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Taylor & Francis Ecology Community and Delight
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Green Building Handbook Volumes 1 and 2
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Agricultural Ecology
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Taylor & Francis Mountain Environments Ecogeography Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecological Modernisation Around the World Perspectives and Critical Debates Environmental Politics
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Taylor & Francis Sustainability in Coffee Production
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance
Book SynopsisThis volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners' accounts, and theoretical reflections.Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two highly masculinised fields: diplomacy and water resources management. In both fields, positions are mainly held by men, and core ideas, norms, and guiding principles that are presented as neutral, are both shaped by men and based on male experiences. This book sheds light on the often hidden gender dynamics of water conflict and cooperation at the transboundary level and on the implicit assumptions that guide research and policies. The individual chapters of the book, based on case studies from around the world, reveal the gendered nature of water diplomacy, take stock of the number of women involved in organisations that govern shared waters, and analyse programmes that have been set up to promote women in water diplomacy and theTrade Review"In this seminal collection, the authors expose the inherent genderedness of business-as-usual transboundary water management and provide readers with tools and experience to unravel and dismantle implicit and explicit bias at various scales. While focusing on gender, their work is equally relevant to cultural, racial, and inter-generational examinations. The authors voice the need for active mitigation of institutional bias and a critical re-thinking of decision-making processes and priorities. With this important new release, the authors make visible the untenable cost of the status quo and the urgent need to course correct to meet the water and environmental crisis of today for all of society."Elizabeth A. Koch, Operations Lead, Transboundary Water Cooperation, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) "This book provides a unique account of what "gender mainstreaming" means in transboundary water resources governance, from conceptual understanding to real life experiences. The comparative case studies across basins and basin organisations uncover critical narratives on participation in formal institutions and transboundary governance processes from a gender perspective, drawing attention to issues of inclusion, participation, and intersectionality. The depth of the case studies portrays uncontested responsibilities of duty bearers, being confronted with the lived experiences of women in society, and provides examples of transformational approaches to engender transboundary water management. Its conclusions on gender and feminism concretely summarize the contemporary state of knowledge and provide a well guided, forward-looking perspective on what and how inclusion can and should be in transboundary water governance."Donald Kasongi, Secretary General, Nile Basin Discourse"This book uses a feminist gaze to pry open the masculinist terrain of transboundary water governance. It skillfully unravels how water diplomacy and management professions come to be gendered. It also questions the persistence of state-centric and technical framings in transboundary water governance agendas that exclude other knowledges. Finally, the book is self-reflective and respects the situated knowledges of its contributors, thus amplifying a truly inclusive feminist ethos. I recommend this book not only to water professionals but also to aligned political ecologists who may be pondering on the positioning of feminist contributions to social justice in transboundary waters."Bernadette P. Resurrección, Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar on Development in Practice, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada"As noted in the introduction to this wide ranging and nuanced volume, representatives of the interests in water diplomacy have historically been both overwhelmingly male and technical in their backgrounds and outlooks. Fortunately, that imbalance is slowly changing. Not only are women increasingly representing water constituents in dialogue at all scales, but the frameworks that are used to inform policy are moving well beyond the historical "deification of quantification" to include alternative, critical, affective, spiritual and, yes, feminist approaches – what the editors and authors refer to as the "gendering" of the field. The editors, all cutting edge "pracademics" in their own rights whose worldviews are deeply informed by their professional experiences as well as their academic frameworks, bring together a rich set of authors whose compelling case studies from around the world and thoughtful assessments weave a collective narrative of much needed global change, as well as the far-reaching implications that result."Aaron Wolf, Professor of Geography, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction: (En-)gendering water diplomacy, Part 1: Rethinking Frameworks and Knowledge, 2. An interview with Dr. Mariana Yumbay Yallico, human rights activist in Ecuador, 3. Is Academic Knowledge Production on Transboundary Water Studies in South Asia Gender Neutral?, 4. A Gendered Perspective on the Multiple Scales of Water Conflict, 5. Thinking Through Networks: Towards a Feminist Water Diplomacy, Part 2: Gender Mainstreaming Policies in Transboundary Water Governance: Obstacles and Impact, 6. Adopting a Transformative Approach to Gender Equality in the Nile Basin: Lessons Learned, 7. In the Shadows: Gender in Transboundary Water Policies, Part 3: A Gender Perspective on Transboundary Water Institutions and Processes, 8. Gendered River Basin Institutions: the Chu-Talas Commission in Central Asia, 9. Assessing Transboundary Water Governance in the Rhine through a Gender Lens: The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine, 10. The Role of Gender in the Transboundary Water Governance of the Nile Basin, 11. Negotiating Water: Lived Experiences of Female Practitioners, 12. Conclusion: Insights on gender dynamics in transboundary water governance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Participatory Design and Social Transformation
