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Modelling six sustainable development transformations in Australia and their accelerators, impediments, enablers, and interlinkages
Global research has identified six critical transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Here, Allen et al model all six transformations in a national context and discuss implications for accelerating progress on the goals.
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A scoping review of the impacts of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on vulnerable population groups
Physical distancing measures introduced to control the spread of COVID-19 had socio-economic trade-offs that may have particularly impacted vulnerable population groups. Here, the authors perform a scoping review and summarise the impacts on different vulnerable groups described in 265 studies.
- Lili Li
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Resilience-by-Design and Resilience-by-Intervention in supply chains for remote and indigenous communities
Indigenous and remote communities face difficulties in times of supply chain disruption. Here the authors comment on challenges faced by the Tribal Population of Noepe (Martha’s Vineyard) and argue for the inclusion of Resilience-by-Design and Resilience-by-Intervention in supply chain management.
- Emerson Mahoney
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Modularity and composite diversity affect the collective gathering of information online
Here, the authors test the ability of groups to predict real world geopolitical events using online content, and provide evidence suggesting that group diversity helps forecasting ability as a function of group size.
- Niccolò Pescetelli
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The systemic and governmental agendas in presidential attention to climate change in Mexico 1994–2018
It is important to gain a better understanding on the contributing factors fostering climate action in developing countries. Here, the authors investigate the attention levels paid to this issue in the planning and implementation stages of climate policies in Mexico during 1994-2018, and find that international negotiations and executive governmental plans are strong drivers of the climate policy discourse in Mexico and likely to be so for developing countries more generally.
- Arturo Balderas Torres
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Novel data show expert wildlife agencies are important to endangered species protection
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires that federal agencies consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) or National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to ensure federal actions do not jeopardize the existence of listed species. Here, the authors analyze recorded from 2000–2017 and investigate the role of NMFS in the consultations.
- Michael J. Evans
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Assessing the Policy gaps for achieving China’s climate targets in the Paris Agreement
The extent to which China’s existing and forthcoming policies would lead to emission reductions domestically has not been well understood. Here the authors combined expert elicitation and a system dynamic model and showed that China is on track to peak its emissions well in advance of 2030.
- Kelly Sims Gallagher
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