Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities

Managing Climate Risks in Coastal CommunitiesDrawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks must be taken by local stakeholders, and that climate adaptation efforts require collective rather than individual commitments to risk management.

Focusing on smallpox

Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauböck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies

through industrialisation

A look forward to the Semantic Web promises an even wider sharing of knowledge

It proposes a new agenda

setting the stage for the bitter conflicts of the next century

constructions of madness among colonised peoples

Rio Escondido

and museums are creating online collections of digitized resources

Draws on economic and discursive contexts and original audience research to trace how meanings

against the backdrop of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81)

two clinical trial participants with nothing in common other than mutual dislike