Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books
Open University Press Climate Change Coaching The Power of Connection
Book SynopsisClimate change is not just an environmental problem, itâs a human one. Yet as humans, we are not changing fast enough for ourselves and our planet. Our sense of powerlessness and the belief that our actions wonât make a difference is holding us back from taking action and working on the psychological dimension of change could make the difference to moving us forward. In this transformative book, climate change coaching trailblazers Charly Cox and Sarah Flynn explain why changing for our climate is so hard and why coaching offers a key to affecting behaviour. With practical, easy-to-grasp skills that shift mindsets and motivate action they show how to build connection using a coaching approach, to overcome resistance and empower people to embrace change. If people often tell you âœWhat difference can I really make?â or âœHow can we possibly succeed?â then Climate Change Coaching will help you:âUnderstand the psychological barriers to changeTable of ContentsPreface by Charly CoxForeword by Kimberly Nicholas, Climate Scientist and Author, Under the Sky We MakeIntroductionPART A - what on earth does coaching have to do with climate change?Chapter 1 - A human problem with a human solutionChapter 2 - How change works - and what that means for the climate crisis individually, relationally and systemicallyChapter 3 - Empowerment and belief - a model for resonant actionChapter 4 - Coaching for climate action - what is climate change coaching?PART B - transform the way you communicateChapter 5 - Climate change coaching basicsChapter 6 - How to make and break influenceChapter 7 - Making it okay to talk about climate changeChapter 8 - When there’s too much “not enough”: dealing with scarcityChapter 9 - Overcoming overwhelmChapter 10 - Understanding intrinsic values to overcome resistance to actionChapter 11 - Defining a dream to run towards not a nightmare to run fromChapter 12 - Setting goals and getting into actionChapter 13 - Rage against the machine: turning anger and blame into forward energyChapter 14 - Making space for climate griefPART C - A coaching approach in systems changeChapter 15 - How to help organisations to commit to changeChapter 16 - How to bring people with you in changeChapter 17 - The challenges of landing big climate ambitionsChapter 18 - How the cumulative acts of individuals build to create social change and paradigm shiftsPART D - Coach yourself: how to sustain yourself while catalysing climate actionChapter 19 - How to thrive not surviveChapter 20 - When the going gets tough - how to recover from stress and burnoutChapter 21 - Loving, grieving and hoping
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Taylor & Francis GLACIAL LANDSYSTEMS
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models the many processes, forms and interactions that can be found in glaciated landscapes throughout the world. Landsystems models allow the glacial geologist and geomorphologist to evaluate these landscapes in relation to the dynamics of glaciation and to climate and geology. Glacial Landsystems brings together the expertise of an international range of specialists to provide an up-to-date summary of landsystems relevant to both modern and ancient glacier systems and also in the reconstruction and interpretation of former glacial environments. The models are applicable at all scales from ice sheets to small valley glaciers.This book is an essential reference for students of glaciation.Trade ReviewThis edited volume reflects the growth of information about glacial-influenced sediment sequences and depositional environments......The book illustrates the potential of the landsystems concept with respect to the orientation of future research into mountain geomorphological systems, and provides a sound basis for improvement associated with sustainable development and management of such sensitive earth systems.- Volume 24, No 4, November 2004Mountain Research and DevelopmentThe book presents valuable reviews and new syntheses on glacial process-form models that represent wide-ranging geographic settings and styles of glaciation.Boreas 33All the chapters are well written and contain a wealth of information.Journal of Quaternary ScienceTable of Contents1 Introduction to glacial landsystems, D.J.A. Evans 2 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: active temperate glacier margins, D.J.A. Evans 3 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: sub-polar glacier margins of the Canadian and Greenland high artic, C.O. Cofaigh, D.J.A. Evans & J. England 4 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: svalbard polythermal glaciers, N.F. Glasser & M.J. Hambrey 5 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: polar-continental glacier margins, S.J.Fitzsimons 6 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: southern Laurentide Ice Sheet margin, P. Colgan, D.M. Mickelson & P.M. Cutler 7 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: northern Laurentide and Innuitian Ice Sheet margins, A.S. Dyke & D.J.A. Evans 8 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: southern Scandinavian Ice Sheet margin, F.M. Van der Wateren 9 Palaeo-ice stream landsystem, C.D. Clark & C.R. Stokes 10 Supraglacial landsystems in lowland terrain, M.D. Johnson & L. Clayton 11 Surging glacier landsystem, D.J.A. Evans & B.R. Rea 12 Subaquatic landsystems: continental margins, T.O. Vorren 13 Subaquatic landsystems: fjords, R.D. Powell 14 Subaquatic landsystems: large proglacial lakes, J.T. Teller 15 Glaciated valley landsystems, D.I. Benn, M.P. Kirkbride, L.A. Owen & V. Brazier 16 Plateau icefield landsystems, B.R. Rea & D.J.A. Evans 17 Paraglacial landsystems, C.K. Ballantyne
£52.24
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Cultural Geography in Practice
Book SynopsisWritten by an international team of prominent cultural geographers, this book is a fully-illustrated guide to methodological approaches in cultural geography. Boxed definitions of key concepts and descriptions of research projects by students who devised and undertook them are included.Trade ReviewA book designed to help students find out "how it is done, and how they themselves can do it". This book contains an interesting, readable and valuable set of essays.The Times HigherWhat it promises, and what it delivers, is a useful and accessible guide to practising cultural geography: a guide that is suggestive rather than prescriptive. If you're interested in cultural geography, you should have a copy of this book......This is a book to be dipped into as specific research problems arise, and to be used more generally to think about the messiness of the research process.VOLUME 29 2004Transactions of The IBGTable of ContentsPart 1: Writing Cultural GeographyChapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State FormulationChapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper PressChapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical ResearchChapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual SpacePart 2: Living Cultural GeographyChapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in PersonChapter 6: Gender and Mobility: Critical Ethnographies of Migration in IndonesiaChapter 7: Learning about Labour: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative MethodsChapter 8: Surveying Sexualities: The Possibilities and Problems of QuestionnairesPart 3: Visualising Cultural GeographyChapter 9: Selling America: Advertising, National Identity and Economic Empire in the late 19th CenturyChapter 10: Photographs from the Edge of EmpireChapter 11: Mapping Worlds: Cartography and the Politics of RepresentationChapter 12: Cinematic CitiesChapter 13: Researching the Networks of Natural HistoryPart 4: Performing Cultural GeographyChapter 14: Art and Urban ChangeChapter 15: Building Sites: Cultural Geographies of Architecture and Place-MakingChapter 16: On Display: The Poetics, Politics and Interpretation of ExhibitionsChapter 17: Deep Listening: Researching Music and the Cartographies of Sound
£41.79
Taylor & Francis Upgrade Your Italian
Book SynopsisAimed at anyone who wants to increase their chance of getting a top grade in Italian exams.Upgrade your Italian offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve results.Spending between 30 minutes and an hour each day with this book in the countdown to an exam will help towards a better grade.This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for upgrading your exam results:- Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen- Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary- Improving the style and quality of your ItalianTrade ReviewFor A-level (or equivalent) students pressed for time this is the best possible aid to revision since it concentrates on identifying the most common basic errors and the most useful vocabularly. It is obvious that it has been written by a first rate teacher who knows all about whetting her students' appetites and then not overfeeding them. The 30 "One day-at-a-time" chapters were just perfect for me. And I am still learning a lot from this, my constant companion.Victor Bleaze A reader from BelfastTable of ContentsDay 1 Basic errors: article/ noun/adjective agreement; agreement with participles used as adjectives.Day 2 Vocabulary: describing peopleDay 3 Basic errors: relative clauses. Chi vs che, using il che, using il/la cuiDay 4 Vocabulary: leisure and youth cultureDay 5 Basic errors: agreement with Molto, troppo and poco. Migliore vs meglio. Using tutto, ogni, qualche and un po'Day 6 Vocabulary: the media: television and the pressDay 7 Basic errors: time expressionsDay 8 Vocabulary: the arts: music, literature, cinemaDay 9 Basic errors: piacere and other impersonal verbsDay 10 Vocabulary: historyDay 11 Basic errors: past tense; passato prossimo vs imperfettoDay 12 Vocabulary: geographyDay 13 Basic errors: using the subjunctiveDay 14 Vocabulary: modern Italian society; features and problemsDay 15 Basic errors: passive sentences: using venire and andareDay 16 Style: rhetorical signpostsDay 17 Basic errors: gerund vs infinitiveDay 18 Vocabulary: politics and current affairsDay 19 Basic errors: imperatives and pronounsDay 20 Vocabulary: the environmentDay 21 Basic errors: impersonal constructions with si and modal verbsDay 22 Vocabulary: educationDay 23 Basic errors: if clauses and conditional expressionsDay 24 Style: dialogue and reported speechDay 25 Basic errors: using the past historic and the future of possibilityDay 26 Vocabulary: healthDay 27 Basic errors: minor points; using possessives and articles + prepositions correctlyDay 28 Style: false friendsDay 29 Vocabulary: revisionDay 30 Basic errors: revision
£27.54
Taylor & Francis Glaciers and Glaciation 2nd edition
Book SynopsisGlaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource.In this new edition, the text, references and illustrations have been thoroughly updated to give today's reader an up-to-the minute overview of the nature, origin and behaviour of glaciers and the geological and geomorphological evidence for their past history on earth.The first part of the book investigates the processes involved in forming glacier ice, the nature of glacier-climate relationships, the mechanisms of glacier flow and the interactions of glaciers with other natural systems such as rivers, lakes and oceans.In the second part, the emphasis moves to landforms and sediment, the interpretation of the earth's glacial legacy and the reconstruction of glacial depositional environments and palaeoglaciology.Trade ReviewA masterpiece... It demonstrates what can be achieved when widespread and ambitious fieldwork is combined with extensive library work, excellent understanding, and what must have been inordinate dedication. Professor J.D. Ives for Choices (about the first edition)A modern synthesis that will be appreciated by professional scientists and graduate students both inside and outside the discipline. This book is the best of its kind, an impressive contribution to science and to education. Professor G.K.C. Clarke for the American Geophysical Union (about the first edition)"This is by far the best book on the market for a glacial geology course."Dr. Alan Kehew, Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University (on the first edition)Table of ContentsPart I Glaciers 1. Introduction 2. Snow, ice and climate 3. Glacier hydrology 4. Processes of glacier motion 5. Glacier dynamics 6. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets 7. Glaciers and sea-level change Part II Glaciation 8. Erosional processes, forms and landscapes 9. Debris entrainment and transport 10. Glacigenic sediments and depositional processes 11. Sediment landform associations 12. Landsystems and palaeoglaciology Appendix 1 List of symbols used in equations
£68.39
Hodder & Stoughton Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Book SynopsisExplorer and bestselling author Sir Ranulph Fiennes takes a journey around his vast and eccentric family tree, and reveals an amazing family history.Trade ReviewA whirlwind romp through the annals of time, peopled with the good, the bad and downright mad among the Fiennes clan. * Sunday Telegraph *Fascinating...it is some family tree * Adrian Chiles, The One Show *Praise for MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW * - *'If you ever struggle to drag yourself out of bed on a winter's morning, pick up a copy of Ranulph Fiennes' autobiography. It's an inspiration.' * Mail on Sunday *'Rip-roaringly readable' * Guardian *'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' * Time Out *'This is the memoir of a supreme sportsman, an uber-earthling who could show the Martians a thing or two about what the best of us can achieve' * Financial Times Magazine *'"Ran' epitomises British phlegm, and he puts all other glory-seekers to shame. His dry wit, self deprecation and steely determination never to feel a scrap of self-pity are in the very best tradition of British travel writing. Long may he continue tomake us glad that we are not him, while we stand in awe.' * Country Life *'Rip-roaringly readable' * Guardian *'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' * Time Out *'It's exhausting just reading about his exploits, so it is a perfect bedtime book. It's delightful to plump up one's duck-down pillows while vicariously enduring Fiennes's successive plunges into the deadly waters of the Artcic, and his festering crotch-rot.' * Helena Drysdale, New Statesman Books of the Year *'It is lively and vivid, and often exciting as we anticipate each plunge into deadly Arctic waters. There are some wonderful throwaway lines . . . So, not an alien species after all but - as they say - a national treasure.' * Spectator *A very funny, moving and inspiriting look back at the family history of one of the greatest explorers ever to live. We all love Sir Ranulph Fiennes, he never disappoints. And this book is no exception. * Bear Grylls *
£10.44
Hodder Education OCR A2 Geography Textbook
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and exam-focused text - essential reading for all OCR A2 students.
