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Lake Isotope Records Of The 8200-Year Cooling Event In Western Ireland: Comparison With Model Simulations, Jonathan A. Holmes, Julia Tindall, Neil Roberts, W Marshall, Jd Marshall, Ann Bingham, Ingo Feeser, Michael O'Connell, Tim Atkinson, Anne Lise Jourdan, Anna March, Elizabeth H. Fisher
Lake Isotope Records Of The 8200-Year Cooling Event In Western Ireland: Comparison With Model Simulations, Jonathan A. Holmes, Julia Tindall, Neil Roberts, W Marshall, Jd Marshall, Ann Bingham, Ingo Feeser, Michael O'Connell, Tim Atkinson, Anne Lise Jourdan, Anna March, Elizabeth H. Fisher
More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research
The early Holocene cooling, which occurred around 8200 calendar years before present, was a prominent abrupt event around the north Atlantic region. Here, we investigate the timing, duration, magnitude and regional coherence of the event as expressed in carbonate oxygen-isotope records from three lakes on northwest Europe's Atlantic margin in western Ireland, namely Loch Avolla, Loch Gealáin and Lough Corrib. An abrupt negative oxygen-isotope excursion lasted about 200 years. Comparison of records from three sites suggests that the excursion was primarily the result of a reduction of the oxygen-isotope values of precipitation, which was likely caused by lowered air temperatures, …
A "Mental Models" Approach To The Communication Of Subsurface Hydrology And Hazards, H Gibson, I Stewart, S Pahl, A Stokes
A "Mental Models" Approach To The Communication Of Subsurface Hydrology And Hazards, H Gibson, I Stewart, S Pahl, A Stokes
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Communicating information about geological and hydrological hazards relies on appropriately worded communications targeted at the needs of the audience. But what are these needs and how does the geoscientist discern them? This paper adopts a psychological "mental models" approach to assess the public perception of the geological subsurface and surveys three communities in the south-west of England about their attitudes and representations of the geological subsurface. The findings reveal important preconceptions and misconceptions regarding the impact of hydrological systems and hazards on the geological subsurface, notably in terms of the persistent conceptualisation of underground rivers and the inferred relations between …
Novel Tri- And Tetra-Unsaturated Highly Branched Isoprenoid (Hbi) Alkenes From The Marine Diatom Pleurosigma Intermedium, Thomas A. Brown, Simon T. Belt
Novel Tri- And Tetra-Unsaturated Highly Branched Isoprenoid (Hbi) Alkenes From The Marine Diatom Pleurosigma Intermedium, Thomas A. Brown, Simon T. Belt
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Abandoned Metal Mines And Their Impact On Receiving Waters: A Case Study From Southwest England., Sj Beane, Sd Comber, J Rieuwerts, P Long
Abandoned Metal Mines And Their Impact On Receiving Waters: A Case Study From Southwest England., Sj Beane, Sd Comber, J Rieuwerts, P Long
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Historic mine sites are a major source of contamination to terrestrial and river environments. To demonstrate the importance of determining the significance of point and diffuse metal contamination and the related bioavailability of the metals present from abandoned mines a case study has been carried out. The study provides a quantitative assessment of a historic mine site, Wheal Betsy, southwest England, and its contribution to non-compliance with Water Framework Directive (WFD) Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn. Surface water and sediment samples showed significant negative environmental impacts even taking account of the bioavailability of the metal …
Amazon Forest Response To Repeated Droughts, T. R. Feldpausch, O. L. Phillips, R. J.W. Brienen, E. Gloor, J. Lloyd, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, Y. Malhi, A. Alarcón, Dávila E Álvarez, P. Alvarez-Loayza, A. Andrade, L. E.O.C. Aragao, L. Arroyo, C. Ga Aymard, T. R. Baker, C. Baraloto, J. Barroso, D. Bonal, W. Castro, V. Chama, J. Chave, T. F. Domingues, S. Fauset, N. Groot, Coronado E Honorio, S Laurance, Wf Laurance, S. L. Lewis, J. C. Licona, B. S. Marimon, B. H. Marimon-Junior, Bautista C Mendoza, D. A. Neill, E. A. Oliveira, E. A. Oliveira, Camacho Nc Pallqui, G. Pardo-Molina, A. Prieto, C. A. Quesada, F. Ramírez, H. Ramírez-Angulo, M. Réjou-Méchain, A. Rudas, G. Saiz, R. P. Salomão, J. E. Silva-Espejo, M. Silveira, Steege H Ter, J. Stropp, J. Terborgh, R. Thomas-Caesar, Der Heijden Gmf Van, Martinez R Vásquez, E. Vilanova, V. A. Vos
