Additionally, compulsive gamblers have a higher incidence of divorce and other social impacts that lead to an economic drain on the economy.
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Marco Rubio of Florida, contend the party must adopt a modern approach to an issue with such strong economic and social impacts.
The website GoodGuide.com provides a free iPhone app that rates and compares tens of thousands of products on their environmental, health and social impacts.
The Chair seeks to develop debates, policies and toolkits to evaluate the economic, ethical and social impacts of cultural heritage, strengthen its protection in crisis and conflict situations and prevent its use to exacerbate differences and tensions.
Baard Vegard Solhell, Minister of Environment of Norway, stressed that the mission of our generation should be to focus on climate change, which has major social impacts, including its differential effects on women and men.
He, along with conference organize Sydney Armani and three other speakers from the conference will join me right here on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time for a live discussion about crowdfunding and its social impacts.
This event will bring forward the work of the UN Task Team on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and in general discuss the need to focus on the social impacts of climate change and appropriate adaptation policies supported by social science research.
While considerable attention is given to the issue of migration and its potential economic and social impacts on origin, transit and destination countries, to date very little attention has been given to understanding the livelihood struggles and opportunities that migration presents for migrants themselves, and in particular, young migrants.
For many in the conservation and development communities who worry about the environmental and social impacts of the extractive industry and who have looked at the challenges of operating in sensitive areas like the Niger Delta and northern Alaska, the news of gas companies coming to northern Mozambique is not entirely welcome.
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However, methodologies and toolkits for comparing social and ethical impacts are often less developed than economic ones.
Like many people, we worry about the physical, biological, human health, environmental, social and economic impacts of fracking.
While companies may have similar social and environmental impacts, each company will likely need to craft a unique combination of commitments.
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In fact, investors have become a force in arguing that the economic, social and environmental impacts of business are integrally linked.
My Aug. 25, 2009 Bonds column on how our behavior on social networking sites impacts our real-life friendships (" How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships") drew an overwhelming and overwhelmingly positive response.
Until public markets embrace long-term thinking and find ways to ensure that social and environmental impacts are considered more fully, they present the greatest risk to a fair and sustainable economy.
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The win-win solutions are endless: more job creation, increased returns for investors and entrepreneurs, global economic shift, and social and environmental impacts that could steer the planet in more positive directions.
Lord Howe said the strategy would cover the social and health impacts of alcohol misuse, and set out the future roles of central and local government and the third sector in tackling the problem.
Ben Thornley: We were surprised to discover that, even within the constraints of fiduciary duty and the strictures of conventional portfolio management, US institutional asset owners have been very creative in finding ways to support regional economies and deliver the other secondary social or environmental impacts of priority to beneficiaries.
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It is quite impactful to social business transformation because it impacts the following two key habits.
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Crossbencher Lord Alton of Liverpool said schools had an important role to play in ensuring young children are aware of the risks of social networking sites and the "harmful impacts" their online behaviour can have on others.
In contrast, universities have expertise in all the areas relevant to fracking social, environmental, human health and economic impacts, technological innovation and sampling design as well as a commitment to and reputation for rigor and objectivity in research.
You know, until lawmakers and policy makers and corporations acknowledge that it is not good economic policy as well as social policy to pay wages that force workers to turn to public assistance to support themselves, which means that that impacts taxpayers and it is not good economic policy as well as social policy...
Richard Nicholls is media, technology and telecoms account director with the Future Foundation, which identifies and forecasts social and consumer trends and determines the extent of their impacts on markets, services, brands and products.
In the afternoon, we convened a meeting with Bay Area social service experts, community organizations and faith leaders whose work impacts fatherhood in the region.
The Social Security analysis is the first government analysis to quantify economic impacts from the far-reaching bill authored by Rubio and seven other senators, both Democratic and Republican.
In the face of these accelerating physical, biological and social transformations, there is a need to monitor change, assess impacts and mobilize responses so as to adequately inform adaptation policies and practice.
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Additionally, while everyone would love to get new business from their social media efforts, and eventually this may come, the more immediate impacts are harder to quantify and gauge, namely greater brand awareness and client servicing.
What might make a difference is that the social cost of carbon dioxide will grow over time as we begin to experience more severe impacts from climate change.
The social reactions caused a political upheaveal that lasted mcuh more than a century, with ideological and cultual impacts that hardly could have been imagined when the first engineers were designing steam engines fired by a carbon-rich rock.
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