Barley: Global challenges and perspectives under non-tropical dry areas

asthma control challenges: global and national perspectives

Global Food Safety : Perspectives , Challenges , and Plans

The issue of supplying safe food on a global scale is a complicated task. With the advances in expectations from consumers to have a variety of food products from around the world available in their immediate area, the focus on how to meet this demand and do so safely challenges not only the delivery systems used for food transport, but the knowledge base of food safety experts and governmental...

A Global Network of Forest Protected Areas under the CBD: Opportunities and Challenges

Since the 1980s awareness for global biological diversity loss has been rising constantly. Theadoption of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD) at the Rio World Summit in 1992 initiated a large number of measures to protect global biodiversity. However, theobserved trend in biodiversity loss has not been reversed yet. WWF’s Living Planet Index(WWF et al. 2006) clearly show...

Observed strong currents under global tropical cyclones

a Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan b Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan c Naval Ocean Analysis and Prediction Laboratory, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA d Institute of Maritime Information and Technology, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung ...

Managing protected areas under climate change: challenges and priorities.

The implementation of adaptation actions in local conservation management is a new and complex task with multiple facets, influenced by factors differing from site to site. A transdisciplinary perspective is therefore required to identify and implement effective solutions. To address this, the International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change brought together internation...