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Evaluation of Urban Flood Susceptibility Under the Influence of Urbanization Based on Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

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Urban flood susceptibility has emerged as a critical challenge for cities worldwide, exacerbated by rapid urbanization. This study evaluates urban flood susceptibility under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) in the context of urbanization. A
Xiaoping Fu, Fangyan Xue, Yunan Liu, Furong Chen, Hao Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

5. Rome: The Decline of the Roman Empire

, 1958
The decline of the Roman Empire is a theme which has captured the imagination of countless men . The Roman achievement, both in its material and cultural aspects, was of such magnitude that its passing invites consideration on that account alone.
Bloom, Robert L., Crapster, Basil L., Dunkelberger, Harold A., Glatfelter, Charles H., Mara, Richard T., Richardson, Norman E., Schubart, W. Richard   +6 more
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Introducing AI & Innovation

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
Mirko Farina, Xiao Yu, Rongrong Ji, Chen Jin, Vincent Blok, Paolo Ciancarini, Ngcaweni Busani, Witold Pedrycz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Proposed Circular Economy Readiness Framework for the Rail Sector, A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) offers a transformative approach to addressing global sustainability challenges, yet few frameworks integrate it with business strategy, systems thinking (ST) and asset management (AM), especially within critical infrastructure sectors like rail. This paper conducts a comprehensive literature review to assess existing
Carl Waring, Kapila Liyanage
wiley   +1 more source

An Approach for Detecting Mangrove Areas and Mapping Species Using Multispectral Drone Imagery and Deep Learning

Sensors
Mangrove ecosystems are important in tropical and subtropical coastal zones, contributing to marine biodiversity and maintaining marine ecological balance.
Xingyu Chen, Xiuyu Zhang, Changwei Zhuang, Xuejiao Dai, Lingling Kong, Zixia Xie, Xibang Hu   +6 more
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Supply Chain Configuration Adaptations of Highly‐Polluting Firms in Response to Shocks From Environmental Pressures: Case for Centralization or Diversification?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulatory shocks affect the supply chain configuration of highly polluting firms, a relatively understudied area in the sustainable operations literature. Using a panel dataset of Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2009 to 2022, we employ a Difference‐in‐Differences (DID) design to examine the causal ...
Gishan Dissanaike, Sijia Dai, Ranadeva Jayasekera, Gazi Salah Uddin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Eco‐Social Lens on Voice for Undervoiced and Unvoiced Stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper argues it is important from an ecological–social (eco‐social) whole system point of view for businesses and policymakers to take the interests of and impacts on unvoiced and undervoiced [un(der)voiced] stakeholders into consideration for both strategic and justice reasons.
Sandra Waddock
wiley   +1 more source

2. Rome: Roman Civilization

, 1958
For our purpose, the importance of the Romans lies in the fact that it was most directly from the ruins of their civilization that our own developed. Therefore, before completing the account of the decline and fall of their empire, we will consider the ...
Bloom, Robert L., Crapster, Basil L., Dunkelberger, Harold A., Glatfelter, Charles H., Mara, Richard T., Richardson, Norman E., Schubart, W. Richard   +6 more
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Useful for What? Dewey's Call to Humanize Techno-Industrial Civilization [PDF]

, 2016
The heart of Dewey’s call to humanize techno-industrial civilization was to conceive science and technology in the service of aesthetic consummations.
Fesmire, Steven
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