Development and environmental geography Books

Book SynopsisDesign for the New World aims to introduce a new paradigm in design and design thinking, by shifting our approach from a human perspective that is primarily focused on human scales, needs, and desires, to a planet perspective, in which design is guided by the ambition to create a balanced coexistence between humans and the other species that make up the global ecosystem. The book intervenes in current discussions within design research about what role design can play in the sustainable transition, by offering new methods and mindset to handle the giant-scale complexity of the climate and environmental crisis, as well as specific tools to turn these theoretical reflections into a transformative practice. Essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of design, innovation, development, entrepreneurship, leadership, art, and creativity. The book is structured so that it can be easily used in an educational context, both at under- and postgraduate level and in courses of business, innovation, or management training. The practical suggestions and process-management tools can be used to facilitate sustainable transformations in in commercial businesses, organizations, and political networks. Written in an accessible and clear style, where all technical terms are fully introduced and unpacked. The chapters can be read in order or independently, and the practical tools for facilitating processes of change are supplemented with additional questions for reflection and further development.Trade Review'The book is driven by a strong ethical agenda regarding design’s responsibility and role in social development. [...] Engholm’s book is a lengthy defence of design thinking and design methods’ particular relevance in addressing hypercomplex sustainability challenges.[...] To me, the strength of the book thus lies in its precise identification of the way the Anthropocene and the development of the concept of design raise fundamental questions about design’s role and responsibility, and one can only have respect for the impressive amount of knowledge that is synthesized in the book and the author’s willingness to think about it in relation to practice. With the inclusion of critical and speculative design, Engholm shows in the book how the Anthropocene opens a space of possible futures that demand democratic debate through collaborative processes, but which are increasingly limited by the consequences of our choices for the environment we ourselves create.' -- Niels Peter Skou, Formkraft: Journal for Crafts & DesignClarity, insight and hope for the future: what’s not to love about this book? -- Kate Fletcher * Professor of Sustainability, Design, Fashion, University of the Arts London *Change is everywhere and change is apparent in our time. The world is going through faster cycles of change than ever. The uncertainty levels are exploding and the horizons for classic planning are shrinking. Ida Engholm has written a book about how design fits into this new reality. She brilliantly shows us patterns, red threads and clues for bringing clarity and vision through design. Her astonishing overview across the field of idea history, philosophy and design academics are mixed with actual, practical models and examples. I can highly recommend this book to leaders and designers across the world who wonder how we can make the field of design a key strategic pillar in adopting to the new reality of this time. -- Michael McKay, Head of Ørsted Design Center of Excellence, former Head of Global Design, PayPalIda Engholm has written a beautiful, insightful and inspirational book. What more could you ask for? Not only is this a significant design book, but it is also a striking and hugely motivational leadership book. Design for the New World offers one of the most compelling messages about how we can and how we must design, to achieve a new, sustainable and more just world. -- Steen Hildebrandt, Professor Emeritus of management studies at University of Aarhus and and associate professor at Copenhagen Business SchoolThis epic book offers a paradigm-shifting solid and tangible guide to all interested in being part designing a flourishing, thriving, regenerative world that aligns with the design principles of our magnificent planet. It gives the reader plenty of delicious nutrients to be able to design and dream into existence radical new design-thinking, doing and being. This book is truly a ground-breaking design guide that I deeply hope will be embedded in curriculums all over the world. It has to if we want to stand a chance. -- Laura Storm, founder of Regenerators, World Economic Young Global Leader and co-author of Regenerative LeadershipA new dimension of design that emphasizes environmental and climate concerns has emerged. Design practice and design thinking are no longer operated in silos but closely connected to sustaining the planet we live in. Ida Engholm’s Design for the New World is one of the first design theory books that presents aholistic perspective of design and design thinking. This inspiring book demonstrates the focus of design being shifted from products to the planet – the greater whole that involves not only the environment but also the core values of being human in the complex world. -- Dr. Nithikul Nimkulrat, Associate professor and acting chair material art and Design, Canada'Engholm (Royal Danish Academy, School of Design) theorizes the book as a manifesto, witness her proclivity to promote a radical change in the way people live, design, and think about their space and place in the world. She thinks of design not as an individualistic work but in terms of the world at large. Each of the book's six chapters relies on different models and prototypes to define and reconsider sustainable practices. These can be made manifest if designers focus on the informed and transformative practices the author highlights. This book is a call to arms to question assumptions, heed past wisdom, and respond to the environmental crises of the present time.' -- L. E. Carranza, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Being in the Making page 14 Chapter 1: A Journey of Consciousness. How Did We Get Here? page 46 Chapter 2: Wicked Problems. How Can We Handle the Trouble? page 78 Chapter 3: Zooming In and Out. What Is Our Perspective?’ page 120 Chapter 4: The Needs of the System. Who Is in Charge? page 152 Chapter 5: Creating Change. How Do We Get Started? page 168 Chapter 6: DesignWISE. How Might We? page 226 Notes page 256 Illustrations page 260 Bibliography page 260 Index page 266

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Book SynopsisBorders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and citizens both.Bradley and de Noronha tell what should by now be a simple truth: borders are not only at the edges of national territory, in airports, or at border walls. Borders are everyday and everywhere; they follow people around and get between us, and disrupt our collective safety, freedom and flourishing. is a passionate manifesto for border abolition, arguing that we must transform society and our relationships to one another, and build a world in which everyone has the freedom to move and to stay.Trade ReviewAgainst Borders demonstrates the clarifying power of applying abolitionist politics to the issue of borders. In doing so, it achieves a rare unity of theory and practice, combining profound analysis with pointers to radical action. -- Arun KundnaniThe arguments in this elegant and powerful book are entirely reasonable and pragmatic and yet utterly revolutionary, proposing an abolitionist political imagination and a horizon of liberation. -- Michael HardtA book that invites us to dream of a reconfigured world where the borders between nation states no longer control and define us. -- Stella DadzieA refreshing, well-argued and moving proposal for 'non-reformist reforms' that would demolish one of the cruellest components of the capitalist state, written with a non-sectarian openness and a utopian imagination -- Owen HatherleyAn accessible, detailed examination of how borders function. A must read for anyone who wants to get to grips with the case for border abolition. -- Maya Goodfellow, author of Hostile EnvironmentAn incisive exploration of how borders operate in the 21st century. -- Emily Kenway * openDemocracy *Against Borders: The Case for Abolition is a compelling and much-needed primer on abolishing borders. By de-bunking common myths, presenting historical analysis, and guiding readers through contemporary social movements, Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha passionately and accessibly lay out the vision and necessity for a world without borders. -- Harsha Walia, author Border and Rule & Undoing Border Imperialism

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Book SynopsisAn ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Auge uses the concept of 'supermodernity' to describe the logic of these late-capitalist phenomena - a logic of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating and lucid essay he seeks to establish and intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity. Starting with an attempt to disentangle anthropology from history, Auge goes on to map the distinction between place, encrusted with historical monuments and creative social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.Unlike Baudelairean modernity, where old and new are interwoven, supermodernity is self-contained: from the motorway or aircraft, local or exotic particularities are presented two-dimensionally as a sort of theme-park spectacle. Auge does not suggest that supermodernity is all-encompassing: place still exist outside non-place and tend to reconstitute themselves inside it. But he argues powerfully that we are in transit through non-place for more and more of our time, as if between immense parentheses, and concludes that this new form of solitude should become the subject of an anthropology of its own.Trade ReviewUnsettling, elegantly written and illuminating: essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our supermodern condition. -- PD Smith * Guardian *Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges-we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But only now do we have a coherent analysis of their far-reaching effects on public and private experience. Marc Augé has become their anthropologist, and has written a timely and original book. -- Patrick WrightIt is indeed very seldom that one finds it difficult to put down a book because of the intellectual excitement it generates. Augé's Non-Places is such a book-a powerful message, modestly delivered, which stands out as a unique and refreshing anthropological voice. * Current Anthropology *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Second EditionPrologueThe Near and the ElsewhereAnthropological PlaceFrom Places to Non-PlacesEpilogueA Brief Bibliography

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Book Synopsis'The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers a rich, beautiful, organic garden of ideas to nourish the project of ''doing economy'' differently. These sprouts and vines will, eventually, alter the institutional structures we inhabit.' - Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US'Let us forget, just for a moment, ''capitalism'' and instead investigate the diversity of new forms of economic activities that are flourishing everywhere: this is the essential, energizing, message of J. K. Gibson-Graham, Kelly Dombroski and her colleagues. This innovative book must be absolutely put into all hands. It takes us on a long and rewarding journey around the world to explore ongoing experiences that all attempt to invent new ways of living together.' - Michel Callon, Centre de Socologie de l'Innnovation, Mines ParisTech, FranceTheorising and illustrating diverse, more-than-capitalist economies, this broad-ranging Handbook presents ways in which it is possible to imagine and enact other ways of being. It gathers together empirical examples of diverse economic practices and experiments from across the world, framed by in-depth discussions of key theoretical concepts.Organised into thematic sections, the Handbook moves from looking at diverse forms of enterprise, to labour, transactions, property, and finance as well as decentred subjectivity and diverse economies methodology. Chapters present a wide diversity of economic practices that make up contemporary economies, many of which are ignored or devalued by mainstream economic theory. Pushing the boundaries of economic thinking to include more than human labour and human/non-human interdependence, it highlights the challenges of enacting ethical economies in the face of dominant ways of thinking and being.Economic geography, political economy and development studies scholars will greatly appreciate the empirical examples of diverse economic practices blended with theory throughout the Handbook. It will also benefit policy-makers and practitioners working within diverse economies, or looking to create more ethical ways of living.Trade Review‘This impressive collection of stimulating theorization and descriptions of a multitude of other-than-capitalist economic practices could not have been published at a more pertinent time. The Handbook is truly international in terms of authors’ affiliations and case studies’ geographies, covering the 'minority world' (developed countries) and the 'majority world' (those less developed). The Handbook offers key conceptual tools for housing scholars to unlock the diverse economies of housing. It also makes an inspiring read for students and scholars of any discipline who want to imagine alternative, more ethical futures which are already seeded in the practices of today.’ -- Adriana Mihaela Soaita, Housing, Theory and Society‘The editors and their many contributors have to be congratulated for an impressive volume that succeeds in presenting an empirically grounded and theoretically robust Marxism which is fit for the challenges of the Anthropocene. Whether one agrees with their approach and visions or not, this is a highly recommended read and a valuable resource for teaching on economic practices in our more-than-capitalist world.’ -- Jens Kaae Fisker, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers a rich, beautiful, organic garden of ideas to nourish the project of “doing economy” differently. These sprouts and vines will, eventually, alter the institutional structures we inhabit.’ -- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US‘Let us forget, just for a moment, “capitalism” and instead investigate the diversity of new forms of economic activities that are flourishing everywhere: this is the essential, energizing, message of J. K. Gibson-Graham, Kelly Dombroski and her colleagues. This innovative book must be absolutely put into all hands. It takes us on a long and rewarding journey around the world to explore ongoing experiences that all attempt to invent new ways of living together.’ -- Michel Callon, Centre de Socologie de l'Innnovation, Mines ParisTech, France'So much of the world's economy is informal, cooperative, community-based and unwaged: a diverse kaleidoscope of activities, all with their own ecologies, for worse . . . and often for better. How do they work? What work do they do? Finally a global, inclusive, and exhaustive guide to the planet s actually-existing economies.' --Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US'In the face of a zombie capitalism that will not die, The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers the most potent response possible: the fierce creativity of life itself. The 58 essays of this book introduce us to a pluriverse of practical, non-capitalist lifeforms that are humane, socially grounded, and constantly evolving. Be prepared to enter a portal of new perspectives that loosens the grip of the capitalist imaginary and opens up a fertile transdisciplinary space for envisioning and making a new world.' --David Bollier, coauthor of Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons'The Handbook of Diverse Economies marks a major milestone for the influential program of research, action, and experimentation initiated by Gibson-Graham's The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) some 25 years ago. It presents an array of provocative strategies for ''doing economy'' differently, and for imagining and enacting different economic worlds.' --Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to The Handbook of Diverse Economies : inventory as ethical intervention 1 J.K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski PART I ENTERPRISE 2 Framing essay: the diversity of enterprise 26 Jenny Cameron 3 Worker cooperatives 40 Maliha Safri 4 Self-managed enterprise: worker-recuperated cooperatives in Argentina and Latin America 48 Ana Inés Heras and Marcelo Vieta 5 Community enterprise: diverse designs for community-owned energy infrastructure 56 Jarra Hicks 6 Eco-social enterprises: ethical business in a post-socialist context 65 Nadia Johanisova, Lucie Sovová and Eva Fraňková 7 Enterprising new worlds: social enterprise and the value of repair 74 Isaac Lyne and Anisah Madden 8 Anti-mafia enterprise: Italian strategies to counter violent economies 82 Christina Jerne 9 State and community enterprise: negotiating water management in rural Ireland 90 Patrick Bresnihan and Arielle Hesse 10 Independent and small businesses: diversity amongst the 99 per cent of businesses 98 Peter North 11 Homo economicus and the capitalist corporation: decentring authority and ownership 106 Jayme Walenta PART II LABOUR 12 Framing essay: the diversity of labour 116 Katharine McKinnon 13 Precarious labour: Russia’s ‘other’ transition 129 Marianna Pavlovskaya 14 The persistence of informal and unpaid labour: evidence from UK households 137 Colin C. Williams and Richard J. White 15 Paid and unpaid labour: feminist economic activism in a diverse economy 146 Megan Clement-Couzner 16 Caring labour: redistributing care work 154 Kelly Dombroski 17 Non-human ‘labour’: the work of Earth Others 163 Elizabeth Barron and Jaqueline Hess 18 Collectively performed reciprocal labour: reading for possibility 170 Katherine Gibson 19 Informal mining labour: economic plurality and household survival strategies 179 Pryor Placino 20 Migrant women’s labour: sustaining livelihoods through diverse economic practices in Accra, Ghana 186 Chizu Sato and Theresa Tufuor PART III TRANSACTIONS 21 Framing essay: the diversity of transactions 195 Gradon Diprose 22 Gleaning: transactions at the nexus of food, commons and waste 206 Oona Morrow 23 Direct producer–consumer transactions: Community Supported Agriculture and its offshoots 214 Ted White 24 Direct food provisioning: collective food procurement 223 Cristina Grasseni 25 Alternative currencies: diverse experiments 230 Peter North 26 Transacting services through time banking: renegotiating equality and reshaping work 238 Gradon Diprose 27 Fair trade: market-based ethical encounters and the messy entanglements of living well 246 Lindsay Naylor 28 Social procurement: generating social good through market transactions, directly and indirectly 254 Joanne McNeill 29 Sharing cities: new urban imaginaries for diverse economies 262 Darren Sharp PART IV PROPERTY 30 Framing essay: the diversity of property 271 Kevin St. Martin 31 Commoning property in the city: the ongoing work of making and remaking 283 Anna Kruzynski 32 Community land trusts: embracing the relationality of property 292 Louise Crabtree 33 Urban land markets in Africa: multiplying possibilities via a diverse economy reading 300 Colin Marx 34 A Slow Food commons: cultivating conviviality across a range of property forms 308 Melissa Kennedy 35 Free universities as academic commons 316 Esra Erdem 36 Diverse legalities: pluralism and instrumentalism 323 Bronwen Morgan and Declan Kuch PART V FINANCE 37 Framing essay: the diversity of finance 332 Maliha Safri and Yahya M. Madra 38 Islamic finance: diversity within difference 346 Gemma Bone Dodds and Jane Pollard 39 Rotating savings and credit associations: mutual aid financing 354 Caroline Shenaz Hossein 40 Indigenous finance: treaty settlement finance in Aotearoa New Zealand 362 Maria Bargh 41 Community finance: marshalling investments for community-owned renewable energy enterprises 370 Jarra Hicks 42 Hacking finance: experiments with algorithmic activism 379 Tuomo Alhojärvi PART VI SUBJECTIVITY 43 Framing essay: subjectivity in a diverse economy 389 Stephen Healy, Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra 44 More-than-human agency: from the human economy to ecological livelihoods 402 Ethan Miller 45 On power and the uses of genealogy for building community economies 411 Nate Gabriel and Eric Sarmiento 46 Techniques for shifting economic subjectivity: promoting an assets-based stance with artists and artisans 419 Abby Templer Rodrigues 47 Affect and subjectivity: learning to be affected in diverse economies scholarship 428 Gerda Roelvink 48 Diverse subjectivities, sexualities and economies: challenging heteroand homonormativity 436 Gavin Brown 49 Journeys of postdevelopment subjectivity transformation: a shared narrative of scholars from the majority world 444 Anmeng Liu, S.M. Waliuzzaman, Huong Thi Do, Ririn Haryani and Sonam Pem PART VII METHODOLOGY 50 Framing essay: diverse economies methodology 453 Gerda Roelvink 51 Translating diverse economies in the Anglocene 467 Tuomo Alhojärvi and Pieta Hyvärinen 52 Reading for economic difference 476 J.K. Gibson-Graham 53 Field methods for assemblage analysis: tracing relations between difference and dominance 486 Eric Sarmiento 54 Visualizing and analysing diverse economies with GIS: a resource for performative research 493 Luke Drake 55 Working with Indigenous methodologies: Kaupapa Māori meets diverse economies 502 Joanne Waitoa and Kelly Dombroski 56 Action research for diverse economies 511 Jenny Cameron and Katherine Gibson 57 Focusing on assets: action research for an inclusive and diverse workplace 520 Leo Hwang 58 How to reclaim the economy using artistic means: the case of Company Drinks 527 Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder Index 535

