Results 291 to 300 of about 1,073,221 (339)
Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
wiley +1 more source
An event based analysis of extreme rainfall and historical trend in southern Tamil Nadu. [PDF]
Sci RepDeepthi BP +9 more
europepmc +1 more source
Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
wiley +1 more source
China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Modeling Extreme Rainfall Using the Generalized Extreme Value Distribution and Exceedance Analysis in Colima, Mexico. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Renteria R, Aquino R, Polanco M.
europepmc +1 more source
The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt +3 more
wiley +1 more source
From perception to modelling: Nature-based solutions as a tool for coastal risk management. [PDF]
Camb Prism Coast Futurd'Avdeew M +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
Risk analysis of coastal flood defences: A Vietnam case
, 2008 C. Mai +3 more
openalex +1 more source
How Responsive Are Mortgage Lending Conditions to Flood Risk? The Case of the Netherlands
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the link between flood risk and mortgage lending in the Netherlands, a country where approximately 60% of the population resides in flood‐prone areas. Using over 100,000 securitised mortgages issued from 2013 to 2023, our study concludes that credit terms are indistinguishable between areas with and without flood risk. When we use the
Laura Naomi Götz +2 more
wiley +1 more source