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ItemHope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing.(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008-09-17)BACKGROUND: This article aims to provide an introduction to emerging evidence and debate about the relationship between climate change and mental health. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The authors argue that:i) the direct impacts of climate change such as extreme weather events will have significant mental health implications;ii) climate change is already impacting on the social, economic and environmental determinants of mental health with the most severe consequences being felt by disadvantaged communities and populations; iii) understanding the full extent of the long term social and environmental challenges posed by climate change has the potential to create emotional distress and anxiety; and iv) understanding the psycho-social implications of climate change is also an important starting point for informed action to prevent dangerous climate change at individual, community and societal levels.
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ItemDiamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana(James Currey publishers, 2008)
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ItemTHE EFFECT OF AID ON CAPACITY TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM NIUE(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-06)
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ItemThe Yellow River in transition(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008-08)
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ItemThe Shenyang-Dalian mega-urban region in transition(LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2008)
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ItemResilience and ‘Climatizing’ Development: Examples and policy implications(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008-09)
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ItemDutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2008-12)Abstract This paper considers contemporary international tourism to a genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It argues that existing theorisations of ‘dark tourism’ are inadequate for the task of understanding the motivations, actions and experiences of visitors in such a place, or of such sites as contested international institutions. The paper is concerned with the ways in which visiting practices encouraged at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes in the immediate post‐genocide period (the 1980s) continue to affect visiting practices in the present. Moreover, the absence of familiar curatorial practices and technologies of interpretation leads contemporary visitors to conceive of the space of the museum and their visit in unexpected ways. The dutiful comportment of visitors at Tuol Sleng both supports and challenges the moral geographies enacted by contemporary travel.
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ItemPeace and development: Towards a new synthesis(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2008-01)This article develops a theory of peace as freedom that explains some important relationships between peace and development. It does this by critically examining and then synthesizing Johan Galtung's theory of peace as the absence of violence and Amartya Sen's theory of development as freedom. Galtung's theory of peace is clear on the meaning and causes of direct violence, but vague on the details of structural violence. Sen's theory helps overcome many of the problems associated with structural violence, although its focus on agents and the state tends to downplay the importance of larger-scale political and economic processes. In the theory of peace as freedom, peace is defined as, and in praxis is enlarged through, the equitable distribution of economic opportunities, political freedoms, social opportunities, transparency guarantees, protective security and freedom from direct violence. The institutions required for peace as freedom are considered, and it is suggested that the pluralist state is the best model for providing and maintaining peace as freedom. Some implications of this theory for existing and future analyses of the causes of violent conflict are discussed.