Our civilization is facing substantial risks and a growing realization of how climatological ecological tipping points can fundamentally change the premises for life. This rapidly emerging reality compels shift in scope concern humans. Even so, it remains unclear whether our ability to learn, collaborate, address complex problems compatible with this endemic crisis. Here, we existential dilemma...

While the IPCC will continue to lead Earth System projections for global issues such as greenhouse gas levels and global temperature increase, high-resolution regional Earth System predictions will be crucial for producing effective decisionmaking tools for day-to-day, sustainable Earth System management and adaptive management of resources. Regional Earth System predictions and projections at ...

Abstract: The design of retaining walls requires the complete knowledge of the earth pressure distribution behind the wall. Due to the complex soil-structure effect, the estimation of earth pressure is not an easy task; even in the static case. The problem becomes even more complex for the dynamic (i.e., seismic) analysis and design of retaining walls. Several earth pressure models have been de...

a GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia b School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, New Zealand c Department of Geological Sciences, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA d Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technolo...