In a matter of decades after their creation, electrical telegraph networks permitted people and commerce to almost instantly transmit messages across both continents and oceans, with widespread social and economic impacts.

This academic discipline also studies the cultural, economic, and political impacts of scientific innovation.

Valid economic studies of different wood drying technologies are based on the total energy, capital, insurance / risk, environmental impacts, labor, maintenance, and product degrade costs for the task of removing water from the wood fiber.

In 2011, the group published an evaluation report titled " Assessing the IFC's Poverty Focus and Results " in which it noted that although the IFC's projects that emphasized inclusive growth patterns performed well and that poverty reduction was an implicit outcome, the IFC neglected to articulate and detail the impacts on poverty of the projects which target economic growth specifically.

A long-term study on the economic impacts of Bt cotton in India, published in the Journal PNAS in 2012, showed that Bt cotton has increased yields, profits, and living standards of smallholder farmers.

The essential elements of CoSGOP are analysis of stakeholders ( identifying stakeholders ’ perceptions of problems, interests, and expectations ); analysis of problems and potentials ( including objective problems and problems and potentials perceived by stakeholders ); development of goals, improvement priorities, and alternatives ( requiring intensive communication and active stakeholder participation ); specification of an improvement program and its main activities ( based on priorities defined with the stakeholders ); assessment of possible impacts of the improvement program ; definition and detailed specification of key projects and their implementation ; continuous monitoring of improvement activities, feedback, and adjustment of the programme ( including technical and economic information and perceptions of stakeholders ).

This approach focuses on issues of power, recognizing the importance of explaining environmental impacts on cultural processes without separating out political and economic contexts.

economic and environmental impacts of this accident.

Most ecological economists have been trained as ecologists, but have expanded the scope of their work to consider the impacts of humans and their economic activity on ecological systems and services, and vice-versa.

:* Environmental impacts of social and economic change

From this foundation arises a complex political and ideological superstructure, where economic development impacts upon societal progress.

Relief technologies including immunization, improved public health infrastructure, general food rations and supplementary feeding for vulnerable children, has provided temporary mitigation to the mortality impacts of famines, while leaving their economic consequences unchanged, and not solving the underlying issue of too large a regional population relative to food production capability.

Due to the economic impacts of the rusts in some areas where orchards are of commercial importance, some regions have attempted to ban the planting of and / or eradicate the coniferous hosts.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall had broad economic, political and social impacts globally, it also had significant consequence for the local urban environment.

However, the temperature differential is small and this impacts the economic feasability of ocean thermal energy for electricity generation.

The criteria, which are voluntary, involve the following standards: " effective sustainability planning, maximum social and economic benefits for local communities, minimum negative impacts on cultural heritage, and minimum negative impacts on the environment.

The city of Dallas and the Texas Water Development Board filed a lawsuit in 2007 against the U. S Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming the wildlife refuge was established without considering the economic and environmental impacts.

The wide range of estimates is explained mostly by underlying uncertainties in the science of climate change ( e. g., the climate sensitivity, which is a measure of the amount of global warming expected for a doubling in the atmospheric concentration of ), different choices of discount rate, different valuations of economic and non-economic impacts, treatment of equity, and how potential catastrophic impacts are estimated.

This is because a steep drop in the production implies that global oil production will decline so rapidly that the world will not have enough time to develop sources of energy to replace the energy now used from oil, possibly leading to drastic social and economic impacts.

* Trade-led, unregulated economic activity and lax state regulation of pollution lead to environmental impacts or degradation.

Peat fires are emerging as a global threat with significant economic, social and ecological impacts.

Although the economic, environmental, and transportation-related impacts of a " big box " store within city limits were of great concern, the community remained polarized.

In September 2009, the city council was weighing the numerous negative impacts against the potential economic gains.

While 680, 000 people lived in the city proper in 1950, a combination of suburbanization and economic turbulence caused a sharp decrease in city population to just 330, 000 in the year 2000.

The population of the city has declined significantly in the second half of the 20th century, from a high of 85, 000 in 1950, as a result of suburbanization and economic stagnation.

This major economic loss alongside suburbanization caused a major population loss through the end of the 20th century.

Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.

In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

The accomplishment of the many tasks I have alluded to requires the continuous strengthening of the spiritual, intellectual, and economic sinews of American life.

Yet they have accepted most of the extant `` welfare state '' provisions for health, security, and the regulation of economic affairs, and they overwhelmingly approve of the traditional `` liberalism '' of the Bill of Rights.

The United States might well have exploited the opportunity provided by the European Recovery Program to push the hesitant European nations toward political federation as well as economic cooperation, but all proposals to this effect were rejected by the United States Government at the time.

Commerce Secretary Hodges seems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic forecasters.

The only hope which good teachers have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them.

But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.

A blow to this phase of the Central's operations would have serious economic consequences not only to the railroad itself, but to the 40,000 people per day who are provided with efficient, reasonably priced transportation in and out of the city.

For example, in accordance with the fashion of the times, most transitional societies have announced economic development plans of varying numbers of years ; ;

Statistics have been recognized as a matter of strategic importance in the Congo and in Ruanda-Urundi during the post-war years in connection with long-term economic and social programs.

they exhibit a keen interest in social, political, and economic problems, but they frequently have vague and incorrect notions about the terms they use rather glibly in their routine school work.

Meanwhile, the private colleges have increased their tuition rates so much that they have raised an economic barrier which dwarfs their scholarship funds.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.

We have seen that the folksy spirit is confined to economic peers ; ;

The fact that metropolitan churches of the major denominations have moved approximately every generation for the last hundred years becomes somewhat more intelligible in the light of this struggle to maintain economic balance.

Since American life is committed above all to productivity and a higher standard of economic life, the countervailing forces of residential and religious exclusiveness have fought a desperate, rearguard action against the expanding interdependence of the metropolis.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.