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Sea level rise poses a substantial concern to communities worldwide. Increased inundation, storm surge, saltwater intrusion, and other impacts create challenges which will require considerable planning to address. Recognizing the broad and differing scope of sea level rise issues and the variability of policy options to address them, local planning frameworks are necessary in addition to tools and resources available from state and federal governments. To help assess priorities and preferences on sea level rise planning, a survey of 503 persons affiliated with coastal communities on the East Coast of the United States was conducted in December 2017. This survey studied key aspects locally-driven sea level rise plans, including planning priorities, funding options, methods to resolve conflict, and potential responses. Six key findings address these and other concerns to provide the foundation of a locally driven framework for public officials. ; Data for this study is hosted by Figshare and is accessible at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9547298.v1

Sea level rise (SLR) is a potentially destructive phenomenon to coastal communities, despite uncertainties surrounding its extent, timing, and impacts. Forces driving SLR include climate change and geologic factors, globally and locally. Information available to communities preparing for SLR will likely never be perfect, given the difficulty of planning through uncertain global projections and assessing local conditions. Communities will need to develop SLR plans despite uncertainties, balancing factors such as determining the scope of a plan, assessing funding options, and identifying conflict resolution methods. This study describes a survey assessing the range of public preferences on these three planning factors. Key findings include that public engagement may be effective for overcoming local conflict, that too much focus on government intervention could be divisive, and that there are a wide variety of palatable methods to fund planning and implementation of those plans. This research informs local planning to reduce SLR risks.

"Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer" presents a collection of compelling case studies in the areas of social reform, museums, philanthropy, football, nonviolent resistance and holiday rituals such as Christmas that demonstrate key mechanisms of intercultural transfers. Each chapter provides the application of the intercultural transfer studies paradigm to a specific and distinct historical phenomenon. These chapters not only illustrate the presence or even the depth and frequency of intercultural transfer, but they also reveal specific aspects of the intercultural transfer of phenomena, the role of agents of intercultural transfer and the transformations of ideas transferred between cultures thereby contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms of intercultural transfers

Traditionelle Darstellungen der deutschen Geschichte gehen meist davon aus, die Deutschen seien besonders staatsorientiert. Diese Sichtweise verkennt, dass Deutschland um 1900 eine Weltmacht war, wenn es um das stifterische Engagement seiner Bürger ging: Stiftungen finanzierten öffentliche Museen, förderten die Wissenschaften, unterhielten Gymnasien wie Universitäten und stellten Sozialleistungen zur Verfügung. Dieses Buch, die erste umfassende Darstellung des Stiftungswesens in Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, behandelt dieses bislang als Randphänomen der Vormoderne verkannte zivilgesellschaftliche Handeln in allen seinen Aspekten. Thomas Adam verdeutlicht eindrucksvoll, dass Stiftungen mit ihren ungeheuren Finanzressourcen der modernen deutschen Gesellschaft einen spezifischen Charakter gaben, der nicht nur durch Adel oder Staat, sondern ganz wesentlich auch durch selbstbewusste Bürger bestimmt wurde.

Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: The Competition between Nobility and Bourgeoisie for Dominance over Arts and Culture -- 2: The Role of Donors in Shaping the Intellectual Elite -- 3: Private Funding for National Research Projects and Institutes -- 4: Philanthropy and the Shaping of the Working-Class Family -- 5: Civil Society in an Authoritarian State: German Philanthropy on the Eve of the First World War -- 6: The Slow Decline of Philanthropy and Civil Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Largely unnoticed among English-speaking scholars of German history, a major shift in interpretation of German history has been underway during the past three decades among German historians of Germany. While American and British historians continue to subscribe to an interpretation of German society as state centered, their German counterparts have begun to embrace an interpretation in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century German society was characterized by private initiative and a vibrant civil society. Public institutions such as museums, high schools, universities, hospitals, and charities relied heavily on the support of wealthy donors. State funding for universities and high schools, for instance, accounted only for a fragment of the operating costs of those institutions, while private endowments running into the millions of marks funded scholarships as well as health care for teachers and students. Private support for public institutions was essential for their existence and survival: it was the backbone of Germany's civil society. This book is the first to provide the English-speaking reader with this revisionist interpretation of the role of the state and philanthropy in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany: a society in which private actors claimed responsibility for the common good and used philanthropic engagement to shape society according to their visions

This book provides a collective biography of the Mond family and explores the philanthropic activities of Ludwig Mond and of his two sons Alfred and Robert in the field of art collecting, the fight against early childhood mortality, the advancement of research and of higher education, archaeological excavations in Egypt and Palestine, and for the founding of the State of Israel from the 1890s to the late 1930s. These activities resulted in the creation of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the donation of Ludwig Mond's art collection to the National Gallery in London, the funding of the excavation of the sacred Buchis Bulls at Armant in Egypt, the establishment of the Children's Hospital in London, and the support of many natural science institutes and associations in England, France, Germany, and Italy.

Introduction : the nature of intercultural transfer -- Cooperatives and capitalism : the democratization of the economy -- Better housing for better citizens : Octavia Hill's worldwide appeal to housing reform -- Better citizens for a better future? : the transnational transfer of eugenics -- From memorization to problem-solving : Maria Montessori's contribution to school reform in the twentieth century -- Change through non-violence : the rationalization of conflict solution

Cultural excursions : museums, art galleries, and libraries in a transatlantic world -- Heavy luggage : the intercultural transfer of models for social housing enterprises -- How to become a gentleman : philanthropy and social climbing -- Bountiful ladies : philanthropy and women's place in society -- Giving for good : philanthropy and religion -- Conclusion