Download or read book Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy written by K. Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.
Download or read book Managing Climate Change Climate Growth and Equitable Development written by Nicholas Stern and published by Collège de France. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has been the source of immense challenges for ethical, economic or political analysts. We are aware of the scale of the action required to be taken and the areas in which that action is needed namely efficient energy use, low carbon technologies or deforestation. We have an idea of which technologies need to be developed. We understand the basic economic policy incentives in favour of reducing emissions, stopping deforestation and promoting more sensible use of our natural environment and its resources. The main challenge today is to obtain political adherence to actually accomplishing these changes. The Chair in Sustainable Development - Environment, Energy and Society is supported by TOTAL.
Download or read book Assessing Assisted Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Ontario s Forests written by Ngaire Eskelin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisted migration of tree species populations, or seed sources, is one of few adaptive strategies available to mitigate the projected effects of climate change on the structure, productivity, and distribution of forest ecosystems. In this report, the authors present the goals and objectives of a study intiated in 2008 to assess the potential of assisted migration as an adaptation strategy to manage for climate change in Ontario. In support of this study, they conducted a literature search on assisted migration and genetic variation in climatic response of forest tree species, through which were identified several hundred related scientific and technical publications. Citations and keywords for publications of greatest significance to using assisted migration as a climate change adaptation strategy are presented in the accompanying bibliography.--Document.
Download or read book Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience written by Saeid Eslamian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the Sendai Framework, and provides additional resources, methodologies and communication strategies to enhance the plan for action and targets proposed by the Sendai Framework. The series will appeal to a broad range of researchers, academics, students, policy makers and practitioners in engineering, environmental science and geography, geoscience, emergency management, finance, community adaptation, atmospheric science and information technology. This volume discusses the implementation of socio-hydrological resilience measures to curb the impacts on vulnerable communities of hydrologic diasters such as coastal floods, drought, water scarcity, and thunderstorms. The book provides a framework for sustainable hydrology-community interactions to inform local communities about the best practices to achieve hydrological resilience, and to implement resilient water infrastructure. Hydrological influences on the resilience of a region are comprehensively surveyed, and a "green economy strategy" is described and recommended for achieving climatic and hydrological sustainability.
Download or read book The Canada Country Study Climate Impacts and Adaptation written by Beth Lavender and published by Environnement Canada, Région de l'Ontario. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climatic changes, forecasting.
Download or read book Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning written by Klaus-Jürgen Evert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique, multilingual, encyclopedic dictionary in two volumes covers terms regularly used in landscape and urban planning, as well as environmental protection. The languages are American and British English, Spanish (with many Latin-American equivalents), French, and German. The encyclopedia also provides various interpretations of the terms at the planning, legal or technical level, which make its meaning more precise and its usage clearer.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Living Systems written by Thomas Lecuit and published by Collège de France. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain the fundamental paradox of living matter, which combines stability and robustness of form with constant internal dynamics? It is not only the genetic information contained in every cell, but also numerous stochastic biomolecular processes that are at work in morphogenesis. In addition, the shaping of an organism is driven by mechanical forces that operate within and between cells, across tissues and organs. The dynamics of morphogenesis is a self-organized process that emerges from biological control and physical constraints at all scales. Its study is currently bringing together a fast-growing interdisciplinary community that observes, analyses and models living organisms.
Download or read book Evaluation Des Effets Cumulatifs written by Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council and published by [Hull, Que.] : CEARC. This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "Cumulative effects associated with multiple activities can create irreversible changes in such systems or changes that are different in nature from those caused by any single activity or impact"--p. 1.
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Download or read book North Pole 1983 written by Centre d'études arctiques (France). Colloque international and published by Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings from a conference on the North Pole and region. 35 papers under the headings: geophysics, geography (3); oceanography, climatology (4); myths, history of circumpolar cartography (2), history of exploration (16th-20th centuries) (17); museums, films and philately dealing with the North Pole conquest (3); contemporary problems - maritime and air transportation, economic future and sea law (6).
Download or read book Queen s Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics written by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Genetic Resource Conservation and Management in Canada written by Petawawa National Forestry Institute and published by Chalk River, Ont. : Petawawa National Forestry Centre. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Forest Genetic Resources Centre held a workshop to address issues relevant to the conservation and management of Canada's forest genetic resources. The workshop included presentations highlighting the current status of conservation efforts and ideas and strategies for optimal in-situ and ex-situ conservation of forest genetic resources. Working group discussions were a major component of the workshop and were aimed at identifying gaps in current conservation efforts, conservation priorities, research initiatives to support conservation priorities, and promoting opportunities for increased collaborative efforts. A major output of the workshop was the development of a framework for a national strategy to focus on the sound management of Canada's forest genetic resources. This report presents the workshop proceedings, including the contributed papers on forest genetic conservation.
Download or read book Performance Report for the Period Ending March 31 written by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voice and the Quill The Paths of Canonization of the Qu r n written by François Déroche and published by Collège de France. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we hope to understand Islam without knowing how its founding text, the Qurʾān, took shape and then crystalized? The discovery of a palimpsest in Sanaa in 1973 confirmed the existence of other recensions of the Qurʾānic text in the first centuries of Islam. Studies of these documents and of the manuscripts of the predominant transmission have made it possible to identify the various strata of texts and the variants that were gradually excluded. This unprecedented approach to the Qurʾān profoundly renews the intellectual and cultural history of the Muslim world.
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Download or read book Literatures of Medieval France written by Michel Zink and published by Collège de France. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential link between the notion of literature and a feeling for the past, are crystallized in medieval literature. The curiosity that medieval literature has aroused since it was rediscovered at the dawn of Romanticism presupposes such associations. The very forms of this literature bear indications of them. They encourage us to consider jointly the interest of modern times in the medieval past and the signs of the past with which the Middle Ages marked its own literature. Even more, they invite us to seek in the relationship with the past a defining criterion for literature, a most necessary task with reference to a time when words are not understood in their modern sense, and there is no guarantee that a corresponding notion exists. The best reason to continue with this hundred-and-fifty-year-old teaching is that its object may not even exist.
