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"Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary In The Toolbox: Methods and Mindsets for Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses--tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business. The author describes each of the tools--including storytelling, mathematical modeling, and design thinking--in a stand-alone chapter, intertwining each with a consistent narrative and full-color visual structure."--

Collects writings by leading thinkers and cultural commentators on the pros and cons of the social media revolution, covering topics ranging from reading skills and attention spans to cyberbullying and the digital playground

The article discusses some of the problematic issues of ecological (technogenic) safety management, which are normative in nature, and, to a greater extent, related to the imperfection of Ukrainian legislation in the aspects of the formation and implementation of state environmental policy. At the same time, for the authors, it seems interesting to focus on adapting the policy to a paradigm of a risk-based approach, taking into account the problems of technological safety (the state of protection of the population, territory, objects from the negative consequences of technological emergencies) of Crimea, eastern Ukraine and troops (forces) that take participation in the operation of the Joint Forces.
This is due to the fact that in the leading countries of the world funding for scientific research in the field of risk analysis and assessment is constantly increasing, scientific areas of risk research have been formed: in transport, industry, natural and man-made emergencies, special tasks, and professional safety activity, risk, in particular, during the performance of tasks in emergency situations of natural, man-made and military nature.
The results of the study can be used in organizing the liquidation of the consequences of emergency situations of various nature and in managing technogenic safety by minimizing the risk of personnel during the use of defense forces in emergency situations, including in the operation of the Joint Forces.

"For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices, and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately, the book argues that hip hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: hip hop is a resistance mechanism."

2.1.2 Potential outcomes and individual-specific causal effects2.1.3 Inference about population average causal effects; 2.1.3.1 Prima facie effect; 2.1.3.2 Ignorability assumption; 2.2 Applications to Lordś paradox and Simpsonś paradox; 2.2.1 Lordś paradox; 2.2.2 Simpsonś paradox; 2.3 Identification and estimation; 2.3.1 Selection bias; 2.3.2 Sampling bias; 2.3.3 Estimation efficiency; Appendix 2.1: Potential bias in a prima facie effect; Appendix 2.2: Application of the causal inference theory to Lord's paradox; References.

In the conditions of the contemporary risk society the alternate nature and the variety of risks issue a serious challenge to the world community, which requires an urgent solution.Today the principle of sustainable development takes an increasing significance in the policies of all countries. The concept of sustainable development is based upon the balance between financial, social and ecological resources of our planet. Successful management of all these resources would ensure the sustainability.Achievement of the goals of sustainable development, in its turn, requires conjoint actions of governments, local authorities, businesses and each individual.This article is aimed at the analysis of actions taken by world-wide organisations, governments, and local authorities to provide sustainable development, including legislative, institutional, regulatory and public efforts exerted at all levels in the sphere of identification, assessment and management of environmental risks under the conditions of risk society. The volume of the article unfortunately dose not allow covering of all aspects related to this issue, as well as setting up a thorough discourse in this matter. Therefore, the article provides a brief analysis of theoretical base of the concept of the risk society and the idea of sustainable development and reviews legal, institutional, and regulatory instruments applied for identification, assessment and management of environmental risks applied both globally and in Latvia. It also stresses the significance of rising environmental risk awareness and promotion of readiness for ecological conduct, as it would facilitate meeting the goals of sustainable development by more active participation of population in the activities targeted at the environment protection in general, and preservation and restoration of the natural resources. The article also describes the current level of public awareness of environmental problems in Latvia, as well as the problems the Latvian residents consider to be of highest priority ...

Michael Kalecki's classic article 'Political Aspects of Full Employment', published in The Political Quarterly in 1943, suggested a possible ambivalence of business interests in capitalist economies to the maintenance of full employment. Within Kalecki's work are the germs of ideas about the long-run interrelationship between economic policy and political and social change. (CP)

"This anthology provides a new conceptualization of Social Economy Finance and Green Finance, showing emerging themes and trends. It spans from stocks markets, green finance, innovation, digitalization to social finance, governance and theories of change. It concentrates on impact, opportunity recognition and development of financial products designed to finance the green and social economy. Without the attraction of capital, social entrepreneurship, innovation and green finance can face difficulty in scaling business solutions. Green and social economy is a nascent field. The authors address the conceptualization of green and social solutions and identify patterns and funnels of new financial industry products and approaches. The anthology demonstrates that aligning finance and investment with the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and needs and interests of society is feasible"--