Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Coping with environmental stressors is tricky.

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

Database on local coping strategies

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

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

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

UNCTAD meeting on Coping with trade reforms a developing country perspective on the WTO tariff negotiations

UNCTAD meeting on Coping with trade reforms A developing country perspective on the WTO tariff negotiations

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

She was ill with heart disease.

She was ill with heart disease.

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.

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

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

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

I was born with some form of disease.

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.

Bullying is a disease. Prejudice is a disease. Violence is a disease.

Furthermore, universality is essential for coping with the increasing threat of the use of chemical weapons by terrorists and with other risks associated with the proliferation of dangerous chemical materials.

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.

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

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

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.

Of those rats that don't abort, atrazine causes prostate disease in the pups so the sons are born with an old man's disease.

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

Coping with and reducing disasters so as to enable and strengthen nations' sustainable development is, therefore, one of the most critical challenges facing the international community.

The WHO position with respect to the use of DDT in activities aimed at disease vector control to interrupt disease transmission is as follows.

How do we measure changes in behavior in a meaningful way that's going to help us with prevention of disease, early onset of disease, and tracking the progression of disease over a long period of time?

This is what we need to do with heart disease now.

Lapping it up like female camels raging of thirst with disease.

Lapping it up like female camels raging of thirst with disease.

One of the greatest environmental and development challenges in the twenty first century will be that of controlling and coping with climate change. (A 59 2005, para.

Disease.

But when you're in a hurry or stressed out, that triggers something called the inflammatory response, which is associated with everything from Alzheimer's disease to cardiovascular disease.

In late 1995, two young people were diagnosed with Creutzfeldt Jakob disease a rare disease typically seen in elderly patients. Post mortem examinations of their brains revealed deposits of prions the infectious agents that cause scrapie, kuru, and mad cow disease.

It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things.

We need new ways, better ways, to cope with poverty, wars and disease.

After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

On the whole, prevention is a much more effective way if coping with desertification, because subsequent attempts to rehabilitate desertified areas are costly and tend to deliver limited results.