248 research outputs found
Hacia el fin del milenio Title: Approaching the End of the Millennium
No full textHomero Aridjis (1940-), Mexican poet, diplomat and author of over 25 books of poetry, founder of the environmental Group of 100, awarded by the United Nations.Culture & Arts, Cultural Center Encuentros Nro. 11 Homero Aridjis Aproaching the End of the Millennium
Approaching the End of the Millennium
No full textHomero Aridjis (1940-), Mexican poet, diplomat and author of over 25 books of poetry, founder of the environmental Group of 100, awarded by the United Nations
Approaching the End of the Millennium
No full textHomero Aridjis (1940-), Mexican poet, diplomat and author of over 25 books of poetry, founder of the environmental Group of 100, awarded by the United Nations.
Edenes subvertidos. La obra en prosa de Homero Aridjis
No full textEste libro trata de la obra en prosa de Homero Aridjis. Es el primer estudio que propone un panorama detallado y profundizado del trabajo de uno de los autores mexicanos más importantes del siglo XX, con un modelo teórico hecho a medida que se puede aplicar a otras obras.This book is about Mexican author Homero Aridjis' work. It's the first study with a detailed and deep panorama of the work of one of the most important Mexican writers of XXth century, with a tailor-made theoretical model that can be applied to other works
Heritage Protection: a non-radical change
No full textCritical intervention by Adler Homero Fonseca de Castro, PhD in Comparative History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, researcher at the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional — IPHAN, partner at the Institute of Geography and Military History of Brazil, author of several books and articles on assets and other matters.Intervención crítica de Adler Homero Fonseca de Castro, Doctor en Historia Comparada por la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, investigador del Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional — IPHAN, socio del Instituto de Geografía e Historia Militar de Brasil, autor de varios libros y artículos sobre bienes y otras materias.Intervenção crítica de Adler Homero Fonseca de Castro, Doutor em História Comparada pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, pesquisador do Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional — IPHAN, sócio do Instituto de Geografia e História Militar do Brasil, autor de vários livros e artigos sobre patrimônio e outros assuntos
Surface water sensitivity to climate variability
No full textGlobal water security is known to depend on, among other things, the ability of societies to cope with hydrological risks. While there are several drivers that determine the severity of these risks, climatological mechanisms play an important role in describing their spatial and temporal characteristics. These mechanisms are often described as intra-annual and inter-annual sources of climate variability. Furthermore, anthropogenic climate change is understood to importantly perturb these mechanisms and in turn magnify hydrological risks. As such, understanding the way in which these mechanisms of climate variability influence hydrological processes has become a present and pressing scientific challenge. In particular, while existing methods look to explain the role of climate variability in hydrometeorological variables, namely precipitation and temperature, more research is required to explain how these mechanisms manifest in large-scale land surface hydrological processes and extremes. The objective of this thesis is to increase our understanding of the way that climate sources of variability influence the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of hydrological flows. This objective is addressed in a systematic way, by first exploring how hydrological flow characteristics are influenced by land surface hydrological processes in areas, with traditional rudimentary runoff representations. Building on this, this thesis secondly analyses the direct link between natural sources of climate variability and land surface hydrological processes and risks at the global scale. Lastly, the repercussions of anthropogenic climate change, in the context of current global climate agreements, in influencing hydrological extremes are explored. By examining the impacts of such extremes on global hydropower availability, a part of the ultimate consequences of hydrological risks on human systems are subsequently explored. In order to address these aims this thesis proposes a systemic framework that connects climate sources of variability and heterogeneity of flows, by combining various physical sub-models of a Land Surface Model (LSM) and other complementary tools. As such, this framework looks to link climate sources of variability, atmospheric responses, surface hydrological variables, hydrodynamics, hydrological extremes, and societal repercussions. To demonstrate the value of the framework, this thesis presents four case studies in which specific components and sub-models of this framework are utilized to address the mentioned objectives. The framework proposed here has helped to unveil and quantify new drivers that control river flows and hydrological risks. This includes explaining the snowpack characteristics that determine timing and magnitude of river flow peaks in snow-dominated regions. Also, by quantifying the inter-annual variability driven by Atmospheric Rivers, this thesis found that this form of moisture transport contributes to 22% of total global annual runoff and their variability importantly drives hydrological extremes in various global locations. Furthermore, by applying this framework, this thesis found that committing to a 1.5oC level of warming, instead of 2.0°C, as agreed in Paris in 2015, may importantly decrease high flow occurrences in regions such central Asia or western Europe. Similarly, this thesis found that the intensification of future low flow events, resulted from future climate targets, may lead to important global water losses which in turn would make almost a quarter of current global GHP vulnerable, importantly affecting the energy share in various Asian and Sub-Saharan countries
¿Una Odisea antes de Homero? El Ulises de Álvaro Cunqueiro
No full textIn 1960, Álvaro Cunqueiro published Las Mocedades de Ulises, a ‘no novel’ of the so-called mythological type in which, following the outline of a Bildungsroman, the author fables the birth and youth of Ulysses and the process of his configuration as a hero, in a sort of 'Odyssey before Homer'. This paper studies the Galician writer's approach to Homer's hero, both in The Mocedades and in other texts, and analyses how much of Homer's Odysseus there is in Cunqueiro's Ulysses.Álvaro Cunqueiro publicó en 1960 Las Mocedades de Ulises, una ‘no novela’ de las denominadas mitológicas en la que, con el esquema de un Bildungsroman, fabula el nacimiento y juventud de Ulises y el proceso de su configuración como héroe, en una suerte de 'Odisea ante de Homero'. Este artículo estudia el acercamiento del escritor gallego al héroe de Homero, tanto en Las Mocedades como en otros textos, y analiza cuánto hay del Odiseo homérico en el Ulises cunqueiriano
Homero: un gran poeta sin sombra
No full textWith regard to a quotation on Achilles shield, described in the Iliad (XVII 468-617) by a Spanish authority on novel, in which the pictorial value of Homer`s narrative is pointed out, the author approaches the eternal question about the real existence of Homer, which we could leave out, since we can enjoy his work, mainly the Iliad and the Odyssey attributed to him.A propósito de una cita del escudo de Aquiles, descrito en la Ilíada, XVIII 468-617, por un destacado estudioso de la novela en España, en donde se resalta el valor pictórico de la narración homérica, el autor hace un acercamiento al eterno problema de la persona de Homero, de cuya existencia real podríamos prescindir, al poder disfrutar de las obras, principalmente Ilíada y Odisea, a él atribuidas
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