Can a Bigger Map Save Us? A Commentary on Esbjörn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman's Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World

Transportation planning is very important in improving quality of transportation which in turn improve quality of life but still this profession is not much appreciated in the society. Good planning make progress towards paradise while bad or no planning leave legacy of problems and disputers. Planners perform vital role by anticipating and resolving community conflicts. Good planning requires special skills and perspectives:●Most people prefer to ignore problems until they become unavoidable. Planners are professional worriers who seek out potential problems so they can be mitigated.●Most people look at a problem from a single perspective. Planners are responsible for considering multiple perspectives; they ask, “what is best for everybody overall?”●Most people prefer simple problems and solutions. Planners learn to appreciate complexity, and search for deeper meanings and underlying causes. Planners learn to work with uncertainty and ambiguity.●Most people consider compromise a sign of weakness and failure. Planners are passionate about compromise because it resolves conflicts and often leads to better solutions and justice to everyone and every situation.●Most people prefer to consider one issue at a time. Planners apply integrated analysis, so individual, short-term decisions are consistent with multiple, long-term goals.Despite the effort of planners to help in maintaining balance between the human and natural world, yet, planners often receive little respect. Our successes are taken for granted, and we are often blamed for failures beyond our control. As coordinators of public decision-making, planners are lightning rods to criticism. Our role as unbiased facilitators is often misinterpreted as heartless bureaucrats. Stakeholders frequently hold planners personally responsible when dissatisfied with outcomes. Planners need diplomatic skills and a thick skin: if we do our job well, we are criticized approximately equally by all sides.

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Sociological Perspectives on Laudato Si’ – Towards a Coherent Social and an Ecological Conversion

Nova prisutnost ◽

10.31192/np.19.3.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol XIX (3) ◽

pp. 559-570

Author(s):

Andreja Sršen

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Common Good ◽

Global Climate ◽

Natural World ◽

Future Research ◽

Climate Change Research ◽

Current State ◽

And Migration ◽

Integral Ecology

The article deals with some of the major theoretical and methodological strategies used by sociologists to better understand the relationship between humans and their natural world and to identify the ecologically-relevant features of modern nations and their impact on global climate change. Outlining the current state of sociological knowledge and opportunities for future research about the social causes of global climate change we have to put papal encyclical letter »Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home« and global climate change into social light of theoretical insights from the broader discipline of sociology in a number of areas, including micro and macro foundations of social inequality, population and migration research and models of globalization. At the heart of the encyclical Laudato Si’, there is a big understanding of human kind, common good and nature where Pope Francis introduces the term of »Integral Ecology« explaining that our nature is created by God and surrounded by the gifts of creation. Accordingly, there is a growing recognition of the need to better incorporate social science analyses into climate change research efforts according to the integral ecology in encyclical Laudato Si’.

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Multiple Perspectives on the Barriers to Identification and Management of Pediatric Voice Disorders

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/persp2.sig3.49 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 49-56

Author(s):

Jana Childes ◽

Alissa Acker ◽

Dana Collins

Keyword(s):

Academic Success ◽

Voice Disorders ◽

School Personnel ◽

Voice Disorder ◽

Multiple Perspectives ◽

Vocal Qualities ◽

High Prevalence ◽

Pediatric Populations ◽

Low Incidence ◽

University Settings

Pediatric voice disorders are typically a low-incidence population in the average caseload of clinicians working within school and general clinic settings. This occurs despite evidence of a fairly high prevalence of childhood voice disorders and the multiple impacts the voice disorder may have on a child's social development, the perception of the child by others, and the child's academic success. There are multiple barriers that affect the identification of children with abnormal vocal qualities and their access to services. These include: the reliance on school personnel, the ability of parents and caretakers to identify abnormal vocal qualities and signs of misuse, the access to specialized medical services for appropriate diagnosis, and treatment planning and issues related to the Speech-Language Pathologists' perception of their skills and competence regarding voice management for pediatric populations. These barriers and possible solutions to them are discussed with perspectives from the school, clinic and university settings.

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