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Yale University Press Naturalists at Sea
Book SynopsisTales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the long eighteenth century, naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world.This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist's lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship's commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist's difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment scienceamong them Louis Antoine de Bouganville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwinthis book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world.Trade Review“An extraordinary and entertaining catalog of maritime and scientific endeavor.”—Michael Fathers, The Wall Street Journal -- Michael Fathers * The Wall Street Journal * “An erudite and beautifully illustrated work, Naturalists at Sea wears its learning lightly, and conveys to non-specialists an array of fascinating details about explorers and naturalists, familiar and not-so-familiar, quoting judiciously from their journals and post-voyage publications . . . every page testifies to the indomitable vitality of both explorers and naturalists.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *“This fascinating tale is told across time, ships, captains and crews, and the countries that sent or received these scientific travelers, naturalists who brought their skills and weaknesses to documenting the natural world during the Enlightenment and beyond. Williams. . . does all the hard work of making these lives and adventures comprehensible.”—Library Journal * Library Journal *"[A] fascinating work . . . This well-illustrated book will interest a wide audience."—Choice * Choice *
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Yale University Press Biodiversity and Climate Change
Book SynopsisAn essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources urgently need a synthesis of our rapidly growing understanding of these issues. In this all-new sequel to the 2005 volume Climate Change and Biodiversity, leading experts in the field summarize observed changes, assess what the future holds, and offer suggested responses. From extinction risk to ocean acidification, from the future of the Amazon to changes in ecosystem services, and from geoengineering to the power of ecosystem restoration, this book captures the sweep of climate change transformation of the biosphere.Trade Review“This book isn’t just a call to heed the science; it’s a call to citizens everywhere to live up to their responsibilities and protect this fragile planet we share.”—John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, 2013-2017“Mankind’s heedless extraction and pollution of our planet’s resources is tearing apart the web of natural systems that has sustained our species throughout the long course of human development. Tom Lovejoy and Lee Hannah have assembled a book that chronicles these emerging ecological and climatic disasters; yet gives hope that we can still help Earth’s systems heal, and blunt the suffering of coming generations.”—Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Senator for Rhode Island“Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere serves as a comprehensiveaccount of this greatest of threatsto humanity’s future. It will serve both as atextbook and a call to action.”—From the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson“An authoritative analysis of the increasing speed and scale of climate change impacts on our biodiversity, together with an illuminating set of specific ways to use our biodiversity to address climate change. A powerful coupling.”—Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention 2010 – 2016"Lovejoy and Hannah generate a compelling story of the species extinctions that will accompany ongoing, rapid changes in Earth’s climate, coupled with the unrelenting pressure of human population growth."—William H. Schlesinger, President Emeritus, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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Yale University Press Into Wild Mongolia
Book SynopsisExplore the wonders of wild Mongolia through the eyes of a distinguished field biologistTrade Review“Schaller is driven by his vision of what must be done if wild spaces and rare species are to persist. . . . He is eloquent in his condemnation of what he deems gross mismanagement by the nation’s current political leaders, who allow oil drilling, mining and road-building in crucial protected areas.”—Tom McCarthy, Nature“George Schaller’s genius has been to bring the style of the best nineteenth-century natural histories together with solid present-day science. Into Wild Mongolia is a superb example of this combination.”—Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University“With great dedication to wildlife in all of its manifestations, George Schaller explores the vast steppes and other habitats of Mongolia. His revelatory explorations will undoubtedly aid the conservation of this unique ecosystem.”—Frans de Waal, author of Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves“Traveling in remote and unpredictable regions, George Schaller conveys the thrill of sitting near snow leopards, the beauty of vast glowing grasses, and the discovery of thousands of wandering gazelles.”—Amy Vedder, author of In the Kingdom of Gorillas: The Quest to Save Rwanda’s Mountain Gorillas“Luminously written, Into Wild Mongolia introduces us to remote, often cold, and desolate landscapes, animals such as the Bactrian camel, and local characters, richly rendered. We learn to read the wordless movements of elusive creatures like the snow leopard, communicated in the oldest writing on earth, their footprints in soil and snow. George Schaller is an icon; for his dedication to conservation and his love of biodiversity we can only be grateful.”—James Prosek, author of Trout of the World and Eels.“George Schaller, a true giant, is essentially the original field biologist. His words are living history. This astonishing, vivid book describes a region that has changed, but must never be forgotten.”—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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Yale University Press The Long Land War
Book SynopsisA definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the worldTrade Review“[Guldi explores], through history, ecology and informatics, the relationship between global poverty, the forced movement of populations and climate change. . . . She brings context and perspective to the facts.”—Geraldine Van Bueren, Times Literary Supplement“Guldi’s global study of land redistribution and allied political movements over 150 years considers how these can inform responses to current crises that affect refugees, including global warming.”—Andrew Robinson, NatureWinner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award silver medal2023 Book of the Year by The New Statesman Magazine“An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years. Jo Guldi’s global history of property tells the story of some of the most important social transformations of the 20th century, from land reform and mass evictions to the rise of corporate agriculture and resistance movements fighting for the right to land and housing. Read this amazing achievement: an intellectual tour de force, a poetics of tragedy and hope, and a call to action connecting insights from the past to the great challenges of our time.”—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City“Jo Guldi offers a compelling, extremely innovative account of the major movements for land in the late-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries—one that could not be more timely.”—Jess Gilbert, author of the award-winning Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal“It is said we can’t own the land; the land owns us. Jo Guldi’s The Long Land War is a tour-de-force that sets the land into its philosophical, colonial, spiritual, and practical contexts.”—Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power“The Long Land War is an exhilarating read. It puts the struggle for land rights at the heart of progressive politics in the context of the climate crisis and rampant inequality. This is a profound, elegant, globe-spanning, and ultimately hopeful book.”—Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters“The Long Land War is one of the most interesting and different analyses of familiar conditions. It is about a war centered on circumstances we rarely associate with war. And in that sense the book forces us to consider and recognize that, for many people, access to housing is a battle that will only grow.”—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
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Yale University Press Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World
