Does biogeography have a future in a globalized world with globalized faunas?

The future of production systems in a globalized world

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org H life is ultimately dependent on ecosystem services supplied by the biosphere, including agricultural production, flood control, and recreational opportunities. Over the past 50 years, humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and more extensively than at any other time in human history, primarily to meet the growing need for pro...

Community-based conservation in a globalized world.

Communities have an important role to play in biodiversity conservation. However, community-based conservation as a panacea, like government-based conservation as a panacea, ignores the necessity of managing commons at multiple levels, with vertical and horizontal interplay among institutions. The study of conservation in a multilevel world can serve to inform an interdisciplinary science of co...

Food safety in a globalized world

Editorials 212 Access to sufficient safe food is a basic requirement for human health. Ensuring food safety and security in a highly globalized world presents increasingly difficult, and often under-appreciated challenges, for governments, commercial organizations and individuals alike. The risks of unsafe food are substantial , but can be difficult to quantify. Diarrhoeal diseases – both foodb...

Redistribution Policies in a Globalized World

Fighting Infection in a Globalized World

Probably the hardest human battle, one that has lasted hundreds of thousands of years, has been the one against infection. Being able to celebrate a 30 birthday was once considered a miracle but only if one survived the perilous years of childhood. Indeed, the CDC reports that in 1900, nearly 30% of deaths worldwide occurred in children 5 and under. It is remarkable how far we’ve come in our ab...