This is partly due to the increasing concentration of both people and wealth in regions of high vulnerability, but the situation is exacerbated by extreme events associated with climate change and by direct human action such as deforestation and urbanisation. "The World Atlas of Natural Hazards" ...
Natural climate solutions can mitigate climate change in the near-term, during a climate-critical window. Yet, persistent misunderstandings about what constitutes a natural climate solution generate unnecessary confusion and controversy, thereby delaying
Vulnerable Populations and Regions Natural Disasters, Development, and Vulnerability Natural disastersprovide striking observations into the role of vulnerability in explaining patterns of loss among peoples and regions. Hazards become disasters when a perturbation overwhelms the capacity of a population or ...
Urban regions across the world have expanded rapidly in recent decades, affecting fragile natural habitats, including in drylands, and threatening the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 15, ‘life on land’. Yet, few studies have comprehe
Due to uneven resource distribution, human beings migrate to other regions where plenty of resources are available. Majority of people often migrate to a place that has the resources they need or want and migrate away from a place that lacks the resources they need. Lively example...
Border regions face challenges managing natural resources, which include forests, wildlife, air, and rivers. This study aims to provide an overview of research on various natural resource conflicts and cooperation in borderlands worldwide, considering the five spheres of the Earth system, namely the ...
(polyols), high fructose corn syrup and more recently steviol glycosides. The billions of years of evolution have allowed nature to create an incredible structural diversity of natural compounds suggesting that many regions of the sweet taste chemical space remain unexplored. The discovery of the ...
A corporate life cycle heterogeneity analysis of the GI policy effect found that the policy effect was negative in the decline stages. Compared with the eastern Chinese enterprises, enterprises in other regions were found to be more prone to positively adopting GI to maximize benefits in the face...
In particular, at Erimo they were 171 cm, which is comparable with the greatest meteotsunamis recorded during the last 27 years in various regions of the world oceans (Rabinovich 2020) At two other stations, Ayukawa and Hachijojima, they were higher than 1 m and at four more, Kushiro, ...
A highly destructive force, Asia is one of themost susceptible regions to natural disasters. The repercussions of natural disasters are not only physical, but also economic. Costs may be high – depending on the severity – as areas affected by natural disasters might need to be rebuilt. Lower...