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Springer Effect of MineralOrganicMicroorganism Interactions on Soil and Freshwater Environments
Book SynopsisI. Reactivity and Transformations of Mineral Constituents and Metals at the Soil-Solution Interfaces.- 1. Sorption Mechanisms at the Solid-Water Interface.- 2. Comparison between Bacterial and Chemical Dissolution of Al-Substituted Goethite. Incidence on Mobilization of Iron.- 3. Preparation and Thermodynamic Equilibria of Green Rusts in Aqueous Solutions and Their Identification as Mineral in Hydromorphic Soils.- 4. An XPS and AFM Coupled Study of Air and Bio-Oxidized Pyrite Surfaces37.- 5. Transformation of Iron-Containing Minerals in Kaolin during Growth of a Mixed Bacterial Culture Derived from Kaolin.- 6. Effect of Succinic Acid Produced by Microorganisms and Plant Roots on Copper Sorption by Soil.- 7. Interaction of Iron and Organic Matter in Relation to Its Uptake by Plants.- 8. Effects of Organic Matter, Iron, and Aluminium on Soil Structural Stability.- 9. Interactions of Mugineic Acid with Allophane, Imogolite, Montmorillonite, and Gibbsite.- 10. Aluminium Speciation, ToxicitTable of ContentsPart I: Reactivity and Transformations of Mineral Constituents and Metals at the soil-solution interfaces. 1. Sorption mechanisms at the solid-water interface; Ph. Behra, et al. 2. Comparison between bacterial and chemical dissolution of Al-substituted goethite. Incidence on mobilization of iron; N. Bousserrhine, et al. 3. Preparation and thermodynamic equilibria of green rusts in aqueous solutions and their identification as mineral in hydromorphic soils; J.-M.R. Génin, et al. 4. An XPS and AFM coupled study of air and bio-oxydized pyrite surfaces; V. Toniazzo, et al. 5. Transformation of iron-containing minerals in kaolin during growth of a mixed bacterial culture derived from kaolin; E.S. Shelobolina, et al. 6. Effect of succinic acid produced by microorganisms and plant roots on copper sorption by soil; T. Pampura, M. Ustinin. 7. Interaction of iron and organic matter in relation to its uptake by plants; A.M. Elgala. 8. Effects of organic matter, iron and aluminium on soil structural stability; M. Arias, et al. 9. Interactions of mugineic acid with allophane, imogolite, montmorillonite and gibbsite; S. Iridate, K. Inoue. 10. Aluminium speciation, toxicity and transfer from soils to surface waters in two contrasting watersheds exposed to acid deposition in the Vosges Mountains (North-Eastern France); O. Maitat, et al. 11. Ultrafiltration as a means to investigate copper resistance mechanisms in soil bacteria; I. Lamy, et al. Part II: Nature, Dynamics and Transformations of Organic Compounds and Enzymes in Soils. 12. Application of organicgeochemistry techniques to environmental problems; P. Faure, et al. 13. In situ ATR-FTIR characterization of organic macromolecules aggregated with metallic cations; F. Quilè, et al. 14. The structure of organic nitrogen in particle size fractions determined by 15N CPMAS NMR; H. Knicker, et al. 15. Polymerization: a possible consequence of copper-phenolic interactions; A. Oess, et al. 16. Effect of pH, Exchange Cations and Hydrolitic Species of Al and Fe on Formation and Properties of Montmorillonite-Protein Complexes; A. De Cristofaro, et al. 17. Adsorption and properties of urease immobilized on several iron, and aluminium oxides (hydroxides) and kaolinite; Q. Huang, et al. 18. The fate of acid phosphatase in the presence of phenolic substances, biotic and abiotic catalysts; M.A. Rao, et al. 19. Kinetics of catechol oxidation catalyzed by tyrosinase or &dgr;-MnO2; A. Naidja, et al. 20. Plant residue decomposition: effect of soil porosity and particle size; L. Fruit, et al. 21. The effect of humic substances from oxyhumolite on plant development; S.S. Gonet, et al. 22. Changes in some properties of humic substances from Melanudands induced by vegetational succession from grass to deciduous trees; T. Higashi, et al. 23. Characterization of the organic substances in reclaimed soils; L. Petrova, et al. Part III: Microorganism-Colloid Interactions and their Effect on Bioavailability of Pollutants and Nutrients in Terrestrial and Freshwater Environments. 24. Interactions between polychlorinated bip
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National Academies Press The Social and Built Environment in an Older Society
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National Academies Press Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk
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National Academies Press Spacecraft Water Exposure Guidelines for Selected Contaminants
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National Academies Press A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal Zone
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National Academies Press Review of the Lake OntarioSt. Lawrence River Studies
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National Academies Press Assessing the Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
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National Academies Press New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Earth Sciences in the 21st Century; 4 2 New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences; 5 3 Findings and Recommendations; 6 References; 7 Appendixes; 8 Appendix A: List of Background Materials; 9 Appendix B: List of Contributors; 10 Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies
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Transportation Research Board National Research Rockfall
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National Academies Press Corps of Engineers Water Resources Infrastructure
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NATL ACADEMY PR Oil in the Sea IV Inputs Fates and Effects
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National Academies Press Underground Engineering for Sustainable Urban Development
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National Academies Press Alternatives for Managing the Nations Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites
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National Academies Press Data and Management Strategies for Recreational Fisheries with Annual Catch Limits
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National Academies Press A Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 20202030 Earth in Time
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National Academies Press Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation
Book SynopsisFor more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the U.S., including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible precipitation, termed Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP). Failure of any one of the more than 16,000 high-hazard dams and 50 nuclear power plants in the United States could result in the loss of life and impose significant economic losses and widespread environmental damage, especially under the pressures of climate change. While PMP estimates have provided useful guidance for designing critical infrastructure, weaknesses in the scientific foundations of PMP, combined with advances in understanding, observing, and modeling extreme storms, call for fundamental changes to the definition of PMP and the methods used to estimate it. Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation recommends a new definition of PMP and presents a vision for a methodology relevant for design, operation, and regulat
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National Academies Press Forecasting the Ocean
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Little, Brown & Company Rooted
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperilled, beloved earth?Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt''s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways-from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness-and wildness-that sustains humans and all of life.In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.
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Little, Brown & Company The Heat Will Kill You First
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND THE ECONOMIST FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM, AND THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD FOR LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING.New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a 'masterful, bracing' (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at stake if we fail to act. “When heat comes, it’s invisible. It doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s arrived…. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you.” The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open. The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event— one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell’s new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before.