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Book SynopsisWritten by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in today's world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from Trade Review"As with Mike Hulme’s career, this book ranges between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In doing so, it offers an interdisciplinary - and explicitly geographical - perspective on the ‘key idea’ of climate change. In 10 thoughtful chapters, Hulme opens up and extends understanding of the ways in which the idea of climate change is mediated through culture and politics. Selected key readings, provocative questions and scholar portraits increase the book’s usability. I look forward to using it in my teaching practice."Saffron O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK"Is there a more contemporary ‘key idea’ than climate change? In this compelling overview, Hulme tracks how ideas of climate change have varied in space and time, and across cultural groups. From art to religion, from scepticism to cli-fi, he contextualises (and challenges) the matter-of-factness of a scientific view of climate change. Whether new to the topic or in need of a refresh, both students and senior scholars will find much of value here."Lesley Head, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia"There is no one better qualified than Mike Hulme to explain the past, present and future of climate change in just ten chapters. In clear and engaging prose, Hulme leads us through the many facets of climate change: as a scientific concept, a locus of political debate, and a catalyst for imagined futures."Rebecca Lave, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Indiana University, USA"Mike Hulme’s ground breaking writings have been the must-read texts on the social meaning of climate from theories of human difference, markers of place (those salubrious climates!) to science and technology studies. His work illuminates the conflicts, meanings, impacts and politics of climate change. By placing the understanding of climate as a socio-cultural as well as a scientific project, Dr. Hulme’s work, always warm, generous and clearly written, has defined what it means to be an interdisciplinary, engaged scholar on a hyper-controversial topic. This magisterial book integrates climate questions through multiple discourses and controversies. Since it is hard to imagine a future without imagining climate change, this volume recasts and clarifies the nature of the debates. I think it is an essential volume for understanding atmospheric disorder, in all the meanings of the term." Susanna B Hecht, Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Professor, International History, Graduate Institute for Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland"This powerful and important book cogently demonstrates the need to take our ideas about climate change very seriously. Hulme shows the importance of recognizing climate change as a cultural predicament to be addressed through the explicitly performative mobilisation of different and competing values, ideologies, and narratives rather than a problem to be solved through more and better science and technology alone. An essential read."John Robinson, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada"This is a unique book with a truly interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the key ideas of climate change, and an all-in-one but concise reading of various ideas about climate change from social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. It is suitable for students and general readers trying to understand the profound climate changes. An innovative contribution of a human geographer to climate change studies!"Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China"What does climate change really mean for diverse communities? In this marvellous book, Mike Hulme explores the multitude of our human experiences of a changing climate. As a leading climate scientist, Hulme takes the reader beyond the science in a confronting, and profoundly enriching way. Building on a lifetime of climate research and the insights of marginalised voices, including indigenous, feminist, artistic, and religious insights, Hulme help us understand what it really means to be alive in a changing climate … to resist, struggle and imagine new futures, expanding our imagination in politically powerful ways."Bronwyn Hayward, Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand"This book offers the most complete collection of key debates and examples from around the world that epitomizes the multifaceted nature of climate change. Reading it was for me an intellectually stimulating learning curve as Mike Hulme inspiringly reflects upon our personal and social bonds with the matter and idea of climate. Beautifully written, thought-provoking and easily accessible, Climate Change is the ultimate companion, and indeed a profoundly rewarding journey, for scholars of all disciplines."Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, ThailandTable of ContentsSection 1: Climate Histories, Geographies, and Knowledges 1. Climate and Culture Through History: climate change historicised 2. Climate Change and Science: climate change quantified Section 2: Finding the Meanings of Climate Change 3. Reformed Modernism: climate change assimilated 4. Sceptical Contrarianism: climate change contested 5. Transformative Radicalism: climate change mobilised 6. Subaltern Voices: climate change supplanted 7. Artistic Creativities: climate change reimagined 8. Religious Engagements: climate change transcended Section 3: Climate Change to Come 9. Governing Climate: climate change governed 10. Climate Imaginaries: climate change forever

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Book SynopsisWritten by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in todayâs world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on climate change has drawn across the full range of academic disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and questions are posed for use in class discussions.The book is written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace climate change from within social science and humanities disciplines. Science students studying climate change on inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive account of climate change.Trade Review"As with Mike Hulme’s career, this book ranges between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In doing so, it offers an interdisciplinary - and explicitly geographical - perspective on the ‘key idea’ of climate change. In 10 thoughtful chapters, Hulme opens up and extends understanding of the ways in which the idea of climate change is mediated through culture and politics. Selected key readings, provocative questions and scholar portraits increase the book’s usability. I look forward to using it in my teaching practice."Saffron O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK"Is there a more contemporary ‘key idea’ than climate change? In this compelling overview, Hulme tracks how ideas of climate change have varied in space and time, and across cultural groups. From art to religion, from scepticism to cli-fi, he contextualises (and challenges) the matter-of-factness of a scientific view of climate change. Whether new to the topic or in need of a refresh, both students and senior scholars will find much of value here."Lesley Head, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia"There is no one better qualified than Mike Hulme to explain the past, present and future of climate change in just ten chapters. In clear and engaging prose, Hulme leads us through the many facets of climate change: as a scientific concept, a locus of political debate, and a catalyst for imagined futures."Rebecca Lave, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Indiana University, USA"Mike Hulme’s ground breaking writings have been the must-read texts on the social meaning of climate from theories of human difference, markers of place (those salubrious climates!) to science and technology studies. His work illuminates the conflicts, meanings, impacts and politics of climate change. By placing the understanding of climate as a socio-cultural as well as a scientific project, Dr. Hulme’s work, always warm, generous and clearly written, has defined what it means to be an interdisciplinary, engaged scholar on a hyper-controversial topic. This magisterial book integrates climate questions through multiple discourses and controversies. Since it is hard to imagine a future without imagining climate change, this volume recasts and clarifies the nature of the debates. I think it is an essential volume for understanding atmospheric disorder, in all the meanings of the term." Susanna B Hecht, Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Professor, International History, Graduate Institute for Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland"This powerful and important book cogently demonstrates the need to take our ideas about climate change very seriously. Hulme shows the importance of recognizing climate change as a cultural predicament to be addressed through the explicitly performative mobilisation of different and competing values, ideologies, and narratives rather than a problem to be solved through more and better science and technology alone. An essential read."John Robinson, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada"This is a unique book with a truly interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the key ideas of climate change, and an all-in-one but concise reading of various ideas about climate change from social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. It is suitable for students and general readers trying to understand the profound climate changes. An innovative contribution of a human geographer to climate change studies!"Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China"What does climate change really mean for diverse communities? In this marvellous book, Mike Hulme explores the multitude of our human experiences of a changing climate. As a leading climate scientist, Hulme takes the reader beyond the science in a confronting, and profoundly enriching way. Building on a lifetime of climate research and the insights of marginalised voices, including indigenous, feminist, artistic, and religious insights, Hulme help us understand what it really means to be alive in a changing climate … to resist, struggle and imagine new futures, expanding our imagination in politically powerful ways."Bronwyn Hayward, Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand"This book offers the most complete collection of key debates and examples from around the world that epitomizes the multifaceted nature of climate change. Reading it was for me an intellectually stimulating learning curve as Mike Hulme inspiringly reflects upon our personal and social bonds with the matter and idea of climate. Beautifully written, thought-provoking and easily accessible, Climate Change is the ultimate companion, and indeed a profoundly rewarding journey, for scholars of all disciplines."Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, ThailandTable of ContentsSection 1: Climate Histories, Geographies, and Knowledges 1. Climate and Culture Through History: climate change historicised 2. Climate Change and Science: climate change quantified Section 2: Finding the Meanings of Climate Change 3. Reformed Modernism: climate change assimilated 4. Sceptical Contrarianism: climate change contested 5. Transformative Radicalism: climate change mobilised 6. Subaltern Voices: climate change supplanted 7. Artistic Creativities: climate change reimagined 8. Religious Engagements: climate change transcended Section 3: Climate Change to Come 9. Governing Climate: climate change governed 10. Climate Imaginaries: climate change forever

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Book SynopsisA detailed examination of the Korean development model from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation.There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea's condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and generations. The chapters in this book critically reassess the Korean urban development experience from regional policy to new town development, demonstrating how these policy experiences were deeply rooted in Korea's socioeconomic environment and discussing what can be learned from them when applying them in other developmental contexts.This book will be of great interest to scholars anTable of Contents1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience for International Cooperation Part I: Outlining the Urban Transformation of Korea 2. Transformations in the Governance of Urban and Regional Planning in Korea: From (Neo-)Developmentalism to Civic Democracy, 1965–2020 3. Korea’s Regional Development Policy: Understanding Its Context and Drawing Implications for International Development Cooperation 4. Urban Transformation with ‘Korean Style’: Lessons from Property-based Urban Development 5. From Commodities to Community Engagement: Localities and Urban Development in Seoul, Korea Part II: Modeling the Korean Urban Development Experience 6. Export Urbanism: Asian Emerging Donors and the Politics of Urban Development Knowledge Sharing 7. A Multitude of Models: Transferring Knowledge of the Korean Development Experience 8. International Urban Development Leadership: Singapore, China and South Korea Compared Part III: Policies and Institutions of the Korean Urban Development 9. Exporting New City Developments? From New Towns to Smart Cities 10. Housing Policy and Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary Korea 11. Land Development Schemes in South Korea: Background, Structure and Outcome 12. Knowledge-Policy Nexus: Policy Research Institutes and the Urban Development Regime in Korea 13. Engines for Development: Public Development Corporations and Their Role in Urban Development in Korea

