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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisMapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the spatial turn of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of mapping as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Question of Mapping Part 1: Archaeologies 1. Travelers Without Maps 2. Mapping in the Age of the World Picture Part 2: Topologies 3. Topologies of Difference 4. Carto-aesthetics: Modalities of Art Making 5. Poetic Cartography as Nomadic Mapping Conclusion. After the End of the World Picture Appendix. Mapping in the Time of Global Pandemic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transforming School Culture through Lesson
Book SynopsisThis book sets out a three-stage programme for lesson observation showing how a collaborative whole-school approach can transform the culture of the staffroom and improve outcomes for pupils. Focusing on the emotional environment of the classroom, the relationships between teachers and pupils, and teaching and learning outcomes, it will enable schools to provide a consistent approach to lesson observation where good practice can be celebrated and shared.Revealing the positive impact of the programme on pupils' engagement and exam results, co-operation between departments and teacher wellbeing, the book: Provides clear guidance on implementing the programme and adapting it for different contexts. Shows how data can be used for both Ofsted and Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) inspection documentation. Adresses key issues such as culture, staff psychological contracts, the emotional environment of the school and leadership developmTable of ContentsPart 1 1. What lesson observation is and current attitudes to it 2. What is school culture? 3. The psychological contract 4. The Emotional Environment Part 2 5. The three-stage model: an overview 6. Stage 1: The observation itself 7. Stage 2: Factors outside the classroom 8. Stage 3: Wider contribution to school ife Part 3 9. Leadership: knowing me, knowing you 10. Being prepared 11. Presenting the vision Part 4 12. Using the three-stage lesson observation data to build the self-evaluation form (SEF) 13. What's next? Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd GIS and Housing
Book SynopsisGIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses one of the challenges that has not been addressed by Geographic Information Science thus far: how can we use GIS to deal with the complex issues underlying the housing crisis? This book provides GIS technicians and analysts with an overview of US housing challenges and examples of how to effectively integrate spatial thinking to address housing policy questions, while simultaneously introducing housing policy analysts to advanced GIS concepts and techniques to create livable neighborhoods that include housing alternatives beyond the single family. Through numerous examples, the authors advocate for a collaborative approach that encourages professionals, policymakers, and analysts, across different ideological and political perspectives, to confront the multifaceted housing crisis.Features:Examines the historical aspects of housing provision, societal attitudes, demographic shifts, and government policiesTrade ReviewSilos keep advocates, philanthropy, and government from pursuing housing and development policies that meet the needs of historically disadvantaged communities in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. GIS for Housing offers advocates and policy makers a spatial analysis framework to guide the development of a just and equitable city for all. Maria Cabildo Director, Housing and Economic Opportunity, California Community Foundation In development, all markets are local. Other words, know and understand the location before undertaking development. If you don’t understand location, money will be lost. Location is geographic. The authors of GIS and Housing explain the importance of geographic data related to location. Geographic data is not only physical, (what physically is at that location and surrounding areas) but cultural (who’s there; explaining population and its attributes). Developers need that information. Scott Lefaver Owner/Managing Member, Cabouchon Properties, LLC This book explores both the evolution and current state of housing issues, such as availability and affordability and offers important guidance on why an understanding of spatial relationships is vital when developing strategies for mitigating these concerns. The authors explore the capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) concepts, tools, and methods and how they can be leveraged to manage, analyze, visualize, and communicate actionable knowledge that supports decision making and policies related to housing. This book is a valuable resource for housing researchers, analysts, and policymakers. Kevin Mickey Director, Professional Development and Geospatial Technologies Education, The Polis Center The authors supply a critical missing angle in America’s fractious national and local debates about housing: visual data. Through detailed graphs and charts interspersed with historical photos and maps, they elegantly capture historic changes in how we live, where we live, who we live with, in how much space, and how much it costs -- and also explain how we may use this information to decide how to live in the future. Nicole Gelinas Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute GIS and Housing is a highly-readable, solutions-oriented book that uses a geo-spatial lens to grapple with the connections between US housing crises and broader socio-economic trends. Further, it encourages the use of GIS as a tool for housing data analysis and meaningful community engagement in policy development and implementation Oksana Mironova Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of New York Table of Contents1. Why Geography Matters in Housing 2. Social, Demographic, and Technological Shifts and Their Impacts on Housing 3. Contemporary Design Adaptations and Policy Interventions 4. Data for Housing Research 5. GIS Analysis and Visualization 6. Directions for Future Research 7. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design
Book SynopsisAs a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world around us for better or worse. The recent emergence of the sustainability imperative in product design compels us to recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age. Written by designers, for designers, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design presents the first systematic overview of the burgeoning field of sustainable product design. Brimming with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of product design and sustainability. The book takes readers to the depth of our engagements with the designed world to advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters across 6 thematic parTrade Review‘Brimming with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of product design and sustainability.’ - John Thackara, founder, Doors of Perception'To profoundly understand something, you need to study it from all possible angles. This impressive volume does exactly this. With contributions by leading scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds, it brings us the multidisciplinary perspective on sustainable product design that designers, academics, and – ultimately – the world so desperately need.' - Paul Hekkert, Professor, Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology'The case against mindless design has never been made more effectively. Chapman brings together an amazing assembly of contemporary design researchers to discuss one of our greatest challenges: making the world safe for future inhabitants. Whatever you are designing, you may want to keep this book close to remind you of all the exciting new possibilities for sustainable design.' - Dr. Conny Bakker, Associate Professor, Design for Sustainability / Circular Product Design, TU Delft‘Product design is at a crossroads with product designers now a fractured constituency. The difference can be viewed in three ways: retaining the historically established focus on the object, be it so often bonded to the unsustainable; redeeming the object by attempting to make it ‘sustainable’; or lastly, abandoning, eliminating or dematerialising it. This collection of essays gives the discerning reader the opportunity to make an informed decision on the most appropriate path design and designing should take.’ - Professor Tony Fry, Director, Studio at the Edge of the World‘An utmost intriguing and extensive multi-angled journey through the constructed world we live in. Design lies at the core of the errors in our system and can only be solved by rethinking it all from the start. This handbook makes clear how we can realise this necessary transformation towards intelligent products with healthy upcyclable materials. When we understand where we come from and are aware of the beneficial alternatives for today’s tomorrow, we can define our future positively.’ - Michael Braungart, CEO EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung, Co-founder Cradle to Cradle'Chapman offers an authoritative view on sustainable product design through the collective understanding of key protagonists in the field. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don’t, but the breadth of writing and analysis of key concerns frames the social and ecological agency of design and its role in our material future. It will become essential reading for anyone working in product design and its associated practices.' - Dr Matt Malpass, University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins'Drawing from his experience exploring our emotional relationship with objects, Jonathan Chapman gathers and frames a vital and plural collection of texts on sustainability from the key thinkers in the field. Chapman and his co-authors ably illustrate that the problem is a political one, confounded by our conflicting notions of progress, and reliant upon the psychological frailties of consumer behavior and the appetite for organizational change.' - Tim Parsons, Chair of Designed Objects Programs, The School of the Art Institute of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Made World 1. A Brief History of (Un)sustainable DesignDamon Taylor 2. The Half-Life of a Sustainable Emotion: Searching for meaning in product usage Gerald Cupchik 3. A Renaissance of Animism: A meditation on the relationship between things and their makers Michael Leube 4. The Object of Nightingales: Design values for a meaningful material culture Stuart Walker 5. Challenges of the Cultural Differentiation of Technology Petran Kockelkoren 6. Sustainable Product Design: An Oxymoron? Clive Dilnot Part 2: Agents of Change 7. Sustainable Thinking Aaris Sherin 8. Engaging Designers in Sustainability Vicky Lofthouse 9. Design for Sustainable Behaviour Debra Lilley & Garrath Wilson 10. Mending Broken Promises in Sustainable Design Alex Lobos 11. Sharing, Materialism and Design for Sustainability Russell Belk 12. A Journey of Two Designers Yorick Benjamin Part 3: Materials and Processes 13. Conflict Minerals and the Politics of Stuff Colin Fitzpatrick 14. Materially Yours Elvin Karana, Elisa Giaccardi & Valentina Rognoli 15. Mediating Matters Nick Gant 16. Print to Repair: 3D printing and product repair Miles Park 17. Unmaking Waste Robert Crocker Part 4: User Experience 18. Emotional Sustainability Deana McDonagh 19. Pleasant Experiences and Sustainable Design Juan Carlos Ortiz Nicolás 20. Surprising Longevity Silvia Grimaldi 21. Design for Sustainable Use using Principles of Behaviour Change Casper Boks & Johannes Zachrisson Daae 22. Hacking the Probehead: Manipulations for social sustainability Otto von Busch 23. Transitions in Sociotechnical Conditions that afford Usership: Sustainable Who? Cameron Tonkinwise Part 5: Systems and Services 24. Product Service Systems and the Future of Design Tracy Bhamra & Ricardo Hernandez 25. A Consumer’s Perspective on the Circular Economy Ruth Mugge 26. Designing Circular Possessions Weston Baxter & Peter Childs 27. Longer-Lasting Products and Services Tim Cooper 28. How about Dinner? Concepts and methods in designing for sustainable lifestyles Annelise de Jong & Ramia Maze 29. The Sustainable Energy for All Design Scenario Carlo Vezzoli and Elisa Bacchetti Part 6: Design Futures 30. From Good to the Greater Good Anna Pohlmeyer & Pieter Desmet 31. Plans and Speculated Actions: Design, behaviour and complexity in sustainable futures Dan Lockton & Veronica Ranner 32. From Products to Relations: Adding ‘jeong’ to the metadesigner’s vocabulary John Wood 33. Products Of the Open Design Context Paul Micklethwaite 34. Promoting Sustainability through Mindful Design Kristina Niedderer 35. Design for Social Innovation and new Product Contexts Nicola Morelli Index
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Taylor & Francis Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
Book SynopsisUrban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of the worldâs population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today, classical sociological questions about the city acquire new meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be asked: What is the impact Trade Review"What makes a ‘good’ city? How may the quality of cities be characterized and defined? For years I’ve been wondering why these questions are not on the agenda. This volume covers, for the first time, theoretical, historical and political aspects in an attempt to scrutinize the basis of a successful city. Innovative approaches combine issues of quality with the concern for collectivity under conditions of social change. This book is an essential read for sociologists, and students and scholars with a focus on urban studies, urban policies, planning or design studies."Martina Löw, Professor of Planning and Architecture, Institute of Sociology, Technical University Berlin, Germany"Never has it been more important to explore the nature of urban change and related issues of social and environmental justice. [...] Through the lens of multiple identities, social fragmentation, and fragile institutions the authors, individually and collectively, demonstrate that urbanisation may advance certain freedoms while simultaneously impinging adversely on established civil and political rights. [...] Urbanisation is essentially an uneven process, spatially and temporally, and the chapters capture these divergent trajectories across different cultures. Whether these 'Times of Crisis' are greater than other times the reader must be the judge. Either way, these are stimulating, challenging essays anchored in original research."Richard Rodger, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cities between Success and Failure Part 1: Philosophical and Historical Trajectories 1. The Good City and Its True Costs: Planetary Urbanisation Through an Aristotelian Lens 2. Sacred Cities: Ancient and Early Modern Religious Diversity 3. On Immigration and the Meanings of Urban Social Justice in Queens, NY 4. Successful Societies and Policy Discourse: A Meta-Political Engagement with Joan C. Williams’s White Working Class Part 2: Urban Political Collectivities 5. Global Urbanism and the Crisis of Emancipation 6. Changing Political Collectivities in Times of Crisis: Tenant Protest in Berlin and New York 7. Urban Citizenship in Times of Gentrification Part 3: Towards Urban Complexity and Social Quality 8. Urban Complexity and Urban Change : Co-Irritation, Co-Evolution and Co-Design with the Potsdam Lodestar Approach 9. ‘Social Quality’ and the City : A Qualitative Exploratory Comparison in the Cities of Lausanne and Zurich
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Public Space Between Reimagination and Occupation
