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Tricorn Books Kalaallit Nunaat Land of the People
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Raven Press Earth Grief
Book Synopsis*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press)News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in terrible peril, species are dying by the millions, and global warming is getting worse. Increasing numbers of people feel the impact of this, feel some form of what is being called climate grief, ecological loss, or sometimes even solastalgia. Our species is entering a time of difficult and deep mourning. As environmentalist Leslie Head has said, Grief will be our companion on this journeyit is not something we can deal with and move on. It will be with us for a long time to come.Stephen Harrod Buhner takes the reader on a journey into and through that grief to what is waiting on the other side, a place that Viktor Frankl, Jacques Cousteau, Vaclav Havel, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and so many others have found. It's where one becomes an engaged wTrade Review"This book is a plainspoken and shambolic masterpiece, moist with tears. It's the honest fruit of a life lived close to the rain, to the whispering of leaves, to the raggedness of the heart. Created by a man who has stopped each day to catch sight of, to chew on, and slowly digest his own shadow, it works a dark and joyous alchemy upon the soul of the reader."—David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal"I don’t know how Stephen has managed to awaken the feeling-wisdom in me with just ‘mere’ words, but boy, it works—and with such poise, grace, humility and insight. I will revisit this treasure of a book again and again to imbibe its medicine and remember how to feel most inwardly and how to respond most appropriately in my own life to the catastrophic realities of our times."—Stephan Harding PhD, Senior Lecturer and Deep Ecologist, Schumacher College. Author of Animate Earth and Gaia Alchemy"Earth Grief is a guide for navigating the turbulent and changing climate of mind that we have inherited today. When you are in unfamiliar lands filled with perils, it is helpful to find someone who has a feel for the terrain and has come to call that place home. Stephen Harrod Buhner steps into this elder role by telling stories that call us to struggle with our grief for what has died and is dying not only around us, but within us too. As he writes: ‘while it is true that we need to change human behavior in the outer world it is even more true that we need to change human behavior in the interior world.’ By bringing us face-to-face with such important truths, Earth Grief helps us reconnect our tears and heart-break to the sustenance we need for a different way of living."—Timothy B. Leduc, Assoc Professor of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, author of A Canadian Climate of Mind and Climate, Culture, Change "This is a book for all those who feel the grief, pain and suffering of the Earth and our fellow-creatures—including many humans—and are tired of denying it, of trying to shut it out, and of all the false promises that there is a solution: a technique, a method, a system that will make it go away or be okay. It is a book about the central truth of our time: the collapse, already well underway, of the ecosystems that comprise life and support all human societies. Yet unlike so much other writing on the subject, it engages that truth with the deep feeling and emotional honesty that it entails and deserves. Buhner even offers hope (not mere optimism) that on the other side of the wrenching work of going down into the darkness of grief, both inner and outer, there might be a way to reinhabit our only home with integrity, humility and compassion. I know of no more important work." —Patrick Curry, author of Ecological Ethics and editor-in-chief of The Ecological Citizen"Stephen Buhner is one of the plant geniuses of our time."—Rosemary Gladstar, the godmother of American herbalism, founder of the International Herbal Symposium, and author of Herbal Healing for Women."One of America's preeminent herbalists, Stephen Buhner articulates the sacred underpinnings of the herbal world and deep ecology as only a real ‘green man’ can."—David Hoffmann, Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and author of The Holistic Herbal"Stephen Buhner's writings are a powerful call for people of all colors and nations to work together to restore recognition for and experience of the sacredness of Earth."—Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American teacher and author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing"The Earth will love you for reading his work."—William S. Lyon, author of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a LakotaTable of ContentsEarth Grief Table of Contents: The Beginning: In Which the Author Positions Himself Chapter One: The Journey Before Us Interlude One: The Teaching of Barns and Birds Chapter Two: Earth Grief Interlude Two: “Once You Are Real You Can’t Become Unreal Again.” Chapter Three: Shame and Guilt Interlude Three: “People Possess Four Things That Are No Good at Sea” Chapter Four-The-First-Part: Inevitability and Descent Narratio Interruptus: The Diagnosis Chapter Four-The-Second-Part: Inevitability and Descent Interlude Four: Fragments From a Stained Glass Window Chapter Five: The Journey Through Grief and Loss Interlude Five: “It is Hard to Live Without Love, You Know” Chapter Six: The Life We Live With Afterwards Epilogue: “It’s Hollow inside, isn’t it, just like me.” Bibliography Index
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Wild Nature Press In the Company of Seahorses
Book SynopsisSeahorses are instantly recognisable and have been a part of our culture for millennia, yet we still know very little about these enigmatic creatures.Steve Trewhella and Julie Hatcher have spent hundreds of hours in British waters observing native seahorses, witnessing at first hand how they behave in the wild, and how they interact with the other plants and animals in their underwater realm.With stunning photography, In the Company of Seahorses paints a rich picture of a mysterious world amongst swaying seagrass and colourful seaweeds. The accompanying text is packed with personal anecdotes describing the authors' journey of discovery, illustrating for the first time the secretive lives of these elusive animals in British waters.By sharing one couple's passion for an entrancing ocean icon, this book aims to inspire, inform and create a better understanding of the seahorse and its often vulnerable habitats around the British coastline.
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Taylor & Francis Understanding Cultural Landscapes
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Cambridge University Press Energy and the Environment
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Cambridge University Press Numerical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic
Book SynopsisNumerical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences caters to the needs of students of atmospheric and oceanic sciences in senior undergraduate and graduate courses as well as students of applied mathematics, mechanical and aerospace engineering. The book covers fundamental theoretical aspects of the various numerical methods that will help both students and teachers in gaining a better understanding of the effectiveness and rigour of these methods. Extensive applications of the finite difference methods used in the processes involving advection, barotropic, shallow water, baroclinic, oscillation and decay are covered in detail. Special emphasis is given to advanced numerical methods such as Semi-Lagrangian, Spectral, Finite Element and Finite Volume methods. Each chapter includes various exercises including Python codes that will enable students to develop the codes and compare the numerical solutions obtained through different numerical methods.Table of Contents1. Partial Differential Equations; 2. Equations of fluid motion; 3. Finite Difference Method; 4. Consistency and Stability Analysis; 5. Oscillation Decay Equations; 6. Linear Advection Equation; 7. Numerical Solution of Elliptic Partial Differential Equation; 8. Shallow Water Equations; 9. Numerical Methods for Solving Shallow Water Equations; 10. Numerical Methods for Solving Barotropic Equations; 11. Numerical Methods for Solving Baroclinic Equations; 12. Boundary Conditions; 13. Lagrangian and Semi-Lagrangian Schemes; 14. Spectral Methods; 15. Finite Volume and Finite Element Methods; 16. Ocean Models; A Tridiagonal Matrix Algorithm; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic
Book SynopsisThe Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and metamorphic rocks in thin-section. It showcases minerals in various settings and degrees of alteration and preservation to allow users to best identify their own specimens in practice. Chapters highlight the distinctive characteristics used to identify different minerals. Building on this base, following chapters describe rock textures and types, summarising their petrogenesis within a plate tectonic framework. This book also includes insights into how information from photomicrographs can be studied using modern analytical methods, increasing understanding of geological processes. This Atlas is an indispensable reference textbook for all facilities that use a petrographic microscope, for professional geoscientists, and as an aid for any student studying minerals and rocks.
