The phrase "cross-cutting issue" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is often used in contexts related to complex or multifaceted problems that affect several different areas or groups. Example: "Climate change is a cross-cutting issue that not only impacts the environment, but also the economy, health, and social justice."
For example, community safety is a cross-cutting issue that requires the involvement of many agencies in tackling.
Mrs. Clinton called the problem of indoor pollution from primitive cookstoves a "cross-cutting issue" that affects health, the environment and women's status in much of the world.
Even so, Bishop's view seems to be that no single candidate or election cycle can reverse these powerful trends; that only the rise of a "cross-cutting" issue — something that realigns political alliances across existing boundaries — can restore a sense of common purpose.
As a cross-cutting issue, DRR struggles to get sufficient financing, often due to the structural features of public expenditure management and state governance (Jackson 2011).
Social science, as a cross-cutting issue, has a concrete role and responsibility in solving energy-related challenges regarding social, economic and ecological problems.
Internationally, The Sphere Handbook (The Sphere Project 2011) considered gender a cross-cutting issue in any disaster intervention, with women considered one of the most vulnerable groups to be focused on in every disaster intervention program.
Sabita leads ETI's work on cross-cutting issues including living wages, working hours and gender.
This leadership event will bring together senior business, government and NGO participants, and will address both sector and cross-cutting issues.
I've long thought, for example, that it'd be better in Washington to have reporters cover risk and regulation instead of having single reporters cover particular agencies (think of cross-cutting issues like genetically modified foods, the health impacts of pollution…).
We have seen yet more evidence of how Whitehall finds it difficult to co-operate to tackle cross-cutting issues or to commission or procure competently and we have had no greater success in getting health, housing and social care to work together to address the challenges associated with increasing numbers of elderly people.
"This is now one of those cross-cutting issues that has an international component, a domestic component, a law enforcement component, an intelligence component, a medical response component and a military component," said John Parachini, executive director of the Washington office of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
