website • Dandenong Ranges Renewable Energy Association — website • Darebin
Climate Action Now — website • Eastern
Climate Action Melbourne — website • Environment Centre NT — website • Future Environment Defenders (FED Up)-- website • Geelong Sustainability — website • Groundswell Bass Coast — website • Healthy Futures — website • HOPE (Householders» Options to Protect the Environment Inc)-- website • Jesuit
Social Services — website • Journeys for
Climate Justice — website • Lake Wollumboola Protection Association Inc — website • Lighter Footprints — website • LIVE (Locals
Into Victoria's Environment)-- website • Long Future Foundation — website • Market Forces — website • Nature Conservation Council of NSW — website • Parramatta
Climate Action Network (ParraCAN)-- website • Psychology for a Safe
Climate — website • RSTI (Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation)-- website • Save the Planet — website • Shoalhaven Transition Inc — Facebook • St Andrews Uniting Church Fairfield — website • Stonnington
Climate Action Network — Facebook • Surf Coast Air Action — website • Sustainable Engineering Society (SENG)-- website • Transition Byron Shire — Facebook • Transition East Geelong — Facebook • WATCH (Wodonga Albury Towards
Climate Health)-- website • Western Region Environment Centre — Facebook • Yarra
Climate Action Now — website • Zero Emissions Byron — website
There followed three days of discussions among the attendees who were divided
into 5 roundtables each with a particular issue at hand: 1)
social impacts of climate change; 2) Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
social impacts of
climate change; 2) Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
climate change; 2)
Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3) Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
Climate Ethics: responsibilities and respective capabilities; 3)
Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
Social participation in decision - making; 4) Fighting
climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the
climate change: direct actions for transformation; 5) Responsibilities North - South: Northern commitments to strengthen action in the South.
By reinvesting these savings
into renewable energy, energy efficiency, education, health care, and targeted
social protection schemes for adaptation to
climate change, countries have major opportunities to support the delivery of the both the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The
social cost of carbon is a monetary value measuring the alleged
climate change damages from each ton of emitted carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere.
On
climate and
social instability - an NMA lyric (song here) springs to mind: «Let dreams flow
into savage times.
The habit of packing scientific and technical jargon
into long sentences drives any reader away, says Suraje Dessai, an environmental
social scientist at the University of Leeds, UK, who has compared the readability of IPCC reports with that of news reports on
climate science from general and scientific media.
If
climate scientists are so blind to
social and political reality, I must say I wonder how far their biases extend
into their science.
Climate change has largely become a
social challenge and this report offers insight
into the underlying dynamics that influence public opinion and how we can expand the community of people who are engaged in the issue.
Climate, energy and
social justice groups commend the IPCC for clearly acknowledging the link between economic growth and increased greenhouse gas emissions but warn that the report falls far short on translating this insight
into pathways to mitigation.
«Dealing with
climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic,
social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right
into the picture,» said Zhao.
If we look at how the issue of
climate change fits
into the general perspective we have in politics and the
social sciences, we can see the limitations of what I call «methodological nationalism».
Millions of people are plugged
into the facts online through CFACT's award - winning
Climate Depot and our hard - hitting
social media campaigns.
The recruitment of
social psychologists
into the debate, to patch up the inadequacies of
climate science and of course, the highest ranking members of scientific academies, reveals a darker political aspect to the argument.
Or take for instance, the federal court ruling last week that halted a proposed coal mining operation in Colorado stating that the «
social costs» of contributions the mine would make to worsening impacts of
climate change in the future were not taken
into consideration.
Because the
social cost of carbon increases each year, calculations of how much
climate change damages are expected because of the emissions from this coal should take
into account when the coal is likely to be burned.
Social, political, and economic analyses of observed and projected
climate impacts have provided further insights
into how changes in the physical
climate system can harm ecosystems, economic productivity, and human health and well - being.
As
climate change impacts interact with features of the
social, economic and political landscape, countries with weak governance systems will become overwhelmed, and face a high risk of falling
into political instability and violent conflict.
Costs are defined in a variety of ways and under a variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from
climate change; ► implementation costs of changing existing rules and regulation, capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy
into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ►
social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.
Judith raises concerns about the epistemology of models for open, complex systems, distinctly indefinite... and then... adopting an uncertain global
climate policy that could possibly produce «losses that throw mankind
into economic,
social and environmental bankruptcy.»
This lower discount rate translates
into a considerable increase in the
social cost of carbon emissions, and hence even greater impetus to mitigate
climate change.