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Cambridge University Press Radical Adaptation
Book SynopsisThe book is for city dwellers, urban planners, and students interested in how climate change is unfolding in cities. It is the first book to explore the range and extent of adaptive transformations required to manage growing climate-related shocks that are only beginning to play out in large cities worldwide.Trade Review'Radical Adaptation brings a global perspective to our engagement with the reality of climate change in everyday life. In this insightful and carefully researched book Stone explores a series of emerging intersections between climate, infrastructure, and contemporary cities.' Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge'Professor Stone has written a magnificently clear text outlining the most critical current impacts of climate change on cities (heat, drought, sea level rise, and flooding) and plausible solutions. With expert synthesis, he presents complex scientific information in understandable, jargon-less language, providing brilliant insight into current conditions, future threats, and adaptation options. This book is a must-read for anyone engaged in urban infrastructure and planning and climate adaptation and anyone interested in how climate change is altering our lives.' Peter J. Marcotullio, Director, CUNY Center for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College'This book describes the many ways the climate crisis impacts on us now in our homes, neighbourhoods and livelihoods and the most effective do-able measures to address these. What makes it special is the interweaving of detailed city case studies with a general text (also detailed) and historic examples.' David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development and Visiting Professor, University College, London'Cities are in a constant state of becoming, and now climate change is forcing societies to even more dramatically reimagine how cities are built, and how people live in them. In response, Radical Adaptation provides a compelling eye-level and planning-based narrative on the pathways and possibilities that lie ahead for urban spaces and residents. As a solutions-focused book, it details the story of how positive transformative change is within our own grasp, and that the cumulative impact of small and discrete steps, even against rising challenges, can become the rebuilding that is needed to create more resilient, sustainable and equitable communities.' William D. Solecki, Hunter College, City University of New York'Cities are at the forefront of climate change. Professor Stone provides a compelling account of how past infrastructure choices in cities interact with extreme weather and climate events being increasingly fueled by climate change to affect the health and well-being of residents. Focusing on high ambient temperature and water (too much or too little), Professor Stone provides interesting, illustrative, and evidence-based stories of current impacts in cities associated with changing weather patterns; and demonstrates how timely, practical, and urgent investments in re-engineering infrastructure would increase resilience to additional climate change.' Kristie L. Ebi, University of WashingtonTable of Contents1. Heat; 2. Water (Too Much); 3. Water (Too Little); 4. Retreat Postscript: Vine City References; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Wetland Ecology
Book SynopsisA thoroughly updated and accessible textbook featuring topical issues such as sea level rise, eutrophication, facilitation, restoration and conservation. This third edition is richly illustrated in colour, packed with examples from every major continent and wetland type, and features end-of-chapter questions to review and extend students' learning.Trade Review'Keddy's new version of Wetland Ecology is even more readable, not stuffy; it successfully strives for comprehension, not memorization, imbued with questions and principled hypotheses to guide experiments and syntheses. He retrieves both older and newer writings as a scientist first, and also as a citizen-scientist with affection for personal curiosity and society.' R. Eugene Turner, Louisiana State University, USA'This new edition is essential reading for all those around the globe interested in wetlands. The book emphasizes general principles and causal factors responsible for shaping natural wetlands and how they apply to restoration and conservation. Dr Keddy recalls how the old foundational studies contributed to building current understandings of wetland ecology. Numerous illustrations and probing concluding questions at the end of each chapter make the book a valuable teaching resource.' Barry G. Warner, University of Waterloo, Canada'In this third edition of Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation, Dr Paul Keddy has once again shown his strong understanding of how wetlands function. Rather than minor changes and edits to the second edition, this is a reorganized and rewritten expansion, with new sub-sections that delve further into the subject matter. Reference to the classical wetland literature is retained, but wetland science is brought up to date with references through 2022. New examples are included to help explain principles, and a concerted effort was made to use international examples. The effect of humans on wetland functions is prominent in many sections. Most figures are now in colour, and many excellent colour photographs have been added to assist in understanding of the text. Inclusion of insightful questions after each chapter helps to make this book an excellent text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses.' Douglas Wilcox, SUNY Brockport, USA'This is the most comprehensive book in wetland ecology. It explores the diversity and complexity of wetlands, covering a wide range of topics from ecology and functioning to restoration and conservation. These topics are presented clearly, they are superbly illustrated and organized in a way that makes this textbook of equal value to both students and researchers. A must-have book for anyone interested in wetlands.' Vasilis Louca, University of Aberdeen, UKTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Wetlands: an introduction; 2. Flooding; 3. Fertility; 4. Natural disturbance; 5. Competition; 6. Herbivory; 7. Burial; 8. Other factors; 9. Diversity; 10. Zonation; 11. Services and functions; 12. Research: paths forward; 13. Restoration; 14. Conservation and management; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Gulfs Climate Reckoning
Book SynopsisIn a world demanding climate action, the oil-rich Gulf states face a pivotal moment. Can they transform their economies, built on fossil fuels, into sustainable powerhouses? This seminal work offers a comprehensive analysis of how Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar are navigating the complex transition towards decarbonization. Examining the intertwined forces of economic necessity, geopolitical shifts, and environmental pressures, the book illuminates the difficult choices and trade-offs these nations face. Through rigorous examination, it reveals the innovative policies, technological advancements, and evolving social contracts shaping the Gulf''s energy future, while critically assessing the impact of decarbonization on their macroeconomic growth. This book is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and industry leaders seeking to understand the complexities of the Gulf''s energy landscape and its implications for the global fight against climate change.
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change on Trial
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Cambridge University Press Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia
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Cambridge University Press Performing Urban Ecologies
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Cambridge University Press Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate
Book SynopsisThis book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacement, and immobility by providing examples from around the world. The chapters use the latest findings from the natural and social sciences to identify key interactions shaping current climate-related migration, displacement, and immobility; predict future changes in those patterns and methods used to model them; summarize key policy and governance instruments available to us to manage the movements of people in a changing climate; and offer directions for future research and opportunities. This book will be valuable for students, researchers, and policy makers of geography, environmental science, climate and sustainability studies, demography, sociology, public policy, and political science.
