Articles

Sustainable development or developmental sustainability: Two cases of indigenous knowledge and practices for sustainable sourcing for wood-based design-solutions

Elsevier,

Trees, Forests and People, Volume 8, June 2022

Sustainable wood-based design solutions necessarily presuppose economically, socially, and environmentally reliable sources of wood use for any future designs. However, increasingly unsustainable effects from climate extremity are now prompting the search for alternative forms of use that avoid or forestall those effects.
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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Sustainable tourism; Indigenous Knowledge, Africa

United States and United Nations pesticide policies: Environmental violence against the Yaqui indigenous nation

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 10, June 2022

A Health Policy paper on the health impacts of banned pesticides in the Yaqui population in Mexico, in the context of SDGs 3, 10, and 12, highlighting recommendations for system-level solutions and policy change to current US, UN, and global laws.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Chemicals and waste; Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing; Sustainable consumption and production, South America

A unified heuristic approach to simultaneously detect fusarium and ergot damage in wheat

Elsevier,

Measurement: Food,
Volume 7,
2022,
100043

Wheat is a major staple food in many diets worldwide. Authors identify a rapid and robust method for identifying fungi-infected damage to wheat crops, with the aim of reducing economic losses and hunger.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Health and wellbeing, Global

Assessment of Urban Water-Energy Interactions and Heat Island Signatures in Rhode Island

Elsevier,

Energy Nexus,
Volume 7,
2022,
100093

Rhode Island is the smallest and the second-most densely populated state in the USA. It is also one of the most severely affected states on the Eastern Seaboard due to Climate Change.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Sustainable cities and human settlements, North America

Meat substitutes - past, present, and future of products available in Brazil: changes in the nutritional profile

Elsevier, Future Foods, Volume 5, June 2022
Plant-based meat substitutes are products used to replace meat in the human diet. These products have developed from traditional whole-grain meat substitutes to products based on an advanced technology called 2nd generation meat substitutes. Increased market visibility of 2nd generation products raised questions about the products´ healthiness once they are classified by NOVA as ultra-processed, are allegedly high in salt and saturated fat, and might not be nutritionally equivalent to meat.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, South America

The relationship between employment and health for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds: A systematic review of quantitative studies

Elsevier, SSM - Population Health, Volume 18, June 2022
This article ties to SDG 3. This review aimed to systematically summarise the quantitative literature on the relationship between employment and health and wellbeing for refugees and asylum seekers.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Global

Indigenous mental health and climate change: A systematic literature review

Elsevier,

The Journal of Climate Change and Health,
Volume 6,
2022,
100121

The present study conducted a systematic literature review on the related effects, mechanisms of vulnerability, and adaptive responses and coping strategies to climate change related mental health impacts specific to global Indigenous Peoples.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

Safety, tolerability, and anti-fibrotic efficacy of the CBP/β-catenin inhibitor PRI-724 in patients with hepatitis C and B virus-induced liver cirrhosis: An investigator-initiated, open-label, non-randomised, multicentre, phase 1/2a study

Elsevier,

eBioMedicine, Volume 80, June 2022

This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and anti-fibrotic effects of PRI-724 in patients with cirrhosis due to hepatitis B virus and hepatitis B virus, for which there is currently no anti-fibrotic drug therapy available; PRI-724 was well tolerated but further evaluation of its anti-fibrotic effects is warranted.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Asia

Unconventional food plants: Nutritional aspects and perspectives for industrial applications

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Elsevier,

Future Foods, Volume 5, June 2022

Innovative food products containing new ingredients have been designed to meet nutritional needs and new consumption trends. In this way, different vegetable species, named unconventional food plants (UFPs), are being studied in the literature and are emerging as candidates to provide foods containing a better composition, providing greater healthiness. Furthermore, specific vegetable tissues discarded in post-harvest and/or industrial pre-processing operations can be considered UFPs adequate for human consumption.

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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Economic Aspect, South America

Systematic review of reviews on Activities of Daily Living measures for children with developmental disabilities

Elsevier,

Heliyon, Volume 8, June 2022

This systematic review aims to identify articles that systematically reviewed measures of ADL for children and adolescents aged 7–18 years with DD to evaluate the quality of included articles, and describe the measures and domains identified.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Europe

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