Thematic Guides offer overviews of some of the key topics and issues that pertain to the human dimensions of global environmental change. Through the use of links within editorial essays that provide structure and direction, Thematic Guides offer on-line access to the full texts of hundreds of journal articles, book sections and chapters, papers from proceedings, government reports, maps and images, and other relevant materials. Additional information to help you use the guides is available.
Thematic Guides are experimental information resources designed to be useful to a diverse audience.
The primary objective is to provide a tool that allows researchers, policy makers, educators, and the public to quickly access selected background materials on key global change issues. Most guides include a brief overview essay that offers a general introduction to the topics and issues covered in the guide. Individual editorial essays provide greater detail on specific topics and issues but are not exhaustive reviews. A guide coordinator or team is responsible for writing the editorial essays and selecting the materials in each guide, which a production team then assembles into the electronic guide. An Editorial Board drawn from the research community has been established to help direct and review the process.