Sentences with phrase «societal action»

The chapter highlights several likely flawed assumptions in how these foundations defined the problem of climate change and made funding decisions supporting societal action.

That leaves us with societal action, which usually means government intervention.

In turn, a change in these key beliefs is subsequently expected to lead to a change in respondents» support for societal action on climate change (H2).

Researchers projected warming scenarios that vary based on what societal actions are taken to reduce emissions.

So societal action can still reduce this risk,» said Stralberg.

My phrase, «the humility of realism» is meant to get us thinking about the system as a whole, and about the long - term consequences of societal actions, whether by the government or private parties.

Second, MIT's climate action plan can also serve as a model for how major research universities can accelerate effective societal actions on climate change by collaborating with a diversity of industry members, including fossil fuel giants.

I wrote the Climate Shift report to inform the decision making of environmental leaders, philanthropists, scientists, scholars and others as they consider next steps in the effort to mobilize societal action on the undeniable, human causes of climate change.

For my bachelor's degree, I majored in both sociology and environmental studies in order to try to understand the crisis better and in order to learn how to inspire meaningful societal action.

«The debate in biodiversity conservation between economics and ethics, or between pragmatism and principle, is in many ways a misguided contest, one that assumes that there exists a deep philosophical division between environmental ethics and societal action,» she wrote with her ASU colleague Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist.

The debate in biodiversity conservation between economics and ethics, or between pragmatism and principle, is in many ways a misguided contest, one that assumes that there exists a deep philosophical division between environmental ethics and societal action.