Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Dialogues on Climate Justice
Book SynopsisWritten both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis. The story follows the life and conversations of Hope, a fictional protagonist whose life is shaped by a terrifyingly real problem: climate change. From the election of Donald Trump in 2016 until the 2060s, the book documents Hope's discussions with a diverse cast of characters. As she ages, her conversations move from establishing the nature of the problem, to engaging with climate skepticism, to exploring her own climate responsibilities, through managing contentious international negotiations, to considering big technological fixes, and finally, as an older woman, to reflecting with her granddaughter on what one generation owes another. Following a philosophical tradition established by Plato more than two thousand yeaTrade Review"There is so much to like in this book that it seems almost arbitrary to talk about one thing in particular, yet I can’t help myself. The decision to focus on a single character (the aptly named Hope) who moves through time and life-stages brings out brilliantly some of the personal challenges in living with climate change . . . . This book will not ‘save the world,’ for nothing can, and anyway it is us, not the world that most needs saving. What we can and should hope for is that this book makes us more like Hope." Dale Jamieson, New York UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Dale Jamieson Introduction Dialogue 1: Why Ethics? Dialogue 2: Skepticisms Dialogue 3: Individual Responsibility Dialogue 4: International Justice Dialogue 5: A Big Technological Fix? Dialogue 6: Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black
Book SynopsisOffering theoretical insights on region building, this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in depth these attempts, viewed as a failure by the key actors involved, in order to understand how regions emerge in international politics as well as how and why they may fail to come into being. To this end, the book explores a range of factors that impacted region building in the Black Sea, considering the role of region builders involved, their practices and the context of their actions, and the spatial representations and security discourses that were integral to the region building process. Hence, attention is paid to how these factors both enabled and constrained the discursive construction of the Black Sea region, thus identifying the elements that distinguish the Black Sea from other successful cases of region buildinTable of Contents1. Regions and Their Study: A Critical Reading 2. The Theoretical Framework: Towards a Genealogy 3. The Narrative(s) of a "Black Sea Region" 4. Region Builders: Unravelling the BSEN 5. Practices As Tools of Region Building 6. Writing Space: The Cartography of the Black Sea 7. Different Logics of Security, Clashing Region Building Visions
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CRC Press An Introduction to the Amphibians of Ecuador
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to the Amphibians of Ecuador is the first of four volumes, which are comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative works, making them invaluable to biologists, conservationists, and others. This initial volume delves into the cultural history of amphibians, encompassing ethnobatrachology and folklore, while summarizing the amphibian iconography found in Ecuadorian archaeology. Moreover, it covers topics such as bioprospecting, sustainable management, and biotrade activities. The history and present state of amphibian biology research are also addressed. Furthermore, it explores in comprehensive detail the rich amphibian diversity of Ecuador, providing a thorough review of biogeography, amphibian declines, and conservation.Subsequent volumes list the characteristics of each species, define each taxon, and compare them to similar other species. Natural history and reproductive behavior, where known, are described, as are data on vocalizations, larvae, and o
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Mobility Poverty
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to better conceptualise and define mobility poverty, addressing both its geographies and socio-economic landscapes. It moves beyond the analysis of transport poverty' and innovatively explores mobility inequalities and social construction of mobility disadvantages.The debate on mobility poverty is gaining momentum due to its role in triggering social exclusion and economic deprivation. In this light, this book examines the social construction of mobility poverty by delving into mobility patterns and needs as they are differently experienced by social groups in different geographical situations. It considers factors such as the role of transport regimes and their social value when analysing the social construction of individuals mobility needs. Furthermore, the gaps between articulated and unarticulated needs are identified by observing actual travel patterns of individuals. The book offers a comparison of the global phenomenon through fieldwork conducted in siTable of ContentsForeword: A Mobility Justice Lens on Mobility Poverty by Mimi Sheller Introduction; Part 1: Social Skills and Individual Aptitudes 1. Learning Mobility 2. Unequal Mobilities, Network Capital and Mobility Justice 3. The Impact of Life Events on Travel Behaviour Part 2: Geographies of Mobility Poverty 4. The Spatial Dimension of Mobility Poverty 5. The Urban Arena 6. The Rural Arena Part 3: Societal Roots and Impacts 7. Women and Gender-Related Aspects 8. People on Low Income and Unemployed Persons 9. Impacts on Mobility in An Ageing Europe 10. The Predicaments of European Disabled People 11. Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and Mobility Poverty 12. Children and Young People Part 4: The Fieldwork 13. Forced Car Ownership and Forced Bus Usage. Contrasting Realities of Unemployed And Elderly People In Rural Regions: The Case Of Guarda, Portugal 14. Perception of Mobility Poverty in Remote Peri-Urban Salento (Italy) 15. Isolation, Individualism and Sharing: Mobility Poverty in Naxos And Small Cyclades, Greece 16. Unmet Needs: Exploring Mobility Poverty in Buzău, Romania 17. Towards an Understanding of The Social Meanings of Mobility – The Case Of Esslingen, Germany 18. Mobility Poverty in Luxembourg: Crossing Borders, Real Estate, Vulnerable Groups and Migrants Conclusion Findings and Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis The Swahili World
Book SynopsisThe Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques, set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers, farmers, traders, and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the regionâs long-standing cosmopolitan tradition.This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the regionâs past, written Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Book Prize of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists for best edited volume on any topic.“This edited volume provides a compilation of research carried out on the Swahili coast and its archaeological sites” Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan Centre, UK, Antiquity Publications "This book is a great resource for those working along the Swahili coast and interior areas with similar archaeological deposits. Indeed, I finished reading the book with a better understanding of the history, archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology of the Swahili coast. From these perspectives, the authors have explored the Swahili coast’s history from what they consider to be the earliest settlements to the remains of complex monumental structures found there today. This unique wealth of the detail on past of the Swahili coast is the true strength of the book that Wynne-jones and LaViolette produced for us."Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, African Archeological ReviewTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesMapsPrefaceNote on TerminologyContributors1. The Swahili worldSection I: Environment, background, and Swahili historiography2. The eastern African coastal landscape3. Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili4. The eastern African coast: researching its history and archaeology5. Defining the Swahili6. Decoding Swahili genetic ancestry7. Early connections8. The Swahili language and its early history9. Swahili origins10. Swahili oral traditions and chronicles11. Manda12. Tumbe, Kimimba and Bandari Kuu13. Unguja Ukuu14. Chibuene15. Urbanism16. Town and village17. Mambrui and Malindi18. Shanga19. Gede20. Mtwapa21. Pemba22. Zanzibar23. Mafia24. Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara25. Mikindani and the southern coast26. The Comoros and their early history27. The Comoros 1000 - 1350 CE28. Mahilaka29. The social composition of Swahili society30. Metalworking on Swahili sites31. Craft and industry32. Animals in the Swahili world33. Plant use and the creation of anthropogenic landscapes: coastal forestry and farming34. The progressive integration of eastern Africa into an Afro-Eurasian world-system, first-fifteenth centuries CE35. Eastern Africa and the dhow trade36. Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750-1550 CE37. Mosaics and interconnectivity38. Links with India39.Links with China40. Currencies of the Swahili world41. Glass beads and Indian Ocean trade42. Quantitative evidence for early long-distance exchange in eastern Africa: the consumption volume of ceramic imports43. Islamic architecture of the Swahili coast44. Swahili houses45. Navigating the early modern world: Swahili polities and the continental-oceanic interface46. Zanzibar old town47. The Kilwa – Nyasa caravan route: the long-neglected trading corridor in southern Tanzania48. Islam in the Swahili world: Connected authorities49. The legacy of slavery on the Swahili coast50. Life in Swahili villages51. The modern life of Swahili stonetowns52. Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast: the case of Lamu53. Pate54. Mombasa55. The Swahili house: a historical ethnography of modernity56. The future of Swahili monuments
