Sentences with phrase «contentious issues in this community»

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«Dose threshold is a very contentious issue in the radiation community,» says radiation epidemiologist Roy Shore, research head at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima.

He also said that fracking serves as an excellent example of how community activists grapple with contentious energy issues and the environment, particularly because of recent legislation that makes local fracking bans illegal in states such as Texas.

During the past two presidential campaigns, efforts were made by the science and engineering communities to engage candidates in a «user - friendly» science policy conversation not designed to be a debate (questions were to be provided in advance and «contentious» issues were off limits).

While the display of human remains in Cambodia — and the exhumation and disposition of remains in other countries — may be contentious, the questions and issues arising from working with atrocity - derived human remains are valuable and must continue to be discussed by the forensic science and human rights communities.

We also commit to supporting members of the global sustainability research community in nations where public access to reliable information is at risk and where scientists are being undermined or gagged on politically contentious issues.

Teachers often worry that treating contentious issues in class might make them vulnerable to criticism from the community, she said.»

Covering this story was par for the course for Miranda, who often weighs in on fraught topics circulating around her, bringing more transparency to contentious, hot - button or just downright confusing issues swirling in the L.A. arts community.

Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds of protected areas, and different ways of locating them in the landscape, affect deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».

However, the governing Chiefs and Councils of these same First Nations often do not have a great appetite to resolve contentious family issues in what are usually very small communities.

Why has this issue been so contentious in the Bitcoin community, and what can be done to resolve it going forward?

A change to the bitcoin protocol that is not backwards compatible, the hard fork has emerged as a contentious issue given what some in the community view as its potential risks.

The idea of our bus tour was to engage local communities in conversations about what was important to them in their area and explore how effective dialogue can aid problem - solving, help resolve contentious issues and reduce conflict.