Book SynopsisParticipatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment.Participatory artistic- and design-based research encounters being, making, and learning with people, things, and situations are explored through practices that utilize image-oriented and cinematic narratives. Collaborative alliances are invited to consider aesthetics, visuality, attunement, reflection, reciprocity, and care as a means for transdisciplinary approaches that foster generative and ethically responsible conditions toward collective liberation. The design of spectacles is proposed as a way for collective movements to affectively contribute to positive systemic changes from the ground up. In this way, Participatory Design and Social Transformation bridges contemporary advances in design theory and practice with media and art theTable of Contents1. Images of Crisis, Images of Change 2. Proximity and Duration, Senses and Images 3. Movement and Thresholds 4. Cinematic Tropes and Designing Spectacles
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Book SynopsisIn the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists'' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges. Drawing from rock art, archaeology, paleoecological data, trade, ancient hydrological technology, vegetation, social memory and historical documentation, this book creates detailed reconstructions of past climate change adaptations across Sahelian Africa. It evaluates the present and future challenges to climate change adaptation in the region in terms of social memory, rainfall variability, environmental change and armed conflicts and examines the ways in which governance and policy drivers may undermine pastoralists' adaptive strategies. The book's scope covers the Red Sea coast, Somaliland, Somalia, the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, and northern Kenya, part of the Ethiopian highlands and Eritrea, areas where past cTable of ContentsPreface 1. An historical ecological framework: Introduction 2. Rock art pastoralists: Historical ecology of adaptations 3. Pastoralism, space, time and knowledge: The social and ecological perspectives 4. Coastal commerce-interior caravan trade: Pastoralists participation ca. AD 600-1900 5. Origin of the ancient well technology: Historical hypotheses 6. Droughts, famine, locusts and epidemics: Centuries of adaptations 7. The nineteenth and twentieth century environmental changes: European Journal narratives 8. Adaptations to climate variability, grazing and water scarcities in the southern lowlands c. 1908-1962: A case study 9. Challenges to future climate change adaptations: Some propositions 10.Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management
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Cambridge University Press Marine Biodiversity Patterns and Processes
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Cambridge University Press Analysis of Vertebrate Pest Control
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Cambridge University Press Handbook of Ecological Restoration
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Cambridge University Press Handbook of Ecological Restoration Volume 1 Principles of Restoration
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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of RecentlyDeglaciated Terrain
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Cambridge University Press Navigating SocialEcological System Building Resilience for Complexity and Change
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Cambridge University Press Biology of Polar Bryophytes and Lichens Studies in Polar Research
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Cambridge University Press Antarctica
Book SynopsisIn this survey, a study group, brought together by the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, looks at the political and environmental questions raised by the potentially conflicting interests in the Antarctic.Table of ContentsPart I. The Antarctic Treaty System under stress?: 1. The Antarctic Treaty I: its original and continuing value; 2. The Antarctic Treaty II: the case for change; 3. The Antarctic Treaty III: non-governmental organisations, conservation and the environment; Part II. Uses of Antarctica: 4. Science; 5. Living resources and conservation; 6. Mineral resources; 7. Military potential; Part III. The future: Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Antarctic Communities
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Cambridge University Press GroundwaterSurface Water Ecotones
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Cambridge University Press Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests
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Cambridge University Press Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries
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Cambridge University Press Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries A Global Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Urban Ecology