Book SynopsisPublic Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest.The highlighted cases from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present, by tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious globally-acting class.This edited volume brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches, providing sociologists, cultural geographers, and urban planning academics and students with an opportunity to explore the various social, cultural, economic and political factors leading to reappropriation and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which we live.Table of ContentsIntroduction Svetlana Hristova and Mariusz CzepczyńskiPart I. Concepts and Discourses: The Resilient Public Space 01. Re-Imagining Civil Society: Conflict and Control in the City’s Public Spaces Sharon Zukin02. Public Space in a Global World: After the SpectacleSvetlana Hristova03. Seeing the Local in Global CitiesJerome KrasePart II. Contestations and Rights: Public and Civic04. Civic Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities: Urban Movements and the Recover of Public SpacesMariusz Czepczyński05. Public Space, Memory and Protest during Post-Socialist Transformation: The Emergence of University Square (Piaţa Universităţii), Bucharest as a space of protest Craig Young, Duncan Light and Daniela Dumbrăveanu06. Social Characteristic of Squares as Urban Spaces, Ulus and Kizilay Squares in Ankara Nuray Bayraktar07. Order and Heterotopia in an Urban Space: The Case of a Spanish Square Francisco Adolfo García Jerez08. Contested Public Spaces and the Right to the City: The Case of Cairo's Historic Bazaar Wael Salah FahmiPart III. Management and Governance: Transformation and Control09. The Meaning of Public Space in the Context of Space-Time Behaviour in the ‘Network City’: From Socialist to Sociable Public Space Anastasia Moiseeva, Remon Rooij and Harry Timmermans10. The Restructuring of Urban Public Space in the ‘Baltic Pearl’ Megan Dixon11. Public Green Space in Vienna between Utopia and Political StrategyPhilipp Rode and Eva Schwab12. The normative construction of a (public) urban space through the use of policy instruments: some reflections from northern Italy Michela Semprebon13. Negotiating Public Space in a Shopping Mall Pavel PospěchConclusions: Rediscovering Public Space GloballySvetlana Hristova and Mariusz CzepczyńskiNote on ContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Murals and Tourism Heritage Politics and Identity
Book SynopsisAround the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being visited, whether a medieval fresco in an Italian church, or modern political art found in Belfast or Tehran.This interdisciplinary and highly international book explores tourism around murals that are either evolving or have transitioned as instruments of politics, heritage and identity. It explores the diverse messaging of these murals: their production, interpretation, marketing and in some cases destruction. It argues that the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. Murals and Tourism will be valuable reading for those interested in cultural geography, tourism, heritage studiTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction1. ‘Wall-to-wall coverage': an introduction to murals tourismJonathan Skinner and Lee JolliffePart II: Heritage2. Heritage murals as tourist attractions in Ravenna, Moldavia and Istanbul: artistic treasures, cultural identities and political statementsWarwick Frost and Jennifer Laing3. From ‘sacred images’ to ‘tourist images’? The fourteenth-century frescoes of Santa Croce, FlorenceRussell Staiff 4. The walls speak. Mexican popular graphics as heritageMartín M. Checa- Artasu5. Tourism, voyeurism and the media ecologies of Tehran’s mural artsPamela KarimiPart III: Politics6. La Carbonería: an alternative transformation of public spacePlácido Muñoz Morán7. Murals as sticking plasters: improving the image of an eastern German city for visitors and residentsGareth E. Hamilton8. Difference upon the walls: hygienizing policies and the use of graffiti against pixação in São PauloPaula Larruscahim and Paul SchweizerPart IV: Identity9. A journey through public art in Douala: framing the identity of New Bell neighbourhoodMarta Pucciarelli and Lorenzo Cantoni 10. Visiting murals and healing the past of racial injustice in divided DetroitDeborah Che11. Visiting murals and grafitti art in BrazilAngela C. Flecha, Cristina Jönsson and D'Arcy Dornan12. Balancing Uruguayan identity and sustainable economic development through street artMaría de Miguel Molina, Virginia Santamarina Campos, Blanca de Miguel Molina and Eva Martínez CarazoPart V: Northern Ireland13. State intervention in re-imaging Northern Ireland’s political murals: implications for tourism and the communitiesMaria T. Simone-Charteris14. The Gaeltacht Quarter of Mural City: Irish in Falls Road muralsSiun Carden15. Extra-mural activities and trauma tourism: public and community sector re-imaging of street art in BelfastKaty Radford Part VI: Future Directions16. Murals as a tool for action researchRebecca Yeo
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Taylor & Francis Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and
Book SynopsisFollowing on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community, and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging, placemaking and displacement, mobility and migration, intergroup conflict, civic engagement, social housing and urban redevelopment, natural resource management, and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams, Mindy Fullilove, Randy Hester, and David Seamon, to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory, methods, and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters, using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods, the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge, identify significant advances, and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment, a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions.Trade Review"This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of place attachment theory, methods, and applications. It is must read for anyone wanting to gain a transdisciplinary understanding of people’s emotional bonds with particular places, and how those are shifting in response to contemporary patterns of climate change, disease pandemics, rapid urbanization, and enforced migration."- Daniel Stokols, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, USA, and author of Social Ecology in the Digital Age."Place attachment describes the emotional bonds that people form toward physical environments. As in the first edition, the book includes 15 chapters written by many of the same researchers and/or practitioners. It is the diverse set of 32 authors who specialize in environmental, social, and community psychology, geography, medicine, sociology, environmental studies, and architecture that provides the book with an excellent range of perspectives on traditional and modern conceptualizations of place attachment and its continued utility in social science … the second installment of the book ‘Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Applications’ is timely as built and natural environments around the world undergo substantial alteration because of continued climate change and the COVID- 19 pandemic. This book makes it clear that the mechanisms through which people bond to place, and how those bonds can be reliably examined, interpreted, and utilized are highly relevant to the discipline of psychology and beyond." – Lindsay J. McCunn, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, CanadaTable of ContentsPart I: Theory Chapter 1: Metatheoretical Moments in Place Attachment Research: Seeking Clarity in Diversity Daniel R. Williams and Brett Alan Miller; Chapter 2: Physical and Experiential Aspects of Place Attachment: Environmental Ensemble, People-in-Place, and Common Presence David Seamon; Chapter 3: Parallels between Interpersonal and Place Attachment: An Update Leila Scannell, Elizabeth Williamsm Robert Gifford, and Carmen Sarich; Chapter 4: In Search of Roots: Restoring Continuity in a Mobile World Maria Lewicka; Chapter 5: Place attachment as discursive practice: the role of language, affect, space, power and materiality in person-place bonds Andrés Di Masso, John Dixon, and Kevin Durrheim Part II: Methods Chapter 6: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Research on Place Attachment Bernardo Hernández, M. Carmen Hidalgo, and Cristina Ruiz; Chapter 7: The Role and Value of Qualitative Approaches to Place Attachment Research: Challenging Epistemological and Methodological AssumptionsLynne C. Manzo and Laís Pinto de Carvalho; Chapter 8: Articulating transnational attachments though on-site narratives and collaborative creative processes Clare Rishbeth; Chapter 9: Beyond the ‘local:’ Methods for exploring or examining place attachment across geographic scales Christopher Raymond and Sarah Gottwald Part III: Applications Chapter 10: Community Responses to Environmental Threat: Place Cognition, Attachment and Social Action Nikolay L. Mihaylov, Douglas D. Perkins, and Richard C. Stedman; Chapter 11: "The Frayed Knot": What happens to place attachment in the context of serial forced displacement? Mindy Fullilove; Chapter 12: Place Attachment, Community Identification, and Pro-Environmental Engagement Ferdinando Fornara, Massimiliano Scopelliti, Giuseppe Carrus, Mirilia Bonnes, and Marino Bonaiuto; Chapter 13: Re Attach! Practicing Endemic Design Randolph Hester; Chapter 14: Dynamics of Place Attachment in a Climate Changed World Patrick Devine-Wright and Tara Quinn; Chapter 15: The Agency of Place Identity and Attachment in the Contemporary Co-production of Community Deni Ruggeri
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Tourism
Book SynopsisCultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management. The first edition illustrated how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism. The current edition takes this further to base the discussion of cultural tourism in the theory and practice of cultural and heritage management (CM and CHM), under the understanding that for tourism to thrive, a balanced approach to the resource base it uses must be maintained. An âumbrella approachâ to cultural tourism represents a unique feature of the book, proposing solutions to achieve an optimal outcome for all sectors. Reflecting the many important developments in the field this new edition has been completely revised and updated in the following ways: New content on increasingly relevant topics including sustainability, climate change, the threat of de-globalizaTrade Review'As they have done throughout their careers, Hilary du Cros and Bob McKercher once again help us think more clearly about cultural tourism. This well-written book provides coverage of a number of important issues in the field, captures its complexities and speaks to a broad audience of policymakers, administrators, students and teachers, who will find much to stimulate their thinking in this book.'Dr. Vicky Katsoni, President of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT), Assoc. Professor, University of West Attica, Greece ‘Cultural Tourism is essential reading for those involved in tourism and cultural heritage management, providing important new insights on visitor management, how to produce successful tourism products and how to evaluate products with the potential to deliver quality experiences.’ Prof. Claire Smith, Flinders University, South Australia Table of ContentsPart A Setting the context. 1 Introduction: defining cultural tourism. 2. Challenges in achieving sustainable cultural tourism. 3. Issues, benefits, risks and costs. Part B Cultural Assets. 4. Cultural heritage management principles and practice (with special reference to World Heritage). 5. Tangible Cultural Heritage. 6. Intangible cultural heritage and creative arts. Part C Tourism, the tourist and stakeholders. 7. How tourism works. 8. The cultural tourism market: a cultural tourism typology. 9. Tourism attraction system, markers and gatekeepers. Part D Products. 10. Cultural tourism products. 11. Assessing product potential. 12. Market Appeal/Robusticity Matrix: a site specific auditing tool. Part E Operationalization. 13. Framework for understanding what is necessary for a successful attraction. 14. Applying planning and management frameworks. 15. Experience creation. Epilogue.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Place Meaning and Attachment Authenticity
Book SynopsisRevolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past. Humanity is resilient, but we have a fundamental need for attachment to places, buildings, and objects.This edited volume will explore the different meanings and forms of place attachment and meaning based on our histories and conceptualization of material artifacts. Each chapter examines a varied relationship between a given society and the meaning formed through myth, symbols, and ideologies manifested through diverse forms of material artifacts. Topics of consideration examine place attachment at many scales including at the level of the artifact, human being, building, urban context, and region. We need a better understandiTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Affect of Old Places: Exploring the Dimensions of Place Attachment and Senescent Environments—Jeremy C. Wells 2. Socioeconomic Factors that Affect Place Attachment in Europe—Juan A. Módenes 3. Soviet Era Architecture and the Meaning It Holds for People of Lithuania—Liutauras Nekrošius 4. Soviet and non-Soviet interiorities: The construction of the significance of place through the architecture of Nowa Huta—Charles Drozynski 5. The Framing of the Port Arthur Historic Site—Andrew Steen and Stuart King 6. The Oneida Community: An Examination of Place Attachment in a Utopian Society—Janet White 7. Mistaken Places: Mesoamerican Meaning in the Sixteenth-Century Catholic Courtyards of Mexico—Joshua Jacob Fitzgerald 8. Dead Space: Place Attachment and Cemeteries—Shad Thielman 9. Heritage and Urban Development in Pakistan: Lessons from Boston’s West End Neighborhood—Eleni Glekas and Khalid Ibrahim 10. Place Identity and Attachment - Implication of Displacement: Iran’s Revolution and the Means to Retain Persian Identity in a Home Away from Home—Mitra Kanaani 11. Human Sustainable Interaction with Nature in Kashan Heritage Context to Preserve Lifecycle—Maryam Ekhtiari 12. Displacement and attachment: examining relations in the production of post-apartheid buildings in ‘black spaces’—Gaarith Williams and Ziyana Lategan 13. Troubled Waters and Place Attachment: A Spring in Cape Town and Loss of Place—Tania Katzschner and Steven Robins 14. Hong Kong’s Early Composite Building: Appraising the Social Value and Place Meaning of a Distinctive Living Urban Heritage—Ho-yin Lee, Lynne D. DiStefano and Chi-pong Lai 15. Living Heritage Versus Dead Relics? Affect, Place Meanings and Boundary-Making in the Politics of Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong—Lachlan B. Barber and Cecilia L. Chu 16. The Social Construction of Koreans’ Intergenerational Place Attachment to Royal Palaces in Seoul—Jain Kwon 17. Homunculi and Agencies: Inhabiting Synthetic Worlds and Wilderness—Simon Y. Kim Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leadership in Planning
Book SynopsisBeing an effective city planner means being an effective leader. You need to be prepared to convince people that good planning matters. Often a well-written, thoughtful and inclusive plan doesn't result in meaningful action, because planners don't show leadership skills. At some point, some city planners become cynical and worn down, wondering why no one listens to them but not doing the self-reflection about how that could change.Leadership in Planning explains how to get support for planning initiatives so they don't just fade from memory. It will guide city planners to think less about organizational charts and more about: being a respected voice within your organization, both with staff and with your boss; being a good communicator with people outside your organization; and being able to understand how and when to push for good planning ideas to turn them into actions.Along the way, case studies bring these concepts to the real world of Trade Review"Jeff Levine sets the stage with his 'leading is a dance' and shows us the difference between planning leadership, planning management, and strategic planning. He explores what planning leadership means, what success looks like, and the importance of vision, risk taking and advocacy balanced with listing, inclusion and respect for communities. Jeff’s learning the lessons from past planning should be required reading for emerging planners and planning theory classes. His simple graphics help tell his story, and will probably be stolen for various PowerPoint presentations."—Wayne Feiden, FAICP, Director Planning & Sustainability, City of Northampton, MassachusettsTable of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1: Leading is Complicated. Chapter 2: Why Do You Want to Lead Anyway? Chapter 3: Leading Your Office. Chapter 4: Managing Up. Chapter 5: Leading Public Opinion. Chapter 6: Leading by Listening. Chapter 7: "Facilitative Leadership". Chapter 8: Strategic Planning and Leadership. Chapter 9: Five Steps to Leadership. Conclusion: Combing a Giant Hairball.
