Sentence examples for protective infrastructures from inspiring English sources

An innovative cement-based soft-hard-soft (SHS) multi-layer composite has been developed for protective infrastructures.

(Kai-Uwe Bergmann, a partner at the Bjarke Ingels Group that led the winning consortium, describes the Dryline as "a protective infrastructure that becomes a public amenity").

Its function as protective infrastructure has been degraded by the erosion caused by past ill-advised government groin and inlet stabilization projects.

Safe failure may mean building self-regulating systems that can isolate a malfunction and prevent cascading disruptions and eventual collapse, while avoiding over-reliance on a single piece of protective infrastructure, such as a levee.

Until now, only post-event repairs and protective infrastructure improvements have generally been executed after debris-flow occurrences.

The assets curve (black line) of Fig. 5b improves the assets position relative to the no adaptation assets position with the exception of the first two years of the investment in protective infrastructure.

With hundreds of businesses and homes destroyed by flooding for the second time in 2 years, the state government is considering enabling property owners to abandon some flood-prone areas, and is also calling for the construction of new levees and other protective infrastructure.

The conventional approach of seeking to reduce risks through building protective infrastructure should be combined with approaches that increase local capacity (Hewitt 1983, 2007; Weichselgartner and Obersteiner 2002; Bankoff et al. 2004; Allen 2006; Mercer et al. 2007; Gaillard 2010; Gaillard and Mercer 2012; Wisner et al. 2012).

Limited public investment in protective infrastructure and emergency management has exacerbated this vulnerability, they warned.

These stark predictions should provide greater impetus towards investing in on-farm opportunities alongside climate risk management and development of protective infrastructure.

Both Hatch and Olson also have been for years key parts of the protective infrastructure that has shielded predatory for-profit colleges, institutions that have deceived and abused U.S. students and taxpayers.