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Little, Brown & Company Death in the Air
Book SynopsisA real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson''s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his de
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Ordnance Survey Wall United Kingdom Administration OS Wall Map
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Elsevier Science Handbook of Recycling
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart 1 - Recycling in context 1. Introduction 2. The fundamental limits of circularity quantified by digital twinning 3. Maps of the physical economy to inform sustainability strategies 4. Material efficiency—Squaring the circular economy: Recycling within a hierarchy of material management strategies 5. Material and product-centric recycling and design for recycling rules and digital methods 6. Developments in collection of municipal waste 7. The path to inclusive recycling: Developing countries and the informal sector Part 2 - Recycling from a product perspective 8. Physical separation 9. Sensor-based sorting 10. Mixed bulky waste 11. Packaging 12. End-of-life vehicles 13. Electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) 14. Photovoltaic and wind energy equipment 15. Buildings 16. Construction and demolition waste 17. Industrial by-products 18. Mine tailings Part 3 - Recycling from a material perspective 19. Steel 20. Aluminum 21. Copper 22. Lead 23. Zinc 24. Ferroalloy elements 25. Precious and technology metals 26. Concrete and aggregates 27. Cementitious binders incorporating residues 28. Glass 29. Lumber 30. Paper 31. Plastic recycling 32. Black rubber products 34. Carbon fibers Part 4 - Recycling and the circular economy 35. From waste management to circular economy—The role of recycling in policy 36. Geopolitics of resources and recycling 37. Information and communication 38. Recycling, law, and the circular economy 39. Extended producer responsibility 40. Exploring the economics of recycling in a dynamic global context 41. Economic policy instruments 42. Economic aspects of metal recycling Part 5 - Recycling fundamentals 43. Physical separation 44. Thermodynamics 45. Exergy—Quantification of resource dissipation 46. Process simulation—Thermodynamics and process technology to understand recycling systems 47. Life cycle assessment (LCA)
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Elsevier Science Conservation of Marine Birds
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSection I: Threats 1. Ecology of marine birds Lindsay C. Young and Lisa T. Ballance 2. Conservation status and overview of threats to seabirds Richard A Phillips, Jérôme Fort, and Maria P Dias 3. Interactions between fisheries and seabirds: prey modification, discards and bycatch William A. Montevecchi 4. Invasive species Dena R. Spatz, Holly Jones, Elsa Bonnaud, Peter Kappes, Nick D. Holmes, and Yuliana Bedolla Guzmán 5. Health and Diseases Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Marcela M. Uhart, and Thierry Work 6. Pollution - lights, plastics, oil, and contaminants Morgan Gilmour, Stephanie Borrelle, Linda Elliott, Rae Okawa, and Airam Rodriguez 7. Exploitation and disturbance D.C. Duffy and V. Peschko 8. Climate change: the ecological backdrop of seabird conservation Pierre A. Pistorius, William J. Sydeman, Yutaka Watanuki, Sarah Ann Thompson, Florian Orgeret Section II: Solutions 9. Introduction and historical approaches to seabird conservation Colin M. Miskelly 10. Legal and cooperative mechanisms for conserving marine birds Mi Ae Kim, Craig S. Harrison, and Mark L. Tasker 11. Cultural aspects of seabird management Kawika B. Winter, Rebecca C. Young, and Phil Lyver 12. Managing harvests of seabirds and their eggs Liliana C. Naves and Thomas C. Rothe 13. Mitigating light attraction Airam Rodriguez 14. Reducing collisions with structures Marc S. Travers 15. Conservation of Marine Birds: Biosecurity, control, and eradication of invasive species threats Nick Holmes, Rachel Buxton, Holly Jones, Federico Méndez Sánchez, Steffen Oppel, James Russell, Dena Spatz, Araceli Samaniego 16. Fisheries regulation and conserving prey bases Mark Tasker and William J. Sydeman 17. Bycatch reduction Edward F. Melvin, Anton Wolfaardt, Rory Crawford, Eric Gilman, and Cristián G. Suazo 18. Protecting marine habitats: spatial conservation measures for seabirds at sea Robert A. Ronconi, Joanna L. Smith, and Karel A. Allard 19. Restoration and assisted colonization by social attraction and translocation Eric A. VanderWerf, Stephen Kress, Yuliana Bedolla Guzmán, Dena Spatz, Graeme Taylor, and Helen Gummer 20. Conclusions and the future of seabird conservation Lindsay C. Young and Eric A. VanderWerf
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Microbial food products: A sustainable solution to alleviate hunger 2. Role of soil microbiome in transformation and reclamation of soil 3. Microorganisms as biocontrol agents for sustainable?agriculture 4. Relationship between probiotics and living beings for sustainable life on land 5. Microbial adaptation to climate change and its impact on sustainable development 6. Earthworm Microbial Interaction for sustainable soil ecosystem and Crop productivity 7. Avenues of Sustainable Pollutant Bioremediation Using Microbial Biofilms 8. Endophytic bacteria in a biocontrol perspective 9. Microbiome stimulants and their applications in crop plants 10. Microbes: A sustainable tool for healthy and climate smart agriculture 11. Microbes as biocontrol agent: From crop protection till food security 12. Composting process: Fundamental and molecular aspects 13. Lichenized fungi, a primary bioindicator/ biomonitor for bio-mitigation of excessive ambient air nitrogen deposition worldwide 14. Molecular markers and genomics assisted breeding for improving crop plants 15. Nanoherbicides: a sustainable option for Field Applications 16. Coupling of photocatalysis and biodegradation (ICPB): A viable method for removing pesticides from contaminated sites
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Elsevier Science Geographic Information System Skills for
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. What is GIS? 2. Geographic Data 3. Reference Systems 4. Mapping 5. Geographic Data Collection 6. Geographic Data Management 7. Geographic Data Processing – Vector Data 8. Geographic Data Processing – Raster Data 9. Spatial Statistics 10. Remote Sensing 11. Advanced applications in Forestry and Natural Resource Management 12. Professional Practice
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Elsevier Science MultiHazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. An overview of vulnerability and resilience building in the Asia Pacific region 2. Opportunities and challenges farmers face when Using indigenous knowledge to adapt to climate change in sustainable development in Mekong Delta, Vietnam (A case study in An Giang province) 3. Development of a disaster and climate risk ATLAS in Bangladesh: Methodology for quantification of risk 4. Sustainability assessment methodology for residential building in urban area - a case study 5. Comparison of the vulnerability assessment of step-back configuration and set-back configuration structures on hill slopes 6. A proposal for disaster risk management in the local level: lesson learned from earthquake prone area in Sengon village, Central Java, Indonesia 7. Community resilience for disaster risk reduction by engaging local governance in Bihar (India) 8. A working strategy for preparedness in Kerala schools: a suggestive study 9. Integrating indigenous knowledge with science to suitably tackle disasters due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the progress and way forward 10. Target E of Sendai Framework: current status and how to complete by 2022 end 11. Predict the critical load of rectangular concrete-filled steel tube columns with ultra high strength concrete with software ANSYS 12. Time-dependent reliability system of the continuous steel beam I-shapes with corrosion damage 13. An extensive study on damage assessment of earthquake-affected buildings in Nepal 14. Modeling soil erosion: Samanalawewa watershed, Sri Lanka 15. Efficient earthquake intensity measures for probabilistic seismic demand models of skewed RC bridges 16. Time-frequency analysis of ground motions from the 1999 Chamoli earthquake 17. Mainstreaming disaster risk management technical and vocational education and training (DRM-TVET) program in higher education institutions: flexible ladderized capacity building model amid COVID-19 18. Extreme flood analysis for Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan study under disaster risk reduction 19. Change in cropping pattern and soil health in relation to climate change and salinity in coastal Bangladesh 20. Strengthening capacity for disaster resilience of rural women in Fiji 21. Foundation of indigenous knowledge theory for disaster risk reduction 22. Critical infrastructure resilience in Eastern Economic Corridor of Thailand - a review