Amazon Forest Response To Repeated Droughts, T. R. Feldpausch, O. L. Phillips, R. J.W. Brienen, E. Gloor, J. Lloyd, G. Lopez-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, Y. Malhi, A. Alarcón, Dávila E Álvarez, P. Alvarez-Loayza, A. Andrade, L. E.O.C. Aragao, L. Arroyo, C. Ga Aymard, T. R. Baker, C. Baraloto, J. Barroso, D. Bonal, W. Castro, V. Chama, J. Chave, T. F. Domingues, S. Fauset, N. Groot, Coronado E Honorio, S Laurance, Wf Laurance, S. L. Lewis, J. C. Licona, B. S. Marimon, B. H. Marimon-Junior, Bautista C Mendoza, D. A. Neill, E. A. Oliveira, E. A. Oliveira, Camacho Nc Pallqui, G. Pardo-Molina, A. Prieto, C. A. Quesada, F. Ramírez, H. Ramírez-Angulo, M. Réjou-Méchain, A. Rudas, G. Saiz, R. P. Salomão, J. E. Silva-Espejo, M. Silveira, Steege H Ter, J. Stropp, J. Terborgh, R. Thomas-Caesar, Der Heijden Gmf Van, Martinez R Vásquez, E. Vilanova, V. A. Vos
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Sea-Level Rise Impacts On Transport Infrastructure: The Notorious Case Of The Coastal Railway Line At Dawlish, England, David Dawson, Jon Shaw, R Gehrels
Sea-Level Rise Impacts On Transport Infrastructure: The Notorious Case Of The Coastal Railway Line At Dawlish, England, David Dawson, Jon Shaw, R Gehrels
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Future climate change is likely to increase the frequency of coastal storms and floods, with major consequences for coastal transport infrastructure. This paper assesses the extent to which projected sea-level rise is likely to impact upon the functioning of the Dawlish to Teignmouth stretch of the London to Penzance railway line, in England. Using a semi-empirical modelling approach, we identify a relationship between sea-level change and rail incidents over the last 150 years and then use model-based sea-level predictions to extrapolate this relationship into the future. We find that days with line restrictions (DLRs) look set to increase by up …
Pre- And Post-Installation Community Perceptions Of Wind Farm Projects: The Case Of Roskrow Barton (Cornwall, Uk), Ga Wilson, Sl Dyke
Pre- And Post-Installation Community Perceptions Of Wind Farm Projects: The Case Of Roskrow Barton (Cornwall, Uk), Ga Wilson, Sl Dyke
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Derivation Of Water Quality Guidelines For Priority Pharmaceuticals, A Kumar, Ge Batley, B Nidumolu, Th Hutchinson
Derivation Of Water Quality Guidelines For Priority Pharmaceuticals, A Kumar, Ge Batley, B Nidumolu, Th Hutchinson
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pharmaceuticals can enter freshwater and affect aquatic ecosystem health. Although toxicity tests have been carried out for the commonly used pharmaceuticals, evidence-based water quality guidelines have not been derived. High-reliability water quality guideline values have been derived for 4 pharmaceuticals-carbamazepine, diclofenac, fluoxetine, and propranolol-in freshwaters using a Burr type III distribution applied to species sensitivity distributions of chronic toxicity data. Data were quality-assured and had to meet acceptability criteria for "chronic" no-observed-effect concentrations or concentrations affecting 10% of species, endpoints of population relevance (namely, effect endpoints based on development, growth, reproduction, and survival). Biomarker response data (e.g., biochemical, histological, or …
Fingerprinting And Tracing The Sources Of Soils And Sediments: Earth And Ocean Science, Geoarchaeological, Forensic, And Human Health Applications, P. N. Owens, W. H. Blake, L. Gaspar, D. Gateuille, A. J. Koiter, D. A. Lobb, E. L. Petticrew, D. G. Reiffarth, H. G. Smith, J. C. Woodward
Fingerprinting And Tracing The Sources Of Soils And Sediments: Earth And Ocean Science, Geoarchaeological, Forensic, And Human Health Applications, P. N. Owens, W. H. Blake, L. Gaspar, D. Gateuille, A. J. Koiter, D. A. Lobb, E. L. Petticrew, D. G. Reiffarth, H. G. Smith, J. C. Woodward
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
The Influence Of Physical Cohesion On Scour Around A Monopile, Rj Schindler, S Stripling, Rjs Whitehouse, Jm Harris
The Influence Of Physical Cohesion On Scour Around A Monopile, Rj Schindler, S Stripling, Rjs Whitehouse, Jm Harris
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Policing The Countryside In A Devolving United Kindgom, Rb Yarwood, A Wooff
Policing The Countryside In A Devolving United Kindgom, Rb Yarwood, A Wooff
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
