Sentence examples for adopt disaster from inspiring English sources
In 2010, UNISDR launched the "Making Cities Resilient (MCR)" campaign to encourage local government leaders around the world to adopt disaster risk reduction as an approach to reducing disaster risks and building resilience for their cities.
"Such tragedies can be avoided or reduced if governments adopt disaster risk reduction strategies aimed at protecting people's health.
The final variable is the total number of adopted disaster preparedness behaviors.
Probability, Threat, and Controllability were significantly related to the total number of adopted disaster preparedness behaviors.
This study contains six dependent variables: five dichotomous variables on whether the farming households had adopted the five disaster preparedness behaviors (Y1 Y5), and a count variable the total number of adopted disaster preparedness behaviors (Y6, with value range 0 5).
Models 1 5 regressed the presence of the five types of disaster preparedness behaviors in households against their potential influencing factors, whereas Model 6 regressed the total number of farming households' adopted disaster preparedness behaviors against its potential influencing factors.
Table 6 Frequency distribution of farming households' total number of adopted disaster preparedness behaviors in the Three Gorges Reservoir study area (n = 348) Number Frequency Percent Cumulative frequency 0 234 67.24 67.24 1 62 17.82 85.06 2 35 10.06 97.99 4 70 2.01 97.99 4 7 2.01 100 Total 348 100 .
Instead, most hospitals have adopted disaster triage procedures from the general procedures used in ED (31, 33).
7. Capacity is not yet adequate (e.g. human, knowledge/skills and finance at the education institutions) to adopt a disaster risk management approach.
Table 2 shows the frequency of households who adopted each disaster preparedness behavior.
Therefore, adopting effective disaster risk reduction practices is critical especially for low- and middle-income countries, such as Jordan that have suffered substantially more economic and human losses from disasters than high-income countries (Michel-Kerjan et al. 2013).
