If we are to truly make progress on the massive challenges facing our planet and our populations within 12 months, we will not only need to think in new ways – but rethink things entirely.
As investors, social entrepreneurs, and human beings, we have a moral imperative to take on the challenges facing our planet and our global population.
One of the biggest challenges facing the population in years to come will be itself.
Re "Overpopulation Is Not the Problem" (Op-Ed, Sept. 14): Erle C. Ellis recounts his transition from a narrow, distorted biological determinism regarding the challenges facing the human population to a narrow, distorted social-scientific optimism that "the only limits to creating a planet that future generations will be proud of are our imaginations and our social systems".
And, looking back over the series, Alvin asks whether the credit crisis has really only served to expose pre-existing challenges facing an ageing population.
In addition to disaster health risk profiling, a better strategy is required for disaster risk communication and indicating the potential challenges facing the vulnerable population during extreme weather events and climate change in the decades to come.
One of the challenges facing population health research in cancer is the recruitment of large and representative samples of participants in a timely and cost efficient manner.
We have added mention in the discussion of the broader challenges facing conservation initiatives (population growth, poverty and corruption) and of the generality of challenges we identify to other regional-scale conservation initiatives.
One of the most significant public health challenges facing this aging population will be changes in the frequency and/or intensity of climate-related stressors such as hot temperatures and extreme weather events.
As outlined in Figure 1, health policy planners and biomedical research scientists have conducted landscape surveys of the challenges facing the Saudi population, and formulated strategic objectives of how to move the health care research agenda forward with defined outcomes.
