Nicholas King
Biographic Data
| ID | 5810627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9624-1356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1799 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating the winds of change
In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has displaced millions, potentially exposing them to traumatic events in the process. Potentially traumatic events (PTEs) have been linked to negative health outcomes, including depression, substance abuse and risky sexual behaviours. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are especially vulnerable to the effects of displacement, given widespread MSM stigma in Ukraine. A cross-sectional survey of MSM was conducted as part…
Investigating sonic injustice
Sound has been researched as either an environmental pollutant (noise) with detrimental health effects or an environmental resource with beneficial outcomes for well-being. We define sonic injustice as unjust inequalities in both noise exposure and access to high-quality, beneficial sound environments. We performed a comparative analysis of 34 peer-reviewed studies on sonic injustice. These studies were from Europe, North America, Accra and Hong …
The Sacred Sites of Houston
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…
Ecosystem services of tree windbreaks in rural landscapes—a systematic review
Windbreaks are key structural elements in the rural environment and affect the functionality of landscapes in multiple ways. A broad interdisciplinary view on these functions lacks in scientific literature and common knowledge. This led to under informed management decisions, a decrease in the number of windbreaks in wide areas, and a subsequent loss of landscape functionality. Therefore, the knowledge on windbreaks and associated ecosystem servi…
The 2019 review of Ipbes and future priorities
2019, 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent scientific body focused on assessing the state of the world's ecosystem services and biodiversity. IPBES members agreed in 2017 that a review of the Platform's first work programme should be undertaken by an independent panel examining all aspec…
Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework
Scientists have repeatedly argued that transformative, multiscale global scenarios are needed as tools in the quest to halt the decline of biodiversity and achieve sustainability goals. As a first step towards achieving this, the researchers who participated in the scenarios and models expert group of the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) entered into an iterative, participatory process that …
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa
Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
The heterogeneity of vulnerability in public health
The concept of vulnerability is frequently used in public health policies to develop tailored interventions or dedicate proportionately more resources to certain sub-populations. However, once segments of the population are identified as vulnerable, they are rarely consulted regarding whether this label is acceptable before instituting interventions. Instead, it is implicitly assumed that the targeted individuals identify themselves as vulnerable…
Complexity and creative capacity
Global megatrends and their implications for environmental assessment practice
Trends in Educational Inequalities in Drug Poisoning Mortality
Objectives. We estimated trends in drug poisoning death rates by educational attainment and investigated educational inequalities in drug poisoning mortality by race, gender, and region. Methods. We linked drug poisoning death counts from the National Vital Statistics System to population denominators from the Current Population Survey to estimate drug poisoning rates by gender, race, region, and educational attainment (less than high school degr…
Biodiversity tradeoffs and offsets in impact assessment and decision making
The healthy functioning of ecosystems is fundamental to human wellbeing, but sustainable development policies have failed to reverse global decline in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Accepting loss of biodiversity as a tradeoff for socio-economic gains means that the global ecological deficit continues to grow, with attendant risks for human wellbeing. While impact assessment has become more effective at identifying potential impacts on biod…
The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks
Infectious disease outbreaks are uncertain and potentially risky events that often attract significant media attention. Previous research has shown that, regardless of their objective severity, diseases receiving greater coverage in the media are considered to be more serious and more representative of a disease than those receiving less coverage. This study assesses the role of media coverage in estimations of population risk (measured as percei…
Improving access to biodiversity data for, and from, EIAs – a data publishing framework built to global standards
Biodiversity information obtained during environmental impact assessments (EIAs) is rarely accessible for other uses following the completion of the EIA. Such data need to be made readily accessible; adding them to publicly accessible national datasets is important if biodiversity science, conservation and future decisions based on environmental assessment are to benefit from new biodiversity data and improved biodiversity data coverage. An ‘EIA …
Security, Disease, Commerce
An Improvement in Boats, for River-Navigation, Described in a Letter to Mr. Robert Patterson
Volume: 4
Security, Disease, Commerce
Global megatrends and their implications for environmental assessment practice
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa
Trends in Educational Inequalities in Drug Poisoning Mortality
