Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books

Book SynopsisWhen first published in 2009, Natureâs Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity. This new edition pushes the frontier of the biodiversity/agriculture debate further, making an even stronger case for the need to transform agriculture and support small- and medium-scale agroecology and food sovereignty.In the first edition, the authors set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity. This is based on the concept of a landscape as a matrix of diverse, small-scale agricultural ecosystems, providing opportunities to enhance conservation under the stewardship of local farmers. This contrasts with the alternative view of industrial-scale farms and large protected areas which exclude local people. However, since then the debate around conservation and agriculture has developed significantly and this is reflected in this updated second edition. The text is thoroughly revised, including: a reorganization ofTrade Review"This is best and clearest treatment available that explains biodiversity conservation, agriculture, landscapes, agroecology and movement politics. And it does so in an easy to read and easy to understand style. A must read!" - Peter Rosset, Professor of Agroecology, ECOSUR, Mexico "As today’s threats of catastrophic biodiversity loss and increased human suffering mount, we have seen ever more proposals in scientific literature and popular media seeking to superficially solve these problems. In contrast, Perfecto, Vandermeer, and Wright follow in the footsteps of all great revolutionary thinkers by asking us to confront these problems’ deepest roots in all their complexity. This second edition of their classic work therefore does one better than the old saw, 'Those who do not learn history are destined to repeat it.' Nature’s Matrix shows us as well that those who do not understand agroecology and food sovereignty are destined to recreate injustices against both people and nature. Luckily, Nature’s Matrix shows us that, by taking allyship with social movements seriously, we can move the arc of history towards justice and sustainability for all of earth's inhabitants." - M. Jahi Chappell, Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience, Coventry University, UK "Nature’s Matrix delves deep into the ecological, social, and political factors that drive biodiversity conservation in the tropics. The authors use both theory and case studies to successfully argue for the integration of agroecology, landscape ecology, and social justice for peasant farmers as necessary components for meeting conservation goals." - Stacy Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "This powerfully written and accessible book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of our global food system and its capacity to support both food sovereignty and biodiversity. This new edition provides critical evidence that landscapes that support an agricultural matrix based on principles of social and ecological justice are the only way to sustainably feed the future." - Hannah Wittman, Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Canada Praise for the first edition "This well written book is informed by sophisticated ecological theory applied to the complexities of modern tropical development in a dazzling critique of conventional thinking." – Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and author of Fate of the Forest. "Greens of every stripe – agro-ecologists, conservationists, regional planners – recognize the need for ecologically farmed areas, an empowered farm population, preserved areas in any sustainable, just and productive mosaic landscape. We all advocate this integration. This book does it." – Richard Levins, Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard University, USA and author of The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. "As the authors demonstrate in this ground-breaking book, traditional agroecosystems not only offer promising models for other areas as they promote biodiversity, thrive without agrochemicals, and sustain year-round yields but are key for food sovereignty and the conservation of millions of wild species as they promote high quality matrices." – Miguel Altieri, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture. "This is the best and clearest treatment available that explains biodiversity conservation, agriculture, landscapes, agroecology and movement politics. And it does so in an easy to read and easy to understand style. A must read!" - Peter Rosset, Professor of Agroecology, ECOSUR, Mexico "As today’s threats of catastrophic biodiversity loss and increased human suffering mount, we have seen ever-more proposals in scientific literature and popular media seeking to superficially solve these problems. In contrast, Perfecto, Vandermeer, and Wright follow in the footsteps of all great revolutionary thinkers by asking us to confront these problems’ deepest roots in all their complexity. This second edition of their classic work therefore does one better than the old saw, 'Those who do not learn history are destined to repeat it.' Nature’s Matrix shows us as well that those who do not understand agroecology and food sovereignty are destined to recreate injustices against both people and nature. Luckily, Nature’s Matrix shows us that, by taking allyship with social movements seriously, we can move the arc of history towards justice and sustainability for all of earth's inhabitants." - M. Jahi Chappell, Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience, Coventry University, UK "Nature’s Matrix delves deep into the ecological, social, and political factors that drive biodiversity conservation in the tropics. The authors use both theory and case studies to successfully argue for the integration of agroecology, landscape ecology, and social justice for peasant farmers as necessary components for meeting conservation goals." - Stacy Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "This powerfully written and accessible book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of our global food system and its capacity to support both food sovereignty and biodiversity. This new edition provides critical evidence that landscapes that support an agricultural matrix based on principles of social and ecological justice are the only way to sustainably feed the future." - Hannah Wittman, Professor and Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Canada Praise for the first edition "This well written book is informed by sophisticated ecological theory applied to the complexities of modern tropical development in a dazzling critique of conventional thinking." – Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author of Fate of the Forest. "Greens of every stripe – agro-ecologists, conservationists, regional planners – recognize the need for ecologically farmed areas, an empowered farm population, preserved areas in any sustainable, just and productive mosaic landscape. We all advocate this integration. This book does it." – Richard Levins, Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard University, USA, and author of The Dialectical Biologist and Biology Under the Influence. "As the authors demonstrate in this ground-breaking book, traditional agroecosystems not only offer promising models for other areas as they promote biodiversity, thrive without agrochemicals, and sustain year-round yields but are key for food sovereignty and the conservation of millions of wild species as they promote high quality matrices." – Miguel Altieri, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture. Table of Contents1. Matrix Matters: An Overview 2. The Ecological Background 3. Ecological Theory and Political Realities 4. Historical Patterns in Agriculture 5. Alternatives to the Industrial Model 6. The Broad Social Context – Theoretical Considerations 7. The Broad Social Context – Practice 8. Coffee Production and Biodiversity Conservation 9. Cacao and Biodiversity: The Historical Development of a Biodiversity Landscape 10. The Production of Food and the Biodiversity Connection 11. The New Paradigm References

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Book SynopsisWith the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the world? What are some of the ways to resist such broad convergences in meat production and how successful are they? This book locates the answers to these questions at the intersection between the culture, science and political economy of meat production and consumption. It details how and why techniques of production have spread across the world, albeit in a spatially uneven way. It argues that the modern meat production and consumption sphere is the outcome of a complex matrix of cultural politics, economics and technological faith. Drawing from examples across the world (including America, Europe and Asia), the tensions and repercussions of meat production and consumption are also analyzed. From a geographical perspective, food animals have been given considerably less attention compared to wild animals or pets. This book, framed conceptually by critical animal studies, governmentality and commodification, is a theoretically driven and empirically rich study that advances the study of food animals in geography as well as in the wider social sciences. Trade Review"The book expands on critical animalgeographies by focusing on farmed animals, a category which has been largely overlooked. Further, by addressing hierarchy in human-animal relationships, Geographies of Meat also extends and applies concepts from anarchist geography to farmed animals. In Western societies meat is coming to a crossroads, but is finding new markets elsewhere, mostly in Asia. This makes the timing of Geographies of Meat all the more important."Nathan Poirier Anthrozoology Canisius College, AntipodeTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Political Economy of Meat: Global Trends and Local Tensions 3. Science, Technology and the Commodification of Food Animals 4. The Global Meat Factory and the Environment 5. The Thanataopolitics of Industrialised Animal Life and Death 6. On Not Eating Meat: Vegetarianism, Science and Advocacy 7. Conclusions, Index

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Book SynopsisInterior design has shifted significantly in the past fifty years from a focus on home decoration within family and consumer sciences to a focus on the impact of health and safety within the interior environment. This shift has called for a deeper focus in evidence-based research for interior design education and practice. Research Methods for Interior Design provides a broad range of qualitative and quantitative examples, each highlighted as a case of interior design research. Each chapter is supplemented with an in-depth introduction, additional questions, suggested exercises, and additional research references. The bookâs subtitle, Applying Interiority, identifies one reason why the field of interior design is expanding, namely, all people wish to achieve a subjective sense of well-being within built environments, even when those environments are not defined by walls. The chapters of this book exemplify different ways to comprehend interiority through clearlyTable of ContentsIntroduction Dana E. Vaux and David Wang 1. Focus Groups: Interiority at the Scale of Neighborhoods: Exploring the health experiences of three cultural groups Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 2. Design ethnography: Understanding User Experience Within Flexible Workplaces: An Ethnographic Approach Isil Oygur, Ozgur Gocer and Ebru Ergoz Karahan 3. Narrative inquiry: Narratives of Healing: The Records of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in the Era of the Great Depression Erin Cunningham 4. Applied historic preservation: A Local Meeting Place: The Adaptive Reuse of the Huffman House Lisa Tucker 5. Oral histories: Living and Moving, Thingly (Interior) History Bryan D. Orthel 6. Philosophical method: Interior Design in the Common Sense David Wang 7. Logical argumentation: Understanding Place Meaning through Ethos Intensive Objects Dana E. Vaux 8. Mixed methods: Validating ‘feeling at home’: Developing a Psychological Construct Pattern to aid in the Design of Environments for the Homeless Jill Pable 9. Correlation: Correlating Interior Lighting with Teacher Productivity Levels in the Public preK-12 Classroom Alana Pulay 10. Scale Creation: Measuring the "Thirdplaceness" of Social Media Platform. Michael R. Langlais and Dana E. Vaux 11. Virtual simulation: Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing in a Classroom Design. Saleh Kalantari 12. Creative scholarship: Computational design: organic growth and research tactics. An interview with Andrew Kudless by David Wang and Dana E. Vaux Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities.Numerous cities around the world are located alongside bodies of water in the form of coastlines, lakes, rivers and canals, but the relationship between city inhabitants and these water sources has often been ambivalent. In many cities, water has been polluted, engineered or ignored completely. But, due to an increasing awareness of the strong connections between city, people, nature and water and health, this paradigm is shifting.The international editorial team, consisting of researchers and professionals across several disciplines, leads the reader through theoretical aspecTable of ContentsForeword Michael Depledge Introduction Simon Bell, Lora E. Fleming and James Grellier PART ONE: Water, blue space and health and well-being: The evidence base and how to use it CHAPTER 1: Blue space as an essential factor in environment and health George P. Morris, Himansu S. Mishra and Lora E. Fleming CHAPTER 2: Potential benefits of blue space for human health and well-being Mathew P. White, Lewis R. Elliott, Mireia Gascon, Bethany Roberts and Lora E. Fleming CHAPTER 3: Co-design with local stakeholders Mart Külvik, Mireia Gascon, Marina Cervera Alonso de Medina, Lewis R. Elliott, Jekaterina Balicka, Frederico Meireles Rodrigues and Monika Suškevičs PART TWO: Tools, indicators and models for planning and design CHAPTER 4: Generating evidence in support of site planning and design: The BlueHealth toolbox James Grellier, Himansu S. Mishra, Lewis R. Elliott, Susanne Wuijts and Matthias F. W. Braubach CHAPTER 5: Assessing the land-water environment Himansu S. Mishra, Katrin Saar and Simon Bell CHAPTER 6: Observing behaviour for site planning and design Peeter Vassiljev, Cristina Vert and Simon Bell CHAPTER 7: Capturing affordances for health and well-being at the city scale Gloria Niin, Peeter Vassiljev, Tiina Rinne and Simon Bell CHAPTER 8: Assessing city-wide and local health and wellbeing benefits Lewis R. Elliott, Matthew P. White, Wilma Zijlema, Cristina Vert and Peeter Vassiljev CHAPTER 9: A decision support tool for optimising blue space design and management for health Arnt Diener, Marco Martuzzi, Francesco Palermo, Laura Mancini, Giovanni Coppini and Matthias F. W. Braubach PART THREE: Inspirational practice for planning and design CHAPTER 10: Reviewing the evidence for good planning and design Himansu S. Mishra, Simon Bell, Jekaterina Balicka and Anna Wilczyńska CHAPTER 11: Urban river revitalisation Friedrich Kuhlmann, Jekaterina Balicka and Anna Wilczyńska CHAPTER 12: Seafronts, beaches, lakeside, and promenades Simon Bell, Himansu S. Mishra, Anna Wilczyńska and Jekaterina Balicka CHAPTER 13: Urban wetlands and storm water management Himansu Mishra, Simon Bell, Anna Wilczyńska and Jekaterina Balicka CHAPTER 14: Docklands, harbours and post industrial sites Simon Bell, Anna Wilczyńska and Jekaterina Balicka CHAPTER 15: Tactical urbanism, urban acupuncture and small-scale projects Jekaterina Balicka, Joanna Tamar Storie, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Anna Wilczyńska and Simon Bell CHAPTER 16: Future outlook studies: the use of scenarios to create healthy blue cities Judith Hin and Susanne Wuijts APPENDIX: A blue space typology

