Given the enormous changes, challenges and opportunities facing the entire educational industry and every individual college, a critical foundation of effective organizational stewardship that will foster the imperatives of change is harmony.
The Sendai Framework includes unprecedented emphasis on the role of science in understanding and delivering risk reduction and is the result of a unique opening in the policy space bringing political will, the imperative for change, and the availability of scientific input together (UNISDR 2016i).
The imperatives of climate change are responsible for much of that increase, and, to some degree, so is the Obama Administration for its belated attempt to wean the country from its long addiction to fossil fuels.
As Benjamin scholar Max Pensky puts it: "The promise of eternal newness and unlimited progress encoded in the imperatives of technological change and the cycles of consumption now appear as their opposite, as primal history, the mythic compulsion toward endless repetition".
It is crucial that we manage the ladder of credit in a very responsible manner "The world is not investing enough in renewables as a whole, not just off-grid solar, given the imperatives of climate change and sustainable development goals," said Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid, and chairman of Carbon Tracker.
To supporters of renewable energy, this is inexplicable, particularly given the imperatives of climate change and the comparative social advantages of clean power.
But the imperative for change will not go away.
And a fortnight ago, the pope, during a visit to the US that may have reset political debate, spoke of the moral imperative of tackling climate change.
It will speak to the moral imperative of addressing climate change in a timely fashion in order to protect the most vulnerable".
He says he is driven to his new love by the imperative of battling climate change, and what he sees as the inability of renewable energy to run viable economies.
