Foreword: Women as Change Agents in the World’s Rangelands

Climate Change Impacts on South American Rangelands

Climate change impacts on Australian Rangelands

The recent IPCC Fourth Assessment report concluded that Australia has significant vulnerability to the changes in temperature and rainfall projected under climate change (Hennessy et al. 2007). Agriculture and natural resources were two of the key sectors identified as likely to be affected strongly. Extensive grazing is by far the most widespread agricultural land use in Australia. Most of the...

Women as agents of change: Female income and mobility in India.

Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to steady and relatively remunerative employment for the first time, potentially shifting bargaining power within their households and changing the choices that are made for their children. This paper exploits a unique setting - a group of tea plantations in South India where women are employed in permanent wage labor an...

Mighty Agents for Hard Worlds

1Despite the social emphasis in Multi-Agent Based Systems research, individual agent control systems (ACS) can not be discarded. The individual capacity for effective action selection and enforcement require agents with harmonised real-time and long-term capabilities. Neither the reactive nor deliberative paradigms seem to provide this harmony. We are proposing an ACS schema where longterm cond...

Foreword: Mediterranean diet and climatic change.

Changes in diet, reducing animal products and increasing consumption of vegetables can not only benefit human health and the overall use of land, but can also play a decisive role in the politics of climate change mitigation. In this sense, the Mediterranean diet (MD) is presented as a sustainable cultural model, respectful of the environment, whose adherence in Mediterranean countries should c...