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Cambridge University Press Satellite Remote Sensing for Water Management
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet
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Cambridge University Press Justice for Resilient Development in
Book SynopsisClimate impacts and risk, within and across cities, are distributed highly unequally. Cities located in low latitudes are more vulnerable to climate risk and impacts than in high latitudes, due to the large proportion of informal settlements relative to the housing stock and more frequent extremes. According to EM-DAT, about 60% of environmental disasters in cities relate to riverine floods. Riverine floods and heatwaves cause about 33% of deaths in cities. However, cold-waves and droughts impact most people in cities (42% and 39% of all people, respectively). Human vulnerability intersects with hazardous, underserved communities. Frequently affected groups include women, single parents, and low-income elderly. Responses to climatic events are conditioned by the informality of social fabric and institutions, and by inequitable distribution of impacts, decision-making, and outcomes. To ensure climate-resilient development, adaptation and mitigation actions must include the broader urban context of informality and equity and justice principles. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change Science
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Saint Philip Street Press Disability Health and Human Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Economics and Climate Emergency
Book SynopsisThis book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate change. Thirty wasted years. To most politicians, long-term collective interest has been denominated in meaningless units of time, a never and forever that has continually delayed action. From complacency has come potential disaster, and we are now living in a time of climate emergency and ecological breakdown. The next decade is a pivotal period requiring fundamental change. But numerous impediments remain. Continual material, energy and economic growth on a planetary scale are manifestly impossible, and yet economic theory takes these as a given and political leadership and policy seem unwiTable of ContentsIntroduction: economics and climate emergency 1. ‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis 2. What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification 3. What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’ 4. Economics and the climate catastrophe 5. Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution 6. The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change 7. The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes 8. Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education 9. Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures 10. In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era 11. Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology 12. Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy 13. From climate change to economic change? Reflections on ‘feedback’ 14. The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies 15. The global climate of land politics 16. From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen 17. Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out? 18. Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity 19. Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective 20. Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 21. Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response 22. The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level 23. Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization 24. Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy is a comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing water diplomacyâa framework for building relationships, negotiating shared interests, and managing complex water challenges across physical, political, and societal boundaries.In an era marked by rising scarcity, deepening uncertainty, and growing geopolitical tension, this timely volume offers actionable insights for negotiated problem-solving grounded in both scientific understanding and diplomatic skill. Moving beyond abstract theory and technical fixes, the Handbook introduces a dual-pathway structure designed to meet the diverse needs of its users. The âœWorking Togetherâ pathway invites readers to engage with water diplomacy through the lens of their roles, whether as professionals, decision-makers, funders, researchers, or affected communities. The âœWhat Matters and Whyâ pathway highlights key thematic dimensions, including process design, adaptive learning, trust-building, divergent worldviews, and the management of uncertainty. Together, these pathways guide readers through a wide range of case studies, from transboundary river basins to subnational disputes and community-scale water systems, demonstrating how water diplomacy can resolve conflict, enable cooperation, and support adaptive, context-sensitive learning by doing under conditions of complexity and change. Whether addressing a transboundary dispute or a local allocation challenge, this book provides guiding principles, practical tools, and real-world cases to support water solutions that are scientifically credible, socially inclusive, and politically feasible.The Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy serves as an essential reference volume for students and scholars of water diplomacy, water governance and water resource management, as well as for policymakers and water professionals who are seeking actionable insights into the nuanced challenges they encounter as they work to promote a more sustainable and equitable water future.
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Taylor & Francis Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise
Book SynopsisThis book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue, illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered), non-structural (nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new and existing communities. It is important for those located within the current or future flooTrade Review"In terms of the global implications of sea-level rise, the future is now. This book acknowledges the urgency of addressing the impacts of sea-level rise in coastal and other at-risk communities by focusing on solutions that address hard and soft engineering and design in a global context." - Dr. Jennifer Horney, Professor, Founding Director of the Epidemiology Program, Core Faculty of the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware "This important book offers practical and evidence-driven design solutions for coastal communities threatened by sea level rise. Through illustrative case studies from around the world the authors offer a range of innovative structural and nature-based solutions that are critical to building community resilience. A must read for anyone interested in how resilience can be advanced through landscape architecture, urban design, and land use planning."- Dr. Phil Berke, Director, Center for Resilient Communities and Environment, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "It is rare in the field of flood risk reduction to find international comparisons. Design for Sea Level Rise provides that and more. This book includes integrated analyses of eighteen flood cases from around the world. Impressively illustrated and presented, this piece of work will surely become the benchmark for landscape architects interested in addressing the increasing threat of flooding from sea level rise."- Dr. Samuel Brody, Director, Center for Texas Beaches and Shores, Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Texas A&M University at Galveston "With its range of well-illustrated case studies from around the world, Design for Sea Level Rise: Global Innovative Solutions seems likely to become an essential resource for designers and planners interested in this central sustainability challenge."- Dr. Stephen M. Wheeler, Professor, Department of Human Ecology, U.C. Davis"Sea level rise is much perceived as a worldwide problem not related to people's lives. In this insightful book, Newman and Qiao present a collection of global case studies to combat sea level rise. The design-based typologies and illustrated mechanisms provide valuable knowledge and resources for mitigating rising seas."- Charlene M. LeBleu, FCELA, FASLA, AICP, Professor, Landscape Architecture, Auburn University Table of ContentsSection 1: Landscape Architecture and Sea Level Rise 1. Sea Level Rise as a Design and Planning Issue2. Global Strategies for Flood and Sea Level Rise MitigationSection 2: Global Design for Sea Level RiseStructural Heavy Design3. Jefferson Parish, New Orleans Region, Louisiana4. Tampa, FloridaNon-structural Heavy Design5. Busan, Korea6. Moakley Park, Boston, Massachusetts.7. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8. Fisherman’s Bend, Victoria, Australia9. Island Bay, Greater Wellington Region of Aotearoa-New Zealand10. Wilmington, DelawareHybrid Heavy Design11. Franks Tract Futures, Sacramento: San Joaquin Delta, California12. Samut Sakhon, Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand13. Port Saint Joe, Florida14. Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai, JapanBalanced Design15. Fleming Park, Baltimore, MD16. Sanya Dong’an Wetland Park, Hainan, China17. Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Statistical Area, League City, TXScenario-based Design18. Amsterdam and Western Scheldt Regions, the Netherlands19. Miami, Florida20. Christchurch, Canterbury Region, Aotearoa New Zealand Section 3: Innovative Solutions for Sea Level Rise 21. Structural Mechanisms22. Non-structural Mechanisms23. Hybrid Mechanisms24. The Urban Periculum: A Landscape at Risk from Sea Level Rise
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Routledge Everyday LifeEnvironmentalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Touching Architecture
