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‘Foreshadows and repercussions’: histories of air war and the recasting of cities and citizens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the preface to the 1941 edition to his 1908 novel, The War in the Air, H. G. Wells wrote: ‘I told you so. You damned fools’. The books discussed here illustrate how, in the few intervening decades, air war moved from a fearful vision into reality, and
ADAM PAGE   +21 more
core   +1 more source

Vast, overlooked peat, and organic soils in Brazil's Cerrado: carbon storage, dynamics, and stability

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Tropical peatlands are critical for climate mitigation due to their dual role as major carbon sinks and methane sources. In rainforests, high and stable rainfall supports peat accumulation in tropical climates. However, groundwater‐fed peatlands in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems remain poorly understood, despite their potential importance ...
Larissa S. Verona   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wartime Leadership as a Bridge Over Troubled Waters: A Representative Bureaucracy Perspective on Ethnically Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Schools

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The representative bureaucracy literature asserts that minority personnel in public organizations can promote their social group either through their own behavior or by influencing other staff members or focal citizens. However, these phenomena have not been examined in wartime settings in ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous organizations.
Maayan Davidovitz, Chen Schechter
wiley   +1 more source

Children of war: the long-run effects of large-scale physical destruction and warfare on children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock nationwide.
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude
core   +2 more sources

Measuring the Impact of Armed Conflict on Population Health: A Guide for Researchers

open access: yesPopulation and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The humanitarian impact of armed conflict remains a significant international issue, with an estimated 2 billion people residing in fragile or conflict‐affected settings. Despite increasing attention and study of armed conflict and its impact on human populations, few studies have evaluated the methods necessary to assess such relationships ...
Maya Luetke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uscire dalla catastrofe. La città di Napoli fra guerra aerea e occupazione alleata

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2018
This article is a first reading in local key historical conjuncture of World War II and especially of the material and moral effects arising from the bombing of villages on a large scale.
Martina Gargiulo ha conseguito, nel marzo 2017, la laurea magistrale in Scienze Storiche e Orientalistiche presso l’Università di Bologna. I suoi interessi di ricerca spaziano dalla storia sociale alla storia militare, con un accento particolare sulle dinamiche politico-sociali innescate dal secondo conflitto mondiale e sui rapporti intercorsi fra lo scenario internazionale e i contesti locali dei paesi belligeranti.
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Summary of the Development of Foreign Aerial Bomb in 2021

open access: yesHangkong bingqi, 2022
In 2021, the world’s major military powers actively promoted the development of aerial bombs. This paper summarized the development trend of the United States, Russia, European countries and India in the field of aerial bombs. In order to deal with the conflict between great powers in the future, the United States has comprehensively promoted the ...
openaire   +1 more source

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