Fight floods on a global scale

Quantifying invertebrate resistance to floods: a global-scale meta-analysis.

Floods are a key component of the ecology and management of riverine ecosystems around the globe, but it is not clear whether floods have predictable effects on organisms that can allow us to generalize across regions and continents. To address this, we conducted a global-scale meta-analysis to investigate effects of natural and managed floods on invertebrate resistance, the ability of inverteb...

Change on a Global Scale

Global health impacts of floods: epidemiologic evidence.

Floods are the most common natural disaster in both developed and developing countries, and they are occasionally of devastating impact, as the floods in China in 1959 and Bangladesh in 1974 and the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December 2004 show (1). Their impacts on health vary between populations for reasons relating to population vulnerability and type of flood event (2–5). Under future cli...

Educating for Global Product Realization on a Global Scale

Three universities on three continents co-operated in teaching global product realization. The Global Product Realization (GPR) course is a highly innovative course in which virtual classrooms and workshops have been formed via ISDN lines, internet facilities and other information technological means representing the state-of-the-technology. This paper gives an insight into the background, the ...

Interlinking Scientific Data on a Global Scale

A recurrent problem with the way research data is stored, processed, and accessed is that scientific work environments, as well as research data infrastructures, remain isolated solutions that focus on data from specific disciplines or data produced within specific geographic regions, such as the European Union or the United States. Moreover, scientific work environments and research data infra...