Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

Evidence that extreme rainfall intensity is increasing at the global scale has strengthened
considerably in recent years. Research now indicates that the greatest increases are likely …

The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well
documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in …

Climate and weather variables such as rainfall, temperature, and pressure are indicators for
hazards such as tropical cyclones, floods, and fires. The impact of these events can be due …

The Convention on Wetlands, also known as the Ramsar Convention, is one of the oldest
global environmental intergovernmental agreements. It was established in 1971 in the City …

The creation of institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is an important task
confronting society. Panarchy, a term devised to describe evolving hierarchical systems …

It is argued that the problem of pattern and scale is the central problem in ecology, unifying
population biology and ecosystems science, and marrying basic and applied ecology …

Acts in what Hutchinson (1965) has called the'ecological theatre'are played out on various
scales of space and time. To understand the drama, we must view it on the appropriate …

Hierarchies and adaptive cycles comprise the basis of ecosystems and social-ecological
systems across scales. Together they form a panarchy. The panarchy describes how a …

The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people around the world deal
with dramatic fluctuations in the local natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing …