Pelayo Menéndez, Íñigo J. Losada, Saúl Torres-Ortega, Siddharth Narayan et al.
Coastal flood risks are rising rapidly. We provide high resolution estimates of the economic value of mangroves forests for flood risk reduction every 20 km worldwide. We develop a probabilistic, process-based valuation of the effects of mangroves on averting damages to people and property. We coupl...
Tanjena Rume, S. M. Didar-Ul Islam
The global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting every part of human lives, including the physical world. The measures taken to control the spread of the virus and the slowdown of economic activities have significant effects on the environment. Therefore, this study intends to...
Shamsuddin Shahid, Houshang Behrawan
Heidi Kreibich, Anne F. Van Loon, Kai Schröter, Philip J. Ward et al.
Abstract Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally 1,2 , yet their impacts are still increasing 3 . An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data 4,5 . On the basis of a global datase...
Andrew A. Meharg, Gareth J. Norton, Claire Deacon, Paul N. Williams et al.
Cereal grains are the dominant source of cadmium in the human diet, with rice being to the fore. Here we explore the effect of geographic, genetic, and processing (milling) factors on rice grain cadmium and rice consumption rates that lead to dietary variance in cadmium intake. From a survey of 12 c...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Rajarathnam Dharmarajan, Prasath Annamalai et al.
Pesticides play a pivotal role in controlling pests and disease infestations not only in urban agriculture but also in non-agricultural settings. Several pesticides like herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc. are applied unintentionally at higher concentrations even in small urban ...
Alexandre Magnan, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Maxine Burkett, Sukaina Bharwani et al.
This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance the field by offering an improved conceptual understanding and more practice‐oriented insights. It notably highlights fou...
Christine Jost, Florence Birungi Kyazze, Jesse B. Naab, Sharmind Neelormi et al.
In Uganda, Ghana and Bangladesh, participatory tools were used for a socio-economic and gender analysis of three topics: climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate analogue approaches, and climate and weather forecasting. Policy and programme-relevant results were obtained. Smallholders are changing a...
Chandra Giri, Zhiliang Zhu, Larry L. Tieszen, Ajay Singh et al.
Abstract Aim We aimed to estimate the present extent of tsunami‐affected mangrove forests and determine the rates and causes of deforestation from 1975 to 2005. Location Our study region covers the tsunami‐affected coastal areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Bangladesh, India an...
G. M. Monirul Alam, Khorshed Alam, Shahbaz Mushtaq
Adaptation is a key strategy that can alleviate the severity of climate change impacts on agriculture and food production. Adaptation strategies are unlikely to be effective without an understanding of the farmers’ perceptions of climate change. This paper explores the local knowledge of adaptation ...
Ann Varley
The Exceptional and the Everyday - Vulnerability Analysis in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction Vulnerability Analysis and the Explanation of Natural Disasters Peru's 500-Year Earthquake - Vulnerability in Historical Context Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters in Central Amer...
James A Platts-Mills, Jie Liu, Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade, Furqan Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Optimum management of childhood diarrhoea in low-resource settings has been hampered by insufficient data on aetiology, burden, and associated clinical characteristics. We used quantitative diagnostic methods to reassess and refine estimates of diarrhoea aetiology from the Etiology, Risk...
Jamie K. Reaser, Laura A. Meyerson, Quentin Cronk, Maj De Poorter et al.
Minimizing the impact of invasive alien species (IAS) on islands and elsewhere requires researchers to provide cogent information on the environmental and socioeconomic consequences of IAS to the public and policy makers. Unfortunately, this information has not been readily available owing to a pauc...
Atanu Kumar Das, Md. Nazrul Islam, Md Morsaline Billah, A.K. Sarker
Healthcare waste comprises the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities. Improper treatment of this waste poses serious risks of disease transmission to waste pickers, waste workers, health workers, patients, and the community in general throu...
HV Hogerzeil, Bimo, Dennis Ross‐Degnan, Richard Laing et al.
Increasing efforts are being made to improve drug-use practices and prescribing behaviour in developing countries. An essential tool for such work is an objective and standard method of assessment. We present here a set of drug-use indicators produced and tested in twelve developing countries. We de...