It has been written that without understanding the fundamental processes underlying the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functions and services, "attempts to forecast the societal consequences of biodiversity loss, and to meet policy objectives, are likely to fail".
In this paper we intend to assess the usefulness of open source data for the forecasting of societal events.
101 Furthermore, assessing the validity of epigenetic inheritance, in other words the transmission of epigenetic regulatory features acquired as an adaptive response to an environmental signal affecting one generation to subsequent generation(s) that has not been exposed directly to the environmental "trigger(s)", will have major implications in forecasting the societal burden of chronic disease.
Finally, the growing strength of empiric evidence linking social, environmental, and economic conditions to health and health disparities supports forecasting how changes in societal conditions affect health outcomes.
Despite their great societal relevance, the recent track record of demographic forecasts is not praiseworthy.
Risk can be reduced with improvements in forecasting and monitoring, together with increased societal resilience achieved through raising awareness and development of volcanic emergency management plans.
Here, we contribute to this developing toolbox for disease forecasting a model to understand how societal learning affects the expected final size and duration of disease outbreak.
The development of space weather forecasting capabilities is a task of great societal relevance: space weather effects may damage a number of technological assets, among which power and communication lines, transformers, pipelines and the telecommunication infrastructure.
Creating such mixed models will be crucial for developing forecast models with large enough probability gains to have societal impacts.
If weights could be assigned, for example in a Bayesian sense, then such mixed models would be crucial for creating forecast models with large enough probability gains to have societal impacts.