‘More Than Scaling-Up’: Sustainability Contexts, Competencies, And Consequences - A Critical Inquiry, Stephen Sterling, Paul Warwick, Wendy Miller, Harold Glasser, Marco Rieckmann
‘More Than Scaling-Up’: Sustainability Contexts, Competencies, And Consequences - A Critical Inquiry, Stephen Sterling, Paul Warwick, Wendy Miller, Harold Glasser, Marco Rieckmann
School of Health Professions
To identify and problematise the key issues characterising the relationship between global sustainability contexts and the limited response of HE to date - with the purpose of unlocking the potential for innovative, replicable efforts to develop sustainability competencies through innovation in curriculum policy and practice, through addressing these sub-aims: How far does HE policy accommodate and reflect the need for sustainability competencies? How can capacity for teaching for competency be built and supported through new policies? How can curricula and pedagogy be better aligned to facilitate the building of sustainability competency in learners and teachers? What effect …
An Evaluation Framework To Determine The Impact Of The Lyme Bay Fisheries And Conservation Reserve And The Activities Of The Lyme Bay Consultative Committee On Ecosystem Services And Human Wellbeing., Se Rees, M Ashley, L Evans, S Mangi, L Rodwell, M Attrill, O Langmead, E Sheehan, A Rees
An Evaluation Framework To Determine The Impact Of The Lyme Bay Fisheries And Conservation Reserve And The Activities Of The Lyme Bay Consultative Committee On Ecosystem Services And Human Wellbeing., Se Rees, M Ashley, L Evans, S Mangi, L Rodwell, M Attrill, O Langmead, E Sheehan, A Rees
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
No abstract provided.
Baghdad’S Thirdspace: Between Liminality, Anti-Structures And Territorial Mappings, Sana Murrani
Baghdad’S Thirdspace: Between Liminality, Anti-Structures And Territorial Mappings, Sana Murrani
School of Art, Design and Architecture
Wedged in-between the dense urban grain of Baghdad, blast walls of t-shaped concrete have littered the streets and neighbourhoods since 2003, after the US led invasion. The idiosyncrasy of these walls lies in their exaggerated spatial liminality. They appear, change location and disappear overnight, and on a daily basis, leaving Iraqis to navigate through labyrinths of in-between spaces. This article critically reveals the new social and power structures that have emerged in the context of the city in response to the condition resulting from this unique urban intervention. This uncanny spatial and social condition of permanent liminality will be analysed …
Decadal Bering Sea Seascape Change: Consequences For Pacific Walruses And Indigenous Hunters, G. Carleton Ray, Gary L. Hufford, James E. Overland, Igor Krupnik, Jerry Mccormick-Ray, Karen Frey, Elizabeth Labunski
Decadal Bering Sea Seascape Change: Consequences For Pacific Walruses And Indigenous Hunters, G. Carleton Ray, Gary L. Hufford, James E. Overland, Igor Krupnik, Jerry Mccormick-Ray, Karen Frey, Elizabeth Labunski
Geography
The most signifi cant factors currently affecting the Pacifi c walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) population are climate change and consequent changes in sea-ice morphology and dynamics. This paper integrates recent physical sea-ice change in the Bering Sea with biological and ecological conditions of walruses in their winter-spring reproductive habitat. Historically, walrus in winter-spring depended on a critical mass of sea-ice habitat to optimize social networking, reproductive fi tness, feeding behavior, migration, and energetic effi ciency. During 2003-2013, our cross-disciplinary, multiscale analysis from shipboard observations, satellite imagery, and ice-fl oe tracking, reinforced by information from indigenous subsistence hunters, documented change of …
Recent Pause In The Growth Rate Of Atmospheric Co2 Due To Enhanced Terrestrial Carbon Uptake, Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice, Josep G. Canadell, Christopher A. Williams, Han Wang, Michael Raupach, G. James Collatz
Recent Pause In The Growth Rate Of Atmospheric Co2 Due To Enhanced Terrestrial Carbon Uptake, Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice, Josep G. Canadell, Christopher A. Williams, Han Wang, Michael Raupach, G. James Collatz
Geography
