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Escaping social–ecological traps through ecological restoration and socioeconomic development in China's Loess Plateau

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 1364-1379, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The social–ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self‐reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push a social–ecological system towards an undesirable state and threaten the sustainability of human societies.
Zhuangzhuang Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing floods in Chennai City as part of situation understanding and improvement project

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 349-370, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Transdisciplinary approaches in water are important to ensure water security to everyone around the world. Recently, Young Water Professionals (YWPs) training was carried out to impart learning in transdisciplinary approaches. Besides online workshops and lectures, the training program included the Situation Understanding and Improvement ...
Sunil Shivakumar   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A systematic review of 20 years of crisis and disaster research: Trends and progress

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 374-392, December 2021., 2021
Abstract The field of crisis and disaster studies has proliferated over the past two decades. Attention is bound to grow further as the world negotiates the prolonged challenges of the Covid‐19 pandemic. In this review, we provide an overview of the main foci, methods, and research designs employed in the crisis and disaster research fields in the ...
Jeroen Wolbers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Infrastructure, Climate Disasters, and Cultural Survival: Policy Failures and Community Displacement in the Era of Managed Retreat

open access: yesJournal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, Volume 7, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT Climate disasters are currently changing territory around the world by showing large inequalities that exist in infrastructure systems, governance arrangements, and development pathways. In many cases, climate risk response strategies like managed retreat have been framed as practical approaches to respond to increasing climate disasters ...
Chick Edmond
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic origins and climate‐induced erosion in economically important Asian walnuts

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract The global climate is undergoing unprecedented changes, posing significant threats to species persistence. However, the spatiotemporal impacts on genetic diversity remain poorly understood, hindering species conservation and management. Walnuts, generally referred to as Juglans regia and J. sigillata, are economically vital in Asia, but little
Peng‐Zhen Fan   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bipartisan Failures: How Political Agendas Undermine Core Ethical Principles in Emergency Management

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how political agendas across the ideological spectrum compromise ethical principles in emergency management in the United States. Through a literature review and comparative fact‐based scenario analysis, it demonstrates that both conservative and liberal governments have politicized disaster declarations, resource ...
Erik Xavier Wood
wiley   +1 more source

Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reef functioning

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract Mobile organisms like seabirds can provide important nutrient flows between ecosystems, but this connectivity has been interrupted by the degradation of island ecosystems. Island restoration (via invasive species eradications and the restoration of native vegetation) can reestablish seabird populations and their nutrient transfers between ...
Ruth E. Dunn   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A case for stronger integration of physical landscape processes in conservation science and practice

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 3, June 2024.
Abstract I argue that the dynamic nature of contemporary, landscape‐shaping (geomorphic) processes deserves more consideration in conservation science and practice. In an analysis of a sample of fundamental terms related to geomorphology and area‐based conservation in the Web of Science, I found that the terms co‐occurred in <2% of the analyzed entries
Piotr Cienciala
wiley   +1 more source

[Expert consensus on diagnosis and treatment of external auditory canal cholesteatoma(2026)]. [PDF]

open access: yesLin Chuang Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi
Zong S, Ni Y, Li H, Xiao H.
europepmc   +1 more source

[Risk factors associated with non-radiographic bone erosion in patients with gout]. [PDF]

open access: yesBeijing Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban
Liu W   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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