Sentences with phrase «highly vulnerable area»

A new push is under way to raise awareness of a little - understood but dangerous risk to young athletes: injuries to the cervical spine, the highly vulnerable area between the first and seventh vertebrae that protects the spinal cord connecting the brain to the body.

Even in highly vulnerable areas, he notes, there are still undamaged reefs that — if protected — could help preserve vulnerable species.

It is quite striking that blue, less - polluting regions in the CO2 emissions map correspond to the red, highly vulnerable areas in the vulnerability map.

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«We hadn't expected that so many species and areas that were not previously considered to be of concern would emerge as highly vulnerable to climate change.

Bivariate plots showing areas with highest logged proportions (relative to species richness) of species that are climate change vulnerable only in yellow, threatened only in blue, and both highly climate change vulnerable and threatened in maroon.

This agenda includes addressing the persistent issue of pet abandonment, stopping the failed practice of TNR, and removing cats from particularly sensitive conservation areas with highly vulnerable wildlife populations.

The fastest subsidence occurs in highly populated coastal areas particularly vulnerable to flooding.

The depths of those areas were marked into highly vulnerable, medium vulnerable and low vulnerable.»

The Vulnerability Index concentrates georeferenced maps and basic statistics to identified areas that are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as landslides, floods, heat waves and dengue fever.

The distinctive characteristics of rural areas make them uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because: • Greater dependence on agriculture and natural resources makes them highly sensitive to climate variability, extreme climate events and climate change • Existing vulnerabilities caused by poverty, lower levels of education, isolation and neglect by policy makers, can all aggravate climate change impacts in many ways.

Being unable to afford any better, poor people are forced to settle in areas that are highly vulnerable to the affects of climate change.

The more southern states within the region, including Delaware and Maryland, have a highly vulnerable land area because of a higher rate of sea level rise and relatively flat coastlines compared to the northern tier.

Criterion (x): The terrestrial and marine habitats of Papahānaumokuākea are crucial for the survival of many endangered or vulnerable species the distributions of which are highly or entirely restricted to the area.

Coastal zones, particularly low - lying areas, and the highly valuable local and global socioeconomic services they provide (e.g., agricultural land, human settlements and associated infrastructure and industry, aquaculture and fisheries and freshwater supply) are particularly vulnerable to climate change (McLean et al., 2001, Section 6.5; Hassan et al., 2005, Section 19.3.2, Table 19.2).