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Miniatlas of Human Security

, 2008
An at-a-glance illustrated guide to global and regional trends in human insecurity, the miniAtlas provides a succinct introduction to today's most pressing security challenges.
World Bank, Human Security Report Project   +1 more
core   +1 more source

A vulnerability perspective on loss and damage: evidence from urban informal settlements

npj Urban Sustainability
The scientific evidence on climate-related losses and damages is steadily increasing. However, the experiences of people living in urban areas, including informal settlements, are largely absent from research and policy.
Douwe van Schie, Simone Sandholz, Lucas Turmena, Nabiyya Perennia, Syed Muhammad Jaffar Abbas, Philip Bonera Bananayo, Magdalena Mirwald, Kees van der Geest   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecosystem and disaster risk: A review of ecological indicators in the context of disaster risk assessments and discussion of their usefulness to inform ecosystem health

Nature-Based Solutions
Ecosystems play a critical role in reducing disaster risk by providing ecosystem services (ESS) that influence all components of risk. The capacity to deliver ESS depends on the health of the ecosystem itself. Thus, it is key to consider ecosystem health
S. Janzen, L. Narvaez, A. Ortiz-Vargas, J. O‘Connor, Y. Walz, Z. Sebesvari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women's autonomy and food security: Connecting the dots from the perspective of Indigenous women in rural Colombia

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022
There is a growing consensus that women's autonomy is positively related to food security. However, the evidence is inconsistent, and the nature of the pathways connecting the two factors remains unclear.
Kate Sinclair, Theresa Thompson-Colón, Alexandra Milena Bastidas-Granja, Sara Eloísa Del Castillo Matamoros, Eucaris Olaya, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent insights into the molecular mechanism of ubiquinol oxidation by cytochrome bc1

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The review reflects on the mechanism of the catalytic reaction in cytochrome bc1: the electron bifurcation that involves the separation of two electrons derived from the quinol oxidation to opposite sides of the enzyme across the membrane. This review summarizes the long‐standing effort to understand the mechanism of quinol oxidation catalyzed by ...
Anna Wójcik‐Augustyn, Artur Osyczka, Marcin Sarewicz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Planetary Precarity and 'More-Than-Human Security': The Securitization Challenge in the Aftermath of COVID-19 [PDF]

, 2021
COVID-19 has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental well-being and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This paper considers the key challenge
Morrissey, John
core   +1 more source

ORBITaL-Net: A labeled training library for large-scale building feature extraction

Scientific Data
Over the course of several years, nearly 1.5 million building outlines have been created from approximately 128,000 training tiles covering roughly 7,000 km 2 of very high-resolution multispectral overhead imagery, primarily dated between 2010 and 2020 ...
Benjamin Swan, Joe Pyle, Darrell Roddy, H. Lexie Yang, Amy Rose, Melanie Laverdiere   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers and enablers of green development: the example of blue economy sectors in coastal communities of the Wadden Sea region

Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability
Climate change and human activities are altering marine and coastal ecosystems, threatening biodiversity, ecosystem services, and livelihoods. The blue economy depends on healthy ecosystems but also drives their degradation.
Josepha Nestele, Lisa Hartmann, Yvonne Walz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tools for Resilience Building and Adaptive Spatial Governance

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2012
Climate change, resilience building and vulnerability reduction are emerging issues in spatial development and spatial planning in Germany, the European Union and globally.
Jörn Birkmann, Claudia Bach, Maike Vollmer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Generation of SARS-CoV-2 escape mutations by monoclonal antibody therapy

Nature 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, Rungtiwa Nutalai, Jiandong Huo, Aiste Dijokaite-Guraliuc, Raksha Das, Aekkachai Tuekprakhon, Piyada Supasa, Chang Liu, Muneeswaran Selvaraj, Natalie Groves, Hassan Hartman, Nicholas Ellaby, J. Mark Sutton, Mohammad W. Bahar, Daming Zhou, Elizabeth Fry, Jingshan Ren, Colin Brown, Paul Klenerman, Susanna J. Dunachie, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Susan Hopkins, Meera Chand, David I. Stuart, Gavin R. Screaton, Sakib Rokadiya   +25 more
doaj   +1 more source