To date the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concerned itself with gathering a state of the art review of the science of climate change. While significant progress has been made in enhancing our integrated understanding of the climate system and the dynamics of the social systems that produce an array of potential greenhouse gases, it is also clear from the panel’s reports h...

To better understand the community-wide implications of coastal erosion and erosion management measures to minimize its impacts, we analyzed data on about 1200 properties in nine southeastern U.S. counties. Not only is erosion responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage each year, the threat of erosion, that is, merely being located in an erosion-prone area, significantly...

Several essential fish habitats lack the protections necessary to prevent degradation because of failure to integrate the scientific disciplines required to understand the causes of the degradation and failure to integrate the fragmented state and federal management authorities that each hold only a piece of the solution. Improved protection of essential habitat for demersal fishes requires muc...