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Open University Press Climate Change Coaching The Power of Connection
Book SynopsisClimate change is not just an environmental problem, itâs a human one. Yet as humans, we are not changing fast enough for ourselves and our planet. Our sense of powerlessness and the belief that our actions wonât make a difference is holding us back from taking action and working on the psychological dimension of change could make the difference to moving us forward. In this transformative book, climate change coaching trailblazers Charly Cox and Sarah Flynn explain why changing for our climate is so hard and why coaching offers a key to affecting behaviour. With practical, easy-to-grasp skills that shift mindsets and motivate action they show how to build connection using a coaching approach, to overcome resistance and empower people to embrace change. If people often tell you âœWhat difference can I really make?â or âœHow can we possibly succeed?â then Climate Change Coaching will help you:âUnderstand the psychological barriers to changeTable of ContentsPreface by Charly CoxForeword by Kimberly Nicholas, Climate Scientist and Author, Under the Sky We MakeIntroductionPART A - what on earth does coaching have to do with climate change?Chapter 1 - A human problem with a human solutionChapter 2 - How change works - and what that means for the climate crisis individually, relationally and systemicallyChapter 3 - Empowerment and belief - a model for resonant actionChapter 4 - Coaching for climate action - what is climate change coaching?PART B - transform the way you communicateChapter 5 - Climate change coaching basicsChapter 6 - How to make and break influenceChapter 7 - Making it okay to talk about climate changeChapter 8 - When there’s too much “not enough”: dealing with scarcityChapter 9 - Overcoming overwhelmChapter 10 - Understanding intrinsic values to overcome resistance to actionChapter 11 - Defining a dream to run towards not a nightmare to run fromChapter 12 - Setting goals and getting into actionChapter 13 - Rage against the machine: turning anger and blame into forward energyChapter 14 - Making space for climate griefPART C - A coaching approach in systems changeChapter 15 - How to help organisations to commit to changeChapter 16 - How to bring people with you in changeChapter 17 - The challenges of landing big climate ambitionsChapter 18 - How the cumulative acts of individuals build to create social change and paradigm shiftsPART D - Coach yourself: how to sustain yourself while catalysing climate actionChapter 19 - How to thrive not surviveChapter 20 - When the going gets tough - how to recover from stress and burnoutChapter 21 - Loving, grieving and hoping
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Taylor & Francis GLACIAL LANDSYSTEMS
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models the many processes, forms and interactions that can be found in glaciated landscapes throughout the world. Landsystems models allow the glacial geologist and geomorphologist to evaluate these landscapes in relation to the dynamics of glaciation and to climate and geology. Glacial Landsystems brings together the expertise of an international range of specialists to provide an up-to-date summary of landsystems relevant to both modern and ancient glacier systems and also in the reconstruction and interpretation of former glacial environments. The models are applicable at all scales from ice sheets to small valley glaciers.This book is an essential reference for students of glaciation.Trade ReviewThis edited volume reflects the growth of information about glacial-influenced sediment sequences and depositional environments......The book illustrates the potential of the landsystems concept with respect to the orientation of future research into mountain geomorphological systems, and provides a sound basis for improvement associated with sustainable development and management of such sensitive earth systems.- Volume 24, No 4, November 2004Mountain Research and DevelopmentThe book presents valuable reviews and new syntheses on glacial process-form models that represent wide-ranging geographic settings and styles of glaciation.Boreas 33All the chapters are well written and contain a wealth of information.Journal of Quaternary ScienceTable of Contents1 Introduction to glacial landsystems, D.J.A. Evans 2 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: active temperate glacier margins, D.J.A. Evans 3 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: sub-polar glacier margins of the Canadian and Greenland high artic, C.O. Cofaigh, D.J.A. Evans & J. England 4 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: svalbard polythermal glaciers, N.F. Glasser & M.J. Hambrey 5 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: polar-continental glacier margins, S.J.Fitzsimons 6 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: southern Laurentide Ice Sheet margin, P. Colgan, D.M. Mickelson & P.M. Cutler 7 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: northern Laurentide and Innuitian Ice Sheet margins, A.S. Dyke & D.J.A. Evans 8 Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: southern Scandinavian Ice Sheet margin, F.M. Van der Wateren 9 Palaeo-ice stream landsystem, C.D. Clark & C.R. Stokes 10 Supraglacial landsystems in lowland terrain, M.D. Johnson & L. Clayton 11 Surging glacier landsystem, D.J.A. Evans & B.R. Rea 12 Subaquatic landsystems: continental margins, T.O. Vorren 13 Subaquatic landsystems: fjords, R.D. Powell 14 Subaquatic landsystems: large proglacial lakes, J.T. Teller 15 Glaciated valley landsystems, D.I. Benn, M.P. Kirkbride, L.A. Owen & V. Brazier 16 Plateau icefield landsystems, B.R. Rea & D.J.A. Evans 17 Paraglacial landsystems, C.K. Ballantyne
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Little, Brown Book Group The Climate is Changing Why Arent We A practical
Book Synopsis''An inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change'' Zanna van DijkThe climate is changing, so why aren''t we? After all, we are the generation of change. The severity of climate change leaves no one indifferent. The Climate is Changing, Why Aren''t We? will not try to convince you that climate change exists - we know that. It offers easy to understand insights into the structures that suffocate our future, while upholding a sense of optimism and humanising the climate story. From the clothes you buy, plastics you use and food you eat, to knowing how to harness the power of social media and technology to get our voices heard and demand climate action, Daisy Kendrick, founder of Ocean Generation, weaves together inspirational stories, shocking statistics and easy green switches to make in your everyday life to tackle climate change on an individual level. The Climate is Changing, Why ArTrade ReviewAn inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change -- Zanna van Dijk * bestselling author of STRONG *Daisy is one of the most inspiring young leaders I've had the pleasure to meet. Her insights are impeccable, her radar for what's next is on point, and this book comes at a much needed time when the focus on the climate crisis is changing from despair to solutions. -- Afdhel Aziz * Co-author of GOOD IS THE NEW COOL *
£12.59
Taylor & Francis EcoJustice Education
