Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Coping with environmental stressors is tricky.

There are, of course, the country s rich history, abundance of archeological sites, azure skies, and crystalline seas. But there is also the intense pressure under which Greek society is now functioning and the extraordinary courage with which ordinary citizens are coping with economic disaster.

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

Finally, external support helped the region s heavily indebted countries face the twin tasks of implementing structural reforms and coping with financial instability. Financing from the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and bilateral lenders, along with debt relief from official and commercial bank creditors, helped relieve the pressure.

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

It changes with temperature and with barometric pressure.

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.

The atmospheric pressure of the Mars is very low, only 1 of the Earth's surface atmospheric pressure, with high uncertainty.

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

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.

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.

Now today we treat high blood pressure mostly with pills.

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.

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.

Now, one of the problems with looking at blood pressure is your body does everything it can to keep your blood pressure at the same place.

And put the pressure where the pressure needs to be put.

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.

This pressure thing really amazes me that these animals can exist there at a depth with pressure enough to crush the Titanic like an empty Pepsi can.

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.

However, the Contingent Credit Line has been allowed to lapse without any alternative through which to assist countries with sound policies in coping with potential capital account crises stemming from sudden outflows of capital.

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

Forget the pressure.

There is also the issue of the capacity of the Rwandan judicial system to handle such cases at a time when it faces difficulties in coping with thousands of local cases connected with the genocide.

There is also the issue of the capacity of the Rwandan judicial system to handle such cases at a time when it faces difficulties in coping with thousands of local cases connected with the genocide.

You know, perspective is one of these critically important life coping strategies that mountain biking can really teach you.

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.

In connection with military pressure, MONUC, with the deployment of two brigades to the Kivus, will step up military pressure by conducting operations to disrupt and weaken FDLR formations and thus limit the space within which it can operate.