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Ways of Water: Human Rights, Gender, Security & Environment.
No full textThe connections between access to water, gender, security, environment and human rights was the subject of a talk by Dr. Peter H. Gleick on Thursday March 26th, 2009 in the Rutgers University Libraries. Recipient of the prestigious MacArthur fellowship, Dr. Gleick is the president and co-founder of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, CA. The institute monitors the quality of the world's water supply and its effect of health, climate change, industrialization, and international relations. The work of the Pacific Institute has been cited by government officials and community activists in South Africa, India, the United Nations Global Compact, and the State of California. The Pacific Institute issues the biennial report, The World's Water, which tracks international developments in water quality and their local impacts.Program was held at the Scholarly Communications Center, Archibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Dungan Lecture: Peter H. Gleick
No full textOur 21st Centurty Water Challenge: From Bottled Water to Climate Change . Peter Gleick knows drinking water and climate change. He is a world renowned researcher and water expert and a MacArthur Foundation genius. So if Gleick drinks water from the tap, why don\u27t the rest of us? Why is bottled water an environmental justice issue? How does water relate to climate change
The looming global water crisis
No full textOf the earth's total water supply, scientists estimate that a mere 2% is freshwater suitable for human use, and of that amount, less than 1% is directly accessible through lakes, rivers, reservoirs and underground sources. As global water consumption continues to grow at a rate nearly double that of population growth, it is little wonder that many experts have speculated that the international conflicts of the future will be fought over water. Meanwhile, the U.N. predicts that 20% of the world's population lacks access to clean drinking water, and that by the year 2025 up to two-thirds of mankind could face water scarcities. With alarms sounding about the increasing scarcity of water, what can be done to manage the world's supply of freshwater, and how can global water wars be prevented? In this episode host Peter Krogh is joined by Dr. Peter Gleick, President and Co-founder of the Pacific Institute, and Brian Richter, Director of the Freshwater Initiative at the Nature Conservancy, to examine the future of the world's freshwater supply.Examines the growing alarm over what could be the world's next great resource crisis: global water shortages
Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
No full textDr. Peter H. Gleick gave this lecture on water, in general, with a focus on bottled water on Feb. 9, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Dr. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. Gleick is the author of many scientific papers and seven books, including the biennial water report, "The World's Water", and the new "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water".Lecture on water; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism
Author\u27s Response to Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations: Children and Nature – and Technology by Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
No full textAuthor\u27s Response to Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations: Children and Nature – and Technology by Peter H. Kahn, Jr
Peter H. Amann Collection 1909-2009
No full textThis collection contains the personal and professional papers of Peter Amann, mostly correspondence but also including family papers, personal and professional writings, publicity materials relating to Peter Amann’s wife, and other personal documents. These materials reflect his role as a professor, author and prominent American historian as well as providing information about the rest of his family, including his father Paul Amann.Although most of these files date from his adult life, when he worked as a professor of history at various American universities, many files, including all of Series I, appear to have been inherited from his mother Dora Amann (née Iranyi) during the 1980s. These files include Dora Amann’s family papers and document the lives of the Iranyi/Israel family at the period before the Anschluss, during wartime, when Dora and Paul Amann lived in Paris, and conditions of Jewish individuals and families in Vienna under the Nazi regime.Other materials inherited from Dora Amann consist of some of Paul Amann’s correspondence, which contains a limited amount of post-war correspondence with prominent literary figures like Christopher Isherwood, Albert Camus, and the estate of Romain Rolland, and correspondence between Ernst Amann and his parents Dora and Paul. Included with the Paul Amann materials is an unpublished memoir, written in English, pertaining to his time as an Austrian soldier during World War I.The earlier family correspondence is almost entirely comprised of letters exchanged between Peter Amann and his parents. Starting in the mid 1950s, other figures begin to appear in the family correspondence, including Peter’s half-brother Wilhelm (Willi), who settled in Scotland, and Peter’s sister Eva. After the death of Paul Amann in 1959, the family correspondence contains an increasing amount of letters to and from Dora Amann.The professional correspondence starts during Peter Amann’s graduate studies at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. This series consists of correspondence and application materials for scholarships and fellowships, such as the Fulbright Peter Amann received in 1963, letters exchanged with colleagues and with collaborators on various research and book projects, letters seeking job placement, and letters with scholarly and academic publishers, relating both to proposed and to actual book and research projects. A substantial amount