Sentence examples for underpin disaster from inspiring English sources

The SFDRR has four 'Priorities for Action' that are required to be undertaken across all sectors and at different levels of administration (local to global) to underpin disaster risk reduction activities.

Clearly, a systematic comparison of local and global disaster discourses might both broaden and challenge the epistemological assumptions underpinning disaster research and scholarship.

Four factors underpin disasters: time, space, type of society, and type of event.

The ability of GSV to make visible radiation risks, its potential to track recovery over time, and the challenges for incorporating the socio-political context underpinning the Fukushima disaster are evaluated in turn.

A call for stronger scientific underpinning of actions towards disaster risk reduction and resilience building has been articulated by many member states and stakeholders in numerous consultations.

For example, institutional and social behaviour were noted to underpin the swift responses to the Fukushima nuclear disaster [25].

1990-1999 was called the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, during when the United Nations General Assembly called for a concerted worldwide effort to develop and use scientific and technical knowledge, in order to underpin the adoption and implementation of public policies for disaster prevention.

Of course, such stillness often belies the chaos and despair underpinning many a natural — or man-made — disaster.

A whistleblower warned that a system of safety representatives set up to underpin the integrity of North Sea oil and gas platforms following the 1988 disaster was being made a mockery of owing to an atmosphere of offshore bullying by some managers.

Since an implementation plan is underpinned by scientific evidence, it has the potential to target investment more accurately and reduce disaster losses, including saving lives (Calkins 2015).

It was a "disaster" which damaged the political process, boosted IRA support and helped underpin decades of sectarian violence that prevented a peace deal from being struck for 30 years, he said.