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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Call for Dietary Sugar Restriction Policy in India in Light of Oral Health Concerns. [PDF]

Cureus
More SG, Mistry LN, Patil A, Mishra H, Patil T, Jawdekar AM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Improving Affordability and Accessibility for Socially‐Beneficial Services via Government Incentives

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many socially‐beneficial services, like dental care, suffer from a dual challenge: Low affordability for citizens and long waiting times due to insufficient provider capacity. We model a government's problem of designing subsidy policies to address this issue.
Xiaoyan Zhao, Venus Lo, Stephen Shum
wiley   +1 more source

Price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in Nepal: Evidence from a lower middle-income country in South Asia using Deaton's demand model. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sapkota VP, Bhusal UP, Raut NK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton, Michelle Benson, Chao Guo, Daniel G. Neely, Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Shujie Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taxes for tuberculosis: could tobacco and sugar tax revenue fund tuberculosis control interventions? [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Coleman M, Coussens AK, Calderwood CJ, Schoeman I, Bhargava M, Sinha P, Marais BJ, Kranzer K.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Capacity and limitations of US wild meat donation programmes

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, sharing of wild harvests to facilitate food security followed concepts of kin selection and reciprocal altruism. However, cultural shifts have reduced access to foods for some populations in modern times. Cultural altruism through sustainably harvested wild meat donation programmes (WDPs) can reduce food and nutritional ...
David S. Mason, Mark E. Bell, Kenneth F. Kellner, Chad M. Stewart, Jerrold L. Belant   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic and econometric methods to measure the illicit tobacco trade: A scoping review. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Phyo PP, Walker N, Ao BT, Sbai E, Bullen C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood, Verena Scherfranz, Rosy E. Scholes, Erika Degani, Tom Staton, Alexa Varah, Lena Schaller, Alice L. Mauchline   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting corporate power: addressing commercial determinants of health and the rising non-communicable disease epidemic in South-East Asia. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Bassi S, Gupta SK, Rajkhowa P, Marten R, Good S, Arora M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source