Author Archives: Marina Morton
Research Team Lens- Landscape as Culture
The Oxford Dictionary defines culture as “the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.” Comparing and contrasting trends in American culture with Nepali ideas, customs, and social behaviors will help us map the community landscape and … Continue reading
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Observing Landscape as Place on the Streets of Downtown Carlisle, PA
Sounds and Feels Cars whizzed by me on the street as a constant flow of traffic entered and left the intersection. Occasional car horns broke through the rumbling engines in stopped traffic and the music coming from inside people’s cars. … Continue reading
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Tagged carlisle, lens, meinig, observation, pennsylvania, place
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Evaluating Sources of Climate Change Information
Evaluating sources of information before using them helps ensure that the researcher finds trustworthy conclusions. My evaluation criteria help the climate change researcher determine how useful sources of information will be for their project relative to the existing body of … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate scorecard, credibility, credible, earthaction, Paris Agreement, report, research, sources, tgci, trustworthy
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Climate Models: Are They Useful?
Uncertainty Does Not Mean Inaction Sound decisions can be made about responding to climate change despite significant uncertainties about future climate because high natural variability emerges during the process of modeling Nepal’s climate. It is important to note that Nepal’s … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate model, gcm, IDS Nepal, model, monsoon, practical action, resilience, trend, uncertainty, variability
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President Trump’s New Promise: The Erosion of America’s Global Leadership in Climate Change Action
“Continued participation in the Paris Agreement would be fundamentally unfair to American taxpayers. It would require the transfer of billions of their hard-earned dollars to other countries through the ‘Green Climate Fund.’” Truth-O-Meter rating: mostly false (contains an element of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, americans, climate change, Donald Trump, finance, global, green climate fund, investment, Mitigation, Paris Agreement, pledge, president, UNFCCC, united states, withdraw, withdrawal
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Climate Finance: Who’s Responsible?
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides the structure for multilateral action to prevent significant human change to the climate system. Dealing with climate change and its impacts on humanity and ecosystems requires a continuous international negotiation … Continue reading
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Tagged climate finance, global environment facility, green climate fund, resilience, risk, UNFCCC, united nations
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Battles of the New Republic a Contemporary History of Nepal by Prashant Jha- Reflections
Battles of the New Republic a Contemporary History of Nepal, by Prashant Jha, explained the fall of the monarch, the rise of violence, and the growth of political instability in Nepal which provides context for understanding how prepared and willing … Continue reading
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Tagged battles of the new republic, civil war, contemporary history, instability, jha prashant, maoist, monarchy, nepal, politics, rebellion
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