£17.31
Hodder & Stoughton Green is the New Black
Book SynopsisFully updated for the paperback edition - this is the must-have accessory for the ethical fashionista!Trade ReviewA must-read. * Vogue *Tamsin's book is less about conscience-pricking, and more about saving the world with style. * Vanity Fair *A fashion must-have for those keen to be green. * Daily Telegraph *This is an excellent gift for anyone interested in going green in the chicest possible way. * Independent *A must-read book. * Daily Mail *Indispensable advice. * Natural Health and Beauty *The beauty of this book is that it weaves green principles and fashion tips together in a lively, accessible way. * Cat Walk Queen *An effortless read ... that motivates and inspires. * Plenty Magazine *Stylish eco-warriors should read Green is the New Black. * ES Magazine *A new green hero. * Sunday Times Style Magazine *
£8.54
Random House USA Inc The Imperfect Environmentalist
Book SynopsisActress, producer, mother, and imperfect environmentalist, Sara Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery bags? Fortunately, we now know that small changes here and there in our everyday lives can make a big impact on the environment. We just need to know where to begin. That’s where Gilbert comes in, with this tongue-in-cheek reference guide packed full of helpful information, available at your fingertips. Read it cover to cover or just open it up to a random page; you can take what you want from it when you want. Whether you’ve got money to burn or have to crash on a friend’s couch, here are all of the eco-essentials to get the planet back on track, and you won’t have to hug a single tree—unless tree-hugging is your thing. Sharing the basics
£14.39
Random House USA Inc Ten Billion
Book SynopsisDeforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILLION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILLION is not another climate book. TEN BILLION is a book about us.
£13.05
Vintage Canada The Sweetness of a Simple Life
Book SynopsisThe author of The Global Forest--an international bestseller and a classic upon publication, beloved by readers around the world--gives us her tips and advice for achieving better health and peace of mind, with frugality, simplicity and pleasure not far behind. In The Sweetness of a Simple Life, Diana Beresford-Kroeger mixes science with storytelling, wonderment, magic, myth and plenty of common sense. After pursuing a Ph.D. in medical biochemistry, Beresford-Kroeger set out on a quest to preserve the world's forests. In this warm and wise collection of essays, she gives us a guide for living simply and well: which foods to eat and which to avoid; how to clean our homes and look after pets; how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones from illness; and why we need to appreciate nature. She provides an easy dose of healing, practical wisdom, blending modern medicine with aboriginal traditions. This inspiring, accessible book emphasizes back to basics, wit
£17.00
Vintage Canada The Carbon Bubble
Book SynopsisAs the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for more pipelines like Keystone XL across the continent to bring that bitumen to market. Anyone who objects to pipelines and tanker-train traffic, north or south of the US border, is labeled a dreamer, or worse—an environmentalist: someone who puts the health of the planet ahead of the economic survival of their neighbours. In The Carbon Bubble, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how an economic vision that rests on oil is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in the US—where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking&mda
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Random House Canada Planet Canada How Our Expats Are Shaping the
Book SynopsisA leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a country with people as diverse as Canada's ought to plug itself into every corner of the globe. We don't, and sometimes not even when our expats are eager to help.Failing to put this desire to work, contends bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent John Stackhouse, is a grave error for a small country whose voice is getting lost behind developing nations of rapidly increasing influence. The soft power we once boaste
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Little, Brown Book Group Below the Edge of Darkness
Book SynopsisA pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean in this ''thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure'' (New York Times)LONGLISTED FOR THE SNHN NATURAL HISTORY BOOK PRIZEEdith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Below the Edge of Darkness explores the depths of the planet''s oceans as Widder seeks to understand bioluminescence, one of the most important and widely used forms of communication in nature. In the process, she reveals hidden worlds and a dazzling menagerie of behaviours and animals. Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all of it set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosyTrade ReviewA thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure * New York Times Book Review *A vivid account of ocean life... Stylish, eloquent -- Robin McKie * Guardian Book of the Day *Edie's story is one of hardscrabble optimism, two-fisted exploration and groundbreaking research. As I've said many times, I'd have wrapped my submersible, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, in bacon if it would have lured the elusive giant squid from the depths. In Below the Edge of Darkness, Edie tells you how she did it -- James CameronTo shed light on a subject is what any scientific book should do. To go into it in depth without losing the reader is a harder task. Edith Widder's subject is light itself - the manufacture of light by strange and eerie denizens of the deep sea - and her scintillating style is worthy of it. This is a book to delight the general reader while simultaneously informing the professional: a book of marvels, marvellously written -- Richard DawkinsMy experience of exploring the deep ocean and its alien life with Edie Widder was fabulous. She enthrals us with many such stories in her book. I recommend it * Ray Dalio *Personal and page-turning, adventurous and awe-inspiring, Below the Edge of Darkness sparkles with the thrill of exploration and glows with an urgent plea for the future of our precious seas. Comparisons to Jacques Cousteau spring to mind, as Edith Widder shares the profound journey of her life -one as unique and important as the unexplored realms of our very own planet -- Juli Berwald, author of Spineless: the Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a BackboneLuminous - the topic, the heroic journey, and the author herself. Dive in with Edith Widder, trail-blazing scientist and explorer, as she reveals the galaxy of light and life in the universe below the surface of the sea, out-shining sceptical male colleagues with dignity, grace and a robust sense of humour -- Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Founder, Mission Blue, Oceanographer
£9.49
Little, Brown Book Group Bring Me Sunshine
Book SynopsisWe talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know about it? In Bring Me Sunshine, Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession. He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics, geniuses, rainmakers and cloud-busters and brings vividly to life great weather events from history. He sheds light on Britain''s weirdest wind, why we have the wettest place in England to thank for the trusty pencil, the debt that umbrella owners owe to Robinson Crusoe and why people once thought firing cannons at clouds was a great idea. Having adventured round the shipping forecast areas for his bestselling Attention All Shipping, Connelly is the perfect guide through a mélange of gales, blizzards, mists, heatwaves and the occasional shower of fish. By turns informative, entertaining and hilarious, Bring Me SunshineTrade ReviewFor fans of Charlie Connelly, things have indeed turned out nice again * Spectator *
£10.99
Little, Brown Book Group Myths of Geography
Book SynopsisIs geography really destiny?Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbours.In his punchy and authoritative new book, Paul Richardson challenges recent popular accounts of geographical determinism and shows that how the world is represented often isn''t how it really is - that the map is not the territory.Along the way we visit some remarkable places: Iceland''s Thingvellir National Park, where you can swim between two continents, and Bir Tawil in North Africa, one of the world''s only territories not claimed by any country. We follow the first train that ran across Eurasia between Yiwu in east China and Barking in east London, and scale the US-Mexico border wall to find out why such fortifications don''t work.Written with verve and full of quotable facts, Myths of Geography is a book that will turn your world upside down.
