Social Networking on Climate Change

Climate Change Impact on Neotropical Social Wasps

Establishing a direct link between climate change and fluctuations in animal populations through long-term monitoring is difficult given the paucity of baseline data. We hypothesized that social wasps are sensitive to climatic variations, and thus studied the impact of ENSO events on social wasp populations in French Guiana. We noted that during the 2000 La Niña year there was a 77.1% decrease ...

Behavior-Change Goals for Social Networking Sites

Despite the benefits they derive from social networking sites (SNSs), members of those services are not always satisfied with their online behaviors. The investigation of desires for behavior change in SNSs both provide insight into users’ perceptions of how SNSs impact their lives (positively or negatively) and can inform tools for helping users achieve desired behavior changes. We use a 604-p...

Annexes Inter-organizational Networking ( on Facilitating Networks for Social Change (

The problem of increasing societal variety is described. A suggestion is made that social networks might serve as decentralized regulators of this variety. Examples of social networks serVing in this capacity are given. Methods are outlined for facilitating these networks by sharing information about the network and its members. Facilitation at various levels of recursion is discussed. Computer...

Climate Change and Social Inequality

This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between climate change and “within-country inequalities,” referred here collectively as “social inequality.” Available evidence indicates that this relationship is characterized by a vicious cycle, whereby initial inequality causes the disadvantaged groups to suffer disproportionately from the adverse effects o...

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