Sentences with phrase «in vulnerable areas»

«Risk is increasing globally even without climate change,» the report said, largely because of a rising global population with people living in vulnerable areas such as flood plains.

Secondly, we have increased the population in vulnerable areas dramatically.

The pair, then, have a natural tendency to drop deep, opening up space in a vulnerable area.

This in turn protects your child in the vulnerable areas like the chest and head areas.

As disasters become more frequent and populations living in vulnerable areas increase, interest in the health effects of exposure to the combination of natural and technological disasters has grown.

I feel that in the more modern cars cheaper plastics that can get damaged easily are put on cars in vulnerable areas.

The problem is serious because up to 10 percent of the world's population lives in vulnerable areas less than 10 meters (about 30 feet) above sea level.

In particular, rising temperatures in the ocean and the air alongside booming construction in vulnerable areas are fueling the increased risk from massive deluges.

The Brevard school district will spend the upcoming days preparing its 80 or so facilities throughout the county, placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, closing storm shutters, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and protecting computers.

It promises to improve scrutiny of changes in forest cover in vulnerable areas of Southeast Asia, Africa and the Amazon.

Improved technologies for tree plantation development and reforestation could likely enhance adaptation especially in vulnerable areas such as the Siberian forests.

The forest fires are being dowsed out because of human settlement in vulnerable areas.

And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

Masuaku is really becoming a bit a bit of a revelation in an attacking sense, and providing he doesn't try his wonderful tricks in vulnerable areas of the pitch then he can become a major creator for us going forward.

Though, he combines well with those who do — often acting as insurance for Vasquez who sometimes gets intercepted in vulnerable areas.

Still, Occupy Sandy's Goldberg said the city should have done more to prepare, like establishing relief stations in vulnerable areas before the storm rather than trying to get there after roads were underwater and the tunnels were flooded.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed buying out residents in vulnerable areas and replacing their homes with wetlands and dunes to move people out of harm's way and buffer the city against storm surges.

As Earth warms and sea levels rise, governments in vulnerable areas will have a tough choice to make.

Safety features include active head restraints to prevent whiplash neck injuries and a side - impact system that adds protection in a vulnerable area.

If you fall into that category, there are two programs that would help you to gain up to 70 % loan forgiveness of your Federal Perkins Loans: AmeriCorps VISTA is a volunteer program for students who want to serve in vulnerable areas in the U.S..

In Thailand's Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, where I conducted the first field research on Indochinese tigers and other big cats in the 1990s, our partners at the Wildlife Conservation Society have found that building stronger, local informant networks and ramping up unpredictable, frontline enforcement patrols in vulnerable areas has significantly increased early detection and arrests for tiger poaching.

«Climate Change - Induced Migration in Bangladesh: Findings from the Focus Group Discussions in Vulnerable Areas,» Todd Eisenstadt, Sk.

Apart from my work on MRV, I also do adaptation research in vulnerable areas around climate change in western China.

Future flood damages will depend heavily on settlement patterns, land - use decisions, the quality of flood forecasting, warning and response systems, and the value of structures and other property located in vulnerable areas (Mileti, 1999; Pielke and Downton, 2000; Changnon, 2005), as well as on climatic changes per se (Schiermeier, 2006).

Isolating natural hurricane losses, anthropogenic hurricane losses (or maybe something in the middle, i.e., hurricanes that would have happened anyway but were a few percent more intense), fully accounting for losses in the early part of the time series record, as well as increases in socio - economic infrastructure in vulnerable areas is pretty sketchy business... this is a new approach and something which should be investigated much further.

Disruption by flood and high winds; withdrawal of risk coverage in vulnerable areas by private insurers, potential for population migrations, loss of property

Graphs showing recent record insurance losses from natural disasters are presented, but no mention is made of how increasing population and insistence on building in vulnerable areas are the predominant factors causing recent high insurance claims from disasters such as Katrina.

Interactions between climate change and urbanisation: most notably in developing countries, where urbanisation is often focused in vulnerable areas (e.g., coastal), especially when mega-cities and rapidly growing mid-sized cities approach possible thresholds of sustainability (very high confidence).

In particular, rising temperatures in the ocean and the air alongside booming construction in vulnerable areas are fueling the increased risk from massive deluges.

The district has spent the last few days placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and making sure computer labs are protected.

In a vulnerable area such as sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, Christians have increased 70-fold and Muslims 20-fold over the past century.

Through our capacity - building approach, better city planning will result in fewer people impacted, dunes will prevent floods caused by storm surge in soon - to - be-developed coastal zones, and families living in vulnerable areas will have built houses that are more suitable for extreme weather.

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

LONDON (Reuters)- Extreme floods like those swamping parts of Britain in recent months could become more frequent in Europe by 2050, more than quadrupling financial losses, if climate change worsens and more people live in vulnerable areas, research showed on Sunday.

All manual call points that are placed in vulnerable areas and are prone to false activations should now be protected, without the need to consult your fire safety officers.

Most cases involve cats who do not have skin pigment (white skin or white color hair) in vulnerable areas such as the ears, nose and eyelids.

At least 275 million city dwellers live in vulnerable areas, the majority of them in Asian coastal megacities and industrial hubs such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Bangkok and Tokyo.