Research imperative

Knowledge Mobilization: the New Research Imperative

These sorts of questions, despite their many embedded definitional, philosophical and pragmatic problems, are commanding urgent attention in educational discourses and research policies now circulating in the UK and Europe, Canada and the US, Australia and other parts of the world. This attention has been translated into powerful material exercises that shape what is considered to be worthwhile...

The Sustainability Imperative in Information Systems Research

An imperative need for global change research in tropical forests.

Tropical forests play a crucial role in regulating regional and global climate dynamics, and model projections suggest that rapid climate change may result in forest dieback or savannization. However, these predictions are largely based on results from leaf-level studies. How tropical forests respond and feedback to climate change is largely unknown at the ecosystem level. Several complementary...

Mycorrhizas in tropical forests: a neglected research imperative.

Given the high diversity found in most ectomycorrhizal fungal communities, examining functional differences among species is important to integrate the parts of the aforementioned ecological hierarchy (Koide et al., 2007). Jean Garbaye (INRA, Nancy, France) presented recent work linking taxonomic diversity with the diversity of enzymatic activity associated with individual ectomycorrhizal root ...

Research on coronary disease in women: political or scientific imperative?