Sentence examples for vulnerabilities in the study from inspiring English sources

To analyse impacts of the different district-scale scenarios, social and environmental indicators were chosen based on the assessment of ecosystems and human vulnerabilities in the study area and generally used in scenario evaluations (Alcamo and Henrichs 2008, Jaeger et al.2007, National Environmental Management Authority, 2008).

In this study, two additional parameters were added to DRASTIC model to map the groundwater vulnerability in the study area more accurately: lineaments density and land use/land cover.

The final assessment embraced all the critical parameters that influence aquifer vulnerability in the study area, like thickness and nature of geological formations, occurrence of karstification phenomena and topsoil.

Overall, given the high level of vulnerability in the study areas to MDD due to a number of factors (including psychiatric, psychological and social factors) there is the need for effective multi-sectoral programs tailored towards addressing the high rates of MDD in the region.

New weights were computed for each input parameters to understand the influence of individual hydrogeological factors in vulnerability indices in the study area.

These results indicate that DS has good capability (Table 6) to delineate groundwater vulnerability zones in the study area.

The prediction accuracy of the method could be increased by adding other thematic layers if they are available or by combining multi-methods to produce more accurate picture of the vulnerability status in the study area.

Aquifer vulnerability index in the study area shows that the degree of contamination decreases with depth along the three profiles and that soil and aquifers of the study area are vulnerable to leachate contamination at shallow levels.

Open image in new window Fig. 4 Output map through FR model: (a) flood susceptibility index with all flood points and (b) overlay of villages and road on flood susceptibility zones Table 3 Spatial distribution (statistics) of flood vulnerability classes in the study area Sl. no.

Therefore, to comprehensively assess the performance (spatial vulnerability in this study) of a network system, we need to take into account the impact of hazards on those airports that are not directly covered by the hazards.

The objectives of this study are (1) to assess the groundwater vulnerability to contamination in the study area using a modified DRASTIC method, and (2) to validate the groundwater vulnerability mapping using nitrate measurements.