Part of the approach will entail generating a new type of landscape-and-climate change model which includes the effects of past human actions to build better future projections. Its approach is best encapsulated under the concept of ‘integrated landscape analysis’, or ILA. While building on extant research and integrating existing data where appropriate, TerraNova envisions its research as a fresh way of obtaining results. The goal is moreover to educate ESRs to become lifelong contributors in this domain of inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary research. The others each show the face of the disaster from a different perspective-Bowers is the joker, Oates the stoic soldier, and Wilson the rational humanist.Through the research of the ESRs and spinoff papers, projects, and lectures, as well as white papers and other results geared toward private sector- and policy-maker use, TerraNova aims to improve understanding of landscape histories and land use strategies in Europe at the end of the Pleistocene, throughout the Holocene, and, now, at the beginning of an “Anthropocene”, an era distinguished by overwhelming global evidence that earth system processes are now altered by humans. Evans is a fool in search of glory, a scapegoat, but really a good representation of the whole expedition. The rest are types, but that doesn't make them uninteresting. ![]() Scott is a full-fleshed character, Amundsen makes for a puckish, sometimes cruel, sometimes funny conscience and foil. Tally's play is effective, perhaps a bit confusing with all of its time jumps, hallucinations, and daydreams, but in that sense, it's a good fit for the Antarctic landscape it tries to recreate on stage. Robert Falcon Scott's days-too-late quest for the South Pole has to be one of the prime all-time examples of courage and bravery pursued to the point of waste and destruction. Even moreso, it's hard to separate the quality of the play from the true story, which is epic and amazing and stupid all at once. I find it hard to separate my opinion of the play from thoughts about the part and the challenges of making this come across without sets and costumes and big props. I'm acting in a staged reading of this in a month. But it is in the tragic trip back, as the members of the expedition die one by one, that the play reaches its dramatic apogee, capturing with chilling intensity the awesome bravery of men who must accept the bitter knowledge that suffering and death will be the only reward for their heroism. The play is also a study of British pride and upper-class resolve-Scott's aristocratic sense of destiny and command and his young bride's ability to understand her husband's compulsive drive while failing to accept his motivations. Refusing the use of sled dogs as unsporting, Scott and his team struggle to drag their heavy gear across a frozen wasteland, only to find that Amundsen has preceded them to their goal. Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of the play blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of their ordeal, with flashbacks of Scott and his young wife and with fateful glimpses of his Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, whose party beat him to the South Pole.
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