Societal Interests

Schweitzer, G. E., "Regulations, Technological Progress, and Societal Interests", Research Management (March 1977)... 

Chapter 9—Future Trends in the Development and Use of Process Safety Metrics for improving process safety performance and broader societal interests... 

Metrics will become increasingly important as the discipline of process safety continues to evolve and improve. They hold promise to contribute to risk-based process safety, inherent safety, safety culture, and compliance with regulation as well as broader societal interests surrounding sustainability, globalization, and societal risk aversion. 

Standards balancing safety/risk against other societal interests. The second general type of safety/risk... 

Unfortunately, most diseases of economical and societal interest (e.g., heart disease, cancer, diabetes and asthma) are considered to be such complex diseases, that is, they cannot be attributed to single genes. In this context, the related genes are referred to as susceptibility genes. Such genes may or may not be related functionally they may be unrelated but belong to intrinsic biochemical pathways [8],... 

In the next few decades, several problems of considerable societal interest will emerge with a central theme of the balance between societal objectives and scientific curiosity-driven research, both of which are very important for the future. Three problems of key importance in the area of observations and modeling are ... 

Stanitski, Conrad L., Lucy Pryde Eubanks, Catherine H. Middlecamp, and Norbert J. Pienta, Chemistry in Context Applying Chemistry to Society (An American Chemical Society Project), 4th ed. Boston McGraw-Hill, 2003. This book includes twelve chapters on topics of current societal interest and connects them with fundamental chemistry. 

Context, Curricula, Creativity and Culture Bridging the Gap Between Formal Education and Personal and Societal Interests... 

As superbly expressed by Ezra Hauer, A broad class of professionals, those who influence the future of road safety, needs to be trained. Above all, they need to be freed from the constraints imposed on them. The best interest of society is to move toward the gradual establishment of the rational style of road safety management, it is the engineer s professional obligation to promote this societal interest. ... 

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