The availability of robust and reliable spatial information on ecosystem condition is increasing importance in informing conservation policy. Recent policy requirements have sparked a renewed interest conceptual questions related to practical aspects like indicator selection, resulting the emergence frameworks, such as System Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem (SEEA-EA) its Condition...

Inland aquatic ecosystems, such as streams, rivers, ponds and lakes, play an important role in maintaining global biodiversity ecosystem services. They have been increasingly influenced by environmental change warming, dam construction, habitat fragmentation, eutrophication urbanization. However, our understanding of the impact on functions remains elusive. The aim this special issue is to high...

Feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems to atmospheric and climate change depend on soil ecosystem dynamics. Soil ecosystems can directly and indirectly respond to climate change. For example, warming directly alters microbial communities by increasing their activity. Climate change may also alter plant community composition, thus indirectly altering the soil communities that depend on their inputs...

The Health Status Indicators (HSIs) were developed as part of the Healthy People 2000 process to facilitate the comparison of health status measures at national, State and local levels. In this report, the number of HSIs where the national target has been attained and the number of HSIs that have improved significantly are enumerated for the United States, the District of Columbia, and each Sta...

Misrecognition, taken seriously as unjust social subordination, cannot be remedied by eliminating prejudice alone. In this rejoinder to Richard Rorty, it is argued that a politics of recognition and a politics of redistribution can and should be combined. However, an identity politics that displaces redistribution and rei® es group differences is deeply āwed. Here, instead, an alternative ’stat...

Geographic patterns of sarcoidosis have been detected and studied on a global scale. However, the associations between these disease patterns and population characteristics have not been determined. The authors studied the geographic pattern of sarcoidosis in South Carolina and its relation to socioeconomic status (SES) and health status indicators. Hospitalization rates for the period 1985-199...