This document discusses the history of environmental history as an academic discipline. It provides context on the early developments of the field in the United States and Europe in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Specifically, it notes that one of the first university courses on environmental history was offered in the 1960s and discusses some of the early scholars who helped establish the field, including historian Roderick Nash.
A benefits management framework for prioritising programmes webinar
Monday 17 February 2020
presented by:
Dr Hugo Minney
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/a-benefits-management-framework-for-prioritising-programmes-webinar/
This supports the APM publication “A guide to using a benefits management framework” and takes participants through the implementation process
https://www.apm.org.uk/book-shop/a-guide-to-using-a-benefits-management-framework/
Artifacts and Symbols of everyday life from KeralaAnand Nair
A random collection of pictures taken around Central Kerala (Kottayam, Pathanamthitta) documenting the leftovers of a bygone era. This project was done during the summer of 2003-04 as a student project.
The people are asking hard questions; unemployment is rising, lives and property are not safe, the roads are bad and getting worse, the standard of living is falling but the politicians have ran out of lies. What is going to happen?
CAG is happy to present the Cartoon book "Do you know?"!! The book aims to demystify and educate communities and general public on the administrative and environmental regulations and laws on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process, with specific reference to Thermal Power Plants (TPPs). The people can learn while they read the comics with their family!
A benefits management framework for prioritising programmes webinar
Monday 17 February 2020
presented by:
Dr Hugo Minney
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/a-benefits-management-framework-for-prioritising-programmes-webinar/
This supports the APM publication “A guide to using a benefits management framework” and takes participants through the implementation process
https://www.apm.org.uk/book-shop/a-guide-to-using-a-benefits-management-framework/
Artifacts and Symbols of everyday life from KeralaAnand Nair
A random collection of pictures taken around Central Kerala (Kottayam, Pathanamthitta) documenting the leftovers of a bygone era. This project was done during the summer of 2003-04 as a student project.
The people are asking hard questions; unemployment is rising, lives and property are not safe, the roads are bad and getting worse, the standard of living is falling but the politicians have ran out of lies. What is going to happen?
CAG is happy to present the Cartoon book "Do you know?"!! The book aims to demystify and educate communities and general public on the administrative and environmental regulations and laws on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Process, with specific reference to Thermal Power Plants (TPPs). The people can learn while they read the comics with their family!
For far too many companies, an online presence is simply another swimlane in the marketing plan. An added expense. Yet today’s consumers are making decisions based on information from many sources. The conversions are more difficult to track. The key to success is not bigger budgets, but in reallocating existing resources to optimize conversion across several communication channels. Now that you know the “why”, let’s talk about the “what” and “how”.
Innovation at Israel Mobile Monetization SummitEric Reiss
Everyone talks about innovation. But what is it? Everyone is developing apps. But will they gain traction in the marketplace? We all want to monetize our creations, but is there a recipe for success?
Perhaps there is. And I presented a new model for evaluating our work at the Mobile Monetization Summit in Tel Aviv in December 2013
Journal Club #5 - In vivo inhibitory activityAndrew Hires
In Journal Club #5, Mac Hooks takes us through some recent results from Carl Petersen's lab, on the membrane potential dynamics of GABAergic neurons in the barrel cortex of behaving mice.
Presentation on the updates of BARTER. Outlining the need, issues and reasons. The presentations looks at the current stages of development of the mobile device to the online data sets of visualisations.
DFA Night School is back to help you master the emerging art of Twitter. This new medium is rising faster than any other social networking platform, but is it destined to be overloaded with celebrity gossip and trivia or will it become a revolutionary tool for social change? We will explore it's strengths and limitations as we work to separate the hype from Reality on using Twitter to organizing online.
Our guest trainers will be Adam Green from the PCCC (@adamgreenonline) and Jen Nedeau (@humanfolly) from Air America. This training will take place live from the Netroots Nation convention in Pittsburgh. You can be part of this great event for free right from your own home.
Of brains and buttons (UXCE, Berlin, Germany)Eric Reiss
There are four main topics in this presentation - from simple practical considerations to the more obscure cognitive triggers. IAs need to know this stuff and act on it before the interaction-design crowd, the business analysts, and the content strategists take it away from them:
1. Forms and basic functionality - the crap needs to work
2. Building shared references - folks won't buy what they don't understand
3. Value-added services - enhancing the experience through context
4. Cognitive triggers - influencing irrational decision-making processes