Contributions to Science is the international journal of the Biological Sciences Section and the Science and Technology Section of the Institute for Catalan Studies.
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Vol 8, No 1 (2012)
Table of Contents
Foreword
| Foreword | |
| Salvador Giner | 9-10 |
Margalef Prize Lecture 2011
| Conservation and social-ecological systems in the 21st century of the Anthropocene era | |
| Juan Carlos Castilla | 11-21 |
Focus
| Rachel Carson, sensitive and perceptive interpreter of nature | |
| Joandomènec Ros | 23-32 |
| The theme of Earth Day and the social perception of what is really happening to our planet | |
| Tomàs Molina | 33-40 |
| Recent large earthquakes from a geophysical perspective | |
| Emma Suriñach | 41-46 |
| Sea and sky. The marine biosphere as an agent of change | |
| Rafel Simó | 47-52 |
| What can we learn from past warm periods? | |
| Raymond S. Bradley | 53-59 |
The Nobel Prizes of 2011
| The accelerated universe. On the Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess | |
| Eduard Massó | 69-75 |
Research articles
| Ethnobotanical study of the sages used in traditional Valencian medicine and as essential oil: Characterization of an endemic Salvia and its contribution to local development | |
| Vanessa Martínez-Francés, Emeline Hahn, Jorge Juan-Vicedo, Roser Vila, Segundo Ríos, Salvador Cañigueral | 77-84 |
Forum
| The Museu Blau, a natural history museum for the 21st century | |
| Mercè Piqueras, Ricard Guerrero, Anna Omedes | 85-91 |
| A transition from indigenous to European technology in colonial Mexico: The case of tequila | |
| José M. Murià | 93-98 |
Historical Corner
| Fighting against smallpox around the world. The vaccination expeditions of Xavier de Balmis (1803–1806) and Josep Salvany (1803–1810) | |
| Francesc Asensi Botet | 99-105 |
Biography and Bibliography
| Professor Creu Casas i Sicart (1913–2007) | |
| Xavier Llimona | 107-117 |
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