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The role of intermediaries in managing environmental problems: three coastal case studies from Tasmania, Australia
Effectively integrating science into environmental policy decisions can improve the management of environmental problems. Attempts to successfully integrate scientific knowledge may utilise intermediaries. This paper examines perceptions on the role of intermediaries in three case studies in Tasmania, Australia (sea level rise managed by Clarence City Council, the Derwent Estuary Program and the Shack Sites Project). An internet survey and a suite of key informant interviews were undertaken with scientists and policy-makers in each of the case studies. Results indicate that intermediaries can facilitate the integration of science into policy, even if not all participants recognise them as fulfilling this role. The ambiguity regarding terminology was also a recurrent theme. However, the facilitation of intermediaries is more effective when political priorities do not conflict with the incorporation of science into policy.
Journal Article
There once lived a mother who loved her children, until they moved back in : three novellas about family
\"After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognition for capturing the experiences of everyday Russians with profound pathos and mordant wit. Among her most famous and controversial works, these three novellas ... are modern classics that breathe new life into Tolstoy's famous dictum, 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The 21st-Century Musician and the Art of Collaboration
Following graduation, most of us usually face a long and arduous process of competing in a saturated market for jobs that, with each passing year, are becoming fewer and less lucrative than the last. Why don't you go to Peabody?\" and I was like, \"What's Peabody?\" I was so not into music when I was a kid that I didn't even know what Peabody Conservatory was, which was right up the road from where I lived! After graduation, I played in the New World Symphony Orchestra for a couple of years, which led to my first teaching appointment at Florida International University which led me to freelancing in Miami. [...]I'm starting all over again, teaching students anywhere from beginners to adult students who want to dust off the old horn again.
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Four strangers, life on the margins
In the history of Russian literature, The Life of Archipriest Avvakum, The Memoir of the Princess Natal'ia Borisovna Dolgorukaia, and Notes and Quotes by Mikhail Gasparov are among the most familiar autobiographies. In this dissertation, I argue that these texts are actually strange autobiographies, but strange in ways that invite their comparison. The inclusion of an even more ancient text in this grouping, Afanasii Nikitin's Voyage beyond Three Seas, provides unexpected benefits for a clearer understanding of the autobiographical impulse. My analysis operates on two levels. First, I give a new interpretation of each text on its own terms. Second, I juxtapose them to reveal intimate meanings that otherwise would stay hidden behind the veil of their fame. The texts I chose share a particular quality of self-knowledge, namely, the effort to overcome an acute sense of self-estrangement through writing. Their prominence in literary history has obscured their failure in this effort. Although these texts vary dramatically in subject and style, time and space, self-estrangement is their common subject, and writing, as a modern method of realizing the ancient injunction, \"know thyself,\" is their failed promise. Rather than constructing a tradition of autobiography based on direct influences, I want to illuminate family resemblances among them. All four of the authors were sensitive to the symbolic aspect of space, each, in their own way, made a distinctive contribution to the collective transformation of medieval spaces into modern distances. My readings bring forth the undiscovered eloquence of their marginality and sublimity of their revelations.
Dissertation
Traffic is an urban soul-killer
One in four fatal accidents in B.C. is now caused by distracted driving.\" What will it take to convince...
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