Listar por tema "vulnerability"
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Circular economy. The Greek industry leaders’ way towards a transformational shift
(2020)Circular Economy (CE) has caught the eye of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Τhe discussion so far seems to touch mainly the meso and macro level, while investigations on implementation issues regard mainly ... -
Determination of fire risk to assist fire management for insular areas: the case of a small Greek island
(2019)Forest fire risk estimation constitutes an essential process to prevent high-intensity fires which are associated with severe implications to the natural and cultural environment. The primary aim of this research was to ... -
Economic Integration and Vulnerability in the EU Neighbourhood
(2015)In 2004, the EU launched the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), a unified policy framework towards its neighbours in the external EU periphery, aiming at strengthening prosperity, stability and security around its ... -
Estimates of covid-19 risk factors among social strata and predictors for a vulnerability to the infection
(2021)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a potentially severe disease, especially for individuals presenting with certain underlying medical conditions. We analyzed the rates of comorbidities and symptoms to ... -
Estimating the Water Resources Vulnerability Index in the Adriatic Sea Region
(2016)The Adriatic Sea countries face significant problems regarding cross-border water resources management. DRINKADRIA project aims at developing a common methodological framework, for efficient and effective cross border water ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of climate change adaptations in the world's largest Mangrove Ecosystem
(2019)The Sundarbans is the world's largest coastal river delta and the largest uninterrupted mangrove ecosystem. A complex socio-ecological setting, coupled with disproportionately high climate-change exposure and severe ... -
Health shocks and natural resource extraction: A Cambodian case study
(2020)Health shocks are common and have serious consequences for the rural poor in developing countries. In this study, we examine the impact of health shocks of household members on the household's vulnerability to poverty. We ... -
A hierarchical multilevel approach in assessing factors explaining country-level climate change vulnerability
(2020)Assessing vulnerability is key in the planning of climate change adaptation policies and, more importantly, in determining actions increasing resilience across different locations. This study presents the results of a ... -
Inmate cancer patient - Highlighting the importance of a holistic approach to oncological care
(2021)Purpose: Inmate oncologic patients' rates increased drastically worldwide. Elderly, limited exercise, unhealthy diet, hepatitis, HIV + status, tobacco and alcohol use, constitute the main cancer risk factors. We present ... -
Multiple Transient Faults in Combinational Logic with Placement Considerations
(2019)Integrated circuit susceptibility to radiation-induced faults remains a major reliability concern. The continuous downscaling of device feature size and the reduction in supply voltage in CMOS technology tend to worsen the ... -
Remotely Sensed Methodologies for Crop Water Availability and Requirements in Precision Farming of Vulnerable Agriculture
(2019)Agriculture is mainly impacted by water availability. Differences in climate conditions and the appearance of severe events, like droughts, has a significant imprint on local, regional and global agricultural productivity. ... -
Repeated antigen-based rapid diagnostic testing for estimating the coronavirus disease 2019 prevalence from the perspective of the workers’ vulnerability before and during the lockdown
(2021)Background: No previous study has investigated the SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and the changes in the proportion of positive results due to lockdown measures from the angle of workers’ vulnerability to coronavirus in Greece. Two ... -
Transmission dynamics of sars-cov-2 during an outbreak in a roma community in thessaly, greece—control measures and lessons learned
(2021)A COVID-19 outbreak occurred among residents of a Roma settlement in Greece (8 April– 4 June 2020). The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with an increased risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome ... -
Water resources vulnerability assessment in the Adriatic Sea region: the case of Corfu Island
(2017)Cross-border water resources management and protection is a complicated task to achieve, lacking a common methodological framework. Especially in the Adriatic region, water used for drinking water supply purposes pass from ...