One major discovery of the GLOBE project is that published geographic descriptions of case study research sites are commonly vague and ambiguous, making it difficult to reuse these studies in global and regional synthesis research. Now, we demonstrate this in a new paper using analyses based on GLOBE’s case quality scores in the Annals of the American Association
GLOBE Newsletter #3
World Bank Projects and Globe Interface Upgrades Issue: September, 2015 Since our last newsletter, GLOBE has been fined tuned with improvements ranging from a redesigned interface to an updated similarity analysis. Now, the GLOBE team would like to share two new exciting updates. We have added thousands of World Bank Projects to our case library
COMING SOON: New GLOBE Updates
GLOBE team members have been working long and hard to redesign the existing dashboard, user profile and case detail pages. Look for these updates and more in the upcoming months. Check out a preview of what is coming below. Completely new and redesigned GLOBE Home page. Features: Newly Designed Toolbar: all links that were originally
GLOBE Has Added 26 New Variables
GLOBE has recently added 26 new variables. Below is a complete list: Maximum harvest ratio Cropland area trend Cropland area N fertilizer HANPP Soil erosion Irrigation Yield (production) gap maize Yield (production) gap wheat Yield (production) gap rice Yield rice Yield maize Yield wheat Temperature (WorldClim) Diurnal temperature range Precipitation (WorldClim) Precipitation seasonality Gross Domestic
It Takes a Village- To Understand Global Change
Why do we need GLOBE? Because in the Anthropocene, local change is global change. In the early 1990s, I set out to study ecological sustainability in China’s Tai Lake Region; famous since ancient times for high rice yields and dense populations. What I learned from the farmers of Xiejia Village changed me for good. These
Global Land Project Synthesis Survey
In preparation for the Open Science Meeting (OSM 2014) of the Global Land Project (GLP) in Berlin this March, a survey is being conducted to assess the state of land-change science, identify new emerging research priorities, and support the GLP‘s transition to it’s next phase. An initial summary of results will be presented during the closing session
Over 800 cases in the GLOBE database!
It was a long and arduous road, but we finally made it. The “Cases Team”, as they’re called, spent the last two years contributing cases to the GLOBE database, and we’ve reached a milestone of over 800 cases! In an effort to build valuable content for the Land Change Science (LCS) community, cases were sourced from
GLOBE Beta Testing Begins
In preparation for the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM) in Berlin in March 2014, we are pleased to announce that GLOBE has entered beta testing! GLOBE development continues, the system will be updated, and your experience should continue to improve. Be sure that any data you enter into GLOBE along the way