1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953392603321

Titolo

Climate governance and development / / edited by Albrecht Ansohn and Boris Pleskovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : World Bank, , [2011]

copyright 2011

ISBN

9786612906152

9781282906150

1282906151

9780821383070

0821383078

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vii, 157 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm

Collana

Berlin workshop series, , 1813-9442 ; ; 2010

Altri autori (Persone)

AnsohnAlbrecht

PleskovicBoris

Disciplina

363.7387456

Soggetti

Economic development

Developing countries Economic conditions

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.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Climate change as a development priority -- pt. 2. Energy and development : policies and technologies -- pt. 3. Natural resource governance for adaptation, mitigation, and development -- pt. 4. Development, non-state actors, and climate governance : private sector and NGOs -- pt. 5. Financing adaptation and mitigation in an unequal world -- pt. 6. Changing climate, changing institutions of governance.

Sommario/riassunto

The Berlin Workshop Series 2010 presents selected papers from meetings held September 28-30, 2008, at the eleventh annual forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's annual World Development Report. At the 2008 meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries met to explore the problems that climate governance poses for development, which are later examined in depth in the 'World Development Report 2010'.This volume presents papers from the Berlin workshop sessions on climate governance and development, covering



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019580503321

Titolo

Human brain evolution : the influence of freshwater and marine food resources / / edited by Stephen C. Cunnane and Kathlyn M. Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010

ISBN

9786612728716

9781282728714

1282728717

9780470609880

0470609885

9780470609873

0470609877

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CunnaneStephen C

StewartKathlyn Moore

Disciplina

612.8/2

Soggetti

Brain - Evolution

Human evolution

Cognition

Seafood

Nutritional anthropology

Aquatic resources

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

Macroevolutionary patterns, exaptation and emergence in the evolution of the human brain and cognition / Ian Tattersall -- Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human brain evolution / Michael A. Crawford -- Human brain evolution : a question of solving key nutritional and metabolic constraints on mammalian brain development / Stephen C. Cunnane -- Metabolic and molecular aspects of the critical role of docosahexaenoic acid in human brain function / J. Thomas Brenna -- Lessons from shore-based hunter-gatherer diets in East Africa / Frits A.J. Muskiet and Remko S. Kuipers -- Thyroid hormone, iodine and human brain evolution / Sebastiano Venturi and



Michel E. Begin -- Food for thought : the role of coastlines and aquatic resources in human evolution / Jon M. Erlandson -- The case for exploitation of wetlands environments and foods by pre-sapiens hominins / Kathlyn M. Stewart -- Brain size in carnivoran mammals that forage at the land-water ecotone, with implications for robust australopithecine paleobiology / Alan B. Shabel -- Coastal diet, encephalization and innovative behaviours in the late Middle Stone Age of southern Africa / John Parkington -- Human brain evolution : a new wetlands scenario / Stephen C. Cunnane and Kathlyn M. Stewart.

Sommario/riassunto

The evolution of the human brain and cognitive ability is one of the central themes of physical/biological anthropology. This book discusses the emergence of human cognition at a conceptual level, describing it as a process of long adaptive stasis interrupted by short periods of cognitive advance. These advances were not linear and directed, but were acquired indirectly as part of changing human behaviors, in other words through the process of exaptation (acquisition of a function for which it was not originally selected). Based on studies of the modem human brain, certain prerequisites were n