Sentences with phrase «term societal change»

It reviews the importance of partnership, technology and data, and effective messaging to create long - term societal change.

«Evidence from other countries shows that this type of tax does not deliver long term societal changes.

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The challenge is to change the societal outlook to one that is long - term and accounts for humanity's central role in shaping the planet's destiny, instead of one that reacts to immediate crises and thinks in the short term.

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.

World - system theorists maintain that in today's world the contours of societal change on virtually every continent must be understood in terms of the dynamics of this larger system.

If they really wanted to change what is happening they would use the terms «gun safety» or better yet a committee on «societal breakdown» which is the cause for the horrendous acts!

The purpose of the study was to assist with societal decision - making by examining the implications of climate variability and change on near - term financial investments.

This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long ‐ term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards.

For example, we could prepare for both short - and long - term changes of weather and climate while we continue to investigate the ecological and societal effects of atmospheric fluctuations, both natural and man - caused.

As we wrote: «The clips provide a poignant, historical insight into what scientists knew about climate change almost four decades ago — and how the world was beginning to react in terms of the resulting geopolitical, technological and societal ramifications.

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

The long - term objective of climate change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing additional shared humanitarian necessities, including providing reliable and affordable energy to improve global living standards.

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 — 14).

This group, often termed climate change skeptics, contrarians, or deniers, has received large amounts of media attention and wields significant influence in the societal debate about climate change impacts and policy (7, 9 - 14).

«The long - term objective of climate - change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing shared humanitarian necessities,» Exxon Mobil General Counsel Ken Cohen wrote in the post.

In 1975, the term «new morbidity» was introduced to describe those noninfectious entities that appeared to be most prevalent.2 This important conceptualization underscored a growing realization that significant societal changes (eg, increasing numbers of single parents and families with 2 working parents) were challenging pediatric health care providers to address complex concerns that were not strictly medical in nature.

The effects of socio - economic disadvantage are likely to relate to low parental psychosocial, as well as economic, resources that compromise parenting quality (Belsky, 1984; La Placa & Corlyon, 2016), Focusing on structural societal changes which reduce inequalities is likely to boost such resources in the longer term (Katz, Corlyon, La Placa & Hunter, 2007).