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Implementing Systemic Innovation Strategies for a More Sustainable Future: The Case of Three Overseas Countries and Territories [PDF]

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2022
Addressing sustainability issues requires a radical systemic change across multiple dimensions, including policy, culture, and civil society. This also implies that no blueprints for governing critical sustainability issues both at the local and global ...
Renato Toffanin, Milan Jezic von Gesseneck   +1 more
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Coastal flood impacts and lost ecosystem services along Europe’s outermost regions and overseas countries and territories [PDF]

Nature Communications
Climate change is expected to result in rising seas, exacerbating coastal floods and erosion. Remote islands are projected to be among the most challenged regions, due to their geographic isolation and fragile economies.
Michalis I. Vousdoukas, Dominik Paprotny, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Isavela N. Monioudi, Luc Feyen   +4 more
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Optimising small island developing states and overseas countries and territories classification for comparative public health research: an alternative methodological approach [PDF]

BMJ Global Health
Aiming to investigate small island resilience in public health emergencies, we found existing classifications of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) failed to provide a homogeneous group suitable for comparative studies.
Aura Timen, Anita Huis, Izzy Gerstenbluth, Dorothee Katharina Roβkamp, Ashley John Duits   +4 more
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The European Union and the Caribbean Region: Situating the Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012
:This paper examines one important dimension of the European Union's (EU) 'regional' engagement with the Caribbean: its relations with the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT), with a particular focus on the possibility of furthering the policy goals
Paul Sutton
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Hotspots of biodiversity and ecosystem services: the Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2018
The obligations of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 create a need for mapping and assessment of the state of biodiversity, ecosystems and their services in all European member states.
Ina Maren Sieber, Paulo Borges, Benjamin Burkhard   +2 more
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The psychological impact of conflict in the Middle East from 2023 to 2025 on Australian communities: a prospective cohort studyResearch in context [PDF]

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific
Summary: Background: There is a lack of empirical research on the mental health risks faced by populations living in high-income multicultural countries during a war in their country of origin.
Susan J. Rees, Tyson Whitten, Alvin Kuowei Tay, Aino Suomi, Batool Moussa, Fatima Hassoun, Nawal Nadar, Derrick Silove   +7 more
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Mapping and assessing ecosystem services in Europe's Overseas: A comparative analysis of MOVE case studies [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2022
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) has been widely applied on the European Union (EU) mainland, whereas the EU Overseas entities still bear potential for implementation.
Ina M. Sieber, Miriam Montero-Hidalgo, Jarumi Kato-Huerta, Paula Rendon, Fernando Santos-Martín, Davide Geneletti, Artur Gil, Ewan Trégarot, Erwann Lagabrielle, Carolina Parelho, Manuel Arbelo, Pieter van Beukering, Dan Bayley, Enrique Casas, Sem Duijndam, Esperance Cillaurren, Gilbert David, Aurelie Dourdain, Ricardo Haroun, Jean-Philippe Maréchal, Laura Martín García, Francisco Otero-Ferrer, Elena Palacios Nieto, Tara Pelembe, Marta Vergílio, Benjamin Burkhard   +25 more
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Adequacy of ecosystem services assessment tools and approaches to current policy needs and gaps in the European Union Overseas entities [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2021
The paper presents the current policy needs and gaps identified in the European Union (EU) Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories to implement Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem and their Services (MAES) methodology.
Ewan Trégarot, Pierre Failler
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Biological invasions in France: Alarming costs and even more alarming knowledge gaps [PDF]

NeoBiota, 2021
The ever-increasing number of introduced species profoundly threatens global biodiversity. While the ecological and evolutionary consequences of invasive alien species are receiving increasing attention, their economic impacts have largely remained ...
David Renault, Eléna Manfrini, Boris Leroy, Christophe Diagne, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia, Elena Angulo, Franck Courchamp   +6 more
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New Insights into the Geographic Distribution of Mycobacterium leprae SNP Genotypes Determined for Isolates from Leprosy Cases Diagnosed in Metropolitan France and French Territories. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
Between 20 and 30 bacteriologically confirmed cases of leprosy are diagnosed each year at the French National Reference Center for mycobacteria. Patients are mainly immigrants from various endemic countries or living in French overseas territories.
Florence Reibel, Aurélie Chauffour, Florence Brossier, Vincent Jarlier, Emmanuelle Cambau, Alexandra Aubry   +5 more
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