Sentence examples for environment vulnerability from inspiring English sources

Volcanic risk is conceptualized as the product of the volcanic hazard (the probability an adverse event occurs at a certain time for a certain area of the volcano) and the effect this adverse event will have on the inhabited environment (vulnerability) (e.g. Paton et al. 2008).

Another index for natural environment vulnerability was developed by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience commission, the United Nations Environment Programme and their partners.

This suggests that the ecosystems of farmland and forestland are unstable and sensitive to external disturbances; (2) significantly positive relationships were found between the vulnerability of landscape types (VI) and SD, VI and FN, FN and SD, and FN and EVI (regional eco-environment vulnerability).

We determine the relative importance of heat exposure and the built environment, socioeconomic vulnerability, and neighborhood stability for heat mortality (Philadelphia, PA, USA) or heat distress (Phoenix, AZ, USA), using an ecologic study design.

He did not tell anyone at Charlton what had happened in that hotel room, confiding in almost no one, a trait programmed into him as a young player in an environment where vulnerability is perceived as weakness.

The livelihood strategy would address both current and future causes of food insecurity through increasing consumption and investment while simultaneously protecting assets, the environment and vulnerability (Penney 2008).

This leads us to the conclusion that if a social and/or ecological system loses resilience, peoples' and the environment's vulnerability to potentially adverse changes increases, which otherwise could have been avoided (Folke et al. 2002).

This enabled us to present a personalized event as well as support shared drivers between the women in attendance, creating a safe environment for vulnerability.

Recognition of the influence of the risk environment on vulnerability to HIV has been documented in Aboriginal youth and women.

Recent studies concluded that plant invasions are the result of complex interactions between the exotic species performances (i.e., invasiveness), the recipient environment's vulnerability (i.e., invasibility) and the history of the introductions (see for instance [ 4, 5]).

As organizational arrangements become more complex (as in the current healthcare environment), actors' vulnerability to one another could become broader and deeper, and trust may be one of the best mechanisms actors have to cope with these new conditions (Bigley and Pearce 1998).