£11.69
Little, Brown Book Group Adventures in Volcanoland
Book SynopsisMixing memoir, travel and popular science, Adventures in Volcanoland is written with warmth and lyricism and a captivating fascination with these mountains of fire that will show how they have and continue to shape our planet, and its future.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Climate is Changing Why Arent We A practical
Book Synopsis''An inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change'' Zanna van DijkThe climate is changing, so why aren''t we? After all, we are the generation of change. The severity of climate change leaves no one indifferent. The Climate is Changing, Why Aren''t We? will not try to convince you that climate change exists - we know that. It offers easy to understand insights into the structures that suffocate our future, while upholding a sense of optimism and humanising the climate story. From the clothes you buy, plastics you use and food you eat, to knowing how to harness the power of social media and technology to get our voices heard and demand climate action, Daisy Kendrick, founder of Ocean Generation, weaves together inspirational stories, shocking statistics and easy green switches to make in your everyday life to tackle climate change on an individual level. The Climate is Changing, Why ArTrade ReviewAn inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change -- Zanna van Dijk * bestselling author of STRONG *Daisy is one of the most inspiring young leaders I've had the pleasure to meet. Her insights are impeccable, her radar for what's next is on point, and this book comes at a much needed time when the focus on the climate crisis is changing from despair to solutions. -- Afdhel Aziz * Co-author of GOOD IS THE NEW COOL *
£12.59
Little, Brown Book Group The Ministry for the Future
Book SynopsisONE OF BARACK OBAMA''S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR ''If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson''s The Ministry for the Future'' Ezra Klein, Vox ''A great read'' Bill GatesThe Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.''A novel that presents a rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time'' TED.com''A breathtaking lookTrade ReviewBestseller Robinson again tackles climate change head-on in this gutsy, humane view of a near-future Earth careening toward collapse . . . Robinson masterfully integrates the practical details of environmental crises and geoengineering projects into a sweeping, optimistic portrait of humanity's ability to cooperate in the face of disaster. This heartfelt work of hard science-fiction is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity * Booklist *Steely, visionary optimism * Guardian *A panoramic epic, the best science fiction-nonfiction novel I've ever read * Jonathan Lethem, Vanity Fair *The Ministry for the Future is a great read. Robinson has written a novel that presents the urgency of this crisis in an original way and leaves readers with hope that we can do something about it. The next chapter in the story of our planet is still being written, and the ending is up to us * Bill Gates *Robinson is one of the world's finest working novelists, in any genre. New York 2140 is a towering novel about a genuinely grave threat to civilisation -- GUARDIANA masterpiece * The Times *A deeply realised world that feels more like a peep into our future than a work of fiction * New Scientist *Robinson seamlessly binds together characters and narrative strands . . . An immensely enjoyable reading experience * SciFiNow *Robinson's writing is so evocative that you can imagine that any one of his paragraphs could feature in the film of the book . . . a thoughtful, innovative page turner -- STARBURSTAny new novel by the great Kim Stanley Robinson is always an event and Red Moon doesn't disappoint * Independent *Even at 600-plus pages, there's a leanness to the prose that keeps the plot moving forwards . . . Robinson handles setpieces with aplomb -- SFXA wise and big-hearted novel to read and then, straight away, read again * SFX *Another stellar effort from one of the masters of the genre * Booklist *It's near impossible to capture the vibrance of the entire city in the span of one single novel, yet Kim Stanley Robinson manages to do just that and more -- NEWSWEEKLike all great sci-fi, New York 2140 is as much inward-looking as it is forward- . . . Robinson's work has a strong, intelligent social conscience -- GQThe lunar landscape is a source of beautifully described detail * Kirkus *A compelling vision of the future * Science *Starkly beautiful and fundamentally optimistic -- THE CONVERSATIONOnly sci-fi can drown Manhattan and make you want to live there -- BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEKOne of the finest writers of his generation * Locus *Beautiful descriptions of lunar landscapes * Guardian *This may well be Robinson's masterpiece and is surely the most important piece of sf in years -- MORNING STARSci-fi fans will love the detail and the optimism about humanity's future in space * Wall Street Journal *There have been more than a few environmental catastrophe tales set in a future New York, but possibly none of them have been this interesting -- LOCUSOne of the most exciting books in climate change fiction yet written... Both immensely readable and timely -- LITHUBUtterly immersive and unexpectedly hopeful -- RT BOOK REVIEWS
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Agriscience Fundamentals and Applications Updated Precision Exams Edition
Book SynopsisIn addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the agricultural industry and industry-based sciences, the Precision Exams Edition of Burton's AGRISCIENCE: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS, Sixth Edition, aligns to Precision Exams' Agricultural Science exam. The text covers essential topics such as agriscience in the information age, natural resources, integrated pest management, plant science, animal science, food science, and communication and management, giving students with a solid foundation in the basic principles and practices of agriscience. The Precision Exams Edition also features new information related to the National FFA Organization and selecting and planning an SAE; how math, science, and social studies relate to agriscience; current technologies used in the industry; career opportunities; and advice for professional success and business ownership.Table of ContentsPart 1: AGRISCIENCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE. 1. The Science of Living Things. 2. Better Living through Agriscience. 3. Biotechnology. Part II: YOU AND THE NEW MILLENNIUM. 4. Career Options in Agriscience. 5. Supervised Agricultural Experience. 6. Leadership Development in Agriscience. Part III: NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. 7. Maintaining Air Quality. 8. Water and Soil Conservation. 9. Soils and Hydroponics Management. 10. Forest Management. 11. Wildlife Management. 12. Aquaculture. Part IV: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT. 13. Biological, Cultural, and Chemical Control of Pests. 14. Safe Use of Pesticides. Part V: PLANT SCIENCES. 15. Plant Structures and Taxonomy. 16. Plant Physiology. 17. Plant Reproduction. Part VI: CROP SCIENCE. 18. Home Gardening. 19. Vegetable Production. 20. Fruit and Nut Production. 21. Grain, Oil, and Specialty Field-Crop Production. 22. Forage and Pasture Management. Part VII: ORNAMENTAL USE OF PLANTS. 23. Indoor Plants. 24. Turfgrass Use and Management. 25. Trees and Shrubs. VIII: ANIMAL SCIENCES. 26. Animal Anatomy, Physiology, and Nutrition. 27. Animal Health. 28. Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction. 29. Small Animal Care and Management. 30. Dairy and Livestock Management. 31. Horse Management. Part IX: FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 32. The Food Industry. 33. Food Science. Part X: COMMUNICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT IN AGRISCIENCE. 34. Marketing in Agriscience. 35. Agribusiness Planning. 36. Entrepreneurship in Agriscience. Glossary. Appendix A: Developing a Personal Budget. Appendix B: Plan Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs. Index.
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Cengage Learning Geology and the Environment Living with a
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Harvest Publications Go Gently
Book SynopsisAn inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, and taking action, by Greenpeace ambassador Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies)Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright’s belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do’s rather than don’ts. It’s also an invitation to Wright’s followers to join her on this journey to sustainability.Going through every room in her home, Wright helps us assess which products are sustainable, and alternatives for those that are not. She shares recipes to avoid waste, homemade self-care products to avoid packaging, small space-friendly gardening ideas, and a template for creating your own compost system. Finally, to sustain yourself, there are exercises and meditation prompts to keep you energized, plus info on how to get involved in community and organizations.
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Mariner Books The Viking Heart
Book SynopsisFrom a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and AmericaScandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring, resiliency, and loyalty to family and community would propel them to the gates of Rome, the steppes of Russia, the courts of Constantinople, and the castles of England and Ireland. But nowhere would they leave a deeper mark than across the Atlantic, where the Vikings’ legacy would become the American Dream.In The Viking Heart, Arthur Herman melds a compelling historical narrative with cutting-edge archaeological and DNA research to trace the epic story of this remarkable and diverse people. He shows how the Scandinavian experience has universal meaning, and how we can still be inspired by their indomitable spirit.
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Taylor & Francis Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research
Book SynopsisThis timely and informative book reasserts the value of Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR): an approach to participatory action research (PAR) that is informed by critical theories attending to questions of privilege and power, and that generates collaborations focused on challenging structural inequality.The authors, writing explicitly from Minority World perspectives, are experienced researcher-practitioners who have worked with communities in the UK, USA, South Africa, Australia, India, and Colombia over many years. They offer an assessment, exploration, and illustration of CPAR at this point in time, outlining how the approach has evolved over time and space. Exploring its roots in strands of critical thought including postcolonialism, anti-imperialism, feminism, antiracism, queer theory, and Indigenous ontologies, the book asks how PAR is being critically re-engaged to maintain its commitment to greater justice and transformational change. Each chapter provide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums and Design for Creative Lives
Book SynopsisMuseums and Design for Creative Lives questions what we sacrifice when we allow economic imperatives to shape public museums, whilst also considering the implications of these new museum realities. It also asks: how might we instead design for creative lives?Drawing together 28 case studies of museum design spanning 70 years, the book explores the spatial and social forms that comprise these successful examples, as well as the design methodologies through which they were produced. Re-activating a well-trodden history of progressive museum design and raising awareness of the involvement of the built forms in how we feel, think and act, MacLeod provides strategies and methods to actively counter the economisation of museums and a call to museum makers to work beyond the economic and advance this deeply human history of museum making. Museums and Design for Creative Lives will be of great interest to academics and students in museum stTrade Review"For anyone who believes that museums have the potential to act as powerful agents for social change, Museums and Design for Creative Lives is a must-read. MacLeod applies a theoretical framework of social space to current museum practice that not only identifies unchallenged assumptions about goals, standards, and processes in museums, but also articulates essential qualities and values inherent in what she calls "progressive museum design." The theory comes to life in the second part of the book, which explores the many visions, intentions, and design practices in 28 museum case studies of progressive museum design from around the world. Most importantly, MacLeod summarizes with six frames of mind or calls to action that provide us with concrete, provocative, and energizing ways forward." — Kathleen McLean, USATable of ContentsPart 1; Chapter 1 The economization of museums and the ‘truth’ of space; Chapter 2 Landscapes of potential: the social and spatial underpinnings of museums; Chapter 3 Design for creative lives: new museum design cultures; Bibliography; Part 2; 4. Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK, 2007-; 5. Blue House, Wanchai, Hong Kong, 2017; 6. Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, USA, 1960s; 7. Derby Silk Mill Museum of Making, Derby, UK, 2020; 8. District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, 1994-present; 9. Exile, Kingston Lacy, UK, 2017; 10. Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA, 1969; 11. Festival of Britain, London, UK, 1951; 12. Fun Palace, London, UK, 1960-75; 13. Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London, UK, 2004-10; 14. Guggenheim Helsinki, Finland, 2013-16; 15. Humankind, Calke Abbey, UK, 2019-20; 16. Jubilee Arts, The Bus Project, UK, 1978-84; 17. Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK, 1998-2006; 18. Launchpad, Science Museum, London, UK, 1986; 19. Lost Childhoods, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, USA, 2017; 20. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 1958; 21. Museo Casa de la Memoria Medellin, Colombia, 2012-; 22. Museo Taller Ferrowhite, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 2004-; 23. Museum at the Gateway Arch, St Louis, USA, 2018; 24. National Human Rights Museum, Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011-; 25. Parque Explora, Medellín, Colombia, 2008-; 26. Pride and Prejudice, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2014-19; 27. SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1982; 28. Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York, USA, 2015; 29. Talking About… Disability and Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2006-8; 30. The Past is Now, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK, 2017; 31. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, USA, 1993-
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Taylor & Francis EcoJustice Education
Book SynopsisThe third edition of this groundbreaking text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility. Authors Martusewicz, Edmundson, and Lupinacci provide teachers, teacher educators, and educational scholars with the theory and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. Readers are asked to consider curricular strategies to bring these issues to life in their own classrooms across disciplines. Designed for introductory educational foundations and multicultural education courses, EcoJustice Education is written in a narrative, conversational style grounded in place and experience, but also pushes students to examine the larger ideological, social, historical, and political contexts of the crises humans and the planet we inhabit are facing.Fully updated with cutting-edge research, statistics, aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Purposes of Education in an Age of Ecological Crises and Worldwide Insecurities; Chapter 2: Rethinking Diversity and Democracy for Sustainable Communities; Chapter 3: Cultural Foundations of the Crisis: A Cultural/Ecological Analysis; Chapter 4: Learning Anthropocentrism: An EcoJustice Approach to Human Supremacy and Education; Chapter 5: Learning Androcentrism: An EcoJustice Approach to Gender and Education; Chapter 6: Learning our Place in the Social Hierarchy: An EcoJustice Approach to Class Inequality and Impoverishment; Chapter 7: Learning Racism: An EcoJustice Approach to Racial Inequality, co-authored by Gary Schnakenberg; Chapter 8: Learning about Globalization: Education, Enclosures, and Resistance; Chapter 9: Learning from Indigenous Communities; Chapter 10: Teaching for the Commons: Educating for Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Journalism Democracy and Civil Society in India
Book SynopsisSince independence in 1947 India has remained a stable and functioning democracy in the face of enormous challenges. Amid a variety of interlinking contraries and a burgeoning media one of the largest in the world there has been a serious dearth of scholarship on the role of journalists and dramatically changing journalism practices. This book brings together some of the best known scholars on Indian journalism to ask questions such as: Can the plethora of privately run cable news channels provide the discursive space needed to strengthen the practices of democracy, not just inform results from the ballot boxes? Can neoliberal media ownership patterns provide space for a critical and free journalistic culture to evolve? What are the ethical challenges editors and journalists face on a day-to-day basis in a media industry which has exploded? In answering some of these questions, the contributors to this volume are equally sensitive to the historical, social, and cultural context inTable of ContentsIntroduction: Democracy, civil society, and journalism in India 1. Indian Journalism in the Colonial Crucible: a nineteenth-century story of political protest 2. Popular Cinephilia in North India: Madhuri shows the way (1964-78) 3. A Media Not for All: A comparative analysis of journalism, democracy and exclusion in Indian and South African media 4. Phantom Journalism: Governing India’s proxy media owners 5. Shaming the Nation on Public Affairs Television: Barkha Dutt tackles colorism on We the People 6. Playing Reporter: Small-town women journalists in north India 7. The Potential and Limitations of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh’s CGNet Swara 8. Connecting Activists and Journalists: Twitter communication in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi rape 9. How Well do India’s Multiple Language Dailies Provide Political Knowledge to Citizens of this Electoral Democracy? 10. Our Media, Our Principles: Building codes of practice for community radio in India
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Taylor & Francis Place Pedagogy and Play Participation Design and Research with Children
Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning.