Book SynopsisA pioneering and richly illustrated book, highlighting powerful nature working in cities, suburbs, exurbs/peri-urbs, and presenting spatial patterns, flows, and models from hundreds of cities worldwide. This teaching text is a valuable source for advanced undergraduates, graduates, researchers and professionals who will improve urban areas for both nature and people.Trade Review'All the judges on this year's postgraduate Biology Book of the Year panel had this book high on their list of favourites. Its extensive scope and interdisciplinary approach puts it into the same class as last year's winning postgraduate text … an authoritative, comprehensive and extensive reference work that will be a valuable resource for urban designers and planners, ecologists and analysts.' Sue Howarth, Judge, 2014 Society of Biology Book Awards'Both extensive in scope and synthetic in approach, this book opens the door wide for designers and planners to employ urban ecology both inventively and credibly. Illuminated by many insightful analytical diagrams, it can be the basis for designing with nature across urban scales: from site to region. I want all my students in the Metropolitan Design Dynamics studio to study it and bring it as a key reference into their professional practice. Urban Ecology is a signal achievement that makes Richard Forman's profoundly synthetic understanding of urban ecology accessible to designers and planners. The book's extraordinarily inclusive reach into the literature of many urban disciplines, its typological approach, and its many analytical diagrams will speak to designers and inspire analysts. It should become a standard reference for those who participate in urban ecological design or planning.' Joan Iverson Nassauer, University of Michigan'In landscape ecology, Richard Forman is well-known for his competence to periodically overview the advancing body of knowledge. He has a sharp eye for new developments and in combination with his pictorial way of analysing the diversity of landscapes and their ecological functioning, his books became landmarks in the field of landscape ecology. With Urban Ecology: Science of Cities, [he] has now captured the urban landscape as a spatial system where humans interact with nature to create a place to live and work. Through the eyes of a landscape architect, we are treated to a comprehensive description of how urban landscape patterns have grown out of this interaction. Unlike other urban ecology books, this is not a book about ecological mechanisms, nor is it about planning urban landscapes. Instead, [he] lets us see the urban environment as a continuously changing living landscape for humans and other organisms.' Paul Opdam, Alterra Wageningen UR'Richard Forman has had the unique education, university environment and international experience to write the first comprehensive urban ecology textbook that will guide the new urban revolution. This innovative book provides the foundation and inspiration for creating healthy, livable, sustainable and resilient cities and towns in the future.' Mark J. McDonnell, from the Foreword'… the most impressive up-to-date urban ecology textbook I know of … a must-read for ecologists and practitioners.' Ian MacGregor-Fors, Conservation Biology'… Forman has found just the right balance between science and instruction, making this volume a great candidate as a textbook or an addition to one's reference collection.' The Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsForeword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Framework: 1. Foundations; 2. Spatial patterns and mosaics; 3. Flows, movements, change; Part II. Ecological Features: 4. Urban soil and chemicals; 5. Urban air; 6. Urban water systems; 7. Urban water bodies; 8. Urban habitats, vegetation, plants; 9. Urban wildlife; Part III. Urban Features: 10. Human structures; 11. Residential, commercial, industrial areas; 12. Greenspaces, corridors, systems; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Snow Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Background of Ecology
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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of Fire
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Cambridge University Press Antarctica
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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of Fire
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Cambridge University Press The Ends of the Earth
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Cambridge University Press Ecological Experiments
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Cambridge University Press The Ends of the Earth Perspectives on Modern Environmental History Studies in Environment and History
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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of RecentlyDeglaciated Terrain
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Cambridge University Press Water for Life
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Cambridge University Press Biological Diversity The Coexistence of Species
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Cambridge University Press Riparian Landscapes
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Cambridge University Press The Earth in Transition
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Cambridge University Press A Critique for Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Ecological Versatility and Community Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Analysis of Vertebrate Pest Control
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Cambridge University Press Method in Ecology
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Cambridge University Press The Trophic Cascade in Lakes
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Cambridge University Press Ecology in Education
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Cambridge University Press Soil Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Method in Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Saltmarsh Ecology Cambridge Studies in Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time 11 Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Sampling and Statistical Methods for Behavioral Ecologists
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