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Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and infectious diseases: breaking the poverty-disease-environment trap. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty
Borhani M, Nourani V, Wen H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Citizen science project on urban canids provides different results from camera traps but generates interest and revenue

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As urbanization increases, wildlife increasingly encounters people. Coyotes Canis latrans and red foxes Vulpes vulpes are two canid species that have readily adapted to urban environments. Citizen science has emerged as a low‐cost method of collecting data on urban‐adapted species that can benefit management agencies but may provide different results ...
Neville F. Taraporevala, Jon P. Beckmann, Julie K. Young   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trap versus trade-off: cohort evidence on overeducation, income returns, and group disparities after China's higher education expansion. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Zhang Y, Liu Y, Yun Q, Wang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Den attendance by Arctic foxes experiencing 10 years of increasing tourism

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wildlife tourism is a growing industry, and an increasing number of people seek to observe and interact with wild animals in their natural surroundings. In Iceland, the native Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus is widespread and has been under heavy hunting pressure for centuries.
Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir, Borgný Katrínardóttir, Bruce J. McAdam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Escaping the metric-driven governance trap in global health: how DALYs and coverage indicators mislead policymakers in LMICs. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Abdi YH, Bashir SG, Abdullahi YB, Adebisi YA, Lucero-Prisno DEI.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap

, 2019
This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The results are two-folds.
Arezki, Rabah, Fan, Rachel Yuting, Nguyen, Ha   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Adaptive harvesting of two trophic levels stabilises predator–prey dynamics. Simulations with Eurasian lynx and European roe deer

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Europe has seen the recovery of many species of wild herbivores, which are now widespread across much of the continent. In addition, large carnivores are also recolonising many European countries. Most ungulates are managed through hunting, but natural predation can also have a significant influence in many areas.
Cécile A. E. Carpentier, Marco Heurich, Olivier Devineau, Olivier Gimenez, John D. C. Linnell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying personal exposure to traffic and household air pollution: a pilot study among street traders in Lagos, Nigeria. [PDF]

J Glob Health
Ozoh OB, Amegbor P, Dede SK, Adeyeye OO, Ekete OA, Adetona O, Barrat B.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source