... gedOptimizingParticipatory cultureCompetency-basedpracticesCareer developmentCompetencydevelopmentWorkforce planningKnowledgeand skills analysisCompensationTrainingPer formance managementStaffingCommunicationWork ... This factorbecomes increasingly irrelevant as engineers gain experienceacross a range of projects.CommunicationabilityThis is important because of the need for project staff tocommunicate ... bedisabled and hence need facilities suchas variable font sizes, etc.3. Ideally, someone who has experience of designing assistive technology systems.Otherwise, someone with experience of interfacing...
... variability and anthro-pogenic – primarily technological – factors with thespeci c contribution of each remaining uncertain.From a social science (particularly economic) perspec-tive, the characteristics ... 2009.Reducing the political, social and economic impli-cations of climate change and the risks associated withfuture climate policy requires concentration of efforts ontwo interrelated policy areas ... the conceptual-ization of the multiplicity and salience of major challengesto development and security, all of which require political and public awareness and economic resources for timelyand...
... Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) in 1992, especially for developingcountry parties through Article 4. CCA has beengiven second priority to climate change mitigation(CCM) since its inception, ... eventcovered many aspects of CCA, DRR and socio-ecological resilience. The participants, who areresearchers, practitioners and policy makers,were charged with crossing traditional disciplines and boundaries ... identified (Carpenter et al., 2001). As these ideas developed from an ecosystemperspective, resilience became a concept ofvalue for economic and social studies as well.Certain ecological economists...
... organiz-ations, as well as individuals who can workbetween disciplines and substantially increasecommunication between science, policy and practice.Promoting a dynamic systems approach tosocio-ecological ... 765– 781.Carr, L. J., 1932. Disaster and the sequence-patternconcept of social change. American Journal ofSociology, 38(2). 207–218.Cash, D. W., Clark, W. C. , Alcock, F., Dickson, N.,Eckley, ... systemsapproach to socio-ecological resilience as aprimary objective for CCA and DRR. We further-more suggest an immediate need for scholarlyresearch to address the needs and concerns of prac-titioners...
... (AMM) and even more exoticrelationships suchas with the QuasibiennialOscillation (QBO), Cold Tongue Index (CTI),African dust and rainfall, Asian and North Amer-ican smog, sunspot activity and ... of hurricane activity and sea surfacetemperatures (SSTs), Paci c Decadal Oscillation(PDO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), AtlanticMultidecadal Oscillation (AMO), Atlantic Multi-decadal Mode ... theoverall basin activity. Second, changes observedin the overall basin activity are not spatiallyuniform; increasing activity has occurred farfrom land. Finally, because the skill of existingseasonal...
... onTropical Cyclones and Climate Change.WMOTropicalMeteorology Research Programme Committee TC2:ImpactofClimateChangeonTropicalCyclones.www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/tmrp/documents/iwtc_statement.pdf.200 ... an increased concern among scientistsabout the speed and severity of climate change.The faster-than-expected pace of observedclimate change, a better understanding of feed-back effects and ... KENNEDY2 AND JIM SKEA31Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics,Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE2Committee on Climate Change,...
... technically and economically feasible. The CCC systematicallyassessed the emission reduction potential in themain sectors – electric power, transport, build-ings and industry, and the non-CO2sectors.Detailed ... mitigationcosts, which is central to economic assessments.Considerable effort went into ascertaining thatthe proposed targets are technically feasible and can be achieved at reasonable cost. They can.The ... the UK has put in place an insti-tutional framework through which it can beginto tackle climate change.Notes1. However, concern about country allocation and accounting issues led the CCC not...
... effectiveness of protection measures, such as dikes or building codes.Over time, catastrophe models need to beupdated due to socio-economic developments and climate change. In case climate changeincreases ... of climate change and socio-economicdevelopment on future natural disaster risk(IPCC, 2007). Considerable uncertainty and ambiguity is associated with both the frequencyof a disaster occurring ... insuranceclaims may increase considerably if climatechange projections and socio-economic develop-ments result in an increased frequency and mag-nitude of natural disaster damage (Dlugolecki,2000;...
... become even more complex in connectionwith climate change induced compounded crises. These crises touch upon a broad range of issues, suchas economic,environmental, social and energy policies. ... conflictsor predicaments: global financial crises, globalterror networks and ecological conflicts. Eventhough crisis communication scholars haveacknowledged the role of political communi-cation and ‘meaning ... Basin in Australia during2008, as an example of a ‘climate changeinduced’ compounded crisis inheriting ecologi-cal, social, economic and political predicaments.The historic drought affecting...
... the case is complexbecause it touches upon broad policy areas invol-ving water management and climate change,policy areas that are highly politicized in the Aus-tralian context, andassuch ... some crises are more suitable for blamegames, suchas wars, which have an inherentpotential for enemy constructions, whereas com-pounded and structural problems (such as econ-omic recessions ... Olsson and Paglia (2008),a vital component of framing causes in climatechange induced crises is the link betweenclimate change and the local/national acutecrisis. Actors basically confront...
... external aspect affectingactors’ communicative spaces, the case is a goodexample of the coupling mechanism betweena concrete crisis and climate change that gives‘climate change induced’ compounded ... compounded crisescertain characteristics (see also Olsson and Paglia, 2008). In this case, the coupling betweenthe actual crisis and related policies urges crisiscommunication research to move ... Engels, A. and Pansegrau, P., 2000. Risks ofcommunication: discourses on climate change inscience, politics, and the mass media. Public Under-standing of Science, 9(3). 261–283.West, B. and Smith,...
... Cách dùng assuch và such as Hai cụm từ, assuch và such as, trông thì có vẻ giống nhau nhưng trên thư c tế hai cụm từ này kha c nhau về nghĩa. As such có hai nghĩa. ... an athlete, andassuch she has to train very hard.The film was a romance, andassuch it had the usual happy ending.Chúng ta cũng có thể dùng assuch để diễn tả ý một cái gì đó ... hai lần cụm từ 'an English teacher', vì thế cách dễ nhất để nói c u này mà không phải nhă c lại cụm từ đó hai lần là:I'm an English teacher, andassuch I hate...
... linguistic scepticism accounts for its char-acteristically paradoxical stance of utopianism (unending perfectibility) and irony.Romantic writing is the practical consequence of this: philosophico-aesthetic ... holistic self-fulfilment. Goethe and Schiller become committed classicists, typically in works such as Schiller’s ‘Die G¨otter Griechenlands’ (; ‘The gods of Greece’) and Goethe’s ‘R¨omische ... Kant’s critical project, which restson accountability to reason and which proudly proclaims the definingrole of subjectivity in the constitution of knowledge, at this crucial pointavoids accountability....