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The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2020
There is a growing recognition of the effectiveness of locally led processes of social change and development. However, most of the case studies that have been discussed in the literature are focused on programs run by international development agencies.
Chris Roche   +4 more
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Dimensions of wellbeing and recognitional justice of migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown in Kerala, India

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The lockdown of March 2020 in India witnessed one of the largest movements of migrants in the country. The state of Kerala was quick and efficient in responding to the challenges posed by the lockdown on its migrant population and in supporting its ...
Mishal Alice Mathews   +2 more
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Towards Dengue Fever Among Slum Dwellers: A Case Study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Health, 2023
Objectives: This study intends to evaluate Dhaka city slum dwellers’ responses to Dengue fever (DF).Methods: 745 individuals participated in a KAP survey that was pre-tested. Face-to-face interviews were performed to obtain data.
Md. Mostafizur Rahman   +16 more
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Securing Humanity: Situating ‘Human Security’ as Concept and Discourse [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Human Development, 2005
The label ‘human security’ has attracted much attention since the 1994 Human Development Report, but there are numerous conflicting definitions and agendas, and widespread scepticism. The Ogata–Sen Commission report Human Security Now has proposed a unified yet flexible definition and agenda.
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Addressing climate-related human mobility through NDCs and NAPs: State of play, good practices, and the ways forward

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2023
Climate change is altering human mobility patterns across the globe, particularly in climate-vulnerable developing countries. With increasing recognition of the complex interlinkages between climate change and human mobility, governments and subnational ...
Dennis Mombauer   +2 more
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Community security: human security at 21 [PDF]

open access: yesContemporary 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
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Resilience of agricultural systems facing increased salinity intrusion in deltaic coastal areas of Vietnam

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2019
The resilience concept has provided a new insight and approach to the conventional perspective of agricultural management by emphasizing the need to maintain a diversity of future options to adapt to inevitable and often unpredictable changes.
Minh Tu Nguyen   +3 more
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Towards a typology of nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction

open access: yesNature-Based Solutions, 2023
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is one of the most important societal challenges addressed under the umbrella term nature-based solutions (NbS). One NbS approach that specifically addresses risk reduction is ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR)
U. Nehren   +13 more
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Human Security: A Strong Foundation for Multilateral Cooperation

open access: yesCadmus, 2022
Human Security is the conceptual framework through which multilateral cooperation and common security amongst nations, which is now necessary, can be achieved.
Jonathan Granoff
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Advancing Resilience of Critical Health Infrastructures to Cascading Impacts of Water Supply Outages—Insights from a Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2021
The current understanding of critical health infrastructure resilience is still dominated by a technical perspective. Reality however is different, as past events including the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed: emergency situations are only rarely ...
Nathalie Sänger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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