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Taylor & Francis Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic
Book SynopsisDesign and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment, from the scales of a buildTrade Review'A well-grounded compendium on the Arctic Region, Mathew Jull’s and Leena Cho’s handbook does much to render this relatively unknown part of our world whole with regard to constructed and future habitable environments. Drawing on scholarship from different parts of the world, a portrait emerges of a place being shaped under unique multi-cultural, socio-political and environmental conditions. A must-read volume for those interested in contemporary urbanism.' - Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA'The Arctic’s extreme climate, remoteness, and mixture of Indigenous and settler cultures present extraordinary design challenges to urban architects, planners, and managers. Often the built environment in the far north resembles southern models that are only poorly adapted. In contrast, the chapters in this book bring together a multidisciplinary team to further design thinking that will truly serve the interests of northern communities. The ideas assembled here help fulfill collective Arctic aspirations.' - Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA'Aptly described as “a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds,” Cho and Jull have assembled a multidisciplinary and multiscalar reading of the inherent complexities and contradictions of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the Arctic. The ten chapters dismantle common assumptions about the singularity of the Arctic and immerse the reader in the land and ice to bear witness to “the physical, material and living environments of the Arctic.” This comprehensive and global collection provides an urgent guide to contemporary design and planning scholarship in Arctic studies and will provide an essential resource to scholars and practitioners for years to come.' - Lola Sheppard, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Mason White, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Partners, Lateral Office'A well-grounded compendium on the Arctic Region, Mathew Jull’s and Leena Cho’s handbook does much to render this relatively unknown part of our world whole with regard to constructed and future habitable environments. Drawing on scholarship from different parts of the world, a portrait emerges of a place being shaped under unique multi-cultural, socio-political and environmental conditions. A must-read volume for those interested in contemporary urbanism.' - Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA'The Arctic’s extreme climate, remoteness, and mixture of Indigenous and settler cultures present extraordinary design challenges to urban architects, planners, and managers. Often the built environment in the far north resembles southern models that are only poorly adapted. In contrast, the chapters in this book bring together a multidisciplinary team to further design thinking that will truly serve the interests of northern communities. The ideas assembled here help fulfill collective Arctic aspirations.' - Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA'Aptly described as “a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds,” Cho and Jull have assembled a multidisciplinary and multiscalar reading of the inherent complexities and contradictions of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the Arctic. The ten chapters dismantle common assumptions about the singularity of the Arctic and immerse the reader in the land and ice to bear witness to “the physical, material and living environments of the Arctic.” This comprehensive and global collection provides an urgent guide to contemporary design and planning scholarship in Arctic studies and will provide an essential resource to scholars and practitioners for years to come.' - Lola Sheppard, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Mason White, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Partners, Lateral OfficeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Grounding Design in the Arctic 1. The Heterogeneity of Arctic Cities 2. Infrastructural Urbanization of the Arctic 3. Comfort and Discomfort: Conflicting Concerns in Arctic Urban Planning and Design 4. Reframing Urban Relocation in Kiruna, Sweden: An Integrative Ownership Model for Resident-Led Transformations 5. Airport Landscapes: The Case of Qaqortoq Airport, South Greenland 6. Green Spaces in the Context of Changing Human-Environment Relations in Siberian Cities 7. Principles of Northern Housing Design with Examples from Alaska 8. Doing Things Differently: Design Research in Partnership with Innu and Inuit Communities in Northern Québec, Canada 9. Love and Care for Place in an Arctic Community: Place Development in Vardø, Norway 10. Land Inside
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Tourism Resilience and Sustainability Adapting to
Book SynopsisIn a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism.A paradigmatic shift is taking place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban to remote environments, and in a range of international settings. Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable economic, social and environmental systems.This is the first book to specifically examine social change and sustainability in tourism through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and development studies, among others.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction 1. Understanding tourism resilience: adapting to social, political, and economic change 2. Resilience in tourism: development, theory, and application 3. Planning for slow resilience in a tourism community context Part II Social, Political, and Economic Drivers of Change 4. Resilience in the visitor economy: cultural economy, human social networks, and slow change in the regional periphery 5. Tourism and resilience on Jersey: culture, environment, and sea 6. From warrior to beach boy: the resilience of the Maasai in Zanzibar’s tourism business 7. Resilience in the face of changing circumstances: Fair Isle, Shetland 8. Threats and obstacles to resilience: insights from Greece’s wine tourism 9. The sustainability of small business resilience: the local tourism industry of Yogyakarta, Indonesia a decade after the crisis Part III Tourism as a Socio-Economic Driver of Change 10. Strategies for building community resilience to long-term structural change in the Mackay and Whitsunday regions of Queensland, Australia 11. Collaborative capacity building as a resilience strategy for tourism development in indigenous Mexico 12. Resilience and tourism development in rural China: Huangling Village in Jiangxi province 13. Learning from Dabang, Taiwan: sustainability and resilience in action in indigenous tourism development 14. Tourism, history, identity, and community resilience in the world heritage city of Kandy, Sri Lanka 15. Backpacker tourism in Fiji as a sustainability intervention: will they sink or swim? 16. Sustainability or resilience? Poverty-related philanthropic tourism as an agent for deliberate slow change 17. Between resilience and preservation strategies: traditional villages from Maramureş Land, Romania Part IV Conclusion 18. Lessons learned: globalization, change, and resilience in tourism communities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Companion to Development Studies
Book SynopsisThe Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies. This indispensable resource offers succinct, up-to-date, and insightful chapters that reflect the diverse voices and perspectives informing the field and the dynamic interplay of theory, policy, and practice that characterises it.This fourth edition brings together contributions from an impressive range of renowned international experts and emerging voices at the forefront of development studies to deliver engaging, interdisciplinary, and provocative insights into this challenging field. The 98 chapters spanning both theory and practice offer readers accessible discussions of the core issues, emerging trends, and key debates of the discipline. Divided into nine sections of: theories and their contentions; histories and discourses of development; actors and institutions; identities and practices; people and the planet; the economics of development; conflict, violence, and peac
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Human Ecology
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Human Ecology offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face. Blending natural, social, and cognitive sciences with dynamical systems theory, this key text offers systems approaches that are accessible to all, from the undergraduate student to policymakers and practitioners across government, business, and community.In the first edition, road-tested and refined over a decade of teaching and workshops, the authors built a clear, inspiring, and important framework for anyone approaching the management of complex problems and the transition to sustainability. Fully updated for the second edition, the book now goes further in using systems-thinking principles to explain fundamental processes of change in socialecological systems. Revised case examples provide a working application of these principles, whilst a new discussionTrade Review"Human ecology is a critical transdisciplinary approach to creating a better, more sustainable world. We cannot achieve this goal without integrating the study and management of human societies and the rest of nature as tightly interconnected dynamic systems. This valuable book points the way." Robert Costanza, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, UK, and Editor in Chief of The Anthropocene Review"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell is an important book for human ecology and sustainability. The book’s success, from the first to this current edition, is based on a three-fold feature: wide-ranging application of the systems-based transdisciplinary model to critical social–ecological systems of food, health, and livelihoods; far-reaching contexts of cases from the Asia Pacific and Europe; transdisciplinary alignment of theory, concepts and application that makes it accessible not only to academics but also to sustainability and development practitioners including policymakers."Jennifer Marie S. Amparo, Associate Professor, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Baños, The Philippines"A central challenge for enhancing human wellbeing is to establish a sustainable society in harmony with nature across all regions of the world. Integrating rigorous research, education, and policymaking to meet this challenge is urgently needed. Understanding Human Ecology provides an insightful guide to how this might be achieved."Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan"Understanding Human Ecology provides a coherent and lucid discussion of the topic, is user-friendly for university students (a rarity for a textbook), and makes clear connections to key issues such as sustainability, food security, and ethical issues of justice and fairness in environmental planning that are of serious and urgent concern. I consider it a foundational book in the field."Annie Booth, Professor Environmental & Sustainability Studies, University of North British Columbia, Canada"It is time to move beyond the simplistic approaches of cause–effect logic and the triple bottom line that typify many attempts to meet the sustainability challenge. This timely textbook brings the powerful approach of systems thinking to the most pressing, seemingly intractable problems that face humanity in the twenty-first century." Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University"From the Prologue to the concluding chapters, this work has resonated with my students in both introductory and graduate-level classes. Dyball and Newell use a mix of anecdotes, historical references, and scientific research to weave a narrative that captivates the reader and addresses why human ecology is needed, what it is, and how it can be applied. A perfect text to help students understand a most complex topic."Kenneth E. Hill, Provost, College of the Atlantic, USA"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell provides a novel and transdisciplinary framework for understanding sustainability. This ‘must-read’ book explains why people have historically made such a mess of the environment and provides a convincing case for why we must and can switch from a paradigm of limitless growth to one of ethical living, content with sufficiency."Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, and Past President, Ecological Society of America"This important book helps to elucidate the interplay between planetary change and human health, with profound implications for our understanding of the dynamics of contemporary health problems such as the global obesity epidemic and pandemic infectious diseases." Anthony Capon, Director, Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion of the complex systems driving human health and wellbeing in the past, present, and for the future. The authors present methods that can be applied by those interested in the diverse settings of physical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic sectors. Such attempts of analysis and integration often require interdisciplinary skills, however, these authors have paid great attention to the techniques of communication necessary to ensure the effective use of the concepts by a wide-ranging audience from policy workers, researchers, and the public."Ivan Hanigan, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, School of Population Health, Curtin University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides an accessible introduction to the field and to the essential tool of systems analysis. It is an invaluable resource for teachers in human ecology and sustainability science as it reveals how individual everyday experiences and dilemmas are rooted in wider human–environment relations, and helps students appreciate the importance of systemic and historical perspectives on ‘how did we get to this?’ – and equally important, ‘where can we go from here?’"Ellinor Isgren, Lecturer in Human Ecology, Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden"Human ecology is a critical transdisciplinary approach to creating a better, more sustainable world. We cannot achieve this goal without integrating the study and management of human societies and the rest of nature as tightly interconnected dynamic systems. This valuable book points the way." Robert Costanza, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, UK, and Editor in Chief of The Anthropocene Review"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell is an important book for human ecology and sustainability. The book’s success, from the first to this current edition, is based on a three-fold feature: wide-ranging application of the systems-based transdisciplinary model to critical social–ecological systems of food, health, and livelihoods; far-reaching contexts of cases from the Asia Pacific and Europe; transdisciplinary alignment of theory, concepts and application that makes it accessible not only to academics but also to sustainability and development practitioners including policymakers."Jennifer Marie S. Amparo, Associate Professor, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Baños, The Philippines"A central challenge for enhancing human wellbeing is to establish a sustainable society in harmony with nature across all regions of the world. Integrating rigorous research, education, and policymaking to meet this challenge is urgently needed. Understanding Human Ecology provides an insightful guide to how this might be achieved."Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan"Understanding Human Ecology provides a coherent and lucid discussion of the topic, is user-friendly for university students (a rarity for a textbook), and makes clear connections to key issues such as sustainability, food security, and ethical issues of justice and fairness in environmental planning that are of serious and urgent concern. I consider it a foundational book in the field."Annie Booth, Professor Environmental & Sustainability Studies, University of North British Columbia, Canada"It is time to move beyond the simplistic approaches of cause–effect logic and the triple bottom line that typify many attempts to meet the sustainability challenge. This timely textbook brings the powerful approach of systems thinking to the most pressing, seemingly intractable problems that face humanity in the twenty-first century." Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University"From the Prologue to the concluding chapters, this work has resonated with my students in both introductory and graduate-level classes. Dyball and Newell use a mix of anecdotes, historical references, and scientific research to weave a narrative that captivates the reader and addresses why human ecology is needed, what it is, and how it can be applied. A perfect text to help students understand a most complex topic."Kenneth E. Hill, Provost, College of the Atlantic, USA"Understanding Human Ecology by Dyball and Newell provides a novel and transdisciplinary framework for understanding sustainability. This ‘must-read’ book explains why people have historically made such a mess of the environment and provides a convincing case for why we must and can switch from a paradigm of limitless growth to one of ethical living, content with sufficiency."Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, and Past President, Ecological Society of America"This important book helps to elucidate the interplay between planetary change and human health, with profound implications for our understanding of the dynamics of contemporary health problems such as the global obesity epidemic and pandemic infectious diseases." Anthony Capon, Director, Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion of the complex systems driving human health and wellbeing in the past, present, and for the future. The authors present methods that can be applied by those interested in the diverse settings of physical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic sectors. Such attempts of analysis and integration often require interdisciplinary skills, however, these authors have paid great attention to the techniques of communication necessary to ensure the effective use of the concepts by a wide-ranging audience from policy workers, researchers, and the public."Ivan Hanigan, Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, School of Population Health, Curtin University, Australia"Understanding Human Ecology provides an accessible introduction to the field and to the essential tool of systems analysis. It is an invaluable resource for teachers in human ecology and sustainability science as it reveals how individual everyday experiences and dilemmas are rooted in wider human–environment relations, and helps students appreciate the importance of systemic and historical perspectives on ‘how did we get to this?’ – and equally important, ‘where can we go from here?’"Ellinor Isgren, Lecturer in Human Ecology, Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsPrologue: six impossible things before breakfast PART I: The challenge 1. Human ecology: an evolving perspective 2. Dynamics of conflict and change in the Snowy Mountains PART II: Building shared understanding 3. Thinking together 4. System dynamics I: stocks and flows 5. System dynamics II: feedback 6. Systems and sustainability 7. Toward a shared theoretical framework PART III: Living in the Anthropocene 8. Paradigms: ideas that change the world 9. Living well in the Anthropocene 10. Consumers and global food systems 11. Stewards of a full Earth Epilogue: six possible things before dinner
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fundamentals of Capturing and Processing Drone
