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Navigating tipping points: A complex systems framework for anticipating lake ecosystem collapse
Fundamental ResearchLake ecosystems are susceptible to catastrophic risks, characterized by abrupt and large-scale transitions that substantially degrade ecological integrity and compromise provision of essential ecosystem services.
Hanxiao Zhang +4 more
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Systemic contributions to global catastrophic risk
Global SustainabilityHumanity faces a complex and dangerous global risk landscape, and many different terms and concepts have been used to make sense of it. One broad strand of research characterises how risk emerges within the complex global system, using concepts like systemic risk, Anthropocene risk, synchronous failure, negative social tipping points, and polycrisis ...
Constantin W. Arnscheidt +11 more
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Global ChallengesModern civilization relies on a complex, globally interconnected industrial agriculture system to produce food. Its unprecedented yields hinge on external inputs like machinery, fertilizers, and pesticides, rendering it vulnerable to disruptions in ...
Jessica Moersdorf +4 more
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Lessons from COVID-19 for GCR governance: a research agenda [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
F1000ResearchThe Lessons from Covid-19 Research Agenda offers a structure to study the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic response from a Global Catastrophic Risk (GCR) perspective.
Lara Mani +4 more
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Integrated assessments of land degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
Ecological Indicators, 2023 Land degradation has become a catastrophic global environmental issue. The current status of land degradation and changing trends of land remain unclear on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP).
Lin Yang +7 more
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Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchAlthough representing a small proportion of solar radiation, ultraviolet (UV) radiation (280–400 nm) has been shown to greatly affect growth, photomorphogenesis, and secondary metabolism in plants.
Daniel Winstead +4 more
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Conceptualising the World Risk Society thesis of Ulrich Beck in the context of the discipline of marketing [PDF]
The Retail and Marketing ReviewThe World Risk Society thesis put forward by Ulrich Beck has generated considerable debate around the topic of global risk, mainly in the social sciences, but to a limited extent in the marketing sciences. His thesis outlines his concern that society has
Dr Cornelius H. Bothma
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Valuing Multirisk Catastrophe Reinsurance Based on the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) Model
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021 Catastrophe risks lead to severe problems of insurance and reinsurance industry. In order to reduce the underwriting risk, the insurer would seek protection by transferring part of its risk exposure to the reinsurer.
Wen Chao
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High-risk human-caused pathogen exposure events from 1975-2016 [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
F1000Research, 2022 Biological agents and infectious pathogens have the potential to cause very significant harm, as the natural occurrence of disease and pandemics makes clear.
David Manheim, Gregory Lewis
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Introduction Ethiopian households’ out-of-pocket healthcare payments constitute one-third of the national healthcare budget and are higher than the global and low-income countries average, and even the global target.
Moges Tadesse Borde +3 more
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