T he International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) is the umbrella organization for nutrition societies all over the world (1). It was founded in England in 1948 and was initially led by a small executive committee. The first chairs were from Belgium and the UK, Professor EJ Bigwood and Dr Leslie J Harris, respectively. In the beginning, the main aim of the Union was to support the develop...

Acknowledgements I would like to express my appreciation to Davide Ravasi and two anonymous reviewers who provided thoughtful comments that greatly assisted in the development of this paper and its preparation for the EURAM conference 2005. Thank you! Paradigm Shift and its Limitations " (www.sfb637.uni-bremen.de). Context This research assumes that management science can learn valuable lessons...

916 POLICYFORUM T remendous progress has been made in understanding the functioning of the Earth system and, in particular, the impact of human actions (1). Although this knowledge can inform management of spe-cifi c features of our world in transition, societies need knowledge that will allow them to simultaneously reduce global environmental risks while also meeting economic development goals...

Welcome to our international conference on rapid sea-level change. While concern about sea-level rise is global, our host country the Islamic Republic of Iran and the neighbouring Caspian countries have a concern of their own. Here, Caspian sea level rose a hundred times as fast as in the world’s oceans. Whereas oceanic sealevel rose 13 centimeter during the whole twentieth century, the Caspian...

Let me first warmly thank UNESCO and ICSU for the invitation extended to me to take the floor at the opening ceremony of this Conference and address it on behalf of the Third World Academy of Sciences, over which I have the honour to preside. I am aware that this distinction is a tribute to the many colleagues of our generation who, in the developing countries, under the pressure of necessity, ...

The academic enterprise depends on the effective dissemination of information at all levels. This is especially true for the scientific research community where the information chain is effectively a loop since authors and users form the same community. For many years their vehicle has been the learned journal which in its print on paper form requires a number of intermediaries: publishers and ...

If creators and investors cannot earn a fair return, the inevitable result will be a dearth of quality material and a corresponding deluge of rubbish, because quality material is intrinsically costly to produce. Although the new technology is reducing some of the costs associated with producing good material, it is also bringing in new costs. It is much cheaper to produce quality text now than ...

In its 2004 report "Data and information", the International Council for Science (ICSU) strongly recommended a new strategic framework for scientific data and information. On an initiative from a working group from the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the German Research Foundation (DFG) has started the project “Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data” as part ...

Complete Swiss glacier inventories are available for 1850 (reconstructed) and 1973 (from aerial photography). Connected to the GLIMS project a new Swiss glacier inventory for approximately the year 2000 (SGI 2000) is compiled mainly based on satellite imagery. The developed and applied remote sensing and GIS methods are described in part I of the contribution. In part II, the inventory design, ...