Achieving sustainable access to antibiotics is more than just a last mile challenge Improving access to antibiotics will save lives and reduce the rise and spread of drug-resistant infections. Instead of traditional ‘last mile’ global health solutions, global leaders need to support efforts to de...
The damaging effect of storm surges is strongly amplified by their superposition with storm seiches/meteotsunamis (cf. Thomson et al. 2007); however, this effect is still underestimated or, at least, is poorly investigated. The main challenge for a combined examination is the very different ...
introduction of non-native species and sediment mining, challenge their integrity and future, as never before. The rapidity and extent of such change is so great that large-scale, and potentially irreparable, transformations may ensue in periods of years to decades, with ecosystem collapse being po...
In these twenty years he was appointed to various projects: laying out towns in Albury, Geelong, Eden; acting as Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District; surveying coasts in Gippsland and the South Coast; ascertaining the source of the Murray River; and traversing the Main Range of t...
It has, though, often been bypassed to a large extent by more recent research into the contemporary challenge of climate change caused, in part, by human activity. This chapter describes the importance of older vulnerability and resilience research for contemporary investigations involving climate ...
Statements about the impacts of COVID-19 and recovery from them are subject to the significant caveat that relevant data and analyses are still underway and may produce results that challenge or modify what is set out here. Furthermore, this paper has relied on available published reports, ...
We fear the danger of climate breakdown. The evidence we observe is both alarming and undeniable, but it is this very shock that drives us to action. We recognize the profound urgency of addressing this global challenge, especially the horrific outlook for the world's poor. We feel the ...
Unlike many natural hazards, volcanoes often give warning signs from minutes to even years before they erupt. Detecting this activity, interpreting it, and using it to accurately forecast likely outcomes, however, remains a key challenge for volcanologists. A new generation of ground- and space-ba...
As a result, the scope and reliability of statistical inferences which can be made from disaster data are reduced5. Systematic reporting of disaster events is required to minimise missing data. However, to achieve this is a major challenge. Instead, the use of valid and often complex ...
None of the approaches discussed therein can account for these indirect losses, even though these could conceivably be orders of magnitude larger than the original damage wrought by these events (and were likely much larger in this specific case). A challenge in aggregating damage data across ...