ABSTRACT Disasters and crises disrupt lives and test the capacities of governments and organizations. While their immediate aftermath is often marked by uncertainty and disruption, recurrent patterns in how individuals are affected give rise to foreseeable hardships.
Michel L. A. Dückers
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How extreme rainfall and failing dams unleashed the Derna flood disaster. [PDF]
Nemnem AM +5 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction Crop production has been declining in semi‐arid areas over the past two decades due to several biophysical constraints, including soil infertility and water stress induced by low rainfall. The objective of the experiment was to evaluate the effects of biochar and rainwater harvesting techniques on soil moisture content, bulk ...
Andrew Tapiwa Kugedera
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Enhancing groundwater recharge mapping in arid regions with geospatial multi-criteria analysis in the Eastern desert of Egypt. [PDF]
Saber M +7 more
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River Sand and Gravel Mining: Global Drivers, Impacts, and Pathways for Sustainable Management
Abstract River sand and gravel are mined worldwide at volumes that now rival their natural replenishment, yet quantitative knowledge of this mining activity and its consequences lags far behind many other global environmental pressures. We synthesize 411 peer‐reviewed studies published since 1974 within a new Driver‐to‐Management Pathway for ...
Edward Park +25 more
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Sustainable stabilization of expansive soils for slope applications using enzyme-induced carbonate precipitation and iron ore tailings. [PDF]
Mehmood M +5 more
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Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India
ABSTRACT This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste‐coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving.
David Singh
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A Collaborative, Multi-Institutional Growth Standard for Dam-Reared Infant Rhesus and Pigtail Macaques (Macaca mulatta and Macaca nemestrina) in Research Settings. [PDF]
Haertel AJ +33 more
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Precarious Development: Climate Crisis and Hydrosocial Futures in the Punjab Canal Colonies
Short Abstract This essay traces the history of the hydrosocial arrangement in Pakistan's Punjab province to reveal how colonial and postcolonial irrigation infrastructural development set up the present moment of crisis instead of enduring development.
Abdul Aijaz
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Investigating the Thermal Cracking Processes of a Concrete Disk Considering the Influences of Aggregates and Pores: A Numerical Study Based on DEM. [PDF]
Hu S, Zhu X, Shi J, Li Y, Yu S.
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