Climate change in mountain regions: how local communities adapt to extreme events

This paper examines how local communities adapt to climate change and how governance structures can foster or undermine adaptive capacity. Climate change policies, in general, and disaster risk management in mountain regions, in particular, are characterised by their multi-level and multi-sectoral nature during formulation and implementation. The involvement of numerous state and non-state actors at local to national levels produces a variety of networks of interaction and communication. The paper argues that the structure of these relational patterns is critical for understanding adaptive capacity. It thus proposes an expanded concept of adaptive capacity that incorporates (horizontal and vertical) actor integration and communication flow between these actors. The paper further advocates the use of formal social network analysis to assess these relational patterns. Preliminary results from research on adaptation to climate change in a Swiss mountain region vulnerable to floods and other natural hazards illustrate the conceptual and empirical significance of the main arguments.

Glimpses of Methodism in York : and the surrounding district /

Mode of access: Internet.

Descriptive and classified missionary centenary catalogue of current Christian literature : 1907 continuing that of 1901 (Wen-li and Mandarin) /

"A continuation of the labors of Mr. Alexander Kenmure ... and of the still earlier work of Dr. Alexander Wylie."--Pref.

Plain catechetical instruction for young communicants, designed to assist them in forming Scriptural views of the Lord's Supper. With an address to young persons not yet communicants, and a few meditations and helps for self-examination.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hints to emigrants : in a series of letters from Upper Canada /

Map: Perth, Lanark & Richmond Settlements, district of Bathurst, Upper Canada with part of the adjacent county; Plans: [1]. Township of Drummond, ten miles square. This sketch shows how a township is divided into concessions & lots; [2]. Perth.

Histoire ecclésiastique /

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Life in Alaska : letters of Mrs. Eugene S. Willard /

Includes index.

Old-time primitive Methodism in Canada, 1829-1884

Mode of access: Internet.

Modern missions on the Spanish main; impressions of Protestant work in Colombia and Venezuela,

"A brief reading list on Colombia and Venezuela": p. 331-334.

Missions in South America.

"Printed for the use of the Board and missions."

Effectiveness of Presbyterian college programs in developing leadership for religious education,

Based on thesis (PH.D.)--Yale university.

A memorial of the Futtehgurh mission and her martyred missionaries : with some remarks on the mutiny in India.

Cover title: The martyred missionaries.

The reformation of the nineteenth century; a series of historical sketches dealing with the rise and progress of the religious movement inaugurated by Thomas and Alexander Campbell, from its origin to the close of the nineteenth century.

Introduction.--Loos, C. L. Introductory period.--Tyler, B. B. Period of organization.--Moore, W. T. The turbulent period.--Grafton, T. W. The transition period.--Smith, B. L. Period of revival of home missions.--McLean, A. The period of foreign missions.--White, L. A. Period of woman's work.--Garrison, J. H. Lessons from our past.

David Christoph Seybolds ... Einleitung in die Griechische und Römische Mythologie der alten Schriftsteller für Jünglinge mit antiken Kupfern.

Mode of access: Internet.