Sentences with phrase «vulnerable areas increase»

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The newest version Block IV Tomahawk missile employs several upgrades to its guidance and targeting systems that improve accuracy and flexibility, but may increase time over a target area, making the missile potentially more vulnerable to sophisticated air defense systems.

And as Florida's state climatologist David Zierden, who is also a researcher at Florida State University, told me, «It's this continued development in vulnerable areas that's increasing our hurricane risk much more than climate change itself.»

«We do know, however, that the risk increases over time because of growth in both the number and value of structures located in catastrophe - vulnerable areas.»

Attendance allowance is another area likely to result in increased complexity; devolution would require a significant effort to communicate with the elderly and the vulnerable in order to ensure that payments continued seamlessly.

«Unfortunately for broadcast journalism, Paxman is more or less gone from the news studios, and the new breed of anchors seem to have an increasing inability to ask simple, direct questions or press hard on the most vulnerable areas.

The study also found increased blood flow in limbic areas of the brains of women, which may also partially explain why women are more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and eating disorders.

«As we begin to run out of oil and gas, there's going to be increased exploration for areas where it is not being extracted,» says Hugh Ducklow a biologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. «The treaty is going to be vulnerable.»

In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.

Should capital - intensive businesses be located in flood risk areas and increase flood protection, or should they be (re) located to areas that are less vulnerable to flooding?

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Grey areas show where species are present, but few are climate change vulnerable or threatened; colours increase in intensity as species concentrations increase.

This column focuses on four areas in which the charter sector is driving innovation through progressive practices: committing to college success, rethinking student discipline, increasing teacher diversity, and supporting vulnerable populations.

Secondly, we have increased the population in vulnerable areas dramatically.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

These increases in runoff would likely improve conditions for water - dependent natural resources, such as cienegas, riparian areas, and aquatic habitats, which are vulnerable to low flows that are experienced seasonally, especially in summer months, and also during droughts [5]--[7].

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

The project, developed in collaboration between public and private partners, is the first Adaptation Plan for the city and it will increase the resilience of vulnerable areas and social groups, while contributing to the efficiency of public spending.

More frequent and intense heat waves will increase mortality and morbidity in vulnerable groups in urban areas [high confidence].

Isolating natural hurricane losses, anthropogenic hurricane losses (or maybe something in the middle, i.e., hurricanes that would have happened anyway but were a few percent more intense), fully accounting for losses in the early part of the time series record, as well as increases in socio - economic infrastructure in vulnerable areas is pretty sketchy business... this is a new approach and something which should be investigated much further.

Graphs showing recent record insurance losses from natural disasters are presented, but no mention is made of how increasing population and insistence on building in vulnerable areas are the predominant factors causing recent high insurance claims from disasters such as Katrina.

In order to help countries build resilience, the Bank will prioritize the most vulnerable areas, manage water availability and extremes, and increase its efforts to meet growing food demand.

As well, bear in mind that extensive areas of the U.S. were vulnerable to cat 4s / 5s before this increasing trend was discovered.

Steve's Reply: This amounts to an argument that land use and disaster planners in hurricane - vulnerable areas should plan only for an increase at cat 4s since an increase in cat 5s was not found over the limited period of the study.

You also claim that my comment «amounts to an argument that land use and disaster planners in hurricane - vulnerable areas should plan only for an increase at cat 4s since an increase in cat 5s was not found over the limited period of the study.»

Midway is the most important breeding area for Laysan albatross, a species vulnerable to extinction as pollution and fishing pressures increase.

«Risk is increasing globally even without climate change,» the report said, largely because of a rising global population with people living in vulnerable areas such as flood plains.

Areas with increased blast exposure risks are most likely to suffer a TBI, but military personnel in nondeployed settings are still vulnerable to all the civilian causes of brain injury.

This lamentable failure to formulate evidence - based policy in such an important area of the law seriously risks driving out valuable expertise, which will put the most vulnerable in society at increased risk of harm.

I am passionate about raising awareness of the issues surrounding older and vulnerable people, as well as helping to increase the profile and influence of SFE and its members, in order to promote expertise and best practice in this complex area of law.»

That includes increased funding for ACCHOs to expand in regions where there are low access to health services and high levels of disease, and in areas of mental health, disability services and aged care, and for areas where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a high burden of disease or are particularly vulnerable, like ear health and renal disease, delivered through ACCHOs.