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1981, The Origins of Open Field Agriculture looks at the problems connected with open field agriculture the origins of strip cultivation, the three-field system, the adaptation of Celtic' fields, and the development of ploughing techniques. The book looks at the challenges to traditional ideas on the origins of settlement and their associated economy, and casts new light on understandings of village development. The book suggests that conventional views of the nucleated village, in the midst of open field strips as a product of the Anglo-Saxon migration, is no longer tenable. The book brings together the work of distinguished archaeologists, historians, and historical geographers and opens up a new perspective on the early development of medieval agriculture. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Plates Preface 1. Archaeology and the Origins of Open-field Agriculture 2. The Origins of Open-field Agriculture – The Archaeological Fieldwork Evidence 3. Open-field Agriculture – The Evidence from the Pre-Conquest Charters of the West-Midlands 4. Approaches to the Adoption of the Midland System 5. Commonfield Origins – The Regional Dimension 6. The Interpretation of Subdivided Fields: A Study in Private or Communal Interests? 7. Townfield Origins: The Case of Cockfield, Country Durham 8. The Evolution of Settlement and Open-field Topography in North Arden down to 1300 9. The Origin of Planned Field System in Holderness, Yorkshire 10. Early Customary Tenures in Wales and Open-field Agriculture Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945, a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game's evolution as an international sport, analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the developmTrade ReviewShortlisted for The Cricket Writers’ Club book award 2018"An astonishing piece of deep scholarship and stylish concision. The book possesses a richness and an intellectual grasp far greater than a short review can properly reflect." - Paul Edwards, The Cricketer"The injunction to keep politics out of sport is age-old. Muddle-headed too, as Stephen Wagg's comprehensive comparative history of the politics in cricket demonstrates. This thorough and necessary book should become a standard reference." - Gideon Haigh, Australia's leading cricket writer"Building thoughtfully on the work of the late Mike Marqusee, this is an insightful and richly rewarding labour of love. Astutely structured and deftly researched, the book draws on the author’s deep knowledge of geopolitical reality and how it manifests itself in post-Imperial cricket, enabling an ambitious brief to be admirably met. At times, indeed, you wonder how the game has survived the context in which it is played. If you want to know why cricket is the world’s most racialized, politicised and fascinating ballgame, look no further." - Rob Steen, Senior Lecturer and award-winning sports journalist, University of Brighton, UK"Cricket is one of a few sports where nation vs nation remained a primary contest well into the new millennium. Inexorably tied to a colonial past, cricket also reflected the aspiration of its new nations and nationhoods over the last five decades. In a masterful work of scholarship, Wagg gives us an engaging, comprehensive new history of modern cricket. From the relentless churn of events, achievements and controversies around the cricketing globe, he teases out the sport’s engagements with the zeitgeist: the tussle between the old world and the new, the tumult of race and gender, the advent of "professionalism", globalisation and the corporatisation of cricket. As much as the book is about modern cricket around the world, Wagg has also skilfully identified the world's footprints on modern cricket." - Sharda Ugra, Senior Editor, ESPNcricinfo and ESPN India"Now seems the ideal time for the publication of a book pertaining to the history of how cricket has developed in and out of step with the political and social sphere … Among others, the book is dedicated to the late American writer and political activist Mike Marqusee, and leans heavily on his totemic treatise Anyone but England. Though this book is less polemic than that work, it slots in comfortably next to it on a cricket love’s bookshelf, and loses little in comparison to its relative. There can be little higher praise than that." - WisdenTable of ContentsPart 1: Cricket and the End of Empire 1. Fossilised Reactionaries? English Cricket Since 1945 2. A Nation of Blow-Ins? Cricket in Australia Since 1945 3. ‘The Partnership of the Horse and its Rider’: Cricket in Southern Africa Since 1945 4. A Relative Lack of Interest: Cricket in New Zealand Since 1945 5. Father, King, Statesman, General, Prince, Don: West Indian Cricket Culture Since 1945 6. The Soul of a Nation, Long Suppressed? Cricket in India Since 1945 7. Cricket in a Hard Country: Pakistani Cricket Since 1947 8. ‘We Rule Here, You Rule There’: Cricket in East Pakistan and Bangladesh Since 1947 9. After Brewing Tea for the Empire: Cricket in Sri Lanka Since 1945 10. Straight Shooting Blokes: Social Distinction, Masculinity and Myth in The Ashes 1945 to 2015 Part 2: Cricket in the Age of Globalisation 11. ‘Everyone Seemed to Be ‘With It’: Cricket Politics and the Coming of the One Day Game, 1940-1970 12. ‘Paint a Picture, and Keep it the Right Way Up’: Cricket and the Mass Media 1945-2015 13. Women’s Cricket: The Feminism That Dared Not Speak Its Name 14. Remove the Gunk in the Middle: The Coming of Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League 15. Have You Made This Team Great, or Have They Made You? Cricket, Coaching, and Globalisation 16. Beyond the Boundaries: The Drive to Globalise Cricket, and its Limits 17. Afterword

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Book SynopsisGIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses one of the challenges that has not been addressed by Geographic Information Science thus far: how can we use GIS to deal with the complex issues underlying the housing crisis? This book provides GIS technicians and analysts with an overview of US housing challenges and examples of how to effectively integrate spatial thinking to address housing policy questions, while simultaneously introducing housing policy analysts to advanced GIS concepts and techniques to create livable neighborhoods that include housing alternatives beyond the single family. Through numerous examples, the authors advocate for a collaborative approach that encourages professionals, policymakers, and analysts, across different ideological and political perspectives, to confront the multifaceted housing crisis.Features:Examines the historical aspects of housing provision, societal attitudes, demographic shifts, and government policiesTrade ReviewSilos keep advocates, philanthropy, and government from pursuing housing and development policies that meet the needs of historically disadvantaged communities in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. GIS for Housing offers advocates and policy makers a spatial analysis framework to guide the development of a just and equitable city for all. Maria Cabildo Director, Housing and Economic Opportunity, California Community Foundation In development, all markets are local. Other words, know and understand the location before undertaking development. If you don’t understand location, money will be lost. Location is geographic. The authors of GIS and Housing explain the importance of geographic data related to location. Geographic data is not only physical, (what physically is at that location and surrounding areas) but cultural (who’s there; explaining population and its attributes). Developers need that information. Scott Lefaver Owner/Managing Member, Cabouchon Properties, LLC This book explores both the evolution and current state of housing issues, such as availability and affordability and offers important guidance on why an understanding of spatial relationships is vital when developing strategies for mitigating these concerns. The authors explore the capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) concepts, tools, and methods and how they can be leveraged to manage, analyze, visualize, and communicate actionable knowledge that supports decision making and policies related to housing. This book is a valuable resource for housing researchers, analysts, and policymakers. Kevin Mickey Director, Professional Development and Geospatial Technologies Education, The Polis Center The authors supply a critical missing angle in America’s fractious national and local debates about housing: visual data. Through detailed graphs and charts interspersed with historical photos and maps, they elegantly capture historic changes in how we live, where we live, who we live with, in how much space, and how much it costs -- and also explain how we may use this information to decide how to live in the future. Nicole Gelinas Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute GIS and Housing is a highly-readable, solutions-oriented book that uses a geo-spatial lens to grapple with the connections between US housing crises and broader socio-economic trends. Further, it encourages the use of GIS as a tool for housing data analysis and meaningful community engagement in policy development and implementation Oksana Mironova Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of New York Table of Contents1. Why Geography Matters in Housing 2. Social, Demographic, and Technological Shifts and Their Impacts on Housing 3. Contemporary Design Adaptations and Policy Interventions 4. Data for Housing Research 5. GIS Analysis and Visualization 6. Directions for Future Research 7. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisAs a cultivated form of invention, product design is a deeply human phenomenon that enables us to shape, modify and alter the world around us for better or worse. The recent emergence of the sustainability imperative in product design compels us to recalibrate the parameters of good design in an unsustainable age. Written by designers, for designers, the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design presents the first systematic overview of the burgeoning field of sustainable product design. Brimming with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of product design and sustainability. The book takes readers to the depth of our engagements with the designed world to advance the social and ecological purpose of product design as a critical twenty-first-century practice. Comprising 35 chapters across 6 thematic parTrade Review‘Brimming with intelligent viewpoints, critical propositions, practical examples and rich theoretical analyses, this book provides an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of product design and sustainability.’ - John Thackara, founder, Doors of Perception'To profoundly understand something, you need to study it from all possible angles. This impressive volume does exactly this. With contributions by leading scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds, it brings us the multidisciplinary perspective on sustainable product design that designers, academics, and – ultimately – the world so desperately need.' - Paul Hekkert, Professor, Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology'The case against mindless design has never been made more effectively. Chapman brings together an amazing assembly of contemporary design researchers to discuss one of our greatest challenges: making the world safe for future inhabitants. Whatever you are designing, you may want to keep this book close to remind you of all the exciting new possibilities for sustainable design.' - Dr. Conny Bakker, Associate Professor, Design for Sustainability / Circular Product Design, TU Delft‘Product design is at a crossroads with product designers now a fractured constituency. The difference can be viewed in three ways: retaining the historically established focus on the object, be it so often bonded to the unsustainable; redeeming the object by attempting to make it ‘sustainable’; or lastly, abandoning, eliminating or dematerialising it. This collection of essays gives the discerning reader the opportunity to make an informed decision on the most appropriate path design and designing should take.’ - Professor Tony Fry, Director, Studio at the Edge of the World‘An utmost intriguing and extensive multi-angled journey through the constructed world we live in. Design lies at the core of the errors in our system and can only be solved by rethinking it all from the start. This handbook makes clear how we can realise this necessary transformation towards intelligent products with healthy upcyclable materials. When we understand where we come from and are aware of the beneficial alternatives for today’s tomorrow, we can define our future positively.’ - Michael Braungart, CEO EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung, Co-founder Cradle to Cradle'Chapman offers an authoritative view on sustainable product design through the collective understanding of key protagonists in the field. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don’t, but the breadth of writing and analysis of key concerns frames the social and ecological agency of design and its role in our material future. It will become essential reading for anyone working in product design and its associated practices.' - Dr Matt Malpass, University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins'Drawing from his experience exploring our emotional relationship with objects, Jonathan Chapman gathers and frames a vital and plural collection of texts on sustainability from the key thinkers in the field. Chapman and his co-authors ably illustrate that the problem is a political one, confounded by our conflicting notions of progress, and reliant upon the psychological frailties of consumer behavior and the appetite for organizational change.' - Tim Parsons, Chair of Designed Objects Programs, The School of the Art Institute of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Made World 1. A Brief History of (Un)sustainable DesignDamon Taylor 2. The Half-Life of a Sustainable Emotion: Searching for meaning in product usage Gerald Cupchik 3. A Renaissance of Animism: A meditation on the relationship between things and their makers Michael Leube 4. The Object of Nightingales: Design values for a meaningful material culture Stuart Walker 5. Challenges of the Cultural Differentiation of Technology Petran Kockelkoren 6. Sustainable Product Design: An Oxymoron? Clive Dilnot Part 2: Agents of Change 7. Sustainable Thinking Aaris Sherin 8. Engaging Designers in Sustainability Vicky Lofthouse 9. Design for Sustainable Behaviour Debra Lilley & Garrath Wilson 10. Mending Broken Promises in Sustainable Design Alex Lobos 11. Sharing, Materialism and Design for Sustainability Russell Belk 12. A Journey of Two Designers Yorick Benjamin Part 3: Materials and Processes 13. Conflict Minerals and the Politics of Stuff Colin Fitzpatrick 14. Materially Yours Elvin Karana, Elisa Giaccardi & Valentina Rognoli 15. Mediating Matters Nick Gant 16. Print to Repair: 3D printing and product repair Miles Park 17. Unmaking Waste Robert Crocker Part 4: User Experience 18. Emotional Sustainability Deana McDonagh 19. Pleasant Experiences and Sustainable Design Juan Carlos Ortiz Nicolás 20. Surprising Longevity Silvia Grimaldi 21. Design for Sustainable Use using Principles of Behaviour Change Casper Boks & Johannes Zachrisson Daae 22. Hacking the Probehead: Manipulations for social sustainability Otto von Busch 23. Transitions in Sociotechnical Conditions that afford Usership: Sustainable Who? Cameron Tonkinwise Part 5: Systems and Services 24. Product Service Systems and the Future of Design Tracy Bhamra & Ricardo Hernandez 25. A Consumer’s Perspective on the Circular Economy Ruth Mugge 26. Designing Circular Possessions Weston Baxter & Peter Childs 27. Longer-Lasting Products and Services Tim Cooper 28. How about Dinner? Concepts and methods in designing for sustainable lifestyles Annelise de Jong & Ramia Maze 29. The Sustainable Energy for All Design Scenario Carlo Vezzoli and Elisa Bacchetti Part 6: Design Futures 30. From Good to the Greater Good Anna Pohlmeyer & Pieter Desmet 31. Plans and Speculated Actions: Design, behaviour and complexity in sustainable futures Dan Lockton & Veronica Ranner 32. From Products to Relations: Adding ‘jeong’ to the metadesigner’s vocabulary John Wood 33. Products Of the Open Design Context Paul Micklethwaite 34. Promoting Sustainability through Mindful Design Kristina Niedderer 35. Design for Social Innovation and new Product Contexts Nicola Morelli Index

