Sentence examples for driver of vulnerability from inspiring English sources

– It's clear that rapid population growth in places subject to climate extremes — for instance much of sub-Saharan Africa — is another powerful driver of vulnerability.

Age has been widely recognized as a driver of vulnerability (Cutter et al. 2003; Wisner et al. 2004).

Sedentarisation can be seen as both a driver of vulnerability and a solution to vulnerability for pastoralists (Galvin 2009).

We also demonstrated an association between vulnerability and significantly higher healthcare utilisation in the prior 12 months with the most vulnerable adults having a median of two hospitalisations suggesting that hospitalisation may be a significant driver of vulnerability.

WGII chapters identify vulnerable regions and populations in need of support, human and biophysical drivers of vulnerability today and in the future, and adaptation opportunities and constraints, and have a large influence on UNFCCC negotiations and planning (Leemans 2008; Ravindranath 2010).

The paper argues that the emphasis on resettlement is obscuring the key drivers of vulnerability, while simultaneously exposing both resettled and those left behind to further risks.

There is a need to move towards approaches that manage the resilience of the system to floods by understanding and managing drivers of vulnerability and adaptive capacity.

These policies address drivers of vulnerability, regardless of whether they have an origin in climate change.

Coupled with other social and economic drivers of vulnerability, these changes could amplify risk and damages.

Second, this aids individuals and communities to respond effectively to change by challenging the drivers of vulnerability (O'Brien 2006).

A more nuanced understanding of how sources and drivers of vulnerability interact illuminates a wide range of interconnected impacts and implications.