Societal debate gets to be triggered by products at the end of the development chain, rather than during the processes of scientific progress and technology innovation themselves, when things can still be shaped and steered in different directions.
There was a societal debate that lasted for nine months.
It might be useful to facilitate societal debate about the future of energy.
These questions arise amid a broader political and societal debate about gun control.
Ultimately, solutions to the public health challenge of SCA will require greater awareness, societal debate and focused public policy.
We constructed this methodology from existing chemical process design practices, insights from various engineering disciplines, and the main issues from the societal debate on sustainability.
I'm happy for that to be at the restrained end [of the pay scale], albeit in a societal debate I can't win," Hester said.
The contributors to these reports claim that climate change in 2007 was mostly the same societal debate that biodiversity is today.
This multitude of aspects play a role in societal debate in comparing electricity generating and supply options, such as cost, GHG emissions, radiological and toxicological exposure, occupational health and safety, employment, domestic energy security, and social impressions.
Opposition from some EU states to draft GM authorisations is "usually not based on science but on other considerations reflecting the societal debate existing in the country," the commission argues.
"The potential scale of such a deep transformation will require a wide societal debate in Europe," says the document, which was jointly prepared by the European commission and its foreign office, the European external action service.
