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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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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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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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The human security dimension of China’s Belt and Road Initiative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Despite the geopolitical calculations associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and how this will allow Beijing greater influence in transregional relations, the human security dimension goes to the heart of China’s wider regional strategy.
Dellios, Rosita, Ferguson, R. James
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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
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Phylogeny and molecular dating of the cerato-platanin-encoding genes [PDF]

open access: yesGenetics and Molecular Biology, 2014
The cerato-platanin family consists of proteins that can induce immune responses, cause necrosis, change chemotaxis and locomotion and may be related to the growth and development of various fungi. In this work, we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships
Hanying Yu, Lin Li
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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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Human Factors in Security

open access: yes2018 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST), 2018
Physical security systems (PSS) and humans are inescapably tied in the current physical security paradigm. Yet, physical security system evaluations often end at the console that displays information to the human. That is, these evaluations do not account for human-in-the-loop factors that can greatly impact performance of the security system, even ...
Ann E. Speed   +4 more
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Generation of SARS-CoV-2 escape mutations by monoclonal antibody therapy

open access: yesNature Communications, 2023
COVID-19 patients at risk of severe disease may be treated with neutralising monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). To minimise virus escape from neutralisation these are administered as combinations e.g.
Manon Ragonnet-Cronin   +25 more
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