Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But little research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in climate change-attributed extreme weath
No doubt, within football, there are many systems of inequalities operating—including but not limited to race, economics, prestige, worker’s rights, and I could go on. However, I grew up under the Friday night lights of Texas and have always lived in big football towns. As such, I als...
This phenomenon means that discrimination and disparities exist, just like in forecasting, where historical inequalities are projected into the future and may even be amplified (Mayson, 2018). A research team at Princeton University discovered that algorithms lack access to the absolute truth. The ...
By the 1980s, she had joined protests against South African apartheid, and before her death in 2006, she spoke out in favor of LGBT rights –capping a lifetime of activism against injustice and inequalities. Women and the March While Scott King’s support and ideas were particularly ...
Carmine Di Sibio EY Global Chairman & CEO Summary Social equity impacts all of us, and all of us can make an impact. It’s about clearing obstacles, building more inclusive environments and enabling access to resources and opportunities so everyone can thrive. As one step forward, we...
imagination, and theiropportunities. Today’s local labor markets are defined, though, by historical patterns ofsegregation, continuousebbs and flowsof capital investment, ongoingshiftsin occupational mixes. This contextcontributes to unequalpowerbetween groups of workers, and ongoingracialinequalities. ...
In the path to social sustainability, the promotion of systems and policies that can reduce social and economic inequalities play a particularly important role in ensuring equitable access to opportunities and resources for all members of society. In addition to the fight against inequality, the goal...
issues related to health that consider behavioral, psychological and structural factors in population health beyond the healthcare system. We will examine social, economic, and political factors that contribute to health inequalities and suggest innovative ways to reduce disparities in health when the goa...
Ocean governance that proceeds without a clear and thorough understanding of the complexities of equity is thus unlikely to achieve stated ambitions6,7that include reducing global economic inequalities, improving human wellbeing, and sustaining the biosphere8. This is particularly so in the context of...
(Stände) are each one of several independent variables explaining inequalities emerging from class, race or gender (see, for example,Ridgeway, 2014: 2). This is perhaps fine for linear thinking as modelled well by a regression equation that is with a dependent variable “Socio-economic ...