Sentences with phrase «societal issues such»

However, the report also raises the prospect of climate change exacerbating societal issues such as conflicts and refugee crises.

A greater knowledge of DOM formation may help us better understand and manage societal issues such as climate change, the fate and transport of pollutants, and drinking water contamination.

Mika Rottenberg envisions the female body as a microcosm of larger societal issues such as labour and class inequities.

Extensive Federal requirements and guidance call for transportation planners to evaluate potential economic, community, and environmental impacts of transportation programs; examine past trends and future projections for travel demand for people, goods, and information; and address societal issues such as community values and goals.

The U.K. government is keen to address societal issues such as obesity and carbon emissions by finding ways to change behavior without using regulation.

The best - run companies have leaders willing to take a stand on societal issues such as gun control, Bill George says.

Not exact matches

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

What a sad state of affairs for our young people, that men such as Anthony Weiner are pushed to the forefront of politics as being the best example to handle very serious matters involving societal issues for the states and nation.

To measure societal discontent as a general factor Z, we asked people to indicate on how many out of the last 30 days the average person had encountered problems with a range of 12 to 14 issues, such as crime, unemployment, and corruption.

In a recent study, one of us, along with colleagues at the University of Groningen, explored how the psychology of doom and gloom reveals how the spirit of our time is influencing people's decisions about divisive societal issues, such as voting for extremist parties.

Societal tensions around issues such as the teaching of evolution in public science classrooms typically involve only a subset of Christians, and they have too often been depicted as more sweeping conflicts, Tippett argued.

In this test, each participant was required to donate or punish 30 charitable organizations involved in salient societal issues, such as abortion and gun control.

Subsidy reform boosts revenue in India, Indonesia Phil Sharp, a former 10 - term congressman from Indiana and current president of the economic think tank Resources for the Future, said such critical examinations of energy subsidies and their broad societal effects are helpful in keeping the issue «out front» with policymakers.

An international group of 11 organizations with genetics expertise has issued a policy statement on germline genome editing in humans, which recommends against genome editing that culminates in human pregnancy; supports publicly funded, in vitro research into its potential clinical applications; and outlines scientific and societal steps necessary before implementation of such clinical applications is considered.

While the field may lack these elements, there are other aspects of professionalism that are often overlooked, such as educators» abilities to address diverse learning styles and complex societal issues in multiple contexts.

Admittedly, the critical pedagogues have squarely confronted two of the most enduring issues surrounding the work of education: 1) To what extent should the mission of public schools be focused on character development, societal reform, and other such affective goals, as opposed to cognitive development and academic preparation?

In that piece, she said: «We must have a meaningful conversation about mental health issues and other possible cultural and societal contributors to violent behavior, such as violence in video games.»

Of course, the rise of black - owned spaces has impact far beyond the market, and many prominent non-profit spaces, such as Rick Lowe's Houston - based Project Row Houses and artist Mark Bradford's Los Angeles - based Art + Practice, are positioned as «social sculpture,» an expanded concept of art coined by the German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys, who sought to use art to address societal issues.

Wright explores various mediums; such as sculpture, printmaking and painting as modes of expression, drawing inspiration from the interconnected worlds of media, popular culture, politics and societal interactions in an attempt to create panoramic views of current issues, hardships, complexities and paradoxes present within South African and to some extent African society as a whole.

There in my capacity as a Pace University senior fellow, I was invited to giving a closing reflection, in which I described where science contributes, and where science ends, in the process of setting personal and societal goals on such issues:

This area of inquiry is designed to support a broad swath of team researchers such that we can examine basic and applied scientific issues of tremendous societal importance.

Scientific and societal requirements for ocean observing have evolved significantly over the past decade from being primarily focused on climate - related issues to include a much wider set of phenomena such as the degradation of coastal habitats, pollution, ocean acidification, over-exploitation of fisheries, biodiversity decline, de-oxygenation and more.

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!

Until such an analysis is available, I think that it is pointless conflating these two different issues (societal changes vs AGW).

My delegation considers that the four - day meeting of experts convened by States party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva in May, provided an important opportunity to explore the fundamental legal, ethical and societal issues raised by one such possible advancement, lethal autonomous weapon systems.