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Taylor & Francis Geographies of Postsecularity
Book SynopsisThis book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity and respect for difference may be imagined and practiced. Drawing on recent geographic theory to recalibrate ideas of the postsecular public sphere, the authors develop the case for postsecularity as a condition of being that is characterised by practices of receptive generosity, rapprochement between religious and secular ethics, and a hopeful re-enchantment and re-shaping of desire towards common life. The authors highlight the contested formation of ethical subjectivity under neoliberalism and the emergence of postsecularity within this process as an ethically-attuned politics which changes relations between religion and secularity and animates novel, hopeful imaginations, subjectivities, and praxes as alternatives toTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Genealogies 3. Subjectivities 4. Spaces 5. Political Practices 6. Wider Religious and Spatial Conditions 7. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Social Justice and the City
Book SynopsisThis special collection aims to offer insight into the state of geography on questions of social justice and urban life. While using social justice and the city as our starting point may signal inspiration from Harveyâs (1973) book of the same name, the task of examining the emergence of this concept has revealed the deep influence of grassroots urban uprisings of the late 1960s, earlier and contemporary meditations on our urban worlds (Jacobs, 1961, 1969; Lefebvre, 1974; Massey and Catalano, 1978) as well as its enduring significance built upon by many others for years to come. Laws (1994) noted how geographers came to locate social justice struggles in the city through research that examined the ways in which material conditions contributed to poverty and racial and gender inequity, as well as how emergent social movements organized to reshape urban spaces across diverse engagements including the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests, feminist and LGBTQ activism, the AmeriTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City Nik Heynen, Dani Aiello, Caroline Keegan, and Nikki Luke 1. Geography and the Priority of Injustice Clive Barnett 2. Against the Evils of Democracy: Fighting Forced Disappearance and Neoliberal Terror in Mexico Melissa W. Wright 3. Locating the Social in Social Justice Robert W. Lake 4. Resisting Planetary Gentrification: The Value of Survivability in the Fight to Stay Put Loretta Lees, Sandra Annunziata, and Clara Rivas-Alonso 5. Urban Movements and the Genealogy of Urban Rights Discourses: The Case of Urban Protesters against Redevelopment and Displacement in Seoul, South Korea Hyun Bang Shin 6. Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City” Solange Mu~noz 7. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Counter Mapping and Oral History toward Bay Area Housing Justice Manissa M. Maharawal and Erin McElroy 8. From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People Kate Swanson 9. Police Torture in Chicago: Theorizing Violence and Social Justice in a Racialized City Aretina R. Hamilton and Kenneth Foote 10. The Uneven Geographies of America’s Hidden Rape Crisis: A District-Level Analysis of Underpolicing in St. Louis Alec Brownlow 11. Building Relationships within Difference: An Anarcha-Feminist Approach to the Micropolitics of Solidarity Carrie Mott 12. Praxis in the City: Care and (Re)Injury in Belfast and Orumiyeh Lorraine Dowler and A. Marie Ranjbar 13. Without Space: The Politics of Precarity and Dispossession in Postsocialist Bucharest Jasmine Arpagian and Stuart C. Aitken 14. Neoliberalizing Social Justice in Infrastructure Revitalization Planning: Analyzing Toronto’s More Moss Park Project in Its Early Stages David J. Roberts and John Paul Catungal 15. Safe Cities and Queer Spaces: The Urban Politics of Radical LGBT Activism Kian Goh 16. Disciplining Deserving Subjects through Social Assistance: Migration and the Diversification of Precarity in Singapore Junjia Ye and Brenda S. A. Yeoh 17. Occupy Hong Kong? Gweilo Citizenship and Social Justice Michael Joseph Richardson 18. Land Justice as a Historical Diagnostic: Thinking with Detroit Sara Safransky 19. Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. West: Indigenous and Mexican American Struggles for Social Justice Laura Barraclough 20. The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in Baltimore Morgan Grove, Laura Ogden, Steward Pickett, Chris Boone, Geoff Buckley, Dexter H. Locke, Charlie Lord, and Billy Hall 21. “This Port Is Killing People”: Sustainability without Justice in the Neo-Keynesian Green City Juan De Lara 22. “Wagering Life” in the Petro-City: Embodied Ecologies of Oil Flow, Capitalism, and Justice in Esmeraldas, Ecuador Gabriela Valdivia 23. Decolonizing Urban Political Ecologies: The Production of Nature in Settler Colonial Cities Michael Simpson and Jen Bagelman 24. Datafying Disaster: Institutional Framings of Data Production Following Superstorm Sandy Ryan Burns 25. Cultivating (a) Sustainability Capital: Urban Agriculture, Ecogentrification, and the Uneven Valorization of Social Reproduction Nathan McClintock 26. From “Rust Belt” to “Fresh Coast”: Remaking the City through Food Justice and Urban Agriculture Margaret Pettygrove and Rina Ghose
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Book SynopsisCurating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth. The book is largely focused on biennales, which it argues are the contemporary exhibition models with the greatest capacity to offer new perspectives and propose alternative ways of connecting with our social and natural environments. Felicity Fenner demonstrates this by showing how curators of these high-profile exhibitions are responding in creative and engaging ways to the issues that preoccupy artists and society more broadly, of which the ecological crisis is paramount. Drawing on case studies from different parts of the world, the author reveals how biennales can make a constructive contribution to debates and attitudes around climate change, and how the role of the curator has evolved to re-embrace a duty ofTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Exhibiting Nature through the Decades: from Earthworks (1968) to Down to Earth (2020); Chapter 2: Critical Ecosystems: Biennales and new curatorial strategies in response to climate change; Chapter 3: Environment and Empowerment: Biennales as legacy projects; Conclusion; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sensory Transformations
Book SynopsisThis book offers original insights into cultural transformations of the sensory with particular emphasis on environments and technologies, articulating a special moment in the sensory history of urban Europe as people's relationship with their environment is increasingly shaped through digital technologies. It is a much-needed addition to Sensory Studies literature with its firmly grounded empirical and theoretical perspectives. It provides radical and impactful food for thought on sensory engagements with urban environments. After reading the book, the reader will have a profound understanding of the original methodology of sensobiographic walking, as well as transdisciplinary and transgenerational ethnographies in different cultural contexts in this case three European cities.The book is aimed at a large audience of readers. It is equally useful for social and human scientists and students finalizing their MA degrees or working on their doctoral or post-doctoral worTrade Review'At a time when our relationship with urban environments is increasingly shaped by digital technologies, this book draws on comparative research in three European cities to bring fresh perspectives on people’s multi-sensory experiences of such environments and how these experiences have changed over time. Chapters by established scholars and new voices develop common themes deserving of a broad, interdisciplinary readership. Particularly welcome is the examination of intersections not just between the senses and different types of media, but also between mobility and memory, ageing and generation, natural and built environments. Combining a shared, innovative research methodology with rich theoretical insights, the book offers new ways of understanding the complexities of urban living.'Sara Cohen, James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music, University of Liverpool, UKTable of Contents1. Cultural Transformations and Mediations Revealed Through Transgenerational Sensobiographies Part 1: Transforming Knowledge: Methodological Design 2. Embodied Dialogues: A Transformative Pedagogy of Space, Time, and Identity 3. Anthropology of the Senses/Sensory Anthropology: Pre-Theoretical Commitments and Their Consequences 4. Sensorial Narrations on Music and Dance: Extrapolating Affect from Sensobiographic Walks 5. Analysing the SENSOTRA project: Collaborative Coding Part 2: Transforming Cultures: Finding Each Other in Time and Space 6. Sensobiography as a Mobile Search for Relational Knowledge 7. Senses On/Of the Move: Mobilities, Place-Making, and the Urban Sensory Commons 8. Senso-Mobile and Generational Tactics of Diverse City Spaces 9. Wartime Ljubljana and Early Socialist Yugoslavia on the Tip of the Tongue 10. City Atmosphere Forming Place Attachment: The Case of Brighton (UK) 11. 'With Some People You Share A Level': Digitechnological Likenessing in Urban Space Part 3: Mediating Transformations 12. Immediacies of Mediation: Exploring the Co-Emergence of Media, Environments and Sensory Experiences 13. Urban Nature and Digital Media Technologies Entangled: Sensobiographies of Young People in Turku, Finland 14. Civic Disobedience and Counter-Cultural Politics: Towards Culture-Historical Sensobiographies
