Complete summary of the scientific knowledge currently available on closing of the knowledge-implementation gap in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Describes interdisciplinary and innovative uses of knowledge sources and knowledge mobilization practices to halt biodiversity loss under human-driven global environmental change.
Of all the direct influences of the forest the influence upon the supply of water in streams and upon the regularity of their flow is the most important in human economy. Yet so many are the factors which play related parts in this influence, so great is the difficulty of observing them with precision, and so wide the range of economic interests affected, that considerable divergence of opinion has arisen on the subject.
This article is part three of a series about the mind of a gorilla. The author studied the behaviour of the gorilla named Congo and tried with various experiments to research its memory.
This book includes a brief history of Ornithology from its time and a description of what Ornithology is. The author talks about publications of contemporary colleges of his and their impact.
In consequence of a very generally expressed wish amongst the personal friends of the late William Alexander Forbes, to possess some permanent memorial of him. It was decided, that the most appropriate and desirable one would be the publication, in a collected form, of all the papers published by Forbes in various scientific journals and periodicals, with a portrait of the author.
In consequence of a very generally expressed wish amongst the personal friends of the late Professor A. H. Garrod, to possess some permanent memorial of him. It was decided, that the most appropriate and desirable one would be the publication, in a collected form, of all the papers published by Garrod in various scientific journals and periodicals, with a portrait and memoir of the author.
For the three-year IAP project 'food and nutrition security and agriculture', four parallel regional academy network working groups were constituted: in Africa (the Network of African Science Academies, NASAC), Asia (the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia, AASSA), the Americas (the Inter-American Network of Academies of Science, IANAS) and Europe (the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council, EASAC).
Options Magazine presents IIASA and its latest research for a non-specialist audience.
From 15-17 November 2012, the Main Hall of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (FDUP) brought together eminent academics, distinguished members of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, directors of research centres in the area of the Law of the Sea, representatives of international organizations established under the framework of UNCLOS, policymakers and representatives of the entrepreneurial sector and the blue economy for the international conference '30 years after the signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea : the protection of the env
