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.

the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a par with those of European socialists and communists

This book provides in-depth discussion of aspects of media literacy and how they can be used to manipulate information

questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related

This globetrotting filmmaker testifies to his six decades on the move through a passionate devotion to the moving image

and theorists question this binary in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking

and changing economic and social conditions

his distinctive views on the interrelationship between music and literature

representations and experiences of leisure across the period 1920–60

the book starts with the importance of music to the cinema-going experience before the coming of synchronised sound in the late 1920s and then examines the explosion of musical films featuring British musical talent in the 1930s

Hans's book is part of the My Voice Project

Through the cases of Damascus and Aleppo and adopting a postcolonial perspective

This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities