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Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 February 2015

The impact of the continuing drought in the southeast.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 April 2024

The capital obtains almost all of its water from rainfall, rather than from subterranean aquifers. Concerns are mounting over water security as increasing temperatures and longer…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286560

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 August 2022

High population growth and low rainfall have contributed to Jordan being classified as an 'absolute water-scarcity' country, a term applied to countries with less than 500 cubic…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 September 2017

Over recent months, conflict between ethnic militias has escalated, leading the UN’s humanitarian chief in August to talk of “early warning signs of genocide”. The sectarian…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 September 2020

In Amazonia, deforestation increased by 25% year-on-year in the first half of 2020. The situation has led large institutional investors, corporations and foreign governments to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 July 2021

The discovery of the bodies of hundreds of children at Canada’s former Indian Residential Schools has unleashed a wave of anger and mourning across Canada’s growing Indigenous…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262651

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 January 2015

Najib denied that Malaysia faced an economic crisis akin to that of 1997-98. The budget revision reaffirmed the government's commitment to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), to be…

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