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ABSTRACT Polycrisis—understood as intersecting crises that amplify each other rather than unfolding separately—poses profound challenges for employment relations theory and practice. The employment relationship is simultaneously a site where the effects of crises are most acutely experienced and a central mechanism through which profit is generated ...
Tony Dobbins +4 more
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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance
Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison +4 more
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After the Hype: Resilience Seeking in Emerging Technology Ecosystems
ABSTRACT Academic Summary Hype often helps emerging technology ecosystems gain early support for their innovative value propositions, but the initial excitement around the technology typically vanishes at some point. This decrease in excitement and support may lead some ecosystems to fail while others are resilient and recover.
Fiona Schweitzer +2 more
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Schools are important places to carry out earthquake disaster education. Earthquake prevention and disaster reduction publicity and education in colleges and universities can help improve the results of earthquake safety education in primary and ...
Xia Li
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Abstract The long‐term viability of Jatropha curcas as a biodiesel feedstock has been widely debated. Many early initiatives failed to deliver consistent economic returns despite promising environmental attributes. This study re‐evaluated J. curcas‐based systems within an integrated environmental–economic framework, focusing on their potential role in ...
Eduardo Sansão Sozinho Maurício +3 more
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ABSTRACT Earthquakes induced by injecting or extracting gas from underground reservoirs can pose a significant hazard to surrounding infrastructure and populations. Safeguarding against future seismic hazards requires accurate models for the upper tail of the earthquake magnitude distribution that are able to represent various intervention strategies ...
Conor Murphy +4 more
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Forgetting and Remembering: Kenneth Cumberland and Soil Erosion in New Zealand, 1940s to 2020s
The speed and scale of landscape transformation in New Zealand was almost immediately apparent to British geographer Kenneth Cumberland on his appointment to Canterbury University College in 1938. His efforts culminated in the nationally and internationally well‐regarded book ‘Soil Erosion in New Zealand: A Geographical Reconnaissance (1944a)’, which ...
Michael Roche
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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This study aims to explore public awareness and needs regarding earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation education in Jiangxi Province. By designing and implementing a questionnaire survey, this research extensively collected public feedback to ...
Yueyuan Deng +7 more
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Under the background of the new era,popular science books for children help to cultivate the scientific spirit of children readers,and also help to improve the scientific literacy and awareness of the whole nation. Based on the analysis of the connotation of popular earthquake science books for children,this paper compares the knowledge content and ...
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