Sentences with phrase «understanding human vulnerabilities»

This does not encompass all humans in need, wherever they are located and however uneconomic or sociopolitically excluded, nor does it consider the subtlety of understanding human vulnerabilities in context, with sociocultural drivers (beyond markets and data); nor does it attend especially to those who remain disconnected in communications terms, which raises new questions of who is more remote and more vulnerable (including acknowledging sociocultural barriers to speaking up).

The inclusion of climate variability and change in understanding human vulnerability and adaptation is being increasingly explored at household and community levels, as well as though regional agro-climatological studies in Africa (e.g., Verhagen et al., 2001).

Not exact matches

«We're beginning to understand that genetics is really about vulnerability,» says neuroscientist Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

Three separate Working Groups contribute to the Assessment, which analyzes the current scientific understanding of impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability.

A better understanding of ocean climate and ecosystems, as well as human impacts and vulnerabilities, requires the coordination of a continuous and long - term system of ocean observations.

These activities can be grouped under the following areas: improve our knowledge of Earth's past and present climate variability and change; improve our understanding of natural and human forces of climate change; improve our capability to model and predict future conditions and impacts; assess the Nation's vulnerability to current and anticipated impacts of climate change; and improve the Nation's ability to respond to climate change by providing climate information and decision support tools that are useful to policy makers and the general public.»

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

To understand vulnerability in these sectors we need to know not only about the natural processes involved in global change, but also about human behavior that influences production and consumption.

1.2 — Science for adaptation and mitigation: Advancing understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of integrated human - natural systems.

``... we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever... It's a social validation feedback loop... You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway.»

My goal is to support and guide you to fully understand and believe in your worth; value your unique contribution to this world; and love yourself through the mistakes, set backs, failures, and vulnerabilities that are part of the human experience.