Barriers to Equitable Public Participation in Health-System Priority Setting Within the Context of Decentralization: The Case of Vulnerable Women in a Ugandan District [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 BackgroundDecentralization of healthcare decision-making in Uganda led to the promotion of public participation. To facilitate this, participatory structures have been developed at sub-national levels.
S. Donya Razavi +3 more
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Global warming due to loss of large ice masses and Arctic summer sea ice
Nature Communications, 2020 The disintegration of cryosphere elements such as the Arctic summer sea ice, mountain glaciers, Greenland and West Antarctica is associated with temperature and radiative feedbacks.
Nico Wunderling +3 more
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Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2023 The Cryogenian period (720–635 million years ago) in the Neoproterozoic era featured two phases of global or near-global ice cover termed “snowball Earth”.
J. Eberhard +6 more
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Coincidences of climate extremes and anomalous vegetation responses: comparing tree ring patterns to simulated productivity [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2015 Climate extremes can trigger exceptional responses in terrestrial ecosystems, for instance by altering growth or mortality rates. Such effects are often manifested in reductions in net primary productivity (NPP).
A. Rammig +7 more
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Future tree survival in European forests depends on understorey tree diversity
Scientific Reports, 2022 Climate change heavily threatens forest ecosystems worldwide and there is urgent need to understand what controls tree survival and forests stability. There is evidence that biodiversity can enhance ecosystem stability (Loreau and de Mazancourt in Ecol ...
Maik Billing +4 more
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Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change
Nature Communications, 2021 The authors here model how water stress would be affected either by biomass plantations combined with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in a strong climate mitigation scenario (1.5 °C warming in 2100) or by climate impacts in a strong climate change ...
Fabian Stenzel +5 more
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Life-cycle impacts from different decarbonization pathways for the European car fleet
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 For light-duty vehicles (LDVs), alternative powertrains and liquid fuels based on renewable electricity are competing options considered by policymakers and stakeholders for achieving necessary CO _2 emission reductions in the transport sector. While the
Alois Dirnaichner +7 more
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Understanding Regime Shifts in Social-Ecological Systems Using Data on Direct Ecosystem Service Use
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 This paper takes a new look on transition processes in social-ecological systems, identified based on household use of direct ecosystem services in a case study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Philipp Censkowsky +2 more
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Impact Analysis of Oil Pollution using Change Detection Techniques in Kuwait [PDF]
, 2016 The present study reveals impact of oil pollution in the environment of Kuwait. The change detection techniques were applied to analyze the changes. The present study has been analyzed using digital satellite data such as 1990, 1993, 1999 and 2006. Based
G, S. (Shafiullah)
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BMC Nutrition, 2021 Background Tanzania is one of the Sub-Saharan African country with nearly 12 out of 60 million people being adolescent. The prevalence of child marriage is higher with one out of every three girls being married before reaching their 18th birthday, 5 ...
Ramadhani H. Mtongwa +2 more
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