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin
Book SynopsisThis handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in this region. Scholars of diverse origins and specializations analyze Latin American and Caribbean cities showing that, despite their diversity, they share many characteristics and challenges and that there is value in systematizing this knowledge to both understand and explain them better and to promote increasing equity and sustainability.The contributions in this handbook enhance the theoretical, empirical and methodological study of urbanization processes and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean in a global context, making it an important reference for scholars across t
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinas Western Frontier and Eurasia
Book SynopsisChina has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too.Since the founding of the People's Republic, Chinese Communist Party leaders have sought to increase state capacity and exercise more effective control over their western frontier through a series of state-building initiatives. Although these initiatives have always incorporated an international component, the collapse of the USSR, increasing globalization, and the party's professed concerns about terrorism, separatism, and extremism have led to a region-building project in Eurasia. Garcia traces how domestic elite-led narratives about security and development generate state-building initiatives, and then region-building projects. He also assesses how region-building projects are promoted through narratives of the historicity of China's engagement in Eurasia, the promotion of norms of non-interference,Trade Review"Zenel Garcia has produced an in-depth examination of the historical underpinnings of China’s westwards expansion, now labelled the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Garcia utilises a rigorous theoretical framework concerning the co-constitutive relationship between state-building and region-building to evaluate the implementation of the BRI in the Eurasian landmass. He achieves this through the judicious deployment of rich troves of empirical data. The book fills a gap in terms of putting China’s current Eurasian expansion via the BRI into historical context in terms of earlier eras of government. Although other authors mention the fact that the BRI builds upon previous Chinese initiatives, few of them make this point the central focus of their research."---Jeremy Garlick, Associate Professor and Director of the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University of Economics and Business."Zenel Garcia's thorough analysis of the impact of China and its Belt Road Initiative on the Eurasia region is timely and important to understanding the many political, economic and social issues involved. The author brings deep historical knowledge and a solid theoretical approach to explore what has been an understudied area, including the strong link between the Chinese domestic elite-led narratives about security and development with state-building and region-building initiatives. It is a must read for researchers, students, or anyone interested in both Chinese politics and the challenges facing Eurasia in the 21st century."---Sebastien Peyrouse, Research Professor, Central Asia Program, IERES, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington UniversityTable of Contents1.The Co-Constitution of State and Region-Building 2.National Integration and Regional Formation 3.National Consolidation and Regional Institutionalization 4.National Rejuvenation and Regional Transformation 5. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Change Temporalities
Book SynopsisClimate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives, experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to science and history - and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to critically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and tempTable of Contents1. Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Genres, and Tropes, Kyrre Kverndokk and Anne Eriksen Part 1: Vernacular Notions of Climate Change Temporality 2. ‘Where is global warming when you need it?’: The Role of Immediacy in Vernacular Constructions of Climate Change, Diane E. Goldstein 3. The Great Re-Skilling: Understandings of Generation, Tradition, and Nostalgia in Everyday-Life Climate Activism, Lone Ree Milkær 4. In the Shadow of Apocalyptic Futures: Climate Change as a Cultural Trope in Vernacular Discourse, Camilla Asplund Ingemark Part 2: Mediating Climate Change Temporality 5. The Extreme Summer of 2018: Norwegian Weather News and the Politics of Weatherlore, Kyrre Kverndokk 6. The Prophetic Tone in True Detective: Sensing the Time of the Future Climate Disaster, Isak Winkel Holm 7. Advocating Equilibrium: On Climate Change at Public Aquariums, Lars Kaijser Part 3: Cultural Histories of Climate Change Temporality 8. The Sixth Extinction: Naming Time in a New Way, Marit Ruge Bjærke 9. Smoke, Smells, and Seaweeds in Eighteenth-Century Norway, Anne Eriksen 10. Origin Myths from the Cultural Historical Archive of the Anthropocene: Vico, Burnet, and the Time of the Deluge, John Ødemark Part 4: Conclusion 11. Living the Climate Change, Marit Ruge Bjærke
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Urban Transformation of
Book SynopsisThis book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended social, political, and religious role while adapting to their local climates.Through Archival research and social science methodologies, this book records and maps markets in urban fabrics, expanding on practices underlying the push towards historical listings and the development of markets as landmarks in the urban fabric. The role of markets in delivering sustainable place-making strategies and influencing the development of cities' socio-economic and historical strength is addressed as key to their survival in the urban fabric and as place-making landmarks for preserving tangible and intangible heritage. Going beyond heritage and conservation studies, this book discusses how posit
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Taylor & Francis EcoRational Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Ecological Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Remaking Cities
Book SynopsisThis book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur. It analyses the enactment of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), launched in 2005 by the Indian government, which aimed to spatially reorient cities into market-friendly places across 65 cities but finished with only modest success.The volume discusses the specificities of urban governance systems, colonial municipal histories and nationalist struggle in relation to urban planning and policy reforms to showcase how policies insensitive to these are likely to fail. It identifies historically constituted municipal capacity â located in the municipal organisation at the city level â as the key determinant of divergent trajectories of the spatial changes. The analysis demonstrates that in Ahmedabad the politics of the city was historically oriented towards peoplesâ relationship with their spaces, enabling a coherent
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate
Book SynopsisAs the impact of climate change has become harder to ignore, it has become increasingly evident that children will inherit futures where climate challenges require new ways of thinking about how humans can live better with the world. This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making. Exploring the ways children can learn with weather, this book for researchers and advanced students, works with the pedagogical potential in children's relations with weather as a vital way of connecting with and responding to wider climate concerns.Trade ReviewNever underestimate the power of small talk! This brilliant book demonstrates how ordinary conversations about weather can create extraordinary opportunities for reconfiguring human relationships with nature and the living world. If you are curious about how we can radically reframe our responses to the environmental crisis through education and beyond, this book is for you. Professor Iveta Silova, Associate Dean of Global Engagement at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.Rooney and Blaise invite us into a lively world of child-weather encounters and offer an important new paradigm for environmental education. This book shows us how learning with children with weather can embrace humility, surprise, and delight, without turning away from troubling uncertainties of a climate changing world. Associate Professor Astrida NeimanisCanada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, UBC Okanagan Pause, attend, attune, notice – these are the invitations that this extraordinary book offers to readers. Meticulous tracings are presented of weather learning through modalities of doing, walking, writing, making and becoming. Environmental education opens to complexity, vulnerability, and responsibility as we humans come to understand that we are inherently entangled in volatile