Change & Challenge

Climate-change challenge continues

There was euphoria amongst many delegates to last month's UN climate change conference in Montreal as countries struck a deal at the twelfth hour, but many researchers are concerned that a major study on the degree to which greenhouse gases need to be reduced to stabilise climate is still pressing. " Without an agreement on what level of climate change is 'dangerous' world leaders risk losing s...

The challenge of change.

This chapter introduces the theme of the book (i.e., the challenge of chance) and includes brief surveys of the individual chapters. The collapse of cohesion is one of the features that characterize chance. By sheer accident, or so it seems, something breaks the typical regularity of the natural world, like a comet disrupting the solar system. At a human scale, we find examples like unexpectedl...

The Challenge of Change

hat will the future of clinical engineering look like? The question is an important one for clinical engineers to consider because the answer determines how they should be preparing now for that future. What level of education and what skill sets should be acquired? Anticipating the future enables us to effectively prepare ... to be proactive rather than reactive as changes take place in our in...

The Challenge of Change

Mapping the climate change challenge

The recent negotiations on climate change in Paris have left partly open the discussion on a long-term global goal, in the form of an upper limit to warming. Agreement on such a limit is a political decision that need to be informed by scientific knowledge through a mapping that systematically explores the consequences of different policy choices. Such a multi-disciplinary effort, based on the ...