Organisation
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Publisher of scientific open access journals
MDPI.com (where MDPI stands for Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a platform for peer-reviewed, scientific open access journals which is operated by MDPI AG, based in Basel, Switzerland.
MDPI publishes over 70 diverse electronic, open access journals, including Molecules (launched in 1996), the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (launched in 2000), Sensors (launched in 2001) and Marine Drugs (launched in 2003).
The organisation’s publishing activities are supported by more than 3000 active scientists. More than 60,000 unique authors are published with MDPI, and 150,000 scholars are in the pool of reviewers. MDPI.com counts more than 2.4 million webpage views monthly.
MDPI publishes over 70 diverse electronic, open access journals, including Molecules (launched in 1996), the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (launched in 2000), Sensors (launched in 2001) and Marine Drugs (launched in 2003).
The organisation’s publishing activities are supported by more than 3000 active scientists. More than 60,000 unique authors are published with MDPI, and 150,000 scholars are in the pool of reviewers. MDPI.com counts more than 2.4 million webpage views monthly.
Published Documents
- Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi
- L. Zulu / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed socia...
- Climate change is likely to worsen the public health threat of diarrheal disease in Botswana
- K. A. Alexander / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Diarrheal disease is an important health challenge, accounting for the majority of childhood deaths globally. Climate change is expected to increase the global burden of diarrheal disease but little is known regarding climate drivers,...
- Flexibility of scope, type and temporality in Mustang, Nepal. Opportunities for adaptation in a farming system facing climatic and market uncertainty
- N. Holmelin / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Climate change is projected to increase the seasonality in river flows in the great river systems of the Himalaya and impose challenges to regional food production. Since climate change increases the uncertainty in local weather patte...
- Impacts of climatic hazards on the small wetland ecosystems (ponds): evidence from some selected areas of coastal Bangladesh
- G. Rabbani / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Most climate related hazards in Bangladesh are linked to water. The poor communities living in remote villages along Bangladesh’s coastal zone are most vulnerable to climate change impacts and depend on small isolated wetlands (p...
- Motivators and barriers to incorporating climate change-related health risks in environmental health impact assessment
- L. R. Turner; K. Alderman; D. Connell; S. Tong / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- This paper presents the findings of a study conducted in Queensland, Australia, which explores various stakeholders’ views on the capacity of the Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) to incorporate climate change. With ...
- The future of the food system: cases involving the private sector in South Africa
- L. Pereira / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- The food system is facing unprecedented pressure from environmental change exacerbated by the expansion of global agri-food corporations. With a large proportion of sub-Saharan African countries’ gross domestic product still heav...
- Climate and food production: understanding vulnerability from past trends in Africa's Sudan-Sahel
- G. T. Yengoh / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- This case study from Cameroon's Sudan-Sahel region explores the impact of rainfall on agricultural production and the evidence that supports small-scale farming as a strategy to reduce the vulnerability of crop yields to rainfall vari...
- Institutions and ecosystem-based development potentials of the Elephant Marsh, Malawi
- I. Kosamu / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012
- Wetlands and other aquatic ecosystems cover about 20 per cent of Malawi’s surface area. The Elephant Marsh, a wetland in southern Malawi, is important for fishing, agriculture, hunting and the collection of natural r...
- Agroecosystem analysis of the Choke Mountain watersheds, Ethiopia
- B. Simane / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- Adaptation to climate change in tropical highland regions is complicated, because elevation contrasts and dissected topography produce diverse climatic conditions that are often accompanied by significant ecological and agricultural d...
- Climate change adaptation and vulnerability assessment of water resources systems in developing countries: a generalized framework and a feasibility study in Bangladesh
- A. K. Gain / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012
- In addition to climate change, current demographic trends, economic development and related land use changes have direct impact on increasing demand for freshwater resources. These changes are affecting the vulnerability of water reso...
