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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical response to the Great East Japan Earthquake in Ishinomaki City

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2011
Problem: The Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital is the only designated disaster hospital in the Ishinomaki Medical Zone, Japan that was undamaged from the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
Tadashi Ishii
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Business Ethic and the Ethic of Care: Business Improvement Associations, Emergency Shelters and the Hybridity of Urban Governance in Action

European Journal of Geography
Business Improvement Associations (BIAs) – also referred to as Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) – and emergency shelters are two important entities in the hybridity of urban governance and order, even though, facially, this might not appear to be ...
Prashan Ranasinghe
doaj   +1 more source

Women victims of gender violence in shelters: Sociodemographic and maltreatment characteristics [PDF]

Psychosocial Intervention, 2017
Research on the profiles of women victims of gender violence in shelters is scarce. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic and abuse characteristics of this group, as well as to analyze changes in the study variables over the last 10 years.
Liria Fernández-González, Esther Calvete, Izaskun Orue   +2 more
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Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Objective Financial Situation and Psychological Outlook in the Relationship Between Personal Life Shocks and Financial Well‐Being

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 632-654, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Existing research examines the relationship between personal life shocks and financial well‐being primarily through the lens of objective markers of the individual's financial situation (e.g., liquidity). Little attention has been paid to the relative roles of these objective markers and more intuitive or affect‐based factors in how an ...
Jordan Bell, Jesse Jurgenson, Dee Warmath   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of the Mosque as an Emergency Shelter in Disasters: A Systematic Review [PDF]

Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly, 2023
Background: Providing emergency shelter for disaster victims is a part of disaster risk mitigation strategies. International organizations have proposed a framework for appropriate planning and emergency shelter design.
Shandiz Moslehi, Arezoo Dehghani, Gholamreza Masoumi, Rahim Ali Sheikhi, Fahimeh Barghi Shirazi   +4 more
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The Moderating Role of Money Attitudes in the Relationship Between Personality Traits and Early Pension Withdrawal

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how money attitudes moderate the relationship between personality traits and early pension withdrawal behaviour in the context of South Africa's new Two‐Pot retirement system. Drawing on structural equation modelling with data from over 5000 retirement fund members, whether Money Prudence and Money Anxiety condition the ...
Paul Prinn Nixon, Evan Gilbert
wiley   +1 more source

The Food and Shelter Initiative: Preliminary Report [PDF]

, 2001
Covers the first five months of the foundation's two-year initiative to address the needs of the homeless and hungry in the Greater Boston area.

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