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to the Geography of Health
Book SynopsisIn the second edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health, Helen Hazen and Peter Anthamatten explore the ways in which geographic ideas and approaches can inform our understanding of health. The bookâs focus on a broad range of physical and social factors that drive health in places and spaces offers students and scholars an important holistic perspective on the study of health in the modern era.In this edition, the authors have restructured the book to emphasize the theoretical significance of ecological and social approaches to health. Spatial methods are now reinforced throughout the book, and other qualitative and quantitative methods are discussed in greater depth. Data and examples are used extensively to illustrate key points and have been updated throughout, including several new extended case studies such as water contamination in Flint, Michigan; microplastics pollution; West Africaâs Ebola crisis; and the Zika epidemic. The book contains more than Trade Review"This marvelous new edition of An Introduction to the Geography of Health is nothing less than a field guide to the world through the lens of health and medical geography. As human geographers, Hazen and Anthamatten grapple with the diversity of global societies, the complex drivers of inequalities in health, and the intricate ecologies of health and disease. The new edition is updated with valuable discussion of climate change and health, the 2014 Ebola fever epidemic in West Africa, the Flint water crisis, and the US opioid epidemic, while also incorporating advances in theory and method in the field of health and medical geography. Drawing on success stories from New Zealand, Costa Rica, and dozens of other countries, the book explains how a geographic sensibility—based on the careful appraisal of, and adaptation to, local social and environmental conditions—can lead to effective and equitable health policy. The inviting and highly readable text is accompanied by over 100 illustrations, including photographs, well-designed maps, and helpful diagrams and charts, many in color. In all, the book makes for an excellent companion to an undergraduate course in health and medical geography, a useful reference source, and an outstanding survey of public health issues all around the world." - Eric Carter, Edens Associate Professor of Geography and Global Health, Macalester College, USA"I am so delighted with the updated edition of Hazen and Anthamatten’s ‘An Introduction to the Geography of Health’, given the addition of new material reflective of both new and emerging events, such as the Zika virus and mental health patterns, respectively. I continue to use this text in my courses for three reasons: the breadth of contemporary applied material representative of the sub-discipline, the international coverage, and the range of current methodological approaches employed. I look forward to hearing positive student feedback on this new edition!" - Allison Williams, Professor & Research Chair, McMaster University, Hamilton, CanadaTable of Contents1 Introduction Section I Ecological Approaches to Human Health Introduction: Ecological Approaches to Human Health 2 Ecological Approaches to Human Health 3 Population-scale Processes: Demographic Change and the Evolution of Pathogens and Vectors 4 Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases 5 Environmental Exposures 6 Cartography and Geospatial Science in Health Section II Social Approaches to Health and Healthcare Introduction: Social Approaches to Health and Healthcare 7 Socioeconomic Environments 8 Culture and Identity 9 Power and Politics of Health 10 Geographies of Healthcare 11 Integrating Approaches to the Study of the Geography of Health: Policymaking from Geographic Perspectives Glossary Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd David Harvey
David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's writings over a long period of time.Harvey's writings have exerted huge influence within the social sciences and the humanities. In addition, his work now commands a global readership among Left political activists and those interested in current world affairs. Harvey's central preoccupation is capitalism and the impacts of its growth-obsessed, contradictory dynamics. His name is synonymous with key analytical concepts like the spatial fix' and accumulation by dispossession'. This critical introduction to his thought is an essential companion for both new and more experienced readers. The critique of capitalism is one of the most important undertakings of our time, and Harvey's work offers powerful tools to help us see why a s
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Taylor & Francis Natures Matrix
Book SynopsisWhen first published in 2009, Natureâs Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the biodiversity/agriculture debate further, making an even stronger case for the need to transform agriculture and support small- and medium-scale agroecology and food sovereignty.In the first edition, the authors set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity. This is based on the concept of a landscape as a matrix of diverse, small-scale agricultural ecosystems, providing opportunities to enhance conservation under the stewardship of local farmers. This contrasts with the alternative view of industrial-scale farms and large protected areas which exclude local people. However, since then the debate around conservation and agriculture has developed significantly and this is reflected in this updated second edition. The text is thoroughly revised, including: a reorganization ofTrade Review"This is best and clearest treatment available that explains biodiversity conservation, agriculture, landscapes, agroecology and movement politics. And it does so in an easy to read and easy to understand style. A must read!" - Peter Rosset, Professor of Agroecology, ECOSUR, Mexico "As today’s threats of catastrophic biodiversity loss and increased human suffering mount, we have seen ever more proposals in scientific literature and popular media seeking to superficially solve these problems. In contrast, Perfecto, Vandermeer, and Wright follow in the footsteps of all great revolutionary thinkers by asking us to confront these problems’ deepest roots in all their complexity. This second edition of their classic work therefore does one better than the old saw, 'Those who do not learn history are destined to repeat it.' Nature’s Matrix shows us as well that those who do not understand agroecology and food sovereignty are destined to recreate injustices against both people and nature. Luckily, Nature’s Matrix shows us that, by taking allyship with social movements seriously, we can move the arc of history towards justice and sustainability for all of earth's inhabitants." - M. Jahi Chappell, Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience, Coventry University, UK "Nature’s Matrix delves deep into the ecological, social, and political factors that drive biodiversity conservation in the tropics. The authors use both theory and case studies to successfully argue for the integration of agroecology, landscape ecology, and social justice for peasant farmers as necessary components for meeting conservation goals." - Stacy Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "This powerfully written and accessible book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of our global food system and its capacity to support both food sovereignty and biodiversity. This new edition provides critical evidence that landscapes that support an agricultural matrix based on principles of social and ecological justice are the only way to sustainably feed the future." - Hannah Wittman, Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Canada Praise for the first edition "This well written book is informed by sophisticated ecological theory applied to the complexities of modern tropical development in a dazzling critique of conventional thinking." – Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and author of Fate of the Forest. "Greens of every stripe – agro-ecologists, conservationists, regional planners – recognize the need for ecologically farmed areas, an empowered farm population, preserved areas in any sustainable, just and productive mosaic landscape. We all advocate this integration. This book does it." – Richard Levins, Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard University, USA and author of The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. "As the authors demonstrate in this ground-breaking book, traditional agroecosystems not only offer promising models for other areas as they promote biodiversity, thrive without agrochemicals, and sustain year-round yields but are key for food sovereignty and the conservation of millions of wild species as they promote high quality matrices." – Miguel Altieri, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture. "This is the best and clearest treatment available that explains biodiversity conservation, agriculture, landscapes, agroecology and movement politics. And it does so in an easy to read and easy to understand style. A must read!" - Peter Rosset, Professor of Agroecology, ECOSUR, Mexico "As today’s threats of catastrophic biodiversity loss and increased human suffering mount, we have seen ever-more proposals in scientific literature and popular media seeking to superficially solve these problems. In contrast, Perfecto, Vandermeer, and Wright follow in the footsteps of all great revolutionary thinkers by asking us to confront these problems’ deepest roots in all their complexity. This second edition of their classic work therefore does one better than the old saw, 'Those who do not learn history are destined to repeat it.' Nature’s Matrix shows us as well that those who do not understand agroecology and food sovereignty are destined to recreate injustices against both people and nature. Luckily, Nature’s Matrix shows us that, by taking allyship with social movements seriously, we can move the arc of history towards justice and sustainability for all of earth's inhabitants." - M. Jahi Chappell, Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience, Coventry University, UK "Nature’s Matrix delves deep into the ecological, social, and political factors that drive biodiversity conservation in the tropics. The authors use both theory and case studies to successfully argue for the integration of agroecology, landscape ecology, and social justice for peasant farmers as necessary components for meeting conservation goals." - Stacy Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "This powerfully written and accessible book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of our global food system and its capacity to support both food sovereignty and biodiversity. This new edition provides critical evidence that landscapes that support an agricultural matrix based on principles of social and ecological justice are the only way to sustainably feed the future." - Hannah Wittman, Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Canada Praise for the first edition "This well written book is informed by sophisticated ecological theory applied to the complexities of modern tropical development in a dazzling critique of conventional thinking." – Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author of Fate of the Forest. "Greens of every stripe – agro-ecologists, conservationists, regional planners – recognize the need for ecologically farmed areas, an empowered farm population, preserved areas in any sustainable, just and productive mosaic landscape. We all advocate this integration. This book does it." – Richard Levins, Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard University, USA, and author of The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. "As the authors demonstrate in this ground-breaking book, traditional agroecosystems not only offer promising models for other areas as they promote biodiversity, thrive without agrochemicals, and sustain year-round yields but are key for food sovereignty and the conservation of millions of wild species as they promote high quality matrices." – Miguel Altieri, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture. Table of Contents1. Matrix Matters: An Overview 2. The Ecological Background 3. Ecological Theory and Political Realities 4. Historical Patterns in Agriculture 5. Alternatives to the Industrial Model 6. The Broad Social Context – Theoretical Considerations 7. The Broad Social Context – Practice 8. Coffee Production and Biodiversity Conservation 9. Cacao and Biodiversity: The Historical Development of a Biodiversity Landscape 10. The Production of Food and the Biodiversity Connection 11. The New Paradigm References
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Taylor & Francis Participatory Research in MorethanHuman Worlds
