Sentences with phrase «vulnerable regions»

Experts should take note of local knowledge and beliefs when making plans about how to help people in vulnerable regions cope with the impacts of climate change.

In many of the world's most vulnerable regions, construction is being done with no input from an engineer.

And the long - term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to socio - economic changes, such as population growth and development in vulnerable regions.

The African continent is one of the most vulnerable regions to future climate change.

The intelligence community uses Weather Analytics» database to assess the role of climate change in the political destabilization of vulnerable regions of the world.

As research leaders in developing and using models to provide scientific insights into weather and climate change, Qian and others are striving to understand uncertainty in systems and modeling to improve projections and help prepare vulnerable regions for potential climate change impact.

Today in PLOS Pathogens, scientists report that they've designed small molecules to target a particularly vulnerable region of hemagglutinin, one of the two proteins that jut from the viral surface like a flower.

These predictions are especially important in vulnerable regions like the Arctic, which is expected to warm considerably this century, and which holds a vast amount of carbon in the tundra.

While vitally important, this approach has largely ignored the impact climate change has already taken on vulnerable regions around the world, particularly agricultural communities, that urgently need resources to adapt to an altered climate.

Together, we are joining forces to rejuvenate agricultural landscapes conserve forests, foster sustainable livelihoods and build climate resilience across vulnerable regions; transform business practices and drive supply chain innovation, and engage consumers in positive change.

Analysis of underground stresses could help predict vulnerable regions elsewhere in the United States

Florini said the conference will focus attention on how vulnerable the region is to warming and that what happens in the Arctic «doesn't stay in the Arctic.»

All told, the most vulnerable regions included much of southern Asia, western and central Europe, eastern South America and southern Australia thanks to a combination of degraded landscapes and shifting climates.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

Regional Climate Models (RCM) and Empirical Statistical Downscaling (ESD), applied over a limited area and driven by GCMs can provide information on much smaller scales supporting more detailed impact and adaptation assessment and planning, which is vital in many vulnerable regions of the world.

The Rainforest Alliance will continue its commitment to reduce the effects of climate change by building climate resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable regions through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.

He criticised government plans to build 200,000 new homes a year by 2010, saying this would involve building on flood plains, leaving already vulnerable regions open to further harm.

In the Extreme Events final report, the trio had predicted vulnerable regions within the Western Interconnection — eight areas where large blackouts repeatedly struck their simulations.

«It can amplify and unmask ecological and socio - political weaknesses and increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in socially vulnerable regions.»

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.

There are certainly more far - flung places in the world, and there are prettier places too, but my encounters with this unique and vulnerable region periodically sent tears streaming down my face.

But its inclusion of «food stamp» style discounts for poor people in vulnerable regions side - steps the need to pair such policies with long - term initiatives aimed at shifting settlement patterns altogether.

Food and water shortages or huge floods could push vulnerable regions over the edge into crises that could «demand an American humanitarian relief or military response», it... Read more

If there are indeed major gaps — especially in politically important or strongly vulnerable regions of the country — then it suggests several important implications:

And as I wrote in October, accidents in the Arctic could amount to environmental disasters for the ecologically vulnerable region (not to mention the increased risks of sailing through a region where search - and - rescue operations are still inexperienced).

Just two degrees of warming will double the length of extreme heatwaves and affect vulnerable regions in just a few decades,» Eyasu warned, urging climate negotiators in Bonn to speed up reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and bolster efforts to aid less developed countries.

The computer simulations of changing conditions in vulnerable regions later this century − in a blazing landscape fed by a river delta flowing through steamy marshland, and enfolding a calm, relatively shallow 1,000 km lagoon of evaporating seawater − have delivered a stark conclusion.

They must reflect on the dangers that climate change already felt by vulnerable regions of Africa and other developing countries.

For instance, Arctic warming may allow the poleward spread of macroalgae and seagrasses, which could affect the pH of the coastal waters of these highly vulnerable regions seasonally.

Beyond helping East Africa and other vulnerable regions adapt to impending climate change, it is of course also incumbent on the rich and emerging economies to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it.

Vulnerability to climate change can be exacerbated by the presence of other stresses... vulnerable regions face multiple stresses that affect their exposure and sensitivity as well as their capacity to adapt.

This project forms an activity under the National Climate Change Adaptation Framework, which identifies both the tropical north and highly vulnerable settlements, including remote and Indigenous communities, as «priority vulnerable regions» for integrated regional vulnerability assessments.

The draft also warns of storm surges and flooding around the planet, especially in vulnerable regions with limited abilities to adapt, including sub-Saharan Africa and Asian mega-deltas in India, Bangladesh and China.

In a particularly vulnerable region of the brain called the striatum, HD mutation carriers show shrinkage as long as 15 years before they'd be predicted to have symptoms of HD.

His discourse is about the meager role played by the leaders from most vulnerable regions like Himalayas and Andes during this important global conference.

Together, we are joining forces to rejuvenate agricultural landscapes conserve forests, foster sustainable livelihoods and build climate resilience across vulnerable regions; transform business practices and drive supply chain innovation, and engage consumers in positive change.

These students knew, before Hurricane Katrina, how vulnerable the region had become.

Regional Climate Models (RCM) and Empirical Statistical Downscaling (ESD), applied over a limited area and driven by global models can provide information on much smaller scales supporting more detailed impact and adaptation assessment and planning, which is vital in many vulnerable regions.

This conference in Nairobi, in sub-Saharan Africa, has the severity of impacts on vulnerable regions.

It aims to not only help advance the climate change and food security dialogue in Nepal, but also provide concrete inputs for adaptation planning to build resilience in the most vulnerable regions of the country.

As many as 143 million people in three of the world's most vulnerable regions could be forced by 2050 to migrate within their own country due to climate change, a new report says.

A look back at our decades - long partnership with indigenous and rural communities to build a sustainable forest economy in one of Guatemala's most valuable, vulnerable regions.