Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities

Managing Climate Risks in Coastal CommunitiesDrawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks must be taken by local stakeholders, and that climate adaptation efforts require collective rather than individual commitments to risk management.

Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors

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Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades

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Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937) was a Scot who served for more than 40 years as a colonial official in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei--Britain's leased territory in northern China

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