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Book ReviewsBook ReviewPublished Online:December 20, 2006https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.11.3.244PDFView Full Text ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreReferences Allen, I. , Olkin, I. (1999). Estimating time to conduct a meta-analysis from number of citations retrieved. Journal of the American Medical Association, 282, 634– 635 Crossref, Google Scholar Button, K. , Kerr, J. (1996). The effectiveness of traffic restrain policies: A simple meta-regression analysis. International Journal of Transport Economics, 23, 213– 225 Google Scholar Cooper, H. (1989). Integrating research: A guide for literature reviews . Newbury Park: Sage Google Scholar Cooper, H. , Hedges, L.V. Eds. (1994). The handbook of research synthesis . New York: Russell Sage Foundation Google Scholar Lipsey, M.W. , Wilson, D.B. (2001). Practical meta-analysis . Thousand Oakes: Sage Google Scholar Lösel, F. , Beelmann, A. (2003). Effects of child skills training in preventing antisocial behavior: A systematic review of randomized evaluations. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 587, 84– 109 Crossref, Google Scholar Smith, M.L. , Glass, G.V. (1977). Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies. American Psychologist, 32, 752– 760 Crossref, Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byUnderstanding and Promoting Industrial Sustainability in Africa Through the Triple Helix Approach: a Conceptual Model and Research Propositions15 May 2020 | Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Vol. 12, No. 3A Systematic Literature Review on RAMS analysis for critical infrastructures protectionInternational Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Vol. 33Business Management and Strategy in Cybersecurity for Digital TransformationHow ideas matter in public policy: a review of concepts, mechanisms, and methodsInternational Review of Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 3Firm–civil society organizational collaborations in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives; development of collaboration typologyWorld Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Vol. 16, No. 4Risk Factors of Supply Chain in Biopharmaceutical Companies in Iran15 November 2020 | Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 3Determinants of low-carbon transport mode adoption: systematic review of reviews21 September 2020 | Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 15, No. 10Production and supply-chain as the basis for SMEs’ environmental management development: a systematic literature reviewJournal of Cleaner ProductionContext awareness in healthcare: a systematic literature review2 July 2019 | Universal Access in the Information Society, Vol. 19, No. 2Patient and physician preferences for type 2 diabetes medications: a systematic review11 November 2019 | Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, Vol. 18, No. 2Performance measurement for supply chain management and quality management integrationBenchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. 27, No. 7System Dynamics in Tourism Planning and Development21 February 2018 | Tourism Planning & Development, Vol. 16, No. 3Use of VR Headsets in Education: A Systematic Review Study31 January 2019 | Journal of Educational Technology and Online LearningTapping into the wearable device revolution in the work environment: a systematic reviewInformation Technology & People, Vol. 31, No. 3Systematic Literature Reviews in Social Sciences and HumanitiesJournal of Information Technology Research, Vol. 11, No. 1Performance measurement in airport settings: a systematic literature reviewBenchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4Meta-analysis of influential factors on crop yield estimation by remote sensing5 March 2014 | International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 35, No. 6Software fault prediction metrics: A systematic literature reviewInformation and Software Technology, Vol. 55, No. 8Family Support in Prevention Programs for Children at Risk for Emotional/Behavioral Problems12 November 2011 | Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 Volume 11Issue 3September 2006ISSN: 1016-9040eISSN: 1878-531X InformationEuropean Psychologist (2006), 11, pp. 244-245 https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.11.3.244.© 2006Hogrefe & Huber PublishersAcknowledgments:PDF download

Landslides are among the deadliest natural hazards. Their impact is the highest in urban areas, where human exposure peaks. However, in addition to increasing exposure, multiple human-induced landscape alterations may also increase the probability of landslide occurrence. Hence, when we consider landslide risk in urban areas, not only does elevated exposure increase risk, but the exposed elements may also alter the frequency and intensity of the hazard.This relationship between exposure and hazard has already been demonstrated in physics-based hazard models that explore landslide potential in informal neighbourhoods. There is also ample evidence of landslides along intercity roads, linking hillslope modification to landslide occurrences. However, the number of observations is limited in urban areas. Here, we discuss the Granizal Landslide that occurred in June 2025, killing 27 people in the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley, Colombia. The rainfall-induced Granizal Landslide occurred in the steepest section of the urban zone, as could be expected. However, the landslide’s source area coincides with a road and a potentially malfunctioning sewage system, indicating that the exposed elements may have contributed to the landslide[1].The Granizal Landslide is alarming, as such incidents may increase as climate change intensifies. Especially in the tropical urban centres, more extreme rainfall events may overburden water infrastructure, not only informal infrastructure but also infrastructure that complies with the design standards. The statistical thresholds used to design the infrastructure may become inadequate due to shifts in rainfall patterns. Hence, we could broadly argue that climate change may be eroding the knowledge base that we used to design infrastructure. Perhaps not in the Aburrá Valley, but in other places we have already observed landslides in locations with little or no prior experience and risk awareness. This poses an additional risk due to the lack of knowledge among the newly exposed population about effective behavioural responses[2].[1] Ozturk, U., Braun, A., Gómez-Zapata, J. C., and Aristizábal, E.: Urban poor are the most endangered by socio-natural hazards, but not exclusively: the 2025 Granizal Landslide case, Landslides, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-025-02680-y, 2025.[2] Bubeck, P., Ozturk, U., Aristizabal, E., Thieken, A. H., and Wagener, T.: Mortality reduction despite changing climate extremes requires better understanding of human behavioral response to warnings, Environmental Research Letters, 20, 101004, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f, 2025.