Book SynopsisUnmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences. Many colleges and universities are developing courses on UAS-based data acquisition. Fundamentals of Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data is a comprehensive, introductory text on how to use unmanned aircraft systems for data capture and analysis. It provides best practices for planning data capture missions and hands-on learning modules geared toward UAS data collection, processing, and applications.FEATURES Lays out a step-by-step approach to identify relevant tools and methods for UAS data/image acquisition and processing. Provides practical hands-on knowledge with visual interpretation, well-organized and designed for a typical 16-week UAS course offered on college and university campuses. Suitable for all levels of readers and does not require prior knowTable of ContentsPart I: Getting Started with Drone Imagery and Data 1. Introduction to Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data 2. An Introduction to Drone Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry 3. Choosing a Sensor for UAS Imagery Collection 4. Mission Planning for Capturing UAS Imagery 5. Drone Regulations: What You Need to Know before You Fly 6. Structure from Motion (SfM) Workflow for Processing Drone Imagery 7. Aerial Cinematography with UAS Part II: Hands-On Applications Using Drone Imagery and Data 8. Planning Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) Missions 9. Aligning and Stitching Drone-Captured Images 10. Counting Wildlife from Drone-Captured Imagery Using Visual and Semi-Automated Techniques 11. Terrain and Surface Modeling of Vegetation Height Using Simple Linear Regression 12. Assessing the Accuracy of Digital Surface Models of an Earthen Dam Derived from SfM Techniques 13. Estimating Forage Mass from Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Rangelands 14. Applications of UAS-Derived Terrain Data for Hydrology and Flood Hazard Modeling 15. Comparing UAS and Terrestrial Laser Scanning Methods for Change Detection in Coastal Landscapes 16. Digital Preservation of Historical Heritage Using 3D Models and Augmented Reality 17. Identifying Burial Mounds and Enclosures Using RGB and Multispectral Indices Derived from UAS Imagery 18. Detecting Scales of Drone-Based Atmospheric Measurements Using Semivariograms 19. Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
£99.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Architecture of Waste
Book SynopsisGlobal material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior, manufacturing, construction, and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, rethinking initial manufacturing techniques, and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects.The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis including cultural psyches, politics, economics, manufacturing, marketing, and material science. A series of crucial perspectives from experts cover these topics and frames the research by providing a past, present, and future look at how we got here and where we go next: the historical, the material, and the design. Twelve design proposals look beyond the simple application of recycled and waste materials iTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Global Circularity 2. Waste of Space 3. Case Studies 4. New Deconstruction: The Rebirth of a Circular Architecture 5. Economics for a Circular Environment 6. World of Waste
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Responsible Citizens and Sustainable Consumer
Book SynopsisThere is broad consensus on the need to shift to a new paradigm of lifestyles and economic development, given the un-sustainability of current patterns. Given this, research on consumer behavior is to play a crucial role in shedding light on the motives underpinning the adoption of responsible behaviors.Stemming from a thorough discussion of existing approaches, this book argues that the perspective of analysis has to be modified. First, acknowledging that a profile of the responsible consumer does not exist since all of us can be more or less sustainable and environment-friendly: the sustainability of an individual should not be considered as given, being something dynamic that changes according to both subjective and contextual factors. Moreover, the book hypothesises that integrating dimensions and perspectives that have been so far overlooked by mainstream research will help deconstruct responsible behaviors adopting a flexible and holistic approach. Relevant policy implications are discussed, and empirical research on responsible behaviors is illustrated.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of consumer behavior, sustainable consumption, environmental psychology and environmental studies in general.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction1.1 New perspectives in consumer behavior1.2 Consumer behavior in the age of sustainability1.3 Research in a crowded field: how to contribute?1.4 Book structureChapter 2: From green consumers to responsible citizens2.1 Labels matter: the concept of responsible citizens2.2 Early attempts of analyzing sustainable behaviors2.3 From Reasoned Action to Planned Behavior2.4 Values, norms and other psychological models2.5 The need for further perspectives of analysisChapter 3: The trap of behavioral patterns: the role of habits3.1 Habits in consumer behavior research3.2 Operationalization of habits3.3 How to measure habits3.4 Integrating habits in a rationalistic perspective on consumer behavior3.5 How to disrupt deeply rooted behavioral patternsChapter 4: Praise or money? Rewards’ effectiveness in shaping behaviors4.1 An overview on incentives4.2 The effects of rewards on motivation4.3 Implications for policy and businessChapter 5: How behaviors are interrelated: the spillover effect5.1 Behavioral spillover, an intriguing concept for an open debate5.2 Theoretical foundations for positive spillover5.3 Theoretical foundations for negative spillover5.4 A methodology to investigate spilloverChapter 6: A model for understanding responsible citizens’ behavior6.1 The need for a holistic and flexible approach6.2 Factors to be included in the analysis6.3 The proposition of an innovative interpretative frameworkChapter 7: From theory to practice: a real-life intervention study7.1 Investigating sustainable behaviors: an intervention study7.2 Methods7.3 Results7.4 Appendix - Online questionnaire
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CRC Press Protection of Public Health from Microbial and
Book SynopsisThis thesis describes the occurrence of microbial and chemical contaminants in swimming pools and the investigation of an alternative disinfection technology, UVOX Redox that could reduce reliance on chlorine and the formation of chlorinated disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in swimming pools. This technology was effective in inactivation of chlorine resistant microorganisms, represented by Bacillus subtilis spores, and in combination with chlorine generated lower concentrations of chlorinated DBPs compared to chlorination alone. It enhanced the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), which were frequently present in indoor, outdoor and spa pools. Carbamazepine and 1H-benzotriazole were the most frequently detected PPCPs, while hydrochlorothiazide and 4-methylbenzylidene camphor were detected at the highest concentration. An investigation of seven different swimming pool facilities showed that clinically relevant fungi were omnipresent. Floors at the sites whereTable of Contents1 Introduction2 Application of UVOX Redox® for swimming pool water treatment: microbial inactivation, disinfection byproduct formation and micropollutant removal3 Occurrence of pharmaceuticals and UV filters in swimming pools and spas4 Clinically relevant fungi in water and on surfaces in an indoor swimming pool facility5 Potential transmission pathways of clinically relevant fungi in indoor swimming pool facilities6 General discussion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Cities Reimagined Multidimensional
Book SynopsisTo assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities. It applies a multi-criteria approach using a panel of environmental, economic, social and smart indicators to assess progress and policies in global cities including London, New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, SÃo Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo and many others. Additional attention is given to the issues of climate change, poverty and smart dimensions, with renewable energy and the drivers of urban CO2 emissions playing the central role. This book is abundant with case studies considering strategies, policies and performance of the leading cities, including Trade Review"Since the early 1990s, cities and researchers have made strong efforts to measure urban sustainability. The emerging indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goal 11 on ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ provides clear guidance to governments at different levels to assess progress. This book offers a diverse set of complementary perspectives, which may inspire academia and urban practitioners alike to continue exploring the deeper assessment of urban sustainability." — Raf Tuts, Director, Programme Division, UN-Habitat"An Indian saying states that we do not inherit the planet, but rather we borrow it from our children and generations to come. When we consider that civilization as we know it is 6,000 years old, the detrimental consequences of inhabitation, affluence, and industrialization over the past 200 years cannot be overstated. Sustainable Cities Reimagined is a meticulously researched assessment of all forms of global cities — autonomous cities, megacities, clusters, and city states. It is a much-needed resource in this tsunami of global crises, which includes exploding global population, C02 emissions and climate change, renewable energy resources in the age of peak oil, social inequities and public health, and adequate affordable housing for a burgeoning populace. Analyzing, understanding, and evaluating multi-disciplinary data sets of indicators such as economic, environmental, physical and social is crucial to ensure a sustainable livelihood for future generations. Stanislav Shmelev’s extensive collection of data serves as a benchmark for all who are in a position to affect change that will impacts our communities, our cities, and our Earth home as a whole." — Dhiru Thadani, AIA, APA, FCNU, Board Member, ISOCARP, the author of The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary (2010), co-editor of Leon Krier: The Architecture of Community (2009) and author of Visions of Seaside: Foundations / Evolution / Imagination / Built & Unbuilt Architecture (2013)"This book is based on an extraordinary amount of research. It shows that future-proofing the world's cities is one of humanity's greatest challenges. Now the time has come to create urban systems that are truly compatible with the world's ecosystems on whose integrity human existence ultimately depends." — Herbert Girardet, Member of the Club of Rome, co-founder of the World Future Council, the author of Cities, People, Planet: Urban Development and Climate Change, (2004 and 2008), A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (2009) and Creating Regenerative Cities (2015)"Fabulous collection of data on cities of the World. Successful climate policies are hardly conceivable without using those data!" — Ernst von Weizsäcker, Professor, former Chairman of the Bundestag's Environment Committee and Co-President of the Club of RomeTable of Contents1. Methods and Indicators for Urban Sustainability Assessment 2. Global Urban Sustainability Benchmarking: A Multidimensional Approach for Smart and Sustainable Cities 3. Comparative analysis of indicator-based urban sustainability assessment frameworks 4. Indicator-Based Multi-Criteria Urban Sustainability Assessment Under Varying Policy Priorities 5. Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment for the Cities of the Global South: the PROMETHEE Approach 6. Sustainability assessment of megacities using environmentally extended input-output analysis and network theory: The case of Singapore 7. Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability of Taipei and Almaty 8. Multidimensional Sustainability Benchmarking of the Cities of the Middle East and North Africa 9. City Poverty Indexes: Participatory Approaches to Leave No One Behind 10. Cities and renewable energy 11. How sustainable is smart and how smart is sustainable?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Computer VisionBased Agriculture Engineering
Book SynopsisIn recent years, computer vision is a fast-growing technique of agricultural engineering, especially in quality detection of agricultural products and food safety testing. It can provide objective, rapid, non-contact and non-destructive methods by extracting quantitative information from digital images. Significant scientific and technological advances have been made in quality inspection, classification and evaluation of a wide range of food and agricultural products. Computer Vision-Based Agriculture Engineering focuses on these advances.The book contains 25 chapters covering computer vision, image processing, hyperspectral imaging and other related technologies in peanut aflatoxin, peanut and corn quality varieties, and carrot and potato quality, as well as pest and disease detection.Features:Discusses various detection methods in a variety of agricultural cropsEach chapter includes materials and methods used, results and analysis, and diTable of ContentsPrefaceAuthorChapter 1 Detecting Aflatoxin in Agricultural Products by Hyperspectral Imaging: A ReviewChapter 2 Aflatoxin Detection by Fluorescence Index and Narrowband Spectra Based on Hyperspectral ImagingChapter 3 Application-Driven Key Wavelength Mining Method for Aflatoxin Detection Using Hyperspectral DataChapter 4 Deep Learning-Based Aflatoxin Detection of Hyperspectral DataChapter 5 Pixel-Level Aflatoxin Detection Based on Deep Learning and Hyperspectral ImagingChapter 6 A Method of Detecting Peanut Cultivars and Quality Based on the Appearance Characteristic RecognitionChapter 7 Quality Grade Testing of Peanut Based on Image ProcessingChapter 8 Study on Origin Traceability of Peanut Pods Based on Image RecognitionChapter 9 Study on the Pedigree Clustering of Peanut Pod’s Variety Based on Image ProcessingChapter 10 Image Features and DUS Testing Traits for Identification and Pedigree Analysis of Peanut Pod VarietiesChapter 11 Counting Ear Rows in Maize Using Image Processing MethodChapter 12 Single-Seed Precise Sowing of Maize Using Computer SimulationChapter 13 Identifying Maize Surface and Species by Transfer LearningChapter 14 A Carrot Sorting System Using Machine Vision TechniqueChapter 15 A New Automatic Carrot Grading System Based on Computer VisionChapter 16 Identifying Carrot Appearance Quality by Transfer LearningChapter 17 Grading System of Pear’s Appearance Quality Based on Computer VisionChapter 18 Study on Defect Extraction of Pears with Rich Spots and Neural Network Grading MethodChapter 19 Food Detection Using Infrared Spectroscopy with k-ICA and k-SVM: Variety, Brand, Origin, and AdulterationChapter 20 Study on Vegetable Seed Electrophoresis Image Classification MethodChapter 21 Identifying the Change Process of a Fresh Pepper by Transfer LearningChapter 22 Identifying the Change Process of Fresh Banana by Transfer LearningChapter 23 Pest Recognition Using Transfer LearningChapter 24 Using Deep Learning for Image-Based Plant Disease DetectionChapter 25 Research on the Behavior Trajectory of Ornamental Fish Based on Computer VisionIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Comparative Global Urban Studies in the Making: Welcome to the World of Imperfect and Innovative Urban Comparisons Part I: Introduction: Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research Chapter 1 – Beyond the City Limits: Comparison, Global Urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology Chapter 2 – Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities Chapter 3 – Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads: From the colonial situation to twilight institutions Chapter 4 – Comparative Urban Studies in Asia: Old Players in Urbanization History or Emerging Game Changers? Chapter 5 – Comparative urban studies in Europe Chapter 6 – Beyond comparison with history and Actor-Network Theory Chapter 7 – Citizenship and Inequality in the Post-Colonial City: Instituted Processes and Causal Mechanisms Chapter 8 – The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science Chapter 9 – The Contribution of the Sociological Approach to Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 10 – Urban Social Movements: Comparing Conflicts and Mobilizations Part II: Introduction: Methods and Research Design Chapter 11 – A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility Chapter 12 – Making a Comparative Case: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei Chapter 13 – Frames and flows: pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation Chapter 14 – From object biographies to data-centred assemblages: two experiments in relational urban comparison Chapter 15 – Internal Migrations and Urban Transitions: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 16 – Odious comparisons in urban studies. A plea for comparative monographs Chapter 17 – A New Era for Commensurable Comparative Urban Research? Machine Learning and/or Propagations Chapter 18 – Methodological manoeuvres: Comparative practices in urban policy making Chapter 19 – Politics and governance in metropolitan areas: a transnational comparative perspective Part III: Introduction: Contexts Chapter 20 – Enabling Connections: Relational Comparison in a Global Conjunctural Frame Chapter 21 – Segregation studies: Overriding context through implicit comparison? Chapter 22 – Specificity and Urbanisation: A Framework for Comparative Analysis Chapter 23 – The Ends of Comparison—calculative logics and racial hauntings Chapter 24 – Cities in Their States Chapter 25 – Social mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood: Comparing US and Western European perspectives Chapter 26 – Overcoming the Limitations of Comparative Urban Research in the (Post)Socialist Context Chapter 27 – State entrepreneurialism: theorising urban development politics from China Chapter 28 – Weak Comparisons: Navigating Differences and Commonalities among Cities in Russia and Elsewhere Chapter 29 – The relevance of local factors for understanding Italy: explaining territorial differentiation Part IV: Introduction: Connections Chapter 30 – ‘Coexisting Heterogeneity’: Agrarian Urban Entanglements in India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Chapter 31 – Socialist Worldmaking: Comparative Research between the Socialist and Postcolonial Countries during the Cold War Chapter 32 – Comparative Urban Studies Beyond the City Chapter 33 – Global Cities Research as Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 34 – Genetic Comparisons: Tracing how global infrastructure conditions peri-urban trajectories Chapter 35 – Archipelagic Thinking, Southern Urbanism and Experimental Comparisons Chapter 36 – Allegory, Psychasthenia, Horizon: Comparative Urbanism as Spectral Critique at the Antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative Part V: Introduction: Experiments Chapter 37 – New York and Cairo: a view from street level. Chapter 38 – Emotions as an Analytical Category in Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 39 – Concepts and Principles for Taking Bourdieu into the City Chapter 40 – Covid, contagion and comparative urban research Chapter 41 – Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research: Insights from a study of the BRICS Chapter 42 – Quilting Comparison: Wonder, Translation and Theorization Chapter 43 – Tracing Materials to Locate the Urban: The West African Corridor from Lagos to Abidjan Chapter 44 – How India Urbanizes: Multiscalar and Multi-Sited Comparisons Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level
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Taylor & Francis Learning from Arnsteins Ladder From Citizen Participation to Public Engagement
Learning from Arnstein’s Ladder draws on contemporary theory, expertise, empirical analysis, and practical applications in what is now more commonly termed public engagement in planning to examine the enduring impacts of Sherry Arnstein’s work and the pervasive challenges that planners face in advancing meaningful public engagement.
