37,792 research outputs found
A Case-study of the Murray-Darling Basin
No full textConsultancy report for the International Water Management Institute. This case study was commissioned by the International Water Management Institute as part of an Asian Development Bank supported regional study on water management institutions. This case study is one of three case studies of advanced river basins (Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, Omonogawa in Japan and Brantas in Indonesia), and five other river basin studies in North China, West Sumatra of Indonesia, Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.Australia;river;natural resource management;Murray-Darling
An Exploration of Truncation in Italian
No full textItalian displays a rich variety of truncation patterns and therefore forms an ideal testing ground for constraint interaction determining truncation in general. This paper describes in detail the various truncation patterns of Italian: monosyllabic light syllable templates, bisyllabic templates and atemplatic patterns, both initially and stress anchored. Based on joint work with Sabine Arndt-Lappe, a set of anchoring and size restrictor constraints is proposed, which determines the typology of Italian truncation patterns and avoids generating systems which are not attested among the world's languages. Specifically, it is proposed that two Anchor constraints (Anchor-L and Anchor-R), defined as alignment constraints, are responsible for edge anchoring in truncation as well as for maximality effects. Anchor-stress, defined as a faithfulness constraint, is reponsible for stress anchoring. The size-restrictor constraint Coincide-s1 guarantees that monosyllabic templates emerge and, through its gradient evaluation, allows the generation of atemplatic truncation patterns. This set of constraints allows to preserve the architecture of Generalized Template Theory, where templates emerge as unmarked structures, but at the same time avoids unwanted predictions of other constraint sets proposed in the literature for truncation or reduplication.This paper has been published as: Alber, B. (2010), An Exploration of Truncation in Italian, in: Peter Staroverov, Daniel Altshuler, Aaron Braver, Carlos A. Fasola and Sarah Murray (eds.). Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 3. Rutgers LinguisticsAlber, Birgit (2010), An Exploration of Truncation in Italian, in: Peter Staroverov, Daniel Altshuler, Aaron Braver, Carlos A. Fasola and Sarah Murray (eds.). Rutgers Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 3. Rutgers Linguistics
Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Andrew Gorman-Murray and Peter Hopkins in conversation : reflections on masculinities and sexualities research on GPC’s 25th anniversary
No full textIn this piece, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Peter Hopkins reflect upon the relationships between sexualities, masculinities and feminist geographies, including how these fields have shaped each other. They also reflect on the emergence of research about masculinities, and the place of men, within feminist geography. Andrew previously served as one of the Book Review Editors of Gender, Place and Culture and Peter has served as one of the Book Review Editors before becoming an Editor and then Managing Editor of the journal. Andrew is Professor of Geography at Western Sydney University in Australia; his research has focused upon geographies of gender and sexuality, with recent work centring on LGBT experiences of disasters and on the impact of mobile work on household transformations. Peter is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. His earlier work explored youthful Muslim masculinities and intergenerational relations. He continues to focus on the intersections of gender, ethnicity, religion and youth with recent working focusing on gendered Islamophobia, everyday geopolitics and equality and diversity. In 2014, Andrew and Peter co-edited a collection on Masculinities and Place with many contributions from feminist geographers
Reducing the cost of South Australia of achieving agreed salinity targets in the River Murray.
No full textPast irrigation development has lead to rising salt loads in the River Murray and its floodplains, and reduced river flows. Even in the absence of any further development, river and floodplain salt loading as the result of this irrigation is anticipated to grow over the decades. Any new development will bring additional salinity loads and further reduced River flows.Australia;river;salinity
Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Murray Darling River Basin, Austrialia
No full textThe authors describe and analyze management in the Murray-Darling basin of Australia, long regarded as a model for integrated river basin management. This interior basin of over 1 million km2 in semi-arid southeastern Australia is defined by the catchment areas of the Murray and Darling Rivers and their tributaries. Water management issues include allocation, quality, and dryland salinity. Because of Australia's federal governmental structure, institutional development has been more a matter of integrating state and local endeavors than decentralization of national authority. The Australian national government has little constitutional power over water resources. The five states in the basin make policy regarding water rights, discharge permits, fees, and the construction and operation of physical structures. River management began on the Murray River in the 1920s under the terms of a tri-state agreement. As the scope of management widened to the entire basin, more states were added and the national government supported the creation of new arrangements for integrated water resource management, with some provision for stakeholder participation. The dynamics of state-national authority over water policy, and the emergence in recent years of numerous local-level catchment organization, contribute to some uncertainty about the future course of basin management in this internationally renowned site.Water and Industry,Water Conservation,Water Resources Law,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water Supply and Systems,Town Water Supply and Sanitation,Drought Management,Water and Industry,Water Conservation,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
Sanford Bates Correspondence to Peter Murray July 8 1967
No full textA letter addressed to Peter Murray from Sanford Bates in congratulations on Murray's appointment as State Public Offender
Ecocide : a Soviet legacy
No full textOne of the most harmful and potentially long-lasting legacies of communism in the former Soviet block is that of ecocide -- widespread pollution, over-consumption of resources, and general destruction of the environment. In a system where the state was the manufacturer and production quotas were paramount, environmental concerns were consistently subordinated to industrial goals. Only after the collapse of the Soviet Union did the true scale of this environmental crisis become apparent. In St. Petersburg, waste from more than 500 factories contaminated the harbor and rendered the city's water supply undrinkable. The Aral Sea, once the fourth largest body of freshwater in the world, was shrunk to one-third of its original size and permanently polluted as the result of years of over-draining to irrigate crops. Perhaps most menacingly, the former U.S.S.R. suffered widespread radiation pollution caused by Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents. In this episode, host Peter Krogh sits down with Dr. Murray Feshbach, professor of demography at Georgetown University, and Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, former Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, to discuss the legacy of communist environmental policy in the former Soviet Union and the need for a broader definition of international security that includes environmental resource and demographic concerns.Examines ecocide and environmental degradation in the former U.S.S.R., as well as the role of environmental resources in international security
Advances In Conservation Through Sustainable Use Of Wildlife
No full textThis book contains the edited proceedings of papers presented at the Conservation through the Sustainable Use of Wildlife conference in Brisbane in September 2016. It examines what tangible benefits sustainable use of wildlife had delivered, what the impediments were, what data needed to be collected and what governance structures needed to be erected to enable sustainable use to deliver on its promise
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