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Realizing water transitions: the role of policy entrepreneurs in water policy change

Ecology and Society, 2010
This special feature aims to further our understanding of the way in which transitions occur in water management. We contend that if we want to understand such transitions, we need to understand policy change and its opposite, policy stability.
Dave Huitema, Sander Meijerink
doaj   +1 more source

Frailty Exacerbates Disability in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background To evaluate frailty in severe progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS) and to investigate the underlying mechanisms. Methods This prospective, cross‐sectional, multicenter study enrolled a late severe PMS group requiring skilled nursing (n = 53) and an age, sex, and disease duration‐matched control PMS group (n = 53).
Taylor R. Wicks, Anna Wolska, Diala Ghazal, Dejan Jakimovski, Bianca Weinstock‐Guttman, Alexander Burnham, Niels Bergsland, Michael G. Dwyer, Alan T. Remaley, Robert Zivadinov, Murali Ramanathan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian carbon biosequestration and bioenergy policy co-evolution: mechanisms, mitigation and convergence [PDF]

, 2012
The intricacies of international land-use change and forestry policy reflect the temporal, technical and political difficulty of integrating biological systems and climate change mitigation.
McHenry, M.P.
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Playing the policy game: a review of the barriers to and enablers of nutrition policy change

Public Health Nutrition, 2016
Objective To progress nutrition policy change and develop more effective advocates, it is useful to consider real-world factors and practical experiences of past advocacy efforts to determine the key barriers to and enablers of nutrition policy change ...
K. Cullerton, T. Donnet, Amanda J. Lee, D. Gallegos   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variably Protease‐Sensitive Prionopathy: Two New Cases With Motor Neuron‐Dementia Syndrome

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We describe two patients with variably protease‐sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) who developed progressive upper motor neuron symptoms, insomnia, behavioral and cognitive decline, compatible with primary lateral sclerosis associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
María Elena Erro, María Victoria Zelaya, Hasier Eraña, Javier Sánchez Ruiz de Gordoa, Fermín García‐Amigot, Anika Simonovska‐Serra, María Cristina Caballero, Isidre Ferrer, Ellen Gelpi, Ivonne Jericó, Joaquín Castilla   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Festival publicity helped change fishing policy. [PDF]

, 2007
In the late 1990s, I saw chunks of coral reef being trawled up off the UK at a time when the fishing industry was moving into deeper waters along the European Continental Shelf edge. As a trained marine biologist I was flabbergasted, since the text books
Hall-Spencer, JM
core   +1 more source

From polarization to reluctant acceptance–bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and the post-normalization of the climate debate

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2019
The paper covers the public debate on BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) between 2008 and 2018. Through a qualitative analysis of around 800 feature articles, editorials, and opinion pieces published in English, German, Swedish, Danish ...
Simon Haikola, Anders Hansson, Jonas Anshelm   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
wiley   +1 more source

Förskoleklassens institutionella kulturer

Utbildning & Demokrati, 2020
Based on the assumption that teachers are policy actors, this study aims to identify the meanings given to the preschool class’s institutional cultures in teachers’ articulations about the preschool class.
Lina Lago, Sven Persson, Helena Ackesjö
doaj   +1 more source

Finance, climate-change and radical uncertainty: Towards a precautionary approach to financial policy

, 2021
Climate-related financial risks (CRFR) are now recognised by central banks and supervisors as material to their financial stability mandates. But while CRFR are considered to have some unique characteristics, the emerging policy framework for dealing ...
Hugues Chenet, Josh Ryan‐Collins, Frank van Lerven   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source