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ItemHope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing.Fritze, JG ; Blashki, GA ; Burke, S ; Wiseman, J (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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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Revenge of the StillBISSELL, D ; FULLER, G (M/C - Media and Culture, 2009)
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ItemModelling late Quaternary changes in plant distribution, vegetation and climate using pollen data from Georgia, CaucasusConnor, SE ; Kvavadze, EV (WILEY, 2009-03)To use pollen data, numerical analysis and modelling to reconstruct late Quaternary vegetation and climate in a complex, mountainous environment. Georgia (Caucasus region). Pollen data were assembled from various sources and used to map: (1) changing frequencies of individual taxa; (2) vegetation changes; and (3) reconstructed climatic parameters for the past 14,000 years. Numerical analyses were performed using two-way indicator species analysis ( twinspan), detrended correspondence analysis (DCA), the modern analogue technique (MAT) and weighted averaging (WA). Mapping of pollen taxa showed that Chenopodiaceae, Artemisia and Ephedra were most abundant in the study area during the late-glacial. Betula and Corylus expanded during the early Holocene, yielding to Abies, Carpinus, Fagus, Quercus and Castanea. Picea, Pinus, Juglans and Ostrya-type expanded during the late Holocene. Mixed forests grew in the moist, Black Sea refugium throughout the late Quaternary. Elsewhere in Georgia, the Pleistocene-Holocene transition is recorded as a shift from desert-steppes to oak-xerophyte communities and mixed forests. This kind of vegetation remained relatively stable until the mid-late Holocene, when coniferous forests and mountain grasslands advanced. DCA showed that rainfall was most strongly correlated with pollen composition in the study area (r² = 0.55). No temperature signal was detected. A weighted-averaging transfer function linking pollen percentages to annual precipitation was selected over a MAT model as it performed better when applied to a validation data set. Rainfall reconstructions indicate widespread aridity at the terminal Pleistocene, followed by a gradual increase in precipitation, peaking during the mid Holocene (7000-4000 cal. yr bp) and generally decreasing thereafter. On a regional scale, the results confirm those from previous studies of palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate in Western Asia. On a local scale, reconstructions from individual sites often diverge from the regional trend because of edaphic changes, ecological succession, human impacts and other disturbances. Some of these factors are probably responsible for the increasing heterogeneity of Georgia's vegetation in the latter half of the Holocene.
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ItemHuman impact - the last nail in the coffin for ancient plants?Connor, SE (WILEY, 2009-03)
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ItemDiamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in BotswanaGOOD, K (James Currey publishers, 2008)
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ItemAnthropology and global warming: The need for environmental engagementBatterbury, S (WILEY, 2008-04)
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ItemTHE EFFECT OF AID ON CAPACITY TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM NIUEBarnett, J (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-06)
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ItemThe Bali Roadmap: Climate change, COP 13 and beyondCHRISTOFF, P. ( 2008)
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ItemThe Yellow River in transitionWebber, M ; Barnett, J ; Wang, M ; Finlayson, B ; Dickinson, D (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008-08)
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ItemThe Shenyang-Dalian mega-urban region in transitionWang, M ; Li, G (LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2008)
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