| Titre : | AMBIO 36(8) - DEC 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Henri J. Dumont, Auteur ;
Gamal M. El-Shabrawy, Auteur
Borullus, the most centrally situated of the Nile Delta lakes, probably evolved around the eighth century AD from a preexisting salt marsh by fluviatile deposition of sand dunes north of the lake and subsidence of the preexisting tidal swamp beh[...]
Article
Hazel Faulkner, Auteur ;
Dennis Parker, Auteur ;
Colin Green, Auteur ;
Keith Beven, Auteur
The language and tools of risk and uncertainty estimation in flood risk management (FRM) are rarely optimized for the extant communication challenge. This paper develops the rationale for a pragmatic semiotics of risk communication between scien[...]
Article
Maria Tengoe, Auteur ;
Kristin Johansson, Auteur ;
Fanambinantsoa Rakotondrasoa, Auteur ;
Jakob Lundberg, Auteur ;
Jean-Aime Andriamaherilala, Auteur ;
Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa, Auteur ;
Thomas Elmqvist, Auteur
In the dry forest of southern Madagascar, a region of global conservation priority, formally protected areas are nearly totally absent. We illustrate how the continued existence of unique forest habitats in the Androy region is directly dependen[...]
Article
Guojing Yang, Auteur ;
Lihua Zhou, Auteur ;
Duning Xiao, Auteur
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Santosh K. Prajapati, Auteur ;
B. D. Tripathi, Auteur
Article
Asa Jansson, Auteur ;
Johan Colding, Auteur
Urban dwellers depend on the generation of ecosystem services for their welfare. The city of Stockholm is growing, and a 25% increase in population is projected by 2030. The effects of urban development were estimated through the quantification [...]
Article
Mathias H. Andersson, Auteur ;
Emily Dock-Akerman, Auteur ;
Ramona Ubral-Hedenberg, Auteur ;
Marcus C. Ohman, Auteur ;
Peter Sigray, Auteur
Article
Stephen C. Mangi, Auteur ;
Callum M. Roberts, Auteur ;
Lynda D. Rodwell, Auteur
The cost of fishing and the income earned by fishers using small and large traps, gill nets, beach seines, hand lines, and spearguns were assessed in the multigear fishery of southern Kenya to establish a financial rationale for fishing gear use[...]
Article
Mathias H. Andersson, Auteur ;
Martin Gullstrom, Auteur ;
Maria E. Asplund, Auteur ;
Marcus C. Ohman, Auteur
Article
Marcus C. Ohman, Auteur ;
Peter Sigray, Auteur ;
Hakan Westerberg, Auteur
With the large scale developments of offshore windpower the number of underwater electric cables is increasing with various technologies applied. A wind farm is associated with different types of cables used for intraturbine, array-to-transforme[...]
Article
David S. Hammond, Auteur ;
Valery Gond, Auteur ;
Benoit de Thoisy, Auteur ;
Pierre-Michel Forget, Auteur ;
Bart P. E. DeDijn, Auteur
Statistical and spatial analyses of both historical time series and remotely sensed data show a link between the spatial distribution and growth of gold production across the Guiana Shield in northeast Amazonia. Results indicate that an exponent[...]
Article
James N. Galloway, Auteur ;
Marshall Burke, Auteur ;
G. Eric Bradford, Auteur ;
Rosamond Naylor, Auteur ;
Walter Falcon, Auteur ;
Ashok K. Chapagain, Auteur ;
Joanne C. Gaskell, Auteur ;
Ellen McCullough, Auteur ;
Harold A. Mooney, Auteur ;
Kirsten L. L. Oleson, Auteur ;
Henning Steinfeld, Auteur ;
Tom Wassenaar, Auteur ;
Vaclav Smil, Auteur
This paper provides an original account of global land, water, and nitrogen use in support of industrialized livestock production and trade, with emphasis on two of the fastest-growing sectors, pork and poultry. Our analysis focuses on trade in [...]
Article
J. Russell Butler, Auteur ;
Dena P. MacMynowski, Auteur ;
Chad Laurent, Auteur ;
Terry L. Root, Auteur
Using Christmas Bird Count data, we analyze the annual spatio-temporal abundances of six passerine species in the upper Great Plains, US (1960-1990). This study provides new insight into how global warming could cause separation of species withi[...]
Article
Will Steffen, Auteur ;
Paul J. Crutzen, Auteur ;
John R. McNeill, Auteur
We explore the development of the Anthropocene, the current epoch in which humans and our societies have become a global geophysical force. The Anthropocene began around 1800 with the onset of industrialization, the central feature of which was [...]
Article
Jianguo Liu, Auteur ;
Thomas Dietz, Auteur ;
Stephen R. Carpenter, Auteur ;
Carl Folke, Auteur ;
Marina Alberti, Auteur ;
Charles L. Redman, Auteur ;
Stephen H. Schneider, Auteur ;
Elinor Ostrom, Auteur ;
Alice N. Pell, Auteur ;
Jane Lubchenco, Auteur ;
William W. Taylor, Auteur ;
Zhiyun Ouyang, Auteur ;
Peter Deadman, Auteur ;
Timothy Kratz, Auteur ;
William Provencher, Auteur
Humans have continuously interacted with natural systems, resulting in the formation and development of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). Recent studies reveal the complexity of organization, spatial, and temporal couplings of CHANS. Th[...]
Article
Henri J. Dumont, Auteur ;
Gamal M. El-Shabrawy, Auteur
Borullus, the most centrally situated of the Nile Delta lakes, probably evolved around the eighth century AD from a preexisting salt marsh by fluviatile deposition of sand dunes north of the lake and subsidence of the preexisting tidal swamp beh[...]
