Dilemma

About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.

Human nature, eco-footprints and environmental injustice

Abstract: Extreme poverty has been reduced, but 40% of the world's population still live on less than two dollars per day and 850 million people remain underfed. Meanwhile, the rich enjoy unprecedented levels of consumption, and obesity is a significant public health problem. The standard solution to poverty is economic growth but evidence that humanity has exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth undermines this approach. This paper explores the distal causes of the crisis. This paper argues that biophysical unsustainability is an inevitable "emergent property" of the interaction of techno-industrial society and the ecosphere with deep roots in fundamental human nature and that the problem is being reinforced by prevailing conceptual frames and cultural norms. With increasing land and resource scarcity in the twenty-first century, the expanding eco-footprints of the wealthy will increasingly displace the poor. To avoid eco-violence and the descent into chaos, the world community must acknowledge the true human nature of our collective dilemma and act to override innate behavioural predispositions that have become maladaptive in the modern era. Since the problematic drivers act beneath conscious awareness, the overall purpose of this paper is to help bring them to consciousness on grounds that they must be understood if they are to be controlled.

The Education Dilemma: Policy Issues for Developing Countries in the 1980s

Abstract: Efficiency of investment in education The impact of education on employment, migration and fertility Allocation, equity and conflict in educational planning What can be done

Dilemmas of planning: intervention, regulation, and investment

Abstract: Planning through processes of “co-creation” has become a priority for practitioners, urban activists, and scientific researchers. However, urban development still shows a close instrumentalism on g...

An american health dilemma : a history of blacks in the health system

Abstract: The present black health crisis is a continuum. After 346 years of neglect, flawed efforts were made to admit black Americans to the "mainstream" health system. Gains were significant from 1965 to 1975; however, since then black health status has eroded. Since colonial times, the racial dilemma that affected America's liberal democratic system also distorted medical relationships and institutions. There are clear connections between campaigns to defeat bills that would improve the health of blacks and other disadvantaged groups and acquiescence with the present reassignment of them to the underfunded, overcrowded, inferior, public health-care sector. Physician leadership helped to establish the slaveocracy, create the racial inferiority myths, and build the segregated health subsystem for blacks and the poor. Clearly, if the history-based health disparities are to be resolved, black physician leadership will be necessary. Without justice and equity in health care, the dream of Martin Luther King will never become a reality for African Americans.

The Race Question In Canada

Abstract: Written about the Canada of Laurier's day, Siegfried's book is a witty and sophisticated report on the elements in the Canadian dilemma, a profound analysis of Canadian politics, churches, education and attitudes to external affairs."