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Environmental change poses risks to societies, including disrupting social and economic systems such as migration. At the same time, migration is an effective adaptation to environmental and other risks. Wereview novel science on interactions between migration, environmental risks and climate change. Wehighlight emergent findings, including how dominant flows of rural to urban…

This article briefly examines the threat of desertification in the Middle East and North Africa. Options available for combating desertification (improving knowledge, more land-conscious policies and governance, better water management, water-efficient cropping systems, supplementary feed sources for livestock and diversifying crops) are considered. MENA as defined here is home to over 600…

Highlights •Active, rural dust emission sites that pose health risk in Arizona are identified. •Evidence links desert dust (PM10) with monthly and annual county valley fever. •Model PM10 hind-casts support a link between airborne desert dust and valley fever. •Confidence in haboob-valley fever link requires detailed disease surveillance. •Model operations add detail…

Highlights •Is an outranking multi-criteria approach useful for participatory assessment? •Stakeholders' outranking-facilitated assessments and direct rankings were compared. •The outranking approach reduced within-action and increased between-action variation. •The outranking approach elicited assessment criteria that re-shaped initial views. •This structured but…