Articles

Multi-period hub location problem with serial demands: A case study of humanitarian aids distribution in Lebanon

Elsevier, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Volume 149, May 2021
In this paper, we address the problem of humanitarian aids distribution across refugee camps in war-ridden areas from a network design perspective. We show that the problem can be modeled as a variant of multi-period hub location problem with a particular demand pattern resulted by the user's behavior. The problem has been motivated by a case study of Lebanese experience in Syrian war refugee accommodation. We elaborate on the complexity and real-life constraints and, propose a compact formulation of a mathematical model of the problem.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Disaster risk reduction, Global

The Anthropocene reality of financial risk

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 4, 21 May 2021
Globally, financial services are well positioned to contribute to the transformation needed for sustainable futures and will be critical for supporting corporate activities that regenerate and promote biosphere resilience as a key strategy to confront the new risk landscape of the Anthropocene. While current financial risk frameworks focus primarily on financial materiality and risks to the financial sector, failure to account for investment externalities will aggravate climate and other environmental change and set current sustainable finance initiatives off course.
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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 15: Life on land

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Finance; Green economy, Global

Restoration of clean water supply and toilet hygiene reduces infectious diseases in post-disaster evacuation shelters: A multicenter observational study

Elsevier,

Heliyon, Volume 7, May 2021

After a massive disaster, many residents in affected areas are forced to temporarily stay in evacuation shelters. The exact impact of the state of resource supply and infrastructure in evacuation shelters on the health status of evacuees has not been sufficiently studied. Two weeks after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), comprehensive surveillance related to the health status and hygiene level was performed for all evacuation shelters (328 shelters with 46,480 evacuees at the peak) in one of the most devastating medical zones after the tsunami hit the area (Ishinomaki City).

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights; Water and sanitation; Earthquakes, Global

Building the sustainable city through Twitter: Creative skilled migrants and innovative technology use

Elsevier,

Telematics and Informatics, Volume 58, May 2021

We investigate the role of creative skilled migrants in broadcasting an alternative use of technology in support of a sustainable smart city. We do so by analyzing the themes they produced on Twitter. We focus on Amsterdam as a case, and urban planners and designers as examples of creative migrants. Computational methodology allowed for a selection of naturally occurring data in social media.

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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Tags:

Data & Analytics; Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Migrants, Global

Impact of remote prenatal education on program participation and breastfeeding of women in rural and remote Indigenous communities

Elsevier,

EClinicalMedicine, Volume 35, May 2021

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing how a remote prenatal education package aimed at First Nations pregnant women in Manitoba, Canada, was able to increase prenatal programme participation and breastfeeding initiation in this community. The study shows that such a programme is feasible and effective and can be a useful supplement to existing prenatal programmes in such communities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and population; Diversity and inclusion, North America

Is there an association between fertility and domestic violence in Nepal?

Elsevier, AJOG Global Reports, Volume 1, May 2021
Newly married women in Nepal experience increasing levels of violence over time. Intimate partner violence was positively associated with recent pregnancy and childbirth.
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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 wellbeing, Asia

Response of bay ostracod assemblages to Late Holocene sea-level, centennial-scale climate, and human-induced factors in northeast Beppu Bay, Japan

Elsevier,

Marine Micropaleontology, Volume 165, May 2021

Ostracod assemblages near the boundary between land and sea have been affected by multiple complex factors, such as regional climate and depositional and human-induced processes during the Late Holocene.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 14: Life below water
Asia

Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

Elsevier,

The Lancet, Volume 397, 8 May 2021

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing that some minority ethnic populations in England have excess risks of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of adverse COVID-19 outcomes compared with the White population, even after accounting for differences in sociodemographic, clinical, and household characteristics.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and population; Diversity and inclusion, Europe

Innovative recovered water process implementation: Flocculation-sedimentation-filtration process for addressing water and energy nexus challenges at Kemper IGCC Power Plant

Elsevier,

Energy Nexus, Volume 1, 2021, 100007

Addressing Water-energy nexus issues at Kemper IGCC Power Plant.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Tags:

Energy; Water and sanitation, Global

Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future

Elsevier, Joule, Volume 5, 19 May 2021
Thanks to fast learning and sustained growth, solar photovoltaics (PV) is today a highly cost-competitive technology, ready to contribute substantially to CO2 emissions mitigation. However, many scenarios assessing global decarbonization pathways, either based on integrated assessment models or partial-equilibrium models, fail to identify the key role that this technology could play, including far lower future PV capacity than that projected by the PV community.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Global; Energy, Global

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