Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...

Bennett Galef is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he has been a member of faculty since 1968, the year he received his Ph.D. in comparative and physiological psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral thesis on the role of stimulus novelty in eliciting aggressive behaviour of wild ...

and admired but few are loved. Th e avalanche of tributes and accolades that have fl ooded in since the tragic and premature death of David Bennett demonstrates the intense warmth and aff ection in which he was held. David qualifi ed from the Middlesex Hospital, London, in 1963. He spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in the pulmonary physiology lab at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore but otherwise wo...

fant health outcomes, as well as reduced educational and employment opportunities for young mothers.2 Teenage pregnancy, early childbearing and adverse infant health outcomes are most likely to occur among disadvantaged women with restricted access to health services, but the social and economic pathways to these outcomes are not well understood.3 A great deal of attention has been focused on t...