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Climate change is a complex global challenge that requires collaboration across multiple scientific disciplines. In urban areas, its effects are more intense due to several factors, such as high population density, build...

"Climate change communication efforts grounded in the information deficit model have largely failed to close the gap between scientific and public understanding of the risks posed by climate change. In response, simulati...

The green economy spans interrelated domains—climate change and social equity, sectoral decarbonization, markets and ESG investment, and environmental health. Understanding how these dimensions interact is critical for...

Abstract This study aims to develop a performance grade (PG) zoning map for asphalt pavements along the Kabul–Salang Highway in Afghanistan, considering local climatic conditions and traffic factors, to support optimiz...

Agriculture remains the food supplier of many households globally. In Africa, agriculture helps many farm households to meet their household food needs. Given the importance of agriculture in achieving food security in m...

Background: The world is facing a polycrisis of climate and ecosystems breakdown, extreme inequality and social injustice. The South African government and social partners are focusing on the crisis through a national J...

This comprehensive review examines the synergistic integration of climate mitigation strategies and circular economy (CE) principles as a pathway toward achieving global carbon neutrality. While traditional mitigation me...

Abstract Non-technical summary Efforts to tackle climate change are increasingly delayed not through denial but through subtler arguments that emphasize costs, shift blame, or promote weak solutions. We created a tool to...

Climate change poses threats to the entire world and the Sultanate of Oman, including tropical storms, rising temperatures, and saltwater intrusion. Social media is an important source of information about climate change...

Municipal authorities are expected to play a central role in urban climate change adaptation, using urban assets and engaging local stakeholders through both direct command-and-control measures and indirect approaches su...

Environmental factors such as air pollution, weather events, and ambient toxins are major contributors to human disease, with disproportionate impacts on vulnerable populations. In Puerto Rico, chronic exposure to air po...

Anthropogenic climate change is one of the main threats to global biodiversity, with amphibians being among the most vulnerable vertebrate groups. In this context, the IUCN currently lists 69 species of Neotropical glass...

This study aims to systematically analyze the new characteristics, evolution trends, and causes of major extreme weather in China in the context of global climate change, and evaluate the current forecasting, early-warni...

The impact of climate change threatens rural livelihoods in semi-arid areas like Kordian District of Iran’s Jahrom County, particularly where there is inadequate spatial planning. This research analyzes policy shortcom...

With increasing impacts of climate change, vulnerable low-lying developing countries like Bangladesh have coastal zones that experience disproportionate loss and damage (L&D) that exceed the limits of local adaptation. T...

Addressing global climate change brings up a number of priority issues. The fundamental issue is the definition of the participants in this process and the scope of their competencies and areas of responsibility. Practic...

Urban microclimate are localized climatic conditions within urban areas that are shaped by the buildings, population density, land cover, and vegetation, and that differ significantly from surrounding rural contexts. The...

While work on sacred spaces has persisted for decades, their agency in mitigating climate change remains less explored, especially from indigenous communities’ perspectives. The article unpacks the concept of Ndau mar...

Abstract Architectural education faces increasing pressure to equip future practitioners with the ability to respond to sustainability, cultural continuity, and resource constraints through evidence-based design. Yet, th...

Abstract The current U.S. federal administration has sought to intervene into every aspect of academic life, university functioning, and the research enterprise including by attacking academic freedom and integrity and c...

Transformational climate adaptation requires coordinated action across sectors and scales, enabled by governance arrangements that can address systemic barriers. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) may provide such a mech...

Abstract As social commerce increasingly unfolds within closed and relationally embedded digital environments, understanding how community dynamics translate into sustained information-sharing remains a critical challeng...

ABSTRACT Background Halfway through the final decade of actions towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), progress toward SDG7 is off track. It is estimated that by 2030, 660 million people, mainly rural pop...