Climate, Conflict and Society: Changing Responses to Weather Extremes in Nineteenth Century Zululand

Changing Coastal Weather and Extremes

Hardly any area in the whole world is undergoing such dynamical environmental and social change as the coastal regions of the world. Approximately 20% of the world’s human population live within 30 km of the sea, and nearly double that number live within the nearest 100 km of the coast (IPCC 2001). Furthermore, a big part of economic activities is going on in these areas. In the coastal environ...

Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific islands

CHAPTER 4. Measures To Improve Our Understanding of Weather and Climate Extremes. Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands

117 In this chapter we identify areas of research and activities that can improve our understanding of weather and climate extremes. Many of these research areas and activities are consistent with previous reports, especially the CCSP SAP 1.1 report, Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences, on reconciling temperature trends between the sur...

Pseudo-science and society in nineteenth-century America

Water, as portrayed in Goubert's study, strikes me as a quintessential Latourian non-human actor, which was "conquered" and transformed by architects, town planners, engineers, hygienists, physicians, and chemists, but which also made its own "conquest", dramatically changing the scientific and cultural landscape of nineteenthand twentieth-century France. Thus, Goubert argues that a cultural an...

Patterns of philanthropy: charity and society in nineteenth-century Bristol

seems rather too neat. And in her eagerness to identify the mixed motives of the medics who voluntarily proffered their services and the middling sort benefactors whose subscriptions kept the institution financially afloat, she may underemphasize the role of pure human compassion. Certainly a genuine desire to assist the sick poor was not incompatible with "a shrewd calculation" (p. 115) of the...