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ABSTRACT This study inventories and identifies communication challenges faced by emergency management agencies in Central Appalachia as they engage communities in preparation, response and recovery efforts for extreme weather events (EWEs). Drawing on data from nine group discussions and guided by the Social Ecological Model, the analysis discerned an ...
Azmat Khan+9 more
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Abstract Human genealogies serve multiple functions beyond documenting one's pedigree. They operate as complex social frameworks that structure knowledge, delimit group membership, explain historical causation, are political tools, and provide chronological foundations for understanding past events and processes across diverse knowledge systems ...
Isaac H. McIvor+7 more
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Probabilistic Downscaling for Flood Hazard Models [PDF]
Riverine flooding poses significant risks. Developing strategies to manage flood risks requires flood projections with decision-relevant scales and well-characterized uncertainties, often at high spatial resolutions. However, calibrating high-resolution flood models can be computationally prohibitive.
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From Endorsement of Ambivalent Sexism to Psychological IPV Victimization: The Role of Attitudes Supportive of IPV, Legitimating Myths of IPV, and Acceptance of Psychological Aggression. [PDF]
Cinquegrana V, Marini M, Galdi S.
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Short Abstract The border river of the Evros/Meriç/Maritsa has been shaped during the century since its demarcation by the Lausanne peace treaty. Over this period, a dense overlap of environmental, geopolitical, legal and cultural actors have turned it into both a riverised border and a borderised river.
Ifor Duncan, Stefanos Levidis
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First Stabilize and then Gradually Recruit: A Paradigm Shift in Protective Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Lung Injury. [PDF]
Nieman GF+8 more
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Abstract This article shows how supposedly efficient plea bargaining can obstruct and militate against the prospect of offender rehabilitation and reintegration (R&R). This argument is made by bridging the scholarly gap between the ‘legal’ work of plea bargaining and the ‘corrections’ work of R&R, which requires engaging with offenders and not simply ...
JAY GORMLEY
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Freshwater as a Sustainable Resource and Generator of Secondary Resources in the 21st Century: Stressors, Threats, Risks, Management and Protection Strategies, and Conservation Approaches. [PDF]
Bănăduc D+8 more
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Worlding and weirding with beaver: A more‐than‐human political ecology of ecosystem engineering
Short Abstract This paper examines a model of Nature‐based Solutions that involves the strategic use of ecosystem engineers: animals, plants, and microbes with disproportionate ecological agency capable of regional or even planetary‐scale niche construction.
Jamie Lorimer
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A District-level Flood Severity Index for Flood Management in India [PDF]
India is one of the worst affected countries in the world in terms of fatalities and economic damage due to natural disasters, particularly floods. For planning flood mitigating and relief measures, granular historical information on a pan-India basis is required, which has been missing.
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