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Community security: human security at 21 [PDF]
Contemporary Politics, 2015 The concept of human security has come a long way since its introduction in the UNDP Human Development Report in 1994. There are now a number of global and regional initiatives aimed at promoting human security issues. However, the achievements over the last two decades may be less impressive when one starts to explicate the progress of each of the key
Mely Caballero-Anthony
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Human security/environmental security
Contemporary Politics, 2015 This article offers a genealogy of human security and environmental security set against the background of the 1994 United Nations Human Development Report and its demands for a profound transition in thinking. It shows how these two concepts have intersected and overlapped on the one hand, and diverged on the other.
Lorraine Elliott
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Frontiers in Water, 2022 River floods are a common environmental hazard, often causing severe damages, loss of lives and livelihood impacts around the globe. The transboundary Lower Mono River Basin of Togo and Benin is no exception in this regard, as it is frequently affected ...
Mario Wetzel +6 more
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