1 Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wetland Cover Changes in East Kolkata Wetlands, India from 1972 to 2011 Xia Li, Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Chandana Mitra, Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Luke Marzen, Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA Qichun Yang, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northw...

Richard S.J. Tol and Roda Verheyen a Centre for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany b Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands c Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA d Research Unit Environmental Law (FORUM), Faculty of Law, Hamburg University...

Prior research has found that affect and affective imagery strongly influence public support for global warming. This article extends this literature by exploring the separate influence of discrete emotions. Utilizing a nationally representative survey in the United States, this study found that discrete emotions were stronger predictors of global warming policy support than cultural worldviews...

since the mid-19 th century, human activities have increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the earth's atmosphere that resulted in increased average temperature. the effects of rising temperature include soil degradation, loss of productivity of agricultural land, desertification, loss of biodiversity, degradation of ecosystems, reduced fresh-water resou...

Most of the literate world today regards "global warming" as both real and dangerous. Indeed, the diplomatic activity concerning warming might lead one to believe that it is the major crisis confronting mankind. The June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focused on international agreements to deal with that threat, and the heads of state from dozens of countries attended. I must stat...

Globalization, the process by which local social-ecological systems (SESs) are becoming linked in a global network, presents policy scientists and practitioners with unique and difficult challenges. Although local SESs can be extremely complex, when they become more tightly linked in the global system, complexity increases very rapidly as multi-scale and multi-level processes become more import...

Most of the literate world today regards "global warming'' as both real and dangerous. Indeed, the diplomatic activity concerning warming might lead one to believe that it is the major crisis confronting mankind. The June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focused on international agreements to deal with that threat, and the heads of state from dozens of countries attended. I must sta...

Research at Pasoh as well as most other sites in the worldwide network of the Centre for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS-SIGEO) is traditionally focused on the diversity and dynamics of vegetation. Large-scale forest plots in which trees are mapped, measured and monitored are the key standardized methodology (Condit 1998). This approach, however, does not completely fulfill the primary goal of th...

Models are an essential component of any assessment of ecosystem response to changes in global climate and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (Reynolds et al. 1996). The problem with these models is that their long-term predictions are impossible to test unambiguously except by allowing enough time for the full ecosystem response to develop. Unfortunately, when one must assess po...