Sentence examples for relocation of people from inspiring English sources

Relocation of people is occurring across the Pacific region.

Concern has grown over the environmental impact of hydroelectric dams, including habitat destruction for wildlife (terrestrial and aquatic), forced relocation of people living in the paths of dams and reservoirs, loss of agricultural land, and disruption of water supplies for inhabitants near the completed dams.

Nasheed, who held an underwater meeting of his cabinet last autumn and is presiding over the relocation of people from some islands because of the effects of warming oceans and rising sea levels, put his hopes in the emergence of "huge" grassroots action after the failure of talks in Copenhagen in December.

We know that the two to four degrees of projected warming this century is likely to force the relocation of people from flooded cities, shift growing seasons, cut a substantial fraction out of our GDP, and have a disproportionate impact upon the most impoverished parts of the world – but it doesn't stop there.

The funds will be allocated to infrastructure, agriculture and relocation of people from areas prone to mudslides and floods.

This complements traditional options for addressing displacement through voluntary return, local integration, and relocation of people out of disaster affected areas (IASC 2011).

For them, Churchill – who presided over the concentration camps and villages and brutal mass relocations of people – can never be a hero.

"The first relocations of people in need of international protection can start quickly," said Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg's minister for immigration and asylum and president of the council.

The panel concluded: The bank had no role or responsibility for the forced relocation of 664 people from Hade in 2004.

Belo Monte will flood an area of 500 square kilometres along the Xingu and force the relocation of 16,000 people, according to the government.

The storms have inundated a memorial to earthquake victims in the city of Beichuan, washed away several bridges and forced the relocation of 220,000 people across the region, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.