Sentences with phrase «social systems approaches»

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In another approach to standardizing what responsible mining looks like on a global basis, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance has brought together a group of major mining, electronics, jewellery and steel companies, NGOs, affected communities and labour unions to establish a multi-stakeholder and independently verifiable responsible mining assurance system, focused on improving both social and environmental performance.

What you need is a complete, integrated approach to the money - making system that is SOCIAL MIDAS ™

The California Public Employees Retirement Systems (Calpers) at $ 342.5 bln AUM is the largest public pension fund in the USA (as social security is not funded, opting for a «pay as you go» approach).

«The repercussions of this cruel and shortsighted approach are wasted human potential and incredible costs incurred in adulthood in the courts, the medical system and in social services.»

It says in this morning's paper that Sen. Hillary Clinton has laid out a new approach, emphasising the importance of experience and «working within the system» but «without sacrificing important values like preserving Social Security and protecting abortion rights».

The limitations of the engineering approach to social problems become clear as the reader follows Murray through the two chapters in which he discusses the public education system.

While Kass touches on the most common anxieties about a greatly extended average life expectancy — its potentially dire impact on work patterns, parenthood, the social security system, and species renewal, for instance — his main approach is to ponder the value of mortality and the finitude of life.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

The third category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making the emotional climate of larger face - to - face systems (such as churches, schools, industries, and social agencies) more growth - enabling.

Changes in circle 5 (larger, more impersonal organizations) and circle 6 (the systems beyond the local community) may occur through educational [and] persuasive approaches, but often they require the use of political [and other social action] methods....

Take an integrated approach to promote the sustainability of dairy systems, jointly taking into consideration social, economic, health and environmental dimensions;

In Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity, the new New Right skate around the world looking for examples of approaches that will help Britain bring growth to the sluggish economy, reform the education system, boost social mobility and social justice and abolish the slide into mediocrity.

Social science has a long tradition of using computational and agent - based modelling approaches (e.g. Schelling's Model of Segregation), but the new challenge is to feed real - life, and sometimes even real - time information into those systems to get gain rapid insights into the validity of research hypotheses.

In the fall of 2015, a department - wide initatiive called Solution Focused Approaches in a Trauma - Informed System of Care (SF - TIC) was launched in all of the divisions of the Erie County Department of Social Services.

Above all, we should be aiming at a system that will enable each individual to reach their potential - whether that is to be high flyer academically, a good engineer or a reliable plumber - rather than the social engineering that underpins Brown's approach.

In 1996, SHRP and the Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS)- a global network of organizations concerned with information handling and documentation of human rights violations, began a three - year project to develop a «violations approach» to monitoring economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICsocial, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICSocial, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Although the general approach and results are «positive and useful,» says economist Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, «we don't learn very much about how levels of community development, government policies, local ecology, prevalent farm systems, and social organization influence the outcomes.»

Stewart Ibarra and her colleagues use a social - ecological systems (SES) approach to conduct their research.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communsocial and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communSocial Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

Though influenced by U.K. systems thinking, the approach was decidedly eastern, its precepts inspired by the emphasis on social relationships in Chinese culture.

Hard systems engineering worked well for rocket science, but not for more complex social problems, Gu says: «We realized we needed to change our approach.»

«Understanding the biology and commonalities between trusting social relationships and the opioid system can change the way we think about treatment,» Young says, noting that neither the punitive approach of the criminal justice system nor harsh treatment tactics are likely to increase connectedness.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

NECSI's unified mathematically - based approach transcends the boundaries of physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, management, and medicine (see Complex Systems Resources).

Consummate research professor at Stanford University has spent 20 years with a focus on plant - based nutrition but has recently expanded his efforts to studying food systems approach to improved diet quality and the link between social movements and improved diet change.

People who use natural or complementary approaches to health often do it because they feel conventional medicine focuses too narrowly on one symptom or body system, with little integration of the body with other aspects of life, such as lifestyle, diet, and social factors.

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His approach is nearly whimsical as he sets up an excoriating examination of the casual inhumanity of the modern social welfare systems.

As lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, it looks like Boots Riley is taking a similar approach to his filmmaking, applying a radical class analysis of the current system to his origins as a telemarketer in Oakland, California.

In their approach, large changes in external conditions (what Baumgartner and Jones term an «exogenous shock») are often needed to produce change in complex social and political systems.

Yes, she would augment that system with better - educated (and compensated) teachers, a strong core curriculum, a different (curriculum - based) approach to assessment, greater emphasis on behavior and attitudes and a number of collateral «social» changes such as better families and home environments.

Using informal methods such as social media networks and note - taking tools, or more formal approaches such as corporate intranet systems, Kanban tools and dedicated knowledge sharing tools, your workers can start perceiving information sharing as an innovative, and supportive process.

Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) takes a «systems approach,» targeting a school's overall social culture and providing intensive behavior supports, such as functional behavioral assessments, identifying contexts where behaviors occur, and teaching communication, social, and self - management skills, as needed.

Her research focused on how schools support personalized, social - emotional, and blended learning, how school community members experience these approaches, and how education systems can support these methods.

The sky was beginning to fall — and the wolf was approaching the lamb — three decades ago when we joined the National Commission on Excellence in Education in warning that the country's future and the career (and income and social - mobility) prospects of millions of its citizens were in jeopardy due to the weak condition of our education system.

While single program implementation has important merits, we recognize that a shift in mindset that views social emotional learning as a whole systems approach is an important way to bring about true, long - lasting change in schools.

«We will be able to take our approaches to teaching, learning and social thinking and help to implement them system wide,» said Petit.

See why admins love Classcraft's unique approach to Positive Behavior Intervention Systems, social & emotional learning, and school climate.

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.

Adapted from «Organizing adult learning for adaptive change management: A systems approach» in Teaching in Context: The Social Side of Education Reform, edited by Esther Quintero (Harvard Education Press, 2017).

The PEAR Institute has developed a comprehensive approach to building school or program capacity, support systems, and a common language around social - emotional development so students can learn, dream and thrive in school and afterschool settings.

Across the country, public healthcare systems are now looking to create interdisciplinary approaches to treatment and prevention, with teams of clinicians, social workers, and others collaborating on efforts to improve health outcomes.

Our award - winning system offers a strength - based approach to assessing and supporting the growth of social and emotional skills for both your students and staff.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

Stephen Kidd critiques Bretton Woods Institutions» approach to targeted social protection systems, arguing the poor lose out the most.

An integrative approach looks at your dog's whole system - from nutrition, social interactions, exercise, to emotional and physical well being.

As for Miiverse, while Miiverse will continue to be supported on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS systems, our approach with the Switch is to make greater use of other established, broadly used social platforms.

Together, these works dismantle notions of artistic autonomy through multifarious approaches to collaboration, outsourcing and appropriation, while revealing the complex social and economic systems in which we are complicit.

In his critical and political approach, artist and filmmaker Halil Altındere explores political, social and cultural codes, focusing on depicting marginalisation and resistance to oppressive systems.

With a focus on material legacies of technological shifts and the reorganization of social systems, their exhibition program is approached as a continuous yet non-linear script of episodic narratives.