1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996279580803316

Titolo

American National Standard for Metric Practice / / IEEE

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : IEEE, , 2011

ISBN

0-7381-6533-6

Edizione

[(Revision of IEEE/ASTM SI 10-2002).]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 78 pages). : illustrations

Collana

IEEE/ ASTM ; ; SI 10-2010

Disciplina

343.7

Soggetti

Metric system - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Guidance for the use of the modern metric system is given. Known as the International System of Units (abbreviated SI), the system is the basis for worldwide standardization of measurement units. Information is included on SI, a list of units recognized for use with SI, and a list of conversion factors, together with general guidance on proper style and usage.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827962303321

Titolo

Planning for rural resilience : coping with climate change and energy futures / / edited by Wayne J. Caldwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winnipeg, Manitoba : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-88755-463-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/212097132

Soggetti

Regional planning - Ontario, Southern

Climatic changes - Ontario, Southern

Sustainable agriculture - Ontario, Southern

Ontario, Southern Rural conditions Case studies

Ontario, Southern Environmental conditions Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the stage / Wayne Caldwell, Erica Ferguson, Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin, and Jennifer Ball -- Building community resilience in Huron County: lessons from the 2011 Goderich tornado / Susanna Reid -- Policy and green infrastructure: planning in response to climate change and peak oil / Paul Kraehling and Wayne Caldwell -- Planning with nature: experiences at the grassroots level / Paul Kraehling and Wayne Caldwell -- Increasing energy costs, climate change, and personal transportation in rural Ontario / Eric Marr -- Eden Mills going carbon neutral: case study of a community approach / Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin, Wayne Caldwell, and John F. Devlin, with Chris White -- The transition response: practical resilience strategies / Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin, Wayne Caldwell, John F. Devlin, and Sally Ludwig -- The changing face of agriculture: case studies of organizations building a new future for food / Erica Ferguson -- One farmer's approach to building resilience / Tony McQuail -- Practical response: options for agriculture / Margaret Graves, Bill Deen, Evan Fraser, and Ralph C. Martin -- Rural sustainability / Christopher Bryant.

Sommario/riassunto

Planning for Rural Resilience asks central questions about the nature of



change and the ability to adapt in rural regions. While change is often feared, communities have capacity that can be rallied, harnessed, and turned towards planning policy and action that responds to threats to the future. This important work will assist municipal decision makers, planners, and community members as well as anyone who has a passion for the future and betterment of rural life.--Provided by publisher.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910552990803321

Autore

Mrovlje Maša

Titolo

Rethinking political judgement : Arendt and existentialism / / Maša Mrovlje [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4744-3716-8

1-4744-3715-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

CI 6373

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Existentialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Political Judgement in the History of Political Thought and the Modern Crisis -- 2. Sartre and Beauvoir: The Ambiguity of Political Judgement and the Challenge of Freedom and Responsibility -- 3. Camus and Arendt: Confronting the Ambiguity of Political Judgement and Illuminating the Limits of the World -- 4. Political Judgement and Narrativity -- 5. Facing Up to the Tragedy of Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands -- 6. Times of Transition: Reconciling with the Tragic Nature of Political Affairs -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Wonder at the World of Political Affairs -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uses 20th century existentialism to confront the challenge of political judgement after moral absolutism. How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity capable of



addressing the uncertainties of our postfoundational world? The book takes up this challenge by drawing on the historically attuned perspective of 20th-century philosophies of existence - in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt. Displacing the lingering rationalist temptations, Maša Mrovlje engages these thinkers' aesthetic sensibility to delve into the experiential reality of political judgement and revivify it as a worldly, ambiguous practice. The purpose is to illustrate the prescient political significance of existentialists' narrative imagination on two contemporary perplexities of political judgement: the problem of dirty hands and the challenge of transitional justice. This engagement reveals the distinctly resistant potential of worldly judgement in its ability to stimulate our capacities of coming to terms with and creatively confronting the tragedies of political action, rather than simply yielding to them as a necessary course of political life.