Drylands are arid and semi-arid areas whose main feature is their low level of precipitation.
They cover nearly half of Earth's land surface and are distributed worldwide, constituting the …

Seasonality is a critical source of vulnerability across most human activities and natural
processes, including the underlying and immediate drivers of acute malnutrition. However …

This series presents some of the finest and most innovative work coming out of the current
landscapes of international and global historical scholarship. Grounded in empirical …

This study investigates the impact of the October 2016 flash floods in urban areas located in
selected catchments along the Nile Valley and Red Sea regions for the assessment and the …

水资源是干旱区生态环境最主要的限制性因子和重要组成部分. 干旱区人口和经济规模的膨胀,
导致生产, 生活用水不断挤占生态环境用水, 部分地区水资源开发利用甚至严重超过了最大极限 …

In this report, the WBGU explains the reasons for the desperate need for a post-fossil
economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustainability is achievable, and …

Background: Understanding seasonal patterns in nutritional status is critical for achieving
and tracking global nutrition goals. However, the majority of nutrition seasonality research …

Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes
to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life forms? Deserts are remarkable …

Most off-the-shelf basic methodological tools currently used in pastoral development (eg
technical definitions and conventional scales of observation) retain underlying assumptions …

In the aftermath of World War II, many internationalists diagnosed the fundamental cause of
international conflict as humanity's failure to realize the ideals of a world community …