Publication date: June 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 208 Author(s): Tom Kompas, Long Chu, Simon McKirdy, Melissa Thomas, Johann Van Der Merwe
Publication date: June 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 208 Author(s): Tom Kompas, Long Chu, Simon McKirdy, Melissa Thomas, Johann Van Der Merwe
Research, part of a special feature on Everyday Adaptations to Climate Change ABSTRACT Dryland regions are highly dynamic environments in which multiple pressures intersect, threatening livelihood security. Mobility is an integral feature in these environments and represents a key risk management strategy for people to respond to frequent livelihood shocks and stresses. Global environmental change
Opal Palmer Adisa in Jamaica. Credit: SWAN By SWANPARIS, Mar 8 2023 (IPS) For the past six years, Jamaican writer and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa has been one of the voices crying out against the prevalence of gender-based violence in the Caribbean and elsewhere. To highlight this human rights issue, she launched “Thursdays in Black”
Three non-violent Insulate Britain activists have been jailed for telling juries why they were protesting Restrictions placed on non-violent climate protesters who have been tried in criminal courts were part of a “deeply concerning” “pincer movement” narrowing their rights to free expression, leading lawyers have told the Guardian. Three Insulate Britain activists are serving jail
By External SourceMar 7 2023 (IPS-Partners) From the earliest days of computing to the present age of virtual reality and artificial intelligence… …women have made untold contributions to the digital world in which we increasingly live. Their accomplishments have been made against all odds, in a historically unwelcoming field. Today, a persistent gender gap
Research, part of a special feature on Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods ABSTRACT Indigenous revitalization includes community-led healing from intergenerational land-based trauma. Yet given colonial legacies that perpetuate the devaluation of Indigenous knowledge and dispossession of Indigenous lands, healing in Indigenous communities presents particular challenges. Such challenges can include responding to western models
Government must produce forecasts under safeguard mechanism as treasurer adds pressure to stalled cross-party talks on limits to new gas and coal projects Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers has accused opponents of Labor’s renewable energy policies of spinning wheels in “ideological cul-de-sacs”, as the Coalition
Matthew Tulley, 44, Ben Taylor, 38, George Burrow, 68, and Anthony Hill, 72, were part of a blockade at Bishopsgate in 2021 Four climate activists who blockaded a street in London in a campaign to press the government to insulate homes have been found guilty of public nuisance. A jury at Inner London crown court
Research ABSTRACT Many contemporary social and ecological challenges in forested ecosystems (climate change, invasive species, wildland-urban interface development, and wildfires) span multiple jurisdictions and are characterized by complex patterns of social and ecological interdependencies. Increasing evidence suggests that interdependent risk can best be addressed by working across boundaries (jurisdictional, scalar, and expertise) by sharing information
Credit: UN Women Gender inequality exacerbates the impact of natural disasters, and the consequences of natural disasters compound gender inequality. States must introduce progressive taxation to finance the expansion of rights such as universal access to health care and education, and strengthen women’s resilience to natural hazards, including climate change. By Magdalena SepúlvedaGENEVA, Switzerland,