Sentence examples for societal vulnerability from inspiring English sources

In practice, an assessment of societal vulnerability has two main stages.

Previous efforts to characterize societal vulnerability to lahar hazards have focused largely on threats posed by single volcanoes.

A growing awareness of irreversible societal vulnerability brings about long term and large scale planning for the future.

A new measure, the Volcano Fatality Index, is defined to explore temporal changes in societal vulnerability to volcanic hazards.

Because preparedness and mitigation resources are not limitless, societal vulnerability assessments are increasingly being used as tools for targeting and prioritizing risk-reduction resources (Birkmann 2006).

Such extreme conditions ultimately result in drought with a resultant depletion of assets, societal vulnerability, mass migration and loss of life.

The Indus Basin's millions of inhabitants are vulnerable to the formidable combination of societal vulnerabilities and climate change.

However, events of the past few years have highlighted societal vulnerabilities to weather and climate.

Much like in the Indus Basin, in the Sahel region of Africa (Fig. 2) climate change is likely to work in tandem with societal vulnerabilities to produce both direct and indirect negative effects on the food security1 (IPCC 2012).

We need reliable specification of space climatology (how bad can it get?), and a clear idea of associated societal vulnerabilities.

The report emphasises another aspect of societal performance: vulnerability.