Sentence examples for vulnerable infrastructures from inspiring English sources

A hazard cannot produce a disaster unless it interacts with human habitat and vulnerable infrastructures (Cannon 2008).

Saturday's quake demonstrated how vulnerable infrastructure projects remain in the unsettled Himalayas.

The armed forces were drafted in to protect other bits of vulnerable infrastructure.

Realistically, given all that vulnerable infrastructure and the huge scale of the problem, is there anything individuals can do to protect themselves?

With extreme weather becoming more common, organisations including the Institution of Mechanical Engineers are calling for a fundamental rethink of how vulnerable infrastructure is protected.

The impacts of climate change are being felt acutely by Pacific nations, many of which are low-lying, remote, and with vulnerable infrastructure.

The administration ran the demonstration — which was far more watered-down than the Pentagon's own cyberwar games — to press Congress to pass a bill that would allow a degree of federal control over protecting the computer networks that run America's most vulnerable infrastructure.

For a lava flow front advancing at a few tens of meters per hour, and several kilometers distance from vulnerable infrastructure, then a 24 h delay may be reasonable.

However, the resulting delay in product delivery of typically 3 4 h was acceptable for the cases tracked here, where lava flows had their sources high on the volcano flanks, at-least 5 km from vulnerable infrastructure.

In an increasingly wired world, space weather poses serious risk to essential, yet vulnerable infrastructure.

But we have the challenges of aging and vulnerable infrastructure, over 500 miles of coastline, homelessness, poverty and an economy that remains in transition.