scholarly journals Digging Into the World Beneath Our Feet: Bridging Across Scales in the Age of Global Change

Eos ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 95 (11) ◽  
pp. 96-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley ◽  
William Wieder ◽  
Noah Fierer ◽  
Eldor Paul
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1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Frank Hodges ◽  
R. J. Johnston ◽  
Peter J. Taylor ◽  
Michael J. Watts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Rodriguez ◽  
Giuseppe La Gioia ◽  
Patricia Le Quilliec ◽  
Damien Fourcy ◽  
Philippe Clergeau

Global change, which regroups global warming, landscape transformations and other anthropic modifications of ecosystems, has effects on populations and communities and produces modifications in the expansion area of species. While some species disappear, other ones are beneficiated by the new conditions and some of them evolve in new adapted forms or leave their ancient distribution area. As climate change tends to increase the temperature in several regions of the world, some species have been seen to leave areas in equatorial regions in order to join colder areas either towards the north of the northern hemisphere or towards the south of the southern one. Many birds as have moved geographically in direction to the poles and in many cases they have anticipated their laying dates. Actually, two tit species that use to lay their eggs in a period that their fledging dates synchronize with the emerging dates of caterpillars are now evolving to reproductive in periods earlier than before the climate change. Several species are reacting like that and other ones are moving to the north in Europe for example. Nevertheless, and very curiously, European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, populations are behaving on the contrary: their laying dates are moving towards later spring and their distribution area is moving towards the south. In this study we explore and discuss about different factors that may explain this difference from other birds.


2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Messier ◽  
Fanny Maure ◽  
Núria Aquilué

A new approach to immunizing our forests against uncertainty (essay) In the present context of global change, managing our forests is a major challenge, in particular because of the great uncertainty associated with this change. Faced with this new reality, our methods of monitoring and forecasting the developments in our forests are no longer effective enough, so we have to review how we manage our forests. Complexity theory provides a conceptual framework for our approach, which leads us to adopt a more holistic and flexible way of seeing the world when planning our forest management. We must therefore accept that forests are complex and dynamic systems, and for that reason, never completely predictable. By incorporating the functional properties of trees and the complex spatial network of their populations in our forest management, and encouraging greater functional diversity and connectivity, we can immunize the forests against present and future stresses.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 869-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisha Desai

The World Social Forum (WSF)—a global gathering of social movements and a process of global change—has come to signify the global justice movements. Since its inception in 2001 in Brazil it has traveled across the Global South, with the 2016 WSF in Montreal. As the WSF has traveled across the world, it has reflected the particular geographies and histories of movement politics in each place. Yet everywhere it has demonstrated what I have called the gendered geographies of struggle. By gendered geographies I mean the epistemic, spatial, and praxis divisions along gender lines evident in the marginalizing of feminist insights about the global political economy and global justice; low representation of women activists in public plenaries and private decision-making structures; and outsourcing of gender issues to women’s activists and movements. Without addressing these gendered geographies, I argue, there can be no global justice.


Author(s):  
David Day

Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century following this, countries competed for the frozen land's vast marine resources--namely, the skins and oil of seals and whales. Soon the entire territory played host to competing claims by rival nations. The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, but countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific bases establishing at least symbolic claims. Exploration and drilling by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and others has led to discoveries about the world's climate in centuries past--and in the process intimations of its alarming future. Delving into the history of the continent, Antarctic wildlife, arguments over governance, underwater mountain rangers, and the continent's use in predicting coming global change, Day's work sheds new light on a territory that, despite being the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world, will continue to be the object of intense speculation and competition.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Willy Himawan ◽  
Setiawan Sabana ◽  
A. Rikrik Kusmara

Pulau Bali terkenal sebagai salah satu tujuan wisata terbesar di dunia yang berkaitan erat dengan budaya Bali. Perkembangan seni rupa modern tidak dapat dipisahkan dari sejarah kolonialisme pada tahun 1900-an melalui pengembangan awal pariwisata yang memengaruhi perkembangan praktik seni Bali dan wacananya. Studi kualitatif ini akan melihat Bali sebagai kawasan-kawasan yang berbeda dalam spektrum perkembangan seni rupa yang dipengaruhi oleh konteks perkembangan pariwisata di tiap wilayah. Metode yang digunakan adalah aksi partipatoris di lapangan dengan pendekatan hermeneutik untuk memahami konteks, makna, dan nilai estetik yang terbangun dalam kegiatan-kegiatan seni rupa di Klungkung dalam kegiatan komunitas Batu Belah dalam acara Global Change Art Climate 2015, di Denpasar dan sekitarnya dalam kegiatan komunitas Sprites Art 2015, dan di Buleleng dalam kegiatan komunitas Segara Lor pada Buleleng Festival 2013. Perbedaan dalam konteks pengembangan pariwisata di daerah-daerah tertentu di Bali telah memengaruhi perkembangan dan perbedaan makna dan nilai estetika karya seni di sana. The Tourism Influence on Art Diversity as a Cultural Capital of Bali: Study on the Community and Art Events in Denpasar, Klungkung dan Singaraja. The island of Bali is famous as one of the largest tourist destination in the world. The development of modern art cannot be separated from the history of colonialism in the 1900s through the early development of Balinese art activities and their studies. This qualitative study sees Bali as different regions in the spectrum of the development of art which influenced by the context of the development of tourism in each region. The method used in this study is the action partipatoris field (participatory action field research) with a hermeneutic approachto understand the context, meaning, and aesthetic value that are built in the activities of art in Klungkung by among others are Batu Belah community in “The Global Change Art Climate 2015”, in Denpasar “Sprites activities Art” in 2015, and in Buleleng in activities “Segara Lor in Buleleng Festival 2013”. Differences in the context of the development of tourism in certain areas in Bali have influenced the development and meaning differences, and the aesthetic value of the works of art there.


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