ecologies and constantly shifting relations with and in the world. This book shows how this urgent work must start in early childhood education. Children’s intimate encounters with weather extend from everyday moments in open spaces and playgrounds to deep time, Indigenous time, colonial time and the ever-present press in these times of human-induced climate change. The authors introduce practices for how we might envisage and work towards new weather worlds and make a significant and fresh contribution to posthuman educational research. Professor Suzanne Gannon, University of Western SydneyIn rethinking climate change as something "already part of children’s lives", this beautiful book offers an alternative mode for engaging with precarious futures and troubled presents. Whilst grappling with big questions, the authors ground us in small moments and micro sensations of how children and adults experience time, place and climate; as dust in nostrils or rain chilling the surface of the skin, for example. It gently guides us away from the certainty and solutions we are often told are required, inviting us instead to reimagine how we might respond to, learn with or listen to a changing climate. This is a poignant yet hopeful book, where hope is offered outside of a framing of mastery or certainty, through a commitment to ongoing-ness and the understanding that "many worlds are possible."Dr Abigail Hackett, Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University.As I read outdoors, the wind strokes my cheek along with the sound of bumblebees buzzing in the sunshine. This book makes you pay attention and participate with weather worlds and contributes to an understanding of how we are inter-connected with other worlds, humans and non-humans. By bringing the weather to the fore, the book invites us to consider planetary well-being and care. In an inquiring and inspiring way, the authors offer an alternative way of thinking, learning, and practicing with all encounters in the field of early childhood and environmental learning. This is a book we cannot do without. Associate Professor Anne Myrstad, UIT - The Arctic University of NorwayThis transformative book brings climate home via everyday weather, cultivating wisdom for new action-relations. Rooney and Blaise elegantly dissolve borders around ‘the environment’, learning and showing relations already in place, which children already know. Rather than seeing ‘the environment’ as a distinct, separate entity, intentionally renewing weather awareness reveals our place within a living, breathing, participative community of more-than-human beings.Associate Professor Sandra Wooltorton, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame. Table of ContentsPart 1: A Weather Learning Project. 1. Introduction. 2. Young children and environmental education. Part 2: Methods - Thinking, moving and writing with weather. 3. Thinking with weather. 4. Walking with weather. 5. Writing small weather stories. Part 3: Relations - Weathering with more-than-human worlds. 6. Bodies, atmospheres and affects. 7. Multi-species weather encounters. 8. Earth and deep weather times. Part 4: Responses – Learning and speculating in a climate change era. 9. Weather learning. 10. Conclusion: An invitation to weather together.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Populism
The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity, examining its manifestations on both the political left and the right while tracing its dangerous association with nativism, racism and xenophobia. Established socio-political theories are questioned and challenged, giving way to fresh philosophical or cultural perspectives. At the heart of this collection lies a concern with the capacity of the humanities and especially literary studies to interpret, evaluate and intervene in this populist moment. Literary discussion ranges from Henry James and William Faulkner to Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Ali Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates. These essays demonstrate the pertinence and value of enquiries from multiple perspectives if we are to come to terms with the impact of populist rhetoric on m
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Teacher Education for Sustainable Development and
Book SynopsisThis book examines how educators internationally can better understand the role of education as a public good designed to nurture peace, tolerance, sustainable livelihoods and human fulfilment.Bringing together empirical and theoretical perspectives, this insightful text develops new understandings of education for sustainable development and global citizenship (ESD/GC) and illustrates how these might impact on educational research, policy and practice. The text recognizes the ESD/GC as pivotal to the universal ambitions of UNESCOâs Sustainable Development Goals, and focuses on the role of teachers and teacher educators in delivering the appropriate educational response to promote equity and sustainability. Chapters explore factors including curriculum design, values and assessment in teacher education, and consider how each and every learner can be guaranteed an understanding of their role in promoting a just and sustainable global society.This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, school leaders, practitioners, policy makers and students in the fields of education, teacher education and sustainability. Table of ContentsSeries Editor ForewordCARLOS ALBERTO TORRESForewordCHARLES A. HOPKINSIntroduction: Reconnecting research, policy and practice in education for sustainable development and global citizenship PHILIP BAMBERPART 1 VALUESChapter 1: In Search of Core ValuesSTEPHEN SCOFFHAMChapter 2: How do Teachers Engage with School Values and Ethos?ALISON CLARKChapter 3: Learning to Unlearn: Moving Educators from a Charity Mentality towards a Social Justice MentalityJEN SIMPSONChapter 4: Understanding Hospitality and Invitation as Dimensions of Decolonising Pedagogies when Working InterculturallyFATIMA PIRBHAI-ILLICH AND FRAN MARTINChapter 5: Restorative Practice: Modelling Key Skills of Peace and Global CitizenshipROSALIND DUKEChapter 6: Into the Vortex: Exploring Curriculum Making Possibilities that Challenge Children’s Responses to Extreme Climate EventsHELEN CLARKE AND SHARON WITTPART 2: CURRICULUMChapter 7: Moving Teachers’ Experience from the Edge to the CentreNEDA FORGHANI-ARANIChapter 8: Bridging 4.7 with Secondary Teachers: Engaging Critical Scholarship in Education for Sustainable Development and Global CitizenshipKAREN PASHBY AND LOUISE SUNDChapter 9: Bat Conservation in the Foundation Stage: An Early Start to Education for SustainabilityZOI NIKIFORIDOU, ZOE LAVIN-MILES AND PAULETTE LUFFChapter 10: Advocating for Democratic, Participatory Approaches to Learning and Research for Sustainability in Early ChildhoodMALLIKA KANYAL, PAULETTE LUFF AND OPEYEMI OSADIYAChapter 11: Seeking to Unsettle Student Teachers’ Notions of Curriculum: Making Sense of Imaginative Encounters in the Natural WorldHELEN CLARKE AND SHARON WITTChapter 12: Reconceptualising Citizenship Education towards the Global, the Political, and the Critical: Challenges and Perspectives in a Province in Northern ItalySARA FRANCHPART 3 ASSESSMENTChapter 13: ‘Zero is where the Real Fun Starts’ - Evaluation for Value(s) Co-ProductionKATIE CARR AND LEANDER BINDEWALDChapter 14: Rating Education for Sustainable Development in the Early Years: a Necessity or a Challenge?ZOI NIKIFORIDOU, ZOE LAVIN-MILES AND PAULETTE LUFFChapter 15: Results, Results, Results: Seeking Spaces for Learning in a European Global Learning and STEM ProjectANGELA DALY AND JULIE BROWNChapter 16: Evaluating an International Approach within Teacher Education to the Refugee CrisisCHRIS KEELAN, JACQUELINE NEVE AND DAVID VERNONChapter 17: Measuring Teachers’ Impact on Young Peoples’ Attitudes and Actions as Global CitizensBARBARA LOWE AND LIZ ALLUMConclusion: Empathy, Adaptability, Moderation and SharingVICTORIA W. THORESEN
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Taylor & Francis Climate Change and Urban Health The Case of Hong
Book SynopsisThis book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia. Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hospital admissions and help-seeking, as well as key response strategies of adaptation and mitigation. Many existing books tend to consider the relationship of climate change and public health as two connected issues divided into various discrete topics. Conversely, this book explicitly applies public health concepts to study the human impact of climate change, for example, by conceptualising climate change impact and its alleviation, mitigation and adaptation in a public health framework. Overall, this volume summarises what is known about climate change and health and ignites further debates in the area, especially for urban subtropical communities from within a wider global perspective. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental health, public health, climate change, urban studies and Asian studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Principles of Health, Public Health and Climate Change 3. Climate Change Impact on Disease and Health 4.Climate Change and Disasters 5. Research Methodology I: Climate and Health Outcome Modelling 6. Research Methodology II: Climate and Human Behavioural Model 7. The Case of Hong Kong 8. Health Impact of Extreme Temperature and Heat Island Effect on Mortality 9. Temperature Impact on General and Communicable Disease-Related Morbidities 10. Temperature and Non-Communicable Disease Hospitalisation 11. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation I: Help-Seeking and Information-Seeking Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events 12. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation II: Bottom-Up Approach of Community Risk Perception and Self-Help Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events 13. Climate Change Mitigation, Policies, Research Gaps, and Next Steps 14. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transformative Sustainability Education