Book SynopsisThe third edition of this groundbreaking text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility. Authors Martusewicz, Edmundson, and Lupinacci provide teachers, teacher educators, and educational scholars with the theory and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. Readers are asked to consider curricular strategies to bring these issues to life in their own classrooms across disciplines. Designed for introductory educational foundations and multicultural education courses, EcoJustice Education is written in a narrative, conversational style grounded in place and experience, but also pushes students to examine the larger ideological, social, historical, and political contexts of the crises humans and the planet we inhabit are facing.Fully updated with cutting-edge research, statistics, aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Purposes of Education in an Age of Ecological Crises and Worldwide Insecurities; Chapter 2: Rethinking Diversity and Democracy for Sustainable Communities; Chapter 3: Cultural Foundations of the Crisis: A Cultural/Ecological Analysis; Chapter 4: Learning Anthropocentrism: An EcoJustice Approach to Human Supremacy and Education; Chapter 5: Learning Androcentrism: An EcoJustice Approach to Gender and Education; Chapter 6: Learning our Place in the Social Hierarchy: An EcoJustice Approach to Class Inequality and Impoverishment; Chapter 7: Learning Racism: An EcoJustice Approach to Racial Inequality, co-authored by Gary Schnakenberg; Chapter 8: Learning about Globalization: Education, Enclosures, and Resistance; Chapter 9: Learning from Indigenous Communities; Chapter 10: Teaching for the Commons: Educating for Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Journalism Democracy and Civil Society in India
Book SynopsisSince independence in 1947 India has remained a stable and functioning democracy in the face of enormous challenges. Amid a variety of interlinking contraries and a burgeoning media one of the largest in the world there has been a serious dearth of scholarship on the role of journalists and dramatically changing journalism practices. This book brings together some of the best known scholars on Indian journalism to ask questions such as: Can the plethora of privately run cable news channels provide the discursive space needed to strengthen the practices of democracy, not just inform results from the ballot boxes? Can neoliberal media ownership patterns provide space for a critical and free journalistic culture to evolve? What are the ethical challenges editors and journalists face on a day-to-day basis in a media industry which has exploded? In answering some of these questions, the contributors to this volume are equally sensitive to the historical, social, and cultural context inTable of ContentsIntroduction: Democracy, civil society, and journalism in India 1. Indian Journalism in the Colonial Crucible: a nineteenth-century story of political protest 2. Popular Cinephilia in North India: Madhuri shows the way (1964-78) 3. A Media Not for All: A comparative analysis of journalism, democracy and exclusion in Indian and South African media 4. Phantom Journalism: Governing India’s proxy media owners 5. Shaming the Nation on Public Affairs Television: Barkha Dutt tackles colorism on We the People 6. Playing Reporter: Small-town women journalists in north India 7. The Potential and Limitations of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh’s CGNet Swara 8. Connecting Activists and Journalists: Twitter communication in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi rape 9. How Well do India’s Multiple Language Dailies Provide Political Knowledge to Citizens of this Electoral Democracy? 10. Our Media, Our Principles: Building codes of practice for community radio in India
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CRC Press The Waterside Ape An Alternative Account of Human
Book SynopsisWhy are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable?Why arenât we hairy like our close ape relatives?A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions. Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might, but these models have been rejected. This book explores a controversial idea â that human evolution was intimately associated with watery habitats as much or more than typical savannahs. Written from a medical point of view, the author presents evidence supporting a credible alternative explanation for how humans diverged from our primate ancestors. Anatomical and physiological evidence offer insight into hairlessness, different coloured skin, subcutaneous fat, large brains, a marine-type kidney, a unique heat regulation system and speech. This evidence suggests that humans may well have evolved, not just as savannah mammals, as is generally believed, but with more affinity for aquatic habitats â rivers, streams, lakes and coasts.Key Features:Presents the evidence for a close association between riparian habitats and the origin of humansReviews the savannah ape hypothesis for human originsDescribes various anatomical adaptations that are associated with hypotheses of human evolution Explores characteristics from the head and neck such as skull and sinus structures, the larynx and ear structures and functions Trade Review"In my view, this is a totally incontrovertible demonstration that our view of the paleo history of humanity has been quite misguided. So, to me, this is a very, very important book. You will find at least two (arguments) which are, to my mind, conclusive. One is to do with exostoses which develop as bulging growths in the ear canal, which occur amongst people today who spend a lot of time diving – extraordinary – and they can be discovered in the skulls in the period that we are talking about – early human skulls. Another extraordinary revelation in Peter’s book, which is also new, is that human babies, when they are born, are covered in a membrane called the vernix. It is a very strange thing – nobody quite understands why. There is no other primate that we know has a vernix. Peter and his co-workers have discovered that there is another creature which has a vernix – seals. What is more, the chemistry, the biochemistry, the molecule which is responsible and the gene which is responsible for producing a vernix, is identical." Sir David Attenborough"Congratulations on your new book. The shoreline and riverbank are fertile sources of small animal life, as any exploratory schoolboy knows, and the creatures living there are comparatively simple to catch. It does look as if our species went through a temporary water-loving phase, and spent a great deal of its time fishing around beneath the surface. With this as an encouragement, the Aquatic Theory sees early man becoming more and more engrossed in his dabblings and divings, living in tribal groups close to the water’s edge and slowly adapting to this new pattern of living. So, I approve of your title The Waterside Ape. In 1977, Desmond Morris wrote: "Hopefully, future fossil-hunters will unearth some evidence to resolve this question. All we need now is some hard, tangible evidence to clinch the idea"."Desmond Morris, Author of The Naked Ape"I found this a fascinating book. We have a very thought provoking, if surprisingly controversial, theory, to which an ENT expert has obviously been able to make a major contribution It shows how much can be learnt from comparative anatomy and is of special interest to an ENT readership. I thought it presented very convincing evidence for a theory that the anthropologists should address with a better counterargument than presently offered".Liam M Flood FRCS, Editor, Journal of Laryngology and Otology"The waterside theory of homo evolution has been around for a long time and more and more fossil evidence is being unearthed constantly to support the already copious amounts of evidence from comparative biology. This book sheds light on both the existing evidence and new evidence that has come to light. Books like this should be taught in schools and colleges as it explains so much about our species. The author clearly knows his subject and writes in a way that is both comprehensible and interesting to the layman and full of scientific insight to academics. He picks up where Elaine Morgan left off and continues to challenge the head in the sand scientists who refuse to even consider this topic"Francesca Mansfield, Founder/Director, Odyssey Sailing"This book adds the latest information to the growing body of evidence that Homo sapiens had a period in its evolutionary history where water played an important part. This explains why modern humans have characteristics that do not align with other terrestrial mammals and in particular any other of the primate apes. This idea was first proposed by the eminent marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy in 1964. It was not well received by the biological establishment at that time. It was subsequently taken up by Elaine Morgan in her first book The Descent of Woman. She wrote several more books as updates on the theory. It addresses the questions of why we are bipedal, naked (nearly), can hold our breath for