Arma virumque cano: A brief personal reflection on the life and times of Hilary Koprowski, from the limited perspective of the rabiesologist

This personal reflection of more than 40 years' work on the supply of labour in a household context discusses the relationship between social science history (the application to historical phenomena of the tools developed by social scientists) and local population studies. The paper concludes that historians working on local source materials can give something new back to social scientists and social science historians, urging them to remake their tools.

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Accident before Love

10.1093/oso/9780199390205.003.0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sharon P. Holland

Keyword(s):

Personal Reflection ◽

Life And Death ◽

Historical Figure ◽

Human Animal Bond ◽

Human Animal ◽

Historical Moment

Holland’s essay is part theory, part personal reflection, and thoroughly poetic in its engagement with Dave the Potter as both a historical figure, to be read and reflected upon, and as a provocation to interrogate the boundaries of our own historical moment. Holland’s brief essay touches on historical appropriation and the porosity of the human-animal bond. The essay begins by enclosing its writer within a typically anonymous space of academic prose, but then moves beyond academic conventions to perform transformations associated with Dave the Potter, whose troubling of the boundaries between life and death, human and animal Holland elucidates, examines, and contextualizes.

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Application of scenario technique in flood risk management

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.2007.540 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 56 (4) ◽

pp. 87-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

A. Winterscheid

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Flood Risk ◽

Flood Control ◽

Flood Damage ◽

Flood Risk Management ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Limited Perspective ◽

Integrated Flood Risk Management ◽

Scenario Technique ◽

Management Cycle

It is now commonly accepted that the management of flood risks has to be fulfilled within an integrated framework. About two decades ago flood risk was managed from a limited perspective predominantly by means of structural measures aimed at flood control. In contrast integrated flood risk management incorporates the complete management cycle consisting of the phases prevention, protection and preparedness. In theory it is a well described concept. In the stage of implementation, however, there is often a lack of support although a consistent policy framework exists. Consequently, the degree of implementation must be rated as inadequate in many cases. In particular this refers to the elements which focus on preparedness and prevention. The study to which this paper refers emphasises the means and potentials of scenario technique to foster the implementation of potentially appropriate measures and new societal arrangements when applied in the framework of integrated flood risk management. A literature review is carried out to reveal the state-of-the-art and the specific problem framework within which scenario technique is generally being applied. Subsequently, it is demonstrated that scenario technique is transferable to a policy making process in flood risk management that is integrated, sustainable and interactive. The study concludes with a recommendation for three applications in which the implementation of measures of flood damage prevention and preparedness is supported by scenario technique.

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