Negative external environmental factors, especially those consequent of low resource context such as the difficult physical environments with respect to roads and transport, lack of basic services such as electricity and hot water geysers, and lack of appropriate job opportunities created significant barriers for the participants.
A difficult environment "The physical environment in Gaza is unbearable in so many different respects," says John Ging, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Gaza Strip since 2006.
However, separating the effects of litter quality and physical environment is difficult under field conditions.
Some of those, Stevenson says, were well-suited to the job, passionate about caring for the asylum seekers' welfare, and proud to be doing the best they could in difficult circumstances and an oppressive physical environment.
We did not include the full set of amenities asked in our survey as some items referred to aspects of the physical environment which were difficult to measure independently e.g. 'safe play areas', or 'pleasant green spaces', or referred to resources that were fewer and further afield, e.g. 'hospitals with a casualty department'.
Oh that's a difficult one um how healthy is your physical environment.
Assessing a child's unhealthy behaviors, social and physical environment, and household poverty will be difficult and will require new measurement tools.
Manipulating the physical environment is an effective, though often difficult and expensive, approach to pedestrian injury control (DiMaggio and Li [2012]).
The impact on soil invertebrates of changes in the physical environment and feed availability in intensive pastoral systems is difficult to predict given the number of interacting factors.
Medical equipment, however, must be compatible with the technological standards and physical environment of the affected community (58); powered wheelchairs are difficult to operate and maintain in developing countries, for example (59).
Even if carnivores' physical environment was considered in the management plan, producing zones with sharp borders is still a very difficult task due to carnivores' dispersal potential (Linnell et al. 2005).