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Book SynopsisJust as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to consolidate their grip on power while nurturing their own vision of what the nation is or should become. This book delves into the complex and often hidden connection between water, technological advancement and the nation-state, addressing two major questions. First, the arguments deployed consider how water as a resource can be ideologically constructed, imagined and framed to create and reinforce a national identity, and secondly, how the idea of a nation-state can and is materially co-constituted out of the material infrastructure through which water is harnessed and channelled.The book consists of 13 theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary chapters covering four continents. The case studies cover a diverse range of geographical areas and countries, including China, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Nepal and Thailand, and together illustrate that the meaning and rationale behind water infrastructures goes well beyond the control and regulation of water resources, as it becomes central in the unfolding of power dynamics across time and space.Trade Review"Water, Technology and the Nation-State is an extraordinary and path-breaking master piece on the political ecologies of state-production and resistance -- intellectually rich, socially urgent and politically highly revealing. The book presents a careful, critical analysis of how flows of water and power interconnect technology, nature and society. In a sophisticated way, Menga, Swyngedouw, and their impressive assemblage of authors, scrutinize and illuminate the multi-dimensional interdependence among technological trajectories, hydro-territorial configurations and nation-state building. Constituting a powerful critique of neoliberal water governance and water’s de-politicizing expert-thinking, the book also offers crucial water-for-thought for building alternative hydrosocial territories." - Rutgerd Boelens, CEDLA/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands"The world’s water crisis is not only an issue of physical scarcity and declining water quality, rather it is a complex suite of social, political, and economic issues that are deeply rooted in power and the state. Menga and Swyngedouw’s thought-provoking edited volume brings together a highly talented and diverse group of scholars and practitioners that explore the inter-connection between water, technology and the nation-state. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in transcending national rhetoric around water, and working towards water justice and equity." - Emma S. Norman, Northwest Indian College, USA"Water, Technology and the Nation-State arrives at an opportune time for water-society scholars and practitioners interested in the profound ways that technological innovations have concurrently shaped waterscapes, state practices, and national identities over the past several decades. A diverse group of critical thinkers infuse cases of large-scale infrastructure development--spanning Asia, the Middle East, North America, Europe, and East Africa—with novel and incisive analyses of how water technologies are always and everywhere political and often fundamental to the exercise of state power. Combining conceptual muscle with heretofore rare case studies, this volume adds immeasurably to theories of state-nature relations and offers concrete instances of the myriad ways that dams, irrigation and hydropower have become hegemonic, and often domineering, technological interventions in human relations with water." - Christopher S. Sneddon, Dartmouth College, USA"...this book is important and should have wide appeal. Each chapter presents an insight into the complex and contradictoy relationship between Nation-State and water technology based on a case study analysis of a project or initative...There are 12 studies in total, with broad representation across the Global North and the Global South." - Lucy Goodman in Urban Studies, 2019"The nation state plays a privileged role in water management and hence is a central actor in all questions regarding processes of water allocation, water infrastructure construction, reform of water institutions, and regulation of water pollution. The collection put together by Menga and Swyngedouw presents historical and current cases of state-centred water politics...Altogether, the collection manages to extract an impressively broad spectrum of aspects of its guiding themes." - Sören Köpke in Water Alternatives, 2019Table of Contents1. States of Water 2. The Ocean Bountiful? De-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River 3. Piercing the Pyrenees, Connecting Catalonia to Europe: The ascendancy and dismissal of the Rhône Water Transfer Project (1994-2016) 4. Death by certainty: The Vinça dam, the French state, and the changing social relations of irrigation the Têt basin of the Eastern French Pyrénées 5. Big projects, strong states? Large scale investments in irrigation and state formation in the Beles valley, Ethiopia 6. Water Nationalism in Egypt: State-building, Nation-making and Nile Hydro-politics 7. Troubled Waters of Hegemony: Consent and Contestation in Turkey’s Hydropower Landscapes 8. An island of dams: ethnic conflict and the contradictions of statehood in Cyprus 9. Counter-infrastructure as resistance in the hydrosocial territory of the occupied Golan Heights 10. Development initiatives and transboundary water politics in the Talas waterscape (Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan): Towards the Conflicting Borderlands Hydrosocial Cycle 11. Speculation and Seismicity: Reconfiguring the Hydropower Future in Post-Earthquake Nepal 12. Irrigational illusions, national delusions and idealised constructions of water, agriculture and society in Southeast Asia: the case of Thailand 13. Building a Dam for China In the Three Gorges Region, 1919-1971

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Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice. It is the first comprehensive and comparative study that foregrounds the complex interplay of multiple organisations involved in translating indigenous rights to the city in Latin America, focussing on the cities of La Paz and Quito.The book establishes how planning for urban indigeneity looks in practice, even in seemingly progressive settings, such as Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous rights to the city are recognised within constitutions. It demonstrates that the translation of indigenous rights to the city is a process involving different actor groups operating within state institutions and indigenous communities, which often hold conflicting interests and needs. The book also establishes a set of theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations for envisaging how urban indigenous planning in Latin America and elsewhere should be understood, studied, and undertTable of Contents1. Introduction: From inhabitants of the forest to the concrete jungle Part one: Concepts and context 2. The emergence of urban indigeneity and the indigenous right to the city 3. Indigeneity in urban policy and planning practice 4. The making of two indigenous cities Part two: Experiences from La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador 5. Urban indigeneity as lived experience 6. Urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice 7. Claiming indigenous rights to the city 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPublic Space Reader is a one-of-a-kind collection that brings together classic and contemporary writings on public space by a cross-disciplinary group of urban scholars as well as by urban professionals involved in the fields of design, architecture, urbanism, planning, management and policy. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Section 1. Public Space: State of the question. Section 2. Diversity and inclusion in public space. Section 3. From the Just City to the Right to Public Space. Section 4. Public space as site of activism, protest and dissent. Section 5. Governance and management of public space. Section 6. Public art and public culture in/of public space. Section 7. Public space infrastructures. Section 8. Experiential Dimensions and Evaluation of Public Space. Section 9. Global and comparative perspectives on public space.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader's particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environmentswhat actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and regionproviding better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, brTrade Review"Climate change is the environmental and social crisis of our time. Human influence on the fundamental biophysical processes of the planet is so pervasive that a new geologic epoch has been identified: the Anthropocene. Both for our own survival and for that of other species, we must adapt, and planning is one of our most important tools for adaptation. Fortunately, humans are a planning species. Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield, Yaser Abunnasr, and Robert Ryan have collected and curated the most important essays on the topic. This reader will be useful for both students and practitioners who are seeking ways to mitigate the consequences of climate change and to adapt communities through sustainable design." Frederick Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, USA"An impressive collection of contemporary writings on one of the largest challenges of our time: how to adapt cities to a changing climate. Sure to be useful to both university classes and professionals." Steve Wheeler, U.C. Davis, USA "I have taught an Environmental and Energy Audit course for a number of years and wished that I had a comprehensive source of key material that summarized the science on climate change plus adaption and mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas emission impacts. This book by Hamin Infield, Abunnasr, and Ryan is such a compendium. This book also addresses key health and equity impacts to disadvantaged urban populations as well as link to the role of green infrastructure implementation within a local community context. The editor’s nuanced framing of each of the books seven chapters as well as the beginning of many of the individual article is key to allowing a reader to understand key contributions from the many edited articles within each chapter." Richard "Rick" Smardon, SUNY, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Book Introduction Section I: Understanding the Problem—Climate Change and Urban Areas Hamin Infield, Elisabeth M., Section I Introduction. Orr, David, "Optimism and Hope in a Hotter Time." IPCC, "Assessment Report 5: Summary for Policymakers." Wilby, Robert L., "A Review of Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment." Fricke, Rebecca and Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield, "Practical guide to Collaborative Project EvaluationSection II: Introduction to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Urban Areas Hamin Infield, Elisabeth M., Section II Introduction Pacala, Stephen, and Robert Socolow, "Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years With Current Technologies." Hoornweg, Daniel, Lorraine Sugar and Claudia Lorena Trejos Gómez, "Cities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Moving Forward." Lee, Sungwon and Bumsoo Lee, "The Influence of Urban Form on GHG Emissions in the U.S. Household Sector."Boswell, Michael R., Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale, "An Assessment of the Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories and Climate Action Plans." Dodman, David, "Forces Driving Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Harlan, Sharon L. and Darren M. Ruddel, "Climate Change and Health in Cities: Impacts of Heat and Air Pollution and Potential Co-Benefits from Mitigation and Adaptation."Section III: Adaptation, Risk, and Resilience Abunnasr, Yaser, Section III Introduction. IPCC, 2012, "Summary for Policymakers: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation."Cutter, Susan L. and Christina Finch, "Temporal and Spatial Changes in Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards."Frosch, Rachel Morello, Manuel Pastor, Jim Sadd and Seth Shonkoff, "The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans and How to Close the Gap."Adger, W. Neil, Terry P. Hughes, Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, and Johan Rockström, "Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters." Salick, Jan and Nanci Ross, "Traditional Peoples and Climate Change." Section IV: Green Infrastructure, Urban Form, and AdaptationAbunnasr, Yaser, Section IV Introduction. Rouse, David and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, "Landscape Planning, Design, and Green Infrastructure."Abunnasr, Yaser and Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield, "The Green Infrastructure Transect: An Organizational Framework for Mainstreaming Adaptation Planning Policies." Gill, Susannah E., John F. Handley, Adrian R. Ennos and Stephan Pauleit, "Adapting Cities for Climate Change: The Role of the Green Infrastructure." Leichenko, Robin M. and William D. Solecki, "Climate Change in Suburbs: An Exploration of Key Impacts and Vulnerabilities." Section V: Green Infrastructure for Urban Heat and Stormwater Ryan, Robert L., Section V Introduction. Stone, Brian Jr., Jason Vargo, Peng Liu, Dana Habeeb, Anthony DeLucia, Marcus Trail, Yongtao Hu, and Armistead Russell. "Avoided Heat-Related Mortality through Climate Adaptation Strategies in Three US Cities."Norton, Briony A., Andrew M. Coutts, Stephen J. Livesley, Richard J. Harris, Annie M. Hunter and Nicholas S.G. Williams, "Planning for Cooler Cities: A Framework to Prioritise Green Infrastructure to Mitigate High Temperatures in Urban Landscapes." Kleerekoper, Laura, Marjolein van Esch and Tadeo Baldiri Salcedo, "How to make a City Climate-Proof: Addressing the Urban Heat Island Effect." Lennon, Mick, Mark Scott and Eoin O'Neill, "Urban Design and Adapting to Flood Risk: The Role of Green Infrastructure."Rouse, David C. and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, "Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach."Section VI: Introduction to Green Infrastructure for Rising Sea Levels and Coastal Risks Hamin Infield, Elisabeth M., Section VI Introduction. Kousky, Carolyn, "Managing Shoreline Retreat: A US Perspective." Popkin, Gabriel, "Breaking the Waves." Kirshen, Paul, Matthias Ruth, and William Anderson, "Interdependencies of Urban Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: A Case Study of Metropolitan Boston, USA." Mycoo, Michelle, "Sustainable Tourism, Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Adaptation Policies in Barbados." Section VII: Implementing the Vision Ryan, Robert L., Section VII Introduction. Hamin Infield, Elisabeth M. and Nicole Gurran, "Urban Form and Climate Change: Balancing Adaptation and Mitigation in the U.S. and Australia." Shi, Linda, Eric Chu and Jessica Debats Garrison, "Explaining Progress in Climate Adaptation Planning Across 156 U.S. Municipalities." Lyth, Anna and Justus Kithiia, "Urban Wildscapes and Green Spaces in Mombasa and Their Potential Contribution to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation." Sheppard, Stephen R.L., "Making Climate Change Visible: A Critical Role for Landscape Professionals." 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Book SynopsisFrom radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.Trade Review“An ambitiously interdisciplinary volume offering thought-provoking new ways for considering how toxic landscapes challenge a linear, colonialist, and capitalist model of time-as-progress.”Environmental toxicology, exposure, and risk cannot be meaningfully analyzed simply as unfortunate situations or events in isolation from the neocolonialism and complex sociocultural contexts that initiate and perpetuate them. This book is rich in detail, sobering in perspective, and for the most part pleasingly free of jargon. Summing up: highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume's contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality.The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and pTrade Review“An ambitiously interdisciplinary volume offering thought-provoking new ways for considering how toxic landscapes challenge a linear, colonialist, and capitalist model of time-as-progress.”Environmental toxicology, exposure, and risk cannot be meaningfully analyzed simply as unfortunate situations or events in isolation from the neocolonialism and complex sociocultural contexts that initiate and perpetuate them. This book is rich in detail, sobering in perspective, and for the most part pleasingly free of jargon. Summing up: highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1 Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship The Copenhagen Chiasm 25 1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27 2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34 3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45 4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56 Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71 5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73 6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83 7. The “Political Ecology” of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90 8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105 9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118 Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing Object, Subject, Traject 133 10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135 11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146 12. Denaturing Nature 155 13. The Unconstructable Earth 165 Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179 Notes 189 Index 225

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1 Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship The Copenhagen Chiasm 25 1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27 2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34 3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45 4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56 Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71 5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73 6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83 7. The “Political Ecology” of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90 8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105 9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118 Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing Object, Subject, Traject 133 10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135 11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146 12. Denaturing Nature 155 13. The Unconstructable Earth 165 Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179 Notes 189 Index 225