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Taylor & Francis Rebuilding the American Town
Book SynopsisIn the scholarship of urbanism, small towns are overlooked and understudied. Rebuilding the American Town highlights how smaller municipalities are transforming to serve their communities and meet the future. The book uncovers creative planning and design strategies of nine U.S. towns as they rebuild to remain vibrant, equitable and viable in the face of metropolitan sprawl, population shifts, political division, economic shortfalls and climate change. Rebuilding the American Town includes interviews and insights from those directly involved, to reveal the challenges and advantages of being a smaller city while highlighting the power of design at local levels.The book provides a new lens for contemporary urbanism more broadly as it shifts thinking away from large-metro concerns, toward novel, tactical strategies that advance the quality of life for residents through design and policies that are scaled to the populations and places they serve. The projec
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities
Book SynopsisThis book delves into the urban planning theory of smart growth to encourage the creation of smart cities, where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system. Over the last century, increased demographic changes and use of motor vehicles in the wake of urbanization led to the rapid expansion of cities, giving rise to economic, social and environmental problems. Sprawls and extension into natural areas caused a scattered urban context replete with empty spaces. This book provides an effective solution to this with an overview of the historical application of smart growth principles as a response to the issue of sprawling cityscapes, and sheds light on the theoretical information and methodologies used by cities to re-develop the urban landscape. It also encloses a checklist for practitioners and decision makers to inform the developmental procesTable of ContentsList of figures. List of tables. Preface.1. Introduction 2. Smart growth: from theoretical approaches to practical concepts 3. Smart growth vs. urban sprawl 4. A review of global experiences in evaluating urban development plans and policies based on smart growth 5. A review of the critiques of smart growth 6. A comprehensive checklist of generalizable and achievable goals, strategies and policies for smart growth 7. ConclusionIndex.
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Taylor & Francis African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation
Book SynopsisAfrican Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy. The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which give a place of privilege to one thing over the other, as for example men over women, is the same attitude that privileges humans over the environment. This culturally embedded orientation makes it difficult for stake holders in Africa to identify and confront the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the environment. In a continent where deep-rooted cultural and religious practices, as well as widespread ignorance, determine human conduct towards the environment, it becomes difficult to curtail much less overcome the threats to our environment. It shows that to a large extent, the African cultural privileging of men over women and of humans over the environment somewhat exacerbates and makes the environmental crisis on the continent intractable. For example, it raises the challenging puzzle as to why women in Africa are the ones to plant the trees and men are the ones to fell them.Contributors address these salient issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what African philosophy could do to ameliorate the marginalisation which the theme of environment suffers on the continent. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its forms; why is it failing in this duty in Africa specifically where the issue of environment is concerned?This book which trail-blazes the field of African Philosophy and Environmental Ethics will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, African philosophy, Environmental Ethics and Gender Studies.Table of Contents Introduction Prof. Bruce B. Janz (University of Central Florida, USA), "Peripherality and Non-Philosophy in African Philosophy: Womanist Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy and Other Provocations." Prof. Alexander Animalu & Mr. Jeff Unegbu (University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria), "Gaia Hypothesis from an African Perspective." Prof. Thaddeus Metz (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), "How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach." Dr. Kevin Behrens (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), "An African Account of the Moral Obligation to Preserve Biodiversity." Prof. Olatunji Oyeshile (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), "Transformation of Urban Space in South-West of Nigeria, 2011 to Present: Ethical Issues in Development and Aesthetics" Prof. Ebunoluwa Oduwole & Dr. Fayemi Kazeem (Olabisi Onabanjo University & University of Lagos, Nigeria), "Animal Rights vs. Animal Care Ethics: Interrogating the Relationship to Non-Human Animals in Yorùbá Culture." Prof. Workineh Kelbassa (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), "Women and the Environment in Africa." Prof. Oladele Balogun & Dr. Fayemi Kazeem (Olabisi Onabanjo University & University of Lagos, Nigeria), "Women Identities in African Environmental Ethics: A Conversational Engagement." Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam (University of Calabar, Nigeria), "Ohanife: An Account of the Ecosystem based on the African notion of Relationship." Dr. Angela Roothaan (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands), "Hermeneutics of Trees in an African Context: Enriching the Understanding of the Environment ‘for the Common Heritage of Mankind.’" Victor Nweke (University of Calabar, Nigeria), Global Warming as an Ontological Boomerang Effect: Towards a Philosophical Rescue from the African Place." Dr. Ralph Madu (Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria), "Laudato Si and the Ecological Crisis." Dr. Ada Agada (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria) "Catalyzing Climate Change Action in Nigeria: Moderate Anthropocentrism and the African Perspective of the Cosmos". Prof. Fainos Mangena (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe) "Zimbabwe’s Environmental Crisis: Questioning Ubuntu?" Francis Diawuo and Abdul Karim Issifu (University for Development Studies, Ghana and University of Cape Coast, Ghana) "Exploring the African Traditional Belief Systems (Totems and Taboos) in Natural Resources Conservation and Management in Ghana"
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Taylor & Francis NatureBased Solutions to 21st Century Challenges
Book SynopsisThis book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges. In the 21st century, society is faced by rapid urbanisation and population growth, degradation and loss of natural capital and associated ecosystem services, an increase in natural disaster risks, and climate change. With growing recognition of the need to work with ecosystems to resolve these issues there is now a move towards nature-based solutions, which involve utilising natureâs ecosystem to solve societal challenges while providing multiple co-benefits. This book systematically reviews nature-based solutions from a public policy angle, assessing policy developments which encourage the implementation of nature-based solutions to address societal challenges while simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. This includes enhancing sustainable urbanisation, restoring degraded ecosystems, mitigating and adapting to climateTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Nature-Based Solutions to Societal Challenges 3: Societal Challenges 4: Climate Change Impacts on Habitats, Plants, and Animals 5: Environmental Degradation and Impacts on Biodiversity 6: Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Impacts on People and the Economy 7: Developing Climate Change Mitigation 8: Developing Climate Change Adaptation 9: Restoring Degraded Ecosystems 10: Enhancing Sustainable Urbanisation 11: Improving Disaster Risk Management and Resilience 12: Adaptive Management and Nature-Based Solutions 13: Financing Nature-Based Solutions 14: Best Practices and Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Digital Technology and Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future.Contemporary digital technologies are hailed by tech companies, governments and academics as leading-edge solutions to the challenges of environmental sustainability; smarter homes, more persuasive technologies, and a robust Internet of Things hold the promise for creating a greener world. Yet, deployments of interactive technologies for such purposes often lead to a paradox: they algorithmically optimize heating and lighting of houses without regard to the dynamics of daily life in the home; they can collect and display data that allow us to reflect on energy and emissions, yet the same information can cause us to raise our expectations for comfort and convenience; they might allow us to share best prTable of ContentsPhoto Essay 1: Selfie TimeEli BlevisIntroduction: Digital Technology and Sustainability: Engaging the paradoxMike Hazas and Lisa P. NathanPhoto Essay 2: Artifice and NatureEli BlevisPart 1: Assessing the FieldChapter 1: Three Principles of Sustainable Interaction Design, RevisitedDavid Roedl, William Odom and Eli BlevisChapter 2: Towards a Social Practice Theory Perspective on Sustainable HCI Research and DesignAdrian K. Clear and Rob ComberChapter 3: A Conversation Between Two Sustainable HCI Researchers: The role of HCI in a Positive Socio-Ecological TransformationSamuel Mann and Oliver BatesResponse 1a: Sustainable HCI: From Individual to SystemChris Preist Response 1b: Sustainability within HCI within Society: Improvisations, Interconnections and ImaginationsJanine MorleyPhoto Essay 3: Rooftop GardenEli BlevisPart 2: Addressing LimitsChapter 4: Every Little Bit Makes Little Difference: The Paradox within SHCISomya Joshi and Tessy Cerratto PargmanChapter 5: Developing a political economy perspective for sustainable HCIBonnie Nardi and Hamid EkbiaChapter 6: Software Engineering for Sustainability: Tools for Sustainability AnalysisBirgit Penzenstadler and Colin C. VentersResponse 2: Challenging the Scope? Enrico ConstanzaPhoto Essay 4: Classroom ExerciseEli BlevisPART 3: Ways To Engage With OthersChapter 7: Communicating SHCI Research to Practitioners and StakeholdersChristian Remy and Elaine M. HuangChapter 8: Negotiating and Engaging with Environmental Public Policy at Different ScalesVanessa ThomasChapter 9: On the Inherent Contradictions of Teaching Sustainability at a Technical UniversityElina Eriksson and Daniel PargmanChapter 10: Participation in Design for SustainabilityJanet Davis and Sandra Burri Gram-HansenResponse 3a: Connected and ComplicitMél HoganResponse 3b: From Participatory Design to Participatory Governance through Sustainable HCI Rónán KennedyPhoto Essay 5: AirstreamEli BlevisPart 4: Inspiring FuturesChapter 11: A Sustainable Place: Everyday Designers as Place MakersAudrey Desjardins, Xiaolan Wang, and Ron WakkaryChapter 12: Interaction Design for Sustainability Futures: Towards Worldmaking InteractionsRoy BendorChapter 13: Think Local Act Local: The Case of Burning Mana.m. tsaasan and Bonnie NardiResponse 4: Sustainability Futures and the Future of Sustainable HCIYolande StrengersPhoto Essay 6: Locked GateEli BlevisEpilogue: Mike Hazas and Lisa P. Nathan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Estate Regeneration Learning from the Past
Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of housing estate building the country has ever seen. The legacy of this historic period has been tackled for the last twenty-five years as these estates began to suffer from misguided allocation policies, systemic building and fabric failure and financial austerity. A series of estate regeneration programmes sought to rectify the mistakes of the past. Estate Regeneration describes 24 of these regeneration schemes from across the UK and the design philosophy and resident engagement which formed each new community. A number of essays from a wide range of industry experts amplify the learning experience from some key estate regeneration initiatives and provide observations on the broader issues of this sector of the housing market. Regeneration is inevitable; it is a matter of the form whTable of ContentsPart One: PioneeringEssay: The Peckham Partnership - Michael HillBrownfield EstateBow CrossSilwood Estate Tredegar EstatePart Two: PragmaticEssay: Regeneration - Brendan SarsfieldThe City MillsOrchard VillagePackington EstateParkside PlaceThe AmericasPart Three: UtopianEssay: Regeneration, turning threat into opportunity - Paul BridgeLakewoodParkside EstateDevonportOval QuarterLauriestonApple GrovePart Four: EvolutionaryEssay: Housing Regeneration, why is it so difficult? - Peter Bishop Maiden LaneAberfeldy New VillageStockwell Park EstatePark CentralSouth Kilburn EstatePart Five: VisionaryEssay: The Future - Manisha PatelPortobello SquareChobham ManorClapham ParkHigh Path Estate
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Estate Regeneration Learning from the Past
Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of housing estate building the country has ever seen. The legacy of this historic period has been tackled for the last twenty-five years as these estates began to suffer from misguided allocation policies, systemic building and fabric failure and financial austerity. A series of estate regeneration programmes sought to rectify the mistakes of the past. Estate Regeneration describes 24 of these regeneration schemes from across the UK and the design philosophy and resident engagement which formed each new community. A number of essays from a wide range of industry experts amplify the learning experience from some key estate regeneration initiatives and provide observations on the broader issues of this sector of the housing market. Regeneration is inevitable; it is a matter of the form whTable of ContentsPart One: PioneeringEssay: The Peckham Partnership - Michael HillBrownfield EstateBow CrossSilwood Estate Tredegar EstatePart Two: PragmaticEssay: Regeneration - Brendan SarsfieldThe City MillsOrchard VillagePackington EstateParkside PlaceThe AmericasPart Three: UtopianEssay: Regeneration, turning threat into opportunity - Paul BridgeLakewoodParkside EstateDevonportOval QuarterLauriestonApple GrovePart Four: EvolutionaryEssay: Housing Regeneration, why is it so difficult? - Peter Bishop Maiden LaneAberfeldy New VillageStockwell Park EstatePark CentralSouth Kilburn EstatePart Five: VisionaryEssay: The Future - Manisha PatelPortobello SquareChobham ManorClapham ParkHigh Path Estate
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space and Time in Geomorphology
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1982, is a collection of articles aimed at advancing the field of geomorphology. It starts from the position that a meaningful grasp of landscape evolution would depend upon an understanding of the present spatial distribution of processes and process rates; comparison of spatial versus temporal change; and careful appraisal of the character and composition of the stratigraphic record. Each article uses a data set to address between threshold variability in either a spatial or temporal context, and often both.Table of Contents1. The Spatial Variation of Soil Loss and Soil Loss Controls Michael J. Bovis 2. Soil-Geomorphic Models and the Spatial Distribution and Development of Alpine Soils Scott F. Burns and Philip J. Tonkin 3. The Spatial Variability of Surficial Soil Movement Rates in Alpine Environments Nel Caine 4. Variability in Badlands Erosion: Problems of Scale and Threshold Identification Ian A. Campbell and John L. Honsaker 5. The Ergodic Principle in Erosional Models Richard G. Craig 6. The Geomorphology of the Sangamon Surface: Its Spatial and Temporal Attributes Leon R. Follmer 7. Spatial and Temporal Variations in Karst Solution Rates: the Structure of Variability D.C. Ford and J.J. Drake 8. Alpine Mass-Wasting in Contemporary Time: Some Examples from the Canadian Rocky Mountains James S. Gardner 9. Spatial Variation of Fluvial Processes in Semi-Arid Lands William L. Graf 10. Interrelationships among Geomorphic Interpretations of the Stratigraphic Record, Process Geomorphology and Geomorphic Models W. Hilton Johnson 11. Variability of Rainwash Erosion within Small Sample Areas Shiu-hung Luk 12. The Influence of Topography on the Spatial Variability of Soils in Mediterranean Climates Daniel R. Muhs 13. Temporal Variability of a Summer Shorezone Antony R. Orme 14. Using the Normal Generated Distribution to Analyze Spatial and Temporal Variability in Geomorphic Processes H. Charles Romesburg and Jerome V. DeGraff 15. Problems in the Identification of Stability and Structure from Temporal Data Series John Thornes 16. Geomorphic Responses to Climatic Forcing during the Holocene Wayne M. Wendleand
