Sentence examples for vulnerability to drought from inspiring English sources

"Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires — all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak".

According to Méndez, this has reduced vulnerability to drought by 70% – no small benefit considering a dry year used to cost the country nearly 2% of GDP.

As the most widespread tree species in North America, increasing vulnerability to drought in these forests has important ramifications for ecosystem stability, biodiversity, and ecosystem carbon balance.

The cotton is harvested by an association of small farmers located in one of Brazil's poorest areas, Ceará, which suffers widespread socio-economic inequality, fragile soils and a vulnerability to drought.

Lemos, M. C., Lo, Y. J., Nelson, D. R., Eakin, H. & Bedran-Martins, A. M. Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil.

Because previously, we had been focused on this problem, which is a recognition that in these dryland areas, agroclimatic vulnerability, vulnerability to drought of their key asset is one of the most important problems.

This limited diversity of crops restricts our diets, degrades our soils and increases our vulnerability to droughts.

More specifically, he is analyzing regional vulnerability to droughts under a changing climate in order to assess potential links between water scarcity and livelihood security, migration, and conflict.

In contrast deposits at Bankia, a bailed-out Spanish bank, have fallen by more than a quarter over the past 18 months.A loss of deposits drives up banks' funding costs, since deposits are often cheaper than borrowing on capital markets; it also increases their loan-to-deposit ratio, a marker of vulnerability to droughts in wholesale markets.

Second, we review the current knowledge of linkages between drought tolerance and sensitivity to further develop our understanding of vulnerability to drought-induced mortality necessary for refining broader classifications of species drought tolerance.

The current grazing policy which promotes fencing could therefore increase the pastoral farmers' vulnerability to droughts, as it limits mobility.