Sentences with phrase «term social consensus»

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There will be a few long term issues such as pensions or the funding of social care where a cross party consensus will need to be reached.

The term is associated with a social consensus (usually expressed through democratic elections) that certain services should be available to all, regardless of income.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

More than four decades after the first model preschool interventions, there is an emerging consensus that high - quality early - childhood education can improve a child's economic and social outcomes over the long term.

SEL The Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a thought leader in K - 12 education and has brought about much consensus around what SEL means and how to define the competencies included under this umbrella term.

The draft conclusions from the Advanced Working Group on Long - Term Cooperative Action (AWG - LCA) REDD - plus negotiating text are similar to the previous version from the last round of talks in Barcelona, the so - called «non-paper 39», but negotiators this time around have removed brackets (in UN speak this means consensus has been reached) from the principles (paragraph 1), scope (paragraph 3), sub-national approaches (paragraph 7 and 13) and social and environmental safeguards (paragraph 2).

Social scientists have coined the term «consensus gap» to describe the large discrepancy between the actual 97 % consensus, and the public perception that just half to two - thirds or experts agree on human - caused global warming.

Cloaking arguments in social - justice concepts also is an appeal to the audience's emotions because there's no consensus about what the term «social justice» means, despite some lawyers» attempts to unilaterally define its meaning.