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PostPolitics and Civil Society in Asian Cities
Book SynopsisBringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of post-politics' has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance.This volume examines how the post-political frameworkderived from the study of Western liberal democraciesapplies to Asian cities. Appreciating that the region has undergone a distinctive trajectory of political development, and is currently governed under democratic or authoritarian regimes, the book articulates how post-political conditions have created obstacles or opportunities for civil society to assert its voice in urban governance. Chapters address the different ways in which Asian civil society groups strive to gain a stake in the development and management of cities, specifically by looking at their involvement in heritage and environmental governance, two inter-relatedTable of ContentsIntroduction: Theorising the post-political in Asian cities Sonia Lam-Knott, Creighton Connolly, And Kong Chong Ho PART I Post-political governance in Asia 1. A return to the political?: Civil society and post-politics in authoritarian regimes David Matijasevich 2. Managing grievances in the age of post-politics: The relocation of communities for the Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Myanmar Tamas Wells 3. Emerging post-political city in Seoul U-Seok Seo 4. Back to the land: Post-political utopias of organic living Karl Beelan PART II Post-politics in heritage governance 5. Between state and society: Heritage politics in urban China Yujie Zhu 6. ‘Connecting emotions through wells’: Heritage instrumentalisation, civic activism and urban sustainability in Quanzhou, China Yunci Cai PART III Post-politics in environmental governance 7. Constructing space for participatory governance in Vietnam: Reflections from the Hanoi tree movement Seohee Kwak 8. Environmental civil activism in Central Asia: Emerging civil society governance and fragile relations with the state Reina Artur Kyzy 9. Post-political planning and insurgent mobilisation in the post-disaster city: The experience of Tacloban city, Philippines after typhoon Haiyan Dakila Kim P. Yee
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Affordable Housing Reader
Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.The authors highlighted in this updated volume address themes central to housing as an area of social policy and to understanding its particular meaning in the United States. These include the long history of racial exclusion and the role that public policy has played in racializing access to decent housing and well-serviced neighborhoods; the tension between the economic and social goals of housing policy; and the role that housing plays in various aspects of the lives of low- and moderate-income residents. Scholarship and the COVID-19 pandemic are raising awareness of the link between access to adequate housing and other rights and opportunities. This timely reader focuses attentTrade Review"Urgent trends—from the movement for racial justice to intensified economic inequality, back-breaking rents, climate risk, and a paradigm shift in health—have spotlighted housing and affordability in ways not seen since the 1960s. This superb compilation will help newcomers, as well as seasoned practitioners and scholars, navigate classic debates and think beyond them too."-- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and co-author, Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty"For this new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader, editors Mueller and Tighe have assembled a superb collection of timely and essential essays by many of the field’s leading scholars. The volume frames several key debates in affordable housing policy, including its objectives and the forms it should take. "-- Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States"Affordable housing is a notoriously complex field. This new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader offers an updated look at some key questions, such as how we define affordability, and the roles of race and community control in the field. It should give a substantial grounding to those who want to understand, and improve, American housing policy."-- Miriam Axel-Lute, CEO/Editor in Chief, ShelterforceTable of ContentsPART 1: CONFLICTING MOTIVATIONS FOR HOUSING POLICY 1. A citizen’s guide to public housing 2. The Housing Act of 1949 3. The evolution of low-income housing policy, 1949 to 1999 4. The Kerner Commission and Housing Policy 5. Advancing the right to housing in the United States: Using international law as a foundation PART 2: DEFINING AND MEASURING HOUSING PROBLEMS 6. What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach 7. How do we know when housing is “affordable”? 8. How affordable is HUD affordable housing? 9. Consequences of segregation for children’s opportunity and wellbeing 10. Home is where the harm is: Inadequate housing as a public health crisis PART 3: HOUSING TENURES 11. The grapes of rent: A history of renting in a country of owners 12. The sustainability of low-income homeownership: The incidence of unexpected costs and needed repairs among low-income homebuyers 13. Old wine in private equity bottles? Resurgence of contract‐for‐deed home sales in US urban neighborhoods 14. Making home more affordable: Community land trusts adopting cooperative ownership models to expand affordable housing PART 4: PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING 15. The quadruple bottom line and nonprofit housing organizations in the United States 16. American murder mystery revisited: Do housing voucher households cause crime? 17. From public housing to public–private housing 18. What should be the future of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program? PART 5: THE MEANING OF PLACE 19. Federal support for CDCs: Some of the history and issues of community control 20. W(h)ither the community in community land trusts? 21. CDCs in the right‐sizing city 22. Planning for empowerment: Upending the traditional approach to planning for affordable housing in the face of gentrification PART 6: PLANNING AND LAND USE 23. It’s time to end single-family zoning 24. Democracy in action? NIMBY as impediment to equitable affordable housing siting 25. Progress for whom, toward what? Progressive politics and New York City’s mandatory inclusionary housing 26. One size fits none: Local context and planning for the preservation of affordable housing PART 7: THREATS TO HOUSING SECURITY 27. Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction 28. Metropolitan segregation and the subprime lending crisis 29. Inequities in long-term housing recovery after disasters 30. Rental housing assistance and health: Evidence from the survey of income and program participation PART 8: RACE AND FAIR HOUSING 31. Whiteness and urban planning 32. The experience of racial and ethnic minorities with zoning in the United States 33. Still paying the race tax? Analyzing property values in homogeneous and mixed-race suburbs 34. The duty to affirmatively further fair housing: A legal as well as policy imperative
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Entangled Heritages
Book SynopsisRelying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where theTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Uses of Heritage and the Post-Colonial Condition in Latin America 1. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Heritage for Latin America. Heritage Politics and Nostalgia between Coloniality and Indigeneity 2¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! How the Himno Nacional became part of Mexico’s Heritage 3.Making Heritage. The Materialization of the State and the Expediency of Music. The Case of Cuarteto Característico in Córdoba, Argentina 4. Is Spanish our Language? Alfonso Reyes and the Policies of Language in Post-Revolutionary Mexico 5. Cultural Management and Neoliberal Governamentality. The Participation of Perú in the Exhibition Inca. Kings of the Andes 6. Commemorate, Consecrate, Demolish. Thoughts about the Mexican Museum of Anthropology and its History 7. Going Back to the Past or Coming Back from the Past? Governmental Policies and Uses of the Past in a Ranquel Community in San Luis, Argentina 8. Unearthing Patrimonio: Treasure and Collectivity in San Miguel Coatlinchan 9. Processes of Heritagization of Indigenous Cultural Manifestations: Lines of Debate, Analytic Axes, and Methodological Approaches 10. The Ambivalence of Tradition: Heritage, Time, and Violence in Postcolonial Contexts
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Taylor & Francis Heritageled Urban Regeneration in China
Book SynopsisHeritage-led Urban Regeneration in China presents the detailed history of three well-known streets in China; the Southern Song Imperial Street at Hangzhou, the residential Pingjiang Street at Suzhou, and the commercial Tunxi Old Street at Huangshan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and CaptionsPrefaceChapter 1: Embracing the Legacy of Historic Urban StreetsChapter 2: Historical Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Urban RegenerationChapter 3: Imperial Street: Southern Song Imperial Street, Hangzhou Chapter 4: Residential Street: Pingjiang Street, SuzhouChapter 5: Commercial Street: Tunxi Old Street, HuangshanChapter 6: The Past and Future of China’s Historic Street DistrictsChapter 7: Achieving an Authentic Historic Urban Street in China BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Folk Theatres of North India Contestation
Book SynopsisThis book examines folk theatres of North India and discusses their genesis, history and independent trajectory; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them.Table of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction — Folk Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes 1. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit Dramaturgy 2. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre 3. Folk Theatre: The Cinematic Legacy 4. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance. Conclusion. Glossary. Works Cited. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption
Book SynopsisThis book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the transformation of society, the book provides: in-depth discussions at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and social transformation, highlighting their significance to sustainability-related policy and practice; detailed case studies of social innovation in energy, food, housing and policy which illustrate emerging practice and promising policy, business and civil society interventions; and critical reflections and commentaries on the contribution of social innovation to societal transformation. Bringing together aspiring scholars and leading thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights for an international audience into the potential of social innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of society. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainable development, (social) innovation studies and environmental sociology.Trade Review"This is a timely and important collection of papers on social innovation and sustainable consumption from leading researchers from across Europe. The thirteen chapters explore in different ways the relationships between and potential contributions of social innovations to sustainable consumption across a range of areas. But what comes across most strongly for me is that at a time when it is very easy to feel despondent about ‘our leaders’ really getting to grips with the issues, and in many cases just reworking old formulae, this book shows us that social innovations open up possibilities and opportunities, are happening now and are involving citizens themselves taking control and acting. Moreover, their potential impact extends beyond the environmental to a radical rethinking of social and economic relations." David Uzzell, Professor of Environmental Psychology, University of Surrey, UK"This edited collection works well by connecting the all-important details of social innovation with the powerful structures in everyday consumption. Through attentive and engaged research, the contributors articulate the many ways that social innovators are overcoming seemingly unfavourable conditions and help mobilise more sustainable futures today." Adrian Smith, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and co-author of Grassroots Innovation Movements, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction: the Nexus of Social Innovation, Sustainable Consumption and Societal Transformation, Julia Backhaus, Audley Genus, and Julia Wittmayer Chapter 2 – Conceptualising the Role of Social Innovation in Sustainability Transformations, Alex Haxeltine, Flor Avelino, Julia Wittmayer, Iris Kunze, Noel Longhurst, Adina Dumitru, and Tim O’ Riordan Chapter 3 – The Idea(l) of a ‘Sustainable Sharing Economy’: Four Social Science Perspectives on Transformative Change, Julia Backhaus, Harro van Lente, and René Kemp Chapter 4 – Societal Transformation, Social Innovations and Sustainable Consumption in an Era of Metamorphosis, Michael Jonas Chapter 5 – Local Authorities and their Development of New Governance Approaches: Distilling Lessons from a Social Innovation Project, Marcelline Bonneau and François Jégou Chapter 6 – Hitting a Policy wall: the Transformative Potential and Limitations of Community Pick-Up Point Schemes, Keighley MacFarland and Julia Wittmayer Chapter 7 – Community Energy as a site for Social Innovation , Iain Soutar Chapter 8 – Community Agriculture and the Narrative Construction of Change, Emese Gulyás and Bálint Balázs Chapter 9 – Towards Sustainable Practices: a Practice-theoretical Case Study of a Cohousing Project, Michaela Leitner and Beate Littig Chapter 10 – The Search for Social Innovations that are within Ecological Limits as well as more Just, Edina Vadovics and Simon Milton Chapter 11 – North-American Perspectives of Societal Transformation, Philip J. Vergragt Chapter 12 – Commentary from a Japanese Perspective: Tapping into Traditions for Transitions and Societal Transformations, Satoru Mizuguchi Chapter 13 - Conclusions: How Social Innovations Become Transformative and Help Increase Sustainability, Edina Vadovics and Sylvia Lorek
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Victorian Writers and the Environment
Book SynopsisApplying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudTable of ContentsContents, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction Practical Ecocriticism and the Victorian TextLaurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia University and Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 1: Reading Nature: John Ruskin, Environment, and the Ecological ImpulseMark Frost, University of PortsmouthChapter 2: Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": A Study of Tennyson’s TopographyValerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin UniversityChapter 3: Celebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman WorldAshton Nichols, Dickinson CollegeChapter 4: "Truth to Nature": The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossetti’s PoetrySerena Trowbridge, Birmingham City UniversityChapter 5: The Zoocentric Ecology of Hardy’s Poetic ConsciousnessChristine Roth, University of Wisconsin OshkoshChapter 6: Early Dickens and Ecocriticism: The Social Novelist and the NonhumanTroy Boone, University of PittsburghChapter 7: Bleak Intra-Actions: Dickens, Turbulence, Material EcologyJohn Parham, University of WorcesterChapter 8: Dark Nature: A Critical Return to Brontë CountryDeirdre d’Albertis, Bard CollegeChapter 9: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Reframing the Pastoral TraditionErin Bistline, Texas Tech UniversityChapter 10: The Environmental Politics and Aesthetics of Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines: Capital, Mourning and DesireJohn Miller, University of SheffieldChapter 11: Jane Loudon’s Wildflowers, Popular Science, and the Victorian Culture of KnowledgeMary Ellen Bellanca, University of South Carolina SumterChapter 12: Falling in Love with Seaweeds: The Seaside Environments of George Eliot and G.H. LewesAnna Feuerstein, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Chapter 13: Agriculture and Ecology in Richard Jefferies’s Hodge and His MastersRonald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 14: Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the Animal Limits of Victorian EnvironmentsJed Mayer, SUNY at New PaltzSources for Further StudyEditors and Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Home
Book SynopsisHome articulates a critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on Home and the City' that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book's chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale house-as-home; the urbTable of Contents1. Setting Up Home: An Introduction, 2. Researching Home, 3. Residence: House-As-Home, 4. Home and the City with Olivia Sheringham, 5. Home, Nation and Empire, 6. Home, Migration and Diaspora, 7. Leaving Home
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Ecological and
