Coastal urbanisation is a widespread phenomenon throughout the world and often linked to increased erosion. Small Pacific islands are not spared from this issue, which of great importance in context climate change. The French Polynesian island Bora was used as case study investigate historical evolution its coastline classification position 1955 2019. A time series very high-resolution aerial i...

This paper presents a transdisciplinary study focusing on the socio-ecological mechanisms at play in alteration of Moorea’s (French Polynesia) coastline. Building previous synthesizing results from monitoring efforts island’s coastline 1977 to 2018, we offer joint analysis scientific and local perceptions coastal changes impacts armoring Moorea. Drawing ecological ethnographic data (111 semi-st...

Barrier islands characterize up to an eighth of the global coastlines. They buffer the mainland coastal areas from storm surge and wave energy from the open ocean. Changes in their shape or disappearance due to erosion may lead to an increased impact of sea level extremes on the mainland. A barrier island threatened by erosion is Egmont Key which is located in the mouth of the Tampa Bay estuary...

Cognitive abilities rise steeply from infancy to young adulthood and then are either maintained or decline to old age, depending on the specific ability. This pattern suggests corresponding continuities of mechanism and process, but it is striking that the fields of cognitive development and cognitive aging make little contact with each other's methods and theories. In this review we examine re...

We studied the developmental trends of temperament and character in a longitudinal population-based sample of Finnish men and women aged 20-45 years using the Temperament and Character Inventory model of personality. Personality was assessed in 1997, 2001, and 2007 (n = 2,104, 2,095, and 2,056, respectively). Mean-level changes demonstrated qualitatively distinct developmental patterns for char...

We describe gene-environment processes that may help account for individual differences in successful aging. Our emphasis is on successful aging in the cognitive domain, wherein individuals come to use a variety of strategies to cope with changes in cognitive capacities. We focus on the role of executive control in particular and define gene-environment correlation and nonshared environmental m...