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Frontiers in EducationHigher education participation in Sub-Saharan Africa remains low due to limited transitions from secondary school, driven by financial constraints, socio-economic inequality, gender disparities, and conflict-related displacement.
Robert Asiimwe +6 more
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Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes, 2021 Indian Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR), a fragile ecosystem, is susceptible to frequent cyclones, floods, and storm surge. The study impeccably analyzed the socio-economic vulnerability in SBR using pragmatic approach. Average storm surge height, slope
Mehebub Sahana +3 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese +2 more
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Vulnerability to climate change: people, place and exposure to hazard [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2011 The Human Dimension of the Twinning European and South Asian River Basins to Enhance Capacity and Implement Adaptive Management Approaches Project (EC-Project BRAHMATWINN) is aimed at developing socio-economic tools and context for the effective ...
C. W. Hutton +5 more
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The Role of Socio-Economic Status in Vulnerability to Flood Hazard
, 2009 The paper provides a literatures review on the works on social vulnerability towards flood hazards. The problem of floods and hazards caused by them is mostly concerned so-called Third World countries due, firstly, to south climate specifics and, secondly, to the financial impossibility of their government to cope with danger.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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Agricultural and Resource EconomicsPurpose. The study aims to assess the degree of resilience of territories (on the example of Ukrainian regions) in the face of shocks and to identify the relationship in the system “economic losses during the shock – vulnerability and recovery period ...
Olha Mulska +4 more
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Coastal vulnerability assessment: a case study of Samut Sakhon coastal zone [PDF]
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2011 The Samut Sakhon coastal zone (~41.8 km), which was selected as a study area due to its low-lying topography, hasbeen increasingly impacted by climate change and erosion processes affecting the local community.
Farida Duriyapong, Kanchana Nakhapakorn
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Genomic vulnerability and socio‐economic threats under climate change in an African rainforest bird
Evolutionary Applications, 2021 Preserving biodiversity under rapidly changing climate conditions is challenging. One approach for estimating impacts and their magnitude is to model current relationships between genomic and environmental data and then to forecast those relationships ...
Thomas B. Smith +11 more
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The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women’s resilience to socio-economic disadvantage
SSM - Population Health, 2016 Sex differences in mortality vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival.
Mark R. Cullen +4 more
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