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Enabling a Circular Water Transition: Identifying Governance Pathways for Wastewater Reuse

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over 80% of the world's wastewater is discharged untreated, making reuse a widely underutilised strategy for addressing water scarcity. Due to the complexity of implementing water reuse systems, supportive governance conditions are required to steer this process and overcome barriers.
Kirsty Holstead   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Integration for Enabling Environments: Decentralised Water Technologies for Rural Water Reuse

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water reuse holds significant promise for addressing global water challenges, yet wide scale implementation remains limited. Decentralised water technologies for reuse have been highlighted as a potential aide in the reduction of water challenges, specifically for environments that have typically been considered ‘water rich’, and in rural ...
Elizabeth Lawson, Jaime Amezaga
wiley   +1 more source

Urbanization and health in Africa : exploring the interconnections between poverty, inequality and the burden of disease

open access: yes, 2005
There are few changes in the history of human existence comparable to urbanization in scope and potential to bring about biologic change. The transition in the developed world from an agricultural to an industrial-urban society has already produced ...
Songsore, Jacob
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Governing Positive Energy Districts: The Role of Legitimation and Identity Across Residential and Industrial Contexts

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Flood Risk Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, flood risk is increasing as climate change progresses. Contemporary flood risk management practice often utilises hydrodynamic modelling (for hazard risk assessments), social vulnerability assessments, and risk communications in silo, which fragments evidence‐based decision‐making for effective flood risk management. We hence develop
Aiperi Stambekova, Avidesh Seenath
wiley   +1 more source

Febre amarela: reflexões sobre a doença, as perspectivas para o século XXI e o risco da reurbanização Yellow fever: reflections on the disease, prospects for the century and risk of re-urbanization

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2002
Neste artigo é realizada revisão dos principais aspectos fisiopatológicos, clínicos, epidemiológicos e laboratoriais da febre amarela no Brasil, e também se abordam as linhas gerais do tratamento da doença. São ainda analisados e discutidos os mais recentes surtos e epidemias de febre amarela ocorridos no Brasil, bem como as suas causas e as ...
openaire   +1 more source

Varieties of Local Implementation for Net Zero in China: Evidence From Three Cities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since China updated its nationally determined contributions in 2021, achieving carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060—the so‐called “dual carbon” goals—has become the new guiding principle of China's climate governance. However, few studies have examined the implementation of China's dual carbon goals, particularly the ...
Ting Guan, Ziwei Gou, Yixian Sun
wiley   +1 more source

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