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Rising global temperatures are increasingly recognized as a threat to education, affecting students’ cognitive performance, learning environments, and institutional resilience. However, educational data are rarely avai...

Improving the research methodology and practice of regulating the social vulnerability of the population requires more attention to infrastructural impacts. Conceptualization of the infrastructural determinants provision...

Latin America exhibits one of the highest rates of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) loss worldwide along with a remarkable asymmetry in the access to ES benefits (ecosystem services inequality, ESI hereafter). Th...

Under the dual impacts of global climate change and human activities, drought disasters in the Inner Mongolia grassland are a critical constraint on the high-quality development of animal husbandry. Based on disaster sys...

Flooding is a persistent hazard in the southeastern U.S., with particularly severe consequences for socially vulnerable populations, especially those in low-income, low-access (LILA) communities. This study introduces a ...

Abstract Background Pacific island countries (PICs), including Fiji, are among the most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change. In Fiji, acute watery diarrhea (AWD) remains a common communicable disease of pu...

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...

This study investigates the health impacts of transitioning from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on vaccination coverage, infant and under-5 mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in low and middle-income coun...

Against a backdrop of growing environmental awareness and the need to mitigate climate change impacts, urban spatial planning and management policies inspired by European sustainable development recommendations are gaini...

In the context of global warming, droughts are increasingly threatening our societies. They last for months or even years, affecting wide areas and large numbers of people, with single drought events sometimes causing ec...

En este artículo, a partir de una perspectiva multidisciplinar, se busca problematizarla cuestión am biental en Comodoro Rivadavia en torno a la explotación petrolera. En este sentido, el análisis se inicia en relaci...

Abstract Objective: To estimate the effect of integrating responsive care, early learning and development monitoring into a community-based package of activities on nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, on improvements in ...

Los impactos del cambio climático son extensivos a distintas poblaciones con entornos variados. Sin embargo, sus repercusiones y mitigación adquieren diversas formas dependiendo tanto de las condiciones geomorfológica...

Starting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always remaining in the groove of rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. This sec...

Abstract Marine heatwaves, and other extreme climatic events, are driving mass mortality of habitat‐forming species and substantial ecological change worldwide. However, habitat fragmentation is rarely considered despi...

Abstract Problem considered Healthcare in India is largely financed through private spending, with out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) exceeding 60% of total costs. Informal sector workers, who constitute the majori...

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, res...

The inherent vulnerability of elasmobranchs (i.e., sharks, skates, rays) to extinction stems from their conservative life history traits, particularly those related to reproduction. Traditional studies on elasmobranch re...

Materias / palabras clave: weather extremes, climate extremes, vulnerability and impacts, risk management and adaptation, early warning systems, climate modeling and forecasting; Science: Physics: Meteorology. Climatology

Materias / palabras clave: climate risk assessment, climate change adaptation, vulnerability and impacts, institutional and policy frameworks, strategy and strategic management, environmental sciences; Science: Physics: Meteorology. Climatology