Women political empowerment and vulnerability to climate change: evidence from 169 countries
This article analyzed the effect of the political empowerment of women on vulnerability to climate change in 169 countries for the period 1995–2017.
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Atlas of Demography
The Atlas of Demography is a new interactive knowledge management tool that enables policy-makers and citizens to observe, monitor and anticipate demographic challenges. It aims at informing several policy areas - such as health, labour, education, access to services and amenities, territorial and cohesion policies, to name a few - with timely, robust, comparable demographic data and knowledge at the finest level of geographical detail (down to the level of a single municipality).
Atlas of the Human Planet 2020
The 2020 edition of the Atlas of the Human Planet presents policy-relevant examples provided by users of Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) products. Following a call for contribution, 34 showcases cover the domains of disaster risk reduction and crisis management, environment, urbanisation, and sustainable development.
Risk of extreme high fatalities due to weather and climate hazards and its connection to large-scale climate variability
In this study, a disaster database is used to investigate continentally aggregated fatality data for trends as well as examine whether modes of climate variability affect the propensity of fatalities. Furthermore, the fatality risk is quantified by computing effective return periods which depend on modes of climate variability.
Effect of border policy on exposure and vulnerability to climate change
With migration increasingly used as an adaptation solution to climate change, this paper investigates how border policy, a key influence on international migration flows, affects exposure and vulnerability to climate change impacts.
Future of the human climate niche
The authors demonstrate how humans have resided, for millennia, in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT).
Disarray in global governance and climate change chaos
The paper reviews the trajectory of climate change and the limitations of ongoing efforts to deal with it, discusses the environmental risks stemming from global governance disruptions plus disenchantment with globalization and, finally, considers potential pathways and obstacles to the resolution of the current quandary.
Opinion: To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past
The authors argue that if we are to create migration policies that balance the human rights of migrants with the security concerns of host populations, we will need evidence based answers to addressquestions such as whether the unprecedented level of migration is unsustainable, and that these migrants threaten the host's way of life.
Socio-ecological Mobility: A Research Strategy for a New Coastline
In this paper, the authors provide direction and initiates scientific dialog on the potential role of mobility in adapting to natural and social changes in coastal environments. They also identified four key research areas on information needed to develop coastal management actions and policies that support and recognize socio-ecological coupling in coastal areas.
Fleeing Mass Starvation: What we (don’t) know about the famine-migration nexus
In this paper, the dominant hypotheses and findings about the connection between famine and migration is surveyed. It then delineates key questions that an inter-disciplinary and case-based study of the subject should address, highlighting gaps in the literature’s attention to population-level analyses.
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