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Cumulative environmental effects and the tyranny of small decisions : towards meaningful cumulative effects assessment and management
No full text"Recognizing that each additional disturbance in a region can represent a high marginal cost to the environment, there is an increasing awareness of the need to better assess and manage cumulative environmental effects. Yet, cumulative effects are one of the most perplexing issues in environmental assessment and natural resource management, and the practice of cumulative effects assessment has been falling significantly short of its promise. Practiced largely in the context of project-based decision making, the current approach to cumulative effects assessment does not provide the results needed to understand broader environmental change or to make longer-term decisions concerning the sustainability of current and future development actions. This paper attempts to unpack the current approach to cumulative effects assessment, and to identify a means to move toward more meaningful practice. It argues that cumulative effects assessment requires a much more integrative and strategic framework than what is currently practiced, operating at a regional scale and both informing and informed by higher level policies and plans and lower level project actions. In order for this to happen, we must rethink our assumptions about the nature of cumulative effects; move toward the integration of assessment, science, and management; and invest in the capacity needed to implement and sustain cumulative effects assessment systems and practices."Not peer reviewe
Book Review: Die Bram Fischer Wals
No full textBook Title: Die Bram Fischer WalsBook Author: Harry Kalmer Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016. 67pp. ISBN 978-1-77614-005-3
Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction
No full textThough best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, selections from Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906) and a fictional work on the theatre
GHOSTS FROM THE PAST! or, BRAM STOKER'S ARMADA
No full texthttps://www.euronewsproject.org/2022/07/08/ghosts-from-the-past-or-bram-stokers-armada/
Who has not heard of Dracula, gothic classic of vampire lore par excellence? What about The Mystery of the Sea? The latter book by the same author received far less acclaim. To be sure, books were not this Irish author’s only stock in trade. By the time Bram Stoker published his famous work he was already nearing the end of a long mostly unrelated career in theater promotion and management which had brought him in contact with English as well as American high society. As a writer, his experience also included theater reviews for a Dublin newspaper. Arguably, all these aspects, and much else besides, find their way somehow into the novels; but that is not our concern here
Bram Stoker: history, psychoanalysis, and the Gothic
No full textBram Stoker is best remembered today as the author of Dracula. However, this Dublin-born Anglo-Irishman combined a writing career which produced eleven novels and a wealth of short stories, biography and journalism, with a full-time occupation as a theatre manager and society figure in fin de siecle London.
This volume testifies to the breadth and diversity of Stoker's writings and interests, and reassesses the significant contribution which the author made to the Gothic tradition. Its Introduction analyses the reasons behind Stoker's exclusion from the literary canon through an exploration of the changes in critical and cultural studies in the late twentieth century. The twelve critical essays which follow, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, demonstrate a variety of critical approaches to Stoker and to the ideas and problems presented by his writings before and after Dracula
Correction to: The ‘can do, do do’ concept in COPD; quadrant interpretation, affiliation and tracking longitudinal changes
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the authors identified a mistake in the author names, as both forename and initials were stated. Initially published author names: A. J. Alex van ’t Hul, E. H. Noortje Koolen, H. W. Jeroen van Hees, B. Bram van den Borst and M. A. Martijn Spruit Correct author names: Alex J. van ‘t Hul, Noortje H. Koolen, Jeroen W. van Hees, Bram van den Borst, Martijn A. Spruit. The original article has been corrected.</p
"The curse of Ireland in our own time": Bram Stoker and the stage Irishman
No full textBram Stoker (1847–1912), famous as the author of 'Dracula', was born in Dublin. He was Sir Henry Irving’s secretary and touring manager for 27 years. A Protestant and a Liberal, Stoker believed in Home Rule for Ireland but was also a monarchist, a believer in Empire and an admirer of Gladstone. The speaker will discuss in detail Stoker’s complex attitudes to Ireland
Het Brusselse hof van Nassau De oprichting van een laatmiddeleeuwse stadsresidentie
No full textBram Vannieuwenhuyze & Stefan Meijering, The court of Nassau. The construction of an aristocratic residence in late medieval Brussels
In recent years, historians have devoted much attention to the integration of rich nobles and state officials in late medieval urban society. However, the concrete spatial practices linked to this socio-cultural integration have received less scholarly attention. In this paper, we use the abundant archives relating to the late medieval court of Nassau in Brussels (14th-16th century) to reconstruct the genesis and expansion of such an urban noble residence and its integration within the surrounding neighbourhood. The complex that we know from 16th-and 17th century iconography and cartography seems to be the result of several successive construction campaigns. It is, however, clear that the construction of this residence was not the result of a simple and short architectural intervention. We stress the complex and long term interaction between personal aspirations and collective interests, between family history and town history and between local building history and the urbanization of the surrounding quarter and entire town.Vannieuwenhuyze Bram, Meijering Stefan. Het Brusselse hof van Nassau De oprichting van een laatmiddeleeuwse stadsresidentie. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 88, fasc. 2, 2010. Histoire médiévale moderne et contemporaine. pp. 349-376
Das Niederländische Luftfahrtlaboratorium im Zweiten Weltkrieg
No full textSoftcover, 17x24Mit der Berufung Ludwig Prandtls als Professor für Angewandte Mechanik wurde
die kleine Universitätsstadt Göttingen im Jahr 1904 zur Wiege der modernen
Strömungsmechanik und Aerodynamik. Prandtl begründete hier nicht nur mit
der Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt (AVA) und dem Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut
für Strömungsforschung zwei Forschungseinrichtungen von Weltrang, sondern
auch mit der so genannten „Göttinger Schule“ eine außergewöhnlich fruchtbare
wissenschaftliche Denkweise, die sich durch eine eigentümliche Balance von
physikalischer Intuition und mathematischer Exaktheit auszeichnet. Die wissen-
schaftliche Methode Prandtls und seiner Schüler hat ihren Niederschlag in zahl-
reichen Dissertationen, Monographien und Lehrbüchern gefunden, die mittlerweile
als klassisch gelten und damit zum Grundbestand der Strömungslehre gehören.
