Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

And though the equation is largely subjective, you can perhaps quantify people, and perhaps quantify affluence, but technology is abusive in too many ways to quantify.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product.

ARS researchers also developed fluorescence techniques and a prototype fluorescent instrument to discriminate and quantify crop residues.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

And it's our attempt to quantify beauty by finding which regions of the brain are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.

The Council shall biennially review and assess

The Council shall biennially review and assess

f. Monitor, assess and report on progress

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

We can only assess all the accusations currently being made after we have gathered all the information and can assess the situation.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

Though very difficult to quantify, it is estimated that millions of people die prematurely due to air pollution each year worldwide.

Expand development indicators to assess ethical and moral capacities

She can assess investments very accurately.

Assess the outcomes achieved to date.

Assess and cost human resource capacity gaps and infrastructure needs and

The reason I quantify that is because we really embarked on this as a mutual journey to really get inside of it.

And then we have two parameters which we were not able to quantify air pollution, including warming gases and air polluting sulfates and nitrates, but also chemical pollution.

(b) Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

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Questionnaires could be helpful to assess individual workshops.

The Panel also finds that there is insufficient evidence to quantify damage to mangroves and coral reefs, if any, that can be attributed directly to Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

It facilitates the development of methods to assess climate change impacts and vulnerability.

According to Zhu Baoping, they should further move forward the reform, engage in community shares cooperation, quantify the assets to members, fix it to farmers and produce clear property rights.

Some experts endeavoured to quantify the losses arising from inefficiencies, which in the example of textiles could amount to more than 12 per cent of total value.

With regard to the process and methodology used by Saudi Arabia to quantify the loss resulting from damage to its terrestrial resources, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia's approach is reasonable.

These will also help UNICEF to assess the strength of systems and human capacities.

The study will enable to assess recent changes and determine the stability of glaciers.

While DPKO has put in place a mechanism to evaluate and assess armed military contingents prior to their deployment, no such mechanism has yet been developed to assess pre deployment preparedness of military observers.

The Panel considers that the statistical approach used by Iran to quantify the impacts of pollutants from the oil well fires on its crops in 1991 is, in general, reasonable and appropriate.

It will be important to identify and assess the investments required, costs incurred and results achieved.

During this interim period, NEAFC will assess its work on this issue, seek further scientific advice and assess possible enforcement issues that may arise, with the aim of having appropriate conservation and management measures in place by 2008.

During the initial review the expert review team shall assess whether

During the annual review the expert review team shall assess whether

So are the efforts to assess the needs of the Sudan.

One P 3 to assess staff training needs and support the organization of staff training

The information needed to assess range and impact indicators is available at the original sources.