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Green infrastructure is being recognized as one of the main strategies for climate emergency mitigation and adaptation in urban contexts. However, there are still very few initiatives in Latin America. This paper explores the Chilean case, in particular the "Stgo+ Green Infrastructure" project, to understand how the climate emergency has been included in green infrastructure planning and the level of priority it has among various types of stakeholders. The research was conducted through a review of planning documents and a participatory methodology, involving institutional, academic, and civil society stakeholders. Chilean urban regulations and territorial planning instruments do not offer much opportunity for the development of green infrastructure systems to face the climate emergency, but there are several indicative instruments that contribute in that sense. On the other hand, there is growing recognition by stakeholders of the importance of green infrastructure, but the climate emergency is an aspect that is still given low priority. The low priority that actors attribute to the climate emergency represents a significant barrier for the incorporation of these issues in public plans and policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cross-cultural remakes of fiction series are not a new phenomenon, but they do constitute an increasingly frequent type of TV adaptation around the world. From the point of view of audiovisual production, the academic research conducted about these processes is still scarce. It is therefore essential to define the different professional profiles involved both in the purchase and sale and in the production of this type of adaptations. This paper combines the review of existing literature about the agents of television production and interviews with five professionals in the industry. The methodological conjunction of these two dimensions (academic and practical) allows us to offer a more complete categorization of these television profiles and their functions. Although many of the figures involved in the creation of remakes are also present in other types of television productions, this analysis enables the identification of those whose roles are particularly relevant in the specific case of cross-cultural remakes: the consultant or flying producer, distributors and agents or representatives. The systematization of these profiles and their objectives and functions within the different phases involved in the adaptation of a television series contribute to a greater understanding of this phenomenon on a global scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the capacity of individuals or social groups to produce responses to cope with and overcome barriers, when exposed to situations that may compromise their ability to guarantee family subsistence, are quite heterogeneous, even in similar environments. Social factors may constrain it, or even facilitate it, in a much more decisive way than the exposure and behavior of the natural factors involved in the processes of adaptation to contemporary environmental changes. Therefore, the ability of individuals to react or adapt to new situations seeking to reduce their vulnerability, especially those residing in rural areas, is the objective result of the action linked to daily experience, in the interaction that it can produce between the natural and social system and presupposes the existence of individual and / or collective learning processes. To demonstrate this characteristic, we identified the main subsistence strategies mobilized by family farmers in the Alto Guaporé region, in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The study, carried out with an empirical universe of fifty-one respondents in five municipalities, revealed that the functioning of the institutional framework can decisively induce and / or condition the individuals' capacity to mobilize the arrangements and forms of production used to guarantee family reproduction. Therefore, the correct identification of its functioning and its diversity play an important role in the determination of vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates a discrepancy concerning resilience. International institutions such as ISDR try to promote resilience as a notion useful for preventing disasters. And some searchers, mainly coming from ecology, such as Resilience Alliance group, found the notion relevant enough to promote it as a brand for their studies on disaster prevention. Yet, the second part of the paper will verify how other searchers are still not convinced by the relevance of the notion. Territorial managers are reluctant as well, in line with the poor number of policies trying to bring resilience to reality, be it in Columbia or in France. How can we make sense of this discrepancy? The paper will stress on various political, institutional and cultural conditionings hidden behind the notion. It will also enlighten the contradictions embedded within the notion, because resilience, as disaster, depends on the scales and the actors the analysis relies on first. Which resilience to whom and at what scale? These are critical questions that should be addressed in order to give sense to these contradictions. Resilience has no absolute meaning. However, it helps identifying trends towards future disasters. This is one of the main reasons why it may be found useful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change, one of the main global risks humankind is currently facing, became a relevant issue on the international agenda in the last few decades. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), adopted in 1992, includes both mitigation and adaptation strategies; however, though both are considered equally important, adaptation has been historically relegated to a secondary role within the Convention. The paper first presents an overview of the trajectory of adaptation as a UNFCCC guideline, discusses its institutional evolution and the Convention’s financing mechanisms, and, finally, explores the relations between adaptation and development. The conclusions point to the insufficiency of the Convention with respect to the implementation of measures for adaptation to climate change, but highlight its relevant role as a scenario for debate, as a source of funding, and as a promoter of both national and subnational actions, especially in developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to evaluate the adaptability of expert basketball coaches and ascertain the type of impact this adaptability has on the coaching process, and in the event, the kinds of adjustments that take place to succeed as a coach. A qualitative methodology and the semi-structured interview technique were used to develop the research. The interviewees were sixteen expert basketball coaches, as defined in specific literature. The results indicate that the coaches highlighted the capacity to adapt to their contexts, which is a priority in achieving professional success. These coaches stressed that they do not give up their coaching models when they change context, but rather adapt them to different situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]