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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

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

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

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

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

Politics matters! Political will as a critical condition for implementing the sustainable development goals

open access: yesEarth System Governance
While commentaries often bemoan the lack of political will to “transform our world”, there is little analysis of country-level politics around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Marianne Beisheim   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Glacier-Related Hazards Along the International Karakoram Highway: Status and Future Perspectives

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2021
The China–Pakistan international Karakoram Highway passes through the core area of the “Karakoram Anomaly,” whose glaciers have maintained or increased their mass during a period when most glaciers worldwide have receded.
Yongpeng Gao   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

An approach to the multidimensional assessment of food security and environmental sustainability: a vulnerability framework for the Mediterranean region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Poster presented at First International Conference on Global Food Security.
Allen T.   +4 more
core   +6 more sources

A multiplex microarray lateral flow immunoassay device for simultaneous determination of five mycotoxins in rice

open access: yesnpj Science of Food
Co-occurrence of multiple mycotoxins is a growing global food safety concern due to their harmful effects on humans and animals. This study developed an eco-friendly sample preparation method and an innovative multiplex microarray-based lateral flow ...
Saowalak Adunphatcharaphon   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

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