Sentences with phrase «human vulnerability»

The data available so far strongly shows they're just evidence of human vulnerability in the face of periodic extremes.

This will most likely increase human vulnerability in concerned areas, and have major impacts on food security.

Inside, readers will discover first - hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course.

Maintaining a loving presence toward ourselves that allows us to be open to others is no easy task either, since it requires a tolerance of our own human vulnerability.

Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy.

His major exhibitions have focused on the subject of human vulnerability, complexity, and transformation in art from around the world.

Director Sam Mendes is playing a dangerous game here, afflicting an icon of invincibility and cool with human vulnerability and self - doubt.

Palihapitiya has repeatedly criticized social media in general, saying it preys on human vulnerabilities and that he doesn't allow his children to use it.

This does not encompass all humans in need, wherever they are located and however uneconomic or sociopolitically excluded, nor does it consider the subtlety of understanding human vulnerabilities in context, with sociocultural drivers (beyond markets and data); nor does it attend especially to those who remain disconnected in communications terms, which raises new questions of who is more remote and more vulnerable (including acknowledging sociocultural barriers to speaking up).

Ammar's artwork exposes human vulnerability, juxtaposing moments of blossoming positivity with the decay into negative moments.

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement [from some leading researchers] on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns....

Even within their formal edifices, Astrue reveals someone who — like Lord Byron or the late Bill Matthews, and (perhaps more to the point) Jonathan Swift — has learned to manifest his own too human vulnerability while at the same time protecting himself with his savage wit.

They represent to us, not human vulnerability before nature, but human ascendancy over it.

Growing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.

With a larger than life persona outshining even the calculated theatricality of the royal costumes, she effortlessly conflates the dual nature of Elizabeth's personal and private lives, the keen intellect, the touchy egotism, and the achingly human vulnerability that manifests in the acute jealously and peculiar pride she feels in having forsaken husband and children.

The plot plays on Shideh's insecurity as a mother and her failures at becoming a doctor and the use of the concept of Djinn, who appear in the Quran, works wonders at bringing the scares as well as making it a story of human vulnerability amidst a war and uncertain times.

Read this book for the audacious and brave perspective that McKeon shines on our very human vulnerabilities.

Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course (Life Course Research and Social Policies)

My work investigates human vulnerability and strength.

Digitally erasing the show's host, prizes, and other narrative trappings, Pfeiffer hones in on the facial expressions and body language of the game show's contestants, elucidating their shared human vulnerability.

The collection consists of sculptural vessels and tools alongside large, abstract forms, all relying on traditional carving techniques to reveal an unexpectedly human vulnerability in the wood.

Wilkes's art is best approached as a markedly subjective and singular vision — a private world that nevertheless evokes common instabilities and human vulnerabilities recognizable far beyond the confines of her studio.

Paint Made Flesh examines the ways in which European and American painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities, among them anxieties about desire, appearance, illness, aging, war, and death.

But whereas Arbus exposed «freaks», Neel revealed human vulnerability in all its rawness and tenderness.

My response would be that it is irresponsible not to mention the need to reduce inherent and avoidable human vulnerability to tornadoes in the crowding South, particularly in low - income regions with flimsy housing.

As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human - driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms.

I've written an essay for Wednesday's Op - Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need to limit human vulnerability to the worst the climate system can throw at us and to curb emissions that are steadily raising the odds of unwelcome outcomes, particularly extreme heat and either too much, or too little, water.

I've been writing a lot about human vulnerability to inevitable disasters on a crowding planet.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today's weather extremes tomorrow's norm.

We also need to call on local officials to do some intense creative thinking focused on freeing up resources being spent on maladaptive programs (i.e. those that increase GHG emissions and / or threaten human vulnerability to climate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate Communities.

Since spear phishing attacks go after human vulnerabilities instead of digital ones, it is critical that employees be made aware of the types of breaches they may encounter.

This may seem painfully trite to say, but in the legal community, we too often view having human vulnerabilities as a failing....

Particularly in a field such as the legal profession, where human vulnerabilities are viewed as personal failings and reputational concerns about stigma cloud even the best lawyer's judgment, I think such a medical model needs to be first embraced in law school.

Accept the truth behind your story, and the raw human vulnerability that comes with that.

The volumetries of Sandra Baía hide the fragility of those who are mirrored and face - to - face with human vulnerability.

But its sunny exterior conceals some sharp observations on human vulnerability and how easily self - preservation can calcify into mere selfishness.

The inclusion of climate variability and change in understanding human vulnerability and adaptation is being increasingly explored at household and community levels, as well as though regional agro-climatological studies in Africa (e.g., Verhagen et al., 2001).

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.

Vanier, the founder and inspirer of L'Arche communities, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share daily life together, is particularly interested in relationships, human vulnerability and fragility.

«With or without mitigation, there is no quick - fix, single - cause solution for the problem of human vulnerability to socio - environmental change, nor is there a reasonable prospect of attenuating high - impact weather.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

Biotic and human vulnerability to projected changes in ocean biogeochemistry over the 21st century.

The only effective moment of human vulnerability is used for comic relief, when Woodcock and Alma mercilessly undress a corpulent, middle - aged drunk who disgraces his green Margo Channing gown.