Sentences with phrase «of social vulnerability»

These maps measure and illustrate the convergence of social vulnerability factors (such as economic standing and age, among others) and four environmental hazards: flooding, hurricane force winds, sea - level rise, and drought.

Dr. Guilcher said women with disabilities often have other measures of social vulnerability, such as low income and low education levels.

«We have lots of undocumented immigrants, who have a lot of social vulnerability to something like devastating flooding in East Boston.

Sandy, which hit the East Coast in the first six months of his tenure, forced him to confront some of the social vulnerabilities of managing people as sea levels rise.

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Which brings up another current limitation of social platforms that has actually supported our vulnerability to inauthenticity.

Rep. Robin Kelly, a Democrat from Illinois and a ranking member of Congress» IT oversight subcommittee, says she's pleased Facebook is taking steps to improve disclosure on candidate ads but says the company is missing a «major vulnerability» on social issue ads.

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

We still need his genius to see that human behavior is complex, that demonic possibilities are built into church and social structures, that human pride and spiritual arrogance rise to new heights precisely at the point where they are closest to the Kingdom of God, and that advance brings vulnerability to new temptations.

His 13th album is arguably one of his (and this year's) most important to date for its vulnerability, innovation and social commentary.

In view of the increasing vulnerability of contemporary societies to a broad range of social risks, including the possibility of total human extinction, the human rights regime needs to incorporate a broader concept of global human security.

... It's a social - validation feedback loop... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.

In a recent interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, former Facebook president Sean Parker alleges that the creators of the social media platform «knowingly exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.»

In societies which have a low degree of acceptance of large daily amounts of alcohol, mainly those will be exposed to the risk of addiction who on account of high psychological vulnerability have an inducement to go against the social standards.

Child abuse, neglect, and excessively harsh treatment of children are associated with both internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems and later violent behaviour, 3,4,12 but again, the impact of child maltreatment on severe antisocial behaviour appears to be greatest in the presence of genetic vulnerability.13 Family dependence on welfare, large families with closely spaced births, and single parenthood are all associated with compromised social and emotional development in children.5, 6

This article will analyse how humanitarian crises exacerbate social exclusion, resulting in increased vulnerability of persons with disabilities.

A radical increase in the mental and physical prowess of certain individuals via bio-technology and synthetic biology would nullify the presupposition of shared vulnerability, and with it a fundamental ground for the possibility of a social contract.

In addition to a kind of shared vulnerability, social contracts presuppose something like a rough equality of stakes.

This is largely because of the highly emotive nature of the sexual abuse of children, resulting from the perceived innocence of youth, the vulnerability of children and social conceptions of these child abusers as evil and beyond help.

«On our part, the National Social Protection Policies designed to rescue Nigerians out of poverty and vulnerability, would further help to restore abundance in the general well being of the citizens as lives would be positively impacted through this scheme», he stressed.

$ 480,575 has been awarded from the Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program; an additional $ 200,000 will be available 2017 to support coastal resiliency projects: · Natural infrastructure / living shoreline protection techniques · Coastal wetland monitoring and restoration activities · Green infrastructure to improve coastal resiliency · Community stewardship and education initiatives · Coastal property / ecosystem vulnerability analyses · Economic and social analyses of the value of resiliency measures

That Mr Miliband should feel the need to attack the concept of social responsibility, and do such a poor job of knocking it down, is a sign of his and Labour's vulnerability in this area.

On one hand, we need to acknowledge that individuals bear some responsibility for their health, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA.

In a new paper published this week, Dr Sealey - Huggins finds that discussion of climate change has failed to pay enough attention to the social, political and historic factors which increase the vulnerability of Caribbean societies, and calls for a new approach focused on understanding and addressing these historic inequalities.

«Applying these new models to areas that have pre-existing social vulnerabilities could identify susceptible regions, allowing us to direct healthcare resources there ahead of time.»

The paper «The unquestionability of risk: social vulnerability and earthquake risk in tourist destinations,» published in Journal Cuadernos de Turismo, plans a new strategy of prevention and mitigation actions aimed at identifying and designing specific measures for vulnerable groups.

As indicated by the professor, «the residential tourism model implemented in Torrevieja has not only created economic risk by the construction crisis and social risk (it is the poorest municipality in Spain according to the National Institute of Statistics), but it has also increased seismic vulnerability.»

