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The Value of Controlling Wilding Conifers in New Zealand

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exotic, invasive conifer tree species, known as ‘wilding conifers’, pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems and are costly to manage, creating a need to identify community preferences in order to inform and balance public investment in their control.
Maksym Polyakov, Abbie Rogers, Philip Stahlmann‐Brown, Rowan Sprague, Olivia Burge, Johanna Yletyinen, Duane A. Peltzer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canadian wildfires are losing their climate-cooling influence from postfire snow albedo. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
van Gerrevink MJ, Gonsamo A, Rogers BM, Potter S, Zhong Z, Veraverbeke S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Preparing to Fight the ‘Wrong War’? Why the UK Defence Budget Must Focus More on ‘National Resilience’

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that the current debate over defence spending in the United Kingdom is fundamentally flawed. Too much emphasis is being placed on preparing for a form of warfare with Russia that is unlikely to occur. As this article points out, the Russians actually want to avoid a traditional battlefield confrontation with NATO.
Rod Thornton
wiley   +1 more source

The Changing Electoral Politics of Pursuing Climate Action in the UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Action on climate policy in the UK has been at a crossroads since 2021. The UK's previously world‐leading performance in emissions reduction was derived largely from eliminating coal from electricity supply and relied on a broad political consensus regarding the issue's importance.
Matthew Paterson, Soham Banerjee, James Jackson, Louise Thompson, Paul Tobin, Lucie Middlemiss   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and child health in Europe: a scoping review of emerging impacts. [PDF]

Eur J Pediatr
van den Berg S, van der Stadt D, Shahbazi Khamas S, Sondaal F, Jamaludin F, van Baardewijk L, Vijverberg S, Kapitein B.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Chronic Disease and Disability in the United States: Trends, Inequities, and Imperatives for Policy Reform

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Position Universal, High‐Quality Education as a Foundational Public Health Strategy. Long‐term health and life expectancy in the United States are shaped more by educational attainment than by any other single factor. Disparities in access to early childhood, K‐12, and higher education perpetuate cycles of chronic disease, economic ...
ALI H. MOKDAD, LAURA DWYER‐LINDGREN, CHRISTOPHER J.L. MURRAY   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burning issues: trends in newspaper coverage of wildfire events and health. [PDF]

J Public Health (Oxf)
Nunes AR.
europepmc   +1 more source

STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina, Vuong Kha Tu, Tran Kim Bao, Ly Quoc Dang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Québec Wildfires and Respiratory Emergency Department Visits in Charlottesville, Virginia. [PDF]

Ecohealth
Sanabria Segura LM, Novicoff WM, Enfield KB, Kakatkar S, Davis RE.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source