Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management by Gunnar Stange, Raffaella Pagogna, Harald Sterly, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Marion Borderon, Benjamin Schraven, Diogo Andreola Serraglio

“…COVID-19 and the restrictions on public life and mobility imposed by governments worldwide constituted a complex set of challenges for translocal systems and strategies, especially in the Global South. Focusing on examples, we highlight two points: first, the COVID-19 crisis shows the limits of migration and translocal livelihoods for coping with, and adapting to, climate and environmental risks. …”
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Sexual health behavior, health status, and knowledge among queer womxn and trans men in Kenya: An online cross-sectional study. by Stephanie Haase, Alex Müller, Virginia Zweigenthal

“…This is especially the case in the Global South, where their needs are poorly understood. …”
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Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa by Jon Henderson, Colin Breen, Luciana Esteves, Annamaria La Chimia, Paul Lane, Solange Macamo, Garry Marvin, Stephanie Wynne-Jones

“…Through funding 29 challenge-led research projects across these four Global South countries, the network is demonstrating how MCH can directly benefit East African communities and local economies through building identity and place-making, stimulating resource-centred alternative sources of income and livelihoods, and enhancing the value and impact of overseas aid in the marine sector. …”
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Determining superoxide dismutase content and catalase activity in mammalian cell lines by Ilzé Engelbrecht, Suranie Horn, John P. Giesy, Rialet Pieters

“…Although there are kits available for SOD and CAT assays, these allow for high-throughput analysis of samples and might be too expensive for research laboratories in countries from the Global South, such as South Africa. This paper describes a simple and cost-effective method to determine SOD content and CAT activity in mammalian cell cultures following exposure to environmental chemical mixtures by measuring absorbance in 96-well microplates. …”
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Defining the Peri-Urban: A Multidimensional Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Land Use along an Urban–Rural Gradient in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by Saskia Wolff, Makarius V. Mdemu, Tobia Lakes

“…Highly dynamic peri-urban areas, particularly in the Global South, face many challenges including a lack of infrastructure, ownership conflicts, land degradation, and sustainable food production. …”
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Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change Communication with Adolescents in Vietnam: The Role of Message Congruency by Chinh C. Ngo, P. Marijn Poortvliet, Peter H. Feindt

“…This research focuses on climate change communication in fostering mitigation behaviours among adolescents in vulnerable locations in the global South. Based on Construal Level Theory, this paper investigates how message congruency affects the link between perceptions of climate change risk and efficacy and two predictors of behavioural change: perceived responsibility and mitigation intentions. …”
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A Capabilities-Led Approach to Assessing Technological Solutions for a Rural Community by Xinfang Wang, Rosie Day, Dan Murrant, Antonio Diego Marín, David Castrejón Botello, Francisco López González, Jonathan Radcliffe

“…To improve access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy in rural areas of the global south, off-grid systems using renewable generation and energy storage are often proposed. …”
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An international planetary health for primary care massive open online course by Mayara Floss, MD, Alan Abelsohn, MBChB, Aoife Kirk, MBChB MPH, Su-Ming Khoo, PhD, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, PhD, Roberto Nunes Umpierre, MD PhD, Alice McGushin, MRC, Sojung Yoon, MScPH

“…We describe the construction, delivery, and certification of a Global South-originated MOOC and explain aspects of its rhizomatic learning theory. …”
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The Chilean Diet: Is It Sustainable? by Teresita Gormaz, Sandra Cortés, Ornella Tiboni-Oschilewski, Gerardo Weisstaub

“…Assessments and estimations at a national level are lacking, especially in the Global South, probably due to a lack of national surveys of food consumption and a limited interest in sustainable diets information. …”
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The new abnormal: Identifying and ranking anomalies in the land trade market. by Roberto Interdonato, Jeremy Bourgoin, Quentin Grislain, Andrea Tagarelli