In this comment we examine a recent study published in Environmental Research Letters that analysed fire history data from forests in Western Australia to suggest that changes in forest structure result in a long-term reduction of fire risk after 56 years since last fire. We examine the data underpinning this study and find that its strongly skewed sample size distribution creates a bias to the extent that the analytical approach would find a pattern of declining fire risk even when there was no decline. Moreover, the very small sample sizes of the longest unburned forests mean that fire mapping errors as small as 1–2 ha can reverse key findings. With documented mapping errors orders of magnitude larger, the dataset is not robust to analysis at this level of precision. An appropriate conclusion, taking into account these detection and sensitivity issues, would be that likelihood of subsequent wildfire is reduced in the first ∼6 years following fire, and remains fairly consistent at a higher level for at least the next 3 decades, with no evidence for a long-term reduction of fire risk. This is relevant given that many fire and forest management decisions are made based on scientific literature. Rather than wildfire risk reducing with increasing time since fire, our projections indicate that ceasing active fire management in the sampled forests could result in landscape wildfire extent 25%–65% above current levels. We recommend further steps that would help provide sound, evidence-based knowledge to inform science, management, and policy.

Coastal agriculture is increasingly affected by salinization as sea-level rise, subsidence, river regulation, and water withdrawals combine with more frequent drought and heat extremes. In recent years, a key advance has been the ability to link seawater intrusion (SWI) to crop impacts by integrating satellite observations with targeted field measurements.At the global scale, cropland distribution and low-elevation coastal metrics reveal a clear mismatch between where impacts are reported and where exposure is likely. Documented hotspots include the Mediterranean, South and South-East Asia, and the Bohai Sea region, while extensive low-lying coastal croplands remain weakly monitored. A screening based on coastal proximity and elevation indicates ~87 Mha of cropland potentially vulnerable to SWI-related salinization (Ghirardelli et al. 2025). This estimate is useful to guide monitoring and prioritization. The global synthesis also highlights recurring combinations of drivers—drought and low flows, pumping, subsidence, and saline surface-water incursions—that promote salt accumulation in soils.At the regional scale, results from the Po River Delta (Italy) illustrate how drought can trigger rapid salinity increases and measurable crop impacts (Luo et al. 2024). Sentinel-2 time series of vegetation greenness and salinization-sensitive spectral information, interpreted alongside measurements of soil electrical conductivity and moisture, provide spatially explicit identification of vulnerable areas and seasons. This approach supports early warning during extreme dry summers and provides benchmarks to evaluate management actions.Mitigation is moving from single measures to combined strategies. Current evidence supports integrated portfolios that couple nature-based buffers (e.g., wetlands/mangroves that limit saline intrusion while sustaining ecosystem services) with water and soil management (rainwater harvesting and storage, efficient irrigation including precision and subsurface drip systems, and drainage improvement) and, where needed, salt-tolerant crops enabled by breeding and bioengineering (Tarolli et al. 2024).Remaining challenges include: (1) AI-enabled prediction for short-term forecasting and early warning, especially during drought and low-discharge periods; (2) process-coupled models that translate seawater intrusion into root-zone salinity, including irrigation water quality, evaporaton-driven salt concentration, capillary rise, and drainage; (3) stronger monitoring with denser networks and higher-frequency data, integrating in situ salinity/EC measurements with remote sensing; (4) a practical management protocol for coastal agriculture linking observations to irrigation, drainage, and water allocation decisions; and (5) progress in salt-tolerant crops (breeding and bioengineering), tested and deployed together with soil–water management under real coastal conditions.ReferencesGhirardelli et. al. (2025). Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad9bcd.Luo et al. (2024). International Soil and Water Conservation Research, doi:10.1016/j.iswcr.2023.09.009.Tarolli et al. (2024). iScience, doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108830.

