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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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Pathologies of Security Governance: Efforts Against Human Trafficking in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The trafficking of women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation has reportedly been booming in Europe since the 1990s. Governments, international organizations, and private actors have addressed the causes and consequences of sex trafficking in
Friesendorf, Cornelius
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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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A baseline structure inventory with critical attribution for the US and its territories

open access: yesScientific 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   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial 2019

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +3 more sources

LandScan mosaic enables high-resolution gridded population estimates with explicit uncertainty

open access: yesScientific Reports
Gridded population datasets represent high-resolution distributions of human occupancy, enabling informed decision-making across a broad range of fields.
Daniel S. Adams   +8 more
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Human security/environmental security

open access: yesContemporary 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

SDGs and Human Rights: how to measure States’ compliance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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