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Book SynopsisOffering how-to tools and step-by-step guidance, this practical Handbook combines academic insight with extensive professional experience to outline best practice in undertaking environmental, socio-cultural and economic assessments that establish the feasibility of new tourism ventures and ascertains their impact over time.Trade Review'Written by world experts in their fields, it fills a gap in the market for sustainable tourism research that is helpful and practical. It is gratifying to read all these chapters from consultants and practice-oriented academics that I have admired for years, which allow us an insight into the experience they have gained over decades of working for some of the most influential international organisations, overseas development agencies, governments and protected areas.'Table of ContentsContents: Foreword xxi 1 Introduction to the Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners: The Essential Toolbox 1 Anna Spenceley PART I PLANNING AND DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 2 Tourism Theory of Change: a tool for planners and developers 12 Louise Twining-Ward, Hannah R. Messerli, Jose Miguel Villascusa and Amit Sharma 3 Guidelines for tourism policy formulation in developing countries 32 Mike Fabricius 4 Tourism master planning: the key to sustainable long-term growth 52 Roger Goodacre 5 Commercialization strategies for tourism within parks and protected areas 70 Paul F. J. Eagles 6 Feasibility studies, business plans and predicting returns for new lodging facilities 96 P. J. Massyn 7 Funding proposals for new tourism ventures 110 Michael Wright 8 Planning for optimal local involvement in tourism and partnership development 131 Amran Hamzah 9 Touching the earth, touching people: approaches to sustainability design 154 Nicholas Coetzer 10 UN Indicators Programme: informing sustainable development for tourism destinations 172 Edward W. (Ted) Manning PART II ENHANCING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF EXISTING TOURISM 11 Sustainable supply chains in travel and tourism: towards a circular approach 190 Jos van der Sterren 12 Using mainstream development economics to improve sustainability: a value chain approach 204 Jonathan Mitchell 13 Establishing sustainability standards in tourism 233 Randy Durband 14 Designing and delivering wildlife viewing protocols that enhance sustainability 249 Jeff R. Muntifering and Wayne L. Linklater 15 Consultation approaches in sustainable tourism 273 Carolin Lusby PART III BALANCING OVERTOURISM AND UNDERTOURISM: VISITOR MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE 16 A research strategy to understand what biophysical and social conditions are appropriate and acceptable in tourism destinations 287 Stephen F. McCool 17 Visitor use management framework 303 William T. Borrie and Elena A. Bigart 18 Developing targets for visitation in parks 323 Paul F. J. Eagles, Andjelko Novosel, Ognjen Škunca and Vesna Vukadin 19 Optimization of tourism development in destinations: an approach used to alleviate the impacts of overtourism in the Mediterranean region 347 Ante Mandić PART IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION 20 Visitor counting and surveys 366 Joel Erkkonen and Liisa Kajala 21 Economic effects assessment approaches: US National Parks approach 382 Cathy Cullinane Thomas and Lynne Koontz 22 Economic effects assessment approaches: Tourism Economic Model for Protected Areas (TEMPA) for developing countries 395 Thiago do Val Simardi Beraldo Souza, Alex Chidakel, Brian Child, Wen-Huei Chang and Virginia Gorsevski 23 Biodiversity and stressors rapid assessment 412 Shane Feyers, Gretchen Stokes and Vanessa Hull 24 Social and cultural impact assessment of tourism 435 Jacqueline N. Kariithi 25 Tourism certification audits: reviewing sustainable certification programs 449 Monica Mic 26 Case study research for sustainable tourism: towards inclusive community-based tourism 477 Regis Musavengane and Darlington Muzeza 27 Establishing and managing research programmes in tourism destinations: the case of South African National Parks 499 Liandi Slabbert Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘At a time of immense global challenges, this book is a great way of starting hopeful conversations about what we can do to create an equitable and sustainable world and challenge discourses that sustain inequalities and threaten all forms of life on earth. A wide range of students in the fields of social work, social sciences, environment sciences and urban planning will find the chapters in this book informative and thought provoking. I highly recommend it.’ -- Ndungi Mungai, Charles Sturt University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I SOCIAL (IN)EQUALITY, COMMUNITY WELL-BEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE: AN OVERVIEW 1 Introduction and overview of social (in)equality, community well-being and quality of life 2 Patsy Kraeger, Rhonda Phillips and M. Rezaul Islam 2 A holistic perspective to nurture quality of life and social equity 11 Cornelia C. Walther 3 Community quality of life and socio-spatial inequalities 36 Graciela Tonon, Javier Martínez and Claudia Mikkelsen 4 Connecting equity, community well-being, and quality of life via system elements and a common narrative of community development 49 Joongsub Kim 5 Understanding inequality for European inclusion in SDG 10 of the 2030 United Nations Agenda 79 Nuno Nunes, Rosário Mauritti, Maria do Carmo Botelho, Sara Franco da Silva, Luís Cabrita and Daniela Craveiro PART II COMMUNITY, NEIGHBORHOODS AND IMPACTS ON EQUALITY AND WELL-BEING 6 Increasing community well-being through school-centered neighborhood development: the Community Learning Center Institute in Cincinnati 125 Adelyn Hall and David Varady 7 Becoming resilient: exploring community well-being through politicized participation in Louisville, Kentucky 149 Angela D. Storey, David Johnson, Victoria Clemons, Allison Smith, Daniel DeCaro and Lauren Heberle 8 In between rural and urban: a neighborhood called Fikirtepe 170 Cem Topçu and Emine Ümran Topçu PART III INCOME, INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE: IMPACTS ON WELL-BEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE 9 ‘I suppose if you’re not given the tools to get out of the shit, how are you going to get out of the shit?’: a critical analysis of the use of social capital to address community wellbeing and social inequality in time banking 182 Juliette Wilson-Thomas 10 Community affluence as a barrier to housing affordability: the siting of low-income housing tax credit projects and sustained inequality in Illinois’s capital region 205 Richard Funderburg, Tyrone Dooley, Travis Bland and Tessica Dooley 11 Launching a Black Equity and Excellence Fund: improving community well-being through Black-led social change 227 Dashiell Elliott and Frank Ridzi PART IV HUMANKIND, EQUALITIES AND WELL-BEING 12 (Un)healthy places: social inequality and healthy aging from an ecological, developmental perspective 248 Ivis García 13 Improving quality of life among advanced cancer patients and family caregivers 273 Wanda Kiyah George Albert, Adi Fahrudin, Steward Lindong and Husmiati Yusuf 14 Reimagining LGBTQ student inclusion and support in schools 284 Matthew L. McClellan 15 Meritocracy, marriage and mating: a cross-country qualitative analysis between India and the UK/USA 303 Shahla Khan PART V PLACE-BASED APPROACHES 16 Dispossession of rights through development policies: inequalities in Siracusa from industrialization to new urban paradises 324 MariaOlivella Rizza 17 Unpacking informal partnerships and intangible resources in co-creation of community 350 Anne-Lise K. Velez, Candice Pippin Bodkin, Kate R. Albrecht and Anne Patrick 18 The nexus between urban green space and well-being of citizens: implication for cities of developing countries 364 Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Isahaque Ali, Sajjad Hossain Shozib, Babul Hossain, Hrachuhi Galstyan, Md Nuralam Hossain and Sumaira Khurshid 19 Social inequality and Sustainable Development Goals: rural–urban disparity in Bangladesh 386 M. Rezaul Islam 20 Participatory community philanthropy: a pathway for reducing social (in)equalities 412 Patsy Kraeger, Rhonda Phillips and Ikeoluwa Akanmu

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future.Trade Review'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities 1 Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY LANDSCAPES 2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13 Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa 3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh 27 Ingrid Boas 4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42 Joris Schapendonk PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS 5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58 Guus van Westen 6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76 Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers 7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92 Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch 8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of ‘impairing destruction’ 110 Alberto Alonso-Fradejas PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131 Marja Spierenburg 10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development 147 Kei Otsuki PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF LARGE-SCALE MINING 11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162 Chris Huggins 12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: the case of Suriname 179 Marjo de Theije 13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains: insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191 Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES 14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows ‘touching ground’? 206 Femke van Noorloos 15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the sustainability coin 218 Murtah Shannon 16 Conclusions 232 Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers Index

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Book Synopsis Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future. Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Bruce Braun, Ashley Carse, Gastón R. Gordillo, Kregg Hetherington, Casper Bruun Jensen, Joseph Masco, Shaylih MuehlTrade Review"... this volume offers an insightful evaluation of infrastructural complexity and an excellent starting point for thinking about amendatory futures." -- Melanie Ford * Anthropos *“Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene is an ambitious and brilliant work of ethnographic analysis…. The book is a solid source for critical scholars working on the Anthropocene, offering ways to grasp such a complex concept through those of infrastructure, environment and life.” -- Semra Akay * Local Environment *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington 1 Part I. Reckoning with Ground 1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 17 2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 45 3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo 66 Part II: Lively Infrastructures 4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 97 5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 115 6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand 149 Part III: Histories of Progress 7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 171 8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 193 9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 216 10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco 236 References 261 Contributors 293 Index 297

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Book Synopsis Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future. Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Bruce Braun, Ashley Carse, Gastón R. Gordillo, Kregg Hetherington, Casper Bruun Jensen, Joseph Masco, Shaylih MuehlTrade Review"... this volume offers an insightful evaluation of infrastructural complexity and an excellent starting point for thinking about amendatory futures." -- Melanie Ford * Anthropos *“Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene is an ambitious and brilliant work of ethnographic analysis…. The book is a solid source for critical scholars working on the Anthropocene, offering ways to grasp such a complex concept through those of infrastructure, environment and life.” -- Semra Akay * Local Environment *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Keywords of the Anthropocene / Kregg Hetherington 1 Part I. Reckoning with Ground 1. The Underground as Infrastructure? Water, Figure/Ground Reversals, and Dissolution in Sardinal / Andrea Ballestero 17 2. Clandestine Infrastructures: Illicit Connectivities in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / Shaylih Muehlmann 45 3. The Metropolis: The Infrastructure of the Anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo 66 Part II: Lively Infrastructures 4. Dirty Landscapes: How Weediness Indexes State Disinvestment and Global Disconnection / Ashley Carse 97 5. From Edenic Apocalypse to Gardens against Eden: Plants and People in and after the Anthropocene / Natasha Myers 115 6. Leaking Lines / Nikhil Anand 149 Part III: Histories of Progress 7. Low Tide: Submerged Humanism in a Colombian Port / Austin Zeiderman 171 8. Oysterstructure: Infrastructure, Profanation, and the Sacred Figure of the Human / Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun 193 9. Here Comes the Sun?: Experimenting with Cambodian Energy Infrastructures / Casper Bruun Jensen 216 10. The Crisis in Crisis / Joseph Masco 236 References 261 Contributors 293 Index 297

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Book SynopsisLeaving the field gathers various accounts of ethnographers leaving their field sites. In doing so, the book offers original insights into an often-overlooked aspect of the research process; the ethnographic exit. The chapters variously consider situations in which the researcher must extricate themselves from field relations, deal with unexpected or imperfect ends to projects, or manage situations in which ‘the field’ becomes hard to leave. Whilst the chapters are firmly focussed on ethnographic exits, they also provide more general methodological insights into the conduct of fieldwork and the writing of ethnography, as well as questioning established notions of ‘the field’ as a bounded setting the researcher straightforwardly visits and then leaves. The book highlights the importance of recognising ethnographic exits as an essential part of the research process.Table of ContentsLeaving the field: an editors’ introductionSara Delamont and Robin James SmithPart I Entanglements and im/perfect exits1 Finishing fieldwork in less than perfect circumstances: lessons learned in ‘labyrinth’ exitingAlexandra Allan and Sarah Cole2 Exeunt omnes!! The case for bad exits in ethnographySally Campbell Galman3 Reflections on care and attachment in the ‘departure lounge’ of ethnographyAlex McInch and Harry C.R. Bowles4 Unfinished business: a reflection on leaving the fieldGareth M. Thomas5 Materia erotica: making love among glass-blowersErin O’ConnorPart II Troubling the field6 Those who never leave usJessica Nina Lester and Allison Daniel Anders7 Déjà vu et jamais vu: what happens when the field expands in ways that mean there is no exit?Dawn Mannay8 Student voices ‘echo’ from the ethnographic fieldJanean Robinson, Barry Down and John Smyth9 Public space and visible poverty: research fields without exitAndrew P. Carlin10 ‘The martial will never leave your bones’: embodying the field of the Kung Fu familyGeorge JenningsPart III Intermissions and returns11 Between open and closed: recursive exits and returns to the fuzzy field of a community library across a decade of austerityAlice Corble12 On the importance of intermissions in ethnographic fieldwork: lessons from leaving New YorkJoe Williams13 Can you remember? Leaving and returning to the field in longitudinal research with people living with dementiaAndrew Clark and Sarah Campbell14 A constant apprenticeship in martial arts: the messy longitudinal dynamics of never leaving the fieldDavid CalveyPart IV Returns, responsibilities and representations after ‘leaving’15 A cautionary tale about ‘respondent validation’: the dissonant meeting of ‘field self’ and ‘author self’Daniel Burrows16 Commenting on legal practice: research relationships and the impact of criticismDaniel Newman17 Emotional honesty and reflections on problematic positionalities when conducting research in another countryAshley Rogers

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together ideas from the environmental humanities, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, political ecology, postcolonial and decolonial theory in an accessible way, and offers a fresh way to think about environmental politics that is adequate to the challenges facing us in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“An act of recovery, a reclaiming of movements and struggles that have been pushed out of frame by dominant interpretations of what gets to count as environmental politics.” Kai Heron, Lancaster UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Beyond Modern Environmentalism 2. Suburb, Field, Laboratory: Recomposing Geographies of Early Environmentalism First Interlude: Green and White Dreams 3. Revolt Against One-Worldism: Radical Claims on Land and Work Post-1968 Second Interlude: Planetary Icons 4. The Right to Subsist: Transnational Commons Against the Enclosure of Environments and Environmentalism Third Interlude: Witnessing in the Global Resonance Machine 5. Earth Politics: Disagreement and Emergent Indigeneity in the So-Called Anthropocene Fourth Interlude: Making Things Resonate 6. Conclusion: Resonance Beyond Environmentalism Coda: Afterlives

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Book SynopsisSixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while enabling new forms of green economic growth. However, the focus on spaces and species to be protected saw questions of human work and histories of colonialism pushed out of view. This book traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers’ and agrarian movements. Many of these movements did not consider themselves ‘environmental,’ and yet they offer vital ways forward in the face of escalating ecological damage and social injustice.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Beyond Modern Environmentalism 2. Suburb, Field, Laboratory: Recomposing Geographies of Early Environmentalism First Interlude: Green and White Dreams 3. Revolt Against One-Worldism: Radical Claims on Land and Work Post-1968 Second Interlude: Planetary Icons 4. The Right to Subsist: Transnational Commons Against the Enclosure of Environments and Environmentalism Third Interlude: Witnessing in the Global Resonance Machine 5. Earth Politics: Disagreement and Emergent Indigeneity in the So-Called Anthropocene Fourth Interlude: Making Things Resonate 6. Conclusion: Resonance Beyond Environmentalism Coda: Afterlives

