Sentences with phrase «community risk reduction»

By presenting their own experiences of participating in disaster risk reduction activities, it aims to highlight the capacity of children in order to inspire other children and youth, as well as encourage local governments, NGOs, and the private sector to support child - centered community risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

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Effect of a sudden infant death syndrome risk reduction education program on risk factor compliance and information sources in primarily black urban communities

Shelley also believes that climate change denial is a hurting our future and supported Climate and Community Protection Act, a bill that would help put New York on track to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change through a reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of the state with respect to the impacts and risks of climate change.

«We found that in tsunami - prone areas, people who have participated in community activities are more likely to undertake disaster risk reduction actions,» says IIASA researcher Raya Muttarak, who led the study.

«Coastal resiliency and disaster risk reduction have become a national priority, and healthy coastal ecosystems play an important role in building resilient communities,» said Holly Bamford, Ph.D., acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management at NOAA, and co-author of the study.

Most indicators of the state of biodiversity (covering species» population trends, extinction risk, habitat extent and condition, and community composition) showed declines, with no significant recent reductions in rate, whereas indicators of pressures on biodiversity (including resource consumption, invasive alien species, nitrogen pollution, overexploitation, and climate change impacts) showed increases.

«And when designing multifaceted community - based cardiovascular risk reduction programs, the impact of financial stress should certainly be taken into consideration.»

The aim of the talk at the 2013 Meeting of the Americas, which is sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), is to focus on the specific role geoscientists can play in disaster risk reduction and how their work should fit in with the roles played by other experts for any given community.

Although these reductions in risk might seem modest, they could have potentially dramatic implications for public health if spread out over the tens of millions of coffee drinkers in the United States, says Susan Fisher, Ph.D., chair of community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, N.Y.

20 School initiates stress reduction programs for students; community group promotes kids wellness; obese children risk developing heart disease at a young age; free video game teaches youngsters to fight obesity.

Most importantly, we are bringing together community members, parents, school principals and vice principals, teachers, local authorities, officials responsible for emergency situations, media and national authorities to discuss the importance of taking joint and coordinated action on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biodiversity conservation, in a comprehensive manner and towards long - term solutions.

For example, the Every Student, Every Day initiative tells communities about the risks and results of chronic absenteeism while providing a toolkit and online conferences to discuss techniques for reduction.

The Hyogo Framework for Action, negotiated in 2005 in the wake of the tsunami, sets out priorities for disaster risk reduction and calls upon the international community to take practical steps to make communities safer.

Thailand is turning students into agents of disaster risk reduction, spreading a culture of prevention into the community while teaching children strategies for protecting themselves.

For more teams, see «Community Sustainability Teams» (a report Dr. Kelman wrote for a very useful consortium, Risk Reduction Education for Disasters.

He emphasizes a recent trend in finance models for forest preservation and a growing consensus in the international community: local projects linked to regional or national government emissions accounting frameworks limit the risk for leakage and increase the security of reductions.

Krupnick's primary research methodology is in the development and analysis of stated preference surveys (such as contingent valuation and choice experiments), which include eliciting preferences for reductions in mortality risks, environmental risks, tradeoffs involved in improving community drinking water quality with respect to removal of carcinogens versus microbiological agents, and, most recently, the risks from shale gas development as seen by experts and the general public.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

This activity report synthesizes consultations held at the regional, national and community levels throughout the Asia - Pacific region on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action or HFA2).

Dr. Pulwarty has acted in advisory capacities on climate, natural resources and disaster risk reduction to several national and international agencies, including the Organization of American States, the Caribbean Economic Community (CARICOM) the Global Framework on Climate Services, the UNDP, UNEP and the InterAmerican Development and World Banks.

Where communities live with various risks, coupling risk reduction and development activities can provide additional adaptation benefits (e.g., Yamin et al., 2005).

To learn from one another, the climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) communities need a shared language.

Climate adaptation and risk reduction: Increasing community resilience through nature - based solutions November 7, 16:30 - 18:00 — Germany Pavilion Presentations and a dynamic panel discussion on the latest trends in nature - based solution policies and scalable ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) tools.

It is imperative the science is clearly presented to inform the media and enable them to fulfil their role as information brokers, and to support decision - making by communities, planners, and policy - makers, especially during the window of opportunity in the aftermath of disaster when important decisions are beingtaken on rebuilding efforts including around climate resilience and risk reductions measures.

The Department of Natural Resources, in partnership with the board of community and technical colleges, will develop a center of excellence and research to promote renewable forest products plus research both forest health and fire risk reduction.

Its mission is to build a resource center that will enhance risk reduction activities through research and analysis of hazards, policies related to mitigation and through outreach to the community.

Recommendations for this report point to the need for disaster risk reduction and climate change to address the inequalities in the household and the community to lessen women's vulnerability.

Targeted fuel reduction treatments can help reduce risk to residential communities and restore landscapes affected by past fire suppression, but can not overcome the increasing trend in acreage burned.

Decentralised strategies that involve the scientific community are needed to overcome the large scale climate change challenges ahead of us, say experts in disaster risk reduction.

Responsible for the identification, reduction, and elimination of other risks in the community such as carbon monoxide dangers and electrical dangers.

The patients who received Schema Therapy are showing more rapid reductions in their risk of recidivism, and are moving more quickly through the process of resocialization, where patients gradually re-enter the community under decreasing levels of supervision.

Projects are based on one of nine intervention models: community consortia, coordinated care / case management, outreach and client recruitment, family resource centers, enhanced clinical services, risk prevention / reduction, facilitating services, training and education, and adolescent services.

Program (PMP) is a community - based family intervention designed to promote positive parenting and effective parent - child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction.

Dr. Kraizer is internationally recognized for creating models that maximize community - wide participation in prevention efforts and for her research in program effectiveness, including what methods ensure actual behavioral change associated with reduction of risk.