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Youths’ perceptions of community health workers’ delivery of family planning services: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study in Nakaseke District, Uganda

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
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]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
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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Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
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

open access: yesCommunications Biology, 2023
This Perspective piece outlines potential avenues to support ecosystem restoration projects into the future.
Marina Frietsch   +4 more
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A New Generation of Sustainability Governance: Potentials for 2030 Agenda Implementation in Swiss Cantons

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Education for Sustainability: Understanding Processes of Change across Individual, Collective, and System Levels

open access: yesChallenges, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Anticipating and transforming futures: a literature review on transdisciplinary coastal research in the Global South

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2023
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]

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
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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Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South: a case study in Ethiopia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2023
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]

open access: yes, 2012
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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