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CONECTA: Building Local Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

What are the strategies employed by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and other international funding agencies to enhance local capacity in the Andean region?
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Green Dealings – Negotiating Lithium between South America and Europe for Batteries that Fuel a Just Energy Transition

How does the role of lithium in the emerging energy regime challenge or reproduce unequal relations between producer and consumer regions, and can it pave the way for a sustainable and just energy transition?
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Gender, Return Migration and Reintegration in the Gambia, Guinea and Senegal

How does gender shape the reintegration process of migrants and how do patterns of return mobilities and reintegration impact upon gender in the Gambia, Guinea and Senegal?
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Transactional Sex and the Health Repercussions in Forced Migration

Why, when and how do refugees engage in transactional sex across genders and what are the sexual and reproductive health and mental health consequences of refugees involved in transactional sex?
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Effects of an Exercise and Sport Intervention Among Refugees Living in a Greek Refugee Camp on Mental Health, Physical Fitness and Cardiovascular Risk Markers: a Randomized Controlled Trial

What effect does a randomized controlled trial of a sport and exercise intervention among refugees living in a Greek refugee camp have on PTSD symptoms?
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New Plantations: Migrant Mobility, ‘Illegality’ and Racialisation in European Agricultural Labour

What are the mechanisms of differential inclusion and segregation of migrant workers in the agro-industrial labour markets?
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Governing Plastic: The Global Political Economy and Regulation of Plastic Production and Pollution

What are the economic and political forces driving the expanding global plastic economy?
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Noma, The Neglected Disease. An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Its Realities, Burden, and Framing

How can raising awareness, better prevention and treatment help individuals suffering from Noma, the “neglected disease”?
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Governance Processes and Sustainability Impacts of the Extractive Industries: Generating Transformation Knowledge in the Biodiversity Hotspot of Madagascar

What is the role of large-scale extractive investments in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and their contradictory dynamics?
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Increased Susceptibility to Plasmodium Falciparum of Insecticide Resistant Anopheles in West Africa

How widespread is the increased susceptibility of insecticide-resistant Anopheles mosquitoes to Plasmodium infection and what are the risks associated with this phenomenon in relationship to the use of bed nets and insecticides? What policies should be adopted to reduce the risk of a major crisis in malaria control?
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