Sentence examples for disaster vulnerabilities from inspiring English sources

For a developing country like India, accomplishing the MDGs or SDGs will be unlikely without the effective handling of the disaster vulnerabilities among women.

This global trend exposes populations to disaster vulnerabilities and is associated with a dearth of risk management infrastructures – physical, governmental, and legal (32).

Environmental: environmental consciousness, climate change concerns, natural disaster vulnerability, preservation of local environment and wildlife, and climate leadership.

This research describes the development and initial results from the Perceptions of Ageing and Disaster Vulnerability Scale (PADVS) that was designed to explore perceptions of vulnerability to disasters in the context of population ageing.

The UN's Development Programme said it is "in the process of developing a 'climate, environment and disaster vulnerability index' – a composite index to measure vulnerability as well as resilience".

To properly address water risk, these targets should extend beyond access to clean water and sanitation to include wastewater treatment, nutrient pollution, water reuse and disaster vulnerability – all areas that UN-Water, the UN's expert network, has highlighted as critical to reducing global vulnerability to water risk.

Few studies exist on storm surge disaster vulnerability and response ability.

The remaining dimensions of susceptibility revealed many key determinants of disaster vulnerability on Emae Island.

Open image in new window Fig. 1 Dimensions of disaster vulnerability as affected by exposure, susceptibility, and livelihood resilience.

We take these conditions of disaster vulnerability, built over decades of research, forward as we continue to build our casual disaster vulnerability framework by next exploring the contested term resilience.

The most prevalent relates to the frameworks' limited ability to address the historical dimensions of disaster vulnerability.