Objectives. We estimated trends in drug poisoning death rates by educational attainment and investigated educational inequalities in drug poisoning mortality by race, gender, and region. Methods. We linked drug poisoning death counts from the National Vital Statistics System to population denominators from the Current Population Survey to estimate drug poisoning rates by gender, race, region, and educational attainment (less than high school degr…
An Improvement in Boats, for River-Navigation, Described in a Letter to Mr. Robert Patterson
Volume: 4
Security, Disease, Commerce
Improving access to biodiversity data for, and from, EIAs – a data publishing framework built to global standards
Biodiversity information obtained during environmental impact assessments (EIAs) is rarely accessible for other uses following the completion of the EIA. Such data need to be made readily accessible; adding them to publicly accessible national datasets is important if biodiversity science, conservation and future decisions based on environmental assessment are to benefit from new biodiversity data and improved biodiversity data coverage. An ‘EIA …
Biodiversity tradeoffs and offsets in impact assessment and decision making
The healthy functioning of ecosystems is fundamental to human wellbeing, but sustainable development policies have failed to reverse global decline in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Accepting loss of biodiversity as a tradeoff for socio-economic gains means that the global ecological deficit continues to grow, with attendant risks for human wellbeing. While impact assessment has become more effective at identifying potential impacts on biod…
The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks
Infectious disease outbreaks are uncertain and potentially risky events that often attract significant media attention. Previous research has shown that, regardless of their objective severity, diseases receiving greater coverage in the media are considered to be more serious and more representative of a disease than those receiving less coverage. This study assesses the role of media coverage in estimations of population risk (measured as percei…
Trends in Educational Inequalities in Drug Poisoning Mortality
Objectives. We estimated trends in drug poisoning death rates by educational attainment and investigated educational inequalities in drug poisoning mortality by race, gender, and region. Methods. We linked drug poisoning death counts from the National Vital Statistics System to population denominators from the Current Population Survey to estimate drug poisoning rates by gender, race, region, and educational attainment (less than high school degr…
Complexity and creative capacity
Global megatrends and their implications for environmental assessment practice
Multiscale scenarios for nature futures
The heterogeneity of vulnerability in public health
The concept of vulnerability is frequently used in public health policies to develop tailored interventions or dedicate proportionately more resources to certain sub-populations. However, once segments of the population are identified as vulnerable, they are rarely consulted regarding whether this label is acceptable before instituting interventions. Instead, it is implicitly assumed that the targeted individuals identify themselves as vulnerable…
The 2019 review of Ipbes and future priorities
2019, 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent scientific body focused on assessing the state of the world's ecosystem services and biodiversity. IPBES members agreed in 2017 that a review of the Platform's first work programme should be undertaken by an independent panel examining all aspec…
Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework
Scientists have repeatedly argued that transformative, multiscale global scenarios are needed as tools in the quest to halt the decline of biodiversity and achieve sustainability goals. As a first step towards achieving this, the researchers who participated in the scenarios and models expert group of the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) entered into an iterative, participatory process that …
Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa
The Sacred Sites of Houston
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…
Ecosystem services of tree windbreaks in rural landscapes—a systematic review
Windbreaks are key structural elements in the rural environment and affect the functionality of landscapes in multiple ways. A broad interdisciplinary view on these functions lacks in scientific literature and common knowledge. This led to under informed management decisions, a decrease in the number of windbreaks in wide areas, and a subsequent loss of landscape functionality. Therefore, the knowledge on windbreaks and associated ecosystem servi…
Investigating sonic injustice
Sound has been researched as either an environmental pollutant (noise) with detrimental health effects or an environmental resource with beneficial outcomes for well-being. We define sonic injustice as unjust inequalities in both noise exposure and access to high-quality, beneficial sound environments. We performed a comparative analysis of 34 peer-reviewed studies on sonic injustice. These studies were from Europe, North America, Accra and Hong …
Traumatic events exposure in men who have sex with men with and without experience of displacement in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has displaced millions, potentially exposing them to traumatic events in the process. Potentially traumatic events (PTEs) have been linked to negative health outcomes, including depression, substance abuse and risky sexual behaviours. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are especially vulnerable to the effects of displacement, given widespread MSM stigma in Ukraine. A cross-sectional survey of MSM was conducted as part…
Navigating the winds of change
In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…
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