Determining and assessing the links between human pressures and state-changes in
marine and coastal ecosystems remains a challenge. Although there are several conceptual …

Many of the decisions relating to future urban development require information on climate
change risks to cities This review of the academic and “grey” literature provides an overview …

The problem of drought in India is a major issue in terms of various adverse impacts on
livelihood of society. Drought Early Warning System (DEWS), a real-time drought-monitoring …

The Fourth Assessment Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) critically assessed thousands of recent publications on different …

The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was developed in the late
1990s to structure and organize indicators in a meaningful way. Since then, the framework …

The Drivers–Pressures–State–Impacts–Responses (DPSIR) framework has evolved as an
interdisciplinary tool to provide and communicate knowledge on the state and causal factors …

Projections of species' distribution under global change (climatic and environmental) are of
great scientific and societal relevance. They rely on a proper understanding of how …

Projected changes in biodiversity are likely inadequately estimated when climate and land-
use change effects are examined in isolation. A review of studies of the effects of these …

The DPSIR framework was devised in the late 1990s as a tool for the reporting and analysis
of environmental problems, ranging in scale from global systems to localized watersheds …

Marine aliens are non-native species that have been transported across major geographical
barriers by human activities, involving vectors that move propagules along pathways …