BISE’s Responsibility for our Planet

Our Responsibility?

have to take the Broad Street line and change at Willesden or go up to town by bus. The District trains won't be running for some while." A fair-haired woman standing nearby murmured: "How inconsiderate," and then laughed nervously, probably regretting her words. I thought of the man or woman lying on the track, perhaps killed outright, dying or maimed, for the station official would not really...

ERA-PLANET, a European Network for Observing Our Changing Planet

ERA-PLANET is a wide European network comprised of 118 researchers from 35 partner institutions located in 18 countries, aiming to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation (EO) in coherence with the European participation to the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the program for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation, COPERNICUS. It will...

Our Crowded Planet

This is an important book but unfortunately the people who need most to read it are the least likely to do so. It consists of a series of short essays by an unusual group of scholars ranging from biologists, historians and economists to lawyers, statesmen and clergymen. The population problem is approached from the various and varied points of view represented by these contributors, all of whom...

Our Responsibility to Our Research Participants.

As the readers of this journal know all too well, conducting a study takes a lot of time, energy, commitment, and, most of all, work. I do not have to list the myriad steps that need to be taken, often with delays in between, to take a study from good idea to analysis. There are often sweat and tears, if not blood, and, at the end of the process, there may be exhaustion. Then the piles of paper...

Coping with our cold planet.