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 E-Mail Herndon, Va. (February 25, 2021) - Climate services are vital tools for decision makers addressing climate change in developing countries. Science-based seasonal forecasts and accompanying materials can support climate risk management in agriculture, health, water management, energy, and disaster risk reduction. But in East Africa, natural resource managers have been slow to use climate information services, partly because they are difficult to understand and may not feel relevant for ...

Insurance policy premiums from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) allow policyholders to maintain a lower, grandfathered rate even when the risk escalates. But as coastal flooding increases due to rising sea level and more intense storms, new research published in the journal

Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Yemen about Disaster Management, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 11 Mar 2021

Sin Taxes – a soft target that does more harm than good - Biznews 23 February 2021 - The argument for sin taxes is frequently made. Arguments against sin taxes, however, are rarely discussed, and never feature in the National Treasury’s budget speeches. At first glance sin taxes make sense… The taxed items aren’t essentials and increasing the price of unhealthy substances should reduce their appeal. Ivo Vegter from the Daily Friend delves a little deeper into the most popular indulgence...

At first glance sin taxes make sense… The taxed items aren’t essentials and increasing the price of unhealthy substances should reduce their appeal. Ivo Vegter from the Daily Friend delves a little deeper into the most popular indulgences around the world and finds that, in South Africa, sin taxes might not be that simple. During one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, the country was a revealing test case for what happens when cigarettes and alcohol are banned outright. A black market...

 E-Mail Globalization, digitalization, sustainabilization - three major waves of transformation are unfolding around the world. The social upheaval caused by these transformation processes has given rise to populist movements that endanger social harmony and threaten democratic values. What rules and institutions can promote stability in the face of such systemic risks? A new study published by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) offers some surprising answers. The coro...

Special issue delves into global polio eradication efforts and modeling Launched in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands out as one of the largest, internationally coordinated global public health major projects conducted to date, with cumulative spending of over $16.5 billion for 1988-2018, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More than 30 years later, stubborn outbreaks of wild poliovirus still occur in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where cases have been increa...

© Getty Images Washington’s attention has rightfully turned to the trading frenzy in GameStop and other stocks through the newly popular retail trading app Robinhood. The popular uprising on social media manifests as massive bubbles in company stocks despite bleak earnings prospects for those investments. During the recent trading frenzy, Robinhood and other retail facing apps temporarily suspended traders’ ability to place buy orders, something with very little precedent, in GameStop and ...

Executive Summary Espionage poses a threat to national security and the private property rights of Americans. The government should address the threat of espionage in a manner whereby the benefits of government actions taken to reduce it outweigh the costs of those actions. To aid in that goal, this policy analysis presents the first combined database of all identified spies who targeted both the U.S. government and private organizations on U.S. soil. This analysis identifies 1,485 spies on A...

ISO 14971:2019 — Clarifying Benefit, Risk, & Benefit-Risk This is the third in a series of articles on the changes in the medical device risk management standard ISO 14971 that were released in December of 2019 and supported by guidance in the ISO TR 24971:2020 technical report or guidance on the medical device risk management standard. The standard and the technical report were reorganized and clarifications of the concepts of medical device risk management were included in the two docum...