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The Problem of Many Hands: Climate Change as an Example
2011
Science and Engineering Ethics
After analyzing climate change as an example, we propose to define the problem of many hands as the occurrence of a gap in the distribution of responsibility that may be considered morally problematic. ...
Such a situation may be referred to as the problem of many hands. ...
Acknowledgments This paper was written as part of the research program 'Moral Responsibility in R&D Networks', which is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under grant ...
doi:10.1007/s11948-011-9276-0
pmid:21533835
pmcid:PMC3275719
fatcat:tvamnrfscbelzp3ngnvg3b6nxa
The 2003 heat wave as an example of summers in a greenhouse climate? Observations and climate model simulations for Basel, Switzerland
2004
Global and Planetary Change
The heat wave that affected many parts of Europe during the course of summer 2003 may be a harbinger of summers that could occur more regularly in a future climate, under enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations ...
Regional climate simulations undertaken for the European region emphasize the fact that summers will become progressively as hot as the 2003 event, such that, in the latter part of the 21st century, it ...
Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge access to, and use of, the NCEP-NCAR data sets that were used to prepare the set of illustrations in Fig. 1 . ...
doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.06.006
fatcat:fvqxykds7rdrtohs7v7swuvduy
Climate Change, Environmental Threats and Cyber-Threats to Critical Infrastructures in Multi-Regulatory Sustainable Global Approach with Sweden as an Example
2019
Beijing Law Review
This article explores and analyzes the nexus between climate change, environmental threats, and cyber-threats in a multi-regulatory contextual sustainable global approach with Sweden as an example. ...
Many aspects of the cyber-security system are not known and are highly fragmented. ...
in the European High North (EHN)"-Working Package-WP4 "Climate Change, Environmental Threats and Cybersecurity" leaded by Sandra Cassotta. ...
doi:10.4236/blr.2019.103035
fatcat:tm5fsmgpirhe3cmgstrqg6e5oy
Development of areas by the Vistula river in Warsaw in the context of flood issues as an example of adaptation to climate change
2021
ACTA SCIENTIARUM POLONORUM - Architectura Budownictwo
Development of areas by the Vistula river in Warsaw in the context of fl ood issues as an example of adaptation to climate change. ...
An example Warsaw district located on the banks of the Vistula, namely Białołęka, was characterized, as the area is at risk of flooding. ...
Development of areas by the Vistula river in Warsaw in the context of fl ood issues as an example of adaptation to climate change. Acta Sci. Pol. ...
doi:10.22630/aspa.2020.19.4.37
fatcat:rbuwufhbk5cdjp5s5qxfczcu4e
The Many Elements of Traditional Fire Knowledge: Synthesis, Classification, and Aids to Cross-cultural Problem Solving in Fire-dependent Systems Around the World
2013
Ecology and Society
The longevity of traditional fire knowledge and practice faces serious threats at precisely the time when climate change promises disruptions in fire activity that will be problematic for indigenous and ...
The opposite is needed: to seriously engage traditional practitioners in solving fire problems of global significance. Ecology and Society 18(4): 3 ...
Avoiding losses of traditional fire knowledge and traditional fire knowledge systems from pathological responses to climate change As the global climate changes, "disruptions to fire activity will threaten ...
doi:10.5751/es-05843-180403
fatcat:6fmjnx2yr5c3xd7alsob7zusue
For every solution there are many problems: the role and study of technical systems in socio-environmental coevolution
2012
Danish journal of geography
In this area, as a result of exploitation, agriculture on fertile peat is succeeded by stock raising on infertile peat, peat extraction, inundation, and drainage to regain fertile soil. (2) In the dynamic ...
This paper uses a case study on the evolution of the Rhine river delta to illustrate the coevolution of the environment, the technology used to exploit it, and the institutions governing it. ...
Acknowledgment I greatly owe Jan Kolen (Free University, Amsterdam), for drawing my attention to the magnificent overview of the history of Rijnland presented in van Tielhof and van Dam, 2006 , and for ...
doi:10.1080/00167223.2012.741887
fatcat:iusnzzqwjfe23cuixxxn3ntfxm
Hand in Hand: Public Endorsement of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
2015
PLoS ONE
the climate, and who perceive climate change as a risk, are willing to respond to climate change. ...
However, to gain endorsement of broader societal initiatives such as policy support, it seems advisable to turn to the distant risks of climate change. ...
Attitudes Until recently, climate change has almost exclusively been framed as an environmental problem [20] . ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124843
pmid:25922938
pmcid:PMC4414563
fatcat:mcwnilyshfg6zg5yb5sf2cv4py
How Good Science and Stories Can Go Hand-In-Hand
2013
Conservation Biology
We thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. ...
Acknowledgments We acknowledge the hospitality and support of the Helen R. ...
Panel on Climate Change. ...
doi:10.1111/cobi.12080
pmid:23692176
fatcat:icyqe5knubdpfjz4fenklmmjw4
From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand
1999
Social Science Research Network
I present a study of ownership of firms under government rent seeking. Using its control of regulated inputs, a government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment. ...
Government ownership is shown to serve as a second best commitment mechanism through the government agency will restrain itself from the rent seeking activity and even offer support and favor such as tax ...
For example, when the political climate in China turned hostile towards rural enterprises in 1989, with government regulations being tightened up, many private firms changed ownership into local government ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.188152
fatcat:l7ttl67z4narnhkrdcxd3qmj6e
Interview with Brian Hand
2020
Études Irlandaises
VM: You have a strong interest in history, as is the case of many Irish artists. ...
BH: On the surface yes there are many dramatic changes and new debates in the field, but deeper down maybe not enough has changed. ...
doi:10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8781
fatcat:6gh4ib3mmzdpjf25kaqx7gg3uq
Skin reactions related to hand hygiene and selection of hand hygiene products
2006
American Journal of Infection Control
, review of the available scientific evidence, writing of the WHO draft Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care, and fostering discussion among authors and members of the different task forces and working ...
The complete list of participants in the development of the Guidelines documents is available at http://www.who.int/patientsafety/challenge/ WHOGuidelinesHandHygiene.pdf (accessed January 23, 2006). ...
An example of a hand skin self-assessment tool is given in Table 1 . ...
doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2006.05.289
pmid:17161737
fatcat:vml4kqclxnfilgieiamtl5cgqe
Dirty hands: bacteria of faecal origin on commuters' hands
2009
Epidemiology and Infection
Although many studies have investigated bacteria on the hands of health-care workers and caregivers, few have looked at microbiological contamination on the hands of the general adult public. ...
A breakdown by city showed that the proportion of people with contaminated hands increased the further north the city of investigation (P<0 . 001), an effect which was due in large part to a significant ...
The cost of the study (£4500) was funded by Unilever plc.
DECLARATION OF INTEREST None. ...
doi:10.1017/s0950268809990641
pmid:19723362
fatcat:h6jnkhw42zbdjpcquvxsco55e4
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Lend a Hand
We intend to secure as matron a nurse trained according to the modern hygienic methods of such an institution, so that there shall be given to the community at large an example of health and cleanliness ...
To those who have at any time of their lives needed x change of climate, and to those who have had any one dear to them made confortable by such help, we earnestly appeal in behalf of the many who caanot ...
How Language and Human Altruism Evolved Hand in Hand — The Backchannel Hypothesis
2022
Frontiers in Psychology
of selection such as female choice) could be the target of natural selection on the group level. ...
The aim of the paper is to illuminate these rather opaque claims, to which the reader probably has many objections in this abridged form. ...
There are many theories on how this significant climate change was responsible for humans evolving. ...
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.735375
pmid:35222174
pmcid:PMC8869241
fatcat:e7om7mqcejewva4barbmaxj6j4
The Other Hand: High Bandwidth Development Policy
2008
Social Science Research Network
Finding out what is the right mix of the public inputs, and more importantly, what is a valuable change from the current provision is as complex as determining what is the right mix of private provision ...
In the latter case, economists agree that this process cannot be achieved through central planning and that the invisible hand of the market is the right approach, because it allows decisions to be made ...
The real problem for societies is how to organize the provision of an adequate investment climate in each of these areas and this is unfortunately a very high dimensional problem. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1314799
fatcat:llj7ofy5zjagdmjv5nqvntsdf4
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