Quantifying the severity of fuel poverty, its relationship with poor housing and reasons for non-investment in energy-saving measures in Ireland. Energy Policy 2004; 32(2): 207-20.Healy JD, Clinch JP: Quantifying the severity of fuel poverty, its relationship with poor housing and reasons for...
And it was the year that the consequences of climate change finally, indisputably, arrived at the doorstep of the western world. By summer, the UN's special climate panel declared global warmingperilously close to the point of no return, with humans "unequivocall...
This paper provides the empirical basis for testing whether processes of privatisation in England actively select on quality of care. 1.1. The privatisation of the NHS and the quality of care Over the last 40 years, since the first efforts to introduce of the internal market to the NHS, UK ...
There are plenty of reasons-poverty(贫困),1Q, family background. 1.___ A recent study in the US found that over half of all high school students do not study hard. 2.___A report from the UK shows that nearly a third of students do not complete their education because they don't...
America declared independence from England in 1776, and both countries fought for eight long years in the Revolutionary War. Several decades later, England and America clashed again in the War of 1812. In the first days of America’s independence, we were enemies with England. So why don’t...
. REI has the potential to not only generate financial returns, replace fossil fuels, and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions but to also address pressing social issues such as energy security enhancement, improved health and environmental impacts, employment and regional development, energy poverty ...
In light of the above observations, the present study has been framed with the research question—What could be the reasons for not losing weight even after following a weight loss program? Materials and methods Review design This is a scoping review. As a scoping review provides an ...
The resulting chronic ups and downs in food intake can contribute, over the long run, to obesity among low-income women. Dr. Larry Brown, Executive Director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty, reported; “A growing body of research shows that hunger and obesity pose a dual threat for ...
It might seem that these are no less insurmountable than the physical restrictions often assumed-although we could feed a much larger popula- tion, it may require a social revolution to remove the inequalities at the root of poverty. As the UK Select Com- mittee on Overseas Development ...
Birkmann, J. et al. Scenarios for vulnerability: opportunities and constraints in the context of climate change and disaster risk.Climatic Change133, 53–68 (2015). Google Scholar Visser, H., Petersen, A. C. & Ligtvoet, W. On the relation between weather-related disaster impacts, vulnerabilit...