US public opinion regarding climate change has become increasingly polarized in recent
years, as partisan think tanks and others worked to recast an originally scientific topic into a …

IUCN is to be congratulated in taking the initiative and sustaining efforts to promote the role
of transboundary protected areas (TBPAs) for biodiversity conservation, peace and co-…

… Lawrence Hamilton develops a compelling positive conception of human needs: the
evaluation of needs must be located within a more general analysis of institutions, but can in turn …

By a writing team of the Environment and Policy Institute of East-West Center, International
Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, United Nations Educational, …

Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf ter usually
referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the …

Preface 11 attemlpting this state-of-knowledge synthesis on tropical forest influ ences and
eflects of forest alterations, the workshop participants and the author were dismayed at tile …

Abstract Analysis of mediating and moderating variables is often fundamental tothe study of
human development. Few developmental researchers, how-ever, take advantage of …

… People in the rural Kansas region surveyed are politically conservative, more so than any
others in this study (Hamilton, 2007b). US public opinion surveys consistently find that political …

This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on
tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud …

A series of polls provides new tests for how weather influences public beliefs about climate
change. Statewide data from 5000 random-sample telephone interviews conducted on 99 …