Water is of vital and critical importance to ecosystems and human societies. The effects of
human activities on land and water are now large and extensive. These reflect physical …

The behaviour of individuals, businesses, and government entities before, during, and
immediately after a disaster can dramatically affect the impact and recovery time. However …

This paper describes GCAM v5. 1, an open source model that represents the linkages
between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems. GCAM is a market equilibrium …

Low-carbon transitions are long-term multi-faceted processes. Although integrated
assessment models have many strengths for analysing such transitions, their mathematical …

Formal models are commonly used in natural resource management (NRM) to study human-
environment interactions and inform policy making. In the majority of applications, human …

The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the
limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the planet's poorest and most …

Climate change and other challenges to the stability and functioning of natural and
managed environmental systems are driven by increasing anthropogenic domination of the …

Forecasts of ecological dynamics in changing environments are increasingly important, and
are available for a plethora of variables, such as species abundance and distribution …

Vested interests and political agents have long opposed political or regulatory action in
response to climate change by appealing to scientific uncertainty. Here we examine the …

Climate change is likely to drive migration from environmentally stressed areas. However
quantifying short and long-term movements across large areas is challenging due to …