Margulies acknowledges he's not a great hacker — he's better at identifying security vulnerabilities than actually replicating the destructive coding and social engineering tactics of malicious hackers.

Brene Brown, Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and expert in the field of social connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social boSocial Work and expert in the field of social connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social bosocial connection, explains that vulnerability is a core ingredient of social bosocial bonding.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

Overlaying social factors, levels of agricultural runoff, local pollution and upwelling, a natural ocean process that brings more corrosive deep ocean water to the surface, helps tease out regional differences in vulnerability.

Dr. Keener coordinates an interdisciplinary team of social and physical scientists that aims to reduce Pacific Island communities vulnerability to climate change by translating academic research into actionable knowledge for a variety of stakeholders at the local, state, and regional level — especially regarding the management of fresh water resources.

Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal factors, social stress, family stress or environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.

Galanter suggested that loud music may be tapping in to, and exacerbating, some of the common social vulnerabilities people bring to a public setting gathering.

They speculated that cognitive vulnerability may well be contagious at the time of important transitions in life, when our social environments are changing.

About Blog The Earthquakes without Frontiers partnership brings together a group of earth scientists with a long track record in integrated earthquake science, social scientists that have extensive experience in exploring the vulnerability and resilience of communities in disaster - prone regions, and experienced practitioners in the communication of scientific knowledge to policy makers.

It's rare that we get to see this most seemingly patrician of actresses delving into Britain's aspirational classes, and Scott Thomas's reading of Mimi's social airs is exquisitely poised between conceit and vulnerability, while still exercising her impeccable hauteur: «Your little friend is here,» she announces splendidly, when Paul McCartney shows up on her doorstep.

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges — True Grit — an amusing, disgusting, powerful presence that makes everything seem possible & REAL Jesse Eisenberg — Social Network — smart, subtle, fearless & very, very funny in a very, very specific way Colin Firth — King's Speech — appropriately pompous with vulnerability the audience adores — a true star turn and a true joy to behold James Franco — 127 Hours — wild and impassioned and believable with manliness battling it out with sensitivity in almost every frame Hrithik Roshan — Guzaarish — remarkably vulnerable with an edge of steel and a level of frustrated yearning that blew me away

1.5 by 2030 build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate - related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters

In the State of Tamil Nadu, the State Government has established the Tamil Nadu Aravanigal (Transgender) Welfare Board (TGWB) to address the social protection needs of hijra by linking them tosocial welfare programmes with the aim of reducing vulnerability to HIV and AIDS (Godwin, 2010).

Dr. Gadsden's research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life - course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status.

It's a lot... to ask a giant room full of people who just met each other to open up, embrace vulnerability, and personalize the work of social emotional learning.

Her work includes examinations of how black identity is differentially constructed across multiple contexts and informs achievement outcomes, how black people's perceptions of opportunity vary within space and influence academic orientation, and how black educational resilience and vulnerability is structured by social, institutional, and historical forces.

It can broaden your view of gender, ethnicity, place and time, power and vulnerability, things that influence social interaction.

For «Woodland» this can range from natural burial to body dump; «Home» dwells on the fear of lonely death and social death; «Grey Granular Fist» from personal vulnerability to public display; «Waterborne» from drowning and disaster to the being at one with the flow of matter.

Organized in seven sections, Chaos and Awe begins with «No Place,» a meditation on complex technological systems that have enhanced the connectedness of people and cultures around the world, but also led to a heightened vulnerability in our social, political, and technical infrastructures.

Drawing from Marxist, feminist, and radical black theory, Hannah Black's works are driven by voiceovers and intertitles that illuminate fissures in history and evoke the feelings of alienation and vulnerability that are amplified by social media and the profit structures of capitalism.

In Nengudi's hands, these materials take on symbolic meanings that relate to the resilience and vulnerability of the human body and to the forces, both social and psychological, that shape our experiences of the world.

His concern for marginalized people, both their vulnerability and their resiliency, and the cyclical threat and hope of American unfulfilled social promise will be reflected in his works.

Using high exposure and elevated contrast, Craig - Martin's close - ups represent the vanity, excess, and arcane social rituals of our culture, while simultaneously providing commentary on the vulnerability of her subjects and what she describes as their «failed armor.»

The works are imbued with social and sexual stereotypes, which are used to explore the conflicting positions of power and vulnerability within the artist's life as a young Asian woman.