Book SynopsisSocio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ecologicalisation' of knowledge. This book adopts a much needed more-than-human' framework to grasp these complexities and challenges. It contains multidisciplinary insights and diverse methodological approaches to question how to revise, reshape and invent methods in order to work with non-humans in participatory ways. The book offers a framework for thinking critically about the promises and potentialities of participation from within a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its future development. It will be of interest to those working in the environmental humanities, animal studies, science and technology studies, ecology, and anthropology.Trade Review"...Valuable insights for researchers in the social sciences, biological sciences, or humanities which may benefit from the experimental and decentering work collected in this book even if the reader engages with the more-than-human world only at a tangential level in their own research... With its wide range of perspectives and its conversely tight dialogical structure drawing largely from participants in shared workshops and panels, this edited collection offers a range of intersecting provocations about the potential for MtH-PR. It operates as an important intervention that will be useful, or at least de-centering, for social scientists and humanities scholars, particularly those working in environmental or STS disciplines." Matt Comi, Agriculture and Human Values (2019) 36:907–908Table of ContentsIntroduction: More-than-human participatory research: contexts, challenges, possibilitiesMichelle Bastian, Owain Jones, Niamh Moore, Emma RoePart 1: Experiments in more-than-human participatory research1. Towards a more-than-human participatory researchMichelle Bastian2. Marginalised voices: zoömusicology through a participatory lensHollis Taylor3. ‘Animal-computer interaction: a manifesto’ (2011) and sections from ‘Towards an animal-centred ethics for Animal–Computer Interaction’ (2016) Clara Mancini4. Transformations of time on ecological pilgrimagePeter ReasonPart 2: Building (tentative) affinities5. How we nose Timothy Hodgetts and Hester6. An apprenticeship in plant thinkingHannah Pitt7. Imagination and empathy – Eden3: Plein AirReiko Goto Collins and Timothy Martin Collins8. Empowerment as skill: the role of affect in building new subjectivitiesAnna Krzywoszynska9. Shadows, undercurrents and the Aliveness MachinesJon Pigott and Antony LyonsPart 3: Cautions10. Laboratory beagles and affective co-productions of knowledgeEva Giraud and Gregory Hollin11. Rethinking ethnobotany? a methodological reflection on human-plant research Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head12. Con-versing: listening, speaking, turning Deirdre Heddon
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Taylor & Francis Geographies of Meat Politics Economy and Culture
Book SynopsisWith the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the world? What are some of the ways to resist such broad convergences in meat production and how successful are they? This book locates the answers to these questions at the intersection between the culture, science and political economy of meat production and consumption. It details how and why techniques of production have spread across the world, albeit in a spatially uneven way. It argues that the modern meat production and consumption sphere is the outcome of a complex matrix of cultural politics, economics and technological faith. Drawing from examples across the world (including America, Europe and Asia), the tensions and repercussions of meat production and consumption are also analyzed. From a geographical perspective, food animals have been given considerably less attention compared to wild animals or pets. This book, framed conceptually by critical animal studies, governmentality and commodification, is a theoretically driven and empirically rich study that advances the study of food animals in geography as well as in the wider social sciences. Trade Review"The book expands on critical animalgeographies by focusing on farmed animals, a category which has been largely overlooked. Further, by addressing hierarchy in human-animal relationships, Geographies of Meat also extends and applies concepts from anarchist geography to farmed animals. In Western societies meat is coming to a crossroads, but is finding new markets elsewhere, mostly in Asia. This makes the timing of Geographies of Meat all the more important."Nathan Poirier Anthrozoology Canisius College, AntipodeTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Political Economy of Meat: Global Trends and Local Tensions 3. Science, Technology and the Commodification of Food Animals 4. The Global Meat Factory and the Environment 5. The Thanataopolitics of Industrialised Animal Life and Death 6. On Not Eating Meat: Vegetarianism, Science and Advocacy 7. Conclusions, Index
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Taylor & Francis Research Methods for Interior Design
Book SynopsisInterior design has shifted significantly in the past fifty years from a focus on home decoration within family and consumer sciences to a focus on the impact of health and safety within the interior environment. This shift has called for a deeper focus in evidence-based research for interior design education and practice. Research Methods for Interior Design provides a broad range of qualitative and quantitative examples, each highlighted as a case of interior design research. Each chapter is supplemented with an in-depth introduction, additional questions, suggested exercises, and additional research references. The bookâs subtitle, Applying Interiority, identifies one reason why the field of interior design is expanding, namely, all people wish to achieve a subjective sense of well-being within built environments, even when those environments are not defined by walls. The chapters of this book exemplify different ways to comprehend interiority through clearlyTable of ContentsIntroduction Dana E. Vaux and David Wang 1. Focus Groups: Interiority at the Scale of Neighborhoods: Exploring the health experiences of three cultural groups Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 2. Design ethnography: Understanding User Experience Within Flexible Workplaces: An Ethnographic Approach Isil Oygur, Ozgur Gocer and Ebru Ergoz Karahan 3. Narrative inquiry: Narratives of Healing: The Records of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in the Era of the Great Depression Erin Cunningham 4. Applied historic preservation: A Local Meeting Place: The Adaptive Reuse of the Huffman House Lisa Tucker 5. Oral histories: Living and Moving, Thingly (Interior) History Bryan D. Orthel 6. Philosophical method: Interior Design in the Common Sense David Wang 7. Logical argumentation: Understanding Place Meaning through Ethos Intensive Objects Dana E. Vaux 8. Mixed methods: Validating ‘feeling at home’: Developing a Psychological Construct Pattern to aid in the Design of Environments for the Homeless Jill Pable 9. Correlation: Correlating Interior Lighting with Teacher Productivity Levels in the Public preK-12 Classroom Alana Pulay 10. Scale Creation: Measuring the "Thirdplaceness" of Social Media Platform. Michael R. Langlais and Dana E. Vaux 11. Virtual simulation: Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing in a Classroom Design. Saleh Kalantari 12. Creative scholarship: Computational design: organic growth and research tactics. An interview with Andrew Kudless by David Wang and Dana E. Vaux Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing a New Environmental Era
Book SynopsisWriting a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving forward to forge a more harmonious relationship with nature in the future. Using the rise of the automobile and climate change denial literature to explore how our current environmental era was written into existence, Ken Hiltner argues that the humanitiesand not, as might be expected, the sciencesneed to lead us there. In one sense, climate change is caused by a rise in atmospheric CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. Science can address this cause. However, approached in another way altogether, climate change is caused by a range of troubling human activities that require the release of these gases, such as our obsessions with cars, lavish houses, air travel and enTrade Review“Hiltner agrees that humanities scholars need to use skills we have honed over decades for critical thinking and social responsibility to contribute to “writing forward to nature”, in a way that will mitigate the disaster that’s waiting. Hiltner has provided a model for others to follow. This is an important book, lucidly written, showing clear thinking; it’s a must-read, and should be widely disseminated.” E. Ann Kaplan, Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University"At once visionary and pragmatic, this eye-opening book argues for an "applied humanities": science-informed, tech-savvy, and fully equipped to write the greenest possible future into being. Using his own experiment -- the "Nearly Carbon Neutral" conference -- as a test case, Ken Hiltner shows that climate action is the work of every humanities scholar."Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"In this engaging and tightly argued book, environmental humanities scholar Ken Hiltner shows that the solution to our present environmental crises is not a return to some pristine and harmonious natural world. Thoreau’s famous retreat on Walden Pond, Hiltner reminds us, was only a short journey away from the textile mills of Lowell. If the pastoral idyll was never more than a convenient fiction, today we face an urgent imperative, as Hiltner puts it, to “move forward” to nature. The environmental humanities can play a key role in this movement, Hiltner suggests, inasmuch as they can help us write the future into being. Blending personal memoir, whip-smart literary criticism, and some extremely forward-thinking suggestions about how to green academia, Hiltner’s book models what committed scholarship for our perilous times looks like."Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, The Graduate Center & College of Staten Island, The City University of New York"A provocative exploration of how we understand humanity's relationship with nature and a call to write our way not to a romanticized Edenic past, but to a truly sustainable future."Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute"In an era of accelerating climate breakdown and mass extinction, Hiltner convincingly argues that the environmental movement must take a step back and question its most fundamental assumptions concerning humanity's relationship with nature, culture, and technology."Peter Kalmus, Climate Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Forward to Nature Turning from the Past Turning Toward the Future Forward to Nature, Away from Nature Places, Natural and Otherwise Part II: Writing a New Environmental Era Writing a New Environmental Era Confronting Denial Going Nowhere Fast Epilogue: About this Book Appendix: Writing a New Practice, Details, Details Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing a New Environmental Era Moving forward to
Book SynopsisWriting a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving forward to forge a more harmonious relationship with nature in the future. Using the rise of the automobile and climate change denial literature to explore how our current environmental era was written into existence, Ken Hiltner argues that the humanitiesand not, as might be expected, the sciencesneed to lead us there. In one sense, climate change is caused by a rise in atmospheric CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. Science can address this cause. However, approached in another way altogether, climate change is caused by a range of troubling human activities that require the release of these gases, such as our obsessions with cars, lavish houses, air travel and enTrade Review“Hiltner agrees that humanities scholars need to use skills we have honed over decades for critical thinking and social responsibility to contribute to “writing forward to nature”, in a way that will mitigate the disaster that’s waiting. Hiltner has provided a model for others to follow. This is an important book, lucidly written, showing clear thinking; it’s a must-read, and should be widely disseminated.” E. Ann Kaplan, Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University"At once visionary and pragmatic, this eye-opening book argues for an "applied humanities": science-informed, tech-savvy, and fully equipped to write the greenest possible future into being. Using his own experiment -- the "Nearly Carbon Neutral" conference -- as a test case, Ken Hiltner shows that climate action is the work of every humanities scholar."Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University"In this engaging and tightly argued book, environmental humanities scholar Ken Hiltner shows that the solution to our present environmental crises is not a return to some pristine and harmonious natural world. Thoreau’s famous retreat on Walden Pond, Hiltner reminds us, was only a short journey away from the textile mills of Lowell. If the pastoral idyll was never more than a convenient fiction, today we face an urgent imperative, as Hiltner puts it, to “move forward” to nature. The environmental humanities can play a key role in this movement, Hiltner suggests, inasmuch as they can help us write the future into being. Blending personal memoir, whip-smart literary criticism, and some extremely forward-thinking suggestions about how to green academia, Hiltner’s book models what committed scholarship for our perilous times looks like."Ashley Dawson, Professor of English, The Graduate Center & College of Staten Island, The City University of New York"A provocative exploration of how we understand humanity's relationship with nature and a call to write our way not to a romanticized Edenic past, but to a truly sustainable future."Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute"In an era of accelerating climate breakdown and mass extinction, Hiltner convincingly argues that the environmental movement must take a step back and question its most fundamental assumptions concerning humanity's relationship with nature, culture, and technology."Peter Kalmus, Climate Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Forward to Nature Turning from the Past Turning Toward the Future Forward to Nature, Away from Nature Places, Natural and Otherwise Part II: Writing a New Environmental Era Writing a New Environmental Era Confronting Denial Going Nowhere Fast Epilogue: About this Book Appendix: Writing a New Practice, Details, Details Notes
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CRC Press The Waterside Ape An Alternative Account of Human
