Sentences with phrase «societal impact of this decision»

«In truth, these today feel like trifles compared to the wider cultural and societal impact of this decision.

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The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

The organization made an «internal, self regulatory decision» to scrap the project because of «public perception» and the «apparent negative societal impacts involved,» it noted in a statement.

Now, implicit bias is a much larger societal issue, and there are many organizations working within school systems to help educators to recognize and mitigate the impact of decisions based on our unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

It is a time when innocence and freedom are lost to societal pressures, and decisions are made that impact the direction of one's future.

The collective decision of NSF, NCAR and UCAR (the organization that manages NCAR) to terminate a societal impacts group designed to educate and train at home and abroad strongly suggests that the science bureaucracies of the 20th century (at least these particular ones) are not in a position to address the problems of the 21st century.

Climate services are boundary organizations that provide and facilitate knowledge about climate, climate change and climate impacts for planning, decision making and general societal understanding of the climate system.

Societal decision making also accounts for equity — who gains and who loses — and for the impacts of the measures on other factors that are not represented in monetary terms.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.