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Philippe J. Giabbanelli and Grace MacEwan
The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia suggested that a paradigm shift from weight to well-being could address the unintended consequences of focusing on obesity and improve the outcomes of efforts to address the challenges f...
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Alexandros Skondras, Eleni Karachaliou, Ioannis Tavantzis, Nikolaos Tokas, Elena Valari, Ifigeneia Skalidi, Giovanni Augusto Bouvet and Efstratios Stylianidis
In the past few decades, the management of urban spaces with appropriate tools has been in constant discussion due to the plethora of new technologies that have emerged for participatory planning, drone mapping, photogrammetry and 3D modeling. In a multi...
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Ira Puspitasari, Shukor Sanim Mohd Fauzi and Cheng-Yuan Ho
Participatory medicine and e-health help to promote health literacy among non-medical professionals. Users of e-health systems actively participate in a patient social network system (PSNS) to share health information and experiences with other users wit...
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Mostapha Harb, Matthias Garschagen, Davide Cotti, Elke Krätzschmar, Hayet Baccouche, Karem Ben Khaled, Felicitas Bellert, Bouraoui Chebil, Anis Ben Fredj, Sonia Ayed, Himanshu Shekhar and Michael Hagenlocher
Current rapid urbanization trends in developing countries present considerable challenges to local governments, potentially hindering efforts towards sustainable urban development. To effectively anticipate the challenges posed by urbanization, participa...
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Pankaj Kumar, Brian Alan Johnson, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Ram Avtar, Shamik Chakraborty, Masayuki Kawai and Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog
Due to the cumulative effects of rapid urbanization, population growth and climate change, many inland and coastal water bodies around the world are experiencing severe water pollution. To help make land-use and climate change adaptation policies more ef...
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Laura Forni, Marisa Escobar, Pablo Cello, Marta Marizza, Gustavo Nadal, Leonidas Girardin, Fernando Losano, Lisandro Bucciarelli, Charles Young and David Purkey
Water scientists often find themselves interacting with decision-makers with varying levels of technical background. The sustainable management of water resources is complex by nature, and future conditions are highly uncertain, requiring modeling approa...
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William?s Daré, Jean-Philippe Venot, Christophe Le Page and Aaron Aduna
This paper is a reflexive analysis of a three-year participatory water research project conducted in the Upper East Region (UER) of Ghana, whose explicit objective was to initiate a multi-level dialogue to support the national Integrated Water Resources ...
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Loretta Singletary, Kelley Sterle
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Assessing the drought resilience of snow-fed river dependent communities in the arid Western United States has taken on critical importance in response to changing climatic conditions. The process of assessing drought resiliency involves understanding th...
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Danika Holmes, Jamie McEvoy, Jean L. Dixon and Scott Payne
Across the globe, climate change is projected to affect the quantity, quality, and timing of freshwater availability. In western North America, there has been a shift toward earlier spring runoff and more winter precipitation as rain. This raises questio...
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Yusuyunjiang Mamitimin, Til Feike and Reiner Doluschitz
Water pricing is regarded as the most important and simplest economic instrument to encourage more efficient use of irrigation water in crop production. In the extremely water-scarce Tarim River basin in northwest China, improving water use efficiency ha...
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