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Book SynopsisDesign and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment, from the scales of a buildTrade Review'A well-grounded compendium on the Arctic Region, Mathew Jull’s and Leena Cho’s handbook does much to render this relatively unknown part of our world whole with regard to constructed and future habitable environments. Drawing on scholarship from different parts of the world, a portrait emerges of a place being shaped under unique multi-cultural, socio-political and environmental conditions. A must-read volume for those interested in contemporary urbanism.' - Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA'The Arctic’s extreme climate, remoteness, and mixture of Indigenous and settler cultures present extraordinary design challenges to urban architects, planners, and managers. Often the built environment in the far north resembles southern models that are only poorly adapted. In contrast, the chapters in this book bring together a multidisciplinary team to further design thinking that will truly serve the interests of northern communities. The ideas assembled here help fulfill collective Arctic aspirations.' - Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA'Aptly described as “a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds,” Cho and Jull have assembled a multidisciplinary and multiscalar reading of the inherent complexities and contradictions of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the Arctic. The ten chapters dismantle common assumptions about the singularity of the Arctic and immerse the reader in the land and ice to bear witness to “the physical, material and living environments of the Arctic.” This comprehensive and global collection provides an urgent guide to contemporary design and planning scholarship in Arctic studies and will provide an essential resource to scholars and practitioners for years to come.' - Lola Sheppard, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Mason White, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Partners, Lateral Office'A well-grounded compendium on the Arctic Region, Mathew Jull’s and Leena Cho’s handbook does much to render this relatively unknown part of our world whole with regard to constructed and future habitable environments. Drawing on scholarship from different parts of the world, a portrait emerges of a place being shaped under unique multi-cultural, socio-political and environmental conditions. A must-read volume for those interested in contemporary urbanism.' - Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA'The Arctic’s extreme climate, remoteness, and mixture of Indigenous and settler cultures present extraordinary design challenges to urban architects, planners, and managers. Often the built environment in the far north resembles southern models that are only poorly adapted. In contrast, the chapters in this book bring together a multidisciplinary team to further design thinking that will truly serve the interests of northern communities. The ideas assembled here help fulfill collective Arctic aspirations.' - Robert W. Orttung, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA'Aptly described as “a region of spectacular negotiation between the natural and the built worlds,” Cho and Jull have assembled a multidisciplinary and multiscalar reading of the inherent complexities and contradictions of architecture, landscape and urbanism in the Arctic. The ten chapters dismantle common assumptions about the singularity of the Arctic and immerse the reader in the land and ice to bear witness to “the physical, material and living environments of the Arctic.” This comprehensive and global collection provides an urgent guide to contemporary design and planning scholarship in Arctic studies and will provide an essential resource to scholars and practitioners for years to come.' - Lola Sheppard, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, and Mason White, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Partners, Lateral OfficeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Grounding Design in the Arctic 1. The Heterogeneity of Arctic Cities 2. Infrastructural Urbanization of the Arctic 3. Comfort and Discomfort: Conflicting Concerns in Arctic Urban Planning and Design 4. Reframing Urban Relocation in Kiruna, Sweden: An Integrative Ownership Model for Resident-Led Transformations 5. Airport Landscapes: The Case of Qaqortoq Airport, South Greenland 6. Green Spaces in the Context of Changing Human-Environment Relations in Siberian Cities 7. Principles of Northern Housing Design with Examples from Alaska 8. Doing Things Differently: Design Research in Partnership with Innu and Inuit Communities in Northern Québec, Canada 9. Love and Care for Place in an Arctic Community: Place Development in Vardø, Norway 10. Land Inside

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Book SynopsisGlobal material crises are imminent. In the very near future, recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment, but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior, manufacturing, construction, and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices, rethinking initial manufacturing techniques, and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects.The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis including cultural psyches, politics, economics, manufacturing, marketing, and material science. A series of crucial perspectives from experts cover these topics and frames the research by providing a past, present, and future look at how we got here and where we go next: the historical, the material, and the design. Twelve design proposals look beyond the simple application of recycled and waste materials iTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Global Circularity 2. Waste of Space 3. Case Studies 4. New Deconstruction: The Rebirth of a Circular Architecture 5. Economics for a Circular Environment 6. World of Waste

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Book SynopsisThere is broad consensus on the need to shift to a new paradigm of lifestyles and economic development, given the un-sustainability of current patterns. Given this, research on consumer behavior is to play a crucial role in shedding light on the motives underpinning the adoption of responsible behaviors.Stemming from a thorough discussion of existing approaches, this book argues that the perspective of analysis has to be modified. First, acknowledging that a profile of the responsible consumer does not exist since all of us can be more or less sustainable and environment-friendly: the sustainability of an individual should not be considered as given, being something dynamic that changes according to both subjective and contextual factors. Moreover, the book hypothesises that integrating dimensions and perspectives that have been so far overlooked by mainstream research will help deconstruct responsible behaviors adopting a flexible and holistic approach. Relevant policy implications are discussed, and empirical research on responsible behaviors is illustrated.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of consumer behavior, sustainable consumption, environmental psychology and environmental studies in general.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction1.1 New perspectives in consumer behavior1.2 Consumer behavior in the age of sustainability1.3 Research in a crowded field: how to contribute?1.4 Book structureChapter 2: From green consumers to responsible citizens2.1 Labels matter: the concept of responsible citizens2.2 Early attempts of analyzing sustainable behaviors2.3 From Reasoned Action to Planned Behavior2.4 Values, norms and other psychological models2.5 The need for further perspectives of analysisChapter 3: The trap of behavioral patterns: the role of habits3.1 Habits in consumer behavior research3.2 Operationalization of habits3.3 How to measure habits3.4 Integrating habits in a rationalistic perspective on consumer behavior3.5 How to disrupt deeply rooted behavioral patternsChapter 4: Praise or money? Rewards’ effectiveness in shaping behaviors4.1 An overview on incentives4.2 The effects of rewards on motivation4.3 Implications for policy and businessChapter 5: How behaviors are interrelated: the spillover effect5.1 Behavioral spillover, an intriguing concept for an open debate5.2 Theoretical foundations for positive spillover5.3 Theoretical foundations for negative spillover5.4 A methodology to investigate spilloverChapter 6: A model for understanding responsible citizens’ behavior6.1 The need for a holistic and flexible approach6.2 Factors to be included in the analysis6.3 The proposition of an innovative interpretative frameworkChapter 7: From theory to practice: a real-life intervention study7.1 Investigating sustainable behaviors: an intervention study7.2 Methods7.3 Results7.4 Appendix - Online questionnaire

