New Brunswick Rising Tide : Community Development for a Changing World Community Development Society 32nd Annual Conference

Definition: A rare disorder in which the patient complains spontaneously that his or her mental activity, body, and surroundings are changed in their quality, so as to be unreal, remote, or automatized. Among the varied phenomena of the syndrome, patients complain most frequently of loss of emotions and feelings of estrangement or detachment from their thinking, their body, or the real world. In spite of the dramatic nature of the experience, the patient is aware of the unreality of the change. The sensorium is normal and the capacity for emotional expression intact. Depersonalization-derealization symptoms may occur as part of a diagnos ...[+++]able schizophrenic, depressive, phobic, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. In such cases the diagnosis should be that of the main disorder.

change in the world ecological balance

A more secure world: Our shared responsibility - Report of the Secretary General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change

My remarks will then focus first and foremost on the efforts made to help Canadians acquire the skills and knowledge that they will need to support competition in an ever changing world.

Aware of its unique role in Manitoba, Canada and in a constantly changing world, the Division scolaire franco- manitobaine has as its mission: to provide high-quality training to the francophone student population of Manitoba by promoting the development of self-sufficient, well-developed, skilled people, sure of their identity and proud of their language and culture; to establish a community education project, managed by the francophone parents of Manitoba and reflecting the interests and values of the Franco-Manitoban community.

39. Emphasises that adaptation action is an inevitable necessity and needs to play a central role in the new agreement; underlines that acting now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will be less expensive for global and national economies and would make adaptation actions less costly; urges all countries to take appropriate measures to plan, adapt and respond to the impacts of climate change in order to protect their people, societies, economies and environment, and to achieve sustainable climate-resilient development; notes that responding to climate-related risks involves decision making in a changing world, with continuing uncertai ...[+++]nty about the severity and timing of climate-change impacts and with limits to the effectiveness of adaptation;

39. Emphasises that adaptation action is an inevitable necessity and needs to play a central role in the new agreement; underlines that acting now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will be less expensive for global and national economies and would make adaptation actions less costly; urges all countries to take appropriate measures to plan, adapt and respond to the impacts of climate change in order to protect their people, societies, economies and environment, and to achieve sustainable climate-resilient development; notes that responding to climate-related risks involves decision making in a changing world, with continuing uncertai ...[+++]nty about the severity and timing of climate-change impacts and with limits to the effectiveness of adaptation;