Sentences with phrase «resilience projects»

Since the 2013 flood, we have spent over $ 150 million on flood mitigation and resilience projects throughout Calgary and we are working closely with the provincial government to build upstream mitigation projects.

We featured his Resilience projects and experience on his resume.

He was already doing Resilience projects in his current position.

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Massachusetts developed a $ 40 million initiative to bolster community electricity resilience projects served by clean energy technologies, alongside a series of additional resilience - supportive programs.

Climate action needs to be dovetailed into governments» annual and other cyclical plan processes and can be an important consideration in designing future development and resilience projects.

However, the plans may become a repository for select adaptation and resilience projects rather than being mainstreamed into the state planning process.

Lia Nicholson has been with the Department of Environment in Antigua and Barbuda since 2014, where her responsibilities include developing and implementing climate adaptation and resilience projects in the twin island state, applying for direct access to the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (SIRF Fund).

aDMcea aims to develop tools to guide decision makers in designing and selecting disaster resilience projects that have better policies which link emergency and development projects within the animal resource sector.

I'm honored to be given this opportunity and eager to participate by providing my input on the economic benefits from resilience projects in coastal communities.

«The Resilience Project posits that rejection, failure, or disappointment, in the context of learning, are as valuable as the success we strive for.»

One example of an actual research project inspired by the PASTOR theory is the recently initiated Mainz Resilience Project (MARP).

Still, Cutting loves the idea of the Resilience Project.

And Friend and Schadt are planning a full - scale Resilience Project that will invite brand - new volunteers who agree to be recontacted to participate through a website.

The study is a first step in the Resilience Project, an effort led by Stephen Friend, president of Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, Washington, and genomics researcher Eric Schadt of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

In addition to the usual dorm counselors that can help students adjust to college life, Stanford University has created the Resilience Project, where prominent people, including former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, tell their stories of failure.

The Resilience Project aims to increase academic success and improve the social and emotional well - being of children impacted by trauma by providing staff training and ongoing coaching and technical assistance around how to create a trauma - sensitive school.

This is a guest post from Laurie Mazur, editor for the Kresge Foundation / Island Press Urban Resilience Project.

Similar to the reef resilience project, Blue Forest Conservation is now able to quantify exactly how our forests positively impact our communities.

Let's start by looking at different sources of resilience that have been identified in the International Resilience Project.

* Adapted from the International Resilience Project: http://resilnet.uiuc.edu/library/grotb97a.html

Michael also recently spent 2 - years at UNSW, where he had a lead role in a large - scale, University - wide, Student Well - being and Resilience project.

Not exact matches

The greatest privilege of the whole of the projects and of the places I've been to, the refugee camps in Jordan and Calais, is each of the refugees that I have met and how each of them has this story of suffering but also remarkable resilience.

CDP works with cities to help them manage greenhouse gas emissions, and is now playing matchmaker, identifying municipal projects the private sector can invest in around the world, in areas such as energy efficiency, resilience and forestry, and sustainable transport.

What makes it a delight to watch is how Baker avoids the sad sack stereotypes that Hollywood projects lean on when depicting poor people, and finds a way to make your heart swell with joy for the resilience of the human spirit even as he's breaking it into pieces.

Moringa's agroforestry projects create economic benefits for investors and local communities while contributing to building environmental and social resilience of land - use.

Kellogg also co-leads the climate - smart agriculture project of the WBCSD and supports its Statement of Ambition, which includes making 50 percent more food available and strengthening the climate resilience of food communities.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

Challenge Success, a project of Stanford Graduate School of Education, works with parents, educators and youth to help students develop creativity, resilience, self - management and engagement in learning.

Powerhouse Project offers a variety of FREE services and activities to empower Young Carers and their families as we aim to foster resilience, reduce isolation and caregiver fatigue, alleviate stress and anxiety, and invest peer support and life skills.

Bridge repairs, resurfacing projects and flood resilience initiatives are among major local road schemes to have received investment this week under the Government's Challenge Fund.

«This is unlike any project in the history of New York,» testified Joy Sinderbrand, president of NYCHA's Office of Recovery and Resilience.

«The beauty of the project was to see that there was such resilience and survivability of the fauna,» Stuebing says.

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

But Hurricane Harvey is unlike any past test of the gulf's resilience, and researchers are jump - starting studies to document the aftermath, building on baseline data from existing research projects, some of which have been underway for decades.

To cultivate the qualities of resilience and personal investment in a project, Lapthorn says students should be exposed early, before college if possible, to risky, less directed science.

By 2009, the women in Waters's Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project were scattered across 23 states, and just 16 % had returned to their prehurricane homes.

«Climate change mitigation project threatens local ecosystem resilience in Ethiopia.»

It is somehow ironic that a REDD + project created to mitigate climate change globally, might substantially reduce climate resilience locally.

When the going gets tough — and it usually will — what will see you through is enthusiasm for your project, your commitment to get it done, and your resilience, Barrett says.

The renamed, refocused Resilience in Survivors of Katrina (RISK) Project still follows many of the original study participants.

It finds that many of the major resilience policies, plans and projects under development fall short of addressing the long - term, existential threat of permanent flooding from sea - level rise.

This LIFE project is demonstrating that it can be done, by helping five municipalities in the Basque region to increase their resilience to heat waves and water scarcity.

The project therefore represents one of the most plausible approaches to enhancing crop yield and increasing resilience in the face of reduced land area, decreased use of fertilizers and less predictable supplies of water.

As an outcome of Drucza's presentation, CARE is refining the way it records certain social data, according to Elisabeth Farmer, Deputy Chief of Party for the CARE's Feed the Future Ethiopia — Livelihoods for Resilience Activity project, which emerged from GRAD.

Towards their safeguarding research within HERACLES project («HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hazards.

ref It will also be important to encourage socioeconomic research on the impacts of ocean acidification, the projected timing of impacts, and the ways to increase adaptability and resilience of socioeconomic systems in the face of changing ocean chemistry.

Whilst this project will not seek to attribute the impacts of such events, it will seek to understand the existing vulnerability and exposure of these countries to such impacts to further strengthen the evidence base to inform disaster risk management and resilience efforts.

Ultimately, results from this project can be used to prioritize projects and programs that are aimed at improving resilience.

Teens who carry out long - term research projects also gain a life lesson in curiosity, discipline and resilience.

The project goal was to improve the resilience of these populations to drought conditions.