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Heterogeneity and Global Climate Action

open access: yes
Abstract Countries respond differently to climate change, yet the impact of behavioral heterogeneity on global climate action remains unexplored. This leads to two related questions that we address: (i) how variation in preferences influences the global political economy of climate action; and (ii) what conditions enable sustained, high-
Giorgos Galanis   +2 more
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Social identities in climate action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
With the increasingly hazardous effects of climate change on nature and humanity, a key question in social science research is how to foster climate action, i.e., individual and collective behavior towards containment of negative consequences of climate ...
Hornung, Johanna
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Health impact assessment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission from the combustion of agricultural wastes

open access: yesCogent Engineering, 2022
Emissions of components of VOCs from combustion of agro-waste materials were quantified. Agro-waste materials comprising corn cobs, corn husks, bean chaff and rice husks were burnt at a temperature of 400°C in a muffle furnace, and the emissions were ...
Ebenezer Leke Odekanle   +6 more
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Reimagining Museums for Climate Action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
An open access book bringing together essays and conversations to inspire further climate action within and beyond the museum ...

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Case study: The rapid growth of an interdisciplinary statewide climate and health movement

open access: yesThe Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2022
The New Hampshire Healthcare Workers for Climate Action (NH HWCA) was created as a grassroots organization in the summer of 2021 and quickly grew to over 2500 participants in 8 months, reaching out to government officials via a signature campaign ...
Paul E. Friedrichs   +4 more
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Why Climate Action Is Global Health Action

open access: yesThe American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2022
ABSTRACT. The impacts of climate change on global health and populations are far-reaching, yet they disproportionately affect vulnerable groups, thereby exacerbating disparities. As humanity reckons with the emergency of climate change, our global health community needs to contend with our own contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.
Shyam Prakash Dumre   +7 more
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Climate just entrepreneurship: feminist entrepreneurship for climate action

open access: yes, 2023
Purpose This paper aims to explore synergies between feminist, first nations and queer theories and social, circular and climate entrepreneurship, to build a framework for supporting climate just entrepreneurship.
Stephenson, Elise, Furman, Sarah
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Beyond adaptation: Pacific voices on health, identity, and rights amid climate loss and damage

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics
Loss and damage is an essential but under-examined aspect of climate justice, particularly for Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), disproportionately impacted despite minimal global emissions contributions. In the context of the International
Sindra Sharma   +2 more
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Assessing the Cumulative Impacts of Forest Management on Forest Age Structure Development and Woodland Caribou Habitat in Boreal Landscapes: A Case Study from Two Canadian Provinces

open access: yesLand, 2023
The Canadian boreal forest biome has been subjected to a long history of management for wood production. Here, we examined the cumulative impacts of logging on older forests in terms of area, distribution and patch configuration in the managed forest ...
Brendan Mackey   +7 more
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Are fire refugia less predictable due to climate change?

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Fire refugia—unburnt habitat within a wildfire’s perimeter—play a key role in wildlife persistence and recovery. While studies have shown that the location of refugia is influenced by local topographic factors, growing evidence points to extreme fire ...
Brendan Mackey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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