Mainstreaming Multi-Risk Approaches into Policy [PDF]
Geosciences, 2017 Multi-risk environments are characterized by domino effects that often amplify the overall risk. Those include chains of hazardous events and increasing vulnerability, among other types of correlations within the risk process.
Anna Scolobig +2 more
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Environmental Entitlements: Institutional Influence on Mangrove Social-Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam [PDF]
Resources, 2015 Environment and development issues are complex and interdependent. Institutions underpinning state, private sector and civil society actions at various levels must address complexity to ensure social-ecological system integrity.
Steven E. Orchard +2 more
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New ruralities in the context of global economic and environmental change – are small-scale farmers bound to disappear? [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2014 While development practicians tend to celebrate the renaissance of rural development, critical scholars are concerned about the increasing commoditisation of rural resources in the global South coinciding with the end of the peasant mode of production ...
T. Rauch
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Rare disease data stewardship in Canada
FACETS, 2020 The Canadian Genomics Partnership for Rare Diseases, spearheaded by Genome Canada, will integrate genome-wide sequencing to rare disease clinical care in Canada.
Alexander Bernier
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Centering Equity in Sustainable Food Systems Education
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Sustainable food systems education (SFSE) is rapidly advancing to meet the need for developing future professionals who are capable of effective decision-making regarding agriculture, food, nutrition, consumption, and waste in a complex world.
Eleanor J. Sterling +11 more
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Institutional consequentialism and global governance [PDF]
, 2017 Elsewhere we have responded to the so-called demandingness objection to consequentialism – that consequentialism is excessively demanding and is therefore unacceptable as a moral theory – by introducing the theoretical position we call institutional ...
Miklós, András, Tanyi, Attila
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Economic growth, innovation systems, and institutional change: a trilogy in five parts [PDF]
, 2005 Development and growth are products of the interplay and interaction among heterogeneous actors operating in specific institutional settings. There is a much alluded-to, but under-investigated, link between economic growth, innovation systems, and ...
Arora, Saurabh +2 more
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Academic Rankings — Where Are They Heading?
Вопросы образования, 2017 The global ranking system is in a state of violent transformation. We can already see the emerging contours of a new ranking system with the four distinguished elements: regional systems, customer-centered systems, multi-league systems, discipline-based ...
Waldemar Siwinski
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Characteristics of multi-institutional health sciences education research: a systematic review
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2017 Objectives: Multi-institutional research increases the generalizability of research findings. However, little is known about characteristics of collaborations across institutions in health sciences education research.
Jocelyn Huang Schiller +5 more
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Analysis of impacts of climate variability on malaria transmission in Sri Lanka and the development of an early warning system [PDF]
, 2010 This project set goals of bringing together a multi-disciplinary, multi-national and multi-institutional team to address the relationship between climate and malaria in aggregate terms for Sri Lanka, and in detail for the Uva Province to help develop ...
Chandimala, Janaki +14 more
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