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The promises and pitfalls of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change as a vehicle for social empowerment

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2019
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to climate change is an approach claimed to deliver social benefits relevant to marginalized groups. Based on a structured literature review, we interrogate such claims, asking whether such approaches may (or may not ...
Stephen Woroniecki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The competences of the President of the Energy Regulatory Office on the ground of selected statutory regulations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Kompetencje Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki są zapisane w pierwszym rzędzie w ustawie z 10 kwietnia 1997 roku Prawo energetyczne (tekst jednolity: Dz.U. z 2012 r., poz. 1059 z późn. zm.).
Woroniecki, Paweł
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Transformations of the national culture : Kazimierz Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Współczesne problemy kulturowej dezintegracji Europy wynikają z poważnego rozchwiania kondycji poszczególnych kultur narodowych. Przeżywają one poważne zagrożenie w wyniku społecznej odpowiedzi na poczucie braku podmiotowości wspólnot, które niestety ...
Korporowicz, Leszek
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Do Public and Farmer Preferences for Natural Flood Management Align?

open access: yesJournal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The demand for catchment‐based flood management to adapt to climate change is growing, with natural flood management (NFM) receiving increasing attention. NFM has implications for the ‘providers’ of land for measures upstream (the farmers) and the ‘beneficiaries’ of flood reduction downstream (the public).
Phoebe King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Universal Framework for OWL2 Ontology Transformations

open access: yesFoundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, 2018
Domain ontologies are valuable knowledge assets with many potential applications, e.g. in software engineering. Their content is often a subject of bi-directional transformations.
Hnatkowska Bogumiła, Woroniecki Paweł
doaj   +1 more source

A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2020
In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is considered a powerful ‘leverage point’ in pursuit of transformations.
Simon West   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gut Microbiota Profiles of Children with Obesity or Metabolic Syndrome: Body Mass Index Is a Lead Actor

open access: yesObesities, 2023
The worldwide prevalence of obesity and associated metabolic syndrome (MetS) has increased threefold over the last five decades. Among children, this trend is alarming due to the premature onset of MetS.
Grace N. Gathungu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Significance of communal economy and legal aspects of executing it by territorial self-government units [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Niniejsze opracowanie, które dotyczy prawnych aspektów prowadzenia gospodarki komunalnej, zawiera objaśnienie prawnego znaczenia terminu gospodarka komunalna. Wspomniane wyżej wyjaśnienie zostało zaczerpnięte z art. 1 ust.
Woroniecki, Paweł
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Leverage points for scaling nature‐based adaptation to climate change

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 11, Page 2743-2758, November 2025.
Abstract Despite ambitious goals and policies, climate change adaptation efforts remain slow and insufficient compared to the pace and magnitude of climate change. Nature‐based Solutions (NbS) offer a holistic approach, with assumed co‐benefits that jointly address climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation and other societal ...
Enora Bruley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 9, Page 2119-2135, September 2025.
Abstract Engaging conservation decision‐making with critical aspects of social science can enhance the equitability of conservation practice by recentring issues of social and environmental justice. Using rewilding as a conservation case in point, we identify five foundational questions to ask of rewilding projects to help align rewilding decision ...
Emma Cary   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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