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Television coverage of athletes gasping for breath will hardly provide Beijing with the signature Olympic image it had in mind, and growing international anxiety over climate change and other environmental hazards will ensure that such issues receive considerable media coverage.
Decision-makers must recognize that there is no such thing as a natural disaster; there is only the disastrous impact of natural hazards on infrastructure, including workplaces, homes, roads, schools, and hospitals.
The strategy – which focuses on transportation, urban design, and housing and water management – accounts for threats posed by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, and rock falls in identifying the most appropriate land for development.
From the right, the stress is on the hazards of crony capitalism, owing to the massive implicit government subsidies that these banks receive.
Interdependency is, in fact, mutual dependency – a shared exposure to hazards.
Although it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between people fleeing from environmental factors and those who have left for other reasons, we know that climate will play a larger role in migration, as slow-onset threats such as erosion and acute hazards such as cyclones threaten more people’s livelihoods.
These requests range from questions about the health hazards of trace amounts of arsenic in drinking water, to questions about how best to support various forms of scientific research.
If countries expect to experience natural hazards, such as violent storm seasons or major earthquakes, then investing time and resources in preparing for shocks will save lives and protect communities from other losses.
The democracies in this region face a myriad of hazards, but one crucial challenge could be solved relatively easily: the gross under-representation of women in their legislative bodies.
But the general public might better understand the situation if it were framed in terms that compare easily with more familiar hazards.
Of course, while complicated financial arrangements allow us to move forward economically, they also can create hazards.
First, we will still have to find better ways of managing the world’s economy, reducing its inequities, and coping with its environmental hazards.
As it stands, US lawmakers routinely delegate technical issues to experts; but, given the hazards of these experts’ often-unwarranted certitude and insulation from popular opinion, lawmakers wisely retain authority over important decisions.
The only regulations that appear safe are those involving cigarettes (lawsuits filed against Uruguay and Australia for requiring modest labeling about health hazards had drawn too much negative attention).
Taking Drug Safety SeriouslyHealth hazards – nuclear reactors, guns, and contaminated foods – surround all of us, so governments take an active role in limiting these hazards through regulations, which, in many cases, are very successful.
International financial institutions seem to have provided more moral hazards than effective conditionality in the last few years.
Decisions about options and how to implement them are difficult, owing to uncertainties over hazards, benefits, and potential side effects.
If you are a young person, climate change and other human-caused environmental hazards will be major factors in your life.
In Praise of Debt CeilingsMUNICH – The wrangling about raising the US government’s borrowing limit – now thankfully over, at least for a few months – underscores the hazards posed by excessive state indebtedness.
With acid rain and other public-health hazards linked to coal combustion, more technologies are emerging for reducing harmful emissions from power plants.
For the time being, my only wish is to greet a man who, with a throw of the dice, abolished chance and the hazards of the road before him to become Europe’s youngest president.
Providing better protection to the world’s most vulnerable persons against devastating hazards is not only conceivable – it is achievable.
Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards.
Risking It AllCAMBRIDGE – Those of us who are fortunate enough to live in the developed world fret about myriad minor – or sometimes improbable – hazards: carcinogens in food, air crashes, and so forth.
These events are unrelated, and humankind’s vulnerability to natural hazards is as old as our species.
Many of the key hazards are increasing in frequency and intensity.
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, which I direct, recently completed a global assessment of several kinds of natural hazards, such as droughts, earthquakes, and floods, in partnership with the World Bank.
Moreover, Séralini’s results contradict the latest meta-study of 24 long-term studies (up to two years and five generations), which found that the data do “not suggest any health hazards” and display “no statistically significant differences” between GM and conventional food.
The good news is that the hazards of Big Data can be largely avoided.
Environmental hazards blow in on the wind.
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