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Editorial Volume 13

Journal of Human Security, 2017
Dear Reader, Those among us who have reached a certain age tend to have developed a long-term perspective and inclination to look back on individual years and to compare them for their respective blessings and injuries.
Sabina Lautensach
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Addressing climate-related human mobility through NDCs and NAPs: State of play, good practices, and the ways forward

Frontiers 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, Ann-Christine Link, Kees van der Geest   +2 more
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Towards a typology of nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction

Nature-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, T. Arce-Mojica, A. Cara Barrett, J. Cueto, N. Doswald, S. Janzen, W. Lange, A. Ortiz Vargas, L. Pirazan-Palomar, F.G. Renaud, S. Sandholz, Z. Sebesvari, K. Sudmeier-Rieux, Y. Walz   +13 more
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Advancing Resilience of Critical Health Infrastructures to Cascading Impacts of Water Supply Outages—Insights from a Systematic Literature Review

Infrastructures, 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, Christine Heinzel, Simone Sandholz   +2 more
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A baseline structure inventory with critical attribution for the US and its territories

Scientific Data
Leveraging high performance computing, remote sensing, geographic data science, machine learning, and computer vision, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has partnered with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to build a baseline structure inventory ...
Hsiuhan Lexie Yang, Melanie Laverdiere, Taylor Hauser, Benjamin Swan, Erik Schmidt, Jessica Moehl, Andrew Reith, Daniel Adams, Bennett Morris, Jacob McKee, Matthew Whitehead, Mark Tuttle   +11 more
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Editorial 2019

Journal of Human Security, 2019
As I write this, most of North America is enduring another polar vortex, with temperatures plummeting far below past averages, compromising the security of individuals in numerous ways.
Sabina Lautensach
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SDGs and Human Rights: how to measure States’ compliance? [PDF]

, 2016
In September 2015 UN General Assembly approved the SDGs and all over the world the expectations focused on the new UN Development Agenda. Apparently, issues concerning Human Rights and Human security, including absence of violence, promotion of ...
TASCIONI, GAIA
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The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard, Hital Patel, Paula C. Vincent, Justine Kahn, Kira Bona, Thai Hoa Tran, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Kristopher Attwood, Kara M. Kelly   +8 more
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LandScan mosaic enables high-resolution gridded population estimates with explicit uncertainty

Scientific Reports
Gridded population datasets represent high-resolution distributions of human occupancy, enabling informed decision-making across a broad range of fields.
Daniel S. Adams, Andrew Zimmer, Joseph Tuccillo, Jessica Moehl, Robert Stewart, Sarah Walters, Budhendra Bhaduri, Peter Li, Marie Urban   +8 more
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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.
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