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The Relationship Among Climate Policy Uncertainty and Energy Markets: Fossil Versus Renewable and Low‐Carbon Assets

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the intricate relationship between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and energy market dynamics, focusing on fossil‐based and renewable/low‐carbon energy assets. Utilising a comprehensive dataset spanning from April 1987 to December 2023, comprising monthly observations of CPU, stock market returns, spot oil prices and ...
Dimitrios Asteriou, Anastasia Dimiski
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change, carbon and wildfires

, 2014
This report argues that atmospheric carbon estimates should include wildfires as a significant source of atmospheric greenhouse gas, and effort to reduce atmospheric carbon must include measures to curb wildfires.
Christopher D. Johns
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Nature‐Based and Community‐Level Responses to Climate Distress in Young People: A Systematic Review

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Climate change is both an environmental crisis and a growing source of psychological distress for young people, calling for responses that nurture emotional resilience and collective engagement. The emerging response to climate distress has mainly focused on formal psychological and individual‐level interventions.
Meghana Bhupati, Nita Alexander, Yael Perry, Jack Farrugia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wildfires in the southwest

, 2004
This project examined the issues of wildfires in the southwest and evaluated several high-level tactics for reducing the damage wildfires causes, concluding that while fire suppression is still necessary to protect communities, educating residents will ...
Twyeffort, Isabel Diane
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Wildfires as an ecosystem service

, 2019
Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be understood as natural processes that provide a variety of benefits to humankind ...
Pausas, J. G., Jon E Keeley, Juli G Pausas, Keeley, J. E.   +3 more
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Failure in Motion: A Framework for Capability Erosion and Institutional Dysfunction

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the literature on capability erosion and institutional dysfunction (ID), this study develops a conceptual framework that sheds new light on how the interaction between capability erosion and ID creates conditions for business failure across borders. By articulating two dimensions of heterogeneous capability and resource erosion (i.e.
Joseph Amankwah‐Amoah, Ahmed Adel Tantawy   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global lightning-ignited wildfires prediction and climate change projections based on explainable machine learning models

Scientific Reports
Wildfires pose a significant natural disaster risk to populations and contribute to accelerated climate change. As wildfires are also affected by climate change, extreme wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent.
Assaf Shmuel, Teddy Lazebnik, Oren Glickman, Eyal Heifetz, Colin Price   +4 more
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Present and future interannual variability in wildfire occurrence: a large ensemble application to the United States

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Realistic projections of future wildfires need to account for both the stochastic nature of climate and the randomness of individual fire events. Here we adopt a probabilistic approach to predict current and future fire probabilities using a large ...
Theodore R. Keeping, Theodore R. Keeping, Boya Zhou, Wenjia Cai, Theodore G. Shepherd, I. Colin Prentice, I. Colin Prentice, Karin van der Wiel, Sandy P. Harrison, Sandy P. Harrison   +9 more
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Portuguese Students' Perceptions of Soil Ecosystem Services and Their Willingness to Change Behaviour for the Future of Soil

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil is one of the most important non‐renewable natural resources, playing a vital role in sustaining humanity. Studies exploring how students perceive soil ecosystem services are considerably scarcer. Therefore, the main objectives of this study are: (i) to understand Portuguese students' perceptions of the importance of different soil ...
Catarina de Almeida Pinheiro, Bruno Martins, Adélia Nunes   +2 more
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Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo, Kaila Witkowski, Ratna Dougherty, Christa Remington   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source