Twenty-first-century projections of shoreline change along inlet-interrupted coastlines

AbstractSandy coastlines adjacent to tidal inlets are highly dynamic and widespread landforms, where large changes are expected due to climatic and anthropogenic influences. To adequately assess these important changes, both oceanic (e.g., sea-level rise) and terrestrial (e.g., fluvial sediment supply) processes that govern the local sediment budget must be considered. Here, we present novel projections of shoreline change adjacent to 41 tidal inlets around the world, using a probabilistic, reduced complexity, system-based model that considers catchment-estuary-coastal systems in a holistic way. Under the RCP 8.5 scenario, retreat dominates (90% of cases) over the twenty-first century, with projections exceeding 100 m of retreat in two-thirds of cases. However, the remaining systems are projected to accrete under the same scenario, reflecting fluvial influence. This diverse range of response compared to earlier methods implies that erosion hazards at inlet-interrupted coasts have been inadequately characterised to date. The methods used here need to be applied widely to support evidence-based coastal adaptation.

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Finding common ground in God’s story: Experiencing Luke 7:36–50 with the first-century hearers

Review & Expositor ◽

10.1177/0034637319856585 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 116 (2) ◽

pp. 233-239

Author(s):

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw

Keyword(s):

Common Ground ◽

First Century ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Dinner Table ◽

Christ Followers ◽

Twenty First Century

Luke designed the narrative of Luke 7:36–50 in a way that heightens the tension for his first-century audience. The polarity emphasized in the narrative—a sinful woman at a Pharisee’s dinner table—corresponds well to the experience of first-century Christians who share meal fellowship with a diverse range of Christ-followers. This expository retelling highlights elements in the structure and rhetoric of Luke’s storytelling in order to help twenty-first-century readers of this passage understand how early hearers would have experienced the story.

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UNLV Special Collections in the Twenty-First Century

Information Technology and Libraries ◽

10.6017/ital.v28i4.3230 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 184 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas Sommer

Keyword(s):

Web 2.0 ◽

Las Vegas ◽

First Century ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Special Collections ◽

Online Tools ◽

Twenty First Century

University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Special Collections is consistently striving to provide several avenues of discovery to its diverse range of patrons. Specifically, UNLV Special Collections has planned and implemented several online tools to facilitate unearthing treasures in the collections. These online tools incorporate Web 2.0 features as well as searchable interfaces to collections.

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Conclusion

John Dos Passos and Cinema ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781942954873.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 183-194

Author(s):

Lisa Nanney

Keyword(s):

Film Industry ◽

First Century ◽

The Other ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Insight Into

Though The Spanish Earth (1937) is likely the only film most readers will associate with the novelist Dos Passos, the other three film projects he undertook, both produced and unproduced, provide new insight into the cinematic aesthetics that inform the methods of his ground-breaking modernist novels. Although his later fiction incorporated fewer innovative adaptations of film devices into their styles, in novels such as Most Likely to Succeed (1954) he continued to address what he saw as the failure of the film industry to fulfil its artistic and cultural potential. But innovative filmmakers in the twenty-first century have frequently cited Dos Passos’s narrative devices and preoccupations as central influences, and current films exploring the power of monopolistic corporations and consumerism and blurring distinctions among genres echo the writer’s modernist themes and methods. The diverse range of Dos Passos’s own cinematic viewing throughout his life reflects his lifelong interest in new ways of telling a story.

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