Book SynopsisThis book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ?and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses acting in concert as we move through time and space. The book picks up where much of the critique of architectural aestheticism at the end of the twentieth century left off: illustrating the limitations and potential consequences of attending to architecture as the visually biased practice which has steadily become the status quo within both industry and education. It draws upon interdisciplinary research to elucidate the reasons why this is counter-productive to the creation of meaningful places and ?to articulate the embodied richness of our touching encounters. A felt-phenomenology is introduced as a more?-than visual alternative capable of sustaining our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.By recognising thTrade Review"Anthony Richard Brand presents his case delightfully well. We enact the built and natural worlds through our bodies, through our whole bodies. Armed with this new understanding of hapticity and mood, the next generation of designers will imagine lived environments quite different from what we uncritically accept today."Harry Francis Mallgrave, PhD Hon FRIBA, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA "This book participates in a current conversation questioning the assumptions of architecture as both a gratuitous aesthetic object, and as a mere optimized device for human shelter. Extending insights from new phenomenology and the neurosciences, and through a careful analysis of important contemporary design practices, Mr. Brand expounds on the concept of atmosphere for an architecture responsive to qualitative places and cultural values, introducing new insights about the centrality of touch at the basis of perception."Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Emeritus Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada"Focusing on the claim that touch is the most intimate human sense, architectural theorist Anthony Richard Brand delineates elements of a tactile phenomenology of buildings. His central question is ‘how we are touched, moved, or affected by our architectural encounters.’ To answer this question, Brand draws on a wide range of studies, including neurological research and phenomenological work on the lived body, synaesthetic encounter, and environmental atmospheres. He grounds his conceptual argument via perceptive case studies of buildings by eminent architects Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Brand’s book is an important contribution to the growing literature on a phenomenology of architectural hapticity."David Seamon, Editor, Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Professor of Environment-Behavior and Place Studies, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, USA"This is a timely and powerful manifesto for a multi-sensory architecture, for buildings that appeal to the user as a living, moving, embodied participant, immersed in a 3-dimensional space unfolding in time. As well as introducing the conceptual tools necessary for understanding architecture in this way, it also applies them to a series of well-researched case-studies. Essential reading for anyone interested in this vitally important area."Jonathan Hale, Professor of Architectural Theory, University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Touching Architecture 1. Towards a More-than Visual Architecture 2. Embodied Encounters 3. Haptic Visuality and (Syn)Aesthetic Perception 4. Affective Architecture 5. A Matter of Making Atmospheres (case studies) Epilogue: Scenography, Architecture and Affect
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Taylor & Francis European Forest Policy and Governance
Book SynopsisThis book provides a state-of-the-art overview covering distinct and relevant aspects of forest policy processes in Europe, presenting a fresh perspective on different analytical approaches, theories, and frameworks.Set against the background of a changing world, driven by significant social, environmental, and economic developments, in Europe and elsewhere, there is a growing need for an improved understanding of forest governance and how to analyse the forest policymaking processes. This book introduces the reader to some of the key issues typically encountered in reviewing proposed as well as established forest policies, focusing on five socially relevant topics for the forest-based sector today, namely: European forest governance under a green new deal Systemic changes and the circular (bio-)economy Social changes connected with forest ownership and forest actors Nature conservation and the purs
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Justice in North America
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the voices of activists, this bookâs diverse contributors examine communitiesâ common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matter and Indigenous sovereignty.The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Race, Place, and Environmental Justice in the United States 1. Urban Environmental Justice Movements in the United States 2. Resilience at the Periphery: North America’s Non-Urban Environmental Justice Movements 3. Intercultural Alliances Part 2: Indigenous Movements and Environmental Justice in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean 4. Environmental Justice in Hawaiʻi and Oceania 5. Alaska Native Environmental Activism 6. Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Beyond: The Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Climate Change Advocacy Work 7. Ecocide, Ethnic Rights, and Extractivism: Struggles for Environmental Justice in Mexico 8. Plundered Paradise: The Puerto Rican Struggle Against Environmental Colonialism Part 3: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Sustainability 9. Indigenous Environmental Justice, Renewable Energy Transition, and the Infrastructure of Sovereignty 10. The Food Justice Movement 11. "We Are Missing Our Lessons to Teach You One": Youth Activists on the Frontlines of Climate Justice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Circular Economy in Europe
Book SynopsisThe Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and economic policy objectives. In 2019 the European Commission declared in a press release that the Circular Economy Action Plan has been delivered. The level of circularity in the European economy, however, has remained the same.Bringing together perspectives from social sciences, environmental economics and policy analysis, The Circular Economy in Europe provides a critical analysis of policies and promises of the next panacea for growth and sustainability. The authors provide a theoretical and empirical basis to discuss how contemporary societies conceive their need to re-organise production and consumption and explores the messy assemblage of institutions, actoTable of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributorsAcknowledgements Preface PART I: Circular economy as a policy concept 1 Introduction: the sixteenth century map 2 Limits to growth: historical antecedents of the circular economy 3 Enter Ellen: the circular economy hits the European scene 4 The circular economy: A concept in the making PART II: Critical perspectives 5 Postulating circularity: biophysical flows and the problem of entropy 6 Imagining circularity: the circular economy as a sociotechnical imaginary 7 Measuring circularity: indicator development in the circular economy 8 Governing circularity: how to govern in the nexus PART III: The future of change 9 Narratives of stop and go 10 What kind of science is needed in a changing world?11 From the sixteenth to the twenty-first century Index
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CRC Press Longwall Mining 3rd Edition
Book SynopsisIn the past 13 years since the publication of Longwall Mining, 2nd edition in 2006, although there have been no major changes in longwall mining technology and operations, many incremental developments in the whole system as well as various subsystems of the existing longwall mining operational technologies as detailed in the 2nd edition have been added to this edition.Major developments are automation, and health and safety technology, as well as equipment reliability, thereby greatly increasing productivity and cutting cost. In particular, the longwall system can now run automatically cut by cut forever without operators' intervention provided that the geology allows it. Other health and safety features such as LASC, personal proximity detection, color lighting, automatic shield water sprays and remote shearer control are fully operational. There are more than 7000 sensors installed in current longwall mining systems. The big data obtained and fast communicatiTable of ContentsU.S. Longwall Mining. Longwall Mine Design. Strata Mechanics. Panel Development. Shield Support – General. Shield Support – Design/Selection. Coal Extraction by Shearer. Coal Transportation. Automation of Longwall Components and System. Application Issues of Longwall Mining. Ventilation, and Methane, Dust and Noise Controls. Longwall Face Move. Longwall Power Distribution and System Control. Surface Subsidence. Appendices. Indices.
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Taylor & Francis The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom
