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Canberra, Australia, 25 June 2013 - Scientists from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, are applying their knowledge in transboundary river basin management to improve the livelihoods of people living in some of the poorest parts of Asia. CSIRO and its...
In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands,...
The Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance extends its 2013’s summer programme once again to offer a Sustainable Energy Finance Summer Academy with a strong African focus, this time in Mombasa, Kenya from the 20 – 25 October 2013!...
The Mountain Research Initiative and the DendroLab at the University of Nevada/Reno will hold in Reno a Global Fair and Workshop on Mountain Observatories, examining how we gather data on mountain social, biological and abiotic systems. It will also be an opportunity to visit state-of...
With growing human impacts on hydrological processes over space and time, river basins around the world have evolved to become distinctive coupled human-natural systems (CHNS). The patterns and processes, reciprocal interactions and feedbacks, and co-evolution of biophysical and...
We are pleased to inform you that the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) has launched a new web portal (as a pilot project) called United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)...
In many developing countries, wildlife is an essential food resource, a source of income for rural peoples, and an important part of human spiritual and cultural systems (Robinson & Redford, 1991; Hladik et al., 1993; Robinson & Bennett, 2000). In tropical forest regions, there...
Urban water management is on the verge of a revolution in response to rapidly escalating urban demands for water as well as the need to make urban water systems more resilient to climate change. Growing competition, conflicts, shortages, waste and degradation of water resources make...
El Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecológicas (ICAE) y la Universidad de los Andes de Venezuela, presentan la convocatoria 2012 - 2014, para el post grado en Ecología Tropical (PET). Este tiene como objetivo proporcionar una amplia formación en ecología y ciencias ambientales,...
El enfoque de los análogos, desarrollado por CCAFS, es una nueva forma de apoyar los modelos de clima y de cultivos con pruebas empíricas en el terreno. En esencia, la herramienta de análogos se conecta con climas de sitios estadísticamente similares ("análogos"), a través del espacio...
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