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization. Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures’ past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver 2. Infrastructure and the Tragedy of Development - Kafui Attoh 3. Temporalities of the Climate Crisis: Maintenance, Green Finance and Racialized Austerity in New York City and Cape Town - Patrick Bigger and Nate Millington 4. Emerging Techno-ecologies of Energy: Examining Digital Interventions and Engagements with Urban Infrastructure - Andrés Luque-Ayala and Jonathan Rutherford 5. Infrastructural Reparations: Reimagining Reparative Justice in Haiti and Puerto Rico - Mimi Sheller 6. Making Shit Social: Combined Sewer Overflows, Water Citizenship and the Infrastructural Commons - Mark Usher 7. More than ‘Where You Do Football’: Reconceptualizing London’s Urban Green Spaces through Green Infrastructure Planning - Meredith Whitten 8. Global Infrastructure and Urban Futures: London’s Transforming Royal Albert Dock - Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig Afterword 1: On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing Infrastructural Lives - Michael Glass, Jen Nelles and Jean-Paul Addie Afterword 2: Incomplete Futures of Urban Infrastructure - Prince Guma

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Book SynopsisDespite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem, rather than simply the symptoms. It challenges existing waste policies, highlighting what needs to change if we are to get serious in tackling this global problem. It concludes with policy implications for shifting waste from an ‘end-of-pipe’ concern to being at the heart of the debate over decarbonization.Table of Contents1. The Global Waste Problem and How to Think About It: Or, How to Understand the ‘Too Much Waste’ Problem 2. Discard, Social Order and Social Life: Or, Discard is Foundational to Understanding Waste 3. Consumption, Consumer Practices and Consumer Discard: Or, How Consumer Discard Relates to Economies 4. Conduits, Value Regimes and Valuation: Or, Following Consumers’ Discarded Things 5. Recommodifying Discard: Or, the Challenges of Turning Discard into an Economic Good 6. Waste, Money and Finance: Or, How Turning Discard into Waste Turns Waste into an Energy Resource and an Asset 7. Future Directions: Or, Rewiring Waste through the Three Ds (Decarbonization, Digital and Discard)

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Book SynopsisDespite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem, rather than simply the symptoms. It challenges existing waste policies, highlighting what needs to change if we are to get serious in tackling this global problem. It concludes with policy implications for shifting waste from an ‘end-of-pipe’ concern to being at the heart of the debate over decarbonization.Table of Contents1. The Global Waste Problem and How to Think About It: Or, How to Understand the ‘Too Much Waste’ Problem 2. Discard, Social Order and Social Life: Or, Discard is Foundational to Understanding Waste 3. Consumption, Consumer Practices and Consumer Discard: Or, How Consumer Discard Relates to Economies 4. Conduits, Value Regimes and Valuation: Or, Following Consumers’ Discarded Things 5. Recommodifying Discard: Or, the Challenges of Turning Discard into an Economic Good 6. Waste, Money and Finance: Or, How Turning Discard into Waste Turns Waste into an Energy Resource and an Asset 7. Future Directions: Or, Rewiring Waste through the Three Ds (Decarbonization, Digital and Discard)

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use.Trade Review“A welcome teaching tool for the undergraduate course in eighteenth-century studies—if you want to integrate environmental studies into your class but don’t know where to begin, start here.” -- Lucinda Cole * author of Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 *“A field-defining collection, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities demonstrates how the emergent methodologies of the environmental humanities illuminate and are in turn enriched by the study of eighteenth-century history and cultural production.” -- Peter Remien * author of The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature *"This innovative collection brilliantly addresses the challenge of studying and teaching the eighteenth century from an Anthropocene vantage. The wide-ranging essays explore the meaning of environmental justice for eighteenth-century writers reckoning with the socio-ecological violence of transatlantic empire." -- Tobias Menely * author of Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics *“A provocative and compelling case for centering the eighteenth century within environmental humanities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays will be of great interest and lasting value to literary scholars and teachers, and it will serve as a touchstone for all future work at the intersections of eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities.” -- Seth Reno * editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Eighteenth Century + Environmental HumanitiesJeremy ChowPart I: Eighteenth Century + Climate ChangeChapter 1: Towards a Genealogy of Geoengineering: Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice AgeElliot Patsoura Chapter 2: Storm ApostropheAnnette Hulbert Chapter 3: “When Stormy Winds Happen”: Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather DisastersAdam W. SweetingPart II: Eighteenth Century + New Materialisms Chapter 4: Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Niobean SoundscapesShelby Johnson Chapter 5: Syphilis and Natural History: The Ethical Limits of Human MasteryMariah Crilley Part III: Eighteenth Century + Blue HumanitiesChapter 6: Shore/Lines: Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island Claire Campbell Chapter 7: Of Water, Wind, and Storms: The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer JournalJason PaytonPart IV: Eighteenth Century + Indigeneity and DecolonialityChapter 8: “Supporting Sinking Nations”: John Dennis’s Indigenous Women and their DisastersMatt DuquèsChapter 9: Imagining Decolonial Futures in William Gilbert’s The HurricaneAmi YoonPart V: Eighteenth Century + Green UtopiasChapter 10: Slavery and Plantation Stewardship: The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip FreneauChristopher Allan BlackChapter 11: John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery Write the Green CityKate ScarthAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use.Trade Review“A welcome teaching tool for the undergraduate course in eighteenth-century studies—if you want to integrate environmental studies into your class but don’t know where to begin, start here.” -- Lucinda Cole * author of Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 *“A field-defining collection, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities demonstrates how the emergent methodologies of the environmental humanities illuminate and are in turn enriched by the study of eighteenth-century history and cultural production.” -- Peter Remien * author of The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature *"This innovative collection brilliantly addresses the challenge of studying and teaching the eighteenth century from an Anthropocene vantage. The wide-ranging essays explore the meaning of environmental justice for eighteenth-century writers reckoning with the socio-ecological violence of transatlantic empire." -- Tobias Menely * author of Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics *“A provocative and compelling case for centering the eighteenth century within environmental humanities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays will be of great interest and lasting value to literary scholars and teachers, and it will serve as a touchstone for all future work at the intersections of eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities.” -- Seth Reno * editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Eighteenth Century + Environmental HumanitiesJeremy ChowPart I: Eighteenth Century + Climate ChangeChapter 1: Towards a Genealogy of Geoengineering: Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice AgeElliot Patsoura Chapter 2: Storm ApostropheAnnette Hulbert Chapter 3: “When Stormy Winds Happen”: Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather DisastersAdam W. SweetingPart II: Eighteenth Century + New Materialisms Chapter 4: Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Niobean SoundscapesShelby Johnson Chapter 5: Syphilis and Natural History: The Ethical Limits of Human MasteryMariah Crilley Part III: Eighteenth Century + Blue HumanitiesChapter 6: Shore/Lines: Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island Claire Campbell Chapter 7: Of Water, Wind, and Storms: The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer JournalJason PaytonPart IV: Eighteenth Century + Indigeneity and DecolonialityChapter 8: “Supporting Sinking Nations”: John Dennis’s Indigenous Women and their DisastersMatt DuquèsChapter 9: Imagining Decolonial Futures in William Gilbert’s The HurricaneAmi YoonPart V: Eighteenth Century + Green UtopiasChapter 10: Slavery and Plantation Stewardship: The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip FreneauChristopher Allan BlackChapter 11: John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery Write the Green CityKate ScarthAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in and concerning space, place, and environment. It provides the broadest and most inclusive coverage of the field so far, including work relevant to human geography, cartography, and geographic information science.Behavioral and cognitive geography originated as a contrast to aggregate approaches to human geography that treat people as homogenous and interchangeable; to models of human activity based on simplistic and psychologically implausible assumptions; and to conceptualizations of humans as passive responders to their environment. This Handbook is highly multi- and interdisciplinary, featuring scholars from geography, geographic information science, and more than ten other academic disciplines; including: psychology, linguistics, computer science, engineering, architecture and planning, anthropology, and neuroscience. The contributors adhere to scientific rigor in their approach, while fully engaging with issues of emotion, subjectivity, consciousness, and human variability.Thoroughly informed by the history of geography and of the cognitive sciences but also providing guideposts for future research and application, this Handbook will be an essential resource for researchers, lecturers and students in geography, psychology, and other social, behavioral, cognitive, and design sciences.Contributors include: P. Agarwal, A.P. Boone, T.T. Brunyé, H. Burte, R.C. Dalton, C. Davies, R.M. Downs, S.I. Fabrikant, A.L. Gardony, N.A. Giudice, P. Gober, K.G. Goulias, S. Hadavi, M. Hegarty, S.C. Hirtle, C. Hölscher, T. Ishikawa, P. Jankowski, J. Krukar, C.A. Lawton, H.J. Miller, D.R. Montello, J. Portugali, M. Raubal, V.R. Schinazi, W.C. Sullivan, H.A. Taylor, T. Tenbrink, T. Thrash, P.M. Torrens, D.H. UttalTrade Review'This book is an extremely timely and welcome synthesis of the state of knowledge in behavioral and cognitive geography. It comes at a time of rapidly growing interest, stimulated at least in part by the growth of wayfinding apps and other location-based services, and the challenge of designing useful and effective human interfaces to what is in reality highly complex technology.' --Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbaraâ , USTable of ContentsContents: PART I Introduction and Background 1. Behavioral and Cognitive Geography: Introduction and Overview Daniel R. Montello 2. History and Theoretical Perspectives of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography Juval Portugali PART II Spatial Behavior and Decision-Making 3. Behavioral Decision Theory in Spatial Decision-Making Models Piotr Jankowski 4. Travel Behavior Models Konstadinos G. Goulias 5. Time Geography Harvey J. Miller PART III Environmental Spatial Cognition 6. Environmental Knowledge: Cognitive Flexibility in Structures and Processes Holly A. Taylor, Aaron L. Gardony, and Tad T. Brunyé 7. Learning the Environment: The Acquisition of Cognitive Maps Toru Ishikawa 8. Wayfinding and Orientation: Cognitive Aspects of Human Navigation Stephen C. Hirtle 9. Cognitive Neuroscience of Spatial and Geographic Thinking Victor R. Schinazi and Tyler Thrash PART IV Cognitive Aspects of Geographic Information 10. Cognitive Perspectives on Cartography and Other Geographic Information Visualizations Daniel R. Montello, Sara Irina Fabrikant, and Clare Davies 11. Cognition and Geographic Information Technologies Martin Raubal 12. Natural Language and Geography: The Meaning and Use of Spatial Concepts in Geographical Contexts Thora Tenbrink PART V Individual and Group Differences in Geographic Behavior and Cognition 13. Individual Differences in Large-Scale Spatial Abilities and Strategies Mary Hegarty, Heather Burte, and Alexander P. Boone 14 Sex and Gender in Geographic Behavior and Cognition Carol A. Lawton 15. Navigating without Vision: Principles of Blind Spatial Cognition Nicholas A. Giudice PART VI Environmental Attitudes 16. Place Pragya Agarwal 17. Environmental Aesthetics Sara Hadavi and William C. Sullivan 18. Environmental Risks and Hazards from a Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective Patricia Gober PART VII Further Disciplinary Applications of Cognitive-Behavioral Geography 19. Architectural Cognition and Behavior Ruth Conroy Dalton, Jakub Krukar, and Christoph Hölscher 20. Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Geography Paul M. Torrens 21. Early Geographic Education: Cognitive Considerations Dave H. Uttal PART VIII Coda 22. The Future of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography: A Coda Roger M. Downs Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a cutting-edge, transdisciplinary approach to bio-physical and bio-cultural scales of sustainability, this Companion explores diverse understandings of the what, how, why and where questions of sustainability. It examines the key notion of how to optimize human quality of life whilst minimizing environmental suffering. Integrating a range of disciplines through the social sciences, natural sciences and arts and humanities, this Companion focuses on the human component of sustainability, using a place-based and life-scape approach to environmental questions. Chapters analyze critical topics including: urbanization and city life, environmental conservation and rural landscapes, long-term interactions with natural life, climate change and the importance of mountain regions. Looking beyond an economic analysis of sustainability and well-being, this Companion incorporates cross-cutting social, cultural, judicial and spiritual dimensions of sustainability and regenerative development. With a combination of international case studies and an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the topic, this will be an interesting read for those studying sustainability from a range of disciplinary bases including ecological economists, human ecologists and geographers. It will also be beneficial to urban planners and ecologists interested in how the profoundly impactful evolutionary trend towards the urban environment is impacting human geographies around the world. Contributors include: B. Antaki, J. Balsiger, A. Barreau, S. Boillat, B. Boley, A. Borsdorf, F. Boyer, M. Bush, J.B. Campbell, M. Carré, R. Cheddadi, T.J. Christoffel, B. Debarbieux , M.E. Donoso-Correa, N. Dudley, W. Dunbar, F. Ficetola, L. François, L.M. Frolich, E. Guevara, J.A. González, A. Haller, C.P. Harden, D. Harmon, A.-J. Henrot, S.L. Hitchner, G.A. Holdridge, K. Huang, J.T. Ibarra, K. Ichikawa, E.A. Macdonald, C. Mena, C. Merchant, A. Michaels, C. Monterrubio-Solís, E. Müller, M. Navarro, H. Norberg-Hodge, M. Oliva, S. Padgett-Vasquez, S.E. Pilaar Birch, D. Quiroga, J.K. Reap, L.M. Resler, A. Rhoujjati, R. Rozzi, F.O. Sarmiento, J.W. Schelhas, Y. Shao, C. Stadel, P. Taberlet, K. Taylor, S.J. Walsh, K.R. Young, Z. Zheng, F.M. Zimmermann, S. Zimmermann-JanschitzTrade Review'This Elgar Companion offers a long-awaited combination of geography and sustainability, where the notions of time and scale are brought together with the concept of intra- and inter-generational equity, and the need to underlay this with a transdisciplinary scientific approach that goes way beyond scientific disciplines.' --Hans Hurni, University of Bern, Switzerland'Crossing and connecting a variety of disciplines and scales, from the smallest to the largest, from the most peripheral to the most urban settings, this book is a must for everyone interested in modern geography.' --Andrea Fischer, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: List of contributors viii Introduction: the scale of sustainability—the limiting universe where everything and nothing is sustainable 1 Larry M. Frolich, Esmeralda Guevara and Fausto O. Sarmiento PART I FOUNDATIONAL BINARIES OF GEOGRAPHY AND SUSTAINABILITY 1 Packing transdisciplinary critical geography amidst sustainability of mountainscapes 15 Fausto O. Sarmiento 2 A binary South to North world: the geography of sustainability for a high-energy, urbanizing, digitalized human species 31 Esmeralda Guevara and Larry M. Frolich 3 Sustainable development and the concept of scale 49 Bernard Debarbieux and J.rg Balsiger 4 Multidisciplinary approaches for conservation issues 67 Rachid Cheddadi, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Alain Hambuckers, Ali Rhoujjati, Pierre Taberlet, Francesco Ficetola, Alexandra-Jane Henrot, Louis Fran.ois, Fr.d.ric Boyer and Majda Nourelbait 5 The dance of sustainability: a call to engage geographers in local- and global-scale research 79 Carol P. Harden 6 Sustainability and globalization 93 Helena Norberg-Hodge 7 The climate framework in sustainability research: a geographic critique from the Global South 110 Kenneth R. Young PART II INTEGRATION OF DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY 8 Why sustainability matters in geography 117 Friedrich M. Zimmermann and Susanne Zimmermann-Janschitz 9 Urban montology: mountain cities as transdisciplinary research focus 140 Axel Borsdorf and Andreas Haller 10 The Satoyama Initiative for landscape/seascape sustainability 155 William Dunbar and Kaoru Ichikawa 11 A biocultural ethic for sustainable geographies 172 Ricardo Rozzi 12 Values in place: protected areas as a geography of commitment 190 David Harmon PART III RESOURCE EXPLOITATION AND CYCLING OF ACCOMMODATION 13 Regenerative development as natural solution for sustainability 201 Eduard Müller 14 Sustainable relationships and ecological authenticity 219 Nigel Dudley 15 Feeding futures framed: rediscovering biocultural diversity in sustainable foodscapes 235 Genevieve A. Holdridge, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, Bynum Boley, James K. Reap, Eric A. Macdonald, Mar.a Navarro, Sarah L. Hitchner and John W. Schelhas 16 Sustainable urbanism or amenity migration fad: critical analysis of urban planning of Cuenca cityscapes, Ecuador 252 Mario E. Donoso-Correa and Fausto O. Sarmiento PART IV COUNTRY EXAMPLES: NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS/TEK 17 Land cover and land use change in an emerging national park gateway region: implications for mountain sustainability 270 Lynn M. Resler, Yang Shao, James B. Campbell and Amanda Michaels 18 Listening to the campesinos : sustaining rural livelihoods in the tropical Andes 293 Christoph Stadel 19 Decolonizing ecological knowledge: transdisciplinary ecology, place making and cognitive justice in the Andes 307 S.bastien Boillat 20 Cultural sustainability and notions of cultural heritage: a review with some reference to an Asian perspective 320 Ken Taylor 21 Threats to sustainability in the Galapagos Islands: a social–ecological perspective 342 Carlos F. Mena, Diego Quiroga and Stephen J. Walsh 22 Celestial bird’s eye view: tracking forest cover change in the Bellbird Biological Corridor of Costa Rica 359 Steve Padgett-Vasquez 23 Andean indigenous foodscapes: food security and food sovereignty in mountains’ sustainability scenarios 378 Juan A. Gonz.lez and Fausto O. Sarmiento PART V POSTCRIPT 24 Montology: an integrative understanding of mountain foodscapes for strengthening food sovereignty in the Andes 391 Jos. Tom.s Ibarra, Antonia Barreau, Carla Marchant, Juan A. Gonz.lez, Manuel Oliva, Mario E. Donoso-Correa, Berea Antaki, Constanza Monterrubio-Sol.s and Fausto O. Sarmiento 25 Sustainability: Cooperation Industry Earth 2300 – “Think local planet, act regionally” 406 Thomas J. Christoffel PART VI EPILOGUE 26 Sustainability thinking: the road ahead 415 Fausto O. Sarmiento and Larry M. Frolich Index 419

