Integrated ecosystem assessment (IEA) is a framework that organizes and summarizes science to aid in the transition from a traditional single sector toward a holistic management approach known as ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar 2015) (12 pages) ABSTRACT. Ecologists have used the concept of resilience since the 1970s. Resilience also features in many of the social and economic sciences ...

In Laudato Si: On care for our common home (2015), Pope Francis argues that one cannot rest with mere description of the symptoms of the ecological crisis without acknowledging its human origins. “A ...

Scientists have created living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos, the most advanced example of these structures yet created in a lab. The researchers hope these creations, made from ...