Sentences with phrase «also damage infrastructure»

Overwash accumulating each year will also damage the infrastructure on these islands, making it much harder for potable water resources to recover from storm events.

«For example, conflict will not just cause disruption in its own right, it will also damage infrastructure, overburden hospitals, and undermine the availability of goods, services and recreational activities.»

Not exact matches

Infectious diseases also spread more easily after these kinds of weather events, and general infrastructure damage (such as to the water supply) carry unpredictable public health consequences.

Estimates also include losses to public infrastructure like roads and bridges, crop damage, and reductions in work hours.

To be sure, the hurricane severely damaged not just Puerto Rico's power infrastructure and health care system but also basic government functions and medical data collection.

Barbuda's hotel infrastructure was also damaged, but with less than 100 hotel rooms the overall effect on tourism as a whole is minimal.

You also agree to indemnify the Indemnified Parties for any loss, damages, or costs, including reasonable attorneys» fees, resulting from your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

They also don't damage the infrastructure as much as conventional weapons making them more desirable if someone wants to retake the territory later.

«We are also looking at repairing the damage that has been done to the infrastructure of the communities and rehabilitate the people.»

There is also significant damage to the island's infrastructure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday also said he had deployed the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to assess flood damage to properties and public infrastructure in Hoosick Falls.

Protecting our infrastructure isn't just about preventing malicious attacks, but also mitigating the damage of natural disasters.

It would be unfortunate, to put it mildly, to spend countless trillions replacing fossil - fuel energy infrastructure only to discover that its successor is also more damaging than it need be.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

They also want to make more forays into attributing actual impacts, like heat - related deaths and infrastructure damage, but that takes building partnerships between different disciplines, such as water management and epidemiology, which takes time.

«We also need to carry out other preparations, especially for displaced people whose homes or surrounding infrastructure have been damaged.

Efforts are also being hampered by damage to key transport infrastructure on Daydream and in the region.

The agency is also reporting that 90 per cent of government buildings and business structures were damaged as well as 90 per cent of the electricity infrastructure.

It would also mean investments in a hardened power grid, highways, sea walls, and other infrastructure to prepare for more damaging storms and other impacts of global warming.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

-- However, if in the absence of mitigation these events eventually rose to provide a substantial cooling, it could be highly variable year to year and thereby impose severely damaging global temperature fluctuations, and it could also be at the cost of a related scale of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis destroying more of society's infrastructure.

Every little step is needed, and ultimately decisions regarding how the United States will achieve these essential emission reductions must take into consideration not only the expected future profits from existing polluting infrastructure, but also consumer benefits from new energy efficiency and renewables, health impacts from carbon dioxide's co-pollutants, and humanitarian (and geopolitical) considerations from climate damage in the United States and around the world.

Thawing permafrost has potentially damaging consequences not just for greenhouse gas emissions, but also for the stability of buildings and infrastructure in high - latitude cities.

Water may become less scarce in regions that get more precipitation, but more precipitation will probably also increase flood risk; it may also raise the groundwater table, which could lead to damage to buildings and other infrastructure or to reduced agricultural productivity due to wet soils or soil salinization.

Climate change impacts can also reverberate by damaging critical infrastructure like power generation, transportation, or health care systems.

These initiatives led to adaptation efforts, including elevating infrastructure, restoring green spaces, and developing evacuation plans that helped reduce damage and save lives during Irene and Sandy (also see discussion of Hurricane Sandy in Ch.

Not only is there more property and infrastructure to damage, but the average amount of personal belongings has also increased, i.e., the number of cars, TVs, and other items which can be damaged by hurricanes is much greater now than it would have been in the early 20th century.

Flood damage to personal property, businesses, and public infrastructure can also result (see Key Message 2).

The cowling will also contain any mechanical failure without damage to the surrounding infrastructure.

Demonstrating both «triggers» to policy coverage can be difficult in the aftermath of a hurricane, where there is also usually damage to transport and utility infrastructure which also causes interruption to businesses.

They have also appeared before the Supreme Court in two cases brought by a Danish insurance company and a Danish railway company and one of the engine drivers regarding the collision of two trains causing damage to both the trains and the railway infrastructure, as well as personal injury to the passengers.

In 2001, the respondent's majority shareholder learned of the bylaw, and when Lorraine refused to amend it the developer brought an action in nullity against the bylaw in 2007, seeking damages and the removal of the infrastructures, as well as an action against the Municipality of Thérèse de Blainville, which implemented a plan that also changed the zoning for the respondent's land.

A commercial inland marine policy may also cover damage your equipment does to infrastructure.

«Infrastructure teams should also better segment their IT systems to prevent future malware from spreading laterally through connected networks, to prevent potential for extensive damage,» he added.

Couples undergoing stressful periods aren't the only ones who suffer - their children also sense damage to the family infrastructure.