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Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

Article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

This article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups. Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in northern Arizona regarding artificial snowmaking at a ski resort on a sacred mountain, the author elucidates resort supporters' and others' attempts to frame snowmaking as a sustainable adaptation to drought (and, implicitly, climate change) while counterpoising these framings with narratives from local activists as well as Diné (Navajo) individuals.
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Video to Home Delivery of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (open access)

Video to Home Delivery of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Article examined the provision of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) delivered via ideo to home (VTH) at a large Southwestern Veterans Health Administration (VHA) PTSD outpatient clinic.
Date: December 6, 2019
Creator: Boykin, Derrecka M.; Keegan, Fallon; Thompson, Karin E.; Voelkel, Emily & Fletcher, Terri L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain (open access)

Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain

Discusses study that examines the impacts of climate change associated with climate warming and global dimming/brightening on potential light–temperature productivity (PTP) of summer maize based on daily observation data during 1961–2015 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: May 5, 2019
Creator: Hu, Qi; Ma, Xueqing; He, Huayun; Pan, Feifei; He, Qijin; Huang, Binxiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Are we Measuring and Modeling for? Supporting Multilevel Decision‐Making in Watershed Management (open access)

Who Are we Measuring and Modeling for? Supporting Multilevel Decision‐Making in Watershed Management

Article describes survey identifying opportunities for hydrologic modeling and monitoring to support overlapping management contexts.
Date: January 10, 2020
Creator: Bremer, Leah L.; Hamel, Perrine; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Pompeu, Patricia V.; Saad, Sandra I. & Brauman, Kate A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea (open access)

Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea

This article argues that elite purges in consolidated dictatorships have a different purpose and logic. Dictators, who have consolidated their position, seek to maximize the efficiency of rule by making the elite obedient through purges. For this purpose, dictators carefully select the purge target by considering various factors. To test this theory, the article examines the pattern of elite purges in North Korea based on an original individual-level dataset, which contains the personal background of 367 North Korean elites and their purge records between 1948 and 2019. Findings suggest that coup-proofing is not the only purpose of elite purges but that ensuring the leader’s political superiority is another purpose of elite purges in consolidated dictatorships.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Kim, Taekbin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The world's southernmost tree and the climate and windscapes of the southernmost forests (open access)

The world's southernmost tree and the climate and windscapes of the southernmost forests

Article documenting the world's southernmost tree along with the condition and growth pattern of the world's southernmost forest on Isla Hornos, Chile. This offers an ideal way to test the relationship between the biogeography of individual species and the effects of climate/climate change.
Date: September 9, 2020
Creator: Buma, Brian; Holz, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library