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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Checklist: Meta‐Indicators for Evaluating Effectiveness of Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs) are widely used to support sustainable urban planning, development assessment and neighbourhood‐scale decision‐making. However, existing tools continue to exhibit persistent limitations, including uneven coverage of sustainability dimensions, limited governance integration, weak stakeholder
Tayyaba Riaz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Task‐Oriented Hierarchical Environment Modeling via Spatial Belonging Relationships for Domestic Service Robots

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Domestic service robots in dynamic homes often rely on memory‐intensive, quickly outdated 3‐D maps. This work presents HEMDSR, a four‐layer, task‐oriented model that reasons about object‐room and object‐object spatial belonging relationships, encodes observation viewpoints, and builds local 3‐D maps just‐in‐time.
Ying Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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