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Background High rates of unintended adolescent pregnancy are a significant health problem in Uganda. To improve access to family planning (FP) services, community-based Village Health Teams (VHTs) are widely employed in Uganda to deliver education and ...
Robert Kalyesubula +9 more
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Sustaining Social Security [PDF]
This paper analyzes the sustainability of intergenerational transfers in politico-economic equilibrium. Embedding electoral competition for the votes of old and young households in the standard Diamond (1965) OLG model, we find that intergenerational transfers naturally arise in a Markov perfect equilibrium, even in the absence of altruism, commitment,
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín, Niepelt, Dirk
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Addressing ecosystem destruction and unsustainable development requires appropriate frameworks to comprehensively investigate social-ecological systems. Focusing on woody plant management in southwestern Ethiopia, we combined social-ecological resilience
Girma Shumi +6 more
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Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity
This Perspective piece outlines potential avenues to support ecosystem restoration projects into the future.
Marina Frietsch +4 more
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Governments and administrations at all levels play a central role in shaping sustainable development. Over the past 30 years, many have developed differentiated sustainability governance arrangements (SGAs) to incorporate sustainability into their ...
Basil Bornemann, Marius Christen
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Researchers and practitioners increasingly emphasise the need to complement dominant external, technological approaches with an internal focus to support transformation toward sustainability.
Elin Pöllänen +3 more
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Anticipation of futures using transdisciplinary approaches is critical to provide the basis for appropriate action to cope with current and future risks and to foster sustainability transformations.
Lilly Baumann +3 more
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Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture [PDF]
Sustainability is an inherent urban and architectural problem. It is simultaneously characterized by many different dimensions, pursuing heterogeneous and often conflicting objectives. To help address these complexities in a structured way, this paper illustrates an integrated assessment framework to tackle social sustainability, in order to support ...
Lami I. M., Mecca B.
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The global shift toward agricultural specialization in the 20th century led to unprecedented ecological and socioeconomic changes, both positive and negative, in rural landscapes.
Maria Brück +4 more
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17th Annual Institute for Law and Economic Policy Conference Access to Justice: April 7, 2011 [PDF]
There is a fragmented approach to social sustainability in the literature, and this paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the meanings and interpretations of that concept while reviewing and discussing the social dimension of ...
Moberg, Åsa, Weingaertner, Carina
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