Book SynopsisThis book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being.Elizabeth A. Lange advocates for a new approach to environmental and sustainability education, that of rethinking the Western way of knowing and being and engendering a frank discussion about the societal elements that are generating climate, environmental, economic, and social issues. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous and life-giving cultures, the book covers educational theory, transformation stories of adult learners, social and economic critique, and visions of changemakers. Each chapter also has a strong pedagogical element, with entry points for learners and embodied practices and examples of taking action at micro/meso/macro levels woven throughout. Overall, this book enacts a relational approach to transformative sustainability education that draws from post humanist theory, process thought, relational ontology, decolonizationTable of Contents1 Seeding Life-Giving Cultures 2 How Did We Get Here? 3 Waves of Environmentalism, Development, and Backlash 4 Environmental Education 5 Sustainability Education 6 Transformative Sustainability Education 7 The Modern Story of Education 8 Our Great Work: Reimagining Education and our Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rights of Nature
Book SynopsisRights of nature is an idea that has come of age. In recent years, a diverse range of countries and jurisdictions have adopted these norms, which involve granting legal rights to nature or natural objects, such as rivers, forests, or ecosystems. This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders and analyzes legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to this development. Drawing on contributions from a range of experts in the field, Rights of Nature: A Re-examination investigates the potential for this innovative idea to revolutionize the concepts of rights, standing, and recognition as traditionally understood in many legal systems. Taking as its starting point Stone's influential 1972 article Should Trees Have Standing?, the book examines the progress rights of nature have made since that time, by identifying central themes, unifying principles, and key distinctions in how rights of nature discourse has been operationalized in Table of Contents1. Rights of Nature: Exploring the Territory 2. Taking Stock of the Rights of Nature 3. Pachamama As a Legal Person? Rights of Nature and Indigenous Thought in Ecuador 4. "Rights of Nature" in a Water Market 5. The Rights of Nature as Politics 6. Environmentally Conditioned Human Rights: A Good Idea? 7. Human Rights and Rights of Nature: Prospects for a Linkage Argument 8. Rights-Based Restoration 9. Toward a New Framework for Rights of the Biotic Community 10. Fundamental Challenges for Rights of Nature 11. Close Reading Stone: Investigating the Seminal Article
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Taylor & Francis Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisBroadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms of association were social productions of space as well as collective identities. Chapters explore a range of cultural activities such as theatre performances; travel and migration; practices of persuasion; the embodied experiences of lived space; and the central importance of media and material things in the creation of publics and the production of spaces. They assess a multiplicity of publics that produced and occupied a multiplicity of social spaces where collective identity and voice could be created, discovered, asserted, and exercised. Cultural producers and consumers thus cTable of ContentsPart I: Rethinking Habermas: Performative Publics 1. English Coffeehouses and French Salons: Rethinking Habermas, Gender and Sociability in Early Modern French and British Historiography Brian Cowan 2. What’s Hamlet to Habermas? Theatrical Publics and the Elizabethan Stage Steven Mullaney 3. Viewing the Paper Stage: Civil War, Print, Theatre and the Public Sphere Rachel Willie 4. Legal Space and Theatrical Publics Kelly Stage 5. Place, Space, and Public Formation in the Drama of the Spanish Empire Margaret R. Greer Part II: Spaces Between: Transforming Journeys and Geographies 6. Assembling the Archipelago: Early Modern Isolarii and the Journey to Constantinople Bronwen Wilson 7. "Now through you made public for everyone": Narrative, Mobility, and Nation-Building in the Peutinger Map and John Ogilby’s Britannia (1675) Meredith Donaldson Clark 8. Publicity, Representation, and the Vision of French Nationhood in Seventeenth-century Rome Elena Napolitano 9. Bridging Space and Publics: The Senses and the Social in early modern Venice Marlene Eberhart 10. Town and Country: The Geography of the English Literary Public Kevin Pask Part III: The Potential of the Private 11. Negotiating the ‘forum politicum’ and the ‘forum conscientiae’: John Calvin and the Religious Origins of the Modern Public Sphere Torrance Kirby 12. Painting the Visible Church Angela Vanhaelen 13. Matrices of Force: The Social Cartography of Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World Meredith Evans 14. Shakespeare and the Spaces of Publicity Paul Yachnin Afterword Darin Barney
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Geographical Gerontology
Book SynopsisUnderstanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.This book focuses on the interdisciplinary field of study geographical gerontology that addresses these issues. With contributions from more than 30 leading geographers and gerontologists, the book examines the scope and depth of geographical perspectives, concepts and approaches applied to the study of ageing, old age and older populations. The book features 25 chapters organized into five parts that cover the field's theoretical traditions and intellectual evolution; the contributions of key disciplinary perspectives from population geography, social and cultural geography, health geography, urban planning and environmental studies; the scales of inquiry within geographical gerontology from the Trade Review"Geographical Gerontology: Perspectives, Concepts, Approaches takes a critical perspective by acknowledging and addressing the diversity of the aging experience. There is much discussion of understanding aging and differences among older adults by gender, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, location (e.g., urban vs rural), morbidity, and mental health. Focusing on these dimensions allows us to understand how and why older adults interact with space and place."- Marie Y. Savundranayagam, PhD, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University London Ontario, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction to geographical gerontology Mark W. Skinner, Gavin J. Andrews and Malcolm P. Cutchin 2 Space and place in geographical gerontology Gavin J. Andrews, Malcolm P. Cutchin and Mark W. Skinner Part II. Geographical perspectives on ageing 3. Health geographies of ageing Janine L. Wiles 4. Social and cultural geographies of ageing Christine Milligan and Anna Tarrant 5. Population geographies of older people Mark W. Rosenberg and Kathi Wilson 6. Planning and design of ageing communities Judith E. Phillips 7. Environment and ageing Keith Diaz Moore Part III. Geographical scales of inquiry 8. Global ageing David R. Phillips and Zhixin Feng 9. Ageing in low- and middle-income countries Andrea Rishworth and Susan J. Elliott 10. Urban ageing: new agendas for geographical gerontology Tine Buffel and Chris Phillipson 11. Rural ageing Mark W. Skinner and Rachel Winterton 12. Ageing communities Sarah A. Lovell 13. Household spaces of ageing Anne Martin-Matthews and Denise S. Cloutier 14. Embodiment and emotion in later life Rachel Herron Part IV. Key issues in geographical gerontology 15. Explaining the ageing in place realities of older adults Stephen Golant 16. Being in place Graham D. Rowles 17. Active relationships of ageing people and places Malcolm P. Cuthcin 18. Older persons, place and health care accessibility Neil Hanlon 19. Mobilities and ageing Anthony C. Gatrell 20. Constructions of old-age social exclusion Kieran Walsh 21. Employed ca
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster
Book SynopsisA definitive resource, the Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science presents the essentials to better understand and manage disasters. The third edition of this popular text has been revised and updated to provide a substantively enriched and evidence-based guide for students and emerging professionals. The new emphasis on disaster science places it at the forefront of a rapidly evolving field. This third edition offers important updates, including: Newly commissioned insights from former students and professional colleagues involved with emergency management practice and disaster science; international policies, programs, and practices; and socially vulnerable populations. Significantly enriched content and coverage of new disasters and recent research, particularly the worldwide implications of climate change and pandemics. Pedagogical features like chapter objectives, key terms and definitions, discussion points and resources.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Disciplines of Emergency Management and Disaster Science 1. History and Current Status of Emergency Management and Disaster Science 2. Emergency Management Careers 3. Key Concepts, Definitions, and Perspectives 4. Advancing Emergency Management through Disaster Science Part 2: Comprehensive Emergency Management 5. Preparedness 6. Planning 7. Response 8. Recovery 9. Mitigation Part 3: Working and Volunteering in Emergency Management 10. Public Private Partnerships 11. International Humanitarian Disaster Management 12. The Next Generation of Emergency Managers and Disaster Scientists
