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Designing Effective Flood Early Warning Systems: A Review of Barriers, Best Practices, and Key Characteristics

Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Flooding is a disruptive and devastating natural hazard for communities all around the world. To combat the negative effects of flooding, it has become a global priority to implement and research flood early warning systems (FEWS). However, previous research did not comprehensively examine both the technological and social dimensions of FEWS ...
Patrick Painter, Kathryn Semmens, Keri Maxfield, Céline Cattoën, Rachel Hogan Carr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting Off the Boat: Re‐Considering Research Responsibility and Knowledge Dynamics in Ocean Literacy

Ocean and Society
In light of the UN Ocean Decade’s calls for increased ocean literacy, what can critical perspectives on inter‐epistemic exchanges contribute to the practice of researchers themselves?
Mathieu Lamontagne‐Cumiford, Myrah Graham   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Includes the SDG Index and Dashboards. Sustainable Development Report 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
The Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents an updated SDG Index and Dashboards with a refined assessment of countries’ distance to SDG targets. The report has been successfully audited for the first time by the European Commission Joint Research ...
Fuller, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G.   +4 more
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“It Looks as if They Threw the Entire Periodic Table Into the River”: A Decolonial Perspective for Chemistry Education in the Context of Environmental Injustices

Science Education, Volume 109, Issue 6, Page 1652-1668, November 2025.
ABSTRACT In this article I explore the case of the Mariana dam disaster in 2015 in Brazil seeking to contribute to reflections about the role of chemistry and chemistry education in environmental injustices. Drawing on stories about this disaster shared in the Dead River Podcast (2024), on wider literature and on other cases of environmental injustices
Haira E. Gandolfi
wiley   +1 more source

Missing women in colonial India

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 997-1038, November 2025.
Abstract We construct novel data on female population shares by age, district, and religion in South Asia from 1881 to 1931. Sex ratios skew male in Northern India and are more balanced in Southern and Eastern India, including Burma. Male‐biased sex ratios emerge most visibly after age 10, and this is not specific to any one region, religion, or time ...
James Fenske, Bishnupriya Gupta, Cora Neumann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rare books as historical objects: a case study of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library rare books collection [PDF]

, 2016
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015Once upon a time all the books in the Arctic were rare books, incomparable treasures to the men and women who carried them around the world.
Korotkova, Ulyana Aleksandrovna, Короткова, Ульяна Александровна   +1 more
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Unveiling Gender Disparities: The Role of Women in Transforming Small‐Scale Fisheries

Fish and Fisheries, Volume 26, Issue 6, Page 1146-1163, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Issues of equity and social justice have never been more urgent than they are today, as global social disparity continues to rise. The small‐scale fisheries (SSF) sector, long neglected by top‐down policies and mainstream markets, remains essential to the livelihoods of millions worldwide.
Letícia Maria Cavole, Maisha Gragnolati, Rosani V. M. Matoso Silva, Priscila F. M. Lopes, Tommaso Giarrizzo, José Amorim Reis‐Filho   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Networked media and information ocean literacy: a transformative approach for UN ocean decade

npj Ocean Sustainability
AbstractThe United Nations’ Ocean Decade calls for co-designing transformative science, ocean networks, and learning strategies to address ocean health decline and deep-blue social divides in ocean governance. Yet the transformative capacity to advance ocean sustainability pathways shared by the UN Ocean Decade ecosystem of partners is still under ...
Gerhardinger, Leopoldo Cavaleri, Colonese, Andre Carlo, Martini, Rafael Gué, da Silveira, Isabele, Zivian, Anna, Herbst, Dannieli Firme, Glavovic, Bruce, Calvo, Santiago Tejedor, Christie, Patrick   +8 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Public knowledge about polar regions increases while concerns remain unchanged [PDF]

, 2012
The authors of this brief conduct the first comparative analysis of the polar questions that were part of the National Opinion Research Center\u27s 2006 and 2010 General Social Survey.
Cutler, Matthew J., Hamilton, Lawrence C., Schaefer, Andrew P.   +2 more
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Operationalising social‐ecological systems to meet complex sustainability challenges posed by widespread biological invasions

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 10, Page 2361-2374, October 2025.
Abstract Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss worldwide. The scale and pace of these invasions often exceed resources available for control, necessitating long‐term management strategies that balance complex sustainability goals.
Fabian C. Kyne, Adriel Castaneda, Jennifer K. Chapman, Jennifer N. Solomon, Stephanie J. Green   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source