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As the region with the highest percentage of EEA - born workers, rising from 7 % in 2004 to 14 % in 2016, London is most vulnerable to a drop in migration, the report said.

With lower external debt than other regions, Asian economies have been less vulnerable to a strengthening U.S. dollar, which remains one of the main risks to our outlook for emerging markets.

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.

The problem with the sorts of ideas being batted around at the moment — primarily devolution for the English regions — is that they are at once too concrete and too unsystematic, while also being too «top down», and too vulnerable to short term swings of public opinion.

«I can't see Andrew Cuomo putting himself in a vulnerable position with voters in such a critical region,» Levy said.

Those forces mixed with longstanding ethnic and religious conflicts to render the region even more vulnerable to war.

Many of these regions of high SGD — 12 % of the overall coastline — overlapped with areas of heavy development, and Sawyer says these areas are the most vulnerable to contamination.

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.

Their research showed that the number of regions with a vulnerable electricity network due to water availability will increase significantly by 2030.

The World Health Organization reports that although the parasitic illness has almost disappeared in countries where sanitation has improved, children remain especially vulnerable in endemic regions due to their elevated contact with dirt.

«In particular the United States, southern South America, southern Africa, central and southern Europe, Southeast Asia and southern Australia are vulnerable regions, because declines in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climate.

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

As previously noted, these animals accumulate CTTAS in vulnerable brain regions in a pattern consistent with that observed in humans suffering with diagnosed PD and LBD, [16] making them a good model for testing mAbs intended to target these species.

Proteins with more dehydrons are more «unwrapped» - unstable in an aqueous environment, and therefore prone to bind with another protein to protect their vulnerable regions.

With lower external debt than other regions, Asian economies have been less vulnerable to a strengthening U.S. dollar, which remains one of the main risks to our outlook for emerging markets.

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.

2) Persistent poverty and lack of capacity to deal with either too much or too little water (or related health problems) already make the region extraordinarily vulnerable to devastating losses from drought or flooding.

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.

We also of course know that the northern sea ice is particularly vulnerable to rapid change (geologically speaking) given the greater advection of energy to that region and the properties of Arctic amplification (positive feedbacks) that we are become more familiar with.

Safa» Al Jayoussi, Executive Director / IndyACT, said: «Concrete steps were taken in this year's COP23, now we need to move this into action toward pre-2020 ambition on the local and subregional level, especially from the Arab Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.&Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.&region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.»

To provide members of the public with the opportunity to contribute directly to research on climate change in a vulnerable region and demonstrate the power of an evidence - based approach to climate impact attribution.

«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.

A second Ecological Footprint study was published in 2013, with a special focus on the Laguna Lake Region, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the coRegion, the country's largest lake ecosystem, which includes Metro Manila — the most densely populated area on Earth and most vulnerable region in the coregion in the country.

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.

The decreases in calcification and PIC occur simultaneously with decreases in the observed carbonate ion concentration, suggesting a possible link between acidification and decreasing calcification in this vulnerable region.

As climate change makes vulnerable parts of the world more susceptible to weather - related problems, people move from an afflicted region to neighboring areas, bringing them into conflict with the existing populations.

The result is that coastal flooding conditions will tend to follow a worsening trend — with the most vulnerable regions like the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts feeling the impact first.

The twelve Northeastern states have more than 180,000 farms, with $ 17 billion in annual sales.117 The region's ecosystems and agricultural systems are tightly interwoven, and both are vulnerable to a changing climate.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

Central California is especially vulnerable to wildfires due to a severe pine beetle infestation that, along with ongoing drought, has brought a high level of plant mortality to many areas in the region.

Comparison with projected warming highlights vulnerable freshwater and marine regions.

Lions in this region are highly vulnerable as they come into regular conflict with pastoralists who live alongside large carnivores.

The new reserves are also significant in that they are part of a broader initiative by the Amazon Conservation Association, an NGO with offices in Washington D.C. and Peru, to support sustainable livelihoods in a region that is traditionally very poor and is expected to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

The concentration of hop cultivation in a comparatively small region in the Czech Republic makes it more vulnerable than if the crop were grown in more areas with different climates.

Having successfully pushed for the Ontario Offshore Moratorium, and her organizations having effected the moratoria for two cities near Toronto and the largest regional conservation authority in Ontario (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority), she is now working with other Ontario groups, such as Manitoulin and Central Huron and other vulnerable and at - risk communities around the Great Lakes and Basin.

She is passionate about the need to decrease road injury in vulnerable road users in the low and middle income countries of the region and is actively engaged in research with this aim.

It may be that adolescents vulnerable to depression enter adolescence with greater sensitivity to social evaluation, or it may be that the experience of frequent peer rejection serves to sensitize or heighten activity in these regions.

Essential services are delivered with compassion and respect to offer vulnerable people in our region the tools they need to build healthier, more stable lives.