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Point of No Return :The massive climate threats we must avoid
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The world is quickly reaching a Point of No Return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult, if not impossible, to prevent the widespread and catastrophic impacts of climate change. The costs will be substantial: billions spent to deal with the destruction of extreme weather events, untold human suffering, and the deaths of tens of millions from the impacts by as soon as 2030.
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Points of View.pdf
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Polhill Dimock 1996.pdf
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Policies Collection
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Principles, policies, and laws from legislatures and agencies provide a structured approach to managing and regulating wildland fire and smoke emissions, however some can also impede the use of prescribed burn management.
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Policy and Regulations
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Prescribed Burning
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Policy and Regulations
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Federal fire policy requires that agencies incorporate fire as a critical natural process into their land and resource management plans and activities on a landscape scale and across agency boundaries (NIFC)
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Politics for the day after tomorrow: The logic of apocalypse in global climate politics
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The recent global climate change discourse is a prominent example of a securitization of environmental
issues. While the problem is often framed in the language of existentialism, crisis or even apocalypse, climate
discourses rarely result in exceptional or extraordinary measures, but rather put forth a governmental
scheme of piecemeal and technocratic solutions often associated with risk management. This article argues
that this seeming paradox is no accident but follows from a politics of apocalypse that combines two logics
– those of security and risk – which in critical security studies are often treated as two different animals.
Drawing on the hegemony theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, however, this article shows
that the two are inherently connected. In the same way as the Christian pastorate could not do without
apocalyptic imageries, today’s micro-politics of risk depends on a series of macro-securitizations that
enable and legitimize the governmental machinery. This claim is backed up by an inquiry into current global
discourses of global climate change regarding mitigation, adaptation and security implications. Although
these discourses are often framed through the use of apocalyptic images, they rarely result in exceptional
or extraordinary measures, but rather advance a governmental scheme of risk management. Tracing the
relationship between security and risk in these discourses, we use the case of climate change to highlight
the relevance of our theoretical argument.
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pollinatorsInCities.pdf
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Pompino, Randy
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Pond, Greg
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