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SmallScale Urban Greening Creating Places of
Book SynopsisSmall-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics in our understanding of the human relationship to urban nature can help us create places that nurture ecological and human health and promote successful and equitable urban communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to current research debates and new comparative case studies on community perceptions of these urban greening projects and policies, this book explores how small-scale urban greening projects can impact our sense of place, health, creativity, and concentration while also being part of a successful urban greening program. Arguing that wildness, emotion, and sense of place are key components of our humannature relationship, this book will be of interest to designers, academics, and policy makers.Trade Review"Small-Scale Urban Greening provides an excellent summary of the literature regarding human interaction with nature, ranging from a thorough explication of research to a detailed discussion of public policy. The examples involving green infrastructure, roofs, vacant lots and industrial corridors enhance our understanding of the impact of urban nature interventions."Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, D.Arch., FAIA, Chair and Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor Design + Environmental Analysis, CORNELL UNIVERSITY"Angela Loder masterfully shines a light on the opportunity for the leftover, marginal and abandoned spaces in our urban environments to become green spaces that connect us to nature. Small-Scale Urban Greening is a comprehensive review of the research, case studies, and policy that can make these opportunities come to life and provide the critical links between health, equity and community that are so badly needed in our cities."Amanda Sturgeon, FAIA, Head if Regenerative Design, Mott MacDonaldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Re-imagining the city: urban greening as creative solution to social and ecological challengesChapter 1: Nature, Health, Well-being and Sense of Place: what do we know? What don’t we agree on?Biological paradigm: adaptive and utilityThe Social Construction Paradigm: constructed, political, and relationalNew directions in nature, health, and well-being researchMoving forward: research, policy, and practice on nature and health in citiesChapter 2: Ecology in the margins: Green Infrastructure and stormwater managementIntroductionEcosystem services, green infrastructure, and stormwater: a short history of re-thinking water in citiesCity-wide approaches to urban greening and stormwater: the case of PhiladelphiaPiece-by-piece layering and conversion: urban greening and stormwater in TorontoSmall-scale urban greening and green infrastructure: reflectionsLinks to research and moving forwardChapter 3: Meadows in the sky: a green roof case study IntroductionWhat do we know about green roofs, health, and well-being? MethodsResults: what did they think and feel about green roofs? Implications for policy, research, and the human relationship to natureAsking the same questions in a different way: a surveyLessons learned from quantitative versus qualitative methodsConclusionChapter 4: Reclaiming the city: vacant lots and post-industrial corridorsIntroductionMarginal spaces: regreening neglected areasCase studies: Chicago and PhiladelphiaChicago and vacant lotsVacant lots: PhiladelphiaPost-industrial urban greening: elevated parksCase study: Philadelphia’s Rail ParkCase study: Chicago’s The 606Small-scale urban greening, interstitial, and post-industrial space: reflections and moving forwardResearch and the real-world: opportunities for collaboration and changeConclusion: Policy lessons and Research Implications: Connecting urbanites to nature and re-thinking urban greenspaceIntroductionPolicyReview of case study conclusionsLessons learned, looking aheadFrame the issueGovernance, funding, and legislationTactical urbanism, community outreach, and researchA way forward: learning by doing, adaptive planningResearch contextHow do we value urban nature as experienced with SSUG projects?How we experience SSUG: implications for researchEducation and design implications for health, well-being, and ecological sustainabilityLooking ahead
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Springer New York Applied Mathematical Demography 3Ed
Book SynopsisFocuses on applications of demographic models, extending to matrix models for stage-classified populations. This book introduces the life table to describe age-specific mortality, and develops theory for stable populations and the rate of population increase. It also introduces reproductive value and the stable equivalent population.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the third edition: "If you found the original editions...to be excellent (and who amoung us has not?) then you will find the new edition to be equally so...This book is highly and unreservedly recommended for any beginning mathematical demographer." Mathematical Population Studies, 12:223-228, 2005 "The material in the second edition is retained, although the chapters are reorganized and references are updated. New chapters focusing on matrix population models are seamlessly interwoven with the second edition chapters, resulting in a thorough and comprehensive treatment of human, animal, and nonhuman demography." Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2005 "The extension from the preceding editions does illustrate well, how demography in general has branched from plain presentations of human life tables into three directions … . The reviewer strongly recommends the book … . demography never has been as important as today. This presentation of techniques (e.g. simple integrations, statistics, straightforward calculation) is essentially simple and powerful and simultaneously well accessible to economists and political scientists. By this book the reader will understand the force of demographic facts and ideas." (Götz Uebe, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, Vol. 89, 2005) "The present one is considerably enriched by the contribution of the second author, who is a demographer of plants and nonhuman animals. … the book is of interest not only to demographers, but to any scholar interested in biology. The book is organized in 20 chapters, a Bibliography of almost 700 entries and an index." (Solomon Marcus, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1104 (6), 2007)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Population Without Age.- The Life Table.- The Matrix Model Framework.- Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio.- Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory.- Birth and Population Increase from the Life Table.- Birth and Population Increase from Matrix Population Models.- Reproductive Value from the Life Table.- Reproductive Value from Matrix Models.- Understanding Population Characteristics.- Markov Chains for Individual Life Histories.- Projection and Forecasting.- Perturbation Analysis of Matrix Models.- Some Types of Instability.- The Demographic Theory of Kinship.- Microdemography.- The Multi-State Model.- Family Demography.- Heterogeneity and Selection in Population Analysis.- Epilogue: How Do We Know the Facts of Demography?.
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Copernicus The Biosphere
Book SynopsisOne The Biosphere in the Cosmos.- The Biosphere in the Cosmic Medium.- The Biosphere as a Region of Transformation of Cosmic Energy.- The Empirical Generalization and the Hypothesis.- Living Matter in the Biosphere.- The Multiplication of Organisms and Geochemical Energy in Living Matter 6o.- Photosynthetic Living Matter.- Some Remarks on Living Matter in the Mechanism of the Biosphere.- Two The Domain of Life.- The Biosphere: An Envelope of the Earth.- Living Matter of the First and Second Orders in the Biosphere 103 The Limits of Life.- The Limits of Life in the Biosphere.- Life in the Hydrosphere.- Geochemical Cycles of the Living Concentrations and Films of the Hydrosphere.- Living Matter on Land.- The Relationship Between the Living Films and Concentrations of the Hydrosphere and Those of Land.- Appendix I: A Biographical Chronology.- Appendix II: Vernadsky's Publications in English.- Acknowledgments.Table of ContentsOne The Biosphere in the Cosmos.- The Biosphere in the Cosmic Medium.- The Biosphere as a Region of Transformation of Cosmic Energy.- The Empirical Generalization and the Hypothesis.- Living Matter in the Biosphere.- The Multiplication of Organisms and Geochemical Energy in Living Matter 6o.- Photosynthetic Living Matter.- Some Remarks on Living Matter in the Mechanism of the Biosphere.- Two The Domain of Life.- The Biosphere: An Envelope of the Earth.- Living Matter of the First and Second Orders in the Biosphere 103 The Limits of Life.- The Limits of Life in the Biosphere.- Life in the Hydrosphere.- Geochemical Cycles of the Living Concentrations and Films of the Hydrosphere.- Living Matter on Land.- The Relationship Between the Living Films and Concentrations of the Hydrosphere and Those of Land.- Appendix I: A Biographical Chronology.- Appendix II: Vernadsky’s Publications in English.- Acknowledgments.
