1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777637803321

Titolo

Global environmental assessments : information and influence / / edited by Ronald B. Mitchell [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006

ISBN

1-282-09745-8

9786612097454

0-262-27998-3

1-4294-7761-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Collana

Global environmental accord

Altri autori (Persone)

MitchellRonald B (Ronald Bruce)

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Environmental policy - International cooperation

Environmental protection - International cooperation

Environmental impact analysis

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

Evaluating the influence of global environmental assessments / William C. Clark, Ronald B. Mitchell, David W. Cash -- Science or salience : building an agenda for climate change / Wendy E.F. Torrance -- Problem framing in assessment processes : the case of biosafety / Aarti Gupta -- Whose experts? : the role of geographic representation in global environmental assessments / Frank Biermann -- Assessment information in European politics : east and west / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- Structure and influence of international assessments : lessons from Eastern Europe / Liliana B. Andonova -- From regional to global information : assessment of persistent organic pollutants / Noelle Eckley Selin -- Climate change and sea-level rise in Maine and Hawai'i : the changing tides of an issue domain / Susanne C. Moser -- Trust, respect, patience, and sea-surface temperatures : useful climate forecasting in Zimbabwe / Anthony G. Patt -- Mining water, drying wells : multilevel assessment and decision making for water management / David W. Cash -- Information and influence / Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David W. Cash.

Sommario/riassunto

A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the



importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824832603321

Autore

Vaccarella Maria

Titolo

Fashion-wise / / Maria Vaccarella, Jacquelyn Foltyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-84888-160-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

391

Soggetti

Fashion - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Maria Vaccarella and Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Hoop Dreams: The Rise and Fall of the Crinoline in Second-Empire France / Leonard R. Koos -- Art Nouveau and the Symbolic Blurring of Women’s Spatial and Corporeal Environments: The Contradiction of Organic Inspiration in Fashion and Interiors / Angie G. Dowell and Denise Bertoncino -- The Fashion Revolution of Avant-Garde Japanese Designers: Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto / Flavia Loscialpo -- Standing Tall: The Stiletto Heel as Metamorphosis of the Self / Francesca D’Angelo -- The Rationalisation of Consumption Reasons for Purchasing Outdoor Recreational Outfits / Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Silje Elisabeth Skuland -- The Dog Walk: Canine Chic, Companion Animals and Consumer Culture / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Fashions for Woman with a Future: Women, World War II and the Language of Uniforms / Alexandra Elias -- ‘Glamazons’ of Pop: The Enigma of the Female Military-Styled Pop Star: Kate Bush and Madonna / Michael A. Langkjær -- It is the Attitude: Fashion Designs for Women with Disabilities / Elizabeth Kaino Hopper -- Developing ProAesthetics: Disability as Fashion Discourse / Olga Vainshtein -- ‘But what do I Wear?’: A Study of Women’s Climbing Attire / Claire Evans -- Vintage



Clothing Cultures: The Comforts of History / Sarah Lloyd -- Audrey Hepburn and the ‘Funny Face’ of Post-World War II Humanism / Jayne Sheridan -- The Slut at School: Sex, Dress and Authenticity / Felicity Grace Perry -- Humour as a Strategy in Contemporary Fashion / Orna Ben-Meir -- Vintage Paperback Meets Vintage Couture: How Tom Ford Brought Christopher Isherwood out from behind the Lens / Kathryn Franklin -- Fego DNA Schemas: The Projection of Schematic Constructed Non-Fictional Anxiety within the Styling Design of Fictional Character Dress / Michael Ivy (Michiel Germishuys) -- Street-Style: Fashion Photography, Weblogs and the Urban Image / Jess Berry -- On the Style Site: Face Hunter as Node and Prism / Charlotte Bik Bandlien -- La Biaiseuse / Susie Ralph -- Couture: Tool of Belonging / Julie Thomas -- ‘Fashion in Auschwitz’: Concentration Camp Clothing during World War II: Heretofore Unknown Aspects of Personal Experiences / Sofia Pantouvaki -- Schwarz Rot Gold is the New Black / Karolina M. Burbach -- Nigerian Clothing Tradition: Preservation and Restoration of Used Alaari Fabrics among the Ondo People of South Western Nigeria / Sunday Roberts Ogunduyile and Evelyn Omotunde Adepeko -- African Fashion from Dual Directions: Representing Self and Other / Victoria L. Rovine -- The ‘It’ Factor: In Pursuit of the Commoditisation of Fashion / Nathaniel Dafydd Beard -- ‘Fashionalisation’: Urban Development and the New-Rise Fashion Weeks / Wessie Ling -- From Fashion Forecasting to Coolhunting: Previsional Models in Fashion and in Cultural Production / Marco Pedroni -- Fashion Apps: Altering the ‘Fashionscape’ through Smartphone Technology / Mario J. Roman -- Ecology and Fashion: Development Lines and Prospects / Ines Weller and Sabine Walter -- Taste and the Rise of Branded Cult Items: Secondary Lines, Counterfeited and Look-Alike Luxury / Cecilia Winterhalter -- Re-Framing Fashion: From Original and Copy to Adaptation / Tiziana Ferrero-Regis -- The Lipperheide Costume Library: An Archive of Clothing and Fashion / Susan Ingram.