Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.

I was a little prone to depression.

They are also prone to making mistakes.

Children andinfants are particularly prone to it.

With incomplete models of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter productive.

Indeed, without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.

Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.

In short, the world has become increasingly prone to financial turbulence.

On a smaller scale, we are living in communities prone to conflicts.

China is also a disaster prone developing country.

Regional organizations in disaster prone regions should play a greater role in disaster risk reduction and management by devising regional level programmes and by supporting the efforts undertaken by the countries of the region.

Left to their own devices, markets are prone to extremes of euphoria and despair.

Man is prone to say Shall I be raised to life after I die ?

And, surely, academics are also to blame for the inertia, with many of them still defending elegant but deeply flawed models of perfect markets that create an illusion of safety for a system that is in fact highly risk prone.

Conventional development policy has been prone to fads, moving from one big fix to another.

That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.

Being poor makes you prone to conflict, and being in conflict makes you poor.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Despite the fact that it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally.

Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should strengthen the capacity of disaster prone countries in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and post disaster recovery within a disaster risk reduction framework, by supporting relevant initiatives in this field.

Increasingly, such teams include emergency managers from disaster prone countries.

Other earthquake prone countries must take action on this matter.

Some crisis prone countries such as Latvia are already unable to sell any more debt.

He concludes, cautiously, that television is an institution where people are more prone to obey

Control In many countries around the world, waterways prone to floods are often carefully managed.

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.

The Secretary General encourages Governments and organizations to maintain their support for the development of the tsunami early warning system and other necessary early warning systems, such as those for tropical cyclones and adverse weather in the Indian Ocean and other risk prone regions.

Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.

And, if the BRICs slow down, they may be more prone to debt and currency crises.

For starters, the Sprague Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.

Declaratively, young people are more prone to division of duties in the household on equal footage.

Also, studies had shown that men who had committed acts of violence were prone to relapses.

Statistics show that male workers (3.9 ) are more prone to occupational injuries diseases compared to female workers (1.5 ).

There are no oases of prosperity in a crisis prone globalized world.

A system governed by such rules is prone to give rise to various social conflicts, and perhaps to violence.

China s economy is prone to rapid growth, with buoyant investment demand sustaining powerful short term inflationary pressures.

The eurozone is still prone to bad equilibria as long as growth on its periphery remains weak.

Babies who have lower birth weights, for example, are more prone to chronic illnesses later in life.

A volcanic field is an area of the Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity.

Accurate maps were needed, for instance, to avoid locating roads, housing and farms in disaster prone areas.

The country was also prone to natural disasters, and, despite some improvement, it faced continuing serious problems.

So which industrial structure is better for encouraging you to run? As economists are prone to say, it depends.