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Nature and forests are under threat from development and private interests, such as mining, fossil fuels, food and agriculture, and transportation and infrastructure. Environmental human rights defenders (HRDs) are advocates on the front lines who defend nature, often at great perso...
This does raise the question of the prospect for the effectiveness of other voluntary extractive industry initiatives such as the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) and the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) given that both will rely on self-reporting and a certain degree of third...
Even though this approach is not mainstream theory, it does lead to several pertinent questions: How important is the “hazard” component of disasters in the case of climate change? Is it true that climate change does not significantly affect people's vulnerabilities? What are the consequences ...
. While MusiCares responded within days of the fire's outbreak to provide immediate assistance, the long-term needs of music professionals are now coming into sharper focus. From loss of work and instruments to the emotional toll of displacement and trauma, the aftermath continues to affect ...
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Precision agriculture and clean energy obviously have many benefits but the former creates need for more computing equipment which leads to an increase in e-waste [21, 22] while clean energy will necessitate more mining [23]. The question that we need to ask is: can we con- tinue to ...
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