Sentences with phrase «storm damage reduction»

• $ 1.8 billion to support public health and safety by funding flood and storm damage reduction activities, an increase of $ 74 million above fiscal year 2017 and $ 424 million above the budget request.

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-- Nassau County gave property owners three extra months to file for tax assessment reductions stemming from storm damage.
In addition to that, a number of other tweaks have been made to the mode in general, including a reduction of the bus height, a bigger storm circle, less storm damage, and more, but the main changes have been done to Thanos.
In addition to that, a number of other tweaks have been made to the mode in general, including a reduction of the bus height, a bigger storm circle, less storm damage, and more, but the main changes have been done to Thanos.
(3) identifies any use by the State or Indian tribe of allowances distributed under this section for the reduction of flood and storm damage and the effects of climate change on water and flood protection infrastructure.
It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.
Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).
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