Sentences with phrase «in vulnerable regions»

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

In this case, thousands of copies of a simple poster explaining basic earthquake - resistant construction techniques were distributed to schools in the vulnerable region.

That means trouble because of rising populations in vulnerable regions.

And the long - term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to socio - economic changes, such as population growth and development in vulnerable regions.

These predictions are especially important in vulnerable regions like the Arctic, which is expected to warm considerably this century, and which holds a vast amount of carbon in the tundra.

The draft also warns of storm surges and flooding around the planet, especially in vulnerable regions with limited abilities to adapt, including sub-Saharan Africa and Asian mega-deltas in India, Bangladesh and China.

To provide members of the public with the opportunity to contribute directly to research on climate change in a vulnerable region and demonstrate the power of an evidence - based approach to climate impact attribution.

«As climate services become the focus of research and government interventions in vulnerable regions, avoiding culturally and economically expensive mal - adaptation will require giving attention to the complexity and dynamism of such changing religious landscapes,» Murphy advises.

Community participation and strong social networks can aid preparedness to natural disaster such as tsunamis in vulnerable regions, shows new research conducted in the south of Thailand.

But its inclusion of «food stamp» style discounts for poor people in vulnerable regions side - steps the need to pair such policies with long - term initiatives aimed at shifting settlement patterns altogether.

Combine that reality with the prospect of populations doubling by 2050 and the persistence of anarchy in vulnerable regions, and any impact from human - driven climate change has to be considered a background issue, at best, compared to the forces already killing thousands and deepening vulnerability of millions more.

I replied to his comment this way, noting that — along with changes to the dice — the stakes were shifting, too, as a result of population growth in vulnerable regions:

This guidance document presents that climate change disproportionally affects the poorest and most marginalized communities living in vulnerable regions, among them indigenous peoples, whose livelihoods depend on natural resources.

For millions of people who depend on food grown in vulnerable regions, the future is actually evaporating.

The decreases in calcification and PIC occur simultaneously with decreases in the observed carbonate ion concentration, suggesting a possible link between acidification and decreasing calcification in this vulnerable region.

How much longer will they be able to adapt to rising acidity in vulnerable regions like the Pacific Northwest?

The computer simulations of changing conditions in vulnerable regions later this century − in a blazing landscape fed by a river delta flowing through steamy marshland, and enfolding a calm, relatively shallow 1,000 km lagoon of evaporating seawater − have delivered a stark conclusion.

People need better access to water, particularly in vulnerable regions.»

In one such effort, undertaken in Pakistan after the devastating Kashmir earthquake in 2005, thousands of copies of a simple poster explaining basic construction techniques were distributed to schools in the vulnerable region.

Finally, «rising populations» in vulnerable regions.

WGII FAQ12.4: What role does migration play in adaptation to climate change, particularly in vulnerable regions?

Other groups have warned that high heat and high humidity, in places like the Gulf region, could by the end of the century have reached lethal levels; that conditions could become so fierce as to trigger a new exodus of peoples from the Middle East and North Africa; and that those people crammed into megacities — always several degrees warmer than the surrounding hinterland — in the vulnerable regions of the globe could be at risk on a huge scale as hazards rise over the decades.