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CSR Minute: GE Partners with China; BOS College Center for Corporate Citizenship on Web AdviceCorporate Social Responsible News: GE Partners ...
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Mysteriously warm times in AntarcticaMysteriously warm times in Antarctica Dr Robert Mulvaney cuts an ice core in the cold room at the British Antarctic Survey headquarters, Cambridge (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may ...
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Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists | Environment | guardian.co.ukHundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today. The computer files were apparently accessed earlier this week from servers at the ...
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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies todayHome Explore Community Help Sign Up Log In Document Information 4 Reads | 0 Comments The loss of their specialised knowledge of nature is a grave concern for many indigenous communities throughout the world. Education, as it is understood in a Western context, occupies a pivotal ...
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Heuristics and Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological SystemsThis paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We ...
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Last ice age happened in 6 monthsSix months is all it took to flip Europe’s climate from warm and sunny into the last ice age, researchers have found. They have discovered that the northern hemisphere was plunged into a big freeze 12,800 years ago by a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream that allowed ice to spread hundreds of ...
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Independence, Dependence, and Interdependence in LeadershipIndependence, Dependence, and Interdependence are three important words for leaders to consider. As I was watching the spectacular fireworks over Legislative Mall in Dover, Delaware on the 4th of July, I was thinking about the interplay of these three words and what do they mean in leadership.
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Resilience - change, self-organization, learning and adaptationEcosystem resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. A resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and rebuild itself when necessary. Resilience in social systems has ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Resilience Thinking - People and PlaceWe are a long way from understanding how to create a resilient world. Nevertheless, it is possible to offer some visions for what a resilient world might look like. A resilient world would promote biological, landscape, social and economic diversity. Diversity is a major source of future ...
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