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Comparative Global Urban Studies in the Making: Welcome to the World of Imperfect and Innovative Urban Comparisons Part I: Introduction: Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research Chapter 1 – Beyond the City Limits: Comparison, Global Urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology Chapter 2 – Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities Chapter 3 – Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads: From the colonial situation to twilight institutions Chapter 4 – Comparative Urban Studies in Asia: Old Players in Urbanization History or Emerging Game Changers? Chapter 5 – Comparative urban studies in Europe Chapter 6 – Beyond comparison with history and Actor-Network Theory Chapter 7 – Citizenship and Inequality in the Post-Colonial City: Instituted Processes and Causal Mechanisms Chapter 8 – The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science Chapter 9 – The Contribution of the Sociological Approach to Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 10 – Urban Social Movements: Comparing Conflicts and Mobilizations Part II: Introduction: Methods and Research Design Chapter 11 – A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility Chapter 12 – Making a Comparative Case: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei Chapter 13 – Frames and flows: pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation Chapter 14 – From object biographies to data-centred assemblages: two experiments in relational urban comparison Chapter 15 – Internal Migrations and Urban Transitions: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 16 – Odious comparisons in urban studies. A plea for comparative monographs Chapter 17 – A New Era for Commensurable Comparative Urban Research? Machine Learning and/or Propagations Chapter 18 – Methodological manoeuvres: Comparative practices in urban policy making Chapter 19 – Politics and governance in metropolitan areas: a transnational comparative perspective Part III: Introduction: Contexts Chapter 20 – Enabling Connections: Relational Comparison in a Global Conjunctural Frame Chapter 21 – Segregation studies: Overriding context through implicit comparison? Chapter 22 – Specificity and Urbanisation: A Framework for Comparative Analysis Chapter 23 – The Ends of Comparison—calculative logics and racial hauntings Chapter 24 – Cities in Their States Chapter 25 – Social mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood: Comparing US and Western European perspectives Chapter 26 – Overcoming the Limitations of Comparative Urban Research in the (Post)Socialist Context Chapter 27 – State entrepreneurialism: theorising urban development politics from China Chapter 28 – Weak Comparisons: Navigating Differences and Commonalities among Cities in Russia and Elsewhere Chapter 29 – The relevance of local factors for understanding Italy: explaining territorial differentiation Part IV: Introduction: Connections Chapter 30 – ‘Coexisting Heterogeneity’: Agrarian Urban Entanglements in India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Chapter 31 – Socialist Worldmaking: Comparative Research between the Socialist and Postcolonial Countries during the Cold War Chapter 32 – Comparative Urban Studies Beyond the City Chapter 33 – Global Cities Research as Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 34 – Genetic Comparisons: Tracing how global infrastructure conditions peri-urban trajectories Chapter 35 – Archipelagic Thinking, Southern Urbanism and Experimental Comparisons Chapter 36 – Allegory, Psychasthenia, Horizon: Comparative Urbanism as Spectral Critique at the Antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative Part V: Introduction: Experiments Chapter 37 – New York and Cairo: a view from street level. Chapter 38 – Emotions as an Analytical Category in Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 39 – Concepts and Principles for Taking Bourdieu into the City Chapter 40 – Covid, contagion and comparative urban research Chapter 41 – Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research: Insights from a study of the BRICS Chapter 42 – Quilting Comparison: Wonder, Translation and Theorization Chapter 43 – Tracing Materials to Locate the Urban: The West African Corridor from Lagos to Abidjan Chapter 44 – How India Urbanizes: Multiscalar and Multi-Sited Comparisons Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level

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Book SynopsisAfrican Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy. The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which give a place of privilege to one thing over the other, as for example men over women, is the same attitude that privileges humans over the environment. This culturally embedded orientation makes it difficult for stake holders in Africa to identify and confront the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the environment. In a continent where deep-rooted cultural and religious practices, as well as widespread ignorance, determine human conduct towards the environment, it becomes difficult to curtail much less overcome the threats to our environment. It shows that to a large extent, the African cultural privileging of men over women and of humans over the environment somewhat exacerbates and makes the environmental crisis on the continent intractable. For example, it raises the challenging puzzle as to why women in Africa are the ones to plant the trees and men are the ones to fell them.Contributors address these salient issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what African philosophy could do to ameliorate the marginalisation which the theme of environment suffers on the continent. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its forms; why is it failing in this duty in Africa specifically where the issue of environment is concerned?This book which trail-blazes the field of African Philosophy and Environmental Ethics will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, African philosophy, Environmental Ethics and Gender Studies.Table of Contents Introduction Prof. Bruce B. Janz (University of Central Florida, USA), "Peripherality and Non-Philosophy in African Philosophy: Womanist Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy and Other Provocations." Prof. Alexander Animalu & Mr. Jeff Unegbu (University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria), "Gaia Hypothesis from an African Perspective." Prof. Thaddeus Metz (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), "How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach." Dr. Kevin Behrens (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), "An African Account of the Moral Obligation to Preserve Biodiversity." Prof. Olatunji Oyeshile (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), "Transformation of Urban Space in South-West of Nigeria, 2011 to Present: Ethical Issues in Development and Aesthetics" Prof. Ebunoluwa Oduwole & Dr. Fayemi Kazeem (Olabisi Onabanjo University & University of Lagos, Nigeria), "Animal Rights vs. Animal Care Ethics: Interrogating the Relationship to Non-Human Animals in Yorùbá Culture." Prof. Workineh Kelbassa (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia), "Women and the Environment in Africa." Prof. Oladele Balogun & Dr. Fayemi Kazeem (Olabisi Onabanjo University & University of Lagos, Nigeria), "Women Identities in African Environmental Ethics: A Conversational Engagement." Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam (University of Calabar, Nigeria), "Ohanife: An Account of the Ecosystem based on the African notion of Relationship." Dr. Angela Roothaan (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands), "Hermeneutics of Trees in an African Context: Enriching the Understanding of the Environment ‘for the Common Heritage of Mankind.’" Victor Nweke (University of Calabar, Nigeria), Global Warming as an Ontological Boomerang Effect: Towards a Philosophical Rescue from the African Place." Dr. Ralph Madu (Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria), "Laudato Si and the Ecological Crisis." Dr. Ada Agada (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria) "Catalyzing Climate Change Action in Nigeria: Moderate Anthropocentrism and the African Perspective of the Cosmos". Prof. Fainos Mangena (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe) "Zimbabwe’s Environmental Crisis: Questioning Ubuntu?" Francis Diawuo and Abdul Karim Issifu (University for Development Studies, Ghana and University of Cape Coast, Ghana) "Exploring the African Traditional Belief Systems (Totems and Taboos) in Natural Resources Conservation and Management in Ghana"

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.The authors highlighted in this updated volume address themes central to housing as an area of social policy and to understanding its particular meaning in the United States. These include the long history of racial exclusion and the role that public policy has played in racializing access to decent housing and well-serviced neighborhoods; the tension between the economic and social goals of housing policy; and the role that housing plays in various aspects of the lives of low- and moderate-income residents. Scholarship and the COVID-19 pandemic are raising awareness of the link between access to adequate housing and other rights and opportunities. This timely reader focuses attentTrade Review"Urgent trends—from the movement for racial justice to intensified economic inequality, back-breaking rents, climate risk, and a paradigm shift in health—have spotlighted housing and affordability in ways not seen since the 1960s. This superb compilation will help newcomers, as well as seasoned practitioners and scholars, navigate classic debates and think beyond them too."-- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and co-author, Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty"For this new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader, editors Mueller and Tighe have assembled a superb collection of timely and essential essays by many of the field’s leading scholars. The volume frames several key debates in affordable housing policy, including its objectives and the forms it should take. "-- Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States"Affordable housing is a notoriously complex field. This new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader offers an updated look at some key questions, such as how we define affordability, and the roles of race and community control in the field. It should give a substantial grounding to those who want to understand, and improve, American housing policy."-- Miriam Axel-Lute, CEO/Editor in Chief, ShelterforceTable of ContentsPART 1: CONFLICTING MOTIVATIONS FOR HOUSING POLICY 1. A citizen’s guide to public housing 2. The Housing Act of 1949 3. The evolution of low-income housing policy, 1949 to 1999 4. The Kerner Commission and Housing Policy 5. Advancing the right to housing in the United States: Using international law as a foundation PART 2: DEFINING AND MEASURING HOUSING PROBLEMS 6. What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach 7. How do we know when housing is “affordable”? 8. How affordable is HUD affordable housing? 9. Consequences of segregation for children’s opportunity and wellbeing 10. Home is where the harm is: Inadequate housing as a public health crisis PART 3: HOUSING TENURES 11. The grapes of rent: A history of renting in a country of owners 12. The sustainability of low-income homeownership: The incidence of unexpected costs and needed repairs among low-income homebuyers 13. Old wine in private equity bottles? Resurgence of contract‐for‐deed home sales in US urban neighborhoods 14. Making home more affordable: Community land trusts adopting cooperative ownership models to expand affordable housing PART 4: PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING 15. The quadruple bottom line and nonprofit housing organizations in the United States 16. American murder mystery revisited: Do housing voucher households cause crime? 17. From public housing to public–private housing 18. What should be the future of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program? PART 5: THE MEANING OF PLACE 19. Federal support for CDCs: Some of the history and issues of community control 20. W(h)ither the community in community land trusts? 21. CDCs in the right‐sizing city 22. Planning for empowerment: Upending the traditional approach to planning for affordable housing in the face of gentrification PART 6: PLANNING AND LAND USE 23. It’s time to end single-family zoning 24. Democracy in action? NIMBY as impediment to equitable affordable housing siting 25. Progress for whom, toward what? Progressive politics and New York City’s mandatory inclusionary housing 26. One size fits none: Local context and planning for the preservation of affordable housing PART 7: THREATS TO HOUSING SECURITY 27. Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction 28. Metropolitan segregation and the subprime lending crisis 29. Inequities in long-term housing recovery after disasters 30. Rental housing assistance and health: Evidence from the survey of income and program participation PART 8: RACE AND FAIR HOUSING 31. Whiteness and urban planning 32. The experience of racial and ethnic minorities with zoning in the United States 33. Still paying the race tax? Analyzing property values in homogeneous and mixed-race suburbs 34. The duty to affirmatively further fair housing: A legal as well as policy imperative

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Book SynopsisRelying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where theTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Uses of Heritage and the Post-Colonial Condition in Latin America 1. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Heritage for Latin America. Heritage Politics and Nostalgia between Coloniality and Indigeneity 2¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! How the Himno Nacional became part of Mexico’s Heritage 3.Making Heritage. The Materialization of the State and the Expediency of Music. The Case of Cuarteto Característico in Córdoba, Argentina 4. Is Spanish our Language? Alfonso Reyes and the Policies of Language in Post-Revolutionary Mexico 5. Cultural Management and Neoliberal Governamentality. The Participation of Perú in the Exhibition Inca. Kings of the Andes 6. Commemorate, Consecrate, Demolish. Thoughts about the Mexican Museum of Anthropology and its History 7. Going Back to the Past or Coming Back from the Past? Governmental Policies and Uses of the Past in a Ranquel Community in San Luis, Argentina 8. Unearthing Patrimonio: Treasure and Collectivity in San Miguel Coatlinchan 9. Processes of Heritagization of Indigenous Cultural Manifestations: Lines of Debate, Analytic Axes, and Methodological Approaches 10. The Ambivalence of Tradition: Heritage, Time, and Violence in Postcolonial Contexts

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Book SynopsisHeritage-led Urban Regeneration in China presents the detailed history of three well-known streets in China; the Southern Song Imperial Street at Hangzhou, the residential Pingjiang Street at Suzhou, and the commercial Tunxi Old Street at Huangshan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and CaptionsPrefaceChapter 1: Embracing the Legacy of Historic Urban StreetsChapter 2: Historical Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Urban RegenerationChapter 3: Imperial Street: Southern Song Imperial Street, Hangzhou Chapter 4: Residential Street: Pingjiang Street, SuzhouChapter 5: Commercial Street: Tunxi Old Street, HuangshanChapter 6: The Past and Future of China’s Historic Street DistrictsChapter 7: Achieving an Authentic Historic Urban Street in China BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHome articulates a critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on Home and the City' that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book's chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale house-as-home; the urbTable of Contents1. Setting Up Home: An Introduction, 2. Researching Home, 3. Residence: House-As-Home, 4. Home and the City with Olivia Sheringham, 5. Home, Nation and Empire, 6. Home, Migration and Diaspora, 7. Leaving Home

