The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: a review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries [PDF]
, 2019 This review focuses on how culture can complicate attempts at promoting more efficient, more sustainable, and often more affordable forms of mobility as well as energy use in homes and buildings.
Griffiths, Steve, Sovacool, Benjamin K
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The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come [PDF]
, 2018 The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change was established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the health dimensions of the impacts of, and the response to, climate change.
Amann, Marcus +67 more
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An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Literature on Current Developments in Philanthropy [PDF]
, 2019 As philanthropic organizations play an increasingly important role in societies around the world, the research on philanthropy – from giving and volunteering practices to regulatory frameworks to digital innovations – has also evolved in recent decades ...
Horvath, Kinga Zsofia +7 more
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Chapter 5: Food Security [PDF]
The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail, consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the livelihoods of over 1 billion people.
Barioni, Luis G. +32 more
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Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Assessment of the Energy Sector: Enhancing Social Sustainability of Energy Development in Nepal [PDF]
, 2018 In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven.
Asian Development Bank
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Municipal Solid Waste Management Services in Latin America [PDF]
, 2017 This report is the first of a series of reports which are part of a research project on global waste services which Public Services International (PSI) has commissioned to inform its work to improve working conditions in the waste sector.
Lethbridge, Jane
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Outcome evaluation of research for development work conducted in Ghana and Sri Lanka under the Resource, Recovery and Reuse (RRR) subprogram of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). [PDF]
, 2020 This is the main report of an external evaluation of the Resource Recovery and Reuse Flagship of the Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE) CGIAR Research Program. WLE commissioned the study. The Evaluators interviewed researchers and partners in two countries,
Merrey , D., Sally, H.
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A Federal Renewable Electricity Requirement [PDF]
, 2008 Rising energy prices and climate change have changed both the economics and politics of electricity. In response, over half the states have enacted "renewable portfolio standards" (RPS) that require utilities to obtain some power from "renewable ...
Robert J. Michaels
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Sustainability in the Age of Platforms. CEPS Special Report. June 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Over the past few decades, new digital platforms such as China’s Alibaba, Japan’s Rakuten and the U.S.’s eBay have grown from startups into multinational giants.
Baiocco, Sara +8 more
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Community Development Projects in Grand Popo. : Women's health [PDF]
, 2016 The thesis aims to contribute to the nursing knowledge in relation to the health of women in Grand Popo, by answering the research question, ‘what are the past community development projects in Grand Popo with implications on women’s health?’ The purpose
Otieno, Brian
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