Sentence examples for toward floods from inspiring English sources

In this way we aim to build capacity to ultimately improve resilience toward floods, protecting lives and infrastructure in the region.

From the perspective of the USACE, attitudes toward floods have been evolving into what Buss describes as a more "holistic" approach focused on reducing flood risk with the realization that floods will occur.

In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency as rivers rose toward flood stage.

"The inherent design of the Yards is resilient toward flooding due to the fact that our platform puts our first floor well above the flood plain," she said.

Thus, it is widely accepted that there is a need for the expansion of forest area both to enhance livelihoods of local populations and to contribute toward flood prevention measures.

The pre/post-test quasi-experimental study design measured the effect of direct personal experience and vicarious experience to risk communication on changes in individuals' beliefs and attitudes toward flood risk.

This silence points to a sad reality: nonchalance toward the floods is only the latest example of Western hand-washing in a steady progression of abandonment and denigration of the Balkans that began in the early nineteen-nineties and continues to this day.

Most drowned in their sleep, never even aware of the water rushing toward them.The flood is the first large-scale disaster of Vladimir Putin's third term as president.

Then he is back up again, his 6-foot-5-inch frame ambling toward his flood-mobile, the white truck labeled "City of Fargo".

These indicators will illuminate the social distribution of environmental quality and the socio-spatial exposure toward urban flooding.

The river and its drainage basin experienced some of the world's greatest known catastrophic floods toward the end of the last ice age.