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, 2021 A contested concept such as human security is not easily defined in concrete terms. Instead, human security has two key elements: (1) it aims to shift the referent object of security from the state to the individual giving the individual intrinsic value and placing the interests of the individual ahead of the state; (2) it gives rise to a broader view ...
Sebastian Harnisch, Nam-Kook Kim
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Society and Economy, 2011 The essay poses the question whether the so-called Arab spring offers the potential to complete the 1989 revolutions. It first discusses what was hoped to be achieved in 1989, and it then argues that the post-1989 arrangements failed to prevent new security challenges from emerging.
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Socio-economic predictors of public understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic
Heliyon, 2021 The COVID-19 (Coronavirus 2019) pandemic has proven to be the biggest global shock since World War II. That war resulted in 5.5 million deaths. The number of COVID-19-infected persons exceeded 13 million in the first 6 months of the pandemic and many ...
Md Rifat Hossain +3 more
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Spatial and Temporal Characterization of Activity in Public Space, 2019–2020
Scientific Data, 2022 Measurement(s) Visits to a Public Venue Technology Type(s) mobile phone Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo Sample Characteristic - Environment public building Sample Characteristic - Location United States of ...
Christa Brelsford +5 more
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Journal of Human Security, 2022 Around the world an increasing shortage of good governance seems to have taken hold. It manifests in the increasing shortfalls on the Sustainable Development Goals and in the worsening polycrisis of the Anthropocene.
Sabina Lautensach
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Brief communication: Loss and damage from a catastrophic landslide in Nepal [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016 This brief communication reports key findings of a recent piece of research that studied the impacts of the 2014 Jure landslide in Sindhupalchok (Nepal) and the effectiveness of household preventive and coping measures.
K. van der Geest, M. Schindler
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 IntroductionEnabling health care facilities to deal with impairments or outages of water supply and sewage systems is essential and particularly important in the face of growing risk levels due to climate change and natural hazards.
Sophie van der Heijden +4 more
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Journal of Human Security, 2021 A retrospective on the year 2020 suggests that the CoViD-19 pandemic can and should be interpreted as a multidimensional learning opportunity.
Sabina Lautensach
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Locating Leadership and Political Will in Social Policy: The Story of India’s MGNREGA
Politics and Governance, 2020 The term ‘political will’ is often conveniently used to explain the success or failure of any policy or programme. It has emerged as the “sine qua non of policy success which is never defined except by its absence” (Hammergren, 1998, p. 12). Therefore, a
Ujjwal Krishna, Chris Roche
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ReSFlow: A Remote Sensing Imagery Data-Flow for Improved Model Generalization
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021 As satellite imagery collections continue to grow at an astonishing rate, so is the demand for automated and scalable object detection and segmentation.
Dalton Lunga +3 more
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