From Local Projects in the Alps to Global Change Programmes in the Mountains of the World: Milestones in Transdisciplinary Research

2007 ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Messerli ◽  
Paul Messerli
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Alps

Practicing what we preach: Reflections on the pros and cons of transdisciplinary research in Erongarícuaro, Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin C. Pischke ◽  
Lucía Pérez Volkow ◽  
Mayra Fragoso-Medina ◽  
Laura Aguirre franco
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
American Institute ◽  
Socioecological Systems ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
International Borders ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Young Researchers

In November 2016, a group of students from the Americas participated in an Inter-American Institute for Global Change Researchfunded two-week course organized by professors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The aim was to teach students and young researchers how to collaborate with non-scientists to conduct socioecological systems research in a transdisciplinary manner. This article will review the benefits as well as the challenges to doing so. It concludes with recommendations that other research teams can follow when conducting similar research that crosses disciplinary and international borders.

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
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
The World

Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Frank Hodges ◽  
R. J. Johnston ◽  
Peter J. Taylor ◽  
Michael J. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

scholarly journals Global change affects differently at local scales animal populations: why Starlings still expands to the south while other temperate species go to the north?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Rodriguez ◽  
Giuseppe La Gioia ◽  
Patricia Le Quilliec ◽  
Damien Fourcy ◽  
Philippe Clergeau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Sturnus Vulgaris ◽  
European Starling ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
The World ◽  
Landscape Transformations

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.

scholarly journals Une nouvelle approche pour immuniser nos forêts contre l'incertitude (essai)

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Messier ◽  
Fanny Maure ◽  
Núria Aquilué
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Spatial Network ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Monitoring And Forecasting

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.

SWS 2015 Feminist Lecture

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 869-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisha Desai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Justice Movements

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.

ALPEX The GARP Mountain Subprogram

1981 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim P. Kuettner ◽  
Thomas H. R. O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
World Meteorological Organization ◽  
General Area ◽  
International Council ◽  
Atmospheric Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Alps

The problem of airflow over and around mountains, as originally proposed by J. Charney, R. Hide, F. Mesinger, and G. Goetz, was approved in 1978 as a subprogram of the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) by the Joint Organizing Committee (JOC) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).3 ALPEX will be the field project of this subprogram and, as the name indicates, the general area of the Alps has been selected as its site. The primary observing period will be during March and April 1982. ALPEX will complete the series of large international field projects of GARP (UCAR, 1980; ICSU/WMO, 1980e).

Antarctica

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Day
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Global Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
The Antarctic

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.

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