Articles

Future-proofing insect diversity

Elsevier,

Current Opinion in Insect Science, Volume 12, 1 December 2015

Strategies are urgently required to ensure long term maintenance of current levels of global insect diversity. Yet insect diversity is huge and immensely complex, with many species and individuals making up an important part of compositional and functional biodiversity worldwide. As only a fifth of all insects have been scientifically described, we have the task of conserving largely what is unknown. Inevitably, this means that there are various challenges and shortfalls to address when we aim to future-proof insect diversity.

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SDG:

Goal 15: Life on land; Goal 13: Climate action

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Insects, Global

The impact of CO2 emissions and economic growth on energy consumption in 58 countries

Elsevier,

Energy Reports, Volume 1, 1 November 2015

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of economic growth and CO2 emissions on energy consumption for a global panel of 58 countries using dynamic panel data model estimated by means of the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) for the period 1990-2012. We also estimate this relationship for three regional panels; namely, from Europe and North Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan, North African and Middle Eastern. The empirical evidence indicates significant positive impact of CO2 emissions on energy consumption for four global panels.

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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

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Energy; Sustainable consumption and production; Economic Growth, Global

Present and future caloric refrigeration and heat-pump technologies

Elsevier, International Journal of Refrigeration, Volume 57, 1 October 2015
In recent years, several emerging technologies in the domain of solid-state physics have been investigated as serious alternatives for future refrigeration, heat pumping, air conditioning, or even power generation applications. These technologies relate to what is called caloric energy conversion, i.e., barocalorics, electrocalorics, magnetocalorics, and elastocalorics. Of these technologies, the greatest progress has been observed in the domain of magnetic refrigeration.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action

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Sustainable consumption and production; Technology, Global

Displaced Children: The psychological implications

Elsevier,

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Volume 24, 1 October 2015

This article ties to SDG 3. This article studied the responses to displacement in the context of child development
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

On the impact of early marriage on schooling outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 44, September 01, 2015
This paper examines the effect of age of marriage on women's schooling outcomes for 36 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia. We employ an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of early marriage driven by socio-economic and cultural factors. Our results show that delaying early marriage by one year is associated with an increase of half a year of education in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly one third of a year of education in South West Asia as well as a lower likelihood of dropping out from secondary school of 5.5% in South West Asia.
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SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Education; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Poverty eradication, Africa, Asia

Phase change materials and thermal energy storage for buildings

Elsevier,

Energy and Buildings, Volume 103, 15 September 2015

It is well known that there is a need to develop technologies to achieve thermal comfort in buildings lowering the cooling and heating demand. Research has shown that thermal energy storage (TES) is a way to do so, but also other purposes can be pursued when using TES in buildings, such as peak shaving or increase of energy efficiency in HVAC systems. This paper reviews TES in buildings using sensible, latent heat and thermochemical energy storage.

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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Energy; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production; Technology; Thermal Comfort; Thermal Energy, Global

Global Surgery 2030: Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development

Elsevier, The Lancet, Volume 386, 8 August 2015
Remarkable gains have been made in global health in the past 25 years, but progress has not been uniform. Mortality and morbidity from common conditions needing surgery have grown in the world's poorest regions, both in real terms and relative to other health gains. At the same time, development of safe, essential, life-saving surgical and anaesthesia care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) has stagnated or regressed.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and population, Global

Does raising maize yields lead to poverty reduction? A case study of the Massive Food Production Programme in South Africa

Elsevier, Land Use Policy, Volume 46, July 01, 2015
Despite much policy attention to agricultural development in South Africa, efforts since democratisation have failed to raise smallholder engagement in agriculture and to break the trend of persistent rural poverty. This paper presents results from a study of the Massive Food Production Programme (MFPP) in three villages in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The MFPP aimed to reduce poverty by raising maize yields.
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SDG:

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 2: Zero hunger

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Poverty eradication, Africa

Therapeutic landscapes and wellbeing in later life: Impacts of blue and green spaces for older adults

Elsevier, Health and Place, Volume 34, July 01, 2015
This paper extends the concept of therapeutic landscapes by investigating how green and blue spaces affect older adult health and wellbeing. We draw on interview data from participants aged 65-86 years old who described their everyday experiences with green and especially blue spaces across Metro Vancouver, Canada. Landscapes embedded with therapeutic qualities included parks, gardens, street greenery, lakes, and the ocean. Interactions with these spaces influenced participants' perceived physical, mental, and social health.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and population, Global

Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in anInuit community

Elsevier, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 136-137, July 01, 2015
This paper contributes to the literature on Indigenous health, human dimensions of climate change, and place-based dimensions of health by examining the role of environment for Inuit health in the context of a changing climate. We investigated the relationship between one key element of the environment - sea ice - and diverse aspects of health in an Inuit community in northern Canada, drawing on population health and health geography approaches. We used a case study design and participatory and collaborative approach with the community of Nain in northern Labrador, Canada.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

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Health and population, North America

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