1 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany 10 2 School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK 11 3 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA 12 4 Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, USA 13 5 Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 14 6 Swedens Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden 15 7 Max Planck Institute for Meteorolo...

The pace of technological changes and associated changes to higher education are factors that may influence IT department's capability requirements, approaches to service and facilities provision and organizational structures. An IT department needs to be aligned to the institution's mission, vision and goals yet have the capability to proactively change in response to new technologies, new cus...

This paper will focus on the topic of organisational change and its management from an information systems perspective. The paper will examine the issues raised during a review of the change management literature – looking at the major approaches to change management, namely, the planned, emergent and contingency approaches – as background to the issues raised in other papers in this theme of t...

Agriculture of the inland arid region in Xinjiang depends on irrigation, which forms oasis of Northwest China. The production and water use of wheat, a dominant crop there, is significantly affected by undergoing climate variability and change. The objective of this study is to quantify inter-annual variability of wheat yield and water use from 1955 to 2006. The farming systems model APSIM (Agr...

BACKGROUND Emerging environmental pressures resulting from climate change and globalization challenge the capacity of health information systems (HIS) in the Pacific to inform future policy and public health interventions. Ciguatera, a globally common marine food-borne illness, is used here to illustrate specific HIS challenges in the Pacific and how these might be overcome proactively to meet ...