Sentences with phrase «vulnerable human populations»

The occurrence of heat waves has increased, with severe impacts on vulnerable human populations.

And it said that «national policy decisions made now and in the longer - term future will influence the extent of any damage suffered by vulnerable human populations and ecosystems later in this century.»

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Remote sensing and VGI generate geolocated data used not just by scientists, but also by practitioners with little scientific training seeking to intervene in crisis situations, which often unfold in remote and dangerous locations inhabited by vulnerable populations and may involve human rights abuses, humanitarian and disaster responses, and threats to cultural heritage during conflict.

Persons with HIV / AIDS represent a vulnerable population that often experience human rights violations.

All of these changes drove mammoth populations down and reduced their geographic range, MacDonald says, making them «very vulnerable to even slight increases in hunting pressure from humans.»

Our goal for this new program is to provide in - depth and customized education in ethical issues that arise in research conducted with human subjects, such as informed consent, genetics research, and in the study of vulnerable populations.

«This program reaches an extremely vulnerable population at an extremely vulnerable time with the best treatment available for opioid use disorder,» said study co-author Dr. Josiah «Jody» Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown University and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.

But others point out that the code focuses on past transgressions, and doesn't refer to recent efforts to respect and involve communities, such as guidelines for genomics work on vulnerable populations prepared in 2014 by the Human Heredity and Health in Africa program.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

«Clinicians should use as many data points as available to identify and document the presence of malnutrition... A standardized diagnostic approach will also inform the prediction of the human and financial responsibilities and costs associated with the prevention and treatment of undernutrition in this vulnerable population, and help to further ensure the provision of high - quality, cost - effective nutrition care,» the statement reads.

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

The researchers did find, however, that human - induced climate change led to higher temperatures and incoming radiation, which made the population more vulnerable in drought events.

Our study illustrates that even species as abundant as the passenger pigeon can be vulnerable to human threats if they are subject to dramatic population fluctuations, and provides a new perspective on the greatest human - caused extinction in recorded history.

This is a great achievement in terms of protecting vulnerable populations, in terms of human rights education and action, as well as the development of the ever improving human rights legal instruments and implementations procedures.

The Human Right Watch report brings froth the pervasive nature of sexual violence in the country that has had no central government since 1994 with the most vulnerable segment of her population with nowhere to turn to.

Like any baby, animal or human, orphan newborn kittens (aged eight weeks and under), are an extremely vulnerable population.

Thanks to human cullings, Great White populations are declining and they are considered «vulnerable.»

Though such extreme worlds have never supported a native human population, they are paradoxically vulnerable to Anthropocene - induced collapse.

But there are vast volumes of studies concluding that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are already influencing the climate and will continue to raise the odds of fiercer floods, drier droughts and other disruptive changes, including a quickening pace of coastal retreats (and all as human populations soar in some of the world's most vulnerable places).

In addition to complicating Turkey's already - troubled goal of «zero problems with neighbors,» Turkey's dams have also prompted human - rights concerns domestically, as most of the affected populations belong «to vulnerable groups like the rural poor, nomads, Alevi or Kurds,» according to last summer's U.N. report.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

Combine that reality with the prospect of populations doubling by 2050 and the persistence of anarchy in vulnerable regions, and any impact from human - driven climate change has to be considered a background issue, at best, compared to the forces already killing thousands and deepening vulnerability of millions more.

This resolution presents that the Council noted «climate change - related impacts have a range of implications, both direct and indirect, for the effective enjoyment of human rights...» and that such effects «will be felt most acutely by those segments of the population who are already in a vulnerable situation.»

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

Indeed, federal research finds that human - induced climate change «will have the largest health impact on vulnerable populations including... some communities of color, limited English proficiency and immigrant groups, Indigenous peoples,» and others.

As a result, these large cities and population centers are highly vulnerable to impacts from human - forced climate change related to sea level rise.

Four billion people are vulnerable to the effects of climate change and 500 - 600 million people — around 10 % of the planet's human population — are at extreme risk.

• Human security — Increasingly displacing people, global warming - related extreme weather events in both rural and urban areas expose vulnerable populations to high risk of social upheaval.

Extreme heat poses significant risks to human health, particularly to vulnerable populations like the elderly.

The resolution text assigns human emissions some responsibility for driving harmful warming, and it states that «if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest.»

Human populations will also be affected, with up to ~ 2,100 million of the poorest people in the world (~ 30 % of the world's population) highly vulnerable to changes in the supply of plant - related goods and services.

The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events on the health of populations.

A global, all - virtual multidisciplinary collaboratory solving tomorrow's social justice problems in legal education and practice related to issues around youth advocacy, juvenile justice, human rights, and / or access to education and justice for vulnerable client populations.

Tags for this Online Resume: Research, neurology, oncology, human subjects protection, vulnerable populations

Topics include (1) research design: elements of the research process, types of designs, program evaluation; (2) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (3) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; (4) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation.

Topics include (1) elements of the research process; (2) types of designs, program evaluation; (3) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (4) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; and (5) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation, normal curve, hypothesis testing, significance tests.