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Business experience of floods and drought-related water and electricity supply disruption in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2015/2016 El Niño

Global Sustainability, 2018
The El Niño event in 2015/2016 was one of the strongest since at least 1950. Through surveys and interviews with key informants, we found businesses in the capital cities of Zambia, Botswana and Kenya experienced major disruption to their activities from
Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Declan Conway, Joanna Pardoe, Mukelabai Ndiyoi, Nnyaladzi Batisani, Eric Odada, Daniel Olago, Alfred Opere, Sinah Kgosietsile, Mubita Nyambe, Jessica Omukuti, Christian Siderius   +11 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Inverting Innovation to Transform Health Systems Responses to Climate Change Impacts in the Global South

, 2023
July 2023 was the hottest month in history, with the global south experiencing the disproportionate burden of adverse climate change impacts, ranging from heatwaves and wildfires to droughts and flooding. If there was ever an existential crisis that required systems thinking to address its complexity, it is climate change.
Tarun Katapally, Jasmin Bhawra
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke, Hattie R. Chisnall, Jesus Vazquez Chavez, Ana B. Jorge Sobrido   +3 more
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Climate change innovation, products and services under the GATT/WTO system

, 2016
This is Chapter 14 of the book entitled "Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change", edited by Joshua D. Sarnoff and published in Spring 2016 by EE Elgar. The co-authors are Professors of Law specializing in International Trade Law.The chapter aims to identify some of the major sources of tension between climate change-related ...
David A. Gantz, Padideh Ala’i
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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Modelling studies of HOMs and their contributions to new particle formation and growth: comparison of boreal forest in Finland and a polluted environment in China [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018
Highly oxygenated multifunctional compounds (HOMs) play a key role in new particle formation (NPF), but their quantitative roles in different environments of the globe have not been well studied yet.
X. Qi, X. Qi, X. Qi, A. Ding, A. Ding, P. Roldin, Z. Xu, Z. Xu, P. Zhou, N. Sarnela, W. Nie, W. Nie, X. Huang, X. Huang, A. Rusanen, M. Ehn, M. P. Rissanen, T. Petäjä, T. Petäjä, M. Kulmala, M. Boy   +20 more
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Bacterial Cellulose‐Based Bilayer Passive Cooler for High‐Performance Radiative/Evaporative Cooling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A sustainable bilayer passive cooler based on bacterial cellulose integrates radiative and evaporative cooling for efficient zero‐energy temperature reduction. The scalable, low‐carbon material shows strong potential for food preservation, low‐temperature storage, and cold‐chain logistics.
Yibing Zhang, Da‐Wen Sun, Liang Xu, You Tian, Libin Sun, Rui Hu, Shiwei Zheng   +6 more
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Dry and warm conditions in Australia exacerbated by aerosol reduction in China [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
A substantial decline in anthropogenic aerosols in China has been observed since the initiation of clean air actions in 2013. This study reveals a linkage between aerosol reductions in China and drier and warmer conditions in Australia.
J. Gao, J. Gao, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, H. Wang, P. Wang, P. Wang, H. Liao, H. Liao   +8 more
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Climate change and emerging risks. Innovative urban climate services as a strategy to improve resilience of human systems.

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
Abstract Climate change and extreme natural events are increasingly threatening human systems. Even if greenhouse gases emission were reduced to zero today, global warming and the consequent climate change would continue to affect future generations: as climate is changing, human systems must learn to adapt.
C. Bernardini, G. Paganin, C. Talamo
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