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WW Norton & Co Stop Saving the Planet
Book SynopsisA short, fun, fierce manifesto for a fairer, more effective environmentalism (with a lot less shopping!).Trade Review"We just love Jenny Price’s new book… With robust humour, she asks how we choose the changes we make. The answers might just make a difference to all our futures." -- The People's Friend
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WW Norton & Co Sprout Lands
Book SynopsisArborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.Trade Review"William Bryant Logan’s vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit—a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future—is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope." -- Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees"... this vividly insightful exploration of tree regeneration." -- Nature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Coastal and Estuarine Management Routledge
Book SynopsisThe coast cannot be left to nature to determine its fate. Wealth, property, economic interests, recreation, tourism and wildlife are all threatened. Coasts are an administrative battle ground and one of the most important and widely examined topics in environmental management.Coastal and Estuarine Management examines the issues surrounding the human use and abuse of estuarine and coastal environments. Emphasising the importance and significance of this natural resource, the uses and conflicts which occur and the results of human activity, this book explains the ways in which conservation and management policies and practices can protect this productive and diverse ecosystem.Examples and real-life case studies illustrate the effect of human intervention, both from an historic and contemporary perspective. Exposing the environmental consequences of estuarine pollution, Peter French highlights the need for management strategies to promote a sustainable development ethic fTrade Review'The text is written in a lucid but nontechnical style and should be amenable to all students of environmental management...this text has the capacity to influence the attitudes of the next generation of coastal managers.' - Progress in Physical Goegraphy, Vol 23, No.1 1999"The only 'textbook' which is both up-to-date and conprehensive in its coverage of this fast-developing subject" Dr Geoff Walker, West England UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction to estuarine and coastal systems 2 The physical regime of coasts and estuaries 3 Land claim and coastal defence 4 The industrial use of coasts and estuaries 5 Coastal development for tourism 6 Causes of indirect impacts on the coast 7 Management frameworks for coastal and estuarine systems; The final word
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Taylor & Francis Splintering Urbanism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bodies Exploring Fluid Boundaries Critical
Book SynopsisThis is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women''s sub-ordination to men.Table of Contents1 Bodily openings 2 ‘Corporeographies’ 3 Pregnant bodies in public places 4 Men’s bodies and bathrooms 5 Managing managerial bodies 6 Some thoughts on close(t) spaces
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Taylor & Francis Hadrian
Book SynopsisHadrian''s reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan''s eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian''s Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire.The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the ''Greek Renaissance'' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his ''Greek'' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy.No comprehensive account of Hadrian''s life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-deTrade Review'Birley has certainly done [Hadrian] justice in this finely detailed, scholarly and closely argued biography ... This is a superb addition to the excellent Routledge series of imperial biographies.' - Peter Jones, Literary Review'Birley is scrupulous. His grasp of epigraphy and numismatics, his diligence in flowing the vestiges of imperial travel, and his patent sense of fairness in evaluating the scappy ancient literature on Hadrian enable him to construct a narrative of the Emperor's life which renders all previous efforts obsolescent.' - Nigel Spivey, Times Literary Supplement'A learned yet very readable book.' - JACT Review'Birley's book is essential for the Hadrian researcher.' - Gay Times'An excellent, and long overdue, biography ofone of the greatest amd most accomplished of the Roman emperors.' - Kirkus Reviews'Elegantly decked out with coin portraits, photographs, sculptures and maps, this readable bio will appeal to history buffs' - Publishers weekly'Mr Birley is an excellent guide to the facts of Hadrian's career, and of the careers of many of his contemporaries' - Jasper Griffin, The Spectator 1997'This book is well worth the price both to read and as a work of reference. It contains useful photographs, details abour coins, bibliography and index, and also contains excellent maps.' - Gay and Lesbian HumanistBirley ia an excellent companion to the myth of a characteristically complex man' - The Herald (Glasgow)'Birley brings this cipher to life with gusto, Hadrian's childhood and early career, his imperial reign and subsequent travels through every corner of his empire, step by step, stone by stone, until the redaer, too, is exhausted by Hadrian's (and Birley's) seemingly irrepressible energy' - Josephine Balmer, New Statesman and Society"...This is a historical work that must rank amongst the most important biographies of the Roman emperors; it deserves to be read as much for its account of Hadrian's restless travelling through the provinces as for its analysis of policies and matters of state." - British Archaelogy'Birley has now produced a volume rich in detail, imaginative in interpretation, sane and sensible in judgement. ...This is an extremely learned book, often challenging.' - The Classical Outlook/Fall 1998Table of ContentsPreface. List of illustrations. List of maps. Introduction: The Emperor Hadrian. 1. A Childhood in Flavian Rome 2. The Old Dominion 3. The Military Tribune 4. Principatus et Libertas 5. The Young General 6. Archon at Athens 7. The Parthian War 8. The New Ruler 9. Return to Rome 10. To the German Frontier 11. Hadrian's Wall 12. A New Augustus 13. Return to the East 14. A Summer in Asia 15. A Year in Greece 16. Pater Patriae 17. Africa 18. Hadrianus Olympius 19. Death in the Nile 20. Athens and Jerusalem 21. The Bitter End Epilogue: Animula Vagula Blandula Stemma. Abbreviations and Notes. Bibliography. Index: (Persons; Peoples & Places; Subject)
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Taylor & Francis Fundamentals of Biogeography Routledge
Book SynopsisFundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants. Starting with an outline of how species arise, disperse, diversify and become extinct, the book examines: how environmental factors (climate, substrate, topography, and disturbance) influence animals and plants; investigates how populations grow, interact and survive; how communities form and change; and explores the connections between biogeography and conservation.The second edition has been extensively revised and expanded throughout to cover new topics and revisit themes from the first edition in more depth. Illustrated throughout with informative diagrams and attractive photos and including guides to further reading, chapter summaries and an extensive glossary of key terms, Fundamentals of Biogeography clearly explains key concepts in the history, geography and ecology of life systems. In doing so, it tackles some of the most topical and controversial environmental and ethical concerns including species over-exploitation, the impacts of global warming, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss and ecosystem restoration.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introducing Biogeography 1. What is Biogeography? 2. Biogeographical Processes I: Speciation, Diversification and Extinction 3. Biogeographical Processes II: Dispersal 4. Biogeographical Patterns: Distributions Part 2: Ecological Biogeography 5. Habitats, Environments and Niches 6. Climate and Life 7. Substrate and Life 8. Topography and Life 9. Disturbance 10. Populations 11. Interacting Populations 12. Communities 13. Community Change Part 3: Historical Biogeography 14. Dispersal and Diversification in the Distant Past 15. Vicariance in the Distant Past 16. Past Community Change Part 4: Conservation Biogeography 17. Conserving Species and Populations 18. Conserving Communities and Ecosystems
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Taylor & Francis Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart
Book SynopsisOffering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebeâs compelling novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of critical writing on Things Fall Apart, by Abiola Irele, Abdul JanMohamed, Biodun Jeyifo, Florence Stratton and Ato Quayson, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions forTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Texts and Contexts 2. Critical History 3. Critical Readings 4. Further Reading and Web Resources Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Sustainable Buildings in Practice
