Comment to Rull et al. (2013)—Challenging Easter Island's Collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies

Challenging Easter Island's collapse: the need for interdisciplinary synergies

1 Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Barcelona, Spain 2 Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Sciences, Faculty of Geology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain 4 Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Blanes, Girona, Spain 5 Centre for Ecological Research and Fores...

The EIRA Database: Glacial to Holocene Radiocarbon Ages from Easter Island's Sedimentary Records

CLAFS, a Holistic Climatic-Ecological-Anthropogenic Hypothesis on Easter Island's Deforestation and Cultural Change: Proposals and Testing Prospects

Citation: Rull V, Montoya E, Seco I, Cañellas-Boltà N, Giralt S, Margalef O, Pla-Rabes S, D’Andrea W, Bradley R and Sáez A (2018) CLAFS, a Holistic Climatic-Ecological-Anthropogenic Hypothesis on Easter Island’s Deforestation and Cultural Change: Proposals and Testing Prospects. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:32. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00032 CLAFS, a Holistic Climatic-Ecological-Anthropogenic Hypothesis ...

Policy Capacity in the Learning Healthcare System; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

How Can a Global Social Support System Hope to Achieve Fairer Competiveness?; Comment on “A Global Social Support System: What the International Community Could Learn From the United States’ National Basketball Association”

Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. This commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the National Basketball Association (NBA) example as a point ...