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Efforts towards sustainability in any field are built on processes for communicating, learning, and sharing knowledge, engaging people in their multiple roles as individuals, and as members of communities and organizations. This portal (formerly NRM-changelinks) is designed for those wanting to improve collaboration within a range of governance initiatives. It is aimed at supporting adaptation and resilience within a decision-making environment characterised by change, complexity and uncertainty.

The Pacific Regional Environment and Vulnerability Programme currently allocates NZ$6.5 million a year for regional programmes designed to protect and enhance the Pacific region's natural resource base for sustainable development and poverty elimination.

The mission statement of the Earth System Science Partnership calls upon social scientists to develop 'strategies for Earth System management'. Yet what such strategies might be, and how such strategies can be developed, remains poorly understood in the social sciences. Moreover, social scientists tend to disagree with the notion of 'management', and rather prefer the term 'governance', which is, in social science terms, rather non-hierarchical, decentralised, less government-driven and open for multiple perspectives and stakeholders. What are then the appropriate theories and strategies for sustainable earth system governance? This question stood at the centre of the 2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, held 24-26 May 2007 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Seventh Brunel International Lecture Series began on 9th June 2008 at One Great George Street, the home of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The groundbreaking lecture is now travelling to key cities around the world throughout 2008 and 2009. The lecture outlines the challenges facing us, as society has to really address the problems caused by climate change and a burgeoning world population.

Business Adaptation to Climate Change Dialogue with other managers and researchers about how business strategies should incorporate adaptation to climate change!

Climate change could have a number of potential impacts on Queensland's weather, including warmer temperatures, higher sea levels, changes in rainfall patterns, and increased storm and cyclone intensity.