This paper addresses an important challenge for future earth system governance: how to ensure that governance norms that emerge from inter-state negotiations foster equity and sustainability at all levels from the local to the global. I look back on two decades of global climate change governance to clarify how norms can structure access to global public goods and the allocation of responsibili...

Early and decisive measures successfully prevented an outbreak of COVID-19 in Nauru, as January 2022 there have been no cases on the island. Strong pandemic policy supported economy, which continued to expand FY20 FY21. Nauru’s remoteness size constrain potential growth it is severely exposed negative effects climate change sea levels ocean stock tuna. Development challenges are exacerbated by ...

Ten dwuczęściowy artykuł konsoliduje fakty dotyczące polisemii z zakresu psycholingwistyki oraz leksykografii teoretycznej i obliczeniowej prezentuje wyniki badań ilościowych jakościowych przeprowadzonych na dużym zbiorze danych polisemicznych w języku polskim, podstawie których proponujemy uszczegółowioną klasyfikację opracowujemy poszerzone spektrum podobieństwa sensów słów wieloznacznych. W ...

Epermenia sinjovi Gaedike, 1993, a species with hitherto westernmost known occurrence in Central Siberia, is recorded from the European Alps (Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany). Its identification based on DNA barcodes morphological characteristics. The probability of recent introduction considered as very low due to remoteness wild nature habitat, it seems likely that was previously over-loo...

BACKGROUND People living in rural and remote locations are disadvantaged in accessing palliative care. This can be attributed to several factors including the role diversity and the low numbers of patients with specific conditions, as well as the difficulties rural health practitioners have in accessing opportunities for professional education. A program of multidisciplinary palliative care vid...

Maternal depression and anxiety represent risk factors for the quality of early mother-preterm infant interactions, especially in the case of preterm birth. Despite the presence of many studies on this topic, the comorbidity of depressive and anxious symptoms has not been sufficiently investigated, as well as their relationship with the severity of prematurity and the quality of early interacti...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the previously reported urban-rural differential in prostate cancer survival remains after adjusting for demographic and clinical factors, and to investigate temporal trends in this differential. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective population-based survival analysis of 68 686 men diagnosed with prostate cancer from January 1982 to December 2007 in Ne...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to define an improved classification for allocating incentives to support the recruitment and retention of doctors in rural Australia. DESIGN AND SETTING Geo-coded data (n = 3636 general practitioners (GPs)) from the national Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life study were used to examine statistical variation in four professional indi...