A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain / / the Social Learning Group

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779848803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2001
• ISBN: 0-262-30867-3; 1-282-10032-7; 9786612100321; 0-262-28401-4; 0-585-38762-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Collana: Politics, science, and the environment; Learning to manage global environmental risks ; ; v. 1
• Disciplina: 363.7/05
• Soggetti: Environmental policy; Environmental management; Global environmental change
• 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 indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: v. 1. A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain -- v. 2. A functional analysis of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain.; 1. Overview -- 2. Studies of arenas.
• Sommario/riassunto: This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and actions applied to environmental problems has laid the foundations for global environmental management. It looks at how ideas, interests, and institutions affect management practice; how management capabilities in other areas affect the ability to deal with specific environmental issues; and how learning affects society's approach to the global environment.The book focuses on efforts to deal with climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain from 1957 (The International Geophysical Year) through 1992 (the UN Conference on Environment and Development). The settings include Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the former Soviet ; Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and international environmental organizations. Topics include problem framing, agenda setting, issue attention, risk assessment, monitoring, option assessment, goal and strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Volume 1 provides an overview of the project, of global environmental management in general, and of the three central environmental issues studied; it also contains the individual country studies. Volume 2 contains the management function studies and the book's conclusion.Authors in the set includeJeannine Cavender-Bares, William C. Clark, Ellis Cowling, Nancy M. Dickson, Gerda Dinkelman, Rodney Dobell, Renate Ell, Adam Fenech, Alexander Ginzburg, Elena Goncharova, Peter Haas, Eva Hizsnyik, Michael Huber, Peter Hughes, Jill Jager, Marc Levy, Angela Liberatore, Diana Liverman, Justin Longo, David McCabe, Donald Munton, Elena Nikitina, Karen O'Brien, Edward Parson, Vladimir Pisarev, Ruud Pleune, Miranda Schreurs, Simon Shackley, Peter Simmons, Heather Smith, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Toth, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Josee van Eijndhoven, Claire Waterton, Cor Worrell, and Brian Wynne.More information is available from the SLG web site.

Clausewitz And Seapower

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910158951803321
• Autore: Zellem USN LCDR Edward B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco : , : Tannenberg Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 9781782899952; 1782899952
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (47 pages)
• Disciplina: 997.11
• Soggetti: Sea-power; Military operations, Naval; Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Criticizing Clausewitz -- The Falkland Islands Case Study -- Chapter 2 - Historical Background -- Territorial Disputes -- Other Interests -- Argentina in 1981 -- Chapter 3 - The Conflict Begins -- Deception and Surprise at South Georgia -- The Main Invasion at Stanley -- Argentina's Force Capabilities -- British Force Capabilities -- Chapter 4 - British Operational Objectives and the War's Conduct -- Objective 1: Sea Blockade -- Objective 2: Recapture of South Georgia -- Objective 3: Sea and Air Supremacy -- Naval Engagements -- Air Engagements -- Objective 4: Recapture of the Falkland Islands -- Chapter 5 - Clausewitz Applied -- War as a Continuation of Politics -- Qualities of the Commanders -- The Trinity -- Surprise and Deception -- Correlation of Means and Ends -- Offensive and Defensive -- Center of Gravity -- Numerical Superiority -- Friction -- Unit Spirit -- Chapter 6 - Conclusion -- Review of Research Question -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper explores the hypothesis that although Clausewitz has been criticized for not specifically addressing naval warfare in his seminal work On War, Clausewitzian principles are in fact not only applicable, but highly relevant to the modern conduct of war at sea. The 1982 ; Falkland Islands conflict between Great Britain and Argentina will be used as the framework to examine this hypothesis. As the largest and most significant series of naval engagements since World War II, the Falklands War provides a rich database of both traditional and non-traditional lessons learned about the conduct of war at sea. This paper begins with a brief discussion of critiques of Clausewitz and his apparent lack of focus on the naval element of warfare. It will be followed by a historical review of significant events leading up to, and during the Falkland Islands War. Key events in the war will then be reviewed and examined within a framework of Clausewitzian principles. The motives, key assumptions, military strategy, and tactics of Great Britain and Argentina will be discussed within the context of the Clausewitzian dictum that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Selected specific events in the campaign will then be addressed in terms of Clausewitzian principles of war to determine their relevance or irrelevance to modern naval strategy and campaigning.