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Autor:
Sheila A. Boamah, Frederick Ato Armah, Vincent Z. Kuuire, Idowu Ajibade, Isaac Luginaah, Gordon McBean
Publikováno v:
Environments, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 565-585 (2015)
In sub-Saharan Africa, hydro-meteorological related disasters, such as floods, account for the majority of the total number of natural disasters. Over the past century, floods have affected 38 million people, claimed several lives and caused substant
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/3db6d2e401aa4df88b3cab94d2b85ce1
Publikováno v:
Climate, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 16-41 (2014)
In this study, we examined the individual and socio-environmental factors that mediate differential self-reported experiences of climate change in coastal communities in Lagos, Nigeria. Binary complementary log-log multivariate regression was used to
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e21ddb73dfd9426789099f8861941335
Publikováno v:
Sustainability; Volume 14; Issue 11; Pages: 6725
This article provides an international and national overview of climate change and biodiversity frameworks and is focused on emerging evidence of Indigenous leadership and collaborations in Canada. After introducing the international context and desc
Publikováno v:
Sustainability. 14:13954
Climate change threatens human health, food security, and ecological sustainability. In marginalized and vulnerable communities around the globe, there is a crucial need to initiate actions to reduce adverse climatic impacts and support sustainable d
Publikováno v:
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 21:702-717
Although governance is often cited as a challenge for implementing climate change adaptation policies, existing scholarship has not adequately explored the relationship between modes of adaptation governance and the implementation of adaptation objec
Autor:
Gordon McBean
Publikováno v:
npj Science of Food, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2021)
NPJ Science of Food
NPJ Science of Food
When recovering from the pandemic, it is important for Planet Earth to address the Global Agenda 2030, including food and water crises, and to bounce forward sustainably. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report and Global Agenda 2030 provide
Autor:
Gordon McBean
Publikováno v:
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 60:26-38
iStock/jimmyjamesbondThe essay and article here are part of Environment Magazine's series that takes a look back at seminal articles in the magazine's history that helped define a field of study or...
Publikováno v:
Environment, Development and Sustainability. 22:1633-1653
The impacts of climate change due to more frequent and intense storms, fires, and floods are felt most acutely at the community scale, and local adaptation policy and planning is critically important. However, local practitioners face many barriers t
Autor:
Jonathan Raikes, Gordon McBean
Publikováno v:
Regional Environmental Change. 17:2433-2441
Proactively managing disaster risk in the absence of an event is the result of the responsible organization or institution’s political will. This paper is a comparative policy and practice study on factors affecting municipal institutional behaviou
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 19:84-91
In a more and more globalized world we have created unprecedented connectivity, mainly by striving for better business opportunities. But with such a strong global connectivity, the risks associated have also changed: formerly local issues can now ha