Sentences with phrase «reducing system vulnerability»

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If we accept that properly implemented macroprudential policies can help to effectively combat financial vulnerabilities by strengthening resilience in the financial system and reducing systemic risk, this supports the view that authorities should look to these policies first when imbalances arise, before turning to monetary policy.

Reducing the vulnerability of drinking water systems to deliberate attacks is one of the main security challenges.

Better understanding the susceptibility of trees to drought could help forestry experts create early - warning systems and take precautionary steps, such as planting more resilient species or thinning overcrowded forests to reduce a forest's vulnerability to drought, the researchers report.

«We show that technological developments with increases in power plant efficiencies and changes in cooling system types would reduce the vulnerability to water constraints in most regions.

A fragmentation of the cultural landscapes in the arid and semi-arid lands of Mongolia has increased vulnerability and reduced the adaptive capacities to climate variability of traditional pastoral systems, which have evolved over thousands of years.

Action is urgently needed now to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of food systems to ensure food security and good nutrition for all.

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

Improved early warning systems and their application may also reduce vulnerability to future risks associated with climate variability and change.

Both sets of comments explain that New England's expanding clean energy resources are moving the grid in the right direction by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and lessening the electricity system's vulnerability to cold - weather disruptions in natural gas supplies.

Reducing vulnerability of food systems can help to end hunger and malnutrition around the world.

Adaptation aid «intends to reduce the vulnerability of human or natural systems to the impacts of climate change and climate - related risks, by maintaining or increasing adaptive capacity and resilience.»

The first is reducing communities» vulnerability to climate impacts through system - based planning.

Energy storage also reduces vulnerability to cyber-attacks by allowing us to put critical systems on independent power sources.

For example, the risk from heatwaves and thunderstorms could both be reduced by early warning systems, vulnerability mapping and public health education.

Network Security Consultants reduce the vulnerability of complex network systems and prevent unauthorized access.