Book SynopsisWhy are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable?Why arenât we hairy like our close ape relatives?A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions. Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might, but these models have been rejected. This book explores a controversial idea â that human evolution was intimately associated with watery habitats as much or more than typical savannahs. Written from a medical point of view, the author presents evidence supporting a credible alternative explanation for how humans diverged from our primate ancestors. Anatomical and physiological evidence offer insight into hairlessness, different coloured skin, subcutaneous fat, large brains, a marine-type kidney, a unique heat regulation system and speech. This evidence suggests that humans may well have evolved, not just as savannah mammals, as is generally believed, but with more affinity for aquatic habitats â rivers, streams, lakes and coasts.Key Features:Presents the evidence for a close association between riparian habitats and the origin of humansReviews the savannah ape hypothesis for human originsDescribes various anatomical adaptations that are associated with hypotheses of human evolution Explores characteristics from the head and neck such as skull and sinus structures, the larynx and ear structures and functions Trade Review"In my view, this is a totally incontrovertible demonstration that our view of the paleo history of humanity has been quite misguided. So, to me, this is a very, very important book. You will find at least two (arguments) which are, to my mind, conclusive. One is to do with exostoses which develop as bulging growths in the ear canal, which occur amongst people today who spend a lot of time diving – extraordinary – and they can be discovered in the skulls in the period that we are talking about – early human skulls. Another extraordinary revelation in Peter’s book, which is also new, is that human babies, when they are born, are covered in a membrane called the vernix. It is a very strange thing – nobody quite understands why. There is no other primate that we know has a vernix. Peter and his co-workers have discovered that there is another creature which has a vernix – seals. What is more, the chemistry, the biochemistry, the molecule which is responsible and the gene which is responsible for producing a vernix, is identical." Sir David Attenborough"Congratulations on your new book. The shoreline and riverbank are fertile sources of small animal life, as any exploratory schoolboy knows, and the creatures living there are comparatively simple to catch. It does look as if our species went through a temporary water-loving phase, and spent a great deal of its time fishing around beneath the surface. With this as an encouragement, the Aquatic Theory sees early man becoming more and more engrossed in his dabblings and divings, living in tribal groups close to the water’s edge and slowly adapting to this new pattern of living. So, I approve of your title The Waterside Ape. In 1977, Desmond Morris wrote: "Hopefully, future fossil-hunters will unearth some evidence to resolve this question. All we need now is some hard, tangible evidence to clinch the idea"."Desmond Morris, Author of The Naked Ape"I found this a fascinating book. We have a very thought provoking, if surprisingly controversial, theory, to which an ENT expert has obviously been able to make a major contribution It shows how much can be learnt from comparative anatomy and is of special interest to an ENT readership. I thought it presented very convincing evidence for a theory that the anthropologists should address with a better counterargument than presently offered".Liam M Flood FRCS, Editor, Journal of Laryngology and Otology"The waterside theory of homo evolution has been around for a long time and more and more fossil evidence is being unearthed constantly to support the already copious amounts of evidence from comparative biology. This book sheds light on both the existing evidence and new evidence that has come to light. Books like this should be taught in schools and colleges as it explains so much about our species. The author clearly knows his subject and writes in a way that is both comprehensible and interesting to the layman and full of scientific insight to academics. He picks up where Elaine Morgan left off and continues to challenge the head in the sand scientists who refuse to even consider this topic"Francesca Mansfield, Founder/Director, Odyssey Sailing"This book adds the latest information to the growing body of evidence that Homo sapiens had a period in its evolutionary history where water played an important part. This explains why modern humans have characteristics that do not align with other terrestrial mammals and in particular any other of the primate apes. This idea was first proposed by the eminent marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy in 1964. It was not well received by the biological establishment at that time. It was subsequently taken up by Elaine Morgan in her first book The Descent of Woman. She wrote several more books as updates on the theory. It addresses the questions of why we are bipedal, naked (nearly), can hold our breath for extended periods, have subcutaneous fat, a very large brain to bodyweight ratio, have speech as the consequence of a descended larynx, etc, etc.The zoological establishment have resisted this theory for nearly sixty years but there are signs of light dawning amongst the younger fraternity without the prejudice and bias of the conventional view that modern humans evolved on the African savannah. As a retired scientist, I can tell you that prejudice blights my discipline as it does the rest of humanity; but I would urge you all to remember the words of Max Planck - a nuclear physicist who had trouble with his establishment. He said: "Scientists never change their minds but eventually, they die!"Gray Mage, Retired Scientist"Well written and referenced, fairly balanced although always returning to the interesting underlying hypothesis that extended time in waterside environments near the Rift Valley of Africa selected for hominids with key adaptive features that helped the progression toward modern Homo sapiens. Artificial selection within populations, which also seems plausible, and similarly, the elimination of other tribe-equivalents, are not discussed. The book persuades me to read recent work by the master of human evolution, Desmond Morris." Gerald McLaughlin"Rhys-Evans provides an up-to-date account of all the paleontological, environmental and medical evidence for the aquatic ape hypothesis. The information is interesting, makes use of well-referenced scientific articles, and applies logic where gaps need to be filled in. A variety of human "attributes" are compared with similar attributes in terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic animals. Any speculation on the author's part is noted as such. The information is presented in a straight-forward manner, with the use of the correct technical terms for anatomical organs/structures, which may require some effort on the part of non-medical readers. Illustrations are provided where relevant. The information contained in this book is fascinating and really should be read by anyone even vaguely interested in human evolution." Jill Schroeder"In my view, this is a totally incontrovertible demonstration that our view of the paleo history of humanity has been quite misguided. So, to me, this is a very, very important book. You will find at least two (arguments) which are, to my mind, conclusive. One is to do with exostoses which develop as bulging growths in the ear canal, which occur amongst people today who spend a lot of time diving – extraordinary – and they can be discovered in the skulls in the period that we are talking about – early human skulls. Another extraordinary revelation in Peter’s book, which is also new, is that human babies, when they are born, are covered in a membrane called the vernix. It is a very strange thing – nobody quite understands why. There is no other primate that we know has a vernix. Peter and his co-workers have discovered that there is another creature which has a vernix – seals. What is more, the chemistry, the biochemistry, the molecule which is responsible and the gene which is responsible for producing a vernix, is identical." Sir David Attenborough"Congratulations on your new book. The shoreline and riverbank are fertile sources of small animal life, as any exploratory schoolboy knows, and the creatures living there are comparatively simple to catch. It does look as if our species went through a temporary water-loving phase, and spent a great deal of its time fishing around beneath the surface. With this as an encouragement, the Aquatic Theory sees early man becoming more and more engrossed in his dabblings and divings, living in tribal groups close to the water’s edge and slowly adapting to this new pattern of living. So, I approve of your title The Waterside Ape. In 1977, Desmond Morris wrote: "Hopefully, future fossil-hunters will unearth some evidence to resolve this question. All we need now is some hard, tangible evidence to clinch the idea"."Desmond Morris, Author of The Naked Ape"I found this a fascinating book. We have a very thought provoking, if surprisingly controversial, theory, to which an ENT expert has obviously been able to make a major contribution It shows how much can be learnt from comparative anatomy and is of special interest to an ENT readership. I thought it presented very convincing evidence for a theory that the anthropologists should address with a better counterargument than presently offered".Liam M Flood FRCS, Editor, Journal of Laryngology and Otology"The waterside theory of homo evolution has been around for a long time and more and more fossil evidence is being unearthed constantly to support the already copious amounts of evidence from comparative biology. This book sheds light on both the existing evidence and new evidence that has come to light. Books like this should be taught in schools and colleges as it explains so much about our species. The author clearly knows his subject and writes in a way that is both comprehensible and interesting to the layman and full of scientific insight to academics. He picks up where Elaine Morgan left off and continues to challenge the head in the sand scientists who refuse to even consider this topic"Francesca Mansfield, Founder/Director, Odyssey Sailing"This book adds the latest information to the growing body of evidence that Homo sapiens had a period in its evolutionary history where water played an important part. This explains why modern humans have characteristics that do not align with other terrestrial mammals and in particular any other of the primate apes. This idea was first proposed by the eminent marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy in 1964. It was not well received by the biological establishment at that time. It was subsequently taken up by Elaine Morgan in her first book The Descent of Woman. She wrote several more books as updates on the theory. It addresses the questions of why we are bipedal, naked (nearly), can hold our breath for extended periods, have subcutaneous fat, a very large brain to bodyweight ratio, have speech as the consequence of a descended larynx, etc, etc.The zoological establishment have resisted this theory for nearly sixty years but there are signs of light dawning amongst the younger fraternity without the prejudice and bias of the conventional view that modern humans evolved on the African savannah. As a retired scientist, I can tell you that prejudice blights my discipline as it does the rest of humanity; but I would urge you all to remember the words of Max Planck - a nuclear physicist who had trouble with his establishment. He said: "Scientists never change their minds but eventually, they die!"Gray Mage, Retired Scientist, "Well written and referenced, fairly balanced although always returning to the interesting underlying hypothesis that extended time in waterside environments near the Rift Valley of Africa selected for hominids with key adaptive features that helped the progression toward modern Homo sapiens. Artificial selection within populations, which also seems plausible, and similarly, the elimination of other tribe-equivalents, are not discussed. The book persuades me to read recent work by the master of human evolution, Desmond Morris." Gerald McLaughlin"Rhys-Evans provides an up-to-date account of all the paleontological, environmental and medical evidence for the aquatic ape hypothesis. The information is interesting, makes use of well-referenced scientific articles, and applies logic where gaps need to be filled in. A variety of human "attributes" are compared with similar attributes in terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic animals. Any speculation on the author's part is noted as such. The information is presented in a straight-forward manner, with the use of the correct technical terms for anatomical organs/structures, which may require some effort on the part of non-medical readers. Illustrations are provided where relevant. The information contained in this book is fascinating and really should be read by anyone even vaguely interested in human evolution." Jill SchroederTable of ContentsForeword by Gareth Morgan.Chapter 1 Theories of Human Evolution. Chapter 2 The Aquatic Debate.Chapter 3 Our Genetic Heritage. Chapter 4 Our Early Ancestors. Chapter 5 The Neanderthals and Their Demise. Chapter 6 The Waterside Ape – Why Are We So Different? Chapter 7 The Naked Ape. Chapter 8 Why We Lost Our Costs: The Early Hominin Tailors. Chapter 9 Evolutionary Adaptations in the Human Skull and Sinuses. Chapter 10 Human Skull Buoyancy and the Diving Reflex. Chapter 11 Surfer’s Ear. Chapter 12 Evolution of the Human Brain. Chapter 13 Food for Thought and the Cognitive Revolution. Chapter 14 The Human Larynx and Evolution of Voice. Chapter 15 Obstetric and Neonatal Considerations. Chapter 16 Marine Adaptations in the Human Kidney. Chapter 17 Scars of Evolution. Chapter 18 We Are What We Eat. Chapter 19 An Incredible Journey. Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Collaborative Crisis Management
