Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics

AS Bernstein, AW Ando, T Loch-Temzelides… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

CJ Carlson, GF Albery, C Merow, CH Trisos, CM Zipfel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
At least 10,000 virus species have the ability to infect humans but, at present, the vast
majority are circulating silently in wild mammals,. However, changes in climate and land use …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease

MB Mahon, A Sack, OA Aleuy, C Barbera, E Brown… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic change is contributing to the rise in emerging infectious diseases, which are
significantly correlated with socioeconomic, environmental and ecological factors. Studies …

Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research

M Sigala - Journal of business research, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper aims to critically review past and emerging literature to help professionals and
researchers alike to better understand, manage and valorize both the tourism impacts and …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses

H Zhou, J Ji, X Chen, Y Bi, J Li, Q Wang, T Hu, H Song… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the discovery of animal coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2, the evolutionary
origins of this virus are elusive. We describe a meta-transcriptomic study of 411 bat samples …

Pandemics, transformations and tourism:: Be Careful what you wish for

CM Hall, D Scott, S Gössling - Global Tourism and COVID-19, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Disease outbreaks and pandemics have long played a role in societal and economic
change. However, the nature of such change is selective, meaning that it is sometimes …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …