New eco-friendly approaches are required to improve plant biomass production. Beneficial
plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria may be exploited as excellent and efficient …

Highlights•Three governance challenges to implementing the SDGs are identified and
discussed.•Collective action across sectors, levels and scales will be required.•Win–wins …

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are being promoted as adaptive measures against predicted
increasing hydrometeorological hazards (HMHs), such as heatwaves and floods which have …

Sea‐level rise sits at the frontier of usable climate climate change research, because it
involves natural and human systems with long lags, irreversible losses, and deep …

The ways in which climate adaptation is understood in the European Union is examined via
three key policy documents: the Strategy on adaptation and the Green and White Papers …

Self-organization has been previously coined as a concept that describes the shifting
relationships between citizen groups and institutional stakeholders in various fields …

Urban areas account for around 50% of global solid waste generation. In the last decade,
the European Union has supported numerous initiatives aiming at reducing waste …

The management of large-scale disasters in urban agglomerations often reveals fragmented
governance structures. Accordingly, recent debates in the field of disaster risk management …

Climate change threatens the existence of humankind on the planet Earth. Owing to its arid
climate and poor natural resources base, Saudi Arabia is particularly susceptible to the …

With some level of climate change now inevitable, climate policy around the world has
evolved in recent decades to include adaptation to the impacts of climate change. Most …