Selfoss Declaration Achievements Report
Title | Selfoss Declaration Achievements Report PDF eBook |
Author | Edda Sigurdis Oddsdottir |
Publisher | Nordic Council of Ministers |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 2014-11-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9289338040 |
This report reflects on the achievements of the Selfoss Declaration on sustainable forestry in the Nordic region, made in 2008 by the Ministers of Forestry in the Nordic countries and the following reccommendations on how to implement the intention of the declaration. The question is, did the forestry sector focus on the resolution acknowledged by the forestry ministers in the Declaration, and furthermore, how did it affect the forestry sector in the Nordic countries. The Selfoss Declaration initiated a lot of activities, financed with funds from the Nordic Council of Ministers and incisive actions in organizing the forest research cooperation across national boundaries within the Nordic neighbouring countries. Based on this experience, it seems important that the forestry ministers continue to take an active part in visualizing where Nordic cooperation should head in the future.
TemaNord
Title | TemaNord PDF eBook |
Author | Edda Sirgurdis Oddsdottir |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
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"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England
Title | "Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Smith Surtees |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 551 |
Release | 2022-05-28 |
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Climate Change, Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Title | Climate Change, Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Keshav Lall Maharjan |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 4431543430 |
This book is about climate change and its relation to agriculture and rural livelihoods. It starts by providing a basic understanding of climate change science followed by the relation of climate change to agriculture, the impact of which is discussed based on the particular impact of climate change on plant and animal physiology. The book further discusses the inclusion of the agriculture sector in various international climate change negotiations. It also reviews the cost and opportunities for agricultural projects through international climate change regimes, specifically the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol. With this background, the book finally proceeds to an explanation of the methodologies used to assess the impact of climate change on agriculture and empirically discusses its impact on agriculture and rural livelihoods in Nepal.
My 60 Memorable Games
Title | My 60 Memorable Games PDF eBook |
Author | Bobby Fischer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Chess |
ISBN | 9780713478129 |
A collection of the 60 best games of Bobby Fischer, analyzed by himself. The games are reset by John Nunn into modern algebraic notation, providing an insight into the methods and thought processes of one of the greatest chess champions.
Útrásarvíkingar!
Title | Útrásarvíkingar! PDF eBook |
Author | Alaric Hall |
Publisher | punctum books |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1950192695 |
As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: “raiding vikings.” This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. Yet within a few days in October 2008, Iceland saw all its main banks collapse beneath debts worth nearly ten times the country's GDP.Hall charts how Icelandic novelists and poets grappled with the Crash over the ensuing decade. As the first English-language monograph devoted to twenty-first-century Icelandic literature, it provides Anglophone readers with an introduction to one of the world's liveliest literary scenes. It also contributes a key case study for understanding global artistic responses to the early twenty-first century crisis of runaway, unregulated capitalism, exploring the struggles of writers to adapt realist forms of art to surreal times.As Iceland's biggest crisis since their independence from Denmark in 1944, the effect of the Crash on the national self-image was as seismic as its effects on the economy. This study analyses the centrality of whiteness and the abjection of the “developing world” in Iceland's post-colonial identity, and shows how Crash-writing explores the collisions of Iceland's traditional, nationalist medievalism with a dystopian, Orientalist medievalism associated with the Islamic world.The Crash in Iceland was instantly recognised as offering important economic insights. This book shows how Iceland also helps us to understand the cultural convulsions that have followed the Financial Crisis widely in the West.
Finding Political Identities
Title | Finding Political Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Alistair Ross |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2018-07-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319908758 |
This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities. Based on small discussion groups with 2000 young people across 29 European states, Alistair Ross explores how 13 to 20 year olds build identities in contemporary society, creating contingent narratives of local, national and European identities with families, friends and social media. As well as exploring what these kaleidoscopic identities look like and the sources they draw on, it also examines how these accounts are assembled and integrated with each other. The study uses deliberative discussions to allow young people to develop their own constructs and terms in conversation with each other. This analysis presents a complex polyphonic of political beliefs and values of rights, which young Europeans attach to political structures and institutions that often transcend traditional boundaries of state and nation. Finding Political Identities will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics across Education, Sociology, Politics and European Studies, especially those with a focus on Social Constructionism, Citizenship, Identity Studies, Social Policy, and Youth Studies.