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Exposure to natural hazard events unassociated with policy change for improved disaster risk reduction

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether these events actually fulfill this transformative role around the world. Here, we investigate relationships between the
D. Nohrstedt   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Enumerating Indigenous Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) Associated with Three Permanent Preservation Plots of Tropical Forests in Bangalore, Karnataka, India

open access: yesBacteria, 2023
The establishment of Permanent Preservation Plots (PPPs) in natural forests has a signifi-cant role in assessing the impact of climate change on forests.
Saritha Boya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2021
Policies may change the incentives that allow cultural practices to persist. To test this, I study matrilocality and patrilocality, kinship traditions that determine daughters’ and sons’ post-marriage residences, and thus, which gender lives with and ...
N. Bau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing compounding risks across multiple systems and sectors: a socio-environmental systems risk-triage approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2023
Physical and societal risks across the natural, managed, and built environments are becoming increasingly complex, multi-faceted, and compounding. Such risks stem from socio-economic and environmental stresses that co-evolve and force tipping points and ...
C. Adam Schlosser   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mega-disruptions and policy change: Lessons from the mobility sector in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK

open access: yesTransport Policy, 2021
There has been widespread interest in the potential for the significant behavioural and policy adaptations rendered necessary by Coronavirus to act as a catalyst for radical longer term policy change in transport.
G. Marsden, Iain Docherty
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Study of fiscal decentralization, macroeconomic stability and regional growth in Indonesia

open access: yesJurnal Perspektif Pembiayaan dan Pembangunan Daerah, 2021
Indonesia has been implementing fiscal decentralization since 2001. In theory, fiscal decentralization affected macroeconomic stability and economic growth—this study using data panels at the provincial level from 2010 to 2013.
Joko Tri Haryanto, Rita Helbra Tenrini
doaj   +1 more source

A Large Ensemble Global Dataset for Climate Impact Assessments

open access: yesScientific Data, 2023
We present a self-consistent, large ensemble, high-resolution global dataset of long‐term future climate, which accounts for the uncertainty in climate system response to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and in geographical patterns of climate
Xiang Gao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Representing Socio‐Economic Uncertainty in Human System Models

open access: yesEarth's Future, 2022
Socio‐economic development pathways and their implications for the environment are highly uncertain, and energy transitions will involve complex interactions among sectors.
Jennifer Morris   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does a change in the ‘global net zero’ language matter?

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability, 2023
Non-technical summary Changes in language used in long term climate policy can undermine their credibility and discourage climate action. Previous IPCC reports have promoted an idea of reaching ‘global net zero’ (GNZ) emissions by 2050 in order to limit
Hannah Parris   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mitigating social-ecological risks from the surge in China’s overseas investment: an Indonesian profile

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability, 2021
Rapid development has become a global priority as countries strive to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Sustainable development is crucial for increasing human well-being in emerging economies while avoiding perverse outcomes on ...
Albertus Hadi Pramono   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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