Professor Zeide decries Popper’s view (Zeide 2010) of science. . . the view that science must be based on falsification rather than verification: scientific theories can be decidedly falsified, but never inductively verified : e.g. one negative instance (a black swan) is sufficient to reject a hypothesis (that all swans are white), while no number of white swans can prove it. Professor Zeide sa...

The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on “Forecasting Societies’ Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change” (an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to Wolfgang Lutz). In investigating how global change will affect population vulnerability to climate variability and extremes, the project aims to help develop strategies that enable societies to bette...