To substantiate further from the lenses of a software developer, the lock-in situation is evident in that applications developed for specific cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure), cannot easily be migrated to other cloud platforms and users become vulnerable to any changes made by their providers [24].
These managed forests have become vulnerable to climate change, specifically to increasingly severe drought.
In exploring this history, the goal of this paper is to draw on a diverse theoretical body of literature (that includes resiliency theory, landscape ecology, political science and ecological economics) to develop a series of hypotheses about how large-scale complex civilizations can become vulnerable to climate change.
Another way that energy and environment come into conflict is when energy systems themselves become vulnerable to climate change.
When social connections changed, for example, bereavement, retirement or isolation due to illness, this created trigger points for older people to change heating behaviour and become vulnerable to being cold at home.
In it, John Lukacs addresses the questions of how our democracy has changed and why we have become vulnerable to the shallowest possible demagoguery.
The changes reflect a determination to think more precisely about how children become vulnerable to HIV and AIDS, and to find better ways to safeguard them.
Companies that don't adequately address the issue of climate change also can create personal liabilities for directors and officers who become vulnerable to shareholder-related litigation.