Book SynopsisPublic organizations are increasingly expected to cope with crisis under the same resource constraints and mandates that make up their normal routines, reinforced only through collaboration. Collaborative Crisis Management introduces readers to how collaboration shapes societiesâ capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from extreme and unscheduled events.Placing emphasis on five conceptual dimensions, this book teaches students how this panacea works out on the ground and in the boardrooms, and how insights on collaborative practices can shed light on the outcomes of complex inter-organizational challenges across cases derived from different problem areas, administrative cultures, and national systems. Written in a concise, accessible style by experienced teachers and scholars, it places modes of collaboration under an analytical microscope by assessing not only the collaborative tools available to actors but also how they are used, to what effect, and with whiTrade Review"Crisis collaboration across geographical and administrative borders is a must. It is also extremely hard. Under the guidance of Bynander and Nohrstedt, crisis experts pursue the Holy Grail of crisis collaboration in an exciting set of case studies. Extremely relevant for both academics and practitioners. A welcome addition to the crisis literature!" —Arjen Boin, Leiden University"Collaborative Crisis Management addresses collective action dilemma in response to major crises and disasters such as terrorism, wildfires, and earthquakes in different geographies, cultures, and political and administrative settings. This timely volume provides conceptually and analytically valuable perspectives from experts in the field in applying network governance in dealing with crises and disasters. The volume is an essential resource for both scholars and practitioners." —Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., Pegasus Professor & Director of the School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida“Emergency management is, above all, a social process. This authoritative book provides a valuable structure for analyzing the participation of people and organizations in crisis response. Its coverage of hazards and geographical areas is broad and eclectic. In responding to disasters and major incidents, collaboration is becoming more and more necessary. Many different agencies are likely to be involved, and hence the interorganizational perspective brought by the authors of this book is particularly welcome.” —David Alexander, Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAppendicesList of TablesList of Contributors1. Collaborative Crisis Management: Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme EventsFredrik Bynander and Daniel Nohrstedt2. Upscaling Collaborative Crisis Management: A Comparison of Wildfire Responder Networks in Canada and SwedenDaniel Nohrstedt, Julia Baird, Örjan Bodin, Ryan Plummer and Robert Summers3. Secure Summits: Collaborative Crisis Management Before and During Global Government ConventionsSanneke Kuipers and Marij Swinkels4. Managing Extraordinary Influx of Migrants: The 2015 Migration Crisis in Sweden Edward Deverell and Dan Hansén5. Overcoming Collective-Action Problems in Collaborative Crisis Management: Meta-Governance and Security Communications SystemsOscar L. Larsson6. Vertical Collaboration During the 2014 Swedish WildfireFredrik Bynander7. Collaborative Crisis Management in Turkey: Perceptions and Outcomes of Collaboration During Two EarthquakesHelena Hermansson8. Transregional Crisis Management in Africa Simon Hollis and Eva-Karin Olsson9. Addressing the Challenges of Transboundary Crises: The Dutch Local Response to the Global Surge in ISIS SupportersScott Douglas, Aline Bos and Mirko Noordegraaf10. Avoiding the Failures of Collaborative Crisis Management: Lessons from Research and Practice Charles F. Parker and Bengt Sundelius11. Under What Conditions Does an Extreme Event Deploy its Focal Power?: Toward Collaborative Governance in Swiss Flood Risk ManagementKarin Ingold and Alexandra Gavilano12. Lessons and Avenues for Future Research in Collaborative Crisis ManagementDaniel Nohrstedt And Fredrik BynanderIndex
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Taylor & Francis Governing the Environment in the Early Modern
Book SynopsisThroughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration of long-held beliefs about the role of climate in upholding the social order, driving economies and affecting public health. Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World explores the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and change between 1500 and 1800. Taking a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental governance, this edited collection combines an interpretative perspective with new insights into a period largely unfamiliar to environmental historians. Using a rich and multifaceted narrative, this book offers an understanding as to how efforts to enhance productive aTrade ReviewGoverning the Environment presents us with diverse and innovative scholarship on how early modern thinkers interpreted the complex relationships between people and their dynamic environments. Although focused on the past, this well-crafted volume provides fresh perspectives on current interrogations into what constitutes "nature" in light of the long history of politicized climate knowledge, the variable effects of human agency, and the challenges of environmental governance projects.Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North CarolinaWith learning lightly worn, these insightful essays illuminate the multiple, and ever-evolving, understandings of climate and the environment circulating in Western Europe and North America in the early modern centuries. They convincingly show how deeply environmental ideas, and management practices, were embedded in prevailing political and social orders - then as now.John McNeill, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Mike Hulme Introduction Sara Miglietti and John Morgan 1.Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world - Rebecca Earle 2. Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism Richard Spavin 3. Marshes as microclimate: governing with the environment in early modern France Raphael Morera 4. Mastering north-east England's "River of Tine": efforts to manage a rvier's flow, functions and form 1529-c.1800 Leona Skelton 5. "Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the waste land fruitful": Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour Ashley Dodsworth 6. Winter and discontent in early modern England - William Cavert 7. “A considerable change of climate”: glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic - Anya Zilberstein 8."Vast factories of febrile poison": wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850 - Anthony Carlson
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Modern History Of Somalia
Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a sociologically and anthropologically informed history of the Somali people. It seeks to elucidate the circumstances of the holy war waged by Sayyid Muhammad ''Abdille Hassan against the colonizers between 1900 and 1920.Table of Contents1. The Physical and Social Setting 2. Before Partition 3. The Imperial Partition: 1860–97 4. The Dervish Fight for Freedom: 1900–20 5. Somali Unification: The Italian East African Empire 6. The Restoration of Colonial Frontiers: 1940–50 7. From Trusteeship to Independence: 1950–60 8. The Problems of Independence 9. The Somali Revolution: 1969–76 10. Nationalism, Ethnicity and Revolution in the Horn of Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Blue Spaces
Book SynopsisThis book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities.Numerous cities around the world are located alongside bodies of water in the form of coastlines, lakes, rivers and canals, but the relationship between city inhabitants and these water sources has often been ambivalent. In many cities, water has been polluted, engineered or ignored completely. But, due to an increasing awareness of the strong connections between city, people, nature and water and health, this paradigm is shifting.The international editorial team, consisting of researchers and professionals across several disciplines, leads the reader through theoretical aspecTable of ContentsForeword Michael Depledge Introduction Simon Bell, Lora E. Fleming and James Grellier PART ONE: Water, blue space and health and well-being: The evidence base and how to use it CHAPTER 1: Blue space as an essential factor in environment and health George P. Morris, Himansu S. Mishra and Lora E. Fleming CHAPTER 2: Potential benefits of blue space for human health and well-being Mathew P. White, Lewis R. Elliott, Mireia Gascon, Bethany Roberts and Lora E. Fleming CHAPTER 3: Co-design with local stakeholders Mart Külvik, Mireia Gascon, Marina Cervera Alonso de Medina, Lewis R. Elliott, Jekaterina Balicka, Frederico Meireles Rodrigues and Monika Suškevičs PART TWO: Tools, indicators and models for planning and design CHAPTER 4: Generating evidence in support of site planning and design: The BlueHealth toolbox James Grellier, Himansu S. Mishra, Lewis R. Elliott, Susanne Wuijts and Matthias F. W. Braubach CHAPTER 5: Assessing the land-water environment Himansu S. Mishra, Katrin Saar and Simon Bell CHAPTER 6: Observing behaviour for site planning and design Peeter Vassiljev, Cristina Vert and Simon Bell CHAPTER 7: Capturing affordances for health and well-being at the city scale Gloria Niin, Peeter Vassiljev, Tiina Rinne and Simon Bell CHAPTER 8: Assessing city-wide and local health and wellbeing benefits Lewis R. Elliott, Matthew P. White, Wilma Zijlema, Cristina Vert and Peeter Vassiljev CHAPTER 9: A decision support tool for optimising blue space design and management for health Arnt Diener, Marco Martuzzi, Francesco Palermo, Laura Mancini, Giovanni Coppini and Matthias F. W. Braubach PART THREE: Inspirational practice for planning and design CHAPTER 10: Reviewing the evidence for good planning and design Himansu S. Mishra, Simon Bell, Jekaterina Balicka and Anna Wilczyńska CHAPTER 11: Urban river revitalisation Friedrich Kuhlmann, Jekaterina Balicka and Anna Wilczyńska CHAPTER 12: Seafronts, beaches, lakeside, and promenades Simon Bell, Himansu S. Mishra, Anna Wilczyńska and Jekaterina Balicka CHAPTER 13: Urban wetlands and storm water management Himansu Mishra, Simon Bell, Anna Wilczyńska and Jekaterina Balicka CHAPTER 14: Docklands, harbours and post industrial sites Simon Bell, Anna Wilczyńska and Jekaterina Balicka CHAPTER 15: Tactical urbanism, urban acupuncture and small-scale projects Jekaterina Balicka, Joanna Tamar Storie, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Anna Wilczyńska and Simon Bell CHAPTER 16: Future outlook studies: the use of scenarios to create healthy blue cities Judith Hin and Susanne Wuijts APPENDIX: A blue space typology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Great Barrier Reef
Book SynopsisThe iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. With contributions from international experts, this timely and fully updated second edition of The Great Barrier Reef describes the animals, plants and other organisms of the reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. It contains new chapters on shelf slopes and fisheries and addresses pressing issues such as climate change, ocean acidification, coral bleaching and disease, and invasive species.The Great Barrier Reef is a must-read for the interested reef tourist, student, researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus, it can equally be used as a reference text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs.Key Features: Exciting and contemporary account of the issues that face the world's most complex marine ecosystem. Examines the diversity, physiology, ecology and conservaTable of Contents1 Nature of the reef2 Factors affecting the reef3 Overview of reef biodiversity and organisms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Far East and Australasia 2020
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive survey of the countries of East and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, along with 22 Pacific islands, fully revised to reflect current economic and political developments, is an essential resource for the Asia-Pacific region.Calendar of Political EventsA calendar of events provides a convenient reference guide to the yearâs main political developments General SurveyWritten by leading experts, this collection of essays provides incisive analysis of regional issues. Country SurveysIndividual chapters on each country containing: essays on geography, history and the economy an economic and demographic survey of the latest available statistics on population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, communications and education a comprehensive directory of names and contact details covering the most significant political, financial and commercial institutions a country-specific bibliography. An entire section is dedicated to the Pacific islands, including specially commissioned essays examining the contemporary politics of the islands, their economies, security concerns and the environmental issues confronting themRegional Information includes all major international organizations active in the region, their aims, activities, publications and principal personnel a detailed survey of major commodities in Asia and the Pacific a directory of research institutes specializing in the region select bibliographies of books and periodicals covering the Asia-Pacific region an index of regional organizations. Table of ContentsPart 1: General Survey Part 2: Country Surveys Sections on geography, history and economy, as well as statistical surveys, directories and bibliographies for each country. Part 3: Regional Information Regional Organizations. Major Commodities of Asia and the Pacific. Calendars and Time Reckoning. Research Institutes Studying the Far East and Australasia. Select Bibliography (Books). Select Bibliography (Periodicals). Index of Regional Organizations. Index of Territories. List of Maps.
