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Contested Daily Routines, Contested Care. Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Covid-19 Times
The conventional treatment of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is especially demanding for children, both physically and psychologically (Iversen et al. Int J...
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Leveraging Human–Natural World Intersections for Climate Change Adaptation
Working closely with all the species of animals—wild, urban-wild, and domestic—as well as indigenous and coastal communities, has helped...
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Bio-surveillance as One Health: A Critique of Recent Definitions and Policy Initiatives
Recent policy initiatives on One Health Approach focus almost exclusively on surveillance, information sharing and zoonotic risk prediction, rather...
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Plastics
Unsustainable plastic production, use, and mismanagement dominates the growing global waste problem. Plastic waste mismanagement threatens...
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Sustaining Biogas Production in the Indonesian Province of West Nusa Tenggara
Like much of eastern Indonesia, West Nusa TenggaraWest Nusa Tenggara Province’s 864 idyllic tropical islands—of which 461 are inhabited—all face the...
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Socio-Markers and Information Transmission
The health sciences have seen an unprecedented development since the ‘molecular turn’: we are now able to obtain very fine-grained information about...
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Geographical and temporal analysis of bio-medical waste management in India
In India, a large quantity of bio-medical waste is generated by healthcare facilities. This study analyses the geographical and temporal variations...
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Classical-quantum hybrid transfer learning for adverse drug reaction detection from social media posts
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) is a threat to human beings, sometimes it causes death. Thus, the detection of ADRs is crucial. This paper introduces a...
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Effective Sourcing of Digital News from Social Media: Picking the Real from Fake, the Truth from Hype
Social media has become an integral part of our lives today. The number of social media platforms and their users is growing rapidly in South Asia....
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A State-of-the-Art Report on Solid Waste Management of Guwahati City, Assam, India
With the fast population growth, trash output also rises, becoming one of the most significant drivers of environmental deterioration. In this...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Bio/Geopolitics in Japan
For German sociologist Ulrich Beck, risks in the contemporary world consist of three dimensions: ecological crises, financial crises, and the risk of...
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District Health Care Movement
District Health Care Movement is an important process to achieve integrated healthcare delivery through an organised whole-of-society...
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An Approach to Evolutionary Sociology and its Implications for Theorizing on Socio-Cultural Evolution
A theoretical research program is outlined that seeks to use the Modern Synthesis in explaining human evolution, but also recognizes its limitations...
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Power, Personhood, and Data-Driven Technologies in the Lives of Disabled People: The Rise of Profiling Technologies in Mental Health Settings
This chapter examines the rise of biometric monitoring using AI and other automated decision systems in the disability and mental health context. It...
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Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on Sustainable Rural Livelihood Development in Tripura
Sustainability is a long-term process and includes social-economical-environmental development that needs to be achieved in an integrated way. Rural...
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Nature-Based Eco-Hydraulic Technology
The last decades have been characterized by increasing extreme events including storm surges, flooding, coastal erosion, and enhanced coastal...
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Towards a Better Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanism to Protect Traditional Knowledge in India: A Platter in the Offering
Traditional knowledge (TK) represents the know-how, technical skills and agricultural, medicinal, and ecological practices of the First Nations of...
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Policy Tools to Reduce Water-Energy-Food Nexus Pressures
In the transition towards a green economy, various fiscal and non-fiscal policy tools can be implemented to create interdependencies and synergies...
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Closing the Urban Waste Loop-Delivering Environmental and Financial Sustainability
The current level of global population and urbanisation has now reached an evidenced level of threat to the well-being of biodiversity, life...
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Building Collaborative Models for Change: Engaging Indigenous People and Country into in Socially just Conservation
Indigenous Australians have led the world in building conservation regimes that address social justice, and care for their Country via deployment of...