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Tourism is integral to local, regional and national development policies; as a major global economic sector, it has the potential to underpin economic growth and wider development. Yet, transformations in both the nature of tourism and the dynamic environment within which it occurs give rise to new questions with regards to its developmental role. This Research Agenda offers a state-of-the-art review of the research into the tourism-development nexus. Bringing together contributors from across the globe, this Research Agenda answers the key questions including: Are growth-focused tourism policies becoming increasingly detrimental to destination development? Can mass forms of tourism in fact generate more benefits than alternative forms of tourism? Does the role of the state in supporting tourism-induced development require reconsideration? How effective is tourism-related philanthropy in contributing to development? Is community-based tourism a realistic development policy? To what extent can tourism contribute to what is still the most pressing development challenge, namely poverty reduction? A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development offers valuable insights for students and researchers of development studies and tourism, as well as for policymakers and practitioners in tourism industries.Trade Review‘The book serves as a valuable guide for graduate students and scholars from different disciplines and contexts to contribute to comprehensive knowledge and understanding on tourism and development by situating tourism in a broader global development agenda, and contributes to efforts for better rebuilding tourism.’ -- Bengi Ertuna, Journal of Qualitative Research in TourismTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: tourism and development – towards a research agenda Richard Sharpley and David Harrison 2. A policy research agenda for tourism and development Dianne Dredge 3. The tourism-development nexus from a governance perspective: a research agenda Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 4. NGOs, tourism and development Helene Balslev Clausen 5. Travel philanthropy and development Amy Scarth and Marina Novelli 6. Tourism and Poverty David Harrison and Stephen Pratt 7. Community-based tourism and ‘development’ Tazim Jamal, Christine Budke and Ingrid Barradas-Bribiesca 8. Tourism, development and the consumption of tourism Richard Sharpley 9. Now everyone can sail: on the need to understand mass tourism Julio Aramberri 10. A sustainable hospitality and tourism workforce research agenda – exploring the past to create a vision for the future Shelagh Mooney and Tom Baum 11. Tourism and (re)development in developed nations David J. Telfer Index

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Book SynopsisProviding critical insight into the globalization of product conception, production, marketing and distribution, this Handbook comprehensively explores the functioning of global value chains (GVCs) and how they shape the global economy. It provides theoretical, analytical and empirically based policy-relevant tools to understand international production and trade in the modern global economy. Written by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this Handbook offers expert guidance on GVC analysis and the relationship between GVCs and governance, power relations, gender, upgrading and international development. The contributors also provide insight into strategy, innovation and learning, highlighting the dynamism and resilience of GVCs, and critically reflect on how GVCs affect inequality and the nature of work and production. Comprising empirically rich and innovative research, this Handbook will be critical reading for advanced undergraduate and master's level students interested in international business, global industries, sustainable development and the governance of global production systems. Academics researching and teaching in these fields will also benefit from this book's broad and comprehensive approach to GVC analysis.Trade Review'Finally, an encyclopaedia of global value chains. This collection of essays establishes the state of the art in knowledge on the industrial form - the GVC - that has transformed capitalism for better and worse and which is at the centre of contemporary scholarship and policy debates on economic development, distributive justice and international trade. This is an essential collection of essays that covers the micro and macro dimensions of the global value chain, including implications for gender equality, technological innovation and social activism. I guarantee that I (and my students) will be using this volume as a go-to reference book for years to come.' --William Milberg, The New School for Social Research, US'This is the book on global value chains. With contributions from many leading lights of the GVC approach, and rising star early career academics, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the analysis of power, governance and distributive outcomes of globalisation in trade and production, and identifies key challenges for GVC research in the 21st century.' --Khalid Nadvi, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Global Value Chains Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Reichert Part I: Mapping, Measuring and Analyzing GVCs 1. Global Value Chain Mapping Stacey Frederick 2. Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer Karina Fernandez-Stark, Gary Gereffi 3. Measuring Global Value Chains Timothy Sturgeon 4. Global Value Chains and Quantitative Macro-Comparative Sociology Matthew C. Mahutga 5. Modelling Global Value Chains: Approaches and Insights from Economics Davin Chor Part II: Governance, Power and Inequality 6. Governance and Power in Global Value Chains Stefano Ponte, Timothy Sturgeon and Mark Dallas 7. Governance and Upgrading in Global Cultural and Creative Value Chains Joonkoo Lee and Minjung Lee 8. Rents and Inequality in Global Value Chains Raphael Kaplinsky 9. On Value in Value Chains Elizabeth Havice, John Pickles 10. Global Value Chains and Uneven Development: A Disarticulations Perspective Marion Werner, Jennifer Bair 11. Contestation and Activism in Global Value Chains Florence Palpacuer 12. Bringing the Environment into GVC Analysis: Antecedents and Advances Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice 13. Sustainability, Global Value Chains and Green Capital Accumulation Stefano Ponte Part III: The Multiple Dimensions of GVC Upgrading 14. Economic Upgrading in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi 15. Measuring and Analyzing Services in Global Value Chains Patrick Low 16. Social Upgrading Ariana Rossi 17. Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains Peter Lund-Thomsen 18. Livelihood Upgrading Jeff Neilson 19. Environmental Upgrading in Global Value Chains Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Aarti Krishnan, Stefano Ponte 20. Gender Dynamics in Global Value Chains Stephanie Barrientos Part IV: Strategy, Innovation and Learning 21. Firm-level Strategy and Global Value Chains Mari Sako, Ezequiel Zylberberg 22. The Role of Transnational first-tier Suppliers in GVC Governance Gale Raj-Reichert 23. Innovation in Global Value Chains Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti 24. Local Firm-level Learning and Capability in Global Value Chain Cornelia Staritz, Lindsay Whitfield 25. Local Clusters and Global Value Chains Eleonora Di Maria, Valentina De Marchi, Gary Gereffi 26. International Business and Global Value Chains Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics 27. Supply Chain Management and Global Value Chains Ruggero Golini, Matteo Kalchschmidt Part V: International Development and Public Policy 28. Compressed Development Timothy Sturgeon, D. Hugh Whittaker 29. GVCs and Development: Policy Formulation for Economic and Social Upgrading Penny Bamber, Karina Fernandez-Stark 30. Economic Upgrading through Global Value Chain Participation: Which Policies increase the Value added Gains? 31. Industrialization Paths and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries in Global Value Chains Victor Stolzenburg, Daria Taglioni, Deborah Winkler 32. International Trade Policy and Global Value Chains Shamel Azmeh 33. Public-Private Partnerships in Global Value Chains Ajmal Abdulsamad, Hernan Manson 34. The Roles of the State in Global Value Chains Rory Horner, Matthew Alford 35. International Development Organizations and Global Value Chains Frederick Mayer, Gary Gereffi Epilogue Gale Raj-Reichert, Gary Gereffi and Stefano Ponte Index

