Sentence examples for vulnerability to changing from inspiring English sources

The sustainable management of these ecosystems is directly tied to their vulnerability to changing hydrological conditions.

Tree diversity may stabilise climate feedbacks by reducing vulnerability to changing conditions and to disturbance (e.g., Schurr et al. 2006; Hisano et al. 2017; O'Brien et al. 2017).

Vulnerability to changing climatic conditions is evident in water, land, and food through the interaction of non-climatic forces (e.g. overcrowding, urbanization, few economic opportunities, changing land use, and shifting cultural norms), and climatic forces (e.g. dry spells, extreme sea-levels, strong winds and changing marine conditions).

Differences in geographic, ecological, demographic, and socioeconomic conditions affect the region's differences in vulnerability to changing environmental and climatic conditions.

Lately, however, many have shifted into assessing their vulnerabilities to changing weather patterns, and some are starting to think about how to adapt, says Brian Holland, director of climate programs at ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA, a Boston-based nonprofit that offers technical assistance in climate change planning.

Future building development will be driven not only by emerging challenges such as vulnerability to a changing climate and resource scarcity, but also by disruptive innovations and societal changes.

"Debt, both domestic and external, as well as other complementary sources, cannot be excluded from Africa's list of development finance policy options … However, Africa's vulnerability to rapidly changing external conditions, including volatile commodity markets and unstable international financial markets, make debt a more problematic financing instrument than necessary," it said.

The results suggest that conditions identified in scenario discovery direct the attention of decision-makers towards a small number of uncertainties most influential on the vulnerability of a community to changing flood patterns.

Recently, widespread and persistent disruptions in energy systems have highlighted the extent of this dependence and the vulnerability of increasingly optimized systems to changing conditions.

In terms of species vulnerability, sensitivity indicates how tolerant a species is to changing conditions, whereas exposure is the degree to which a species will experience those conditions.

Reference [15] estimates the climate vulnerability of Brazil's power system due to changing water resources and hydrology.