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Ioannis Anestis, Elias Pipinis, Stefanos Kostas, Eleftherios Karapatzak, Eleftherios Dariotis, Veroniki Paradeisopoulou, Vasileios Greveniotis, Georgios Tsoktouridis, Stefanos Hatzilazarou and Nikos Krigas
The ex situ conservation and sustainable exploitation of neglected or underutilized plant species (NUPs) is an urgent and vital endeavor. To this end, we focused on Petromarula pinnata (Campanulaceae), a vulnerable local plant endemic to Crete (Greece) t...
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Daniel L. Mendoza, Erik T. Crosman, Corbin Anderson and Shawn A. Gonzales
The combination of extreme heat waves and ozone pollution is a major health hazard for urban populations in the summertime, particularly for the most sensitive groups such as children, the elderly, the unsheltered, and those with pre-existing health cond...
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José Francisco León-Cruz, David Romero and Hugo Ignacio Rodríguez-García
The spatial and temporal changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards in Mexico are analyzed. To this end, using census data from 2000, 2010, and 2020, and a statistical method, different indices were computed, and with a GIS-based approach, patter...
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Linda Petutschnig, Thomas Clemen, E. Sophia Klaußner, Ulfia Clemen and Stefan Lang
International policy and humanitarian guidance emphasize the need for precise, subnational malaria risk assessments with cross-regional comparability. Spatially explicit indicator-based assessments can support humanitarian aid organizations in identifyin...
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Israel Edem Agbehadji, Stefanie Schütte, Muthoni Masinde, Joel Botai and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
Early warning systems (EWS) facilitate societies? preparedness and effective response capabilities to climate risks. Climate risks embody hazards, exposure, and vulnerability associated with a particular geographical area. Building an effective EWS requi...
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Hye-In Ho, Chae-Hong Park, Kyeong-Eun Yoo, Nan-Young Kim and Soon-Jin Hwang
Eutrophic freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to toxin-producing cyanobacteria growth or harmful algal blooms. Cyanobacteria belonging to the Nostocales order form akinetes that are similar to the seeds of vascular plants, which are resting cells surrou...
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Zeenat Kotval-K, Annabelle Wilkinson, Andy Brush and Eva Kassens-Noor
Residents in small urban and rural areas frequently depend on unreliable personal transportation to maintain their lifestyle and get to essential destinations within their society. Especially, vulnerable populations, such as seniors and low-income reside...
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Kevin Cresswell, Diana Mitsova, Weibo Liu, Maria Fadiman and Tobin Hindle
Urbanization and warming climate suggest that health impacts from extreme heat will increase in cities, thus locating vulnerable populations is pivotal. However, heat vulnerability indices (HVI) overwhelmingly interpret one model that may be inaccurate o...
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Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Linda Kimsey and Hani Samawi
This paper examines the efficacy of telemedicine (TM) technology compared to traditional face-to-face (F2F) visits as an alternative healthcare delivery service for managing diabetes in populations residing in urban medically underserved areas (UMUPAs). ...
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Bradley Bereitschaft
Walkable and transit-accessible neighborhoods that may offer residents numerous health, social, and economic benefits are, in many places, becoming increasingly exclusive. This equity-mapping analysis sought to determine whether socially vulnerable (SV) ...
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