Elevation-dependent temperature change is a phenomenon found in mountain regions with complex terrain, mostly in the Himalayas and the high terrain of the Tibetan Plateau, where regions in high elevation feature high rates of warming than the region in lower elevation. This pattern referred to as elevation-dependent warming. However, does elevation-dependent warming exist in Eocene hothouse without Tibetan Plateau as well and lower altitude mountain ranges?The Eocene era is considered a replication of the future climate with high atmospheric carbon dioxide. We utilized CESM1.2 as part of the DeepMIP simulations to analyze elevation-dependent temperature change in different mountain ranges in the Eocene and explained the findings using a linear surface energy balance decomposition. The results feature a land-sea contrast with amplification over land and elevation-dependent temperature changes in all mountain ranges with distinct seasonality and pattern. The results suggest that radiative feedback processes have a strong contribution to elevation-dependent warming in the warming climate. Our modeling results provide relevant information for mountain climate change in a past hot climate. Further, the analysis opens new mystery and perspectives related to elevation-dependent warming. Keywords: Eocene, paleoclimate modeling, elevation-dependent warming, CO2 Related Publication:Kad P, Blau M T, Ha K-J, and Zhu J (2022) Elevation-dependent temperature response in early Eocene using paleoclimate model experiment. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11), 114038. (https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9c74)

Previous articleNext article No AccessRates of Return to Investment in Education around the WorldGeorge PsacharopoulosGeorge Psacharopoulos Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 16, Number 1Feb., 1972 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/445569 Views: 61Total views on this site Citations: 21Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1971 The Comparative and International Education SocietyPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Claudia Díaz Ríos, Nathalia Urbano-Canal The World Bank and Education Policy in Colombia: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of International Organizations’ Learning on Domestic Policy, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 28 (Dec 2021): 1–17.https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2021.1991796Orla Kelly The Silver Bullet? Assessing the Role of Education for Sustainability, Social Forces 99, no.11 (Jan 2020): 178–204.https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz144Claudia Milena Diaz Rios Foreign Prescriptions and Domestic Interests: A Comparison of Education Reform in Argentina and Chile, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 20, no.22 (Oct 2016): 193–208.https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2016.1239321George Psacharopoulos, Harry Anthony Patrinos , Education Economics 26, no.55 ( 2018): 445.https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2018.1484426James Kenneth Timmis, Steven Black, Rino Rappuoli Improving accountability in vaccine decision-making, Expert Review of Vaccines 16, no.1111 (Oct 2017): 1057–1066.https://doi.org/10.1080/14760584.2017.1382358James Kenneth Timmis, Fabio Rigat, Rino Rappuoli Core values for vaccine evaluation, Vaccine 35 (Jan 2017): A57–A62.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.11.034Kapil Dev Regmi Lifelong learning: Foundational models, underlying assumptions and critiques, International Review of Education 61, no.22 (Mar 2015): 133–151.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-015-9480-2George Psacharopoulos The Returns to Investment in Higher Education, (Jan 2014): 121–148.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-794-0_8Gemma Cassells, Iain H Woodhouse, Genevieve Patenaude, Mavuto Tembo Academic and research capacity development in Earth observation for environmental management, Environmental Research Letters 6, no.44 (Oct 2011): 044002.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044002Dhiraj Sharma The Impact of Financial Incentives on Academic Achievement and Household Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Nepal, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2010).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1681186Stephen Morris, Alistair McGuire The private net present value and private internal rate of return to becoming a nurse in Great Britain, Applied Economics 34, no.1717 (Nov 2002): 2189–2200.https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840210139328Jorge R. Sanchez, Frankie Santos Laanan The Economic Returns of a Community College Education, Community College Review 25, no.33 (Sep 2016): 73–87.https://doi.org/10.1177/009155219702500306George Psacharopoulos, Ying Chu Ng Earnings and Education in Latin America, Education Economics 2, no.22 (Jul 2006): 187–207.https://doi.org/10.1080/09645299400000016L.C. Solmon The Quality of Education, (Jan 1987): 53–59.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-033379-3.50015-2Lewis C. Solmon Quality of education and economic growth, Economics of Education Review 4, no.44 (Jan 1985): 273–290.https://doi.org/10.1016/0272-7757(85)90013-5S. Heyneman Educational investment and economic productivity: Evidence from Malawi, International Journal of Educational Development 4, no.11 (Jan 1984): 9–15.https://doi.org/10.1016/0738-0593(84)90023-3Stephen P. Heyneman Investment in Indian education: Uneconomic?, World Development 8, no.22 (Feb 1980): 145–163.https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(80)90023-6Doug White Comparisons as Cognitive Process, and the Conceptual Framework of the Comparativist, Comparative Education 14, no.22 (Jul 2006): 93–108.https://doi.org/10.1080/0305006780140202Thomas La Belle, Robert Verhine Nonformal Education and Occupational Stratification: Implications for Latin America, Harvard Educational Review 45, no.22 (Jul 1975): 160–190.https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.45.2.25g8026w70601705Lee Sigelman, Raoul Naroll Holonational Bibliography, Comparative Political Studies 7, no.33 (Jun 2016): 357–382.https://doi.org/10.1177/001041407400700305Jan Versluis Secondary education, training and employment: The qualitative mismatch in developing countries, Prospects 3, no.33 (Sep 1973): 349–356.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198530

