Changes in temperature, precipitation, and other climatic drivers and sea-level rise will affect populations of existing native and non-native aquatic species and the vulnerability of aquatic environments to new invasions. Monitoring surveys provide the foundation for assessing the combined effects of climate change and invasions by providing baseline biotic and environmental conditions, althou...

The paper presents three case studies of three of the four global players in the liftsand escalator industry (controlling 3⁄4 of the respective world market). It is based on chiefly qualitative data from the headquarter level (based in the US, Finland and Germany) and comparative data from their British and German subsidiaries. The object of the research are change management processes in the w...

Anthropogenically-derived increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have been implicated in recent climate change, and are projected to substantially impact the climate on a global scale in the future. For marine and freshwater systems, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases are expected to increase surface temperatures, lower pH, and cause changes to vertical mixing, upwell...

As organizations continually implement changes to their information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure, change has become an increasing part of "business as usual". Managers are routinely requested to justify expenditure, explain business benefits, and provide ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of ICT initiatives. Ex-ante evaluation is defined as predictive evaluation, and is ofte...

[1] Water scarcity may appear to be a simple concept, but it can be difficult to apply to complex natural-human systems. While aggregate scarcity indices are straightforward to compute, they do not adequately represent the spatial and temporal variations in water scarcity that arise from complex systems interactions. The uncertain effects of future climate change on water scarcity add to the ne...

Humans have transformed much of Earth's land surface, giving rise to loss of biodiversity, climate change, and a host of other environmental issues that are affecting human and biophysical systems in unexpected ways. To confront these problems, environmental managers must consider human and landscape systems in integrated ways. This means making use of data obtained from a broad range of method...

Researchers investigating climate change have used historical tide-gauge measurements from all over the world to investigate the changes in sea-level that have occurred over the last century or so. However, such estimates are a combination of any true sea-level variations and any vertical movements of the land at the specific tide-gauge. For a tide- gauge record to be used to determine the clim...

High food price instability is one of the major risks facing agricultural households from developing countries. Resulting from agronomic factors as well as the historically low levels of world grain stocks and climate change, increased food price volatility has attracted renewed interest among policy experts in identifying appropriate policy instruments to counter its effects. This paper applie...

The challenge of creating human socio-economic systems that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable is highlighted by problems of local and global environmental impacts, including climate change and socially inequitable distribution of resources between rich and poor countries and individuals. Socio-economic systems are complex systems involving multiple actors interacting at...

Central to the climate change debate is the way that we construct knowledge. The very concept 'climate change' implies that something in this case the climate is changing. Inherent in this notion is a hidden value judgement. Changing climates seem to be somehow threatening to human beings so consequently we need to manage this perceived risk in some way or other. Concepts are the basic building...