Sentence examples for assess disasters from inspiring English sources

"Oh God," said John Large, a British nuclear expert who has helped assess disasters including the wreck of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, when told of Mr. Sonoda's actions.

But the images suggest that scientists will want to take advantage of the DNB's images in multiple ways: not just to study clouds, but also to assess disasters such as power outages (such as before and after Superstorm Sandy last month), to study gas flares and estimate volumes of CO2 emissions, or to keep an eye on illegal unreported fishing (the boats emit light to draw in their stocks).

Future development of the scale might involve creating a quantitative means of applying it, connecting it to other scales designed to measure or assess disaster impacts and using it to understand the broader implications of infrastructure management decisions.

The SVI for elders developed in this study is an instrument based on a retrievable data set, and is used to assess disaster vulnerability with the premise that the elderly, particularly those with low socioeconomic status, who often live alone or are institutionalized, need significant and specific attention in disaster preparedness and heightened efforts to promote disaster literacy.

Classification of hazards Paragraph 24 j) of the Sendai Framework calls for the strengthening of "technical and scientific capacity to capitalize on and consolidate existing knowledge and to develop and apply methodologies and models to assess disaster risks, vulnerabilities and exposure to all hazards"(UNISDR 2015, p. 15).

This finding emphasizes the importance of addressing physical, psychological and social aspects of health when assessing disaster health and interventions to promote health.

We start by highlighting the key role of the insurance industry in incentivizing and assessing disaster and slow onset resilience enhancement strategies.

There have been continuous developments of the technology for assessing disaster physical damage (Fan et al. 2008; Cao et al. 2015; Nie et al. 2016), which have been applied to comprehensive damage assessment for several major natural disasters.

Using the GSV data set for the evacuated area around the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear power plant as a case study, this article evaluates GSV as a means of assessing disaster recovery in a dynamic situation with remaining uncertainty and a significant value and emotive dimension.

Current methods of assessing disaster risks aren't always accurate, because they don't take the long-term effects of climate change into account.

A more comprehensive system for assessing disaster epidemiology needs to be established.