Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Database on local coping strategies

Coping with environmental stressors is tricky.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For coping with climate change and health issues, Mr. Agyemang Yeboah underscored the need for socio economic adaptation, capacity building initiatives, coordinated health policies, evaluation and monitoring, strong institutions, cost effective technologies, and financial resources.

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.

In such situations, affected households often have no other recourse than to adopt coping strategies that increase vulnerability to natural hazards, for instance by cutting trees to produce charcoal, thereby contributing to deforestation.

15. Requests the Secretary General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees and displaced persons in their territories

11. Requests the Secretary General and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees in their territories

10. Requests the Secretary General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees and displaced persons in their territories

11. Requests the Secretary General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees and displaced persons in their territories

15. Requests the Secretary General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to continue to provide increased assistance to the countries of Central Africa for coping with the problems of refugees and displaced persons in their territories

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 protection plan aims to resolve the worries of couples with only daughters about coping in their old age, and the family feeling plan provides moral and material support for families of this type.

Noting that climate variability, rather than climate change, is an ever present regional concern, he said that coping with present day variability would go a long way down the road towards adapting for climate change.

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

So there is a structural failure in coping with complex private activities that risk leading to large societal damage. In fact, this is well understood and is the reason why we have regulators for most such systems.

Early in that terrible decade, deflation became a reality for nearly all countries and for all of the advanced economies. In the last two years, at least six of the advanced economies and as many as eight have been coping with deflation.