Book SynopsisElinor Ostromâs Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the twenty-first century â from tackling climate change to maintaining cyberspace. In this book, Derek Wall critically examines Ostromâs work, while also exploring the following questions: is it possible to combine insights rooted in methodological individualism with a theory that stresses collectivist solutions? Is Ostromâs emphasis on largely local solutions to climate change relevant to a crisis propelled by global factors?This volume situates her ideas in terms of the constitutional analysis of her partner Vincent Ostrom and wider institutional economics. It outlines her key concerns, including a radical research methodology, commitment to indigenous people and the concept of social-ecological systems. Ostrom is recognised for producing a body of work which demonstrates how people can construct rules that allow them to explTrade Review'With great clarity and erudition, Derek Wall reveals the complexities of Elinor Ostrom's thinking as she formulated her brilliant insights about human cooperation and the commons. This book is a captivating intellectual biography that explains how Ostrom challenged the economic and political orthodoxies of her time, built a robust international network of scholars, and produced a body of literature that continues to nourish the contemporary commons movement.' — David Bollier, independent commons scholar and activist, and author of Think Like a Commoner'One of our age's most elusive yet most necessary aspirations is an ecologically sustainable self-governing society. So how is it that so many of us managed to miss Elinor Ostrom for so long? She spent a lifetime exploring this aspiration, and drew on an extraordinary range of sources to do so. Derek Wall has written an inspirational book about this key figure of our times. We have much to learn from her - and from him.' — Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, Keele University, and author of Green Political Thought.'Elinor Ostrom’s magisterial and influential work deserves engaging and full-length treatments such as this. Her innovative research opened new pathways and influenced both the left and the right. In this highly-engaging and well-written study, Derek Wall gives us a view from the left. It is a strong and valuable interpretation that will intensify the debate on her legacy.' — Geoff Hodgson, editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics'By opening up space for discussion between the dichotomy of market and state, Ostrom’s work offers an empirically grounded counterpoint to the impasse of ‘market vs. state-managerial’ solutions to a vast range of ecological problems, and issues of long-term sustainability. The sooner this concept is absorbed into the core research agenda of human ecology, the better.' — Eoin Flaherty, Human Ecology'Derek Wall, in presenting an accessible account of Ostrom’s ideas, and placing them within the context of the economics thinkers who influenced her, provides a useful and productive insight into how a reconsideration of the historic and present manner in which people have governed commons can provide valuable ideas about what role the commons can play in building a sustainable future.' --- Christopher Shaw, Environmental Change Institute, University of OxfordTable of Contents1. An Accidental Life? 2. Signs and Wonders 3. On Method 4. Au Contraire, Monsieur Hardin! 5. Green from the Grassroots: Social-ecological systems 6. Knowledge Commons 7. The Political Economy of the Commons in Physical Goods 8. Politics without Romance 9. A New Science for a New World Appendix: Institutional Analysis and Development: Micro
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Taylor & Francis Black Humor and the White Terror
Book SynopsisThis book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of resilience during the Holocaust, only a handful of studies have addressed Jewish humor as a reaction to physical attacks and increased discrimination in Europe during and after the First World War. The majority of studies have approached the issue of Jewish humor from an anthropological, cultural, or linguistic perspective; they have been interested in the humor of lower- or lower-middle-class Jews in the East European shtetles before 1914. On the other hand, this study follows a historical and political approach to the same topic and focuses on the reaction of urban, middle-class, and culturally assimilated Jews to recent events: to the disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, the collapse of law and order, increased violence, th
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anthropology and Climate Change
Book SynopsisIn this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition's pioneering focus on anthropology's burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition's focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists' contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities, and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts as scholars, educators, and practitioners from academiTrade Review"This third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change is an excellent assemblage of articles and case studies exploring the reorientations required for fully capturing the multiple and complexly intertwined challenges of climate change, the need to reconfigure through a process of world-making different ways (worlds) of envisioning how we relate to one another and to our environments, and finally, the problems and pitfalls that occur when global policy fails to recognize local capacities and vulnerabilities. Challenging the neoliberal logic that negates the possibility of other possible futures, essentially construing neoliberal capitalism as some ultimate stage of human evolution (Baschet 2003), the authors assert that anthropology thus must tap into the full array of resources, past, contemporary and imagined, for guides for creating alternative futures beyond the current relentless construction of risk. Framing the focus of the third edition with the subtitle "From Transformations to World-Making," Crate and Nuttall and the various authors contend that if climate change doesn't move us toward imagining other worlds (ways) than current neoliberal approaches, we never will, and the consequences will be catastrophic. The third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change moves that discussion significantly forward."Anthony Oliver-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of FloridaTable of ContentsIntroduction: from transformations to worldmaking Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall Part 1: Reorientations 1. The arc of the Anthropocene: deep-time perspectives from environmental archaeology 2. Re-fielding climate change in cultural anthropology 3. A picaresque critique: the anthropology of disasters and displacement in the era of global warming and pandemics 4. Understanding Arctic melt: reflections on collaborative interdisciplinary research 5. ‘Knowing’ climate: engaging vernacular narratives of change Part 2: Worldmaking Practices 6. “Don’t look down:” green technologies, climate change, and mining 7. Getting it right: What needs to be done to ensure First Nations’ participation and benefit from large-scale renewable energy developments on Country? 8. Whither the winds of change? Worldmaking winds and seasonal disruptions in the northern Chilean Andes 9. The water obliges: climate change and worldmaking practices in Peru 10. Climate actions with a lagniappe: coastal restoration, flood risk reduction, sacred site protection, and Tribal communities' resilience 11. Climate change as colonial echo in the Canadian Arctic 12. On new ground: tracing human-muskox reconfigurations in Greenland 13. The disappearing free reindeer: unexpected consequences of climate change for Fennoscandian reindeer herding 14. Sakha and alaas: place attachment and cultural identity in a time of climate change 15. A reflexive approach to climate change engagement with Sherpas from Khumbu and Pharak in northeastern Nepal (Mount Everest Region) Part 3: Interventions 16. Why we need to pay attention to wealth and inequality in lowering carbon emissions 17. Decarbonization and making the energy future in the Welsh underlands 18. Representation and luck: reflections on climate and collaboration in Shishmaref, Alaska 19. Agricultural intensification in Northern Burkina Faso: smallholder adaptation to climate change 20. Anthropological contributions to IPCC assessment work 21. Negotiating science and policy in international climate assessments 22. From “lone ranger” to team player: the role of anthropology in training a new generation of climate adaptation professionals 23. Climate counter-hegemony: crafting an anthropological climate politics through student-faculty collaborations in the classroom and on the streets 24. Caiyugluku: pulling from within to meet the challenges in a rapidly changing Arctic 25. Culture and heritage in climate conversations: reflections on connection culture, heritage and climate change
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Taylor & Francis Urban Design Made by Humans
Book SynopsisThe design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities. It requires relationships to be constructed and sustained between infrastructure, resources, and populations across multiple scales. This can be quite daunting. However, at the core of urban design is a simple ideaâour urban spaces are designed to allow people and communities to thrive. For that reason, a good starting point for urban designers is to focus on the way people think when engaging our built environment. This thinking is embodied, developed through the interactions between our mind, body, and the environment around us. These embodied concepts are central to how we see the world, how we move and gather, and how we interact with others. They are also the same ideas we use to design our environments and cities.Urban Design Made by Humans is a reference book that presents 56 concepts, notions, ideas, and agreements fundamental to the designTrade Review"Urban Design Made by Humans: A Handbook of Design Ideas offers a visual glossary of common urban design terms. The authors introduce, interpret, and illustrate key concepts with descriptive text and simple diagrams, creating a valuable foundation and tool for learning."Anne-Marie Lubenau, Director of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence at the Bruner Foundation and author of Urban Placemaking: Building Equity by Design"A skillful disaggregation as well as a synthetic compilation of the fundamental tools that define the practice of Urban Design. The book goes beyond being a mere glossary or dictionary and serves as a comprehensive as well as operational kit of parts which will be extremely valuable for the teaching as well as practice of Urban Design."Rahul Mehrotra, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanisation, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of The Kinetic City and Other Essays"Urban Design Made by Humans offers a robust, annotated glossary of terms and concepts essential to urban design. Rarely does one find a book that brings together so many basic ideas, with clear, crisp explanations, and highly legible illustrations. It brings depth and perspective to technical knowledge in an approachable format. This book will be a valuable resource for a range of designers, from beginning urban design students, to design faculty, to seasoned professionals."Carlton Basmajian, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University and author of Atlanta Unbound: Enabling Sprawl Through Policy and Planning"Students of urban design have long missed a clearly composed primer explaining fundamental concepts and foundational ideas of the field in an easy-to-understand manner. Adhya and Plowright cleverly combine meaningful insights and explanatory graphics to illustrate a wide range of basic building blocks helpful both for understanding the scholarly literature and professional practice of urban design."Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Professor of City Design, University of Illinois Chicago and author of City Planning in India: 1947-2017 and One Idea, Many Plans: An American City Design Concept in Independent India"This is a masterful contribution aimed at unpacking the complexity of urban design. With great clarity and focus, the book provides a comprehensive illustration of complex, entangled and overlapping ideas of urban development in a structured, accessible and understandable way. The book is a great resource for students, and relevant for researchers and practitioners in urban design."Ahmed Z. Khan, Professor and Chair Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and editor and author of Architecture and Sustainability: Critical Perspectives for Integrated Design"In the form of a glossary of urban design key concepts, cleverly cross-referenced, Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright’s Urban design made by humans is an important contribution to structure a common language of our field, accessible to everyone involved in the daily construction of this magnificent artefact called city. This is a much-needed tool in the era of collaboration and interoperability."Luiz Amorim, Professor of Architectural Morphology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil and author of Cidades: urbanismo, patrimônio e sociedadeTable of ContentsWhat This Book is AboutThinking is DesigningUrban Design is Not Big ArchitectureHow To Use This BookFormal ConceptsAxisBalanceBoundaryCentreCompactnessComplexityContainmentDensityEdgeExpansionFigure-GroundGrainGridMotionNodePathPattern Situated NotionsBlockCapacityCo-AwarenessConnectednessCo-PresenceCorridorDistrictFrontageLandmarkLegibilityMobilityPermeabilityRhymeRhythmSpaceVisibilityWalkabilitySocio-spatial IdeasAccessibilityActivationCoherenceControlLocalityPresencePublicnessResilienceSensibilitySeparationStability TypologyUseSocially Constructed AgreementsAuthenticityCharacterChoiceDiversityIdentityInterestPlaceSymbolTypo-morphology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Photography for Architects
Book Synopsis***Shortlisted for theArchitectural Book Awards 2024***We live in a world driven by images, but with so much visual noise, is anyone really looking? How does an architect ensure their portfolio is within view of the right audience? Photographs are still as vital to architectural practice as they ever were. However, creation and circulation, once in the hands of skilled professionals, is now perceived as being free' and within easy reach of all. But where is the clarity? What is the message? By setting out the case for curated image making, considered photography may again be placed at the centre of architectural marketing strategies.Photography for Architects guides the reader through various topics: from establishing a visual brand and sharing images online, to producing content in-house and commissioning professionals. It explores the still and moving image, creating books and exhibitions for legacy value, compiling award entrTable of ContentsPart 1: What & why? 1. Contexts and frameworks: Foundations of the architectural image in print & press 2. Representation of your work: Constructing your Practice brand Part 2: Photography - When & how? 3. Calling the Shots 1.1 - The case for and against using phones 4. Calling the Shots 1.2 - Which Camera system is best for you? 5. Calling the Shots 1.3 - Camera controls and considerations 6. Working with a Professional: In-house or Out-house? 7. Moving the story: Video and Viewpoint 8. When is now? - The right time to shoot your project 9. Briefing your image makers: What should they be doing on your behalf? Part 3: Where seen & where next? 10. Getting your story out: Working with Journalists 11. Social Media: Disseminating your brand online 12. Awards: Everyone’s a winner 13. Legacy value: Books, shows and printed folios Part 4: Legal & Ethical 14. Whose right and who’s right? - Understanding and controlling copyright 15. The Law and You: Legal rights and obligations 16. Ethics: Visual Thinking and accountability 17. Forever in View: The Global Image Market Afterworld 18. Tomorrow is today - Future technologies Photography for Architects take-outs Almanac and references
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consumption and Everyday Life
Book SynopsisWith an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the globalization of food, and digital consumption and platform capitalism.Theoretical perspectives are introduced such as theories of practice, critical theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. Examples from film, literature, and television are used to illustrate concepts and trends in consumption, and a wide range of engaging and up-to-date case studies of consumption are employed throughout. Historical context is provided to help the reader understand how we became consumers in the first place. Written by an experienced teacher, the book offers an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the concepTrade Review"The third edition of Mark Paterson’s Consumption and Everyday Life offers an excellent introduction to the sociology of consumption. It is readable, interesting and well-grounded in both the everyday life of, and the academic literature on, consumption. Most of the key ideas and orientations in the field are covered in a very lively and accessible manner."George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Maryland, USA"Consumption is indissolubly related to everyday life, and everyday life in the global West cannot be understood without reference to consumer practices. Writing in an accessible style and with many valuable examples, Paterson’s textbook offers a broad perspective on contemporary consumer dynamics. The book helps us understand the boundaries, specificity and importance of today’s cultures of consumption with particular attention to themes such as the commodification of youth, the gendered politics of consumption, the dynamics of globalization and the digitalization of everyday life."Roberta Sassatelli, Professor of Sociology, University of Bologna, Italy Table of ContentsIntroduction: we are all consumers Part I: The Times of Consumption: Modernity 1. How we became consumers: historical theories of consumption 2. You are what you buy: consumption, class, and identity 3. Cathedrals, palaces, and paradises: the sites of consumption Part II: How We Consume Now 4. The counterculture becomes consumer culture: the commodification of youth and rebellion 5. ‘Just do it’: advertising and the power of the brand 6. How they make you buy: retail psychology and the role of the senses 7. Out of the kitchen at last? the gendered politics of consumption 8. Nature, Inc.: the great outdoors, the global within Part III: The Spaces of Consumption: Globalization 9. The world on your plate: food in the age of globalized agri-food networks 10. Globalization and McDonaldization: producing the global consumer 11. Digital consumption: online retail, the social industry, and the new digital worker 12. Enough! the ethics of consumption
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Language of Contemporary Architecture
Book SynopsisAs a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as contemporism through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question of how to move beyond modernism through a thread of architectural styles that tried to respond to deficiencies from the modern promise and contextual changes. Yet, the question remains, should this ongoing struggle to move beyond modernism be a stylistic battle? Has the present architectural practice ever left the modernist tendencies, and is there a structure for a contemporary language in architecture? This book presents a collection of highly illustrated projects that have worked under these parameters to break away from modernism in order to present a holistic integration of topolTable of ContentsPROLOGUE Toyo Ito INTRODUCTION by PRAUD with guest essay by Anthony Vidler INDEX Part 1 Topology INDEX Part 2 Typology TO/TY as METHODOLOGY Concluding analysis and speculations.
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CRC Press Advances in Design and Testing of Future Smart
Book SynopsisThe streets and roads constitute an enormous part of civil infrastructure and a large part of our cities- a social resource that must be properly managed and developed. Therefore, many road construction companies, contractors, transport and traffic administrations and municipalities are seeking for new road design models that can withstand modern challenges and demands. Advances in Design and Testing of Future Smart Roads: Considering Urbanization, Digitalization, Electrification and Climate Change deals with adapting current road designs to better withstand these future challenges as well as optimizing their structural design. Furthermore, the book illustrates recommendations and models for street/road sections, including the road section with a reconfigurable design, which can be used in both reconstruction and new construction of roads. Features:â Covers road testbeds that meet the challenge of future urbanization, including digitalization and electrificationâ Provides recommendations for potential climate change impacts, including flooding and ice accumulation problems â Introduces the concept of reconfigurable and removable streets including recommendations for corresponding street testbeds This book will be of interest to road construction companies and contractors, transport and traffic administrations and municipalities, lecturers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in transport infrastructure and future road designs.