Phosphorus (P) use in global food and bioenergy production needs to become more efficient and sustainable to reduce environmental impacts and conserve a finite and critical resource (Carpenter & Bennett, Environmental Research Letters, 2011, 6, 014009; Springmann et al., Nature, 2018, 562, 519). Sugarcane is one crop with a large P footprint because production is centered on P‐fixing soils with low P availability (Roy et al., Nature Plants, 2016, 2, 16043; Withers et al., Scientific Reports, 2018, 8, 2537). As global demand for processed sugar and bioethanol continues to increase, we advocate that improving P efficiency could become a key sustainability goal for the sugarcane industry. Here, we applied the 5R global P stewardship framework (Withers et al., Ambio, 2015, 44, 193) to identify more sustainable options to manage P in Brazilian sugarcane production. We show that current inputs of P fertilizer to the current crop area could be reduced by over 305 Gg, or 63%, over the next three decades by reducing unnecessary P fertilizer use, better utilization of recyclable bioresources and redesigning recommendation systems. Adoption of these 5R options would save the sugarcane industry in Brazil 528 US$ million and help safeguard global food and energy security.

It is now commonly understood that much of the worldwide burden of environmental ill health falls disproportionately on poorer peoples [1,2]. There is also substantial evidence that much environmental damage internationally is the result of the actions of richer nations or richer groups within nations—with impacts on poorer nations and poorer groups within nations [1,3,4]. It is becoming clear also that poorer peoples internationally experience multiple environmental harms, and that these may have a cumulative effect. The world is becoming more urbanized, and cities are becoming the locus for many of the local issues of environmental damage and environmental harm [4,5]. But cities are also responsible for substantial international environmental damage: for example, it is increasingly evident that cities are one of the main generators of climate change, and that the actions of people in cities in the rich world are deeply linked to the well-being of the overall ecosystem and of people worldwide. Environmental justice is a concept that links the environmental health science documenting these harms, to debates around rights, justice and equity. It fundamentally deals with the distribution of environmental goods and harms—and looks at who bears those harms and who is responsible for creating those harms, in both a practical sense but also in terms of policy decisions. It is a radical environmental health movement that has evolved from civil society groups, angered at what they perceive as the `unjust' distribution of environmental resources for health and, conversely the `unjust' distribution of environmental harms. The movement now includes a collaboration of non-governmental organizations with environmental scientists, public health professionals, and lawyers, all working on the issue of the distributions of environmental harms and the rights of everyone to a healthy environment.This special issue is both timely and important. Environmental justice is moving conceptually and empirically. It started in the US as a movement of local civil society groups against local environmental injustice and distribution of environmental harms [6]. It is becoming a movement that encompasses international environmental injustices and issues of access to environmental goods—and it discusses environmental justice issues both across countries and also across generations. One such definition was pulled together by academics and NGOs in the UK in 2001:‘that everyone should have the right and be able to live in a healthy environment, with access to enough environmental resources for a healthy life’‘that responsibilities are on this current generation to ensure a healthy environment exists for future generations, and on countries, organisations and individuals in this generation to ensure that development does not create environmental problems or distribute environmental resources in ways which damage other peoples health’ [7].This kind of broad definition of environmental justice has been gaining currency internationally, and language around justice is moving into many topic areas of environmental science—shifting discourse on ‘climate change’ to ‘climate justice’, ‘water pollution’ to ‘rights to clean water’, ‘air pollution’ to ‘rights to healthy air’.Policy is changing too. In Europe the public is gaining more access to information on environmental harms through policy mechanisms such as the Aarhus Convention [8,9] and internationally, civil society groups are becoming aware that there are mechanisms to support them if they challenge environmental pollution. As the public becomes more aware of the issues of environmental justice, and as policy shifts in this direction, environmental scientists have a challenge. We have some of the methodology necessary to measure the distribution of environmental harms and environmental responsibilities. But we also need to develop new methods to deal with the new challenges: for example, how do we measure when an issue of water contamination becomes an issue of environmental injustice? How do we measure the impacts of environmental harm today on future generations? How do we measure the distribution of multiple or cumulative impacts on poorer groups? How do we quantify the responsibility of richer citizens in the world for the environmental harms distributed unequally to the poorer citizens?The papers in this focus issue do not answer all these questions, but we hope that this theme will recur in Environmental Research Letters and that more environmental scientists will begin to frame their analyses around the critical issues of distributions of environmental harms and benefits.

