These are believed to increase optimism, well being and foster a cohesive, caring climate that enhances learning.
Paul Hunt, project officer, sportanddev.org, Biel, Switzerland, @sportanddev Work with celebrities: This is an essential part of creating a cohesive culture on climate change.
As Ford Motor Company Vice President Sue Cischke explained, "Without a cohesive national energy and climate policy that places a price on carbon, we could be caught in a cycle of starting and stopping technology development.
In "board and care" homes in the USA, a positive social climate characterised as cohesive, organised, comfortable and encouraging of residents' independence and involvement in decision making, was found to be associated with greater resident satisfaction with their living situation [ 32].
You may have noticed another characteristic of contrarian climate research – there is no cohesive, consistent alternative theory to human-caused global warming.
With this initiative, we hope that the transport community will find it easier to speak with one comprehensive and cohesive voice, and to help governments integrate climate, inclusivity, efficiency, and safety considerations into their transport plans.
The pay-off for such studies can be great, however; Visser was able to assess the relative importance of plasticity, selection, maternal effects and immigration in the systems he studies, and to put together, a cohesive picture of their likely responses to future climate change.
My vision is that, in the long term, this bottom-up route to tackling climate change will ultimately achieve the internationally cohesive agreements the Kyoto process has sought – and failed – to deliver.
"What we're seeing now with the UNEP document and other more recent papers are attempts to generate the first cohesive picture of black carbon's effects on the climate and ways to address it," Seidel says.
Unfortunately, collective intelligence doesn't relate to measures of what's called "group climate," which is if members in the group are satisfied, how cohesive they feel with each other, or how psychologically safe they feel.
