Sentences with phrase «key vulnerabilities based»

Section 19.3 presents selected key vulnerabilities based on these criteria.

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In context, the «unequal status of women and girls» within Somali society «sharply increases their vulnerability» to many forms of violations key among them «gender - based violence during humanitarian crisis» as with any individual or family displacement more so due to conflict and drought, existing «community support structures» are disrupted exposing them to «unsafe physical surrounding» (Ibid) thereby increasing their vulnerability to exploitation.

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Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

To broaden the approach of estimating plausible changes in climate conditions in the framing of future risk, we recommend a bottom - up, resource - based vulnerability assessment for the key resources of water, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function for the Netherlands.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.

These include identifying and understanding key environmental and societal vulnerabilities to global change over a range of time scales; developing a knowledge base to support regional and sectoral responses to global change; developing a knowledge base to support responses to global scale threats; and finally, creating and applying the tools and approaches needed to iteratively manage the risks of global change.

Section 19.3 provides an indicative, rather than an exhaustive, list of key vulnerabilities, representing the authors» collective judgements based on the criteria presented in Section 19.2, selected from a vast array of possible candidates suggested in the literature.

Depending on circumstances, some of these impacts could be associated with «key vulnerabilities», based on a number of criteria in the literature (magnitude, timing, persistence / reversibility, the potential for adaptation, distributional aspects, likelihood and «importance» of the impacts).

Based on the information summarised in the sections above (Table 7.3), key vulnerabilities of industry, settlement and society include the following, each characterised by a level of confidence.

To combat this vulnerability, Cavalry proposed an «automotive cyber safety program» based on five key security strategies:

Three key features associated with levels of vulnerability or resilience are a secure base, self esteem and self efficacy (Daniel, 2002; Gilligan, 1997).