A new language minority has come to the fore in America and around the world. It is the tight-knit society – some million strong in the United States – that calls itself, in American Sign Language, the DEAF-WORLD.In this comprehensive and engrossing study, three distinguished scholars of Deaf culture— one hearing, one deaf, and one coda (child of deaf adults)— offer clear, penetrating insights into the existence and makeup of the Deaf-World, the community whose natural language— Ame...

The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off, uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change. As an alternative, this book presents a framework on how to build effective and sustainable capacity systems to meaningfully tackle this long-term problem....