extended periods, have subcutaneous fat, a very large brain to bodyweight ratio, have speech as the consequence of a descended larynx, etc, etc.The zoological establishment have resisted this theory for nearly sixty years but there are signs of light dawning amongst the younger fraternity without the prejudice and bias of the conventional view that modern humans evolved on the African savannah. As a retired scientist, I can tell you that prejudice blights my discipline as it does the rest of humanity; but I would urge you all to remember the words of Max Planck - a nuclear physicist who had trouble with his establishment. He said: "Scientists never change their minds but eventually, they die!"Gray Mage, Retired Scientist"Well written and referenced, fairly balanced although always returning to the interesting underlying hypothesis that extended time in waterside environments near the Rift Valley of Africa selected for hominids with key adaptive features that helped the progression toward modern Homo sapiens. Artificial selection within populations, which also seems plausible, and similarly, the elimination of other tribe-equivalents, are not discussed. The book persuades me to read recent work by the master of human evolution, Desmond Morris." Gerald McLaughlin"Rhys-Evans provides an up-to-date account of all the paleontological, environmental and medical evidence for the aquatic ape hypothesis. The information is interesting, makes use of well-referenced scientific articles, and applies logic where gaps need to be filled in. A variety of human "attributes" are compared with similar attributes in terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic animals. Any speculation on the author's part is noted as such. The information is presented in a straight-forward manner, with the use of the correct technical terms for anatomical organs/structures, which may require some effort on the part of non-medical readers. Illustrations are provided where relevant. The information contained in this book is fascinating and really should be read by anyone even vaguely interested in human evolution." Jill Schroeder"In my view, this is a totally incontrovertible demonstration that our view of the paleo history of humanity has been quite misguided. So, to me, this is a very, very important book. You will find at least two (arguments) which are, to my mind, conclusive. One is to do with exostoses which develop as bulging growths in the ear canal, which occur amongst people today who spend a lot of time diving – extraordinary – and they can be discovered in the skulls in the period that we are talking about – early human skulls. Another extraordinary revelation in Peter’s book, which is also new, is that human babies, when they are born, are covered in a membrane called the vernix. It is a very strange thing – nobody quite understands why. There is no other primate that we know has a vernix. Peter and his co-workers have discovered that there is another creature which has a vernix – seals. What is more, the chemistry, the biochemistry, the molecule which is responsible and the gene which is responsible for producing a vernix, is identical." Sir David Attenborough"Congratulations on your new book. The shoreline and riverbank are fertile sources of small animal life, as any exploratory schoolboy knows, and the creatures living there are comparatively simple to catch. It does look as if our species went through a temporary water-loving phase, and spent a great deal of its time fishing around beneath the surface. With this as an encouragement, the Aquatic Theory sees early man becoming more and more engrossed in his dabblings and divings, living in tribal groups close to the water’s edge and slowly adapting to this new pattern of living. So, I approve of your title The Waterside Ape. In 1977, Desmond Morris wrote: "Hopefully, future fossil-hunters will unearth some evidence to resolve this question. All we need now is some hard, tangible evidence to clinch the idea"."Desmond Morris, Author of The Naked Ape"I found this a fascinating book. We have a very thought provoking, if surprisingly controversial, theory, to which an ENT expert has obviously been able to make a major contribution It shows how much can be learnt from comparative anatomy and is of special interest to an ENT readership. I thought it presented very convincing evidence for a theory that the anthropologists should address with a better counterargument than presently offered".Liam M Flood FRCS, Editor, Journal of Laryngology and Otology"The waterside theory of homo evolution has been around for a long time and more and more fossil evidence is being unearthed constantly to support the already copious amounts of evidence from comparative biology. This book sheds light on both the existing evidence and new evidence that has come to light. Books like this should be taught in schools and colleges as it explains so much about our species. The author clearly knows his subject and writes in a way that is both comprehensible and interesting to the layman and full of scientific insight to academics. He picks up where Elaine Morgan left off and continues to challenge the head in the sand scientists who refuse to even consider this topic"Francesca Mansfield, Founder/Director, Odyssey Sailing"This book adds the latest information to the growing body of evidence that Homo sapiens had a period in its evolutionary history where water played an important part. This explains why modern humans have characteristics that do not align with other terrestrial mammals and in particular any other of the primate apes. This idea was first proposed by the eminent marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy in 1964. It was not well received by the biological establishment at that time. It was subsequently taken up by Elaine Morgan in her first book The Descent of Woman. She wrote several more books as updates on the theory. It addresses the questions of why we are bipedal, naked (nearly), can hold our breath for extended periods, have subcutaneous fat, a very large brain to bodyweight ratio, have speech as the consequence of a descended larynx, etc, etc.The zoological establishment have resisted this theory for nearly sixty years but there are signs of light dawning amongst the younger fraternity without the prejudice and bias of the conventional view that modern humans evolved on the African savannah. As a retired scientist, I can tell you that prejudice blights my discipline as it does the rest of humanity; but I would urge you all to remember the words of Max Planck - a nuclear physicist who had trouble with his establishment. He said: "Scientists never change their minds but eventually, they die!"Gray Mage, Retired Scientist, "Well written and referenced, fairly balanced although always returning to the interesting underlying hypothesis that extended time in waterside environments near the Rift Valley of Africa selected for hominids with key adaptive features that helped the progression toward modern Homo sapiens. Artificial selection within populations, which also seems plausible, and similarly, the elimination of other tribe-equivalents, are not discussed. The book persuades me to read recent work by the master of human evolution, Desmond Morris." Gerald McLaughlin"Rhys-Evans provides an up-to-date account of all the paleontological, environmental and medical evidence for the aquatic ape hypothesis. The information is interesting, makes use of well-referenced scientific articles, and applies logic where gaps need to be filled in. A variety of human "attributes" are compared with similar attributes in terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic animals. Any speculation on the author's part is noted as such. The information is presented in a straight-forward manner, with the use of the correct technical terms for anatomical organs/structures, which may require some effort on the part of non-medical readers. Illustrations are provided where relevant. The information contained in this book is fascinating and really should be read by anyone even vaguely interested in human evolution." Jill SchroederTable of ContentsForeword by Gareth Morgan.Chapter 1 Theories of Human Evolution. Chapter 2 The Aquatic Debate.Chapter 3 Our Genetic Heritage. Chapter 4 Our Early Ancestors. Chapter 5 The Neanderthals and Their Demise. Chapter 6 The Waterside Ape – Why Are We So Different? Chapter 7 The Naked Ape. Chapter 8 Why We Lost Our Costs: The Early Hominin Tailors. Chapter 9 Evolutionary Adaptations in the Human Skull and Sinuses. Chapter 10 Human Skull Buoyancy and the Diving Reflex. Chapter 11 Surfer’s Ear. Chapter 12 Evolution of the Human Brain. Chapter 13 Food for Thought and the Cognitive Revolution. Chapter 14 The Human Larynx and Evolution of Voice. Chapter 15 Obstetric and Neonatal Considerations. Chapter 16 Marine Adaptations in the Human Kidney. Chapter 17 Scars of Evolution. Chapter 18 We Are What We Eat. Chapter 19 An Incredible Journey. Glossary