Terrestrial ecosystems play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and offset a large fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The terrestrial carbon sink is increasing, yet the mechanisms responsible for its enhancement, and implications for the growth rate of atmospheric CO2, remain unclear. Here using global carbon budget estimates, ground, atmospheric and satellite observations, and multiple global vegetation models, we report a recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2, and a decline in the fraction of anthropogenic emissions that remain in the atmosphere, despite increasing anthropogenic emissions. We attribute the observed decline to increases in the terrestrial …
Satisfaction, Water And Fertilizer Use In The American Residential Macrosystem, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Colin Polsky, Neil D. Bettez, Jennifer L. Morse, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Christopher Neill, Kristen Nelson, Laura Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Dexter H. Locke
Satisfaction, Water And Fertilizer Use In The American Residential Macrosystem, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Colin Polsky, Neil D. Bettez, Jennifer L. Morse, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Christopher Neill, Kristen Nelson, Laura Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Dexter H. Locke
Geography
Residential yards across the US look remarkably similar despite marked variation in climate and soil, yet the drivers of this homogenization are unknown. Telephone surveys of fertilizer and irrigation use and satisfaction with the natural environment, and measurements of inherent water and nitrogen availability in six US cities (Boston, Baltimore, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, Los Angeles) showed that the percentage of people using irrigation at least once in a year was relatively invariant with little difference between the wettest (Miami, 85%) and driest (Phoenix, 89%) cities. The percentage of people using fertilizer at least once in a year also ranged …
What's Scale Got To Do With It? Models For Urban Tree Canopy, Dexter H. Locke, Shawn M. Landry, J. Morgan Grove, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
What's Scale Got To Do With It? Models For Urban Tree Canopy, Dexter H. Locke, Shawn M. Landry, J. Morgan Grove, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Geography
The uneven provisioning of ecosystem services has important policy implications; yet the spatial heterogeneity of tree canopy remains understudied. Private residential lands are important to the future of Philadelphia's urban forest because a majority of the existing and possible tree canopy is located on residential land uses. This article examines the spatial distribution of tree canopy in Philadelphia, PA and its social correlates. How are existing tree canopy and opportunities for additional tree canopy distributed across the city of Philadelphia and with respect to three explanations: (i) population density, (ii) the social stratification luxury effect, and 3) lifestyle characteristics of …
Using Food Flow Data To Assess Sustainability: Land Use Displacement And Regional Decoupling In Quintana Roo, Mexico, Marco Millones, Benoit Parmentier, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook
Using Food Flow Data To Assess Sustainability: Land Use Displacement And Regional Decoupling In Quintana Roo, Mexico, Marco Millones, Benoit Parmentier, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook
Geography
Food flow data provide unique insights into the debates surrounding the sustainability of land based production and consumption at multiple scales. Trade flows disguise the spatial correspondence of production and consumption and make their connection to land difficult. Two key components of this spatial disjuncture are land use displacement and economic regional decoupling. By displacing the environmental impact associated with food production from one region to another, environmental trajectories can falsely appear to be sustainable at a particular site or scale. When regional coupling is strong, peripheral areas where land based production occurs are strongly linked and proximate to consumption …
Distinguishing Land Change From Natural Variability And Uncertainty In Central Mexico With Modis Evi, Trmm Precipitation, And Modis Lst Data, Zachary Christman, John Rogan, J. Ronald Eastman, B. L. Turner
Distinguishing Land Change From Natural Variability And Uncertainty In Central Mexico With Modis Evi, Trmm Precipitation, And Modis Lst Data, Zachary Christman, John Rogan, J. Ronald Eastman, B. L. Turner
Geography
