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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh +12 more
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Military budgets of the G20 countries: structure and directions for improvement
Економіка, управління та адмініструванняThe current state of the security environment in the world has reached an extremely low level, which causes the need to review the approaches to the defense capability of each of the countries of the world as a whole, and the most powerful of them above ...
S.V. Svirko +3 more
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The Defense Budget and Defense Industry Finance
, 2010 Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program) The defense sector''s fundamentals in terms of operating margin and cash flow return on investment (CFROI) are stronger today than at any point in the past two decades due to better cash flow management, operating efficiencies, and record US defense spending.
Berteau, David +2 more
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Security After 9/11: Strategy Choices and Budget Tradeoffs [PDF]
, 2003 The White House issued a National Security Strategy document in 2002 that stated the nation's new foreign policy and national security policy goals. Are the choices it identifies the right choices, and how best should resources be allocated to reach ...
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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National Defense Budgeting and Congressional Controls
, 2012 MBA Professional Report In 1992 Jones and Bixler (Mission Financing to Realign National Defense, JAI Press) examined different factors (internalities, externalities) within the federal budget process and identified certain tendencies, trends, and relationships in congressional control over defense through the budget process.
Isaak, Richard, Wheeler, Richard
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Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] In response to concerns over the adequacy of firefighter staffing, the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Act—popularly called the “SAFER Act”—was enacted by the 108th Congress as Section 1057 of the FY2004 National Defense ...
Kruger, Lennard G
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing complexity and severity of cross‐border climate risks characterised by non‐linear impact chains and deep uncertainty questions the capacity of environmental governance to tackle these problems effectively and in a just manner. To increase the efficiency of climate action, the private sector has been called upon to leverage market ...
Päivi Tikkakoski, Sirkku Juhola
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Plant hormesis: The energy aspect of low and high-dose stresses
Plant StressHormesis is low-dose stimulation and high-dose inhibition. Various stressors (abiotic and biotic) can cause hormetic responses in plants. However, hormesis energy aspect remains insufficiently studied.
Elena A. Erofeeva
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Secrecy vs. Disclosure of the Intelligence Community Budget: An Enduring Debate [PDF]
, 2018 Little known U.S. congressional documents, dating from the 1970s, debate public disclosure of Intelligence Community (IC) budget. The documents offer a rich repository of the arguments on both sides of the debate and shine a light on the thoughtful ...
Miles, Anne Daugherty
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