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Book SynopsisTapping the Oceans provides a detailed analysis of the political and ecological debates facing water desalination in the twenty-first century.Water supplies for cities around the world are undergoing profound geographical, technological and political transformations. Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Yet the use of emerging desalination technologies is accompanied by intense debates on their economic cost, governance, environmental impact and poses wider questions for the sustainable and just provision of urban water. Through a series of cutting-edge case studies and multi-subject approaches, this book explores the perspectives, disputes and politics surrounding water desalination on a broad geographical scale. As the first book of its kind, this unique work will appeal to those researching water and infrastructure issues in the fields of political ecology, geography, environmental science and sustainability. Industry and water managers who wish to understand the political debates around desalination technology more fully will also find this an informative read. Contributors include: E. Feitelson, M. Fragkou, S. Gorostiza, A. Loftus, H. March, J. McEvoy, D. Pavón Gamero, D. Sauri, A. Scheba, S. Scheba, E. Swyngedouw, M. Usher, J. WilliamsTrade Review'This very timely book provides an excellent and insightful introduction to the entanglements of water, salt, power, and capital in the emergence of an alleged environmentally friendly and cornucopian solution to increasing water scarcity. It helps decipher how desalination is fast becoming the last frontier of capital accumulation for both the water industry and financiers, and how it reconfigures existing socio-ecologies in profound and subtle ways.' --François Molle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Mobilising the oceans to quench our thirst Joe Williams and Erik Swyngedouw 2. Wet dreams with a grain of salt: Desalination in Spain's water policy David Saurἰ, Santiago Gorostiza and David Pavón 3. Water Governance and Desalination in Baja California Sur, Mexico Jamie McEvoy 4. On the Implications of Seawater Desalination: Some Insights from the Israeli Case Eran Feitelson 5. Disclosing water inequalities at the household level under desalination water provision; the case of Antofagasta, Chile Maria Christina Fragkou 6. Desalination as emergency fix: Tracing the drought–desalination assemblage in South Africa Suraya Scheba and Andreas Scheba 7. Worlding via water: Desalination, cluster development and the ‘stickiness’ of commodities Mark Usher 8. Financialising desalination in London: The Thames Desalination Plant (TWDP) Alex Loftus and Hug March 9. Commodifying the Pacific Ocean: Desalination and the neoliberalisation of water in Southern California Joe Williams 10. Politicizing the salt of the seas Erik Swyngedouw and Joe Williams Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook demonstrates that global linkages, flows and circulations merit a more central place in theorization about development. Calling for a mobilities turn, it challenges the sedentarist assumptions which still underlie much policy making and planning for the future. Expert contributors analyze development from a mobilities perspective, exploring how globalization connects distant people and places, so that what happens in one place has direct bearing on another. Chapters provide an overview of the global trends related to the flows of people and capital over the past decade, and offer insights into the consequences of developmental practices and policies that unfold on the ground. Drawing on specific case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, this Handbook considers how, in many localities, livelihood opportunities are ever more shaped by positionality, and the ways in which people are attached to and participate in translocal and transnational networks. Providing a bottom-up analysis of the implications of globalization for translocal development, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of development studies, human geography, and sustainability and environmental science. Its use of global case studies will also be useful for practitioners and policy makers who desire a better understanding of the developmental impact of policies and investments.Trade Review'This exceptionally rich and innovative text engages issues of translocal development and mobility through detailed, often empirically-based case studies. Its chapters expand on how meta-trend such as digitalization and environmental degradation affect development, and advocate for a mobilities perspective in analysing and addressing resulting issues. ''Local'' perspectives are highlighted to give guidance to policymakers on how to avoid the pitfalls and unintended consequences of previous approaches. It offers us a new way to think through the major issues of our time.' -- Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland'Globalizing capitalism, originally imagined by global policymakers as diffusing development from North to South and enabling the latter to catch-up, has a much more complex, networked spatiality triggering persistently uneven outcomes. This important collection interrogates this complexity and its implications. Trans-local development interrogates how global networks of capital, commodities, logistics and migrants, unevenly connecting the world, come to earth: differentially shaping local landscapes and conditions of possibility for progress towards the good life, while also being shaped by local agency and initiative. Unraveling the implications for specific communities across the post-colony, these essays illuminate how contemporary globalization leapfrogs across space in ways that advantage certain localities and positionalities at the expense of many others. Readers will see the development implications of globalizing capitalism in new and transformative ways.' -- Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, US'Combining new empirical research with novel conceptualizations, the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilitie explores the complex and changing ways in which global flows are restructuring livelihood possibilities. While recognizing the potential for peoples' agency, the authors draw attention to the increasing constraints on local development, and thus the challenges that new capital and human flows present for securing inclusion and sustainability. This book is a sympathetic but serious challenge to livelihoods research, as well as to arguments that global value chains offer pathways to human development.' -- Anthony Bebbington, Clark University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Translocal Development and Global Mobilities 1 Guus van Westen, Maggi Leung, Kei Otsuki and Annelies Zoomers PART I TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIGRATORY LANDSCAPES 2 Moving far away to stay: translocal livelihoods, labour migration corridors and mobility in rural Nicaragua 13 Nanneke Winters, Griet Steel and Carlos Sosa 3 Environmentally related migration in the digital age: the case of Bangladesh 27 Ingrid Boas 4 Development against migration: investments, partnerships and counter-tactics in the West African–European migration industry 42 Joris Schapendonk PART II TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AGRIBUSINESS 5 Beyond the value chain: local impacts of ‘global’ inclusive agribusiness investments – examples from Ghana 58 Guus van Westen 6 Land-based investments and the inevitability of increased farmer–Fulani pastoralist conflicts in Northern Ghana 76 Sebastiaan Soeters, Ruben Weesie and Annelies Zoomers 7 Global flows of investments in agriculture and irrigation-related technologies in sub-Saharan Africa 92 Janwillem Liebrand, Wouter Beekman, Chris de Bont and Gert Jan Veldwisch 8 Land investment flows and translocal development chains of ‘impairing destruction’ 110 Alberto Alonso-Fradejas PART III TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NATURE CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 9 Global investment flows in land restoration and nature conservation 131 Marja Spierenburg 10 Involuntary resettlement projects as a frontier of sustainable translocal development 147 Kei Otsuki PART IV TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF LARGE-SCALE MINING 11 The mining sector in sub-Saharan Africa: flows of capital and people in large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining 162 Chris Huggins 12 Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: the case of Suriname 179 Marjo de Theije 13 Civil society’s positionality in new development chains: insights from the land and mining sectors in Tanzania 191 Joanny Bélair and Thabit Jacob PART V TRANSLOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN LANDSCAPES OF NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES 14 New master-planned cities in Africa: translocal flows ‘touching ground’? 206 Femke van Noorloos 15 Urban infrastructure and displacement: two sides of the sustainability coin 218 Murtah Shannon 16 Conclusions 232 Kei Otsuki, Guus van Westen and Annelies Zoomers Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Contributions from leading experts unpack the foundations and history of community development research and look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Chapters consider the trajectories and impact of global community development research, offering critical insight into the methods and frameworks that are currently being used in the field. Covering varied topics, from housing and food availability, to revitalization and faith-based regeneration, this Research Handbook provides a broad and in-depth exploration of the state of the field today. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development. Contributors include: N. Al Sader, K. Anacker, C.J.L. Balsas, L.J. Beaulieu, G. Bonilla-Santiago, E.A. Dobis, B.M. Elias, K. Flowers, S. Frimpong, J. Fursova, I. Garcia, F. Handy, B. Hofstedt, J.B. Hollander, J.G. Huff Jr., M.R. Islam, S. Khademi, R. Kleinhans, R.C. Knopf, P. Kraeger, I. Kumar, R. Lewis, D. Mason, J. McGrath, A. Meshkini, M. Norouzi, M. Page, C.B. Peterson, J. Reece, K.A. Rouf, M. Roseland, A.R. Russell, R.M. Silverman, M. Spiliotopoulou, C. Sutton-Brown-Fox, C.A. Talmage, H.L. Taylor, Jr., T.D. Thomas, G.H. Tonon, L. Townsend, D.P. Varady, C. Wallace, L. YinTrade Review'Phillips, Trevan, and Kraeger's Research Handbook on Community Development is an invaluable new resource for students, faculty, and professionals committed to resident-led community transformation. It features deeply insightful articles exploring the most important challenges confronting those struggling to build more vibrant, equitable, resilient, and just neighborhoods, cities, and regions.' --Kenneth Reardon, University of Massachusetts Boston, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Community Development 1 Rhonda Phillips, Eric Trevan and Patsy Kraeger PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Weaving reflection, action, and knowledge creation: lived experience as a catalyst into the cycle of praxis for community development 12 C. Bjørn Peterson, Craig A. Talmage and Richard C. Knopf 2 The study of poverty in places: scope, scale, and space 24 Elizabeth A. Dobis, Lionel J. Beaulieu and Indraneel Kumar 3 In pursuit of just communities: supporting community development for marginalized communities through regional sustainability planning 48 Jason Reece 4 Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): core principles 67 Ivis García 5 Stepping up the ladder: reflecting on the role of nonprofit organisations in supporting community participation 76 Julia Fursova 6 Social economy, social capital, NGOs and community development: a gendered perspective 93 Dyana P. Mason 7 What can Northwest European community enterprises learn from American community-based organizations? 104 David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans and Nuha Al Sader 8 Community development, well-being and technology: a Kenyan village 124 Claire Wallace and Leanne Townsend PART II RESEARCH METHODS AND FRAMEWORKS 9 Experience of group formation in Grameen Bank, Bangladesh 137 Kazi Abdur Rouf 10 How to build an “intentional community” 172 Brenda M. Elias 11 Inclusionary zoning and inclusionary housing in the United States: measuring inputs and outcomes 189 Katrin B. Anacker 12 Enhancing evaluation capacity: lessons from faith-based community development in El Salvador 204 James G. Huff, Jr. 13 Managing competing interests in the public participation process: lessons from an analysis of residential displacement in Buffalo, New York’s transitioning neighborhoods 211 Robert Mark Silverman, Li Yin and Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. 14 Methods and framework of participatory action research for community development in Bangladesh 224 M. Rezaul Islam 15 Building a healthy community: the Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition 244 Patsy Kraeger 16 Social indicator projects for rural communities: the case of the Northwoods Quality of Life Database 273 Brandon Hofstedt 17 An exploratory study of food deserts in Utica, Mississippi 290 Talya D. Thomas 18 Impact of socioeconomic characteristics on neighborhood environment satisfaction in deteriorated areas 301 Mostafa Norouzi, Abolfazl Meshkini and Somayeh Khademi 19 Downtown revitalization, livability and quality of life in Tucson, Arizona 319 Carlos J.L. Balsas PART III EMERGING CONSTRUCTS AND THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH 20 Theories and concepts influencing sustainable community development: introducing the concept of community productivity 337 Maria Spiliotopoulou and Mark Roseland 21 Re-imagining community development: the Cocoa360 model 348 Shadrack Frimpong, Allison R. Russell and Femida Handy 22 Community development and place attachment using an inductive social media approach 361 Justin B. Hollander and Max Page 23 Re-imagining democratic research processes in community-based development: a case for photovoice 382 Camille Sutton-Brown 24 Centering aesthetics in community development: approaches from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 391 Jerrold McGrath 25 The new role of the university in community development 407 Graciela Tonon 26 Community innovation and small liberal arts colleges: lessons learned from local partnerships and sustainable community development 416 Craig A. Talmage, Robin Lewis, Kathleen Flowers and Lisa Cleckner 27 Sustaining an urban education pipeline: a case study of university and community development partnership 439 Gloria Bonilla-Santiago Index 457

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Book Synopsis'The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers a rich, beautiful, organic garden of ideas to nourish the project of ''doing economy'' differently. These sprouts and vines will, eventually, alter the institutional structures we inhabit.' - Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US'Let us forget, just for a moment, ''capitalism'' and instead investigate the diversity of new forms of economic activities that are flourishing everywhere: this is the essential, energizing, message of J. K. Gibson-Graham, Kelly Dombroski and her colleagues. This innovative book must be absolutely put into all hands. It takes us on a long and rewarding journey around the world to explore ongoing experiences that all attempt to invent new ways of living together.' - Michel Callon, Centre de Socologie de l'Innnovation, Mines ParisTech, FranceTheorising and illustrating diverse, more-than-capitalist economies, this broad-ranging Handbook presents ways in which it is possible to imagine and enact other ways of being. It gathers together empirical examples of diverse economic practices and experiments from across the world, framed by in-depth discussions of key theoretical concepts.Organised into thematic sections, the Handbook moves from looking at diverse forms of enterprise, to labour, transactions, property, and finance as well as decentred subjectivity and diverse economies methodology. Chapters present a wide diversity of economic practices that make up contemporary economies, many of which are ignored or devalued by mainstream economic theory. Pushing the boundaries of economic thinking to include more than human labour and human/non-human interdependence, it highlights the challenges of enacting ethical economies in the face of dominant ways of thinking and being.Economic geography, political economy and development studies scholars will greatly appreciate the empirical examples of diverse economic practices blended with theory throughout the Handbook. It will also benefit policy-makers and practitioners working within diverse economies, or looking to create more ethical ways of living.Trade Review‘This impressive collection of stimulating theorization and descriptions of a multitude of other-than-capitalist economic practices could not have been published at a more pertinent time. The Handbook is truly international in terms of authors’ affiliations and case studies’ geographies, covering the 'minority world' (developed countries) and the 'majority world' (those less developed). The Handbook offers key conceptual tools for housing scholars to unlock the diverse economies of housing. It also makes an inspiring read for students and scholars of any discipline who want to imagine alternative, more ethical futures which are already seeded in the practices of today.’ -- Adriana Mihaela Soaita, Housing, Theory and Society‘The editors and their many contributors have to be congratulated for an impressive volume that succeeds in presenting an empirically grounded and theoretically robust Marxism which is fit for the challenges of the Anthropocene. Whether one agrees with their approach and visions or not, this is a highly recommended read and a valuable resource for teaching on economic practices in our more-than-capitalist world.’ -- Jens Kaae Fisker, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers a rich, beautiful, organic garden of ideas to nourish the project of “doing economy” differently. These sprouts and vines will, eventually, alter the institutional structures we inhabit.’ -- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US‘Let us forget, just for a moment, “capitalism” and instead investigate the diversity of new forms of economic activities that are flourishing everywhere: this is the essential, energizing, message of J. K. Gibson-Graham, Kelly Dombroski and her colleagues. This innovative book must be absolutely put into all hands. It takes us on a long and rewarding journey around the world to explore ongoing experiences that all attempt to invent new ways of living together.’ -- Michel Callon, Centre de Socologie de l'Innnovation, Mines ParisTech, France'So much of the world's economy is informal, cooperative, community-based and unwaged: a diverse kaleidoscope of activities, all with their own ecologies, for worse . . . and often for better. How do they work? What work do they do? Finally a global, inclusive, and exhaustive guide to the planet s actually-existing economies.' --Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US'In the face of a zombie capitalism that will not die, The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers the most potent response possible: the fierce creativity of life itself. The 58 essays of this book introduce us to a pluriverse of practical, non-capitalist lifeforms that are humane, socially grounded, and constantly evolving. Be prepared to enter a portal of new perspectives that loosens the grip of the capitalist imaginary and opens up a fertile transdisciplinary space for envisioning and making a new world.' --David Bollier, coauthor of Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons'The Handbook of Diverse Economies marks a major milestone for the influential program of research, action, and experimentation initiated by Gibson-Graham's The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) some 25 years ago. It presents an array of provocative strategies for ''doing economy'' differently, and for imagining and enacting different economic worlds.' --Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to The Handbook of Diverse Economies : inventory as ethical intervention 1 J.K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski PART I ENTERPRISE 2 Framing essay: the diversity of enterprise 26 Jenny Cameron 3 Worker cooperatives 40 Maliha Safri 4 Self-managed enterprise: worker-recuperated cooperatives in Argentina and Latin America 48 Ana Inés Heras and Marcelo Vieta 5 Community enterprise: diverse designs for community-owned energy infrastructure 56 Jarra Hicks 6 Eco-social enterprises: ethical business in a post-socialist context 65 Nadia Johanisova, Lucie Sovová and Eva Fraňková 7 Enterprising new worlds: social enterprise and the value of repair 74 Isaac Lyne and Anisah Madden 8 Anti-mafia enterprise: Italian strategies to counter violent economies 82 Christina Jerne 9 State and community enterprise: negotiating water management in rural Ireland 90 Patrick Bresnihan and Arielle Hesse 10 Independent and small businesses: diversity amongst the 99 per cent of businesses 98 Peter North 11 Homo economicus and the capitalist corporation: decentring authority and ownership 106 Jayme Walenta PART II LABOUR 12 Framing essay: the diversity of labour 116 Katharine McKinnon 13 Precarious labour: Russia’s ‘other’ transition 129 Marianna Pavlovskaya 14 The persistence of informal and unpaid labour: evidence from UK households 137 Colin C. Williams and Richard J. White 15 Paid and unpaid labour: feminist economic activism in a diverse economy 146 Megan Clement-Couzner 16 Caring labour: redistributing care work 154 Kelly Dombroski 17 Non-human ‘labour’: the work of Earth Others 163 Elizabeth Barron and Jaqueline Hess 18 Collectively performed reciprocal labour: reading for possibility 170 Katherine Gibson 19 Informal mining labour: economic plurality and household survival strategies 179 Pryor Placino 20 Migrant women’s labour: sustaining livelihoods through diverse economic practices in Accra, Ghana 186 Chizu Sato and Theresa Tufuor PART III TRANSACTIONS 21 Framing essay: the diversity of transactions 195 Gradon Diprose 22 Gleaning: transactions at the nexus of food, commons and waste 206 Oona Morrow 23 Direct producer–consumer transactions: Community Supported Agriculture and its offshoots 214 Ted White 24 Direct food provisioning: collective food procurement 223 Cristina Grasseni 25 Alternative currencies: diverse experiments 230 Peter North 26 Transacting services through time banking: renegotiating equality and reshaping work 238 Gradon Diprose 27 Fair trade: market-based ethical encounters and the messy entanglements of living well 246 Lindsay Naylor 28 Social procurement: generating social good through market transactions, directly and indirectly 254 Joanne McNeill 29 Sharing cities: new urban imaginaries for diverse economies 262 Darren Sharp PART IV PROPERTY 30 Framing essay: the diversity of property 271 Kevin St. Martin 31 Commoning property in the city: the ongoing work of making and remaking 283 Anna Kruzynski 32 Community land trusts: embracing the relationality of property 292 Louise Crabtree 33 Urban land markets in Africa: multiplying possibilities via a diverse economy reading 300 Colin Marx 34 A Slow Food commons: cultivating conviviality across a range of property forms 308 Melissa Kennedy 35 Free universities as academic commons 316 Esra Erdem 36 Diverse legalities: pluralism and instrumentalism 323 Bronwen Morgan and Declan Kuch PART V FINANCE 37 Framing essay: the diversity of finance 332 Maliha Safri and Yahya M. Madra 38 Islamic finance: diversity within difference 346 Gemma Bone Dodds and Jane Pollard 39 Rotating savings and credit associations: mutual aid financing 354 Caroline Shenaz Hossein 40 Indigenous finance: treaty settlement finance in Aotearoa New Zealand 362 Maria Bargh 41 Community finance: marshalling investments for community-owned renewable energy enterprises 370 Jarra Hicks 42 Hacking finance: experiments with algorithmic activism 379 Tuomo Alhojärvi PART VI SUBJECTIVITY 43 Framing essay: subjectivity in a diverse economy 389 Stephen Healy, Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra 44 More-than-human agency: from the human economy to ecological livelihoods 402 Ethan Miller 45 On power and the uses of genealogy for building community economies 411 Nate Gabriel and Eric Sarmiento 46 Techniques for shifting economic subjectivity: promoting an assets-based stance with artists and artisans 419 Abby Templer Rodrigues 47 Affect and subjectivity: learning to be affected in diverse economies scholarship 428 Gerda Roelvink 48 Diverse subjectivities, sexualities and economies: challenging heteroand homonormativity 436 Gavin Brown 49 Journeys of postdevelopment subjectivity transformation: a shared narrative of scholars from the majority world 444 Anmeng Liu, S.M. Waliuzzaman, Huong Thi Do, Ririn Haryani and Sonam Pem PART VII METHODOLOGY 50 Framing essay: diverse economies methodology 453 Gerda Roelvink 51 Translating diverse economies in the Anglocene 467 Tuomo Alhojärvi and Pieta Hyvärinen 52 Reading for economic difference 476 J.K. Gibson-Graham 53 Field methods for assemblage analysis: tracing relations between difference and dominance 486 Eric Sarmiento 54 Visualizing and analysing diverse economies with GIS: a resource for performative research 493 Luke Drake 55 Working with Indigenous methodologies: Kaupapa Māori meets diverse economies 502 Joanne Waitoa and Kelly Dombroski 56 Action research for diverse economies 511 Jenny Cameron and Katherine Gibson 57 Focusing on assets: action research for an inclusive and diverse workplace 520 Leo Hwang 58 How to reclaim the economy using artistic means: the case of Company Drinks 527 Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder Index 535

