Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Coping with environmental stressors is tricky.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We reaffirm the commitment to implement the Habitat Agenda and the Cities without Slums initiative to assist developing countries in coping with rapid urbanization and associated migration within and between countries.

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 regional analyses underscore the link and synergies among the Millennium Development Goals, including Goal 8, which would strengthen the capacity of the developing countries to be more effective in coping with globalization.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

In some ways, the country simply ignored their past and moved forward. Years later when a market economy and political democracy were established, Germany did turn toward coping with the past , and did so very effectively.

There are at least 500,000 internally displaced persons in Côte d'Ivoire, more than 80 per cent of whom are living with host communities that have now depleted their reserves and no longer have the coping mechanisms to deal with this additional burden.

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

The first program, on April 24, was entitled Iraqi Families Coping with Conflict and Uncertainty. The title of the second program, on October 23, was Migrant Families Global Human Rights Challenge.

UNCTAD began work in 2004 on a new technical assistance project to assist the Palestinian Investment Promotion Agency (PIPA) in implementing an Investment Retention Programme, aimed at providing investment support services to existing enterprises in coping with and surviving the present crisis.

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