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Four Principles of Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change‐Exacerbated Hazards in Informal Settlements

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
Inhabited by > 1 billion people globally, informal settlements are hotspots of risk to negative impacts of climate‐exacerbated hazards. Transformative adaptation can deliver an equitable, sustainable, and climate‐resilient future for residents, but it must be underpinned by these four principles.
Ben C. Howard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Porozumienia przedsiębiorców jako sposób obrony przed kryzysem gospodarczym – szansa dla gospodarki czy naruszenie konkurencji?

open access: yesPrace Komisji Geografii Przemysłu Polskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego
Przedmiotem artykułu jest analiza porozumień przedsiębiorców jako formy obrony przed kryzysem gospodarczym. W kontekście tego zagadnienia wyłania się istotny problem badawczy, a mianowicie: czy można w pełni zaakceptować tego rodzaju porozumienia czy ...
Paweł Marek Woroniecki
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Peacebuilding, Indigenous Epistemologies and Experience: Learning From Ruptures and Resilience in Solomon Islands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 130-141, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental peacebuilding, as a construct and practice, holds potential to recognise environmental conflicts and respond to them; however, indigenous perspectives can be obscured in its related processes, projects and reviews. This article draws on in depth research by the authors from within indigenous communities in the Solomon Islands to ...
David Gegeo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Promise of Resistance: A New Lens for Climate Change Adaptation Research and Practice

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT Over the years, thousands of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation efforts, fewer studies have examined why and how adaptation projects are being resisted. An analysis of resistance to adaptation offers critical insights to scholars
Megan Mills‐Novoa, Michael Mikulewicz
wiley   +1 more source

The complexity of compliance—Diverse responses to octopus fishery closures in Zanzibar

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 2543-2563, December 2024.
Abstract Marine protected areas like periodic closures are increasingly used to improve both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation, and often secondarily, human well‐being. Yet rule breaking, whether formal regulations, or community‐agreed norms, continues to negate expected management and conservation outcomes, remaining a major challenge.
Elizabeth Drury O'Neill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen engagement in climate adaptation surveyed: Identifying challenges in education and capacity building

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 2024.
Abstract The accelerating impacts of climate change present significant challenges to sustainable urban development, testing the resilience of current governance frameworks and stakeholder responsibilities. In alignment with the EU's Green Deal, robust adaptation strategies and proactive climate risk anticipation are essential.
Aelita Skarzauskiene   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turbulence around patriotism: philosophical perspective

open access: yesSeminare, 2019
The aim of the article is to determine the place of patriotism among other universal values and a philosophical reflection on its current formula. The analysis is based on the classical philosophy of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, J. Maritain, E. Gilson, J.
Maria Małgorzata Boużyk
doaj  

An interdisciplinary overview of levee setback benefits: Supporting spatial planning and implementation of riverine nature‐based solutions

open access: yesWIREs Water, Volume 11, Issue 6, November/December 2024.
Levee setbacks are an important form of nature‐based solution for managing large rivers and their diverse ecosystem services. This image summarizes many of the important considerations to take into account when selecting sites for implementing levee setbacks.
Charles B. van Rees   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic Web Technologies for Digital Libraries: From Libraries to Social Semantic Digital Libraries (SSDL), Over Semantic Digital Libraries (SDL)

open access: yes, 2010
Digital libraries have been an important source of information throughout the history of mankind. It has been present in our societies in different forms. Notably, traditional libraries have found their on the desktops of internet users.
Alotaibi, Sara
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