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full understanding of these regions. This book provides a detailed documentation of cold-stressed arctic and alpine terrestrial environments and systematically deals with the present and past physical environment â climate, hydrology and glaciology; biota â treeline, vegetation, vertebrate zoology, and historical biogeography; abiotic processes â geomorphological and pedological and the role of man â bioclimatology, archaeology and technological impact, including radioecology. The book will appeal to academics and students of environmental and biological science, as well as providing a significanTable of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Present Environments 2. Climate 2a. Arctic Climate 2b. Contribution to the Comparative Meteorology of Mountain Area 2c. Topo-and Microclimatology in Alpine Areas 2d. Snow 3. Hydrology 3a. Arctic Hydrology 3b. Alpine Hydrology 4. Ice 4a. Permafrost 4b. Present Arctic Ice Cover 4c. Present Alpine Ice Cover Part II: Past Environments 5. Palaeoclimatology 6. History of Glaciation 6a. Cainzoic Glaciations and Crustal Movements of the Arctic 6b. Alpine Quaternary Glaciation Part III: Present Biota 7. Treeline 7a. Ecology of the Northern Continental Forest Border 7b. Alpine Timberlines 8. Vegetation 8a. Arctic and Alpine Vegetation: Plant Adaptation to Cold Summer Climates 8b. Tundra Primary Productivity 9. Terrestrial Vertebrates Part IV: Development of Biota 10. Historical Plant Geography 10a. Origin and Evolution of the Arctic and Alpine Floras 10b. Biological Refugia and the Nunatak Hypothesis 11. Palaeoecology and Palaeozoogeography 11a. Arctic North American Palaeoecology: The Recent History of Vegetation and Climate Deduced From Pollen Analysis 11b. Palaeolithic Players on the American Stage: Man’s Impact on the Late Pleistocene Megafauna Part V: Abiotic Processes 12. Geomorphic Processes 12a. Geomorphic Processes in the Arctic 12b. The Geomorphic Processes of the Alpine Environment 13. Soils 13a. Arctic Soils 13b. Alpine Soils Part VI: Man in Cold Environments 14. Bioclimatology 14a. Physiological Responses to Cold Environments 14b. Man Living at High Altitudes 15. Archaeology 15a. The Peopling of Arctic North America 15b. Prehistoric Occupation of the Alpine Zone in the Rocky Mountains Part VII: Man’s Impact on the Environment 16. Radioecology 17. The Impact of Twentieth-Century Technology 17a. Small-Scale Examples 17a.1. The Impact of Motor Vehicles 17a.2. The Snowmobile in Eskimo Culture 17a.3. The Snowmobile, Lapps and Reindeer Herding in Finnish Lapland 17a.4. The Impact of Man as a Biped 17b. Large-Scale Examples 18. Postscript Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – William Benton Whisenhunt and Norman E. Saul1: Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries – Alexander Iu, Petrov2: The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations -- Susan Smith-Peter3. The End of the Winans Brothers Railroad Enterprise in Russia --Vladimir V. Noskov4. In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- William Benton Whisenhunt5. Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion – Ivan Kurilla6. Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of The Perkins Claim—Lee Farrow7. The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago—Pavel Tribunskiy8. The Tsar's power explained to America: Notes from a 1905 homily. -- Monica Cognolato9. A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky -- Erich Lippman10. Rediscovering the "Living Human Documents" of a Goodwill Initiative: Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914– 1918 -- Lyubov Ginzburg11. Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War:Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage -- Victoria I. Zhuravleva12. The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900-1940 -- Matthew Lee Miller13. Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia -- Kathleen S. Macfie14. Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia -- Ada Ackerman15. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933-1945. An Interpretation -- Vladimir V. Sogrin16. The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958 -- Norman E. Saul17. "Academic Détente": Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era -- Sergei I. Zhuk18. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story? -- Paul D’AnieriContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisChina has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect Chinaâs relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia. Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the countryâs international water policy is at the core of Asiaâs water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for Chinaâs interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management.This book investigates Chinaâs policy responses to domestic water crises and examines Chinaâs international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international coopTrade Review"Lei Xie and Shaofeng Jia’s book makes a robust contribution to the discussion of international fresh watercourses by combining the Chinese perspective on national interests with the Global South narrative of riparian neighbouring states, all of which are developing countries. Xie and Jia examine and link research areas such as human security, diplomacy, intergovernmental relations, and policies, and the authors contribute insights to the current debate on fresh water management in relation to sustainability and the reduction of tension and conflict." - Francisco José Leandro in China Information (2018) Table of Contents1. China’s transboundary rivers: politics, diplomacy and security: an introduction 2. The governance of water resources in China 3. China’s policy over international rivers: Perception and diplomatic practices 4. Theoretical debate: water diplomacy 5. Southeast Asia: China’s water diplomacy on the Mekong River 6. South Asia: China’s evolving attitude over the GBM 7. Central Asia: Sino-Kazakh water diplomacy on Ili and Irtysh Rivers 8. Northeast Asia: Sino-Russian cooperation over the Amur River 9. Comparison and conclusions 10. Policy recommendations

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Book SynopsisWalking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating. In particular, the book examines how the city contains narratives, knowledge and contested materialities that are best accessed through the act of walking.The varied contributions take the form of short stories, illustrated essays, personal reflections and accounts of walks both real and fictional. While artist and RCA tutor Rut Blees Luxemburg and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy recount a nocturnal journey from Shoreditch to the City of London; architect Peter St John of the practice Caruso St John offers a detailed and personal reflection on the Holloway Road; and architect and author Douglas Murphy examines what he calls London's more politically charged locations' in his account of a solitary Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1. Site 1.My Kind of Town by Peter St John; 2. London Has to Continually Refresh its Offer by Douglas Murphy; 3. Against Porosity, Against the Crowd: Walking for a Spatial Complex City by Adam Kaasa; 4. Gravesend-Broadness Weather Station by Roberto Bottazzi; 5. Walking | Material Conditions of the Street by David Dernie Part 2. Night 6.London Winterreise by Rut Blees Luxemburg & Jean-Luc Nancy; 7. Night Moves by Nayan Kulkarni Part 3. Writing 8. Point to Point by Sean Ashton; 9. Public Notice by Jaspar Joseph-Lester; 10. The Rotherhithe Caryatids by Laura Oldfield Ford Part 4. Monuments 11.Squatted Somers Town by Esther Leslie; 12. Docked and Parked by Jo Stockham; 13. Freud in London by Sharon Kivland & Steve Pile; 14. Walking Round Trafalgar Square (Temenos and Omphalos) by Ahuvia Kahane Part 5. Music 15. The Travelling Mindset: A Method for Seeing Everything Anew by Amy Blier-Carruthers; 16. Practise. Walk by by Peter Sheppard Skærved Part 6. Dialogue 17. Curling up Tight by Phil Smith; 18. Walkative: A Choreography of Resistance by Rosana Antoli; 19. The Sound of Sweetness on the Grand Union Canal by Tom Spooner; 20. The Optimists by Duncan Jeffs

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1979 International Trade in Wildlife is a product of the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora conference, containing the full text of the CITIES convention. The volume outlines the animals and plants controlled by CITIES, and describes the protective policies put in place to protect endangered plants and animals. It gives a detailed background to the international traffic in monkeyâs, spotted cats, whales, ivory, parrots, tortoises, marine turtles, crocodiles, butterflies, sponges and rare orchids at the time of publication and acts as a comprehensive document on the conservation policies enacted through CITIES, as well as facts surrounding the decline of endangered species. Although published over 40 years ago, the document still offers a comprehensive and useful guide to conservation and will be an important historical document for environmental policy makers and conservationists alike. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. What Does the Washington Convention Say? 3. The Secretariat 4. How is CITIES enforced – and How Evaded? 5. The Wildlife Trade 6. Second CITIES conference: Costa Rica, 1979 Annex 1: The Text of the Convention Annex 2: Appendices I, II, III Reading List

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of what aid is, how it has changed over time and how it is practiced, as well as debates about whether aid works, for whom and what its future might be.The text shows how aid' is a contested and fluid concept that involves a wide and changing variety of policies, actors and impacts. It equips the reader with an understanding of what aid is, where it comes from and where it goes, how it is delivered and what its impacts are, and whether shortcomings are a result of a fundamental problem with aid, or merely the result of bad practices. It explores the changing political ideologies and conceptions of development that continually reshape how aid is defined, implemented and assessed, and how, despite a global commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, we are at a point where the very notion of aid is being questioned and its future is uncertain. Each chapter includes case studies, chapter summaries, discussions, weblinks and further reading, toTable of Contents1. Aid: an introduction 2. What is aid? 3. Patterns of aid 4. Trends in aid 5. How is aid delivered? 6. Does aid work? 7. Conclusions: futures for aid

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Book SynopsisThis handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source of reference on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development nexus, migration governance, diasporas, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, among others.The handbook assembles a multidisciplinary contributor team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers, and policy experts both inside and outside Africa to contribute their perspectives on contemporary African migration. It attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: What drives contemporary migration in Africa? How are its patterns and trends evolving? What is the architecture of migration governance in Africa? How do migration, diaspora engagement and development play out in Africa? What are the future trajectories of African migraTable of Contents1. Contemporary African Migration: An Introduction Part I –History of African Migration 2. Migration as Empowerment - A Selected History of Migration and Displacement in Africa 3. Postcolonial States and Migration 4. African Philosophy and International Migration Part II –Patterns and Trends of Contemporary African Migration 5. Patterns and Trends of International Migration within and out of Africa 6. Issues, Patterns, and Trends in Contemporary African Migration to Europe and North America 7. The Contemporary "African Coolie" in the Middle East: Interrogating the Narratives of the Modern-Day African Slaves or Migration between Africa and the Arab States? 8. Lesotho-South Africa Relations: A case for free movement of persons across the common border Part III – Migration Governance, Forced Displacement and Irregular Migration 9. Migration Policy Frameworks in Africa 10. Refugee Politics in Africa 11. Contemporary Forced Migration in Africa 12. Migrating out of Migration: Diminishing seasonal migration options and conflicts among the Pokot of Kenya 13. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on African Migration 14. Part IV – Migration, Diaspora Engagement and The Politics of Development 15. The Remittances-Development Debate in Africa 16. Return Migration to Africa and its Development Potential 17. Re-considering the concept of international return in the African context: the place of immobile cognitive return 18. The Nature and ‘Lived’ Experiences of Contemporary African Diasporas 19. The Landscape of the African Diaspora 20. Engendering Migration in Africa: The Case of Ethiopian Migration to South Africa Part V –Future Trajectories of African Migration 21. Africa without Borders 22. The African Continental Free Trade Area and Migration Patterns 23. Climate Variability and New Fish Eldorados in Africa 24. Migration Data Management in Africa 25. The Future of Immigration in Africa

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes covered include urban growth, decentralisation, path dependence, institutional change, governance, entrepreneurship and culture. Detailed case studies of the history-rich metropolises of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw allow the author to examine the adaptive abilities of cities in flux and draw conclusions with broader international relevance. This text will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in urban economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and Central European studies.

