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This study maps current understanding and research trends on the human dimensions of climate change (HDCC) in the eastern and central Canadian Arctic. Developing a systematic literature review methodology, 117 peer reviewed articles are identified and examined using quantitative and qualitative methods. The research highlights the rapid expansion of HDCC studies over the last decade. Early scholarship was dominated by work documenting Inuit observations of climate change, with research employing vulnerability concepts and terminology now common. Adaptation studies which seek to identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce vulnerability to climate change and take advantage of new opportunities remain in their infancy. Over the last 5 years there has been an increase social science-led research, with many studies employing key principles of community-based research. We currently have baseline understanding of climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the region, but key gaps are evident. Future research needs to target significant geographic disparities in understanding, consider risks and opportunities posed by climate change outside of the subsistence hunting sector, complement case study research with regional analyses, and focus on identifying and characterizing sustainable and feasible adaptation interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the absence of sexual relation and the relation between the sexes in Hollywood romantic films employing the theories of Jacques Lacan. Information is presented on the two dimensions of castration as conceived by Lacan, namely alienation and separation. In Lacan's conception of the lack in the Other, the implication for the relations between the sexes is its assertion that sexual relations only exist in the imaginary and only insofar as each pretends to be what will make good the lack in the Other. It has found that women characters in Hollywood films appear largely on the terms dictated by male fantasy.

This article discusses advocacy journalism by foundation-based researchers and academics. Advocacy journalism is the third type of development culture and was demonstrated by Juliana Geran Pilon, a senior policy analyst at the United Nations (UN) Studies, in her review of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. This culture is characterized by individuals working in the journalistic tradition as policy analysts for organizations seeking to shape development policies and foreign aid programs of Western governments. The organizations they serve are labeled advocacy foundations to distinguish them from think-tank foundations. The key distinction between the two types of organization is that the staff in the former do not give high priority to established social science canons of inquiry and argumentation, whereas the latter is staffed by professionals who are firmly grounded in either the academic or the practitioner culture.

The article presents a humorous first person narrative on the foundation of the science of gastrotopology by the author.