Sentence examples for protective buffer from inspiring English sources

Serious landslides affecting urban neighborhoods in Quito throughout the 1970s and early 1980s provoked much citizen and official concern, and the original impetus for declaring this zone a protected area was to create a protective buffer against natural disasters arising from unstable soils on the steep mountain slopes above the densely settled central valley (MAG-DINAF, 1987).

"This protective buffer took 6,000 years to form," the state board that oversees flood-protection efforts for much of the New Orleans area argued in court filings, adding that "it has been brought to the brink of destruction over the course of a single human lifetime".

This difference suggests that high positive emotions act as a protective buffer.

Taken together, these studies suggest self-compassion may be a resource for resiliency and a protective buffer against both internal and external criticism.

While the new report hailed its findings as proof that Italy's traditional family-based social fabric provides a protective buffer against economic hardship, others said the data was a warning.

Dr. Vogt went on to expand her studies of the genetic underpinnings of cancers and of telomeres, the DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes that are believed to form a protective buffer during replication.

Banks are also being made a lot safer as regulators put in additional protective buffers.

Coastal dune systems are particularly fragile and threatened environments, which, however, provide fundamental ecosystem services to nearby urban areas acting for example as protective buffers against erosion.

Five months after Superstorm Sandy, the recovering northeast region continues to debate whether to rebuild in the most vulnerable coastal areas or whether to retreat and leave those lands as protective buffers.

In another study it was concluded that higher socioeconomic status and good social support acted as protective buffers against spousal physical violence [ 15].

It seems likely that, as with thigmotaxis, adaptations such as the domicile serve as protective buffers against the Outback's inhospitable environment (Crespi et al. 2004), but this has not yet been formally tested.