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Managing floods in Chennai City as part of situation understanding and improvement project
World 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
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Family Process, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 507-519, June 2022., 2022 An empowered sense of “self” is crucial for emotional well‐being and positive relationships. Certain family interaction patterns can disrupt the adult's sense of “mattering” to the child, eroding their perceived self‐efficacy. Mattering can be understood as a felt sense of relational agency which is necessary for experiencing one's interactions as ...
Willem Beckers +2 more
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A systematic review of 20 years of crisis and disaster research: Trends and progress
Risk, 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
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The need for ecocentrism in biodiversity conservation
Conservation Biology, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 1089-1096, October 2020., 2020 Abstract Over the past 5 decades, scientists have been documenting negative anthropogenic environmental change, expressing increasing alarm, and urging dramatic socioecological transformation in response. A host of international meetings have been held, but the erosion of biological diversity continues to accelerate.
Bron Taylor +5 more
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Latin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT In recent years, video assistant referee systems have been increasingly used to correct unfair decisions in sports. Similarly, I argue that constitutional referendums play a corrective role in hybrid or competitive authoritarian regimes, where the electoral referee is biased and the government enjoys unfair advantages.
Muhammet Derviş Mete
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Analysis of the rainfall threshold for post-fire debris flow initiation: A case study of the debris flow at Ren’eyong gully in Xiangcheng County, Sichuan Province [PDF]
In the early summer of 2014, a wildfire ravaged the Ren’eyong valley in the central Mt. Hengduan region of southwestern China. Following the blaze, debris flows were triggered three times in branch No. 3 due to short-term, low intensity rainfall.
Guisheng HU +4 more
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Bipartisan Failures: How Political Agendas Undermine Core Ethical Principles in Emergency Management
Politics &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
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Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reef functioning
Conservation 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
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Shuitu Baochi Xuebao, 2022 东北黑土区是我国重要的商品粮生产基地,强烈水土流失导致的黑土厚度下降及土壤质量退化,直接威胁国家粮食安全。系统分析黑土区土壤侵蚀研究成果,对阻控黑土退化、维持土地生产力、保障国家粮食安全具有重要意义,论述了黑土区土壤侵蚀环境与侵蚀环境效应、土壤侵蚀过程与机理、土壤侵蚀时空变化和未来研究展望。多营力复合、缓坡长坡是黑土区独特的侵蚀环境,黑土厚度下降与坡耕地土壤质量退化是该区最典型的侵蚀环境效应。细沟间、细沟、浅沟、切沟及冻融侵蚀发育的动力机制与主控因素差异明显 ...
张光辉, 杨扬, 刘瑛娜, 王志强
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Research on Environmental Economic Costs of Soil Erosion in Chaohu Basin [PDF]
, 2006 本文首先对水土流失经济损失的国内外研究现状进行了总结概述。在此基础上,以巢湖流域为例,针对流域特点及水土流失状况,确定水土流失造成的养分损失、泥沙淤积损失、水分损失及耕地损失四项实物型损失量作为衡量水土流失环境经济损失的指标,选用替代花费法、恢复费用法及影子工程法等对水土流失的经济损失进行了评估和货币化计量。Based on the summarize of the research state of economic costs of soil erosion both home and ...
吴开亚, 王玲杰
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