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Historische Katastrophenforschung
No full textDie Untersuchung von Katastrophen in historischer Perspektive unter Anwendung stark interdisziplinär ausgerichteter Zugänge hat sich zu einem sehr dynamischen Forschungsfeld entwickelt. Geschichtswissenschaft, Archäologie, Sozialanthropologie, Soziologie, Literaturwissenschaften, Philosophie, Theologie, Klimatologie, Geografie und zahlreiche weitere Disziplinen leisten dazu wesentliche Beiträge. Gemeinsam ermöglichen sie Einblicke, wie historische und heutige Gesellschaften Extremereignissen wahrnahmen, interpretierten, bewältigten und sich daran erinnerten, welche längerfristigen Adaptionsstrategien sie entwickelten. Auch methodische Überlegungen zur Natur von Katastrophen, von Risiko, Vulnerabilität und Resilienz sind dabei zentral. Die Reihe steht für Publikationen sowohl in deutscher als auch englischer Sprache offen und ist ebenso auf Monografien (u.a. die Druckfassung exzellenter Dissertationen und Habilitationsschriften) wie Sammelbände ausgerichtet.The investigation of catastrophes from a historical perspective using highly interdisciplinary approaches is now a very dynamic field of research. History, archaeology, social anthropology, sociology, literary studies, philosophy, theology, climatology and geography are just some of the disciplines making vital contributions. Together they seek to understand how past and present societies have perceived, interpreted, coped with and remembered extreme events and what kinds of long-term adaptation strategies have been developed. Methodological considerations on the nature of hazards, risk, vulnerability and resilience are key issues as well. This series is open for publications in both German and English and focuses on monographs (including printed versions of excellent dissertations and theses) as well as edited volumes
Historische Katastrophenforschung
No full textThe investigation of catastrophes from a historical perspective using highly interdisciplinary approaches is now a very dynamic field of research. History, archaeology, social anthropology, sociology, literary studies, philosophy, theology, climatology and geography are just some of the disciplines making vital contributions. Together they seek to understand how past and present societies have perceived, interpreted, coped with and remembered extreme events and what kinds of long-term adaptation strategies have been developed. Methodological considerations on the nature of hazards, risk, vulnerability and resilience are key issues as well. This series is open for publications in both German and English and focuses on monographs (including printed versions of excellent dissertations and theses) as well as edited volumes.Die Untersuchung von Katastrophen in historischer Perspektive unter Anwendung stark interdisziplinär ausgerichteter Zugänge hat sich zu einem sehr dynamischen Forschungsfeld entwickelt. Geschichtswissenschaft, Archäologie, Sozialanthropologie, Soziologie, Literaturwissenschaften, Philosophie, Theologie, Klimatologie, Geografie und zahlreiche weitere Disziplinen leisten dazu wesentliche Beiträge. Gemeinsam ermöglichen sie Einblicke, wie historische und heutige Gesellschaften Extremereignissen wahrnahmen, interpretierten, bewältigten und sich daran erinnerten, welche längerfristigen Adaptionsstrategien sie entwickelten. Auch methodische Überlegungen zur Natur von Katastrophen, von Risiko, Vulnerabilität und Resilienz sind dabei zentral. Die Reihe steht für Publikationen sowohl in deutscher als auch englischer Sprache offen und ist ebenso auf Monografien (u.a. die Druckfassung exzellenter Dissertationen und Habilitationsschriften) wie Sammelbände ausgerichtet
Global Public Policies and Programs : Implications for Financing and Evaluation
No full textThese are the proceedings from a World
Bank workshop on global public policies, and programs,
assembled from transcripts, and accompanying papers. The
combination of market failure, and limited institutional
capacity to influence economic, and social change across
national borders, underlies public discontent with aid. This
formed the basis for discussions, looking for new approaches
to the development assistance business, taking into account
the growing integration of the global economy, and arguing
that, beyond supporting market-friendly reforms, aid
strategies must be designed to overcome social, and
structural constraints to sustainable development. The broad
range of cases examined include efforts to craft commonly
accepted standards for the design, and operation of large
dams; they address issues of global financial instability;
explore the implications of intellectual property rights
protection for developing countries; describe the promotion
of international agricultural research; probe the
implementation of international public health programs; and,
identify the dilemmas associated with the financing, and
evaluation of global public policies, and programs. Such
programs have become center stage because of irreversible
processes associated with globalization, and, similar
initiatives will dominate the development scene for years to come
Catalogue of medieval disasters
No full textCatalogue of major disasters occurred in medieval Europe. It describes twenty natural disasters including, among the others, the volcanic eruptions of AD 536 and 540 363, the 1117 earthquake in northern Italy, the 1222 Cyprus earthquake, the 1248 Mont Granier landslide, the 1348 Carinthia and Friuli earthquake, the 1356 Basel earthquake, the 1382 Straits of Dover earthquake, Excavating the 1522 earthquake and landslide on the island of São Miguel, Azores, The 1531 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami. These entries were written by Paolo Forlin
Recovering a lost seismic disaster. The destruction of El Castillejo and the discovery of the earliest historic earthquake affecting the Granada region (Spain)
Full text linkThis paper discusses recent archaeological fieldwork conducted at El Castillejo, a medieval Islamic settlement in Los Guájares, Granada, southern Spain. Results from combined archaeological excavation and archaeoseismological assessment of standing structures suggest that the site was affected by a destructive earthquake during its occupation. Radiocarbon samples and OSL analysis point to a seismic event in the period CE 1224–1266. The earthquake occurred within an area marked by a ‘seismological gap’ in terms of historic seismicity and the causative fault has been tentatively identified in the Nigüelas-Padul Fault System which lies north of the settlement. This event is not recorded by national or European seismic catalogues and represents the oldest historic earthquake in the Granada area. Our work stresses the significant impact that targeted archaeological investigations can generate in our understanding of the local historic seismicity, thus providing clear implications for seismic disaster prevention and reduction
Conclusions. Medieval archaeology and natural disasters: what’s next?
No full textReflecting on the contents of this volume, the authors stress the following observations for making medieval archaeology relevant in disaster studies.
• Medieval archaeology should seek to make a more active contribution to contemporary debates around resilience by providing evidence for how people have adapted to environmental risk in the past.
• The application of archaeological theory to environmental hazards is not well developed. The impact of post-processual archaeology, for example, is not yet fully evident, although this volume does include several theoretically informed contributions.
• Any study of resilience of medieval societies should consider an analysis of the vulnerability which caused a natural hazard to become a disaster.
• Regional syntheses are required which summarise case studies of disasters at the landscape scale.
• The adoption of a landscape archaeology approach should contribute towards assessments of the risk posed by natural disasters in the fu tu re. A holistic archaeological assessment of environmental disasters can generate valuable knowledge applicable to disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes.
Special emphasis must be placed on the dissemination and communication of
results to the wider public.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Disaster or everyday risk? Perceiving, managing and commemorating floods in medieval central Europe
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