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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Northern Territory 9 year drowning report. A call for change

, 2012
Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).This nine?year report covers 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2011.

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Can Environmental Markets Pay for More Sustainable Farm Dams? A Cost–Benefit Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm dams are widespread artificial waterbodies that play a critical role in agricultural water security. Enhancing these systems through sustainable interventions such as fencing, hardened access points, and revegetation can improve water quality and deliver carbon and biodiversity co‐benefits.
K. U. D. N. Hansani, Lukas Schuster, Peter I. Macreadie, Kym Whiteoak, Martino E. Malerba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living Through a Changing Climate: Stress, Trauma, and Gendered Resilience Among Women in Coastal and Northern Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is reshaping everyday life in Ghana through coastal erosion, flooding, erratic rainfall, water scarcity, extreme heat, and agricultural insecurity. This study examines how these changes produce stress, trauma, and gendered resilience among women in Salakope and Choggu Yapalsi, two climate‐vulnerable communities in coastal and ...
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

The Danish Drowning Cohort: Evaluation of Data Availability for Fatal and Non-Fatal Drowning Incidents

Clinical Epidemiology
Niklas Breindahl,1,2 Alexander Nannerup Wildenschild,1 Kasper Bitzer,1,3 Signe Amalie Wolthers,1,3 Theo Walther Jensen,1,3 Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg,1,4 Jacob Steinmetz,5– 8 Thea Palsgaard Møller,1,3,9 Tim Lindskou,10,11&nbsp ...
Breindahl N, Wildenschild AN, Bitzer K, Wolthers SA, Jensen TW, Blomberg SNF, Steinmetz J, Møller TP, Lindskou T, Christensen HC   +9 more
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Probabilistic data linkage to study the epidemiology of unintentional fatal drowning in a large metropolitan region

Injury Epidemiology
Background It is difficult to study the epidemiology of drowning at the regional level because of multiple data sources, many of which have a high degree of unstandardized and missing data.
Rohit P. Shenoi, Ned Levine, Elizabeth A. Camp, Linh Nguyen, Sandra McKay, Shaila Zaman   +5 more
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Towards Responsible Mining in Africa: Problematising the Environmental and Public Health Concerns of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been emerging media reports on the impact of cyanide and mercury use in artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) operations on community health, especially among pregnant and non‐pregnant women, ASGM miners, and children in rural Africa.
Francis Arthur‐Holmes, Emmanuel Selasi Tomude, Steve Ahenkora Amoako   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of risk factors of non-fatal drowning among children in rural areas of Guangdong Province, China: a case-control study

BMC Public Health, 2010
Background Drowning is a major cause of morbidity and mortality for children, yet non-fatal drowning remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to explore potential modifiable risk factors of non-fatal drowning among children in rural areas of
Guo Qiao, Song Xiu, Xu Yan, Xu Hao, Nie Shao, Ma Wen, Zhang Yu   +6 more
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A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Coase Conjecture predicts that a durable‐goods monopolist without commitment will rapidly cut price toward marginal cost. We test this prediction in the electronic‐book market using release‐day prices. To proxy for marginal cost, we use competitive prices of public‐domain electronic books on the same platforms.
Tim Groseclose, Alex Tabarrok
wiley   +1 more source

[News Clip: Drowning]

, 1961
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a 16 year old Dallas resident drowning in Bethurum ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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