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Carney's Davos Address and the (Contested) Re‐Imagining of Middle Powers
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By privileging the intervention of Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, in his January 2026 Davos address, the work aims to re‐engage with the debate around middle powers extending from academic scrutiny to instrumental practice. On core themes, Carney's address provides exceptional focal points pertaining to the role of this category of ...
Andrew F. Cooper
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TSUNAMI PROPAGATION ALONG TAGUS ESTUARY (LISBON, PORTUGAL) PRELIMINARY RESULTS [PDF]
Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2006 In this study we present preliminary results of flood calculation along Tagus Estuary, a catastrophic event that happened several times in the past, as described in historical documents, and that constitutes one of the major risk sources for Lisbon ...
M. A. Viana-Baptista +3 more
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Generation and Propagation of Frequency-Dispersive Tsunamis
, 2011 Tsunami are long water waves generated by sudden disturbances of the sea floor or sea water surface, which is usually caused by earthquakes, landslides or volcanic eruptions. Once triggered the tsunami can propagate over long distances, carrying destruction even on far coasts, hours after the impulsive generating event.
CECIONI, CLAUDIA, BELLOTTI G.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines why Gulf foreign aid has remained predominantly bilateral and fragmented since its emergence in the 1960s, despite the establishment of regional institutions, recurring regional crises and repeated calls for greater coordination.
Khalid Almezaini
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the Solomon Islands Graduate Intern Supervision and Support Project (SIGISSP) and its successor, the Solomon Islands Medical Partnership for Learning, Education and Research (SIMPLER), a decade‐long partnership between the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, the National Referral Hospital and Australian
Sharon McLennan
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Different depths of near-trench slips of the 1896 Sanriku and 2011 Tohoku earthquakes
Geoscience Letters, 2017 The 1896 Sanriku earthquake was a typical ‘tsunami earthquake’ which caused large tsunami despite its weak ground shaking. It occurred along the Japan Trench in the northern tsunami source area of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake where a delayed tsunami ...
Kenji Satake +2 more
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Holocene shoreline displacement and the impact of the Storegga tsunami on Hinnøya, northern Norway
Boreas, EarlyView.The Holocene relative sea‐level (RSL) history of Norway's largest island, Hinnøya, has been investigated in detail, using sediment records from 25 isolation basins. The sediments were analysed for macrofossil and phytoplankton content, which served as the basis for identifying marine–lacustrine transitions, that is isolation contacts. Terrestrial plant
Anders Romundset +5 more
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SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF ENERGY DISTRIBUTION AT TSUNAMI WAVE PROPAGATION IN OKHOTSK SEA BASIN [PDF]
Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2017 The presence of residual subduction zone under Kuril island arc makes a region of Kuril ridge islands be potential seismic-danger since underwater earthquakes in subduction zone with magnitude М > 6 are usually tsunamigenic.
Alexandr RASSADIN +4 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.The glacierized Valle Frías in Northern Patagonia is one of the best‐studied valleys in South America and includes varved sediments from Lago Frías. We complement this lacustrine record with a high‐resolution documentation of varve counts and their composition.
Bernd Zolitschka +6 more
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