Book SynopsisEcological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread of non-native species to new habitats has forced restoration ecologists to re-evaluate their goals and the methods they use. This comprehensive handbook brings together an internationally respected group of established and rising experts in the field. The book begins with a description of current practices and the state of knowledge in particular areas of restoration, and then identifies new directions that will help the field achieve increasing levels of future success. Part I provides basic background about ecological and environmental restoration. Part II systematically reviews restoration in key ecosystem types located throughout the world. In Part III, management and policy iTrade Review"Allison and Murphy have done a great job in bringing together contributions from both leaders in the field and the next generation, and the geographic spread of authors is reflective of the global need for restoration... Excellent, and highly recommended for any library serving an ecological readership." - British Ecological Society Bulletin (December 2017)"... Allison and Murphy’s book is aimed at 'surveying current practice and identifying future opportunities and problems that will arise in our rapidly changing world.'The book delivers what it proposed to do. It is a substantial volume [...] and it is quite diverse in the topics. Thus, it gives a broad overview of the issues and approaches that are defining the current practice of ecological restoration. The list of topics is by no means exhaustive, but it is diverse enough to have something for everyone." - Carolina Murcia, Universidad Javeriana-Seccional Cali, Columbia and University of Florida, USA in Restoration Ecology (Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 600-601), May 2018 Table of Contents1. Introduction Stephen D. Murphy and Stuart K. Allison Part 1: The Basis for Ecological Restoration in the 21st Century 2. Considering the Future: Anticipating the Need for Ecological Restoration Young Choi 3. The Principles of Restoration Ecology at Population Scales Stephen D. Murphy, Michael McTavish, and Heather Cray 4. Landscape-scale Restoration Ecology Michael Perring 5. Understanding Social Processes in Planning Ecological Restorations Stephen R. Edwards, Brock Blevins, Darwin Horning, and Andrew Spaeth 6. The Role of History in Restoration Ecology Eric Higgs and Stephen Jackson 7. Social Engagement in Ecological Restoration Susan Baker Part 2: Restoring Key Ecosystems 8. Restoration and Ecosystem Management in the Boreal Forest: From Ecological Principles to Tactical Solutions Timo Kuuluvainen 9. Restoration of Temperate Broadleaf Forests John Stanturf 10. Temperate Grasslands Karel Prach, Peter Torok, and Jonathan Bakker 11. Restoration of Temperate Savannas and Woodlands Brice Hanberry, John M. Kabrick, Peter W. Dunwiddie, Tibor Hartel, Theresa B. Jain, and Benjamin O. Knapp 12. Restoring Desert Ecosystems Scott Abella 13. Ecological Restoration in Mediterranean-type Shrublands and Woodlands Ladislav Mucina, Marcela A. Bustamante-Sánchez, Beatriz Duguy Pedra, Patricia Holmes, Todd Keeler-Wolf, Juan J. Armesto, Mark Dobrowolski, Mirijam Gaertner, Cecilia Smith-Ramírez, and Alberto Vilagrosa 14. Alpine Habitat Conservation and Restoration in Tropical and Sub-tropical High Mountains Alton Byers 15. Restoration of Rivers and Streams Benjamin Smith and Michael A. Chadwick 16. Lake Restoration Erik Jeppesen, Martin Søndergaard, and Zhengwen Liu 17. Restoration of Freshwater Wetlands Paul Keddy 18. Saltmarshes David Burdick and Susan Adamowicz 19. Oyster-generated Marine Habitats: Their Services, Enhancement, Restoration, and Monitoring Loren Coen and Austin Humphries 20. Ecological Rehabilitation in Mangrove Systems: The Evolution of the Practice and the Need for Strategic Reform of Policy and Planning Ben Brown 21. Tropical Savanna Restoration Jillianne Segura, Sean Bellairs, and Lindsey Hutley 22. Restoration of Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands Gerhard Overbeck and Sandra Cristina Muller 23. Tropical Forest Restoration David Lamb 24. The Restoration of Coral Reefs Boze Hancock, Kemit Amon Lewis, and Eric Conklin 25. Ecological Restoration in an Urban Context Jessica Hardesty Norris, Keith Bowers, and Stephen D. Murphy Part 3: Management and Policy Issues 26. International Law and Policy on Restoration An Cliquet 27. Governance and Restoration Stephanie Mansourian 28. Restoration, Volunteers, and the Human Community Stephen Packard 29. Building Social Capacity for Restoration Success Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf, Alexander L. Metcalf, and Jakki J. Mohr 30. Ecological Restoration: A Growing Part of the Green Economy Keith Bowers and Jessica Hardesty Norris 31. Restoration and Market-based Instruments Alex Baumber 32. Profit Motives and Ecological Restoration: Opportunities in Bioenergy and Conservation Biomass Carol Williams Part 4: Ecological Restoration for the Future 33. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change Stuart K. Allison 34. Invasive Species and Ecological Restoration Joan Dudney, Lauren Hallett, Erica Spotswood, and Katharine Suding 35. Restoration and Resilience Libby Trevenen, Rachel Standish, Charles Price, and Richard Hobbs 36. Ecological Restoration and Ecosystem Services Robin Chazdon and Jose Rey-Benayas 37. The Economics of Restoration and the Restoration of Economics James Blignaut 38. Better Together: The Importance of Collaboration between Researchers and Practitioners Robert Cabin 39. Less than 140 Characters: Restorationists Use of Social Media Liam Heneghan and Oisin Heneghan
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Taylor & Francis Arctic and Alpine Environments
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full understanding of these regions. This book provides a detailed documentation of cold-stressed arctic and alpine terrestrial environments and systematically deals with the present and past physical environment â climate, hydrology and glaciology; biota â treeline, vegetation, vertebrate zoology, and historical biogeography; abiotic processes â geomorphological and pedological and the role of man â bioclimatology, archaeology and technological impact, including radioecology. The book will appeal to academics and students of environmental and biological science, as well as providing a significanTable of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Present Environments 2. Climate 2a. Arctic Climate 2b. Contribution to the Comparative Meteorology of Mountain Area 2c. Topo-and Microclimatology in Alpine Areas 2d. Snow 3. Hydrology 3a. Arctic Hydrology 3b. Alpine Hydrology 4. Ice 4a. Permafrost 4b. Present Arctic Ice Cover 4c. Present Alpine Ice Cover Part II: Past Environments 5. Palaeoclimatology 6. History of Glaciation 6a. Cainzoic Glaciations and Crustal Movements of the Arctic 6b. Alpine Quaternary Glaciation Part III: Present Biota 7. Treeline 7a. Ecology of the Northern Continental Forest Border 7b. Alpine Timberlines 8. Vegetation 8a. Arctic and Alpine Vegetation: Plant Adaptation to Cold Summer Climates 8b. Tundra Primary Productivity 9. Terrestrial Vertebrates Part IV: Development of Biota 10. Historical Plant Geography 10a. Origin and Evolution of the Arctic and Alpine Floras 10b. Biological Refugia and the Nunatak Hypothesis 11. Palaeoecology and Palaeozoogeography 11a. Arctic North American Palaeoecology: The Recent History of Vegetation and Climate Deduced From Pollen Analysis 11b. Palaeolithic Players on the American Stage: Man’s Impact on the Late Pleistocene Megafauna Part V: Abiotic Processes 12. Geomorphic Processes 12a. Geomorphic Processes in the Arctic 12b. The Geomorphic Processes of the Alpine Environment 13. Soils 13a. Arctic Soils 13b. Alpine Soils Part VI: Man in Cold Environments 14. Bioclimatology 14a. Physiological Responses to Cold Environments 14b. Man Living at High Altitudes 15. Archaeology 15a. The Peopling of Arctic North America 15b. Prehistoric Occupation of the Alpine Zone in the Rocky Mountains Part VII: Man’s Impact on the Environment 16. Radioecology 17. The Impact of Twentieth-Century Technology 17a. Small-Scale Examples 17a.1. The Impact of Motor Vehicles 17a.2. The Snowmobile in Eskimo Culture 17a.3. The Snowmobile, Lapps and Reindeer Herding in Finnish Lapland 17a.4. The Impact of Man as a Biped 17b. Large-Scale Examples 18. Postscript Glossary Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd In Search of Indian English History Politics and
Book SynopsisThis book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India. It highlights the phenomenon of Indianisation of the English language and its significance in the articulation of the Indian identity in pre-Independence India.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Historical Background 2. Articles, Letters and a Diary 3. Four Works of Fiction 4. Speeches Philosophical 5. Speeches Political 6. Two Letters and a Manifesto 7. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Terrestrial Environments 16 Routledge Library
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975 Terrestrial Environments covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, including fresh water habitats with emphasis on their fauna. The book also explores climate and vegetation in so far as they affect animal life. Finally, the selective influence of the environment on its fauna is discussed and, conversely, the influence of regulation, a synthesis of these interrelations. Morphological adaptations of the animals inhabiting various types of terrestrial environments are considered in relation to locomotion, feeding, and escape from enemies. Physiological adaptations are also mentioned briefly, and the adaptative importunate of diurnal and seasonal rhythms is stressed. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Zoogeography 2. Environmental Factors 3. Tropical Forest 4. Savannah 5. Desert 6. Steppe 7. Temperate Forest 8. Taiga 9. Tundra and Snowlands 10. Mountains 11. Microenvironments 12. Fresh Waters 14. The Selective Influence of the Habitat 15. Ecological Regulations Bibliography Appendix I: Classification of World Climates and Vegetation Appendix II: The Deserts of the World Index to Authors Cited General Index
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Taylor & Francis New Perspectives on RussianAmerican Relations
Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – William Benton Whisenhunt and Norman E. Saul1: Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries – Alexander Iu, Petrov2: The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations -- Susan Smith-Peter3. The End of the Winans Brothers Railroad Enterprise in Russia --Vladimir V. Noskov4. In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- William Benton Whisenhunt5. Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion – Ivan Kurilla6. Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of The Perkins Claim—Lee Farrow7. The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago—Pavel Tribunskiy8. The Tsar's power explained to America: Notes from a 1905 homily. -- Monica Cognolato9. A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky -- Erich Lippman10. Rediscovering the "Living Human Documents" of a Goodwill Initiative: Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914– 1918 -- Lyubov Ginzburg11. Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War:Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage -- Victoria I. Zhuravleva12. The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900-1940 -- Matthew Lee Miller13. Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia -- Kathleen S. Macfie14. Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia -- Ada Ackerman15. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933-1945. An Interpretation -- Vladimir V. Sogrin16. The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958 -- Norman E. Saul17. "Academic Détente": Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era -- Sergei I. Zhuk18. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story? -- Paul D’AnieriContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Organizing for Policy Influence Comparing Parties
Book SynopsisIn this book, Benjamin Farrer explains how activists can influence the policies they care about, even when they are outnumbered and their issues are ignored. The solution lies in a surprising place: organizational choice. Different types of organizations will be more influential under particular democratic institutions. If they choose the optimal type of organization - given their institutional context - then even minority groups can be influential. Environmentalists are a key example of how small groups can sometimes punch above their weight. Environmentalists in different countries have made different organizational choices. These choices explain whether or not they succeeded in influencing policy. In the empirical chapters that follow, Farrer shows that environmentalists can sometimes be more influential if they form interest groups, but under other institutions, political parties are the optimal organizational choice. Although interest groups are often easier to create, nationalTrade Review'Organizing for Policy Influence provides an innovative theory and a careful empirical analysis for understanding how activist groups influence politics in advanced democracies. Farrer persuasively argues that the type of organization that groups of political activists choose–specifically, whether they choose political parties, interest groups, or direct action groups–has profound implications for how these groups of citizens are represented. He looks at current and salient issues, like the environment and immigration, to increase our understanding of activist influence. Under which circumstances should activists organize as interest groups or political parties? Farrer’s analysis provides key insights for important questions like this one.' - Lawrence Ezrow, Professor of Government, University of Essex'Farrer employs an impressive variety of methodological approaches to argue that overlooked and under-represented actors – specifically, environmental activists – have the power to effect policy change. An important corrective to the academic and popular bias in favor of political parties, this book also shows why policy-seeking activists might choose to form an interest group or engage in direct action over creating a niche party.' - Bonnie M. Meguid, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester'Organizing for Policy Influence provides an innovative theory and a careful empirical analysis for understanding how activist groups influence politics in advanced democracies. Farrer persuasively argues that the type of organization that groups of political activists choose – specifically, whether they choose political parties, interest groups, or direct action groups – has profound implications for how these groups of citizens are represented. He looks at current and salient issues, like the environment and immigration, to increase our understanding of activist influence. Under which circumstances should activists organize as interest groups or political parties? Farrer’s analysis provides key insights for important questions like this one.' - Lawrence Ezrow, Professor of Government, University of Essex'Farrer employs an impressive variety of methodological approaches to argue that overlooked and under-represented actors – specifically, environmental activists – have the power to effect policy change. An important corrective to the academic and popular bias in favor of political parties, this book also shows why policy-seeking activists might choose to form an interest group or engage in direct action over creating a niche party.' - Bonnie M. Meguid, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester'Organizing for Policy Influence represents an expansive, insightful, and engaging text that is both theoretically sophisticated and methodologically rigorous.Farrer’s theory usefully problematizes orthodox determinism in social and political analyses and should be read by any scholar in these areas.' - Adam Howe University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Possibilities of Political Organizations 3. The Effect of Institutions on Organizational Choice 4. Translating Formal Theory Into Empirical Hypotheses 5. Explaining Emergence 6. Explaining Choices 7. Explaining Policy 8. Explaining Motivations 9. Conclusion 10. Appendices Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Environmental Consciousness Nature and the