of official correspondence with the administrations of the various universities for which Amann worked, especially the University of Michigan, is also present. Additional materials in this series include diplomas and awards dating from Amann’s high school years in the 1940s through the 1970s, and various writings both academic and fictional, publications, and translations. Many of these writings included in the collection have never been published. A final subseries of professional correspondence pertains to his wife Enne Amann’s career as a folk singer, for which Peter Amann acted as manager during the mid 1960s through the early 1970s.The final series, personal correspondence, comprises letters and cards exchanged with friends and neighbors, as well as many materials pertaining to personal accommodations, such as lodging and transportation, while abroad for research purposes. The line between personal and professional correspondence is often blurry in the case of letters exchanged with professional colleagues, and therefore many correspondents appear in both the personal and professional series. The original order of the files with regards to dividing personal and professional correspondence was largely kept intact to avoid any destruction of contextual evidence. A variety of other types of correspondence, including letters to newspaper Op-Ed pages and letters to Congressional representatives expressing personal political views, were also included in this series, even if they refer to Peter Amann’s professional credentials.Peter Amann was born in 1927 in the Penzig district of Vienna, Austria. In 1939 Peter Amann fled with his family to France, and eventually reached New York via Portugal in 1941. After a few itinerant years following their arrival in the United States, Peter Amann graduated high school in Ohio and then continued his education at Oberlin College. In 1947 he completed his studies at Oberlin College and married Enne Niemi in Kentucky.For the next half decade Amann worked various jobs and wrote fiction in New York City and Milwaukee, before settling in Chicago in 1952 to work on a Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago. Soon afterwards his first child Paula was born, and two other children, Sandra and David, were born within the following 7 years. Aside from an initial stint at Bowdoin College in Maine (1956-1959) and a few years on the faculty of the State University of New York Binghamton (1965-1968), Amann spent his entire professional career at various campuses of the University of Michigan. From 1971-2004 he was a Professor Emeritus of History at the Ann Arbor campus.Peter Amann is arguably most noted for his major work Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848, but he also authored several other well-regarded scholarly books and articles on a variety of topics covering both European and American history. He has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship (1963-1964), a Guggenheim fellowship (1963-1964), and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1982); for all of these awards he traveled to France for research.Dora Amann, née Israel, was born in 1894 in Vienna. Along with her immediate family, she converted to Protestantism and changed her name to Iranyi; her extended family kept the name Israel. She received a musical education in Vienna, Uppsala (Sweden), and Norway, and sang professionally. She married Paul Amann, a translator, with whom she had two children, Peter and Eva (later Eva Irrera). In 1939 she emigrated to France and then in 1941 to the United States. After Paul Amann’s death, she spent much of her life in New Paltz, New York, and died in 1993 near Washington, D.C.For a detailed biography of Peter Amann’s father, Paul Amann, please see the Peter Amann Collection, AR 3305.digitize
Finding Aid for the Peter H. Taylor Collection (MUM00442)
No full textThe collection contains papers, photographs, and audio recordings related to the life and work of author Peter H. Taylor
Comparison of several author indices for gauging academic productivity
No full textBackground
Many author indices exist to gauge academic productivity. Several of these indices are calculated based upon an author's scholarly publication record, but the measurement methodology to calculate each index varies considerably, and the precise function being used, as well as the end result, is often complex and difficult to assess.
Method
Two straightforward methods to weigh author productivity from the publication and citation record were evaluated as possible means for providing a clearer assessment of scholarly activity. The author characteristic index (termed c-index) assigns author rank for each publication based upon author position. The characteristic prime (c') -index normalizes author rank from author position, so that the total weight per publication is unity. The top 10 scholars with keyword 'celiac disease' in the Google Scholar database were then assessed using these metrics. Rankings according to total number of publications, h-index, and c- and c'-indices were compared, then tabulated along with total papers included for assessment, and mean values per paper for author position, number of authors, citations, and year of publication.
Results
The order of the top ten authors with keyword 'celiac disease' varied substantially depending upon whether the h-index, c-index, or c'-index was used as a gauge. The characteristic indices assign credit to authors according to their position in an author list. The affiliated metrics provided a more complete picture of scholarly activity.
Conclusions
Academic achievement by scholars, based upon quantitative publication characteristics, has recently become of interest for evaluating job candidates, for determining work performance, and for bestowing awards and honors. The characteristic indices as described herein are readily calculated and interpreted, and may improve the assessment of scholarly activity
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