Orchestrating the nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barley Norton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Party State

This chapter addresses the cultural politics, history and revival of Vietnamese court orchestras, which were first established at the beginning of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). Based on fieldwork in the city of Hue, it considers the decolonizing processes that have enabled Vietnamese court orchestras to take their place alongside other East Asian court orchestras as a display of national identity in the global community of nations. The metaphor of ‘orchestrating the nation’ is used to refer to the ways in which Vietnamese orchestras have been harnessed for sociopolitical ends in several historical periods. Court orchestras as heritage have recourse to a generic, precolonial past, yet they are not entirely uncoupled from local roots. Through a case-study of the revival of the Nam Giao Sacrifice, a ritual for ‘venerating heaven’, the chapter addresses the dynamics of interaction and exchange between staged performances of national heritage and local Buddhist and ancestor worship rituals. It argues that with growing concern about global climate change, the spiritual and ecological resonances of the Nam Giao Sacrifice have provided opportunities for the Party-state to reassert its position as the supreme guardian of the nation and its people.

scholarly journals Microclimate Observation at Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) Habitat in the “Iron Gates” Natural Park. Case Study: Lower Eșelniţa Watershed (Banat, Romania)

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Cristiana-Maria Ciocanea ◽  
Athanasios-Alexandru Gavrilidis ◽  
Vasile Bagrinovschi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Vegetation Structure ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
The South ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Testudo Hermanni

Abstract “Iron Gates” Natural Park is located in the South-Western part of Romania and is recognized for its great diversity of ecosystems, wide variety of species and emblematic landscapes. Due to its Mediterranean climatic influences and vegetation structure, the area is a suitable habitat for the existence and development of Testudo hermanni boettgeri. Monitoring both, the evolution of the microclimatic features in the lower Eșelnița watershed and the species behaviour, represents a useful step in order to determine if the global climate change endangers the conservation management of the tortoise.

Physical Condition of the Ocean to Global Climate Change Variability: Case Study in The Batam Waters, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zainuddin Lubis ◽  
Wenang Anurogo ◽  
Mir'atul Mufida ◽  
Herika Muhamad Taki ◽  
Satria Antoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Global Climate

scholarly journals Impacts of Global Climate Change on the Future Ocean Wave Power Potential: A Case Study from the Indian Ocean

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 3028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshinie Karunarathna ◽  
Pravin Maduwantha ◽  
Bahareh Kamranzad ◽  
Harsha Rathnasooriya ◽  
Kasun De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Wave Model ◽  
Wave Power ◽  
South West ◽  
Wave Power Potential

This study investigates the impacts of global climate change on the future wave power potential, taking Sri Lanka as a case study from the northern Indian Ocean. The geographical location of Sri Lanka, which receives long-distance swell waves generated in the Southern Indian Ocean, favors wave energy-harvesting. Waves projected by a numerical wave model developed using Simulating Waves Nearshore Waves (SWAN) wave model, which is forced by atmospheric forcings generated by an Atmospheric Global Climate Model (AGCM) within two time slices that represent “present” and “future” (end of century) wave climates, are used to evaluate and compare present and future wave power potential around Sri Lanka. The results reveal that there will be a 12–20% reduction in average available wave power along the south-west and south-east coasts of Sri Lanka in future. This reduction is due mainly to changes to the tropical south-west monsoon system because of global climate change. The available wave power resource attributed to swell wave component remains largely unchanged. Although a detailed analysis of monthly and annual average wave power under both “present” and “future” climates reveals a strong seasonal and some degree of inter-annual variability of wave power, a notable decadal-scale trend of variability is not visible during the simulated 25-year periods. Finally, the results reveal that the wave power attributed to swell waves are very stable over the long term.

Effects of Global Climate Change on Water Resources in Rwanda: Lake Kivu Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 55-57 ◽  
pp. 268-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Habiyaremye ◽  
Ji Wen Ge ◽  
Jean de la Paix Mupenzi ◽  
Waheed O. Balogun ◽  
Sitienei Anne Jerop
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Anthropogenic Inputs ◽  
Lake Kivu

Climate change is emerging as one of the most miscellaneous expressions of the global change nowadays. It potentially affects ecosystems including water resources. The change of climate also has significant impacts on the availability of water, as well as the quality and quantity of water that is available and accessible. Aiming at studying the effect of climate change on water resources, 25 years collected secondary data of both climatic and hydro-meteorological stations were used and Statistical analysis was performed using ORIGIN PRO 8.0 Software. The study linked the surface elevation of Lake Kivu variation with respect to climate change where the level of the lake matches to pluviometric and anomalies values. Finally, the statistical analysis could not directly link the temperature variation with that of surface water level in the lake. Climate change is real and happening now and surely affects water resources among others making an urgent need to control anthropogenic inputs into the atmosphere, one of the factors forcing climate change.

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