Doch viele dieser Publikationen sind seit langer Zeit nicht mehr verfügbar. Die
Reihe „Göttinger Klassiker der Strömungsmechanik“ stellt deshalb ausgewählte
Publikationen, die der Göttinger Schule um Ludwig Prandtl zuzurechnen sind oder
in einem gewissen historischen Bezug dazu stehen, wieder zur Verfügung.
Der vorliegende Band stellt insofern eine Besonderheit dar, als er keinen
wissenschaftlichen, sondern einen wenig bekannten wissenschaftshistorischen
Gegenstand behandelt, der jedoch einen engen Bezug zur Denkweise und den
Leitmotiven der Göttinger Schule um Ludwig Prandtl aufweist. Man hatte dort
stets dezidiert die Ansicht vertreten, dass Forschungseinrichtungen einen hohen
Grad an Autonomie besitzen sollten und nicht durch Vorgaben aus Politik oder
Wirtschaft zu sehr in ihrer Freiheit eingeschränkt werden dürften. Zudem genoss
die kollegiale Zusammenarbeit mit den Aerodynamikern anderer europäischer
Länder wie Frankreich, England und den Niederlanden in Göttingen von Anfang an
einen außergewöhnlich hohen Stellenwert.
Im zweiten Weltkrieg sollten diese hehren Auffassungen in völlig unerwarteter
Weise auf eine ernsthafte Probe gestellt werden, als der Göttinger Aerodynami-
schen Versuchsanstalt AVA die Aufsicht über mehrere flugwissenschaftliche
Forschungsinstitute in den besetzten Ländern Westeuropas übertragen wurde,
um sie für die deutschen Kriegsanstrengungen nutzbar zu machen. Eine dieser
Einrichtungen war das niederländische Luftfahrtlaboratorium NLL in Amsterdam,
das nun unter „Göttinger Fittiche“ kam. Dieses Buch erzählt die spannende
Geschichte davon, wie die unversehens von Kollegen zu allmächtigen Besatzern
gewordenen deutschen Wissenschaftler und die zur Zusammenarbeit gezwungenen
niederländischen Forscher in dieser extremen Situation mit ihrer Verantwortung
umgegangen sind.With the appointment of Ludwig Prandtl as Professor of Applied Mechanics in 1904, the small university town of Göttingen became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Prandtl not only founded two world-class research institutions here, the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA) and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Strömungsforschung, but also the so-called "Göttingen School", an exceptionally fruitful scientific way of thinking characterised by a particular balance of physical intuition and mathematical exactitude. The scientific method of Prandtl and his students has found expression in numerous dissertations, monographs and textbooks, which are now regarded as classics and thus form part of the basic stock of fluid mechanics. However, many of these publications have not been available for a long time. The series "Göttinger Klassiker der Strömungsmechanik" therefore makes selected publications available again that can be attributed to the Göttingen school around Ludwig Prandtl or have a certain historical connection to it.
The present volume is a speciality in that it does not deal with a scientific subject, but with a little-known subject from the history of science, which nevertheless has a close connection to the way of thinking and the leitmotifs of the Göttingen School around Ludwig Prandtl. The view was always firmly held that research institutions should have a high degree of autonomy and should not be overly restricted in their freedom by political or economic guidelines. In addition, collegial collaboration with aerodynamicists from other European countries such as France, England and the Netherlands was given exceptionally high priority in Göttingen from the very beginning. During the Second World War, these noble views were to be put to a serious test in a completely unexpected way when the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA) was entrusted with the supervision of several aeronautical research institutes in the occupied countries of Western Europe in order to utilise them for the German war effort. One of these institutions was the Nationaal Luchtvaartlaboratorium (NLL) in Amsterdam, which now came under "Göttingen's wing". This book tells the exciting story of how the German scientists, who had suddenly been transformed from colleagues into all-powerful occupiers, and the Dutch researchers, who were forced to co-operate, dealt with their responsibilities in this extreme situation
The impact of strategy on supply chain and forecasting
No full textIn this provocative article, Bram Desmet explores how a company's market strategy affects its supply chain targets and forecasting methodology. The author introduces the concept of the supply chain triangle to illustrate the balancing act a company must perform to achieve the cost, service, and inventory mix that maximizes its return on capital employed. He then shows how the company's strategic choice, be it operational excellence, product leadership, or customer intimacy, influences the position it seeks on the supply chain triangle and, in particular, its inventory target
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