£675.00
Taylor & Francis The Origins of Open Field Agriculture
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1981, The Origins of Open Field Agriculture looks at the problems connected with open field agriculture the origins of strip cultivation, the three-field system, the adaptation of Celtic' fields, and the development of ploughing techniques. The book looks at the challenges to traditional ideas on the origins of settlement and their associated economy, and casts new light on understandings of village development. The book suggests that conventional views of the nucleated village, in the midst of open field strips as a product of the Anglo-Saxon migration, is no longer tenable. The book brings together the work of distinguished archaeologists, historians, and historical geographers and opens up a new perspective on the early development of medieval agriculture. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Plates Preface 1. Archaeology and the Origins of Open-field Agriculture 2. The Origins of Open-field Agriculture – The Archaeological Fieldwork Evidence 3. Open-field Agriculture – The Evidence from the Pre-Conquest Charters of the West-Midlands 4. Approaches to the Adoption of the Midland System 5. Commonfield Origins – The Regional Dimension 6. The Interpretation of Subdivided Fields: A Study in Private or Communal Interests? 7. Townfield Origins: The Case of Cockfield, Country Durham 8. The Evolution of Settlement and Open-field Topography in North Arden down to 1300 9. The Origin of Planned Field System in Holderness, Yorkshire 10. Early Customary Tenures in Wales and Open-field Agriculture Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Cricket
Book SynopsisCricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945, a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game's evolution as an international sport, analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the developmTrade ReviewShortlisted for The Cricket Writers’ Club book award 2018"An astonishing piece of deep scholarship and stylish concision. The book possesses a richness and an intellectual grasp far greater than a short review can properly reflect." - Paul Edwards, The Cricketer"The injunction to keep politics out of sport is age-old. Muddle-headed too, as Stephen Wagg's comprehensive comparative history of the politics in cricket demonstrates. This thorough and necessary book should become a standard reference." - Gideon Haigh, Australia's leading cricket writer"Building thoughtfully on the work of the late Mike Marqusee, this is an insightful and richly rewarding labour of love. Astutely structured and deftly researched, the book draws on the author’s deep knowledge of geopolitical reality and how it manifests itself in post-Imperial cricket, enabling an ambitious brief to be admirably met. At times, indeed, you wonder how the game has survived the context in which it is played. If you want to know why cricket is the world’s most racialized, politicised and fascinating ballgame, look no further." - Rob Steen, Senior Lecturer and award-winning sports journalist, University of Brighton, UK"Cricket is one of a few sports where nation vs nation remained a primary contest well into the new millennium. Inexorably tied to a colonial past, cricket also reflected the aspiration of its new nations and nationhoods over the last five decades. In a masterful work of scholarship, Wagg gives us an engaging, comprehensive new history of modern cricket. From the relentless churn of events, achievements and controversies around the cricketing globe, he teases out the sport’s engagements with the zeitgeist: the tussle between the old world and the new, the tumult of race and gender, the advent of "professionalism", globalisation and the corporatisation of cricket. As much as the book is about modern cricket around the world, Wagg has also skilfully identified the world's footprints on modern cricket." - Sharda Ugra, Senior Editor, ESPNcricinfo and ESPN India"Now seems the ideal time for the publication of a book pertaining to the history of how cricket has developed in and out of step with the political and social sphere … Among others, the book is dedicated to the late American writer and political activist Mike Marqusee, and leans heavily on his totemic treatise Anyone but England. Though this book is less polemic than that work, it slots in comfortably next to it on a cricket love’s bookshelf, and loses little in comparison to its relative. There can be little higher praise than that." - WisdenTable of ContentsPart 1: Cricket and the End of Empire 1. Fossilised Reactionaries? English Cricket Since 1945 2. A Nation of Blow-Ins? Cricket in Australia Since 1945 3. ‘The Partnership of the Horse and its Rider’: Cricket in Southern Africa Since 1945 4. A Relative Lack of Interest: Cricket in New Zealand Since 1945 5. Father, King, Statesman, General, Prince, Don: West Indian Cricket Culture Since 1945 6. The Soul of a Nation, Long Suppressed? Cricket in India Since 1945 7. Cricket in a Hard Country: Pakistani Cricket Since 1947 8. ‘We Rule Here, You Rule There’: Cricket in East Pakistan and Bangladesh Since 1947 9. After Brewing Tea for the Empire: Cricket in Sri Lanka Since 1945 10. Straight Shooting Blokes: Social Distinction, Masculinity and Myth in The Ashes 1945 to 2015 Part 2: Cricket in the Age of Globalisation 11. ‘Everyone Seemed to Be ‘With It’: Cricket Politics and the Coming of the One Day Game, 1940-1970 12. ‘Paint a Picture, and Keep it the Right Way Up’: Cricket and the Mass Media 1945-2015 13. Women’s Cricket: The Feminism That Dared Not Speak Its Name 14. Remove the Gunk in the Middle: The Coming of Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League 15. Have You Made This Team Great, or Have They Made You? Cricket, Coaching, and Globalisation 16. Beyond the Boundaries: The Drive to Globalise Cricket, and its Limits 17. Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fire Effects on Soil Properties
Book SynopsisWildland fires are occurring more frequently and affecting more of Earth's surface than ever before. These fires affect the properties of soils and the processes by which they form, but the nature of these impacts has not been well understood. Given that healthy soil is necessary to sustain biodiversity, ecosystems and agriculture, the impact of fire on soil is a vital field of research.Fire Effects on Soil Properties brings together current research on the effects of fire on the physical, biological and chemical properties of soil. Written by over 60 international experts in the field, it includes examples from fire-prone areas across the world, dealing with ash, meso and macrofauna, smouldering fires, recurrent fires and management of fire-affected soils. It also describes current best practice methodologies for research and monitoring of fire effects and new methodologies for future research. This is the first time information on this topic has been presented in a single vTable of ContentsPart 1 Review of fire effects on soil properties, Part 2 Methods used to study the effects of fire on soils.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Biochemical and Environmental Bioprocessing
Book Synopsis The rapid growth of industries has resulted in the generation of high volume of solid and liquid waste. Today, there is a need of Clean and Green technology for the sustainable waste management. Biochemical and Environmental Bioprocessing: Challenges and Developments explore the State-of-art green technologies to manage the waste and to recover value added products. Microbes play an important role in the bioremediation. Bioprocess engineering an interdisciplinary connects the Science and Technology. The bioconversion and bioremediation is essentially required for the management of various hazardous substances in the environment. This book will give an intensive knowledge on the application of Biochemical and Bioprocess technologies for the eco-friendly management of pollution. This book serves as a fundamental to the students, researchers, academicians and Engineers working in the area of Environmental Bioremediation and in the exploration of various bioprTable of ContentsBiosorption-an elective strategy for wastewater treatment: An eco-friendly approach, Recent Advancements and Perspectives on Biological Degradation of Azo Dye, Performance analysis of anaerobic digestion of textile dyeing industry effluent in a modified sequential batch reactor, Waste sea shells for biodiesel production – Current status and future perspective, AN INTENSIFIED AND INTEGRATED BIOREFINARY APPROACH FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION, Hydrothermal carbonization for valorisation of ricehusk, Production of biofuels from algal biomass, Diffusion limitations in biocatalytic reactions: Challenges and Solutions, Recent advancements and applications of nanotechnology inexpelling heavy metal contaminants from wastewater, Organic Flocculation as an Alternative For Wastewater Treatment, Power production in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC): Recent progress and Future scope, Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Properties of Cuo Loaded Hydrophobically Modified Chitosans, Fucoxanthin: Biosynthesis, structure, extraction, characteristics and its application
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Taylor & Francis Jainism and Environmental Politics
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice. Aidan Rankin begins with a description of the ideas and principles that distinguish Jainism from other Indian (and western) philosophies. He goes on to compare and contrast these principles with those of current environmental politics and to demonstrate the specific ways in which Jain ideas can assist in driving the movement forward. These include the reduction of material consumption, the ethical conduct of business within sustainable limits, and the avoidance of exploitative relationships with fellow humans, animals and ecosystems. Overall, the book argues that Jain pluralism could be a powerful tool for engaging non-western societies with environmental politics, allowing for an inclusive approach to a global ecological problem.Trade Review"I am impressed each time by the ancient worldview of Jainism, as presented by Aidan Rankin. The climate crisis reminds us of the vulnerability of human life when it becomes disconnected from its natural origin. Therefore, the necessity of bridging the gap between the modern world and the ancient cultures is more needed than ever before." -- Fons Elders, Emeritus Professor of the Theory of Worldviews at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, the Netherlands"This book fills an important gap in our understanding of the connection between Jainism (and other Dharmic traditions influenced by Jainism) and environmental politics. It emphasises the important, perhaps essential, role that non-western worldviews can play in addressing issues of sustainability. The book is very timely in that it coincides with the rise of India as an economic power facing severe environmental problems as well as a greater global interest in the role of spiritual or religious traditions in addressing environmental questions. It is an important read for environmental activists seeking to incorporate non-western ideas into their political thinking." -- Daniel T. Ostas, Professor & James G. Harlow, Jr. Chair in Business Ethics, Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, USA"Impressive and fascinating insights into Jainism. The case study of the jeweller Vardhaman Gems and its business and environmental philosophies illustrates succinctly how Jain principles are applied successfully in a practical way." -- Paul Barker, President, Leeds Theosophical Society, UK"Through this book, Aidan Rankin open us up to the breadth and depth of Jainism with its outlook and practices that are deeply relevant for our time of ecological crisis. This book brings much needed hope in these challenging times." -- Ian Mowll is the coordinator of GreenSpirit (www.greenspirit.org.uk) and an Interfaith Minister, UKTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Jain voice and political ecology 3 The Jain theory of pluralism: transcending the politics of protest? 4 Jainism and environmental politics: a radical synthesis? Index
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