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Navigating adaptive futures: analysing the scope of political possibilities for climate adaptation

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 227-248, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The growing scale and intensity of climate change poses a substantial challenge to the status quo of society and politics. Adapting to the risks associated with extreme weather events and changing climatic conditions will require the re‐imagination of many aspects of politics and society. Therefore, climate change can be framed as a problem of
Raven Cretney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alasdair MacIntyre or Jacek Woroniecki? In the search of the virtue theory to in-spire pedagogy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Celem artykułu jest porównanie dwóch teorii cnoty. Pierwszą sformułował Alasdair MacIntyre, odwołując się do myśli Arystotelesa. Druga, opracowana przez Jacka Woronieckiego, powstała na fundamencie filozofii św. Tomasza z Akwinu. Autor artykułu porównuje
Horowski, Jarosław
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Four Principles of Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change‐Exacerbated Hazards in Informal Settlements

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
Inhabited by > 1 billion people globally, informal settlements are hotspots of risk to negative impacts of climate‐exacerbated hazards. Transformative adaptation can deliver an equitable, sustainable, and climate‐resilient future for residents, but it must be underpinned by these four principles.
Ben C. Howard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Peacebuilding, Indigenous Epistemologies and Experience: Learning From Ruptures and Resilience in Solomon Islands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 130-141, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental peacebuilding, as a construct and practice, holds potential to recognise environmental conflicts and respond to them; however, indigenous perspectives can be obscured in its related processes, projects and reviews. This article draws on in depth research by the authors from within indigenous communities in the Solomon Islands to ...
David Gegeo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turbulence around patriotism: philosophical perspective

open access: yesSeminare, 2019
The aim of the article is to determine the place of patriotism among other universal values and a philosophical reflection on its current formula. The analysis is based on the classical philosophy of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, J. Maritain, E. Gilson, J.
Maria Małgorzata Boużyk
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The Promise of Resistance: A New Lens for Climate Change Adaptation Research and Practice

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT Over the years, thousands of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of adaptation efforts, fewer studies have examined why and how adaptation projects are being resisted. An analysis of resistance to adaptation offers critical insights to scholars
Megan Mills‐Novoa, Michael Mikulewicz
wiley   +1 more source

The complexity of compliance—Diverse responses to octopus fishery closures in Zanzibar

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 2543-2563, December 2024.
Abstract Marine protected areas like periodic closures are increasingly used to improve both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation, and often secondarily, human well‐being. Yet rule breaking, whether formal regulations, or community‐agreed norms, continues to negate expected management and conservation outcomes, remaining a major challenge.
Elizabeth Drury O'Neill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling environments? Examining social co-benefits of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change in Sri Lanka

open access: yes, 2019
Climate change vulnerability and social marginalisation are often interrelated in and through environments. Variations in climate change adaptation practice and research account for such social-ecological relations to varying degrees.
Stephen Woroniecki, Woroniecki, Stephen
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Citizen engagement in climate adaptation surveyed: Identifying challenges in education and capacity building

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 2024.
Abstract The accelerating impacts of climate change present significant challenges to sustainable urban development, testing the resilience of current governance frameworks and stakeholder responsibilities. In alignment with the EU's Green Deal, robust adaptation strategies and proactive climate risk anticipation are essential.
Aelita Skarzauskiene   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulacje prawne dotyczące operowania przez przedsiębiorców w sferze turystyki a funkcjonowanie samorządu terytorialnego

open access: yesPrzedsiębiorczość - Edukacja, 2015
Przedmiot niniejszego opracowania dotyczy ram prawnych działalności realizowanej przez przedsiębiorcóww sferze turystyki. W tym zakresie analiza odnosi się przede wszystkim do regulacjizawartych w Ustawie z dnia 29 sierpnia 1997 r.
Paweł Marek Woroniecki
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