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The impacts of climate change on fish growth: A summary of conducted studies and current knowledge

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Global climate change is increasingly and profoundly threatening fishes, resulting in an uncertain future for both wild fish diversity and global fisheries.
Minrui Huang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to drought in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE), a crucial indicator of how climate change will affect terrestrial ecosystems, depicts the coupling of the carbon gain and water loss in terrestrial ecosystems.
Xuan Luo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
[Excerpt] This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas.
International Social Security Association   +1 more
core   +4 more sources

Human Security: Undermining Human Rights? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article warns that the human security discourse and agenda could inadvertently undermine the international human rights regime. Insofar as human security identifies new threats to well-being, new victims of those threats, new duties of states, or ...
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
core   +3 more sources

Quantitative Assessment of Cropland Exposure to Agricultural Drought in the Greater Mekong Subregion

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Accurate and reliable information on the spatiotemporal characteristics of agricultural drought is important in understanding complicated drought processes and their potential impacts.
Wenting Ming   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Just and sustainable? : examining the rhetoric and potential realities of UK food security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The dominant discourse in 20th century UK food and agricultural policies of a liberal, free trade agenda was modified at the turn of the 21st to embrace ecological sustainability and "food security." The latter term has a long international history; the ...
Dowler, Elizabeth, MacMillan, Tom
core   +1 more source

Morphological changes in the lower Lancang River due to extensive human activities [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2020
Background Morphological changes in river beds determine the risk for soil erosion within floodplain areas. At present, little is known about river morphological changes in high-altitude mountainous area influenced by extensive human activities.
Peijia Wang   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Arctic security in international security

open access: yes, 2020
Peace and war in the Arctic security is driven by international systemic forces of great power conflict. Since the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) the geostrategic role of and thinking about the North Atlantic Arctic has been stable. The Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, World War I and II and the Cold War affected the Arctic for geostrategic reasons. Current
openaire   +2 more sources

Complexity in International Security

open access: yes, 2019
Leading international security expert Peter Sapaty introduces a new, high-level distributed processing and control approach capable of finding real-time solutions for irregularities, crises, and security problems emerging any time and in any part of the ...
P. Sapaty
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unconditional security at a low cost [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
By simulating four quantum key distribution (QKD) experiments and analyzing one decoy-state QKD experiment, we compare two data post-processing schemes based on security against individual attack by L\"{u}tkenhaus, and unconditional security analysis by ...
C. H. Bennett   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

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