Sentence examples for most vulnerable systems from inspiring English sources

The most vulnerable systems, like the subway tunnels under the Harlem and East Rivers, would have been unusable for nearly a month, or longer, at an economic loss of about $55 billion, said Dr. Jacob, an adviser to the city on climate change and an author of the 2011 state study that laid out the flooding prospects.

In other words, already-disturbed forests are likely to be the most vulnerable systems in the current global change context.

Given the extinction crisis for Malagasy primates, seed dispersal of large-seeded plants including P. deflexa seems to be one of the most vulnerable systems.

In this study the VI is scaled from 0 to 1; 0 denotes least vulnerable or no vulnerability and 1 denotes most vulnerable system.

Freshwater lenses on small islands are some of the most vulnerable aquifer systems in the world.

They include better screening of guards and more training to recognize and address the signs of sexual assault, better medical and psychiatric care for assault victims, better protection for the most vulnerable, a system that allows prisoners to report rape without facing reprisal and publicly accessible records that would permit rape prevention programs to be independently monitored.

However, pastoralism has been the most vulnerable production system (Helland 2015).

Generally, many studies have shown that low-intensive agriculture is the main source of environmental quality (Foley et al. [2005]; Caballero and Gil, [2009]) and at the same time is the most vulnerable farming system (Caballero et al., [2008]).

These negotiations have given the broadcast networks an edge at the moment that programmers are most vulnerable to cable systems: when they are starting a network.

Coastal aquifers provide a source of water for more than one billion people, with island freshwater lenses being some of the most vulnerable coastal groundwater systems due to their susceptibility to saltwater intrusion.

As one of the most sensitive and vulnerable systems, coastal zones' areas of concern include sea level rise, land loss, the frequency of maritime storms, flooding and responses to sea level rise (Rubinoff et al. 2008; Woodruff et al. 2013).