Book SynopsisThis book explores alternative ways of understanding our environmental situation by challenging the Western view of nature as purely a resource for humans.Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education asserts that we need to retrieve a thinking that expresses a different relationship with nature: one that celebrates nature's otherness and is attuned to its intrinsic integrity, agency, normativity and worth. Through such receptivity to nature's address we can develop a sense of our own being-in-nature that provides a positive orientation towards the problems we now face. Michael Bonnett argues that this reframing and rethinking of our place in nature has fundamental implications for education as a whole, questioning the idea of human stewardship of nature and developing the idea of moral education in a world of alterity and non-rational agents.Drawing on and revising work published by the author over the last 15 years, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of environmental studies, environmental education, and the philosophy of education.Trade Review"At this critical juncture when our anthropocentric relationship to nature foreshadows imminent planetary destruction, Michael Bonnett’s eloquently written and exhaustively researched book is required reading. The philosophical and ecological issues addressed are global in scope, and Bonnett’s analysis will appeal to international scholars and students. Incorporating ecological philosophy and environmental ethics, Bonnett ambitiously pushes the boundaries of eco-phenomenology in unique ways and offers a tightly argued eco-philosophy that is grand in scope and holistic, presenting solutions for transcending the anthropocentric grip of scientism attuning our current relationship with the natural world. The inclusion of thoughtful vignettes, providing content for phenomenological description and analysis, puts the reader in touch with imaginative and transformative experiences of nature. The book confronts a multiplicity of issues, including: (1) Nature as a "self-rising," intrinsically normative phenomenon, (2) Human self-hood grounded in an attuned relationship to the natural world, and (3) "Ecologizing education," which is the re-envisioning of standardized education based on a renewed relationship with nature."Dr. James M. Magrini, author of Ethical Responses to Nature's Call (Routledge), College of DupageTable of ContentsContentsChapter 1. Normalizing Catastrophe: a Backdrop to Environmental IssuesChapter 2. A Phenomenology of Nature: the "Occurring" of Things in NatureChapter 3. Transcendent Nature and Its EnemiesChapter 4. Environmental Consciousness: Intentionality and Ecstasy at the Centre of Human BeingChapter 5. Anthropocentrism, Ecological Justice, and Population GrowthChapter 6. Listening to Nature: Ecological Truth and Systemic WisdomChapter 7. Ecologizing EducationReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Smart City in India
Book SynopsisThis book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses the transformative possibilities and limitations of the program. It examines the ten core infrastructural elements that make up a city, including water, electricity, waste, mobility, housing, environment, health, and education, and lays down the basic tenets of urban policy in India. The volume underlines the need to recognize liminal spaces and the plans to make the smart city' an inclusive one. The authors also look at maintaining a link between the older heritage of a city and the emerging urban space.This volume will be of great interest to planners, urbanists, and policymakers, as well as scholars and researchers of urban studies and planning, architecture, and sociology and social anthropology.Trade Review"The volume titled Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? authored by Dr Binti Singh and Prof Manoj Parmar is a comprehensive and persuasive presentation of the smart city narrative currently operational in India. It is empirically rich in primary data from second tier smart cities like Lucknow, Jaipur and Varanasi, compiles secondary research from several sources and presents updated data up to the Ease of Living city rankings of 2018. The authors explain that planning and designing of smart cities in India necessitates an inclusive collaboration among residents, designers, and policy-makers. This volume opens new discussions, highlights human and sociological dimensions, and reimaginations in urban design and planning while offering workable solutions and views the smart city mission in India as an opportunity for every selected city to chart its own destiny based on its context." — Chetan Vaidya, Former Director, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi, India"Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? is a timely book reflecting on key opportunities in Indian cities. Innovation, sustainability and inclusiveness will have to be major drivers for cities. The authors Dr Binti Singh and Prof Manoj Parmar have compiled this volume based on extensive literature study and empirical cases which I am sure would help academicians and practitioners and people interested in urban affairs in India." — Sameer Unhale, Chief Executive Officer, Thane Smart City Ltd. Thane, Maharashtra, India"The book is a unique synthesis of a detailed documentation on the concept of smart cities as imagined by the State juxtaposed against the reality and aspirations of its citizens, and an incisive analysis of the ‘smart city mission’. The authors have used robust tools for critiquing the project including conversations with stakeholders and multilayered field studies of communities and cities of Lucknow, Varanasi and Jaipur carried out by their students. The book suggests more nuanced ways to reimagine the smart city project. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the current state-of-art in smart city development in India." — Alpa Sheth, Managing Director at VMS Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India "I am writing to endorse the upcoming book. In the current scenario of confusion and elusion on the idea of a 'Smart City', Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? by Dr Binti Singh and Manoj Parmar will be able to shed some light on the key aspects of this concept and the various approaches that have been undertaken to implement it in the Indian context. The book illustrates how these approaches to the Smart City idea have been dealt with in the cities of Varanasi, Lucknow and Jaipur. These cities present a complex historic context which makes it interesting to examine how a rather futuristic notion of a 'Smart City' engages with the existing vibrant layer of historicity. To add to this complexity are the realities of life and lifestyles in these cities. It will be therefore interesting to read the critical analysis and challenges of the smart city narrative in the context of urban realities." — Navin Piplani, Principal Director, INTACH Heritage Academy, New Delhi, India"The collaborated effort of Dr Binti Singh and Prof Manoj Parmar in bringing out this book titled Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? touches upon various issues of smartness itself in the context of Indian Cities. Our cities are multi-cultural, multi-aspirational and to bring them into one fold of mono-culture with digito-technological governance will be uncalled for. The book also brings forth the fact that the Special Purpose Vehicle that is to implement the Smart City Plan is not planned or approved or implemented by democratically elected persons but by a set of bureaucrats and international firms determining the destinies of our (smart) cities. This is demeaning [to the] democratic processes of governance. While giving case studies of Lucknow and Varanasi [the] authors have emphasised that ‘one-size-fits-all’ should not be followed; each city has to formulate its own concept, vision, mission and plan (Smart City Plan/ SCP) for a Smart City that is appropriate to its local context, resources and levels of ambition." — Sudhir Badami, Structural Engineering graduate from IIT Bombay, India; he has been carrying out his own to limited extent Research, Advocacy, Planning and Integrated Design (RAPID) related to urban issues with emphasis on transportation and air pollution "In their timely book Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? Manoj Parmar and Binti Singh deliver a first reality check of Narendra Modi’s 2015 Smart Cities policy. After a first euphoria for the potential of smart devices in urban planning and management, Parmar and Singh’s case studies of recently developed Smart Cities projects in India present a range of challenges, which resonate with the growing public concerns, regarding smart technologies’ role in impeding personal privacy, spreading hate speech, manipulating political elections etc. Parmar and Singh’s studies show also how the outsourcing of urban planning and management to international technology giants has weakened democratic planning processes and public accountability, while often failing to deliver robust solutions. In addition, they present how the fixation on Smart City projects contributed to peri-urban development, regional fragmentation and social exclusion. Thus, Parmar and Singh’s book reveals three main layers of problems in the implementation of India’s Smart Cities Mission and their entanglement with the broader problem of our growing dependency on smart technologies." — Hendrik Tieben, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong"The book titled Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? by Dr Binti Singh and Prof Manoj Parmar comes at an opportune time when 100 cities in India have embarked on the road to Smartness and many more are going to join in. The authors have painstakingly collated data on smart city projects and plans across India, undertaken in-depth case studies of Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaipur and one slum community in Mumbai to highlight important issues and challenges in the current narrative. The book is a useful guide for diverse stakeholders and urban managers to engage with the smart city mission with fresh ideas and perspective." — Siddharth Dhende (MD), Deputy Mayor, Pune, India"Manoj Parmar and Binti Singh provide a timely critical appraisal of ‘Smart City’ narratives, identifying realities that are suppressed by political rhetoric but also opportunities that may be unlocked. By situating 'Smart Cities' in [a] historical context, but, importantly, also within their own extensive empirical research, the authors offer a much needed scholarly study that will be of interest to academics across the social sciences, urban studies and planning, critical geography and cognate disciplines, but also to the political and societal actors within the multi-layered, multi-player scenarios of India’s rapid urbanisation." — Christoph Lueder, Associate Professor, Architecture and Urbanism, Kingston School of Art, Department of Architecture and Landscape, London, UK"Dr Binti Singh and Prof Manoj Parmar's book on smart cities in India presents an interesting analysis of contemporary urban planning in India. The book, articulated in several chapters covering various aspects and necessities of the Indian development, dives deep in the examination of a vast literature, providing a thorough orientation in the interpretation of the significant changes occurring in recent years. The book is an interesting tool to interpret challenges and urban endeavors in the Subcontinent, in the perspective of a globalizing world." — Andrea Bertassi, Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona, USA; Associate Architect, XCOOP, The Netherlands"The idea of the ‘smart city’ and the Smart City Mission have grabbed a lot of attention in India in recent years among scholars, activists, bureaucrats and citizens. However very little is actually know about the details of this mission, and still less about their desirability and outcomes. This book is a welcome contribution offering a comprehensive overview and nuanced critique of the smart city concept, mission, and implementation focusing on some of the keystone projects in selected cities. The book makes it evident that the mission undermines key objectives of democratic decentralization and devolution, while ignoring indigenous capabilities and designs, and needs of Indian urban settlements. The book goes beyond the rhetoric and publicity to focus on the the details, their implications, and their potential impacts on urban planning and management in India." — D. Parthasarathy, India Value Fund Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, India; Convener, Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India"The idea of Smart Cities has taken on a mythical status which is not very helpful in thinking about the relationship between technology and urban planning. Through marshalling a range of empirical material on second-tier cities and exploring relationships between residents, private corporations, official bodies and planning ecosystems, this book provides an important overview of actually existing urbanism. It also asks us to remember that Indian cities are sites of great inequalities and urban planning must address this rather than sweep [it] under the carpet." — Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University Enclave, Delhi, India"Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? is a very timely analytical effort. It raises essential questions beyond conventional and rapidly changing terminologies examining what kind of focus, approaches and actions Indian cities need to achieve better livability, economic prosperity, social inclusiveness and sustainability. It rightly brings the discourse to the critical importance of local context tailored development with support of new technologies. I sincerely recommend this book to any urban stakeholder striving to make a difference in their city." — Olga Chepelianskaia, Founder and Director, UNICITI; Program Manager, Sustainable Cities through Heritage Revival (SEHER Asia)"With India on a rapid path to urbanization, the country’s Smart City Mission is an important paradigm to understand, given its important role in shaping national urban policy and practice. Smart Cities have been controversial globally, being hailed for their role in improving efficiency and resilience, and critiqued for their impact on social justice and equity. Yet there has been limited scrutiny of this approach in the Indian context. Smart City in India: Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? fills an important gap, evaluating the Smart City Mission across the country, and providing an in-depth study in selected cities. Such research is urgently needed to better inform urban policy and practice, towards approaches that are context-specific, inclusive, and people-centric." — Harini Nagendra, Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India"The Smart City in India confronts the oft-repeated and grandiose stories of how technology is changing urban environments. Combining research from Lucknow, Varanasi, and Jaipur, along with an analysis of a slum in Mumbai, the book shows the more complicated picture that emerges from close and critical research. The spatial relationships emerging from the insertion of new digital infrastructures into existing urban realities, powered by large-scale government spending and orchestrated to increase further private investment, exacerbate existing social problems. Parmar and Singh bring an important focus to a topic that will elucidate not only the challenges facing India, but facing cities worldwide under the new regimes of neoliberal smartness." — Sara Stevens, Assistant Professor and Chair of Urban Design, University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Vancouver, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Smart City Mission in India 3. Packing History and Culture with Smartness: The Cases of Lucknow and Varanasi 4. Urbanism, Urban Design and Planned Historic Cities 5. Reimagining the Planning Paradigm in India 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Chinas International Transboundary Rivers
Book SynopsisChina has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect Chinaâs relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia. Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the countryâs international water policy is at the core of Asiaâs water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for Chinaâs interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management.This book investigates Chinaâs policy responses to domestic water crises and examines Chinaâs international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international coopTrade Review"Lei Xie and Shaofeng Jia’s book makes a robust contribution to the discussion of international fresh watercourses by combining the Chinese perspective on national interests with the Global South narrative of riparian neighbouring states, all of which are developing countries. Xie and Jia examine and link research areas such as human security, diplomacy, intergovernmental relations, and policies, and the authors contribute insights to the current debate on fresh water management in relation to sustainability and the reduction of tension and conflict." - Francisco José Leandro in China Information (2018) Table of Contents1. China’s transboundary rivers: politics, diplomacy and security: an introduction 2. The governance of water resources in China 3. China’s policy over international rivers: Perception and diplomatic practices 4. Theoretical debate: water diplomacy 5. Southeast Asia: China’s water diplomacy on the Mekong River 6. South Asia: China’s evolving attitude over the GBM 7. Central Asia: Sino-Kazakh water diplomacy on Ili and Irtysh Rivers 8. Northeast Asia: Sino-Russian cooperation over the Amur River 9. Comparison and conclusions 10. Policy recommendations
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