“…If many data exist to characterize land deals, the analysis of investment networks remain limited and predominantly portrays power asymmetries between countries from the Global North investing in the Global South. The aim of this work is to perform a deeper investigation on the land trade market, specifically focusing on cases that do not follow such narratives. …”
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Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson, Hala Abukhodair, Naeema Ali Naeema Ali, Avery Robertson, Hakim Issaoui, Chuanzhi Sun

“… This article considers the traditional water systems of indigenous cultures and explores their innovations as unique responses to the impacts of climate change in the global south. Local communities have been living with and developing water-responsive infrastructures for generations that engage and support the complex ecosystems they inhabit. …”
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The PADRE merits of developing and implementing context-specific national action plans for health security in Central Africa: Case study of Cameroon by Frankline Sevidzem Wirsiy, Frankline Sevidzem Wirsiy, Denis Ebot Ako-Arrey, Denis Ebot Ako-Arrey, Claude Ngwayu Nkfusai, Claude Ngwayu Nkfusai, Nancy Tahmo, Nicholas Tendongfor, Nicholas Tendongfor, Eugene Vernyuy Yeika, Ndim Eugene Bangwen, Ndim Eugene Bangwen, Quinta Ngum Ngwa, Quinta Ngum Ngwa, Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Luchuo Engelbert Bain

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RURAL TOURISM FIRMS IN THE COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT: SOUTH AFRICAN CHALLENGES by Julia K. GIDDY, Christian M. ROGERSON, Jayne M. ROGERSON

“…This paper contributes to research debates on rural tourism change in the Global South and more particularly around COVID-19 and the development prospects for rural tourism in South Africa. …”
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SHIFTING THE LEGAL BORDERLANDS OF RULE OF LAW PROGRAMS - BRAZILIAN COOPERATION AGENCY (ABC) AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS’ OFFICE IN EAST TIMOR by Sapna Reheem Shaila

“…Further, this paper poses questions on the universality of the rule of law reforms advocated by traditional donors by demonstrating the emergence of peripheral interests from the engagement of donors from the Global South.…”
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Precipitation interpolation, autocorrelation, and predicting spatiotemporal variation in runoff in data sparse regions: Application to Panama by Shriram Varadarajan, José Fábrega, Brian Leung

“…Study focus: In Panama, as in much of the Global South, sufficient observed data do not exist for all watersheds to calibrate complex hydrological models. …”
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Energy Consumption and Human Well-Being: A Systematic Review by Gereon tho Pesch, Anna Kristín Einarsdóttir, Kevin Joseph Dillman, Jukka Heinonen

“…We reveal that countries in the Global South are underrepresented in current studies. …”
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Scaling a group intervention to promote caregiver mental health in Uttarakhand, India: A mixed-methods implementation study by Disha Agarwal, Christopher R. Bailie, Samson Rana, Laxman Balan, Nathan J. Grills, Kaaren Mathias

“…Interventions to support caregiver mental health developed in high-income contexts may be contextually inappropriate in the Global South. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated the implementation and scaling of a locally developed mental health group intervention for caregivers and others in Uttarakhand, India. …”
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Fatalism as a traditional cultural belief potentially relevant to trauma sequelae: Measurement equivalence, extent and associations in six countries by Andreas Maercker, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Oscar A. Esparza, Mareike Augsburger

“…Moreover, a general, non-data-based speculation assumes that fatalism occurs to a lesser extent in countries of the Global North than in the Global South. Objective: Fatalism as a global psychological belief seems to have a prima facie validity, but this is to be investigated by measurement equivalence calculations across different countries from different world regions. …”
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Where Is the Peri-Urban? A Systematic Review of Peri-Urban Research and Approaches for Its Identification and Demarcation Worldwide by Mehebub Sahana, Joe Ravetz, Priyank Pravin Patel, Hashem Dadashpoor, Alexander Follmann

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Measuring Household Resilience to Cyclone Disasters in Coastal Bangladesh by Abdullah Al-Maruf, J. Craig Jenkins, Amelie Bernzen, Boris Braun

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