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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"resource security"”.
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Is China the Answer? The Effect of Chinese Engagement on Economic and Human Development in Africa
… economic machine, China has turned to Africa, a resource-rich continent and holder of one-third of the world's oil deposits. Taking a unique approach that blurs the line between aid, trade, and investment, China‘s search for resource security has injected new life into Africa‘s developmental …
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Usable Post-Classification Visualizations for Android Collusion Detection and Inspection
… Android users' private information and system resource security. Although recent research has made advances in collusion detection and classification, security analysts still do not have robust tools which allow them to definitively identify colluding Android applications. Specifically, in …
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Exploration of university culture: a Papua New Guinea case study
… to provide a service in a context where resource security is tenuous. Service in the context of this thesis is the ideal that serves as the impetus that motivates people, religious and altruistic oriented non-religious people, to render service for none or minimal material reward. This …
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Tracing Pathways of Resource Use in the World Economy: An Analysis of National and Sectoral Influence across the Global Water-Energy-Land System
… to understand the interconnected risks natural resource systems face and their exploitation drives. The so-called Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has served as a focal point for the conceptual, theoretical and empirical development of this agenda. However, boundaries for WEF nexus assessment are …
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Assessing sustainable water, energy and food nexus smart innovations, technologies and practices in Luvuvhu and Nzhelele River catchments areas, Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa.
… connections between these three essential resources. Climate change and slow economic growth are triggering an increase in pressure on global WEF resources. These present an increase in levels of trade-offs and conflicts among the three resources. The implementation of the WEF nexus can …
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Andean sediment response to natural and anthropogenic changes at the catchment scale
… poses a challenge for the water, food and energy security nexus, particularly in glacier-fed mountainous catchments. Soil erosion, driven by both natural and anthropogenic activities, further exacerbates the challenge for resource security. Soil erosion is contributing to increased levels of …