Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Database on local coping strategies

Coping with environmental stressors is tricky.

Palestinian households living behind the Barrier have depleted their coping strategies.

It's actually a sensible way of coping with the inevitability of aging.

He enumerated coping strategies, such as polyculture, rainwater harvesting, migration, and afforestation.

Only a few developing countries currently had telecommunications systems capable of coping with disasters.

The pandemic has a great effect on youth, weakening family and social coping mechanisms.

National capacity building and early warning systems were crucial in coping with these crises.

Acknowledging the value of traditional knowledge, the LEG developed a database of local coping strategies.

It takes time and energy and public servants have enough trouble coping with their current responsibilities.

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The proposal before us, which my country sponsors, forms a good basis for coping with such catastrophes.

What if obesity is a coping mechanism for a far more sinister problem going on underneath the cell?

While organizational capabilities are an important initial precondition for OFDI to occur, these capabilities can be further enhanced through foreign operations.

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

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In all cases, upheaval, or the breakdown of coping mechanisms, stems from inequitable or unsustainable patterns of resource distribution.

However, the depletion of coping mechanisms has led to food shortages in more remote areas, particularly in Northern Darfur.

The three major intervention areas were developing and sustaining human capabilities developing positive cultural values, attitudes and practices and utilization of human capabilities.

Coping with the changing workplace and the need for the constant upgrading of skills is a difficult but essential task.

The aim of the project is to identify the peoples' adaptation techniques and traditional knowledge in coping with dryland conditions.

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Documentation of existing coping strategies At its sixth meeting, the LEG agreed that work be initiated on developing a database on local coping strategies, noting the importance of disseminating information on experience in using indigenous knowledge to support the identification of adaptation options by LDCs which share similar climatic conditions.

The economy of the region is disrupted, opportunities for local food production are reduced and coping mechanisms have been seriously compromised.

Mr. Moussa Sanon, Burkina Faso, presented a case study on transfer of technology and capacity building for coping with climate variability.

Possible areas for collaboration include work relating to TNAs and NAPAs and to TT CLEAR and the database on local coping strategies.

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to comprehensively enhance its governing capabilities and achieved remarkable results.

Democracy, too, is about expanding opportunities and strengthening human capabilities.

The Millennium Development Goals could not be achieved without eradicating domestic violence, if only because of the cost of coping with the phenomenon.

One of the greatest environmental and development challenges in the twenty first century will be that of controlling and coping with climate change.

The country is still coping with a locust invasion that started in December 2004, which has affected crops, including the important cashew cash crop.

The Indian Ocean tsunami disaster has demonstrated yet again that closer international and regional cooperation is an effective means for coping with natural disasters.

So capabilities that were once restricted are now available to everyone.

With his extensive experience and capabilities, UNIDO faced a promising future.

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It will continue to offer logistical support, within its operational capabilities.

Provincial reconstruction teams were also reinforced with additional troops and capabilities.

15. Calls upon the international community to continue to assist those countries receiving refugees in coping with the resulting economic, social, humanitarian and environmental challenges

Activities aimed at raising the level of preparedness of local communities should take due account of local realities, indigenous coping mechanisms and perceptions of risk.

The MA scenarios also show that coping with desertification and its related economic conditions is likely to fare better when proactive management approaches are used.

Coping with disasters so as to pave the way for world's sustainable development is, therefore, one of the most critical challenges facing the international community.