{"id":355,"date":"2013-01-22T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T11:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie?p=355"},"modified":"2013-01-22T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T11:07:25","slug":"spire-seminar-extra-sweatshops-and-snakebites-cautionary-tales-of-climate-change-adaptation-in-northeast-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"SPIRe Seminar EXTRA: &#8220;Sweatshops and Snakebites:  Cautionary Tales of Climate Change Adaptation in Northeast Brazil&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SPIRe is pleased to announce an EXTRA Seminar series, welcoming Professor Timothy Finan of the University of Arizona to present a talk on &#8220;Sweatshops and Snakebites:\u00a0 Cautionary Tales of Climate Change Adaptation in Northeast Brazil.&#8221; from 13:00-14:00 this Friday, January 25th in G317, Newman Building, UCD Belfield.\u00a0 All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Abstract<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';\"><br \/>\nThe vast semi-arid hinterland of the state of Cear\u00e1 has suffered for centuries from frequent and severe drought, a pattern that is projected to worsen under increased desiccation due to climate change.\u00a0 This paper presents a methodology that compares the localized impacts of drought with the corresponding social impact.\u00a0 Using anomalies between Nature-Society, the analysis seeks to identify where local adaptation to climate is occurring due to either changes in livelihood characteristics or to public policy.\u00a0 Ultimately the analysis assesses the impacts of governance on adaptation to environmental stress.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIRe is pleased to announce an EXTRA Seminar series, welcoming Professor Timothy Finan of the University of Arizona to present a talk on &#8220;Sweatshops and Snakebites:\u00a0 Cautionary Tales of Climate Change Adaptation in Northeast Brazil.&#8221; from 13:00-14:00 this Friday, January &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/?p=355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-spire-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalscience.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}