Precipitation and temperature enact variable influences on vegetation, impacting the type and condition of land cover, as well as the assessment of change over broad landscapes. Separating the influence of vegetative variability independent and discrete land cover change remains a major challenge to landscape change assessments. The heterogeneous Lerma-Chapala-Santiago watershed of central Mexico exemplifies both natural and anthropogenic forces enacting variability and change on the landscape. This study employed a time series of Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) composites from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectoradiometer (MODIS) for 2001-2007 and per-pixel multiple linear regressions in order to model changes in EVI as …
Bee Natural History, Diversity, And Management In West Virginia, Matthew Mckinney
Bee Natural History, Diversity, And Management In West Virginia, Matthew Mckinney
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The value of bees as providers of pollination, an incredibly important ecosystem service, is well understood. Since the detection of colony collapse disorder, the concern over the health of both managed and naturally occurring bee populations has been in the limelight, sometimes being discussed nearly as much in popular media as it is in scientific research. While an ideal situation may be the complete recovery of Apis mellifera populations, the causes of colony losses are not fully understood. Therefore, we must also consider our alternative options such as managing areas to better support natural bees and utilizing alternative managed species, …
Depositional And Diagenetic History Of The Triassic Redbeds And Evaporites From The Mercia Mudstone Group In The Carnduff 02 Core Of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Anna Sofia Andeskie
Depositional And Diagenetic History Of The Triassic Redbeds And Evaporites From The Mercia Mudstone Group In The Carnduff 02 Core Of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Anna Sofia Andeskie
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group from the Carnduff 02 core from County Antrim, Northern Ireland was deposited by shallow perennial saline lakes and associated environments such as saline mudflats, dry mudflats, siltflats, sandflats, and desert soils. This setting contained shallow acid brines that underwent flooding and evapoconcentration cycles in an arid climate. The redbeds and evaporites of the group have a complicated diagenetic history.;The Mercia Mudstone Group is composed of five main lithologies: mudstone, siltstone, displacive halite, bedded halite, and bedded gypsum. Other less abundant lithologies include sandstone, mud/halite conglomerate, and igneous intrusive rocks. The mudstone and siltstone are composed …
The Relative Importance Of Tree And Stand Properties In Susceptibility To Spruce Beetle Outbreak In The Mid-20th Century, Felicia Bakaj, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski
The Relative Importance Of Tree And Stand Properties In Susceptibility To Spruce Beetle Outbreak In The Mid-20th Century, Felicia Bakaj, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski
Geography
Tree susceptibility to potentially lethal agents is determined not only by attributes of individual trees, but also by neighborhood effects at a range of scales. For example, effects of disturbances on individual trees are often contingent on the size, configuration, and other properties of neighboring trees. Wildfires can modify postfire properties of individual trees as well as of entire forest stands, both of which can affect subsequent ecological processes, including subsequent disturbances. In recent years, much has been learned about how disturbances interact, but numerous questions concerning underlying mechanisms remain unresolved. For example, the relative importance of forest properties at …
Not Only Climate: Interacting Drivers Of Treeline Change In Europe, Dominik Kulakowski, Ignacio Barbeito, Alejandro Casteller, Ryszard J. Kaczka, Peter Bebi
Not Only Climate: Interacting Drivers Of Treeline Change In Europe, Dominik Kulakowski, Ignacio Barbeito, Alejandro Casteller, Ryszard J. Kaczka, Peter Bebi
Geography
Treelines have long been recognized as important ecotones and likely harbingers of climate change. However, over the last century many treelines have been affected not only by global warming, but also by the interactions of climate, forest disturbance and the consequences of abrupt demographic and economic changes. Recent research has increasingly stressed how multiple ecological, biophysical, and human factors interact to shape ecological dynamics. Here we highlight the need to consider interactions among multiple drivers to more completely understand and predict treeline dynamics in Europe.
