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25 October 2020
Early warning: human detectors, drones and the race to control Australia’s extreme blazes
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24 October 2020
Can Agroecology Feed the World?
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Credit: KMP in the Philippines, supported by the Agroecology Fund By Elena L. PasquiniROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) Producing food and ensuring nutrition security, protecting the environment and restoring biodiversity, building sustainable and fair food systems: That’s the promise of agroecology. It is a dream? Or an economically feasible model that can feed a growing
23 October 2020
Archetypical opportunities for water governance adaptation to climate change
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We explore opportunities for climate adaptation in the context of water governance. We focus on opportunities linked to the provision of climate information, raising the question of whether they are limited to incremental adaptation, or can also bring about transformational adaptation. We address this question through an archetype analysis based on 26 peer-reviewed articles. In
22 October 2020
Kicking the Habit: What Makes and Breaks Farmers’ Intentions to Reduce Pesticide Use?
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Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): L. Bakker, J. Sok, W. van der Werf, F.J.J.A. Bianchi
22 October 2020
Compensating Indigenous social and cultural losses: a community-based multiple-attribute approach
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Impact evaluations in North America are required to examine not only the economic, environmental, and health effects of activities but also their social and cultural impacts. In practice, however, many important social and cultural effects are often neglected as part of court-sponsored negotiations and decisions by government regulators because they are not represented in terms
22 October 2020
Bulawayo Water Crisis: When the Taps Run Dry and the City Runs out of Ideas
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Water tanks installed in homes in a Bulawayo suburb. The city has been facing a decades long water crisis. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS By Ignatius BandaBULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Oct 21 2020 (IPS) Dotted across the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo, the water tanks installed in private residences is evidence that years of a water crisis, that has seen
21 October 2020
Australian company directors call for more infrastructure spending and a Green New Deal
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Survey suggests the corporate community is increasingly at odds with the Morrison government’s gas-led recovery Company directors want a more radical policy reset to recover from the Covid-19 recession including bigger investments in infrastructure, reforms of industrial relations and a Green New Deal. The Australian Institute of Company Directors’ sentiment index, released on Thursday, found
21 October 2020
Theoretical analysis of a simple permit system for selling synthetic wildlife goods
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Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): Frederick Chen, Michael ’t Sas-Rolfes
20 October 2020
A Long, Uneven and Uncertain Ascent
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Thailand’s COVID-19 response cited as an example of resilience and solidarity. Credit: UNDP By Gita GopinathWASHINGTON DC, Oct 20 2020 (IPS) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread with over 1 million lives tragically lost so far. Living with the novel coronavirus has been a challenge like no other, but the world is adapting. As a
20 October 2020
10 million snowblowers? Last-ditch ideas to save the Arctic ice
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Some of the solutions sound fantastical – but their proponents argue that there are precious few other options Time is running out for the Arctic. The region continues to warm at two or three times the global rate and scientists now predict that we could see Arctic summer ice disappear as early as 2042. Continue