A brief synthesis of milestones in forest growth modelling helps to establish research topics for further model development in managed tropical forests. Forest growth models have become indispensable for forest management, but need further development to realize their full utility. Feedback from monitoring predictions versus realizations should provide the basis for continuing improvement, both...

Performance management is considered as a tool to implement strategies and policies, and research organizational goals, and its main purpose is to increase the capabilities, competencies and growth and development of human resources. Such a view of performance management requires the existence of features that make the system efficient and effective, and realize the flexibility and dynamism of ...

BACKGROUND While freshwater sustainability is generally defined as the provisioning of water for both people and the environment, in practice it is largely focused only on supplying water to furnish human population growth. Symptomatic of this is the state of Arizona, where rapid growth outside of the metropolitan Phoenix-Tucson corridor relies on the same groundwater that supplies year-round f...