Disaster Prevention Literacy Among School Administrators And Teachers: A Study On The Plan For Disaster Prevention And Campus Network Deployment And Experiment In Taiwan, Sung-Chin Chung, Cherng-Jyh Yen
Disaster Prevention Literacy Among School Administrators And Teachers: A Study On The Plan For Disaster Prevention And Campus Network Deployment And Experiment In Taiwan, Sung-Chin Chung, Cherng-Jyh Yen
Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications
Taiwan is located at the high-risk region of natural disasters with the frequently occurred earthquakes. The importance of the disaster prevention education on campus is made even more obvious by the fact that natural disasters often occur during the school days. Given the leading roles the school administrators and teachers playing in the disaster prevention education of their pupils, this study purposed to investigate how disaster prevention literacy was among them and how disaster prevention literacy differed across various background variables of them. Furthermore, the current study also examined if disaster prevention literacy changed by participation in the disaster prevention …
Research Needs: Career And Technical Education, Michael F. Kosloski Jr., John M. Ritz
Research Needs: Career And Technical Education, Michael F. Kosloski Jr., John M. Ritz
Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications
Research is an important component of each professional field. This study sought to determine topics that needed further research in the school subjects known as career and technical education. It determined topics that needed to be researched related to high school career and technical education (CTE) and the preparation for teaching CTE in secondary schools. A fourround Delphi study methodology was selected to use to determine this set of research needs. Sixteen research needs with descriptions were identified and consensus was achieved on their importance to conducting future research studies. The research needs included 11 items related to high school …
Absence, Revision, And The Other: Rhetorics Of South Carolina Antebellum Tourism Sites, Deborah Cunningham Breede, Christine S. Davis, Jan Warren-Findlow
Absence, Revision, And The Other: Rhetorics Of South Carolina Antebellum Tourism Sites, Deborah Cunningham Breede, Christine S. Davis, Jan Warren-Findlow
Journal of Hate Studies
The production of tourism situated within an antebellum history is fraught with tension. Moralities, power conflicts, and identities clash as tourist production based on historical apartheid in the United States proliferates and becomes more popular and profitable. Southern states such as South Carolina are particularly subject to such concerns. As one of the original thirteen colonies, South Carolina was a profitable participant in the plantation system, a system built upon rhetorics of absence, revision, and hatred. These rhetorical constructions effectively created a view of enslaved Africans that “othered” and minimized them and erased their presence, importance, and humanity. The resulting …
Prayers Of Resistance: Kalymyk Women's Covert Buddhist Practice, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Prayers Of Resistance: Kalymyk Women's Covert Buddhist Practice, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd
Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship
Throughout decades of Soviet repression of religion and into modern times, groups of Buddhist women known as babushki matsik, or ‘‘group of old women precept holders’’ have covertly engaged in Buddhist practices in Kalmykia, following the Tibetan tantric tradition. Located to the northwest of the Caspian Sea, the Kalmyk Republic of the Russian Federation is the only region of Europe with a predominantly Buddhist population. For centuries, the region has been the site of repeated migrations, shifting political and military alliances, and Russian Orthodox conversion efforts. The devastating period of forced relocation and exile in Siberia between 1943 and 1957 …
Hot Property In New Zealand: Empirical Evidence Of Housing Bubbles In The Metropolitan Centres, Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy, Peter C. B. Phillips
Hot Property In New Zealand: Empirical Evidence Of Housing Bubbles In The Metropolitan Centres, Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy, Peter C. B. Phillips
Research Collection School Of Economics
Using recently developed statistical methods for testing and dating exuberant behaviour in asset prices we document evidence of episodic bubbles in the New Zealand property market over the past two decades. The results show clear evidence of a broad-based New Zealand housing bubble that began in 2003 and collapsed over mid-2007 to early 2008 with the onset of the worldwide recession and the financial crisis. New methods of analysing market contagion are also developed and are used to examine spillovers from the Auckland property market to the other metropolitan centres. Evidence from the latest data reveals that the greater Auckland …
Audience Segmentation For Campaign Design: Addressing Climate Change In Singapore, Benjamin H. Detenber, Sonny Rosenthal, Youqing Liao, Shirley S. Ho
Audience Segmentation For Campaign Design: Addressing Climate Change In Singapore, Benjamin H. Detenber, Sonny Rosenthal, Youqing Liao, Shirley S. Ho
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
A nationally representative telephone survey (n = 1,006) was conducted to understand how different groups of Singaporeans regard the issue of climate change and their inclination toward action in dealing with it. We measured attitudes, knowledge, and perceptions of the problem of climate change and the role of various stakeholders in addressing it. The data were subjected to a latent class analysis to produce three distinctive segments of the population: the concerned, the disengaged, and the passive. These segments stand in contrast to those discovered in the United States, Australia, Germany, and India and suggest different strategies for public engagement …