The phrase "vulnerable environment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an area or situation that is prone to harm, damage, or distress. For example: "The endangered species lives in a vulnerable environment, where their numbers continue to decline."
'Hydrology and Water Resources Development in a Vulnerable Environment' is the topic of the current phase of IHP-V.
The low soil formation rate and high permeability of carbonate rocks create a fragile and vulnerable environment that is susceptible to deforestation and soil erosion.
As Portugal increasingly evolved into an urban society, political leaders attempted to achieve a balance between growth and development (modernization) and the need to protect consumers, the public interest, and the rare but vulnerable environment.
In Africa, these companies are not only utilising these time-tested methods in a more vulnerable environment to protect their interests, but are using even more brutal techniques to maintain business freedoms than historically witnessed in the UK, Australia, Ireland and the US.
The Arctic's vulnerable environment, unpredictable climate and lack of a precedent on which to base cost assessments have led some environmental NGOs to argue that no compensation would be worth the risk of allowing drilling to take place in pristine offshore areas.
"The Committee cannot be confident that peaceful co-operation in the Arctic will continue indefinitely, but states that every effort should be made to insulate Arctic co-operation from geopolitical tensions arising in other parts of the world because there is a global interest in protecting this unusually vulnerable environment".
Lagoonal systems are vulnerable environments in the present day context of global climate change.
In critically vulnerable environments, it is clearly important that we work with what is already in place to support the delivery of basic services.
Providing such ecosystem service functions is critical in the quest for ensuring food security while achieving adaptation and mitigation goals in vulnerable environments like the drylands.
Hence, when maintaining hiking trails in vulnerable environments, such as the Icelandic highlands, a holistic understanding of the environmental impact of trampling is critical.
Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments is committed to this approach, firmly believing in a new landscape where locals – civil society, public and private sectors – can champion the use and reuse of housing as a key strategy for improving health.
