Systemic risk and compound vulnerability impact pathways of food insecurity in Somalia
Climate Risk Management, 2023 In a strongly interconnected world, extreme and compound events pose systemic risks to food security and populations already vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Lisa Thalheimer +2 more
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Modelling systemic COVID-19 impacts in cities
npj Urban Sustainability, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted public health, the economy and society—both directly and indirectly. Few approaches exist to understand these complex impacts in a way that (1) acknowledges cross-sectoral interdependencies; (2) models how short-term ...
Lindsay Beevers +5 more
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Altered dietary behaviour during pregnancy impacts systemic metabolic phenotypes
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 RationaleEvidence suggests consumption of a Mediterranean diet (MD) can positively impact both maternal and offspring health, potentially mediated by a beneficial effect on inflammatory pathways.
Charlotte E. Rowley +20 more
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How do population movements fit within the framework of systemic risk?
Progress in Disaster Science, 2022 Population movements are key elements shaping today's complex and interconnected societies. Movement of people underpins the circulation of capital, knowledge, ideas, culture, values and resources with systemic benefits but it also produces diverse risk ...
Serena Tagliacozzo +2 more
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Improved feeding and forages at a crossroads: Farming systems approaches for sustainable livestock development in East Africa [PDF]
, 2020 Dairy development provides substantial potential economic opportunities for smallholder farmers in East Africa, but productivity is constrained by the scarcity of quantity and quality feed.
Groot, Jeroen C.J. +5 more
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Fictional Game Elements: Critical Perspectives on Gamification Design [PDF]
, 2016 Gamification has been widely accepted in the HCI community in the last few years. However, the current debate is focused on its short-term consequences, such as effectiveness and usefulness, while its side-effects, long-term criticalities and systemic ...
Cena, Federica +4 more
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Information impact on transportation systems [PDF]
Journal of Computational Science, 2015 AbstractWith a broader distribution of personal smart devices and with an increasing availability of advanced navigation tools, more drivers can have access to real time information regarding the traffic situation. Our research focuses on determining how using the real time information about a transportation system could influence the system itself. We
Litescu, S. +4 more
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A prototype Earth system impact metric that accounts for cross-scale interactions
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Human activities are disrupting the Earth system’s biophysical processes, which underlie human wellbeing. The planetary boundary framework sets ‘safe’ global limits on these pressures, but a sub-global assessment of these pressures, their interactions ...
Steven J Lade +3 more
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Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience
Climate Risk Management, 2022 COVID-19 has revealed how challenging it is to manage global, systemic and compounding crises. Like COVID-19, climate change impacts, and maladaptive responses to them, have potential to disrupt societies at multiple scales via networks of trade, finance,
Andrew K. Ringsmuth +20 more
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The accessibility of administrative processes: Assessing the impacts on students in higher education [PDF]
, 2018 Administrative processes that need to be completed to maintain a basic standard of living, to study, or to attain employment, are perceived to create burdens for disabled people.
Coughlan, Tim, Lister, Katharine
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