Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale

Mediating climate politics: The surprising case of Brazil

This article examines the centrality of Brazil within the future of climate policy and politics. The state of the carbon sink of the Amazon rainforest has long been an iconic marker of the condition of the Earth. Brazil has been innovative in developing many noncarbon forms of energy generation and use and it has played a major role in international debates on global warming since the Rio Earth...

Mediating Landscapes:

Using the example of the Scottish Tourist Board ((STB) now VisitScotland), this paper outlines three spaces of mediation involved in the discursive transformation of material landscapes into brochure images. STB marketing personnel occupy the first space of mediation. Market research provides specialist knowledge of consumer expectations and key icons of Scotland that form the dominant ideologi...

Medullary regions mediating atonia.

Electrical stimulation studies have implicated the medial medulla in the inhibition of muscle tone. In the present report we present evidence for suppression of muscle tone by chemical activation of the medial medulla. We find 2 distinct zones within the classically defined medial medullary inhibitory area. A rostral region corresponding to the nucleus magnocellularis (NMC) is sensitive to glut...

Mediating Instrumental Variables

Mediating urban politics