Social movements pursuing public control over water supplies, and democratic and participatory governance models, are also drawn to the elements of public participation in decision-making, accountability and access to justice underscored by the human right to water.
In addition, the authors claim that (d) there are alternative driving motivations: meeting social needs, pursuing ideological commitments.
On the contrary, the second argument posits that without necessary assurances -- whether security, political, economic or social -- pursuing peace is an unnecessary risk and a distraction to securing short-term national objectives.
Here in California and the city of Los Angeles, the need to confront social problems and pursue social justice through national service is just as present today as it was 12 years ago when I served.
Nearly every speech was dedicated to the idea that HBS grads could improve financial performance and reduce corrosive social inequity by pursuing returns from social contributions.
According to a June 2014 RBC white paper on Social Entrepreneurship in Canada, "social entrepreneurs tend to pursue social goals because they have a deep rooted personal belief in a particular cause [that] overlaps with an identified business opportunity".
Later books like "Society and Democracy in Germany" and "Modern Social Conflict" pursued similar themes.
Social psychologists pursued the question more systematically, conducting experiments that demonstrated the power of situations to determine human behavior.
In the end it comes down to an apparently simple, but rather subtle question: is social impact pursued only so that a financial return will result?
But after business creditors were dealt with, Spanish social security pursued him for five more years to extract repayment of severance money it had paid to the firm's employees on his behalf.
test, a small group of American scientists, inventors and social reformers pursued the dream of a mechanical device that would separate truth from deception by recording involuntary bodily responses like blood pressure and pulse rate.
