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ISSN: 2104404X Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris : CREDHESS,


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Addressing tipping points for a precarious future
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ISBN: 0191760323 0197265537 9780191760327 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,

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Tipping points are zones or thresholds of profound changes in natural or social conditions with very considerable and largely unforecastable consequences. Tipping points may be dangerous for societies and economies, especially if the prevailing governing arrangements are not designed either to anticipate them or adapt to their arrival. Tipping points can also be transformational of cultures and behaviours so that societies can learn to adapt and to alter their outlooks and mores in favour of accommodating to more sustainable ways of living.This volume examines scientific, economic and social analyses of tipping points, and the spiritual and creative approaches to identifying and anticipating them. The authors focus on climate change, ice melt, tropical forest drying and alterations in oceanic and atmospheric circulations. They also look closely at various aspects of human use of the planet, especially food production, and at the loss of biodiversity, where alterations to natural cycles may be creating convulsive couplings of tipping points. They survey the various institutional aspects of politics, economics, culture and religion to see why such dangers persist.

The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siècle
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ISBN: 0776630229 0776605518 0776627228 0776617036 Year: 2003 Publisher: University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa

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In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the dynamism and change possible in Canadian society, they also call for a re-examination of Canada's past in order to chart its future.


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Paths and rivers : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation
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ISSN: 15721892 ISBN: 9067183075 9004253858 9789004253858 9789067183079 Year: 2009 Volume: 253 Publisher: Leiden : KITLV Press,

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Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordinary economic demands on individuals and families. The analysis is informed, firstly, by a comparative perspective which sets Toraja social structure in the context of the Austronesian world. Secondly, the author delves deeply into Toraja social memory to show how people think about the past. She examines the usefulness of history and myth in the present as a source of identity, a template for action, or a resource by means of which to claim precedence. The book gives a clear picture of the structure and ethos of the indigenous Toraja religion, the Aluk To Dolo or 'Way of the Ancestors', with its complex cycle of rituals. The book concludes with an analysis of the ceremonial economy, which draws upon both domestic subsistence production and the global market economy. Paths and Rivers draws together a fascinating picture of one society’s journey into modernity. Full text (Open Access)


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Surviving Sudden Environmental Change : Answers from Archaeology
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ISBN: 9781607321675 160732167X 9781607321682 1607321688 1457117282 9781457117282 9781457117268 1457117266 Year: 2012 Publisher: Boulder, CO University Press of Colorado

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Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced, and coped with, such dangers. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifeways are the rest. Sociocultural factors are essential in understanding risk, impact, resilience, reactions, and recoveries from massive sudden environmental changes. By using deep-time perspectives provided by interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides a rich temporal background to the human experience of environmental hazards and disasters. In addition, each chapter is followed by an abstract summarizing the important implications for today's management practices and providing recommendations for policy makers. Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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Environmental archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Natural disasters --- Climatic changes --- Human ecology --- Human beings --- Social evolution --- Social change --- Archéologie de l'environnement --- Archéologie sociale --- Catastrophes naturelles --- Climat --- Ecologie humaine --- Homme --- Evolution sociale --- Changement social --- Case studies. --- Social aspects --- History --- Effect of climate on --- Cas, Etudes de --- Aspect social --- Changements --- Histoire --- Influence du climat --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Climatic factors --- Archéologie de l'environnement --- Archéologie sociale --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Cultural evolution --- Culture, Evolution of --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Natural calamities --- Archaeology, Environmental --- Environmental aspects --- Social history --- Culture --- Evolution --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Disasters --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Methodology --- Hominids --- Persons --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- History. --- Global environmental change --- Climate change (general concept) --- Kuril Islands --- Mesopotamia --- Volcano

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