1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459453403321

Autore

Pelling Mark <1967-, >

Titolo

Adaptation to climate change : from resilience to transformation / / Mark Pelling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2010

©2011, : Routledge

ISBN

1-134-02202-6

1-282-95915-8

9786612959158

0-203-88904-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

304.2/5

Soggetti

Acclimatization

Climate change mitigation

Climatic changes

Human beings - Climatic factors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Part I Framework and theory; 1 The adaptation age; 2 Understanding adaptation; Part II The resilience-transition-transformation framework; 3 Adaptation as resilience: Social learning and self-organisation; 4 Adaptation as transition: Risk and governance; 5 Adaptation as transformation: Risk society, human security and the social contract; Part III Living with climate change; 6 Adaptation within organisations; 7 Adaptation as urban risk discourse and governance

8 Adaptation as national political response to disasterPart IV Adapting with climate change; 9 Conclusion: adapting with climate change; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this



context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910138876403321

Autore

J. Stauffenberg Henry

Titolo

The Southern version of Cursor Mundi . Volume 3 lines 12713-17082  / / edited by Henry J. Stauffenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 1985

Ottawa, Ont : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-7766-1727-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 241 pages) : 1 colour illustration

Collana

Ottawa mediaeval texts and studies ; ; 13

Disciplina

821.2

Soggetti

World history

Christian poetry, English (Middle)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Sommario/riassunto

The medieval poem Cursor Mundi is a biblical verse account of the history of the world, offering a chronological overview of salvation history from Creation to Doomsday. Originating in northern England around the year 1300, the poem was frequently copied in the north before appearing in a southern version in substantially altered form. Although it is a storehouse of popular medieval biblical lore and a fascinating study in the eclectic use of more than a dozen sources, the poem has until now attracted little scholarly attention. This five-part collaborative edition presents the Arundel version of the poem with variants from three others.