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

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Book SynopsisSince the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies. Landscape describes places as relationships and processes. Landscapes create peopleâs identities and guide their actions and their preferences, while at the same time are shaped by the actions and forces of people. Food, as currency, medium, and sustenance, is a fundamental part of those landscape relationships.This volume brings together over fifty contributors from around the world in forty profoundly interdisciplinary chapters. Chapter authors represent an astonishing range of disciplines, from agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, countryside management, cultural studies, ecology, ethics, geography, heritage studies, landscape architecture, landscape management and planning, literature, urban design and architecture. Both food studies and landscape studies defy comprehension from the perspective of a single discipline, and thus such a range is both necessary and enriching.The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food is intended as a first port of call for scholars and researchers seeking to undertake new work at the many intersections of landscape and food. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview, a broad range of pertinent readings and references, and seeks to identify areas where new research is neededâthough these may also be identified in the many fertile areas in which subjects and chapters overlap within the book.Trade Review"Waterman and Zeunert have edited an exemplary interdisciplinary volume of great topical scope and profound conceptual depth. From landscape to seascape, Neolithic and Aboriginal to modern and globalized, the ecological to the utopian, The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food offers culinary wisdom, sociological analysis and ethical guidance. It is an indispensable book which promises to inaugurate a new epoch of both culinary and landscape studies."Allen S. Weiss, author of Zen Landscapes (Reaktion Books) and Feast and Folly (State University of New York Press)"In The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food, Joshua Zeunert and Tim Waterman present core samples of the many scales and systems engaged by food, food production, and food distribution. Their collection of essays ranges from the broadest historical survey to the focused case study across geographies and cultures, methods, and fields of studies. With an eye to landscape ecology as well as space and urban form, they hopscotch across conservation, economics, geography, gender studies, forestry, and public health. Complementing a long list of literature on urban agriculture and ideals of cultivation, the book also realigns the gravitational pull of the Anglo-American debate to include numerous Australian perspectives. This kaleidoscopic volume will appeal to the curious amateur and offer a starting point for further research to those concerned with the productive landscape."Dorothée Imbert, Professor, Hubert C. Schmidt '38 Chair in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture Section Head"The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food is a timely answer to the growing interest in these subjects. It provides an authoritative and cross-disciplinary overview and stimulating discussions of a broad range of topics related to food and landscape studies and the diversity in concepts and approaches applied therein. The Handbook also discusses the various contexts in which cities, agriculture and landscape are developing and the related challenges. It outlines possible ways to remake foodways, landscapes, cities, and the values we bring to them." Ir. Henk de Zeeuw, Founder and former director of the RUAF Foundation, a global partnership on sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems. Table of ContentsIntroductionTim Waterman and Joshua ZeunertPart 1 From hunting and gathering to agriculture 1 Transformation of the landscape: the relationships between food and land use in prehistoric British and European societiesSaruhan Mosler and Peter Hobson2 The shaping of food landscapes from the Neolithic to Industrial period: changing agro-ecosystems between three agrarian revolutions Gunilla A. Olsson3 Aboriginal Culture and Food-Landscape Relationships in Australia: Indigenous Knowledge for Country and LandscapeDavid S. Jones and Philip A. Clarke4 Archaeology, history, and urban food security: integrating cross-cultural and long-term perspectivesChristian Isendahl and Stephan Barthel5 Foraging Jeremy Strong6 Venison from the Bavarian forests: linking hunters, forest diversity and consumers through regional marketingGerd Lupp, Simon Tangerding and Valerie Kantelberg7 Sustaining Russian Old Believers: landscapes of fish and onions in EstoniaHelen Sooväli-Sepping, Anu Printsmann and Hannes Palang8 Food production and the village under state socialism: the Balkan caseMirjana Lozanovska and Alexandra FloreaPart 2 Agricultures 9 Shifts in agricultural praxis: farm modernisation and global integrationAnders Wästfelt 10 Alternative agriculture: innovations for growing and cultivating diverse ways of knowingJonathan Code11 Seascapes: food from the marine landscape Maggie Roe12 Dimensions of urban agriculture Joshua Zeunert13 Mediterranean urban agricultureTal Alon Mozes and Efrat Eizenberg14 Peri-urban food production as means towards urban food security and increased urban resilienceGunilla Almered Olsson15 Peri-urban agriculture in Australia: pressure on the urban fringe Rachel Carey and Sarah JamesPart 3 Ecology, Resources, Sustainability and Climate Change16 Challenges in agricultural sustainability and resilience: towards regenerative practiceJoshua Zeunert17 Conservation and ecologyGary Austin18 Food systems and climate change: impact and adaptation in cropping and livestock Afshin Ghahramani and Saman Seneweera19 Investing in water management in rural and urban landscapes to achieve and sustain global food securityMunir A. Hanjra, Dennis Wichelns and Pay Drechsel Part 4 Developing Worlds20 Food security, landscape, urban change, and poverty in the developing worldSuzanne Speak21 Connecting landscapes and food in Africa: case studies from Ethiopia and UgandaMax Kelly and Ruth Jackson22 Urban Agriculture in Bogotá´s informal settlements: open space transformation towards productive urban landscapesJaime Hernandez-Garcia and Sandra Caquimbo-Salazar23 Rural-urban food and nutrient dynamics and nutrient recovery from waste in developing countriesMunir A. Hanjra, Mary Lydecker, Pay Drechsel and Johannes PaulPart 5 Intellectual, Political and Economic Realms24 Ethics of agricultural landscapes and food productionIsis Brook25 The new food insecurity Damian Maye 26 Food-sensitive urban planning: Australian perspectivesDavid S. Jones and Beau B. Beza27 Food, landscape, and urban design Susan Parham and Jacques AbelmanPart 6 Social Practices and Meanings28 Eating the commons landscape: sacrificial food for thought concerning the meaning of landscapeKenneth R. Olwig29 From the agora to the modern marketplace: food markets as landscapes of business and pleasureSusan Parham30 Allotments and community gardens: history, culture, and landscape in Britain, North America, and AustraliaClaire Nettle and David Crouch 31 Food sovereignty Max Kelly32 Landscape and the politics of food justice Megan Blake33 Grassroots activism, agroecology, and the food and farming movement: ten years in Bristol’s food storyAngela E. Raffle and Joy CareyPart 7 Food Cultures and Foodways 34 Taste, foodways, and everyday life Tim Waterman35 Food and landscape tourismJo Russell-Clarke36 Terroir: a socially constructed subterranean landscape gone globalZachary Nowak37 Using the senses to write food culture and landscapeNina Mukerjee Furstenau38 Queer space and productive landscapes Andrea Bosio 39 The cultural and spiritual aspects of growing edible plants: testing for meaningfulness in Leeds, UKAnn Light and Christina Welch40 Utopia landscape food utopiaJody Beck

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a case study of one of Latin Americaâs most important and symbolic spaces, the ZÃcalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment. It poses questions about how the identity of a place emerges, how it evolves and, why does it change? Mexico Cityâs ZÃcalo: A History of a Constructed Spatial Identity utilizes the history of a specific place, the ZÃcalo (Plaza de la ConstituciÃn), to explain the emergence and evolution of Mexican identities over time. Starting from the pre-Hispanic period to present day, the work illustrates how the ZÃcalo reveals spatial manifestations as part of the larger socio-cultural zeitgeist. By focusing on the history of changes in spatial production â what Henri Lefebvre calls societyâs secretions â Bross traces how cultural, social, economic, and political forces shaped the ZÃcaloâs spatial identity and, in turn, how the ZÃcalo shaped and fostered new identities in return. It will be a fascinating read for architectural and urban historians investigating Latin America.Trade Review"Mexico City’s Zócalo has molded Mexican identity as much as it has been reconfigured by this complex and diverse society over the past seven centuries. Benjamin A. Bross's masterful prose unearths the layers of history at the epicenter of the city, from the first settlements in a primeval landscape of volcanoes and lake systems to one of the largest metropolis of the 21st century, one which seems to have severed its ties to nature yet remains subject to its inner workings. The Zócalo is the beating heart and soul of Mexico, a symbol of the constant reinvention and reinterpretation of its spatial identities, both national and local." Dr. Gabriela Lee Alardín, Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Civil Engineering, Ibero-American University, Mexico City"No matter the path we follow, vertigo is what we feel when we enter to El Zócalo through one of several scenic streets or avenues such as Francisco Madero, 5 de Mayo, Pino Suárez or 20 de Noviembre. That feeling is even stronger when we realize that we are facing the architectural landscape of more than seven uninterrupted centuries of human settlement. With this masterly and beautifully written book, Benjamin A. Bross demonstrates that this vertigo has an explanation. El Zócalo is a privileged space in which the prodigious cultural diversity and historical depth of Mexico can be thought. Strata after strata, this longue durée study exposes continuities and discords, remembrances and oblivions that are best intelligible within architecture and public space. The goal of Benjamin A. Bross book is challenging as well as ambitious. Unravelling one by one the meanings of space changes in El Zócalo is to open windows for the understanding of the evolution and consolidation of a Mexican solid sense of national unity, despite been constantly confronted by too many forces." Dr. Jorge L. Lizardi Pollock, Professor of History, Theory and Research, University of Puerto Rico School of ArchitectureTable of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From Mexica Axis Mundi to Spanish Conquest; 2. The Plaza Mayor’s Nascent Urbanscape; 3. Major Events in the Plaza Mayor During the Viceroyalty; 4. The Last Decades of the Viceroyal Period; 5. A Nascent National Identity; 6. Mexico’s Second Empire and the Restored Republic; 7. Expressions of National Identity During the Porfiriato; 8. From the Mexican Revolution to World War II; 9. The Plaza de la Constitución in the Second Half of the 20th Century; 10. A Recent History of the Zócalo as Public Space; 11. The Zócalo, Mexico’s Public Square; Bibliography; Image Credits; Index

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Book SynopsisUsing mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors. From the politics of city hall to crosswalks and playgrounds, mixed and augmented reality will offer a diverse range of new ways to interact with our communities. In 2016, apps for augmented reality politics began to appear in app stores. Similarly, the blockbuster success of PokÃmon Go illustrated how even forgotten street corners can become a magical space for play. In 2019, a court case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, extended first amendment rights to augmented reality. For all the good that these emerging media provide, there will and have been consequences. Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities will help students and practitioners navigate the ethical design and development of these kinds of experiences to transform their cities. As one of the first books of its kind, each chapter in the book prepares readers to contribute to the Augmented City. By providing insight into how these emerging media work, the book seeks to democratize the augmented and mixed reality space.Authors within this volume represent some of the leading scholars and practitioners working in the augmented and mixed reality space for civic media, cultural heritage, civic games, ethical design, and social justice. Readers will find practical insights for the design and development to create their own compelling experiences. Teachers will find that the text provides in-depth, critical analyses for thought-provoking classroom discussions. Table of ContentsPART 1: THE BODY IN THE XR COMMUNITY. Against the Instrumentalization of Empathy: Immersive Technologies and Social Change. The Body and the Eye-the I and the Other: Critical Reflections on the Promise of Extended Empathy in Extended Reality Configurations. The Civic Media Machine: Moving from a VR Use of Empathy Toward A Sustainable and Participatory Immersive Experience with and for the Community. The Philosopher’s Stone as a Design Framework for Defending Truth and Empowering Communities. PART 2: SITUATING XR IN THE CITY. Designing Lived Space: Community Engagement Practices in Rooted AR. The Ethics of Augmentation: A Case Study in Contemplative Mixed Reality. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Pokémon: The Tension Between Free Speech and Municipal Tranquility. Reconceptualizing Video Games for Community Spaces. PART 3: THE AUGMENTED CITY FOR EDUCATION. Reflecting in Space on Time: Augmented Reality Interactive Digital Narratives to Explore Complex Histories. Augmented Reality, Aura, and the Design of Cultural Spaces. Building a Virtuous Cycle of Activism Using Art & Augmented Reality: A Community of Practice-Based Project. PART 4: PREPARING THE AUGMENTED CITIZEN. XR Content Authoring Challenges: The Creator-Developer Divide. Motivation Enhancement Methods for Community Building in Extended Reality.

