Accurate regional and global information on land cover and its changes over time is crucial for environmental monitoring, land management, and planning. In this study, we selected Fengning County, in China’s Hebei Province, as a case study area. Using satellite data, we generated fused normalized-difference vegetation index (NDVI) data with high spatial and temporal resolution by utilizing the ...

For now, rely on Bill Gates. Delegates to a special World Health Summit session on “innovative financing mechanisms” were agreed that there is a desperate need to loosen the purse strings of governments, corpor ations and individuals so as to significantly bolster global health programs. They were equally agreed, during a “Funding Global Health: Can Innovative Mechanisms Save the Poor?” panel d...

The Global Fund is being naïve in simply exempting tobacco and arms producers from its remit.27 The products sold by these corporations may be unique but their conduct is unlikely to be and these two issues should not be confused. Whether a company sells cigarettes or alcohol, its main goal is to maximize shareholder returns. Policies that could reduce such returns are, therefore, antithetical ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to explore and provide feedback on local stakeholders' experiences with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) as it related to capacity building for tuberculosis (TB) services in Nicaragua. METHODS An ethnomethodological approach was used to capture the experiences of three different groups: service providers, service recipients...

Leaf area index (LAI) is an important vegetation parameter that characterizes leaf density and canopy structure, and plays an important role in global change study, land surface process simulation and agriculture monitoring. The wide field view (WFV) sensor on board the Chinese GF-1 satellite can acquire multi-spectral data with decametric spatial resolution, high temporal resolution and wide c...

CLIMATE POLICY 10 (2010) 216–231 doi:10.3763/cpol.2008.0604 © 2010 Earthscan ISSN: 1469-3062 (print), 1752-7457 (online) www.climatepolicy.com Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in developing countries has been at the centre of negotiations on a renewed international climate regime. Developing countries have made it clear that their ability to engage in REDD act...

We establish a Lindström type characterisation of the extension of basic modal logic by a global modality (ML[∀]) and of the guarded fragment of first-order logic (GF) as maximal among compact logics with the corresponding bisimulation invariance and the Tarski Union Property.

The most efficient global climate policy is to price carbon. The Kyoto-Copenhagen agenda was intended to do this with a system of international cap and trade. We view these negotiations as a game in which countries choose their quantity targets based on self interest. Like the analogous public-goods game, in which countries choose their abatement levels, we find this game leads to uncooperative...