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Next SustainabilityFlash floods are recurrent and among the most destructive disasters in Burundi, affecting many people and causing significant socio-economic damage every year.
Jean Marie Ndayiragije +1 more
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User roles for emergency management in social media: Understanding actors' behavior during the 2018 Majorca Island flash floods. [PDF]
Gov Inf Q, 2020 Villodre J, Criado JI.
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Women's inclusion is now the norm in global and local initiatives to combat climate change. We examine how women's representation affects climate deliberations using the case of community‐managed forests in Malawi. We run a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment randomly varying the gender composition of six‐member groups asked to deliberate on policies ...
Amanda Clayton +3 more
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International Journal of Disaster Risk ScienceFlash floods are characterized by their destructive power, rapid onset, and unpredictability, often causing severe damage to both natural environments and socioeconomic systems.
Qiuyuan Liu +5 more
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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Monitoring of Flash Floods in Oman [PDF]
, 2016 The Second International Symposium on Flash Floods in Wadi Systems: 25-27 October 2016.
Mahmoud Mohammed Al-Mamari
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Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
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What climate adaptation can learn from evolutionary adaptation
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Evolutionary and climate adaptation both describe how complex systems respond to environmental change, either via natural selection or deliberate human choices. Although adaptation in both contexts is expected to produce favorable outcomes, it can also result in maladaptation—ineffective, unintended, or harmful outcomes. As an emerging area of
Amy Waananen +2 more
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Watershed Ecology and the EnvironmentThe present study aims to assess the flash flood susceptibility of Waya watershed in the Lower Volta River Basin, Volta region, Ghana using geospatial technology-based morphometric analysis.
Bismark Mensah-Brako +3 more
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