Sentences with phrase «major societal changes»

Comment: In his first book, The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell looked at why major societal changes often happen suddenly and unexpectedly.

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Her landmark book Reality is Broken identifies these major new societal trends and offers hope that the rise of gaming can make a positive change to the world.

The second pillar aims to promote Europe's leadership in several industrial technologies; and the last component will fund research and innovation in fields identified as major societal challenges, such as climate change or population aging.

It highlights the major research challenges that still persist, and how the training and education of health professionals will need to change and adapt to meet the societal challenges of the next generation.

Also noteworthy is the near - simultaneous emergence on the center - left of two separate education - reform alliances: the Education Equality Project, which argues that the schools we have can produce stronger results, and the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, which contends that bigger societal changes must precede any major gains in school effectiveness.

This is a major indicator of societal change.

His work as a director of important European institutions, curator of major biennials and both writer and publisher of critical texts have sought to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change and the societal or political contexts in which art comes to be made public.

These actions, alongside the support of science in tackling the major challenges in projecting the impacts of ocean warming and climate change more generally, will help the insurance industry to avoid market failures and increase societal resilience.

The pace of agricultural intensification is, therefore, also likely to remain a major determinant of future land change and our ability to meet societal demands for food, feed, housing, and energy (104).

Probably, the major issue that forces us as individuals to take action is health and in so far, no socio - environmental issue like climate change has given rise to such international political and institutional movement, and societal initiatives, including governmental and non-governmental ones, devising strategies in sectors like Energy and so on — for instance, biodiversity maintenance does not have that power!

The lobbying efforts of groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was a major factor in the changes in legal and societal treatment of drunk driving.

DUI convictions have changed from an attitude of nothing more than a Traffic Ticket, to one of major societal import.

The authors then integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into the core concepts of ten major family therapy models, paying close attention to the «how to's» of change processes through a highly diverse range of case examples.