Another study by Steven Gortmaker from Harvard University's school of public health, concludes that the response by governments has been a failure of will which mirrored previous struggles to tackle tobacco consumption.
The offensive was necessary, he argues, because complicit previous governments, limp American efforts to tackle drug consumption and cross-border gun running, and changes in organized criminal markets had allowed the power and brutality of the cartels to get out of control.
To tackle unsustainable consumption patterns, action models promoting households' environmental sustainability were developed and piloted in Finland.
This chapter discusses the difference between ordinary sustainable methods based on saving energy and resources and methods that tackle excessive consumption, such as user involved design to enhance product durability.
The European Commission's new health strategy for improving health at the European Union (EU) level includes tackling alcohol consumption.
As 2013's most-read articles show, we explored and you debated and shared articles on the challenge of tackling over-consumption.
The report, a review of the international evidence on how to tackle rising sugar consumption, is clear and urgent from its very first line – "We are eating too much sugar and it is bad for our health" – that radical action is needed if that trend is to be reversed.
Although most of the efforts to tackle the energy consumption problem have been made on traditional IP networks, energy-aware protocols normally require of several coordination tasks that are not easy to implement on current networking equipment.
26 With a more detailed knowledge of this shift by population strata, more appropriate strategies may be planned to tackle rolling tobacco consumption and encourage cessation among them, awareness campaigns and better information to the population on the health effects of rolling tobacco, with an emphasis on youth and socioeconomic deprived areas.
One perpetual concern is the development of appropriate research approaches for tackling large fuel consumption and optimization problems.