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Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce that the fourth issue of the new peer-reviewed open-access journal Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (RMMJ) has now been published online at www.rmmj.org.il. This Journal, while sponsored by Rambam Medical Center, represents an international initiative with active participation of leading international figures in medicine, biomedical science, and the ethical and philosophical aspects of health care. RMMJ is freely accessible via the Internet for immediate worldwide, open access to the full text of articles and fulfills the terms of the Creative Commons attribution license under which everyone is free to copy, distribute, and display the work, free of charge, for non-commercial personal and educational purposes. The editorial policy of RMMJ is guided by the highest standards of scientific quality and integrity, professional responsibility, and human compassion in accordance with the Rambam’s (Maimonides) scholarly and ethical legacy. As you may have noticed in the previous issues, RMMJ focuses on a wide spectrum of clinically relevant biomedical research and other issues central to the provision of optimal health care, disease prevention, and environmental health and provides a vehicle for original articles on basic and translational research that bring discoveries from the bench to the bedside and from the bedside to the community. The present issue contains our regular sections “Nobel Laureate Perspective”, “The Maimonides (Rambam) Heritage”, and the “Rambam Grand Rounds”. The last-mentioned includes a special article of major current relevance on treatment of crush injuries caused by earthquakes. The “Rambam Forum” section deals with the current issue of the societal and religious considerations in the practice of organ donation. Two articles on major findings regarding diabetes are included in the “Horizons in Diabetes and Metabolism” section. Two new sections have been added, “Education, Practice and Organization of HealthCare in the 21st Century” and “Readers’ Opinions and Comments”, in which readers’ full-length articles that have been submitted as a response to an article previously published in RMMJ will be published along with the original article author’s reply. This kind of extended “Letter to the Editor” will enable an appropriate and comprehensive public discourse regarding various issues. During the nine months that have passed since the inauguration, the Journal has had an outstanding exposure demonstrated by more than 11,000 new visits, and 59,000 articles downloaded, from 109 countries and territories. The Journal is a CrossRef member, and articles are indexed by Google Scholar and the Directory of Open Access Journals. We call upon you to join us in this endeavor and cordially invite you to submit a paper to RMMJ. We would be grateful if you could also assist us by notifying your friends about the Journal. This can be easily done through our home website, by clicking the “Notify a Friend” button, or by sending us your friends’ email addresses through the “Contact Us” section. With your help, the scientific and clinical excellence of the Journal will be assured. Sincerely yours,

On behalf of the editorial staff and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I am excited to welcome you to the inaugural issue of the new Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management! This new online journal focuses on the practical application and integration of science to the conservation and management of North American fish, wildlife, plants, and the ecosystems upon which they depend.The Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management publishes peer-reviewed papers on applied conservation research for which there are currently few publications outlets. For understandable reasons, agency research must often focus on fairly narrow topics or specific management problems. The subsequent data, analyses, and publication products are often scientifically sound, but may not be approved for publication in existing peer-reviewed journals because they are not perceived as being novel, they do not have a high enough scientific impact, or the scope of study is not sufficiently broad to appeal to a wide audience. The Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management is specifically designed to remedy this situation by providing a state-of-the-art outlet for publishing the peer-reviewed results of applied conservation research.All scientists are welcome to submit manuscripts to the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, regardless of professional or personal affiliation; the rigorous scientific standards of the peer review process are applied equally to all. We encourage submission of original, high quality, English-language papers exhibiting a high level of scientific rigor and sophistication that provide practical application and