Sentence examples for large-scale risk from inspiring English sources

The first large-scale risk assessment of organic chemicals in European rivers and lakes has revealed an extensive problem with pesticides.

However, toxic pressure by pesticides [1], biocides [2], endocrine disruptors [3, 4] and many other chemicals [5] still presents a large-scale risk and causes community shifts and the disappearance of sensitive species in many river basins.

As to the large-scale risk estimates, there often exists a lack of consistency between seismic hazard studies which do take into consideration the actual soil frequencies and the large-scale vulnerability estimation and seismic risk maps which pay only poor attention to building frequencies.

The scope of this paper is therefore to contribute to the improvement of large-scale risk assessment methodology, with an attempt to account simultaneously for the dynamic characteristics of the buildings and of the soil (i.e., their natural frequencies) and to investigate whether it helps in better predicting the structural damage.

As society has become progressively more reliant on expert systems to manage risk, trust in the capacity of those systems and their component agencies and organizations to fulfill their mandate has come to have a significant influence on perceptions of large-scale risk (Freudenburg, 1993; Kahan et al., 2011).

The "existential concern" being awakened across the world by global risks has led to a contest to suppress large-scale risks in political discussion.

Many decisions over large-scale risks are not a matter of choosing between safe and risky alternatives, but between different risky alternatives, and often between alternatives whose risks are too qualitatively different to easily compare.

Dr. Michel-Kerjan, a co-author of book "At War With The Weather: Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes" (2009), said the book looked closely at the Florida state plan and found its finances to be as vulnerable as the state's coastlines.

However, when we increased food availability within woodlands, oribi increased their large-scale risk-taking behaviour and fed in these woodlands.

The ACE study has inspired other large-scale, risk-oriented CDC-sponsored health surveys such as The Family Health History and Health Appraisal Questionnaires and The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) that focus on childhood maltreatment and household dysfunction.

In addition, environmental and climate variables (rainfall, altitude, and EVI) determined the large scale risk of podoconiosis across Ethiopia.