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Taylor & Francis Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider ârisky places.â These can be facilities, nodes, or paths and can be found everywhere, from small towns to megacities. Crime and fear are examined from the perspective of those who use these places, based on examples from the US, the UK, Sweden, Nigeria, Brazil, China, Australia, and more. Advocating for a systems thinking approach, the book shows what can be learned from risky places and identifies ways to address their inherent problems. The book also assesses current barriers to applying systems thinking and identifies ways to foster interconnected long-term crime prevention strategies that meet the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders. Aimed at academics, students, and professionals in urban planning, criminology, geography, and related fields, this book is a vital resource for those dedicated to creating safer, more inclusive, and sustainable environments. The Open Access
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Corruption of CoDesign
Book SynopsisDesigners are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, co-design tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes?Such questions are becoming more pressing as co-design has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås suggest that designers tend to overemphasize the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to reorient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay, and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft.In putting forward Trade Review"Who knew critical design theory could be funny?"Lucy Kimbell, Professor, University of the Arts London, UK"This is an urgently needed book, providing Social Designers with political theories to correct the too-often naïve expansion of their material practice to social challenges. The Corruption of Co-Design manages to be a robust political argument that is nevertheless attentive to the experimental particularities of design practice. It marks a welcome step-change in what responsible co-designing entails."Cameron Tonkinwise, Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia"Machiavelli for democratic designers! A contradicto in adjecto? Not so for von Busch and Palmås. Realdesign, the healing cure they ordinate for the participative designer is bitter and it hurts, but it is most timely and helpful since codesign and design thinking today are fully integrated into neoliberal and public management agendas, reducing the 'good' designer to an (unconscious) hypocritical moralist. 'Good' maybe dead, but the suggested remedy for the participatory designer does not necessarily mean to give up co-created playful democratic utopian dreams, but rather to learn how to consciously take into account the rationality of power, to be able to seriously deal with betrayal, corruption, cunning and hypocrisy as we play along. The Corruption of Co-Design is a good place to start!"Pelle Ehn, Professor Emeritus, SwedenTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Problems of Participatory Design 2. The Realist Challenge: Power and Possibilities 3. Betrayal: Post-political Participation 4. Corruption: Design and Decay 5. Cunning: Mêtis and Designerly Statecraft 6. Hypocrisy: of virtue and vice 7. Closing Propositions: After Empathy, Realdesign
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Taylor & Francis Coronasphere
Book SynopsisThis book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries. It studies the differing responses to COVID-19 infections across South Asia, the variegated impact of the pandemic on its societies, communities and economies, and emerging challenges which require an interdisciplinary understanding and analysis. With a range of case studies from India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, this book, Analyses the socio-economic impact of the pandemic, including the structural challenges faced by farmers in the agricultural production and migrant workers in the informal sectors; Examines the shifting trends in migration and displacement during the pandemic; Explores the precarity faced by LGBTQ+, transgender, Dalit, tribal, senior citizens, and other marginalized communities during the pandemic; Discusses the gendered impact of the pandemi
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CRC Press Chemical Process Industries
Book SynopsisThe rapid growth and expansion of the chemical process industry during the past century have been accompanied by a simultaneous rise in human health problems as well as material and property losses because of fires, explosions, hazardous and toxic spills, equipment failures, other accidents, and business interruptions. Concern over the potential consequences of emissions of harmful chemicals (along with catastrophic accidents) has sparked interest at both the industrial and regulatory levels in obtaining a better understanding of the potential for environmental health risks in chemical and related industries. This practical book presents and examines the environmental and health risk assessment calculations as they apply to various chemical process industries.Chemical Process Industries: Environmental and Health Risk Calculations can be used as a college text designed to provide new engineers and scientists some comprehension of the industries into which they may enter. It also serves as a useful reference for practitioners and will help them better understand the health risk aspects of various industrial operations. The chemical process industries employ mechanical, electrical, and civil engineers and a host of other scientists; these professions should also benefit from material in this book that applies to their fields of work.
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CRC Press Project Design for Geomatics Engineers and
Book SynopsisProject Design for Geomatics Engineers and Surveyors, Second Edition, continues to focus on the key components and aspects of project design for geomatics and land surveying projects with the goal of helping readers navigate the priority issues when planning new projects. The second edition includes new materials on surveying and UAV, and it is thoroughly updated to keep current with the recent technology and terminology. The two new chapters capture new developments in the rapidly emerging use of remote sensing and GIS in aerial surveys, mapping, and imaging for small-to-medium scale projects, as well as modern practices and experiences in engineering surveying.1. Provides a simple guide for geomatics engineering projects using recent and advanced technologies. 2. Includes new content on spatial data collection using GIS, drones, and 3D digital modeling. 3. Covers professional standards, professional and ethical responsibilities, and policy, social, and environmentaTable of ContentsPart I: Overview Chapter 1. Project Design Process Part II: Contemporary Issues Chapter 2. Standards and Specifications Chapter 3. Professional and Ethical Responsibilities Chapter 4. Policy, Social, and Environmental Issues Part III: Planning and Design Chapter 5. Boundary Surveys Chapter 6. Control Surveys Chapter 7. Topographic Surveys Chapter 8. GIS Application Chapter 9. Unmanned Aerial Systems Surveys/Mapping Chapter 10. Engineering and Mining Surveys Part IV: Proposal Development Chapter 11. Estimating Project Costs Chapter 12. Writing Geomatics Proposals Part V: Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Legal Consciousness and the Rule of Law in
Book SynopsisThis book considers how legal reforms and awareness raising associated with building the rule of law have engaged the popular legal consciousness, producing contradictions that have in turn shaped the nature of the resultant legality. How are popular legal-justice beliefs and practices transformed when legal reforms encounter local contexts and cultures? For over a decade, scholars have engaged with the argument that legal reform through rule of law building is the answer to the various ills of countries transitioning from war to peace or authoritarianism to democracy. Yet, scholars have also repeatedly critiqued rule of law building projects: The rule of law, in theory and in practice, is a product of Western liberal thought and development and provides limited space for local culture, norms, and practices. This tension has been playing out in multiple locations, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo for about two decades. This book examines how rule of law reforms in the Table of Contents1. Problems with the Rule of Law and Research in the Eastern DRC 2. Legal Consciousness and the Construction of Emergent Hybrid Legality 3. Fraught Fieldwork: Embodied Experiences and Imagined Spaces 4. Top-Down Approaches to Shaping Legal Consciousness 5. Legal Consciousness in Context: Statutory Rape and Early Marriage 6. Popular Justice and Witchcraft: The Violent Side of Emergent Hybrid Legality 7. The Rule of Law Revisited: Lessons from Emergent Hybrid Legality in the DRC
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Air Pollution and Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global. It discusses how these four types of pollution are manifest in today’s society and examines the scientific and policy challenges that stand in the way of progress.Table of ContentsForeword, Professor James Lovelock 1. Air pollutants and their sources Chapter 2. Historical context Chapter 3. Indoor air quality Chapter 4. Urban air quality Chapter 5. Regional air quality Chapter 6. Global air quality and climate change Chapter 7. Effects of future scenarios on climate change Chapter 8. The way forward
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Taylor & Francis Architectures of Care