£25.99
Taylor & Francis Jainism and Environmental Politics
Book SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice. Aidan Rankin begins with a description of the ideas and principles that distinguish Jainism from other Indian (and western) philosophies. He goes on to compare and contrast these principles with those of current environmental politics and to demonstrate the specific ways in which Jain ideas can assist in driving the movement forward. These include the reduction of material consumption, the ethical conduct of business within sustainable limits, and the avoidance of exploitative relationships with fellow humans, animals and ecosystems. Overall, the book argues that Jain pluralism could be a powerful tool for engaging non-western societies with environmental politics, allowing for an inclusive approach to a global ecological problem.Trade Review"I am impressed each time by the ancient worldview of Jainism, as presented by Aidan Rankin. The climate crisis reminds us of the vulnerability of human life when it becomes disconnected from its natural origin. Therefore, the necessity of bridging the gap between the modern world and the ancient cultures is more needed than ever before." -- Fons Elders, Emeritus Professor of the Theory of Worldviews at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, the Netherlands"This book fills an important gap in our understanding of the connection between Jainism (and other Dharmic traditions influenced by Jainism) and environmental politics. It emphasises the important, perhaps essential, role that non-western worldviews can play in addressing issues of sustainability. The book is very timely in that it coincides with the rise of India as an economic power facing severe environmental problems as well as a greater global interest in the role of spiritual or religious traditions in addressing environmental questions. It is an important read for environmental activists seeking to incorporate non-western ideas into their political thinking." -- Daniel T. Ostas, Professor & James G. Harlow, Jr. Chair in Business Ethics, Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, USA"Impressive and fascinating insights into Jainism. The case study of the jeweller Vardhaman Gems and its business and environmental philosophies illustrates succinctly how Jain principles are applied successfully in a practical way." -- Paul Barker, President, Leeds Theosophical Society, UK"Through this book, Aidan Rankin open us up to the breadth and depth of Jainism with its outlook and practices that are deeply relevant for our time of ecological crisis. This book brings much needed hope in these challenging times." -- Ian Mowll is the coordinator of GreenSpirit (www.greenspirit.org.uk) and an Interfaith Minister, UKTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Jain voice and political ecology 3 The Jain theory of pluralism: transcending the politics of protest? 4 Jainism and environmental politics: a radical synthesis? Index
£47.49
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
£43.99
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.
£45.59
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 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 Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods in
Book SynopsisThis proceedings volume of InCoTEPD 2018 covers many ideas for handling a wide variety of challenging issues in the field of education. The outstanding ideas dealing with these issues result in innovation of the system. There are many innovation strategies resulting from recent research that are discussed in this book. These strategies will become the best starting points to solve current and future problems.This book provides an in-depth coverage of educational innovation developments with an emphasis on educational systems, formal or informal education strategies, learning models, and professional teachers. Indeed, those developments are very important to be explored for obtaining the right way of problem-solving.Providing many ideas from the theoretical foundation into the practice, this book is versatile and well organized for an appropriate audience in the field of education. It is an extremely useful reference for students, teachers, professors, practitioners, and government representatives in many countries.Table of ContentsEducation System; Formal & Informal Education; Learning Models; Professional Teachers
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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 The HolocaustGenocide Template in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThe Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the âœmemory warsâ in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash.The book focuses specifically on how âœmnemonic warriorsâ employ the âœHolocaust templateâ and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for their international isolation and worsening social and economic circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions: 1) the competing narratives of the âœuniversalization of the Holocaustâ as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and the âœdouble genocideâ paradigm, on the other, which focuses on âœour ownâ national suffering under â allegedly âœequallyâ evil â Nazism and Communism; 2) the juxtaposition of post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia, reflected primarily in the struggle of the Baltic states and Ukraine to challenge Russian propaganda, a struggle that runs the risk of employing similarly distorting and propagandistic tropes; and 3) the post-Yugoslav rhetoric portraying oneâs own group as âœthe new Jewsâ and oneâs opponents in the wars of the 1990s as (akin to) âœNazisâ. Surveying major battle sites in this âœmemory warâ: memorial museums, monuments, film and the war over definitions and terminology in relevant public discourse, The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe will be of great interest to scholars of genocide, the Holocaust, historical memory and revisionism, and Eastern European Politics.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe Ljiljana Radonić 1. Limits of Universalization: The European Memory Sites of Genocide Éva Kovács 2. From “Double Genocide” to “the New Jews”: Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence in Post-Communist Memorial Museums Ljiljana Radonić 3. A Baltic Struggle for a “European Memory”: The Militant Mnemopolitics of The Soviet Story Maria Mälksoo 4. Genocide, Holodomor and Holocaust Discourse as Echo of Historical Injury and as Rhetorical Radicalization in the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict of 2013–18 Nicolas Dreyer 5. Talking Past Each Other: Language and Post-World War II Killings in Slovenia Gregor Kranjc 6. Defending the “Good Name” of the Polish Nation: Politics of History as a Battlefield in Poland, 2015–18 Jörg Hackmann 7. Liberty Square, Budapest: How Hungary Won the Second World War István Rév
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Change
