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Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold Learning From the COVID-19 Failure Before the Next Outbreak Arrives
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This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 2020-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Outbreak & Pandemic.read more
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Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield
Marlene Laruelle,Mikhail A. Alexseev,Cynthia Buckley,Ralph S. Clem,J. Paul Goode,J. Paul Goode,Ivan Gomza,Henry E. Hale,Erik S. Herron,Andrey Makarychev,Madeline McCann,Mariya Y. Omelicheva,Gulnaz Sharafutdinova,Regina Smyth,Sarah Wilson Sokhey,Mikhail Troitskiy,Mikhail Troitskiy,Joshua A. Tucker,Judyth L. Twigg,Elizabeth Wishnick +19 more
TL;DR: The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build as discussed by the authors, and this challenge has been addressed by addressing this challenge, particularly as i...
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The timing and aggressiveness of early government response to COVID-19: Political systems, societal culture, and more
TL;DR: The authors examined the early timing and strictness of government responses to COVID-19 for over 150 countries using the daily Coronavirus Government Response Tracker data provided by the University of Oxford.
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Corridors of clarity : Four principles to overcome uncertainty paralysis in the anthropocene
Stephen Polasky,Anne-Sophie Crépin,Reinette Biggs,Stephen R. Carpenter,Carl Folke,Garry D. Peterson,Marten Scheffer,Scott Barrett,Gretchen C. Daily,Paul R. Ehrlich,Richard B. Howarth,Terry P. Hughes,Simon A. Levin,Jason F. Shogren,Max Troell,Brian Walker,Anastasios Xepapadeas +16 more
TL;DR: Four principles are suggested to follow the strongest and most direct path between policy decisions on outcomes, focus on finding sufficient evidence for policy purpose, prioritize no-regrets policies by avoiding options with controversial, uncertain, or immeasurable benefits, and aim for getting the big picture roughly right rather than focusing on details.
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Climate Change and COVID-19: Structure and System in a Future Tense
TL;DR: There is widespread confusion about the connection between COVID-19 and the larger problem of climate change as discussed by the authors, and there is also a connection between the pandemic and climate crises.
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Sounding the climate alarm—scientists and politics
TL;DR: The Catch-22 in U.S. politics is the unattainability of reforms needed for sustainability, and the inadequacy of those that are attainable as mentioned in this paper, which is not the result of scientific uncertainty.