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Book SynopsisDiverse Practices, the third book in the Active Landscape Photography series, presents a set of unique photographic examples for site-specific investigations of landscape places. Contributed by authors across academia, practice and photography, each chapter serves as a rigorous discussion about photographic methods for the landscape and their underlying concepts. Chapters also serve as unique case studies about specific projects, places and landscape issues.Project sites include the Miller Garden, Olana, XX Miller Prize and the Philando Castile Peace Garden. Landscape places discussed include the archeological landscapes of North Peru, watery littoral zones, the remote White Pass in Alaska, Sau Paulo and New York Cityâs Chinatown. Photographic image-making approaches include the use of lidar, repeat photography, collage, mapping, remote image capture, portraiture, image mining of internet sources, visual impact assessment, cameraless photography, transect walking and interviewing.These diverse practices demonstrate how photography, when utilized through a set of specific critical methods, becomes a rich process for investigating the landscape. Exploring this concept in relationship to specific contemporary sties and landscape issues reveals the intricacy and subtlety that exists when photography is used actively.Practitioners, academics, students and researchers will be inspired by the underlying concepts of these examples and come away with a better understanding about how to create their own rigorous photographic practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diverse PracticesAnne C GodfreyPractice, Methods and Process: Photographic Representation is a VerbAnne C GodfreyPart I: Systems1. Cameraless Photography at the Water’s Edge: Rethinking Collaboration and Exchange in the Littoral ZonePhoebe Lickwar2. Looking Through the Trees: Lidar, Archaeology, and the Possibility of Seeing OtherwiseParker VanValkenburgh3. Between the Rendered and the Real: Photography as a Comparative Analysis ToolAidan Ackerman, Robin Hoffman4. Taking Strolls in Virtual Space: Finding the Stranger’s Path in Google Streetview Context Photography Deni RuggeriPart II: Histories5. Engaged Photography: Revealing the Miller GardenMark R. Eischeid6. Photographs as Tools for Restoring the Historic Landscape of OlanaCharlotte Barrows7. Revealing Landscapes Beyond the Monuments: Matching Past to Present Using Remote Repeat Photography Anna Suet Tiburzi Part III: Narratives8. Repeat Photography's Practical Applications in Contemporary Landscape Planning and DesignRachel Edmonds, Casey Howard, and Laurie Matthews9. XX Miller Prize: Centering Women’s Stories Through PortraitureSahar Coston-Hardy, Rhiannon Sinclair10. Photography and a Dramaturgical Approach to SitesBrian KatenPart IV: Moments11. OverdrawingLiska Chan12. Ways of Seeing; Documenting LandscapeHannah Durham13. Serial Process: Serial photography as Critical PracticeMaura Rockcastle and Ross Altheimer

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Book SynopsisThe demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict, (un)natural disasters, political instability, and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million. Despite the massive human and physical costs of these crises, the number of architects, planners, and landscape architects equipped to work with disaster and development professionals in rebuilding in the aftermath of conflict, floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis remains chronically low. Design for Fragility expands the nascent, but rapidly growing field of humanitarian architecture by exploring 13 design responses to such conflict and displacement across 11 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Iran, Pakistan, and the USA. Linked to this displacement is the systemic poverty that often lingers from previous colonial terrTrade Review"Confronted with the intersecting crises of climate breakdown, rising authoritarianism, increasing social inequalities and mass migration, the architectural profession urgently needs to look to new ways of working. Design for Fragility provides very useful insights into how more responsible and equitable design might unfold within current precarious conditions."Jeremy Till, Professor of Architecture, University of the Arts London"Designing for a fragile world inherently means designing for dignity and hope.These outstanding projects testify of how humanitarian architecture upholds the values of our profession, linking entire communities to the prospects of better lives. Whether these are schools withstanding floods or cyclones, maternal wards welcoming newborns in healthier conditions or designing shelter for refugees or indigenous populations, all contribute to building pathways to protect and empower the most unprivileged.The book is a source of inspiration of what can be achieved despite disasters and crises. As long as the problems remain endless, so do the solutions."Sandra D’Urzo, Humanitarian Architect"Design for Fragility offers a wonderful selection of projects that exemplify that people-centered design is more than a tool and, that when it is implemented in ‘fragile’ contexts, it can provoke change, enhance dignity, and promote inclusion. The diverse typology of projects and the reflections of the architects regarding their design process and methodologies which delve into achieving community involvement, offer a useful and relevant guide for future professionals of the built environment that want to make a difference through their work."Dr. Carmen Mendoza Arroyo, Director of the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture "In the introduction to this book, Brett Moore, Global Shelter Cluster Lead queried ‘Why aren’t architects active in these issues? Has our social agenda been lost?’ The authors - Esther Charlesworth and John Fien - are ideally qualified to assemble their positive answer to this challenge by including thirteen well selected examples of architectural projects under the themes of children, health, housing and justice. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Design for Fragility is a welcome companion to Esther’s 2014 landmark text: Humanitarian Architecture. The result is essential reading for any architect, landscape architect and planner with a concern to meet acute needs by the application of their compassion, skills and experience to the deepening problems of social displacement and the scale and complexity of reconstruction."Professor Ian Davis, author of Shelter after Disaster (1978)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Design for Fragility and Children 2. Design for Fragility and Health 3. Design for Fragility and Housing 4. Design for Fragility and Justice Epilogue Humanitarian Agencies and People

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Book SynopsisPolitical ecology is one of the most vibrant fields of environmental research. This book introduces political ecology to a new generation of students in a daring new way: as an interdisciplinary approach to environmental research but also as a series of lived realities and a praxis for change.The origins of political ecology are often traced through an Anglo-American canon. In Discovering Political Ecology, Gustav Cederlöf and Alex Loftus instead take up the challenge of presenting the key conversations and the diverse traditions that have shaped this field with attention to its extensive international roots. Inspired by voices and research in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, the authors address the concerns of those who from different social backgrounds have grown up in a world shaped by climate change and increasing environmental inequalities. Engaging and accessible in style, Discovering Political Ecology introduces a set of key concepts around which coTrade Review"This book is a great contribution to political ecology. The examples are chosen from diverse places around the world, yet maintain specificity, striking a good balance between trying to capture a "global" perspective while keeping it locally grounded. It’s an interesting and captivating read and I look forward to using it in my teaching."Alida Cantor, Assistant Professor, Portland State University Department of Geography, USA."This is a magnificent field guide to contemporary political ecological thought, informed by multiple scholarly and activist traditions. Written in a direct and accessible style, Discovering Political Ecology is the new indispensable text for instructors and researchers alike. It deftly weaves analytical and illustrative points to describe a rich subfield defined by its political commitments, analytical rigor, and growing set of co-conspirators. Political ecology is more important now than ever before, and this book is essential reading for all those who have felt its call to action."Andrea Marston, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, USA."A long-awaited foundational text offering a promising way forward for political ecology teaching, research and activism. Cederlöf and Loftus own up to the field’s Anglo (yet anti-colonial) roots while bringing forth more diverse scholarship and exhibiting the various manifestations of colonialism and environmental injustice around the globe and calls for action."Anna Lavoie, Colorado State University, USA."This brilliant book is required for students and educators in the field of political ecology. It responds to the urgent need to decentre political ecology from the Anglo-American centricity and to open-up diverse roots, voices, perspectives and contexts that have contributed to its emergence and development."Mathew Bukhi Mabele, University of Dodoma, Tanzania.Table of Contents1 Discovering political ecology 2 Power 3 Scale 4 Nature 5 Urbanisation 6 Water 7 Energy 8 Fields and forests 9 Virtual political ecology 10 Seminar activities

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Book SynopsisModern Well Design - Second Edition presents a unified approach to the well design process and drilling operations. Following an introduction to the field, the second chapter addresses drilling fluids, as well as optimal mud weight, hole cleaning, hydraulic optimization, and methods to handle circulation losses. A relatively large chapter on geomechanics follows, presenting methods for wellbore fracture and collapse modeling, including methods to interpret caliper logs. Contains a new generalized fracture model suitable for deep-water drillingThe start of any well design is to collect data and establish the design premises. To this end, Chapter Four presents well integrity issues, methods to select depths of casing seats, and also some important completion and production requirements. This encourages the design of a plan to last for the entire life of the well, defining loads that it may be subjected to at later stages.ChapTable of ContentsIntroduction to the well design process. Drilling design. Geomechanical evaluation. Well design premises. Casing design. Design of an HPHT well. Drilling operations and well issues. Appendix A: A system for experience transfer. Appendix B: Evaluation of ballooning in deep wells.

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Book SynopsisSpatial dimensions need to be properly captured if modeling and engineering techniques are to be successfully applied in addressing environmental problems. The links between the geographical information systems (GIS) that capture this data, simulation modeling, and engineering offer tremendous possibilities for building versatile support systems for managing the environment. GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering focuses on using GIS and external models to solve real environmental problems, promoting the critical thinking needed for the effective applications of these systems and their analytical outputs.Divided into three major sections, this textbook first concentrates on defining GIS, identifying how data is structured, and explaining common functionality. The text examines GIS from a technological perspective, exploring the evolution of its scientific basis and its synergies with other technologies within a geocomputational paradigm. The next section eTrade ReviewThis well-written, second edition is a significant and needed contribution to the understanding of the increasing interaction between geospatial disciplines and tools - i.e., GIS, and their use in conjunction with environmental and engineering models for problem solving. The exposition is clear, lively, and scholarly, revealing an adequate use of a colloquial tone while keeping commentary brief and to the point with few linguistic variants and regional terms used. For the most part, figures are well designed, clearly printed, with their elements discernible, and the book abounds in helpful diagrams and illustrations for both conceptualization and example.This book provides a guiding paradigm for the study of the current possibilities for mutual synergy between geospatial contextualization and the mathematical and algorithmic formulations of model/simulation inputs and outputs. This volume would undoubtedly enrich the libraries of those professionals who are seeking a deeper understanding of how to better integrate environmental and engineering modeling - both with and from within a GIS, constituting a valuable resource for research projects and course materials.—Demetrio P. Zourarakis, PhD, GISp, CMS-RS, eMS-GIS/LIS, Remote Sensing/GIS Analyst, in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, January 2011Praise for the Previous Edition: Brimicombe’s rich experience clearly shows ... the book is a useful guide to the core information about the workings of environmental models and their development." -Muki Haklay, University College London, in Environment and Planning B, 2005Table of ContentsIntroduction. From GIS to geocomputation. The rise of geo-information science and engineering. Approaches to modelling. The role and nature of environmental models. Case studies. Issues of coupling the technologies. Data and information quality issues. Modelling issues. Decision-making under uncertainty.

