Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain. A …

On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress
over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of …

Working memory (WM) has limited capacity. This leaves attention with the important role of
allowing into storage only the most relevant information. It is increasingly evident that …

Sustainability requires living within the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. In an attempt
to measure the extent to which humanity satisfies this requirement, we use existing data to …

Monte Carlo methods can be used in data analytic situations (eg, validity studies) to make
decisions about sample size and to estimate power. The purpose of using Monte Carlo …

There is a new phenomenon in the global arena: environmental refugees. These are people
who can no longer gain a secure livelihood in their homelands because of drought, soil …

The accelerating and potentially catastrophic loss of biotic diversity is unlike other
environmental threats because it is irreversible. Given the rapid loss of biodiversity and limited …

This paper describes three new characteristics that are useful in giving numerical values to
certain components of surface roughness. These characteristics are valuable in identifying …

This paper aims to throw light on the mass extinction that is overtaking Earth's species. Using
an analytic methodology developed for an earlier partial assessment, it focuses on a series …

Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding.
This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost? …