Sentence examples for technological hazards from inspiring English sources

At Rutgers, he participated in research on technological hazards and airborne acute toxic releases and was also a teaching assistant.

George Deodatis uses probabilistic methods for the study of civil infrastructure systems subjected to natural and technological hazards.

At the federal emergency office in Oakland, Calif., Richard R. Echavarria, a technological hazards program specialist who evaluated the Diablo Canyon drill, said that "terrorist attacks are just another circumstance to generate the kind of scenario they've been exercising".

The risk-based approach presented in this paper should also be applicable for setting performance objectives for structural design of buildings and infrastructure against other natural, human-caused and technological hazards.

producer: "We sort of decided that the word that rhymes with 'witch' wouldn't really be used"), sectarian strife (the bad guys, counterintuitively, are the monotheists), and technological hazards (Goldberg: "One of the reasons that Cylons come into being is because people get lazy").

We propose a new test of the effectiveness of mitigation using a past landfalling hurricane as a proxy, since conventional wisdom holds that communities often implement mitigation after a disaster [Cutter S. Living with risk: the geography of technological hazards. London: Edward Arnold Press; 1993].

Calling in Doomwatch was, as one ministerial type puts it, "standard procedure in situations of potential technological hazard".

Successful generation of a knowledge base to inform the multi-hazard approach, which incorporates technological and biological hazards, will require the integration of existing databases and methodologies for data collection and synthesis.

Fig. 4 Technological framework for hazards and risk monitoring for crisis management in low-density and remote areas of Japan - in this case the Kuchinoerabujima in South Japan.

Do technological systems generate hazards they are not capable of controlling?

There is a golden opportunity now to ensure coherence between these agreements so that climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction work together to strengthen resilience across the full range of environmental, technological and biological hazards.