integration of science to conservation and management issues in the following categories: Articles (full research papers, including comprehensive reviews), Notes (shorter research papers of more limited scope and inference), Surveys (papers on inventory and monitoring studies, field surveys, and survey methodology), and Issues and Perspectives (essays examining questions of concern to conservation professionals and comments on papers published in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management). Invited topic papers and reviews will also be common entries in future issues and are currently being solicited—suggestions are welcome!The broad scope of this journal necessitates an impressive cadre of subject matter experts to fill the editorial roles. The editorial team consists of more than 80 experts across more than 20 major subject areas. Members of the editorial team come from a diversity of backgrounds, including government agencies, academia, and non-governmental organizations.The Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management is in the public domain, completely electronic, and free; there are no subscription or page charges and access is unlimited for anyone with internet access. All manuscripts must be submitted using our online submission site. Full details on the editorial team, the submission and review process, how to sign up as a reviewer, how to receive issue alerts, and much more, are available online (http://www.fws.gov/science/jfwm.html).This inaugural issue features papers illustrating both the breadth and quality of the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, with examples from all four article categories. The issue starts with three Articles that vary widely in scope. Sweka and Mackay (2010) use quantile regression to examine how Atlantic salmon parr density varies along stream gradients as a function of the upstream cumulative drainage. McCurry et al. (2010) explore the relative flood tolerance of hardwood bottomland seedlings, the understanding of which is fundamental to restoring floodplain ecosystems, and Blomquist et al. (2010) describe the application of structured decision making to an adaptive management framework for responding to an invasive forest pest. The three Notes in this issue are equally varied. Strobel and Boal (2010) examine the nesting habitat preference of red-shouldered hawks, Johnson et al. (2010) describe a conceptual model for applying spatial data to identify priority grassland habitats, and Foster et al. (2010) investigate the utility of delayed timing for the flooding of agriculture fields used by waterfowl. You will also find an excellent example of Surveys from Walsh et al. (2010), who apply a double-observer aerial line-transect method to estimate brown bear population density in southwestern Alaska. Finally, in the journal's first Issues and Perspectives piece, Raffaele (2010) provides a provocative essay suggesting that a dramatic shift is needed in the way we perceive and address land management in the face of a rapidly changing climate.In addition, there will be other papers already accepted for the next issue of the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management that will be available online along with this issue as “Online Early” papers (the full suite of accepted papers is unknown at the production deadline for this editorial). Due to the logistic constraints of launching a new journal, papers in the inaugural issue were not previously available in their Online Early version. However, now that we have officially launched the journal, papers will now be available in their Online Early form within hours of acceptance. These papers will not have the benefit of copyediting, formatting, and typesetting, but can be cited immediately using their Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) and will be available in their final polished form in the following issue.I am also happy to announce that the launch of Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management is timed to coincide with the resurrection of North American Fauna (http://www.fws.gov/science/naf.html) under the same general process and guidelines (Flint 2010). North American Fauna started publishing monograph length articles in 1889 (Merriam 1889), but has remained dormant since 1991 (Petersen et al. 1991). That is, until now—manuscripts are once again being accepted at https://naf.allentrack.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. North American Fauna is being re-launched as an open access journal. In addition, the 76 previously published issues have been digitized and are now available online (http://www.fwspubs.org) in a format that allows searching within PDFs, forward linking, and streamlined searching and retrieval, whether a user searches inside the website or is using a search engine such as GoogleTM.The genesis for launching both online journals was developed and nurtured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Science Committee. The process has been long and challenging. Accordingly, there are too many contributors to thank here. However, Dan Ashe, Bill Knapp, Anne Post Roy, and Teresa Woods deserve special recognition; their efforts throughout this process have ensured success. I am honored to have been part of this process. It is my hope and belief that the utility and profile of the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management will grow quickly among the applied conservation community. Enjoy!

Mauro Giovanni Carta and Maria Carolina Hardoy, Why a new online open access journal in the field of clinical and epidemiological research in mental health? Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, April 27, 2005. An editorial in the inaugural issue of a new OA journal.