The inherent factors linked above cannot yet be discounted, overall, as factors that may also provide advantages in social adaptation, that males do not overall share, to the same degree.

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But where is the social innovation, the adaptation of technology to social objectives?

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This event will bring forward the work of the UN Task Team on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and in general discuss the need to focus on the social impacts of climate change and appropriate adaptation policies supported by social science research.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences

Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.

UNESCO: Education

In the face of these accelerating physical, biological and social transformations, there is a need to monitor change, assess impacts and mobilize responses so as to adequately inform adaptation policies and practice.

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