Sentences with phrase «with societal implications»

Most scientists, good or bad, are wedded to their specialties and have neither time, inclination or training to try to deal with the societal implications or issues of their research.

Ex: Think a new high school course on media and advertising influence linked with societal implications would be of enormous value in helping young people on the verge of making critical decisions in their soon - to - be adult lives.

Not exact matches

The Building with Biology Project created a community of informal science educators, researchers and scientists dedicated to developing innovative resources, practices and processes to build the capacity of the field to use public engagement with science (PES) activities to extend STEM learning about science, technology and societal implications through public and scientist dialogue about synthetic biology.

Reflecting the major societal implications, the new study estimated total annual costs — including medical costs, work losses and quality of life losses — associated with non-fatal and fatal bicycle injuries to adults.

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.

The EU FP7 Integrated Project EPOCA (European Project on OCean Acidification) was launched in June 2008 with the overall goal to advance our understanding of the biological, ecological, biogeochemical, and societal implications of ocean acidification.

Reducing the amount of dietary related diseases is utterly paramount and a huge (western) societal concern, with physical, social, economic, and environmental implications.

Second, the study provides a pointed reminder of the fact that a negative emissions strategy would likely necessitate a multi-generational societal commitment, with all of the implications that this would hold for governance, ethics and practical logistics.

The counterbalance to the subjective declarations about whose scientific «expertise» is sufficient to make public statements on issues with large societal implications lies, IMO, in bringing in the scientific method to clarify and make explicit the working criteria for evaluating expertise, and to control for biasing influences.

Not when you're talking about decisions with such huge economic and societal implications.

WCRP and GCOS assert that our ability to address critical climate issues, with profound societal implications, will be strongly limited unless observation of climate variables is given higher priority.

She argues that overt images of death and decay along with the deeper implications of societal decline and collapse are powerful triggers for denial of mortality.

An important new forum to promote cross-disciplinary discussion of a global phenomenon with long - term societal implications.