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest research in health geography and a wide range of case studies from across the world, this comprehensive and authoritative study offers students an unrivalled analysis of the geographical connections of global health and the challenges they present for governance and treatment. Topics considered include health inequalities across countries, the governance of health by nation-states and international organizations, the incidence and spread of infectious disease, the links between air and water quality and health outcomes, and the health impacts of climate change. The book considers how these different issues play out in a range of geographical settings across the world, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries, which are disproportionally affected. The book demonstrates the indispensable role of geographical processes operating across borders in understanding health worldwide and is an excellent resource for courses on health geography, global health, public health and development studies.Trade ReviewGlobal health as a state, object of critical analysis and multi-disciplinary realm of study cannot be dissociated from its geographies. Yet, geographers and geography as a discipline remain at the margins of the burgeoning global health field. With this detailed and insightful new text, Tony Gatrell makes a powerful and compelling case for the importance not only of geographers connecting with global health, but also for the field of global health to better connect with the geographical. -- Clare Herrick, Professor of Geography and Global Health, King’s College LondonThe book health and medical geographers have been waiting for. Beautifully illustrated and carefully worded by a master of the art and science of geography. A book to learn from, to use for teaching, and to widen your horizons. -- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of OxfordAt last, the book health geographers urgently need. The Covid-19 pandemic has underscored the significance of global thinking and action in maintaining good health and addressing health inequities. To achieve this, it is essential to comprehend the social, environmental, and political factors that transcend borders and operate across different geographical scales. With Global Health: Geographical Connections, Gatrell rises to this challenge and has delivered a text that is theoretically robust and empirically rich. Through a wide range of captivating case studies from various parts of the world, the book compellingly argues for the involvement of geographers in addressing global health concerns. Simultaneously, it urges global health scholars from other disciplines to recognize the indispensable role of geographical processes operating across borders in understanding health worldwide. Gatrell's book fills a crucial gap in the literature. -- Jamie Pearce, Professor of Health Geography, University of EdinburghIn Global Health: Geographical Connections, Anthony Gatrell undertakes the significant and important task of connecting the discipline of health geography to global health. Throughout this well-organized book, Gatrell draws on thoughtfully selected case studies to highlight key issues and emphasize important points. These cases truly help to illustrate the global connections introduced throughout. The succinctly articulated crosscutting themes Gatrell ends the book with will serve as a call to action for health geographers to engage with global health and advance the research and practice agendas. -- Valorie Crooks, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Unequal health I: determinants and regional examples 3. Unequal health II: key themes 4. Governing global health 5. People on the move: the dispossessed and their health and wellbeing 6. Materials on the move: out of the ground, and across the globe 7. Airs, waters and places 8. Infections on the move 9. Climate change and global health 10. Conclusions: Global health and cross-cutting themes

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest research in health geography and a wide range of case studies from across the world, this comprehensive and authoritative study offers students an unrivalled analysis of the geographical connections of global health and the challenges they present for governance and treatment. Topics considered include health inequalities across countries, the governance of health by nation-states and international organizations, the incidence and spread of infectious disease, the links between air and water quality and health outcomes, and the health impacts of climate change. The book considers how these different issues play out in a range of geographical settings across the world, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries, which are disproportionally affected. The book demonstrates the indispensable role of geographical processes operating across borders in understanding health worldwide and is an excellent resource for courses on health geography, global health, public health and development studies.Trade ReviewGlobal health as a state, object of critical analysis and multi-disciplinary realm of study cannot be dissociated from its geographies. Yet, geographers and geography as a discipline remain at the margins of the burgeoning global health field. With this detailed and insightful new text, Tony Gatrell makes a powerful and compelling case for the importance not only of geographers connecting with global health, but also for the field of global health to better connect with the geographical. -- Clare Herrick, Professor of Geography and Global Health, King’s College LondonThe book health and medical geographers have been waiting for. Beautifully illustrated and carefully worded by a master of the art and science of geography. A book to learn from, to use for teaching, and to widen your horizons. -- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of OxfordAt last, the book health geographers urgently need. The Covid-19 pandemic has underscored the significance of global thinking and action in maintaining good health and addressing health inequities. To achieve this, it is essential to comprehend the social, environmental, and political factors that transcend borders and operate across different geographical scales. With Global Health: Geographical Connections, Gatrell rises to this challenge and has delivered a text that is theoretically robust and empirically rich. Through a wide range of captivating case studies from various parts of the world, the book compellingly argues for the involvement of geographers in addressing global health concerns. Simultaneously, it urges global health scholars from other disciplines to recognize the indispensable role of geographical processes operating across borders in understanding health worldwide. Gatrell's book fills a crucial gap in the literature. -- Jamie Pearce, Professor of Health Geography, University of EdinburghIn Global Health: Geographical Connections, Anthony Gatrell undertakes the significant and important task of connecting the discipline of health geography to global health. Throughout this well-organized book, Gatrell draws on thoughtfully selected case studies to highlight key issues and emphasize important points. These cases truly help to illustrate the global connections introduced throughout. The succinctly articulated crosscutting themes Gatrell ends the book with will serve as a call to action for health geographers to engage with global health and advance the research and practice agendas. -- Valorie Crooks, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Unequal health I: determinants and regional examples 3. Unequal health II: key themes 4. Governing global health 5. People on the move: the dispossessed and their health and wellbeing 6. Materials on the move: out of the ground, and across the globe 7. Airs, waters and places 8. Infections on the move 9. Climate change and global health 10. Conclusions: Global health and cross-cutting themes

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Book SynopsisEnough! insists there is enough for all. Creating such a future is not about producing more or living with less. Instead, it starts with rethinking our politics, economics and approach to livelihoods. Mary Lawhon and Tyler McCreary develop a “modest approach” to justice and sustainability, drawing on ecology and postcolonial theory, as well as their research on infrastructure in African cities and the Canadian north. The authors chart a pathway beyond modernist and arcadian environmentalisms, emphasizing uncertainty while holding onto hope for creating better worlds. The chapters tack between conceptual contours, concrete examples, proposed inventions, and personal narrative. Theorizing from the struggles of the global south and Indigenous peoples, Enough! proposes delinking livelihoods from work through a redistributive basic income, which enables enough without overreliance on modern states. It also enables us to prevent conflicts over jobs, reduce some types of production, and deploy resources towards building postcapitalist worlds.Trade ReviewCan we imagine a future economy that is attractive, fair, sustainable and ... possible? Lawhon and McCreary have. In Enough! they hurtle us beyond the eco-twin romances of degrowth and techno-optimism to a world where basic income is guaranteed, Earth systems are protected, peoples' needs to thrive are met and the human economy remains vibrant, active, inventive, and full of possibility. Modesty, they show us convincingly, requires neither wearing a sack cloth nor boarding a spaceship. Recommended reading for an optimistic and progressive future. -- Paul Robbins, Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIt is refreshing to read such a well-thought-out vision of a better future that so clearly understands and explains the foundational role that a universal, unconditional basic income has to play in underwriting and catalyzing that future. Enough ignoring or maligning UBI, and read this book to gain a larger more comprehensive view. -- Scott Santens, author of Let There Be MoneyAmidst a deepening climate crisis and growing inequalities, what changes are needed to constitute a good and sustainable life? What does 'enough' look like? This book provides a lively, thoughtful and eloquent response. It confronts the uncertainties of possible futures with confidence and care, and makes a compelling case for a redistributive and cooperative economy, universal basic income, and a modest politics to negotiate ecological conflicts and crises. -- Colin McFarlane, Professor of Urban Geography, Durham UniversityIt is a political act to find hope in this twenty-first-century moment of protracted ecological, economic and political malaise. Lawhon and McCreary sit with these troubled times and offer not so much a way out, but a way through. Propositional, curious, and joyful, this book invites us to see the radical in modest imaginaries of infrastructure politics, and the possible in the seemingly unattainable Universal Basic Income. A much-needed provocation, this book will trigger animated conversations in the classroom, the boardroom, and the street. -- Tatiana A. Thieme, Associate Professor in Geography, University College LondonWritten at the height of the pandemic which laid bare global injustices, intersecting crises and uncertainties, but also possibilities for drastic change, Enough! offers radical ideas for a world in which there will be enough for all. Through theoretical reflections and concrete examples on infrastructure and access to basic services from both the global North and South, Lawhon and McCreary make a compelling case for a modest politics which includes universal basic income and a reimagining of state citizenship relations, livelihoods and the economy that will enable justice and sustainability for all. Enough’s call to embrace a modest politics of sufficiency in an uncertain world leaves us with hope and immense possibilities to aspire and fight for a sustainable and just world in which all people can thrive and live well. -- Lyla Mehta, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at Norwegian University of Life SciencesEnough! begins with the premise that we all want a better world, and in doing so it is radically hopeful as well as accessible. Lawhon and McCreary's ‘modest’ proposal is inspiring and provocative, opening up big conversations on what really matters while remaining careful to recognize and work within the complexities of current economic, political and environmental life. In doing so, they encourage us to collectively work towards social and ecological well-being in ways that are sure to engage students and practitioners alike. -- Julia Corwin, Assistant Professor in Environment, London School of EconomicsAmidst the current anxieties and pessimism about the future, Lawhon and McCreary shake us to be optimistic for a future where we all live decent and dignified lives. A just and sustainable world where there is enough for all! Through well-described and contextualised fragments of life from the global north and south, that sits with the troubled realities of our times, Enough! showcases a pathway to a just and sustainable future we should look forward to. A hope-filled timely read for young scholars, activists and policy makers whose betterment of society is the core of their comradeship. -- Mwangi Mwaura, 2023 Rhodes Scholar elect, University of OxfordEnough! is a lucid and eloquent read on how the politics of nature–society relationships have evolved and how the arguments on modesty can renew foundational claims on political ecology. Keeping infrastructure politics as the cornerstone, the book contributes to a futuristic 'modest imaginary' analysis of the state, market forces and livelihoods. The book challenges the 'modern infrastructure ideal' and a 'usual inverted modernist' approach, presenting a more nuanced analysis and illustrations of modest environmental governance, setting the course for future sustainability. A must-read for future infrastructure practitioners, activists, students focusing on interdisciplinarity, and political ecologists. -- Sumit Vij, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Development Change Group, Wageningen University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Polarising political ecologies of the future 2. Neither more nor less: cultivating a modest political ecology Interlude: radical potential of a universal, unconditional basic income 3. A modest economy: diverse and distributionist 4. A modest state 5. Modest livelihoods 6. Onwards

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