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Groups with three members (triads, trios, troikas, etc.) are hard to maintain. After all, it is easier to deal with one other person than with two. Besides, two of the people in a triad are apt to find it easier to relate to each other than to the other partner. That can motivate the neglected party to drop out of the group. [3]
The demographic transition strengthens economic growth process through three changes: a reduced dilution of capital and land stock, an increased investment in human capital, and an increased size of the labour force relative to the total population and changed age population distribution. [2]
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
Summary of major biodiversity-related environmental-change categories expressed as a percentage of human-driven change (in red) relative to baseline (blue) It has been estimated that from 1970 to 2016, 68% of the world's wildlife has been destroyed due to human activity. [131] [132] In South America, there is believed to be a 70 percent loss. [133]
the years many people have been doing the workshop on their own, usually taking about three hours to get through the 10 questions. Watching them succeed so well on their own helped me realize this really can be a simple do-it-yourself process. Many people create their Best Year Yet plan in January so they can plan the calendar year ahead.
It presents a picture of change in a given system as an interplay of three horizons. [1] Horizon 1 (H1) is the currently dominant but failing system that declines over time as it loses its fit with a changing environment. [1] Horizon 3 (H3) is the envisioned desired future that is aligned to the changing environment. [1]
Human Scale Development is basically community development and is "focused and based on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, on the generation of growing levels of self-reliance, and on the construction of organic articulations of people with nature and technology, of global processes with local activity, of the personal with the social, of planning with autonomy and of civil society ...
For policymakers, denying addicts the best scientifically proven treatment carries no political cost. But there’s a human cost to maintaining a status quo in which perpetual relapse is considered a natural part of a heroin addict’s journey to recovery. Relapse for a heroin addict is no mere setback. It can be deadly.