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Book SynopsisThis completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today. The book and accompanying diskette will help you determine the impacts of various sources of air pollution, including the effects of wind and turbulence, plume rise, and Gaussian dispersion and its limitations. Information is shown in summary graphs as well as in equations. The programs included on the diskette allow you to get the feel for the results you'll obtain through the input of various combinations of parameter values. The sensitivity of data to various parameters can be easily explored by changing one value and seeing the effect on the results. The book presents 37 example problems with solutions to show the estimation of atmospheric pollutant concentrations for many situations.Table of ContentsWorkbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly discovered âNew Worldsâ, and covers the history of many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Liberia, Algeria, Canada, and the USA.Chronologically as well as geographically wide-reaching, this volume focuses on an extensive array of topics and regions ranging from settler colonialism in the Neo-Assyrian and Roman empires, to relationships between indigenes and newcomers in New Spain and the early Mexican republic, to the settler-dominated polities of Africa during the twentieth century. Its twenty-nine inter-disciplinary chapters focus on single colonies or on regional developments that straddle the borders of present-day states, on successful settlements that would go on to become powerful settler nations, on failed settler colonies, and on the historiographies of these experiences.Taking a fundamentally international approach to the topic, this book analyses the varied experiences of settler colonialism in countries around the world. With a synthesizing yet original introduction, this is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of settler colonial studies and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the global history of imperialism and colonialism.Trade Review"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia"The essays in this work as a collection and as individual studies are a useful and thought-provoking addition to the topic of settler colonialism that can shed light on it as a global phenomenon that is at once universal and peculiar to particular places. What is more, they offer a challenge to the field of global history to utilize settler colonialism as a lens or dispose of it as too broad, ineffective, or too ill-defined to be useful."Jack Seitz is a PhD Candidate in the Rural, Agricultural, Technological, and Environmental History program at Iowa State University, World History ConnectedTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of dominationPART ISettler colonialism in the ‘Old WorldIntroduction to Part I1 – Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans2 – Settler colonialism in ancient Israel3 – Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries4 - Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to the nineteenth century5 - Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998PART IIThe AmericasIntroduction to Part II6 - Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-18507 – Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century8 - Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican republic9 - Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 190010 - Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America11 - Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century12 - Adaptation, resistance, and representation in the modern US settler statePART IIIAfricaIntroduction to Part III13 - Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652–189914 - French Algeria, 1830-196215 - Americo Liberia as a settler society16 - Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880-195017 - Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-197918 - The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936-194119 - White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism in Angola, 1945-197520 - Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour, and transformation, 1880-2015PART IV AsiaIntroduction to Part IV21 – Russian settler colonialism22 – Settler colonialism in the making of Japan’s Hokkaidō23 - Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine24 - A dying settler colonialism: Israel and the Palestinians after 1948PART VAustralasiaIntroduction to Part V25 - Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century: new insights into history, gender and biopolitics26 - Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840-190727 - Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present28 - Settler Australia in the twentieth century29 - Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New ZealandIndex

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Book SynopsisWe live in atmospheres, we talk about them and we move through them. They offer us an important route into comprehending several aspects of human life and experience, what is important to people, the environments life is played out in, and the processes of change and possible futures. Atmospheres are an ephemeral yet inescapable element of our everyday experiential and conceptual environments. They are continually beyond our grasp as they undergo constant transformation.By interrogating atmospheres, this book arrives at new ways of thinking about the relationships between people, space, time and events. Atmospheres and the Experiential World explores the ways we engage with these affective modes, and the possibilities they offer for researchers, designers and policy-makers to make and intervene in the world.Chapters propose an approach to atmospheres that is not fixed to certain forms or boundaries. Instead, this book argues that atmospheres Table of Contents1 Atmospheres and the experiential world 2 Situating atmospheres 3 Researching atmospheres 4 The spacetimes of atmospheres 5 Atmospheres on the move 6 Atmospheres, design and intervention 7 A new agenda for thinking atmospherically

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Book SynopsisThis book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level. Francesca Rosignoli begins by exploring the conceptual and complex issues that surround the very existence of climate refugees and investigates the magnitude of the phenomenon in its current and future estimates. Reframing the debate using an environment justice perspective, she examines who has the responsibility of assisting climate refugees (state vs non-state actors), the various legal solutions available and the political scenarios that should be advanced in order to govern this issue in the long term. Overall, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees presents a critical interrogation of how this specific strand of forced migration is currently categorized by existing legal, ethical and political definitions, and highlights the importance of applying a justice perspective to thTrade Review"As anthropogenic climate change alters the environment and interacts with socioeconomic and political drivers, people in vulnerable contexts are fleeing. Despite climate migration is receiving increasing attention in legislative and policy spheres, knowledge and actions are still limited. In this sense, Rosignoli’s challenging book is necessary, especially for those wishing to broaden their understanding in key issues of this topic from a comprehensive environmental justice perspective."Beatriz Felipe Pérez, CICrA Justicia Ambiental, SpainTable of ContentsTable of contents1 ‘Climate refugees’: Towards the construction of a new subjectivity1.1 Introduction 1.2 Methodology1.3 Historical knowledge of struggles1.3.1 The heterogeneity and multi-causality of climate-induced migration: empirical controversies1.3.2 History of the terminological disputes1.3.3 Competing for the future: The struggles of policymakers and the shift of nomenclature1.4. The insurrection of knowledges. Legal categories in motion1.5. Concluding remarks: Towards a decolonial environmental justice perspective 2. The unresolved legal dispute over the recognition of ‘Climate Refugees’2.1 International Refugee Law. The history of the 1951 Refugee Convention2.2 Regional Refugee Instruments: OAU Convention and Cartagena Declaration2.3 Towards the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration and beyond2.4 Limits and possibilities of the Refugee Law Concepts2.5 Looking for alternatives: The role of International human rights law and International environmental law2.6 Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand. A legal tipping point? 3. Legal proposals and ongoing initiatives to fill the legal gap3.1 Three proposals for a new Universal Treaty3.2 Regional- and local-based proposals: regional responses, bilateral agreements, or enhanced domestic immigration laws? The case of Finland, Sweden, and Italy3.3 Beyond silos: connecting different international law regimes 3.4 Just a matter of extension?3.5 Combining existing legal framework with new multilateral treaty and complementary measures3.6 Nansen Initiative3.7 Peninsula Principles3.8 Migration with dignity4. The justice dilemma. ‘Climate Refugees’ as a case of Environmental (in)Justice4.1 What (Decolonial) Environmental Justice is and Why it matters for ‘Climate Refugees’4.2 The Threefold Injustice of ‘Climate Refugees’: Coloniality of Power, Knowledge, and Being4.2.1 The Coloniality of Power4.2.2 The Coloniality of Knowledge4.2.3 The Coloniality of Being4.3 Decolonizing the refugeehood 4.4 Concluding remarks5. Environmental justice for ‘Climate Refugees’: actors, instruments, and strategies5.1Why non-state actors can ‘solve’ the justice dilemma 5.2 A toolkit for non-state actors: collective capabilities5.3 Limitations and ways forward5.4 ConclusionAcknowledgements End matter Index

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Book SynopsisAn essential text for todayâs emerging professionals and higher education community, the third edition of Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness provides accessible and actionable strategies to create safer, more resilient communities. Known and valued for its balanced approach, Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, presenting the major principles involved in preparing for and mitigating the impacts of hazards in emergency management. Real-world examples of different tools and techniques allow for the application of knowledge and skills.This new edition includes: Updates to case studies and sidebars with recent disasters and mitigation efforts, including major hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Summary of the National Flood Insurance Program, including how insurance rates are determined, descriptions of flood maps, and strategies for communities to help reduce premiums for residents. Overview of the ways that climate change is affecting disasters and the tools that emergency managers can use to plan for an uncertain future. Best practices in communication with the public, including models for effective use of social media, behavioral science techniques to communicate information about risk and preparedness actions, and ways to facilitate behavior change to increase the publicâs level of preparedness. Actionable information to help emergency managers and planners develop and implement plans, policies, and programs to reduce risk in their communities. Updated in-text learning aids, including sidebars, case studies, goals and outcomes, key terms, summary questions and critical thinking exercises for students. An eResource featuring new supplemental materials to assist instructors with course designs. Supplements include PowerPoint slides, tests, instructor lecture notes and learning objectives, key terms and a course syllabus. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Hazards and Disasters Chapter 2: Preparedness, Hazard Mitigation, and Climate Change Part 1 Introduction Chapter 3: Meteorological and Hydrological Hazards: Hurricanes, Sea Level Rise, Floods, Drought, Wildfire, Tornadoes, Severe Winter Weather, and Extreme Heat Chapter 4: Geological Hazards: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Landslides, Coastal Erosion, and Land Subsidence Chapter 5: Human-Made Hazards: Terrorism, Civil Unrest and Technological Hazards Part 2 Introduction Chapter 6: Role of the Federal Government in Disaster Management Chapter 7: Mitigating Hazards at the State Level Chapter 8: Local Government Powers: Building Resilience from the Ground Up Chapter 9: Community Resilience and the Private Sector Part 3 Introduction Chapter 10: Risk Assessment: Identifying Hazards and Vulnerability Chapter 11: Preparedness Activities: Planning to Be Ready When Disaster Hits Chapter 12: Hazard Mitigation Planning: Creating Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability Part 4 Introduction Chapter 13: Disaster Resilience: Living With Our Environment

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography. It offers perspectives from a wide range of contexts and national traditions that decenter the Anglo-centric discussions. The mid-20th-century quantitative revolution is frequently regarded as a decisive moment in the history of geography, transforming it into a modern and applied spatial science. This book highlights the different temporalities and spatialities of local geographies laying the ground for a global history of a specific mode of geographical thought. It contributes to the contemporary discussions around the geographies and mobilities of knowledge, notions of worlding, linguistic privilege, decolonizing and internationalizing of geographic knowledge.This book will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates and advance students in geography and those interested in the spatial sciences.Table of Contents1) Introduction: Recalibrating the quantitative revolution in geography 2) In the footsteps of the quantitative revolution? Performing spatial science in the Netherlands 3) Geographies of quantitative geographies in Brazil: two versions of a revolution 4) Translation of quantitative geography in the Brazilian journals: the cases of the Boletim Geográfico 1966-1976) and Revista Brasileira de Geografia (1970-1982) 5) Digitality: origins, or the stories we tell ourselves 6) Multivariate functions: heterogeneous realities of quantitative geography in Hungary 7) A social history of quantitative geography in France from the 1970s to the 1990s: an overview of the blossoming of a multifaceted tradition 8) How landscape became ecosystem: the nature of the quantitative revolution in German geography 9) The urban revolution: how thinking about the city in 1920s German geography prepared the field for thinking about quantification and theory 10) A revolution in process: longue Durée and the social history of the increase in numerical data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and the National Geography Council before the "quantitative revolution" (1938-1960) 11) Italian geographers and the origins of a quantitative revolution: from natural science to applied economic geography 12) The early years: William Bunge and Theoretical Geography 13) Mathematics against technocracy: Peter Gould and Alain Badiou 14) Conclusion: a virtual discussion about the quantitative revolution’s legacy for past, present, and future

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