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Renewables 2010: Global Status Report (open access)

Renewables 2010: Global Status Report

This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.
Date: 2010
Creator: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
System: The UNT Digital Library
Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future (open access)

Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future

This report outlines the strategic direction of the energy sector to meet its growing energy demand in an environmentally-sustainable manner over the next two decades, and presents a pathway of policy frameworks and financing mechanisms to get there. This study found that large-scale deployment of energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies can simultaneously stabilize East Asia’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and significantly improve the local environment and enhance energy security, without compromising economic growth.
Date: May 2010
Creator: World Bank
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012

Interview with Gayle Reaves-King,a journalist in Fort Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, family life, and her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Ayers, Cesta & Reaves-King, Gayle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning (open access)

Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning

This report shows that in spite of the global economic downturn, investment in sustainable energy is still strong.
Date: 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Vaughn Bercaw, April 22, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Vaughn Bercaw, April 22, 2002

Interview with Vaughn Bercaw, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force from East Lansing, Michigan who served in Germany during the Cold War and Thailand in the early days of the Vietnam War. Bercaw describes his training in basic aircraft weapon systems and experiences on various missions in both wars, including life upon returning to the United States.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Brown, Chambra & Bercaw, Vaughn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon (open access)

Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon

According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Harcastle, P. D.; Baird, David & Harden, Virginia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Song at the swinging festival (open access)

Song at the swinging festival

Lyrics of a song describing the weather and foods eaten during the swinging festival, including a metrical analysis of syllables per line.
Date: November 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staying comfortable, drinking liquor (open access)

Staying comfortable, drinking liquor

Transcription of the song/chant 'shàziqziq e' indicating tone and a metrical analysis of syllables per line. Includes partial translations.
Date: November 18, 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of death rituals (open access)

Description of death rituals

Description of rituals associated with death, including preparing the body, offerings, and the roles of family members in these practices.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 07 (open access)

Akha notebook 07

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about social customs related to death. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 85 (open access)

Akha notebook 85

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of descriptions of daily life in an Akha village and conversations about marriage. Continued from Notebook 83.
Date: 1977-12/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 89 (open access)

Akha notebook 89

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices, funerals, and buying and selling and traditional narratives about tigers. Continued from Notebook 88.
Date: 1978-03-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 86 (open access)

Akha notebook 86

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about death rituals and Akha funerals.
Date: February 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 80 (open access)

Akha notebook 80

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and rituals associated with death and marriage.
Date: 1977/1978-04
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 90 (open access)

Akha notebook 90

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and rituals associated with death and marriage. Continued from Notebook 80.
Date: 1978-04-05/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 134 (open access)

Akha notebook 134

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha narratives, word lists, lecture notes, grammar notes, and notes on terms used in English translations with detailed descriptions of rituals, festivals, the Akha calendar, genealogies, traditional clothing, sacrifices, the agricultural cycle, and taboos. Includes excerpts of the 1988 Thai census demographics.
Date: 1986/1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 120 (open access)

Akha notebook 120

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs, narratives, and ritual recitations about offerings to ancestors, good and bad omens, months, and taboos.
Date: 1982-10-08/1982-10-09
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 118 (open access)

Akha notebook 118

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and ritual recitations with partial English glossing.
Date: September 26, 1982
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 119 (open access)

Akha notebook 119

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and ritual recitations with partial English glossing.
Date: September 29, 1982
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 123 (open access)

Akha notebook 123

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including njí-phà Sjhí ə and conversations with njí-phà Àphiphò with partial English glossing. Includes hand drawn map of the houses and landmarks in Maeby village.
Date: 1982/1983-12-25
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 124 (open access)

Akha notebook 124

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives recited by njí-phà Sjhí ə in Maeby village about dragons, spirits, rituals, and healing.
Date: 1982/2016
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 132 (open access)

Akha notebook 132

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about spirits and rituals with partial English glossing, word lists, and grammar notes on tone and syllable structure.
Date: 1988-01/1989-01-17
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 87 (open access)

Akha notebook 87

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about death rituals, Akha funerals, hunting taboos, traditional health practices, and marriage. Continued from Notebook 86.
Date: 1978-02-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 88 (open access)

Akha notebook 88

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices and opium and tobacco use and traditional narratives about dragons. Continued from Notebook 87.
Date: 1978-03/1979-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library