Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

Can you quantify your openness?

But these interests are hard to quantify.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them.

The Cobb method was also one of the first techniques used to quantify sagittal deformity.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

It is difficult to quantify the precise impact of ISIS' efforts to promote its mission and recruit new members.

The Council shall biennially review and assess

The Council shall biennially review and assess

f. Monitor, assess and report on progress

Just because systemic effects are difficult to quantify does not mean that they are not real.

Speculative activities have plusses and minuses, much that is good and some that is bad, and these are very difficult to quantify.

Expand development indicators to assess ethical and moral capacities

More progressive clinicians have begun using IMT measurement as a way to quantify and track disease progression or stability within individual patients.

Assess and cost human resource capacity gaps and infrastructure needs and

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

Assess the outcomes achieved to date.

In each case, index roads are used to help quantify total impact of vehicle collisions on specific vertebrate taxa.

We argue that such shifts reflect changing stories, epidemics of new narratives, and associated views of the world, which are difficult to quantify.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

Some countries, for example Kenya and the Republic of Korea, reported on efforts to quantify women's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP).

(b) Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product. Integrated household surveys are regularly undertaken in Pakistan.

Though very difficult to quantify, it is estimated that millions of people die prematurely due to air pollution each year worldwide.

There has not been sufficient study to quantify the effects of pollinator decline on wild plants and wild life that depend on them for feed.

learning how to assess how harmful nanomaterials are

Musharraf must assess what will be his legacy.

Questionnaires could be helpful to assess individual workshops.

And then we have two parameters which we were not able to quantify air pollution, including warming gases and air polluting sulfates and nitrates, but also chemical pollution.

They enable all team members to quantify the extent of problems, even in areas of functioning where one is not a specialist.

Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.

This is, I think, the best metric to use to quantify the decidedly sub par pace of today s jobless recovery in the US.

It is a useful tool for ranking projects because it allows you to quantify the amount of value created per unit of investment.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

It facilitates the development of methods to assess climate change impacts and vulnerability.

Mine affected countries should assess their own needs and define their own priorities.

It is the Chinese who have endowed the term financial center with such weight and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail.

Another approach for policymakers is to quantify the economic benefits of ecosystem services the miraculous yet mundane things that nature provides like erosion control, water management, and purification.

These will also help UNICEF to assess the strength of systems and human capacities.