Sentences with phrase «societal concerns»

We can no longer ignore the influence of climate change on a wide range of issues of societal concern, including peace and security.

It certainly appears as though societal concern for animals is leading to dramatic changes.

I have a lot to learn, but I am beginning to understand how science and engineering policy informs critical societal concerns such as national security, health care, and the environment.

Maternal depression is now recognized as a great societal concern, and intervention approaches are needed to prevent or diminish its negative impact on infant's development.

Depending on the answers to these questions, long - term climate change may be a more pressing or lower priority societal concern.

Societal concerns about sea level rise originate from the potential impact of regional and coastal sea level change and associated changes in extremes on coastlines around the world, including potential shoreline recession, loss of coastal infrastructure, natural resources and biodiversity, and in the worst case, displacement of communities and migration of environmental refugees.

The attention on the sun serves as a reminder that modern climate science arose, in part, from efforts to address societal concerns over global cooling, setting the stage for advances in climate science over the past forty years.

«There is growing societal concern over pediatric disorders that have a basis in the fetal period and which may be more common in one sex or another, such as autism, attention deficit disorder, obesity, asthma and infertility.

«The fact that this Review is taking place is strong evidence of a broad societal concern over the changes that have taken place in the workplace and the fact that for many there has been a long - standing trend of deteriorating working conditions for a growing number of workers,» the special advisors write.

The online climate wars — which seem so momentous to those deeply dug in on various fronts — are taking place on the sharp end of a needle buried in a haystack of other societal concerns.

It's a bona fide technological challenge that addresses environmental, industrial and societal concerns without compromising safety standards.

Lee's early work focused on depicting societal concerns through realism, such as his first major project in the United States in which he painted portraits of San Francisco's homeless community on found boxes.

In this case, the Court was faced with reconciling fundamental societal concerns: freedom of the press and effective law enforcement.

Social psychologists focus on societal concerns that have a powerful influence on individual wellbeing as well as the health of society as a whole, including problems such as substance use, crime, prejudice, domestic abuse, public health, bullying, and aggression.

That is why the issue of Abortion runs much deeper and hinges upon strong societal concerns for humanity and its core values.

Entitled Social science and epigenetics: opportunities and challenges, the symposium will seek to examine how multidisciplinary research into epigenetics — the science of the lasting marks that modify the expression of the genes encoded in our DNA — might help provide answers to societal concerns including why deprivation has such a marked impact on child development and on health outcomes.

Some believe their work's most important goal is advancing knowledge for its own sake, while others prioritize societal concerns such as contributing to social justice, helping fight climate change, seeking to cure disease, or educating the next generation.

The research fits squarely into WSU's Grand Challenges, initiatives aimed at particularly pressing societal concerns.

However, findings suggested that sustained, collaborative experiences with digital educative curricula helped teachers in this study begin to articulate and demonstrate tenets of problem - based historical inquiry (e.g., purposeful student - inquiry grounded in recurring societal concerns, structuring classroom events to promote historical thinking).

Beauty of the Beast will also address ever - growing societal concerns regarding loss of habitats and efforts to document and preserve species.

This is particularly true given the «super wicked» nature of this issue, which is complicated by competing societal concerns, embedded special interests, huge gaps between human energy needs and clean - energy menus and other impediments to swift change.

To imagine that some kinds of geoengineering research can be quarantined from societal concern and demands for regulation, as Parson and Keith do, requires a belief that pure research can somehow be precipitated out of a social solution using the power of «objectivity» as the precipitant.

My favorite quote from that paper is: «Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes (Joseph and Nigam 2006; Power et al. 2006).»

To be sure, domestic violence is a terrible crime and continues to be a significant societal concern...

SPARC themes and activities address areas of societal concern such as:

The Moho Nord oil exploration and production project addresses environmental, industrial and societal concerns without compromising safety.

These performances show Pope.L working in a space between community organization and an artistic practice — mobilizing individuals while attempting to address societal concerns through an abstraction of imposing themes such as labor, identity politics, and basic civil and fundamental rights.

Those fundamental societal concerns can come into conflict.

This generational change will percolate through the economy as companies that do not effectively address societal concerns will struggle to remain relevant in the long - term.

Ubisoft's tagline for the game was presented as: «The city is your weapon,» and the fact that the game derives its gameplay from the excessive information overload which is becoming a growing societal concern is simply delicious.

Mitchell combines the ultraviolent imagery he lifts from the movie with a theatrical composition in order to address class, race, and other societal concerns.

This achievement permits an unparalleled degree of societal concern for the rights, liberties, and dignity of human persons, qua persons (i.e., not because of their opinions, beliefs, religion, ethnicity, or race).

As a result, courts have found that parental conflict related to divorce is a societal concern because children suffer potential short - term and long - term detrimental economic, emotional, and educational effects during times of family transition due to divorce.

«The possibility of a continued decay in the strength of the magnetic field is a societal concern that merits continued study and monitoring.»

Researchers in the field have emphasized that caution must be taken when interpreting these figures; however, the fact that sexual aggression persists at all highlights its importance as an issue of societal concern.

The growing scientific and societal concern about the effects of underwater sound on marine ecosystems has been recently recognized through the introduction of several international initiatives aiming at measuring the environmental impact of ocean noise at large spatial and temporal scales.

Most of our societal concerns about the nutritional adequacy of vegan foods are actually perpetuated by how we view our plates.

In one scene, she chastises Lady Bird for leaving her school uniform on the floor and then proceeds to explain exactly what financial and societal concerns have led her to stress this request so strongly.

Economic security is a societal concern dating as far back as ancient Greece and medieval Europe, with the ever present threats of unemployment, illness, disability, death, and old age.

Let's discuss some of the specifics regarding the dangerous dogs act and whether or not this was an effective response to a societal concern...

In this way, abstraction is not pure, but informed by personal and societal concerns.