Planning Social Change

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This paper discusses the emerging social and cultural changes that are taking place in societies around the globe and how many of these changes are planned. It looks at why changes need to be planned, particularly in terms of climate change, as well as the role of social scientists in planning the changes for the best benefit of society.

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"If societies do not embrace the necessary changes to slow down global warming, the world will not be a very hospitable place in the future and life will be a constant struggle for millions of people. That is the thrust of An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Oscar for best documentary of 2006. A link from An Inconvenient Truth's Web page leads a visitor to WorldWatch Institute (WWI), a respected and important conservation organization. The WWI scientists point out that over 99% of the world's irrigation, industrial and household water comes "directly from rivers, lakes, and aquifers" (Postel, 2007). However, human impacts on those freshwater resources "have reached global proportions" and have "disrupted a wide range of valuable ecological services.""

Sample of Sources Used:

• Douglas, Bob. (2007). A SEE-Change Movement As A Vehicle For Cultural change and Local Action On Climate Change. Social Alternatives, 26(3), 46-49.
• Postel, Sandra. (2007). Safeguarding Freshwater Ecosystems. WorldWatch Institute. Retrieved February 15, 2008, from http://www.worldwatch.org.node.3994.
• Vasi, Ion Bogdan. (2006). Organizational Environments, Framing Processes, and the Diffusion Of the Program to Address Global Climate change Among local Governments in the United States. Sociological Forum, 21(3), 439-449.

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