Book SynopsisDrawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons.Typical definitions of care center around the maintenance of a livable life, encompassing everything from shelter and welfare to health and safety. Architecture plays a fundamental role in these definitions, inscribed in institutional archetypes such as the home, the hospital, the school, and the nursery. However, these spaces often structure modes of care that prescribe gender roles, bodily norms, and labor practices. How can architecture instead engage with an expanded definition of care that questions such roles and norms, producing more hybrid entanglements between our bodies, our collective lives, and our environments? Chapters in this book explore issues ranging from disabled domesticities and nursing, unbuilding whiteness in the built environment, practices and Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reclaiming the Standard of CareBrittany UttingPART I: Intimacy and Interdependence1. Disabled Domesticities and the Politics of Bathrooms: Architectural Enactments of InterdependenceIgnacio G. Galán 2. Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With ArchitectureLilian Chee, with a photo essay by Ian Mun3. Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern HospitalPiergianna Mazzocca4. Care as InfrastructureAni Liu in Conversation with Brittany UttingPART II: Collective Power and Conflict 5. Detroit Industry and “The Mural”: Representing Labor and Reappropriating Care in the Museum and in the Union HallJay Cephas 6. Aesthetics of Paradox: Hospitals for the United Mine Workers of America (1946–1958)Joy Knoblauch7. Commoning Practices as a Form of CareNeeraj Bhatia 8. Caring to Act, Acting to Care: Unbuilding Whiteness in the Built EnvironmentFabiola López-Durán and Adrienne RooneyPart III: Landscapes of Repair9. Care Manual: Caring Is What Caring DoesHélène Frichot10. Field Stations for a Future Climate: Architectures of Environmental CareDaniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting 11. Floating University Berlin: A Natureculture Learning SiteRosario Talevi and Gilly Karjevsky 12. Propping Up the CloudElsa MH MäkiIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainability Communication across Asia
Book SynopsisSustainability Communication across Asia distils the core components of environmental communication in the diverse milieu of Asian nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and China.The chapters in this book engage readers in a clear-sighted view of issues, challenges, and strategies related to sustainability communication in Asia, examining fundamental principles, digital strategies, and the role of language, as well as community engagement. The first part of the book features underpinning ideologies of sustainability communication. The authors go on to explore the prevalent trends and approaches in sustainable communication in the digital realm, examining the internet in general, social media, and gaming platforms. Finally, the book discusses the green efforts adopted among selected Asian communities, the role of communication, and the resulting societal impacts. Readers will be introduced to many related examples of Asian sustainability caseTable of ContentsTable of contentsAbout the contributorsIntroductionChapter 1Sustainability Communication: West vs AsiaBy Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad SalehChapter 2Language and Sustainability CommunicationBy Shaidatul Akma Adi KasumaChapter 3The Roles of the Sharing Economy in Promoting Sustainability Communication and Practices in ChinaBy Zhang Tong, Huang Miao, and Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad SalehChapter 4Strategic Sustainability Communication Model of the Listed Companies in the Stock Exchange of ThailandBy Rittipol KuntasuwunChapter 5Persuasion in Sustainability Communication: A Study of Penang Green Council’s InitiativesBy Debbita Tan Ai Lin and Shaidatul Akma Adi KasumaChapter 6Ideating Sustainability Content in Social MediaBy Nur Atikah A RahmanChapter 7Into the Practices of Malaysian Gaming Influencers: Do They Promote Sustainable Development?By Nurzali IsmailChapter 8Virtual Exhibition of Indonesian Geopark as a Sustainability Communication EffortBy Eli Jamilah Mihardja, Togu S. Pardede, and Nurul Selen Azizah ASPChapter 9Gamification and Sustainable Behaviour: A Case Study of ChinaBy Huang Miao, Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saifudin and Izzal Asnira ZolkepliChapter 10Factors Encouraging Journalists in Pursuing Sustainability CommunicationBy Anna Agustina and Adnan HusseinChapter 11Community Radio and Climate Change in IndonesiaBy Emilia Bassar and ImpronChapter 12Towards Sustainability in Corporate Social ResponsibilityBy Suriati Saad, Jamilah Ahmad & Mahadevan KrishnanChapter 13Edutainment in Sustainability: Can Sustainability Communication also be Fun? By Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad SalehChapter 14Communicating Science Information to the Fishing Community in the PhilippinesBy Joesyl Marie V. de la Cruz-Aranas, Rona Dhel Cabrias-Alingasa, and Daryl Lustracion SuperioConclusionIndex
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Taylor & Francis Belarus in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening economic conditions and refusing to take measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, has been confronted by increasing bottom-up and horizontal social mobilisation which demands a transformation of state-society relations and a new sense of Belarusian peoplehood. The book outlines how the current situation has developed, considers how the present demands for change are deep-seated and long-brewing trends, and reveals much detail about many aspects of the growing societal mobilisation. Overall, the book demonstrates that, although the old regime remains in power, Belarusian society has changed fundamentally, thereby bringing great hope that change will eventually come about.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Speculative Coolness
Book SynopsisCantley's work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit. Speculative Coolness surveys and collects a highly experimental architecture/design praxis. This book presents a selected body of his work, showcasing projects which seek to understand and explore the conditions, contexts, and media logics which govern this new territory, and to speculate on the Architecture[s] which it might occupy, and which might occupy it. Featuring both resolved projects and work[s] that are under development, this anthology represents constructs that locate themselves somewhere between architecture and its documentative media. The projects are presented alongside a series of critical essays written by pre-eminent architectural practitioners and theorists. These essays explore the disciplinary, social, and cultural context of the work, serving to underscTrade Review"Bryan Cantley’s latest book Speculative Coolness is a tour de force in speculative architectural representation. Through an impressively displayed selection of Cantley’s work, it critically explores the liminal realm that separates—and integrates—the digital and analogue voices of architectural representation. For those readers who have been unable to acquire Cantley’s first book Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture—now long out of print—Speculative Coolness will be a revelation."Daniel K. Brown, Architecture New Zealand May/June 2023"For decades, Bryan Cantley has been coolly speculating about architecture that surfs through the suburbs with expressive technology. His beautifully layered drawings, combining computer generation with the craft of hand delineation, manage to evoke without designating, and are in themselves objects of architecture. This book collects some of his best work in an accessible and seductive manner."Aaron Betsky, Professor, Virginia Tech."Delectable, deliberate and dizzying in equal parts, Speculative Coolness is […] a requiem for the masses where promiscuous marks, coded indexes, innovative formations, linguistic shenanigans, and seemingly mystical calibrations are rendered visible in a mind-warping collection. These extraordinarily tantalizing speculations are protests against the spatial and representational straitjackets that for too long have plagued architecture’s visualized and material agency."Perry Kulper, Architect and Professor, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of MichiganTable of ContentsForeword: ‘Architectural Cymbalism and the Caress of Steel; Editorial: ‘Read Me’ Instructions for Proper Use; 1. Emergent CONditions + Media Logics; ME-di@ Logics + Being in the [k]now; Alice [2.0]; CSFU Sentinel; ‘Ten Years After’; 2. Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections; Social AMPs 01,02 + 03; OMWFT WYSIWYG; COSMO; 3. Towards a Taxonometric Architecture; Tree Hugger; On the Move; Palimpsestuous Relationships; Ideal for frequent drawers. Not for any use on skin, including tattoos; 4. rE-mergent CONditions; Ozone Metric Anomaly; Ministry of [w]Hore-2:culture; Calibrating Space; Towards a s[Y/N]thetic Reality; 5. Speculative Conditions; ‘S(y/n)taxo[G]nome + (taxon objects)’; ‘20220202_02’; Camera Noxoculo; H[n]otel-CA; DomestiC-19; Eye, Hand and Mind: an interview with Bryan Cantley; Afterword: Human Error
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Taylor & Francis An Architecture of Place
Book SynopsisChallenging mainstream architectureâs understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideaâs centrality, in all aspects of everyday design thinking, to be rediscovered or considered for the first time.Rigorous but not dense, practical but not trivialising, the book unfolds on three fronts. First, it clearly frames the pertinent aspects of topologyâthe philosophy of placeâimportantly differentiating two concepts that architecture regularly conflates: place and space. Second, it rejects the ubiquitous notion that architecture âœmakes placeâ and, instead, reasons that place is what makes architecture and the built environment possible; that place âœcallsâ for and to architecture; and that architecture is thus invited to âœlistenâ and respond. Finally, it turns to the matter of designing responses that result not just in more places of architecture (demanding little of design), nor merely in architecture w
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