Book SynopsisWritten by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in todayâs world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on climate change has drawn across the full range of academic disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and questions are posed for use in class discussions.The book is written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace climate change from within social science and humanities disciplines. Science students studying climate change on inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive account of climate change.Trade Review"As with Mike Hulme’s career, this book ranges between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In doing so, it offers an interdisciplinary - and explicitly geographical - perspective on the ‘key idea’ of climate change. In 10 thoughtful chapters, Hulme opens up and extends understanding of the ways in which the idea of climate change is mediated through culture and politics. Selected key readings, provocative questions and scholar portraits increase the book’s usability. I look forward to using it in my teaching practice."Saffron O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK"Is there a more contemporary ‘key idea’ than climate change? In this compelling overview, Hulme tracks how ideas of climate change have varied in space and time, and across cultural groups. From art to religion, from scepticism to cli-fi, he contextualises (and challenges) the matter-of-factness of a scientific view of climate change. Whether new to the topic or in need of a refresh, both students and senior scholars will find much of value here."Lesley Head, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia"There is no one better qualified than Mike Hulme to explain the past, present and future of climate change in just ten chapters. In clear and engaging prose, Hulme leads us through the many facets of climate change: as a scientific concept, a locus of political debate, and a catalyst for imagined futures."Rebecca Lave, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Indiana University, USA"Mike Hulme’s ground breaking writings have been the must-read texts on the social meaning of climate from theories of human difference, markers of place (those salubrious climates!) to science and technology studies. His work illuminates the conflicts, meanings, impacts and politics of climate change. By placing the understanding of climate as a socio-cultural as well as a scientific project, Dr. Hulme’s work, always warm, generous and clearly written, has defined what it means to be an interdisciplinary, engaged scholar on a hyper-controversial topic. This magisterial book integrates climate questions through multiple discourses and controversies. Since it is hard to imagine a future without imagining climate change, this volume recasts and clarifies the nature of the debates. I think it is an essential volume for understanding atmospheric disorder, in all the meanings of the term." Susanna B Hecht, Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Professor, International History, Graduate Institute for Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland"This powerful and important book cogently demonstrates the need to take our ideas about climate change very seriously. Hulme shows the importance of recognizing climate change as a cultural predicament to be addressed through the explicitly performative mobilisation of different and competing values, ideologies, and narratives rather than a problem to be solved through more and better science and technology alone. An essential read."John Robinson, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada"This is a unique book with a truly interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the key ideas of climate change, and an all-in-one but concise reading of various ideas about climate change from social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. It is suitable for students and general readers trying to understand the profound climate changes. An innovative contribution of a human geographer to climate change studies!"Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China"What does climate change really mean for diverse communities? In this marvellous book, Mike Hulme explores the multitude of our human experiences of a changing climate. As a leading climate scientist, Hulme takes the reader beyond the science in a confronting, and profoundly enriching way. Building on a lifetime of climate research and the insights of marginalised voices, including indigenous, feminist, artistic, and religious insights, Hulme help us understand what it really means to be alive in a changing climate … to resist, struggle and imagine new futures, expanding our imagination in politically powerful ways."Bronwyn Hayward, Professor of Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand"This book offers the most complete collection of key debates and examples from around the world that epitomizes the multifaceted nature of climate change. Reading it was for me an intellectually stimulating learning curve as Mike Hulme inspiringly reflects upon our personal and social bonds with the matter and idea of climate. Beautifully written, thought-provoking and easily accessible, Climate Change is the ultimate companion, and indeed a profoundly rewarding journey, for scholars of all disciplines."Chaya Vaddhanaphuti, Lecturer, Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University, ThailandTable of ContentsSection 1: Climate Histories, Geographies, and Knowledges 1. Climate and Culture Through History: climate change historicised 2. Climate Change and Science: climate change quantified Section 2: Finding the Meanings of Climate Change 3. Reformed Modernism: climate change assimilated 4. Sceptical Contrarianism: climate change contested 5. Transformative Radicalism: climate change mobilised 6. Subaltern Voices: climate change supplanted 7. Artistic Creativities: climate change reimagined 8. Religious Engagements: climate change transcended Section 3: Climate Change to Come 9. Governing Climate: climate change governed 10. Climate Imaginaries: climate change forever
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Reimagining Industrial Sites
Book SynopsisThe discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and qualities of these derelict sites are reimagined in the transformed landscape and considers how such approaches can reveal the dramatic changes that have been wrought on these places over a relatively short time scale. It discusses these issues with reference to eleven sites from the UK, Germany, the USA, Australia and China, focusing specifically on how designers incorporate evidence of landscape change, both cultural and natural. There has been little research into how these developed landscapes are perceived by visitors and local residents. This book examines how the tangible material traces of pastness are interpreted by the visitor and the impact of the intangible elements - hidden traces, experiences and memories. The book draws together theory in the field and implications for practice in landscape architecture and concludes with an examination of how different approaches to revealing and reimagining change can affect the future management of the site.Trade Review"The complex legacy of post-industrial and military landscapes presents ecological challenges across the world today, requiring close scrutiny and imaginative responses. Catherine Heatherington’s fine-grained exploration of the successful recuperation of the former gun-ranges at Rainham Marshes near London, along with other case studies, provides essential insights into how best to approach this new landscape condition. The book provides an invaluable resource for those who now manage such derelict and neglected sites and, ultimately, for the wider public - for whom they are the new landscapes of leisure and environmental renewal." Ken Worpole, Emeritus Professor, Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsPreamble1. Introduction 2. The qualities of derelict, underused and neglected sites 3. Eleven landscapes and their qualities 4. Designing to reveal change ‘Musing on the tracks – the first interlude 5. Perceptions of material and spatial qualities in developed sites ‘Temporalities at Orford Ness’ – the second interlude 6. Perceptions of temporal qualities in developed sites ‘My memories at Bentwaters’ - the third interlude 7. Perceptions of the qualities and their impact on memories 8. Implications for practice 9. Managing change
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Taylor & Francis Postsocialist Cities and the Urban Common Good
Book SynopsisThis book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly complex in countries with experience of communism.In cities east of the former Iron Curtain, the once ideologically imposed principle of common good became gradually devalued throughout the 20th century due to the lack of citizen agency, only to reappear as a response to the ills of neoliberal capitalism around the 2010s. The book reveals how the idea of urban common good has been reconstructed and practiced in European cities after socialism. It documents the paradigm shift from city as a communal infrastructure to city as a commodity, which lately has been challenged by the approach to city as a commons. These transformations have been traced and analysed within several urban themes: housing, public transport, gre
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