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    State Public Nuisance Claims and Climate Change Adaptation

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    This Article explores the potential for state public nuisance claims to facilitate adaptation, resource protection, and other climate change responses by coastal communities in California. The California public nuisance actions represent just the latest chapter in efforts to spur responses to climate change and attribute responsibility for climate change through the common law. Part II of this Article describes the California public nuisance lawsuits and situates them in the context of common law actions directed against climate change. Part III considers the preliminary defenses that defendants have raised and could raise in the California public nuisance lawsuits, including the existence of state common law in this context, separation of powers and the political question doctrine, displacement and preemption, and standing. Part IV considers the potential merits of the plaintiffs’ public nuisance claims under California law

    TIM MARSHALL: PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDE, 2017

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    Using National Border Climate Adjustment Schemes to Facilitate Global Greenhouse Gas Management in Industrial Production

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    I argue that an appropriately conceived and well-designed border climate adjustment scheme, as a policy mechanism potentially utilizable by many States party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, may lead to desirable consequences for the development of comprehensive global greenhouse gas management in furtherance of the Framework Convention’s objectives. By creating the conditions for a healthy experimentalism and regulatory competition among the regulating bodies of diverse national markets, the use of origin-neutral border climate adjustment schemes, equivalent to the climate regulatory costs imposed on like domestic products as a condition of market access, may lead to a quicker development of more efficient and ultimately more effective global greenhouse gas management than is likely to be achieved through ex ante international consensus. Finally, I contrast my scheme design proposal with recent important proposals including climate border adjustment provisions in the U.S. Congress

    Growing through Grief: Helping the Hurting to Heal at Sierra Presbyterian Church

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    The purpose of this project is to help people grow through grief, which is a journey with many detours that can lead in many directions. Despite the great potential for discouragement and despair, people can find healing if they incorporate the critical elements of staying in communication with God, in community with others, and caring for others out of their experience. To encourage those who are grieving and those who care for them, the project presents a practical plan for how to help people grow through grief. The thesis was tested at Sierra Presbyterian Church in Nevada City, California. The project begins by exploring the prevailing model of stages of grief that was developed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. It then takes up the two-track hypothesis of Kubler-Ross’s mentor, Carl Nighswonger, who showed that grief does not always lead to acceptance, but may lead to resignation or forlornness instead. Building on this hypothesis, this project addresses the cyclical nature of grief that is explored by a number of other writers. It will also look at a number of biblical examples of those who have grown through grief and what Reformed theology has to say about God’s role in the process. What results is a practical plan for how to help people grow through grief. This is accomplished by encouraging people to: stay in communication with God by praying the Psalms, in community with others through a grief workshop and grief groups, and to play a role in supporting others who are grieving through sharing their own grief stories. An evaluation and assessment plan is presented to show how this strategy has enabled people to grow in the context of Sierra Presbyterian Church. Theological Mentor: Kurt Fredrickson, PhD

    William's Window, ou, De la transparence dans le théâtre de Shakespeare

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    William' s Window se traduirait probablement par "veduta sur William [Shakespeare]". Car il s'agit bien d'une ouverture pratiquée, sinon sur un tableau, du moins dans un livre: le Premier Folio de 1623. Contenant à lui seul trente-six des trente-huit (ou trente-neuf) pièces attribuées à Shakespeare, ce livre demeure l'édition princeps des études Shakespeariennes. Notre étude consiste essentiellement en une analyse graphique -ou un catalogue raisonné -du métathéâtre de Shakespeare. Métathéâtre dont l'un des principaux effets esthétiques serait cette mise-en-abyme du processus dramatique lui-même (où la représentation se met elle-même en représentation). Comme notre sous-titre l'indique, nous tâchons d'établir combien le théâtre de Shakespeare était métathéâtral par le biais notamment de ce que nous appelons sa transparence ou son auto-réflexivité représentative (pour les théoriciens de l'art, son opacité). Les pages qui suivent rendent compte (en anglais, hélas) de trois lectures du Folio, chacune d'entre-elles ayant pour but d'extraire autant d'exemples que possible d'un certain type de transparence. La première lecture (chapitre 1) porte sur les engins métathéâtraux en tant que tels (pièces-dans-la-pièce et déguisements) et résulte en un catalogue visuel de leur récurrence à l'intérieur de la structure même des pièces. La seconde lecture (chapitre 2) répertorie tous les termes faisant référence au théâtre, et la troisième (chapitre 3) tous ceux portant sur la représentation mimétique. Le catalogue du premier chapitre, et les deux répertoires des chapitres suivants préservent l'ordre des pièces ainsi que les catégories du Folio. Leurs données, cependant, sont rassemblées et reproduites à nouveau, chronologiquement cette fois, dans le dépliant en annexe. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Shakespeare, Premier Folio (First Folio), Métathéâtre, Analyse graphique (coupe formelle)
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