Europe’s other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions
This GLP-related article was published in PNAS on land use and biodiversity relations. The paper highlights the fact that rapid economic development in the past century has translated into severe pressures on species survival as a result of increasing land-use change, environmental pollution, and the spread of invasive alien species. |Read more
ESurf, the new open access journal from the European Geosciences Union
ESurf, more formally known as Earth Surface Dynamics is the new open access journal from the EGU. Focussing on the processes that affect the Earth’s surface at all scales, ESurf aims to communicate the interactions of Earth surface processes with the lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and pedosphere. |Read more
Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research. Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. |Read more
Post-Kyoto Climate Governance: Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge
In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. This book takes a trans-disciplinary perspective to identify the causes of failure in developing an international climate policy regime and lays out a roadmap for developing a post-Kyoto (post-2012) climate governance regime in the light of lessons learned from the Kyoto phase. |Read more
Uncertainty and Governance of Transboundary River Basins
Report of the capacity building workshop on Governing Critical Uncertainties: Climate Change and Decision-Making in Transboundary River Basins, 21-23 January 2013, Chiang Mai, Thailand. |Read more
Fishing in Muddy Waters: Exploring the conditions for effective governance of fisheries and aquaculture
Over the past fifteen years a number of transnational certification and labeling schemes have emerged with the aim to foster sustainable fisheries and aquaculture practices worldwide. |Read more
Sustainable Development Goals for People and Planet
Scientists have published a call that argues for a set of six SDGs that link poverty eradication to protection of Earth’s life support. |Read more
Contructing a Transnational Climate Change Regime: Bypassing and Managing States
The manifest inadequacies of the inter-state negotiating processes central to international climate change policy create a pressing need for innovative modes of governance. |Read more
Climate change and mountain water resources
Viviroli, D., Archer, D. R., Buytaert, W., Fowler, H. J., Greenwood, G. B., Hamlet, A. F., Huang, Y., Koboltschnig, G., Litaor, M. I., López-Moreno, J. I., Lorentz, S., Schädler, B., Schreier, H., Schwaiger, K., Vuille, M., and Woods, R. |Read more
Global change and the world's mountains
Björnsen Gurung A, Wymann von Dach S, Price M. F, Aspinall R, Balsiger J, Baron J. S, Sharma E, Greenwood G, Kohler T |Read more
Technology transfer from South African technology stations to their SME clients
This study focuses on the influence of the organizational culture on technology transfer and employs Cultural Theory to analyze, categorize and thereby compare the culture types of the organizations being studied. |Read more
Case Study 4: Friction Stir Welding
This case study focuses und the Friction Stir Welding project undertaken by a research team in the Manufacturing Technology Research Centre at Port Elizabeth Technikon. |Read more
Utilisation of Research in South Africa’s Research institutes
The overarching aim of this study is to analyse what researchers in South African higher education institutes and science councils mean by the term 'utilisation' - i.e. what do researchers mean when they indicate that their research findings are being utilised. |Read more
Incorporating human behaviour and decision making processes in land use and climate system models
This report was based on the results of the IGBP/IHDP Global Land Project (GLP) and CSIRO workshop “Linking models of human behaviour and decision making processes with land system models” held at Lake Crackenback in Australia on November 28-December 1, 2011. |Read more