Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "Adaptation"
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Adaptation and preliminary validation evidences of the School Climate Questionnaire - Revised, Elementary and Middle School Version (SCS-MS)
(Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2016)This study presents the procedures for adapting the School Climate Survey - Revised, Elementary and Middle School Version (SCS-MS) to the Brazilian context and demonstrates the first evidence of the validity of its use ... -
Adaptation in an era of vanishing territory – the political economy of the impact of clime change versus total migration, status of statehood and refugees in Africa
(Business Perspectives, 2014)Mass migration as a way of adapting to climate change impact is not new. However, the total migration of a permanent population from a defined territory as a coping response to the impact of climate change is only emerging. ... -
Die voortbestaan van kulkuns: die dilemma van tegnologiese invloede op die wese van die kunsvorm
(South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2014)The survival of magician's magic : the dilemma of the influence of technology on the art of magician's magic. Magic as a performing art has been an interpersonal medium for centuries. In the early 1930s close-up, face-to-face ... -
Disaster resilience and complex adaptive systems theory: finding common grounds for risk reduction
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of resilience into the contemporary discourse of disaster risk. As a counter position to the current status quo in defining and addressing resilience, this ... -
Do they adapt or react? A comparison of the adaptation model and the stress reaction model among South African unemployed
(Springer, 2014)This study investigates affective experience as a function of unemployment duration in South Africa. The study contrasts two models. The stress reaction model proposes a linear decrease of affective experience as unemployment ... -
Emergent system behaviour as a tool for understanding disaster resilience: the case of Southern African subsistence agriculture
(Elsevier, 2016)Prominent international policy documents such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and contemporary academic discourses on disasters reiterate the importance of understanding and prioritising ... -
Onderweg na 'n Christelik-filosofiese analise van evolusie en evolusionisme: Die bydrae van 'n konsekwent probleem-historiese metode
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)This article intends to gain more clarity about the philosophical presuppositions underlying evolutionary theories and evolutionism as a worldview. In the light of the wide confusion and disagreement among Christians and ... -
Sergey prokofiev's Peter and the wolf through an intermedial lens
(UNISA Press, 2015)Peter and the wolf is an intermedial work based on a folk tale originally written and composed by the Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev in 1936 (Hanson and Hanson 1964). Since few recent adaptations of the work in Afrikaans ...