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Machine learning analysis of non-marital sexual violence in India

Elsevier, EClinicalMedicine, Volume 39, September 2021
This Research Paper supports SDGs 5 and 10 by applying machine learning techniques to understand gender-based violence in contexts with low prevalence data, offering insight into factors associated with non-marital sexual violence in India.
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SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Technology, Asia

Changes in healthy and unhealthy working-life expectancy over the period 2002–17: a population-based study in people aged 51–65 years in 14 OECD countries

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Boissonneault, M. and Rios, P., 2021. Changes in healthy and unhealthy working-life expectancy over the period 2002–17: a population-based study in people aged 51–65 years in 14 OECD countries. The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2(10), pp.e629-e638.

This study supports SDGs 3 and 8 by estimating the healthy and unhealthy working-life expectancy in 14 countries between 2002 and 2017. The study used cross-sectional data from surveys on ageing. Across all countries, increases in the number of years working were accompanied by an increased number of unhealthy working years, most frequently due to hypertension or arthritis.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

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Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Life Expectancy, Global

A timely call to establish an international convention on the rights of older people

Elsevier, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 2, September 2021
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Considering climate and conflict conditions together to improve interventions that prevent child acute malnutrition

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, September 2021

A Personal View in support of SDGs 1, 2, and 13, describing how use of quantitative data can support targeted interventions for nutrition resiliency and suggesting actions that can help to prevent acute malnutrition in the context of worsening climate and conflict conditions.
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SDG:

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 13: Climate action

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

Mitigating climate change must be a priority for public health

Elsevier,

The Lancet Public Health, Volume 6, September 2021

An Editorial on the importance of mitigating climate change, in the context of SDGs 3 and 16, calling for urgent governmental action to achieve climate justice.
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SDG:

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

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Health and wellbeing; Climate Change, Global

Environmental impact of bioplastic use: A review

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Heliyon, Volume 7, September 2021

This review compared the effects between bioplastics compared to conventional plastics. It found that bioplastics caused less harm and will help policymakers to determine whether bioplastics is beneficial to the environment.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action

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Green economy, Global

Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM<inf>2·5</inf> pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations

Elsevier, The Lancet. Planetary health, Volume 5, 1 September 2021
BACKGROUND: Many regions of the world are now facing more frequent and unprecedentedly large wildfires. However, the association between wildfire-related PM2·5 and mortality has not been well characterised. We aimed to comprehensively assess the association between short-term exposure to wildfire-related PM2·5 and mortality across various regions of the world. METHODS: For this time series study, data on daily counts of deaths for all causes, cardiovascular causes, and respiratory causes were collected from 749 cities in 43 countries and regions during 2000-16.
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SDG:

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

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Disaster risk reduction; Health and population, Global

Coexistence of large mammals and humans is possible in Europe's anthropogenic landscapes

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 24, 24 September 2021
A critical question in the conservation of large mammals in the Anthropocene is to know the extent to which they can tolerate human disturbance. Surprisingly, little quantitative data is available about large-scale effects of human activity and land use on their broad scale distribution in Europe. In this study, we quantify the relative importance of human land use and protected areas as opposed to biophysical constraints on large mammal distribution.
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SDG:

Goal 15: Life on land

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Biodiversity and ecosystems, Global

The need for a portfolio of solutions rooted in common messaging to facilitate negative emissions science

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 24, 24 September 2021
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

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Industry; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

Monitoring global land-use efficiency in the context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Elsevier,

Habitat International, Volume 115, September 2021

Tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires monitoring of various social-ecological indicators over space and time, including the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate (LCRPGR), an indicator of land-use efficiency (SDG 11.3.1). In this study, we analyzed state-of-the-art Earth observation data (1975–2015) to address three key questions. First, how has the LCRPGR varied over space and time? Second, how is built-up expansion related to population increase across regions?

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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 15: Life on land

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Rural development; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Land Use Planning, Global

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