Book SynopsisCurrent assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the usersâ needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupantsâ needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge, sustainable buildings in the world, in terms of the usersâ perceived comfort, health and productivity. The author has visited the buildings, interviewed the design teams and examined the findings of a sixty-question standardized user questionnaire. The book provides: thirty case studies covering mixed-mode, passive and environmentally sustainable commercial and institutional buildings detailed insights into the principles underlying the design of sustainable buildings worldwide, over several climatic zones and eleven countries, together with clear explanations and illustrations oTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Overview of the Buildings and their Performance Part 1: Buildings in Cold – Temperate Climates 2. NRG Systems Facility, Hinesburg, Vermont, USA 3. Computer Science and Engineering Building, York University, Ontario, Canada 4. Military Families Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5. SciencePark, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 6. National Works Yard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 7. Liu Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Part 2: Buildings in Medium – Temperate Climates 8. Gifford Studios, Southampton, England 9. Arup Campus, Solihull, England 10. Zicer Building, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England 11. Renewable Energy Systems, Kings Langley, England 12. City Hall, London, England 13. The Foundation Building, Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall, England 14. The Mathematics and Statistics and Computer Science Building, Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand 15. St Mary’s Credit Union, Navan, Ireland 16. Scottsdale Forest Ecocentre, Tasmania, Australia 17. Tokyo Gas, Kohoku New Town, Yokohama 18. Nikken Sekkei Building, Tokyo Part 3: Buildings in Warm – Temperate Climates 19. The Landcare Research Laboratory, Auckland, New Zealand 20. The Campus Reception and Administration Building, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 21. 60 Leicester Street, Melbourne, Australia 22. 40 Albert Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 23. The Red Centre Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 24. Institute of Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 25. General Purpose Building, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia 26. Student Services Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia 27. Natural Resources Defence Council, Santa Monica, California, USA Part 4: Buildings in Hot – Humid Climates 28. Institute of Technical Education, Bishan, Singapore 29. Ministry of Energy Water and Communications Building, Putrajaya, Malaysia 30. Menara Umno, Penang, Malaysia 31.Torrent Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India
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Taylor & Francis Samkaras Advaita Vedanta
Book SynopsisSamkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought which takes this as a central theme. The author develops an innovative approach based on Samkara's ways of interpreting sacred texts and creatively examines the profound interrelationship between sacred text, content and method in Samkara's thought. The main focus of the book is on Samkara's teaching method. This method is, for Samkara, based on the Upanishads' own; it is to be employed by Advaitin teachers to draw pupils skilfully towards that realisation which is beyond all words. Consequently, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Indian philosophy, but to all those interested in the relation between language and that which is held to transcend it.Trade Review'This book provides an excellent introduction to Samkara's work, while making a number of original arguments that are sure to be influencial in future studies on Samkara' - Brian Black, South Asia Research, Vol. 26 (2)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying the Teacher 1. The Teacher Himself 2. The Need for the Teaching 3. The Source for the Teaching 4. The Methods of the Teaching 5. The Context of the Teaching: The World of Name and Form 6. The Context of the Teaching: The Lord 7. The Language of the Teaching 8. The End of the Teaching
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Taylor & Francis The Buddhist Unconscious
Book SynopsisThis is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. They not only explicitly differentiated this dimension of mental processes from conscious cognitive processes, but also offered reasoned arguments on behalf of this dimension of mind. This is the concept of the 'Buddhist unconscious', which arose just as philosophical discourse in other circles was fiercely debating the limits of conscious awareness, and these ideas in turn had developed as a systematisation of teachings from the Buddha himself. For us in the twenty-first century, these teachings connect in fascinating ways to the Western conceptions of the 'cognitive unconscious' which have been elaborated in the work of Jung and Freud. This important study reveals how the Buddhist unconscious illuminates and draws out aspects of current western thinking on the unconscious mind. One of the most intriguinTrade Review'This work weaves together into one fabric yards spanning some one thousand years of Indian Buddhist thought, and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for scholars of Buddhist literature.' - East and West SeriesTable of ContentsPart I - The Background and Context of the Ãlaya-vijñãna Part II - The Abhidharma Context 15. The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic Part III - The Alaya-vijñana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijñana in the Early Tradition Part IV - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back HomePart V - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond
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Taylor & Francis The Ecological Modernisation Reader
Book SynopsisEnvironmental reform by governmental, intergovernmental agencies, private firms and industries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a worldwide phenomenon. This definitive collection showcases an introduction to Ecological Modernisation Theory; state-of-the-art review essays by key international scholars and a selection of the key articles from a quarter-century of social science scholarship. It is aimed at students, researchers and policymakers interested in a deep understanding of contemporary environmental issuesTrade Review'...this volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the emergence and evolution of scholarly enquiry into ecological modernization.''...if this volume serves as a launching pad rather than culmination, then EM is poised to make substantial gains in the environmental studies and sciences. The break from the tendency to rely solely on ecological theories to explain society’s relationship with ecosystems that has been enabled by EM theorists has broadened the horizons for enquiry in environmental scholarship, and the promise of systematic critical analysis of environmental improvement efforts in a variety of institutional contexts is certainly a worthwhile endeavour.'-Debra J Davidson, University of Alberta, in International Sociology, vol 26 no 5'This volume collects well-written scholarly essays on the theory of EM. The editors do a good job selecting chapters to represent the full range of issues and concepts forming the central theses of the EM framework, making this volume a great reader on the subject. Also commendable is that the authors included several studies of environmental reform in economies outside the birthplace of the EM theory. Worthy of note as well is that several studies differentiate between weak and strong ecological modernization. This provides a great framework for empirically examining environmental reform across the globe. Finally, the introduction and other chapters also discuss how the theory of ecological modernization fits with global conventions on environmental reform, thereby helping explain its emergence and rapid development....'-Lazarus Adua, Ohio State University, in Rural Sociology, Dec 2011'This is a much needed collection which fills the gap left by theoretical and empirical work. Whatever your opinions about Ecological Modernisation this promises to be a benchmark study.'.....Michael Redclift, Professor of International Environmental Policy, King's College, UK 'Ecological modernization has become the most important theory of practical attempts to deal with environmental problems. Whether it be efforts by the environmentally leading countries of northern Europe, or by the Obama Administration in the United States, or by Japan and China, the endeavors all consist of ecological modernization in one form or another. This informative reader brings together the most significant research on the subject over the three decades since its inception. The success or failure of ecological modernization remains nevertheless an open question, as indicated by global warming caused by human activities. Hence this perspective has its critics, particularly neo-Marxist and neo-Malthusian ones, and the book briefly responds to these as well. It is a must read for anyone interested in the broader aspects of environmental problem solving.'........Raymond Murphy, President Environment and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association'This book offers the clearest and the most comprehensive introduction to ecological modernisation theory yet. It sets out the criticisms of ecological modernisation as a theory of social change and puts forward a compelling argument for a sociology of environmental reform. It shows how technological, institutional and cultural innovation concretely affect peoples’ lives and the ways they relate to their environment. The Ecological Modernisation Reader will initiate a new and more sophisticated era of debate over the greening of industrial societies'..............Professor Stewart Lockie, The Australian National University, Australia'The ideas underpinning ecological modernisation are exerting a growing influence over environmental policy-makers around the world. This valuable and timely collection brings together many of the main contributors to the development of this controversial concept, and provides a comprehensive coverage of the key theories, debates and policy developments in ecological modernisation.'..........Professor Neil Carter, Department of Politics, University of York, UK'...a long overdue publication. The benefits of bringing together some of the classic EM literature alongside more recent work not only explains the historical theoretical development of this discourse and where it might develop in future, but also engages academics and students alike in understanding EM theory and practice...'..............Patrick McGee, Queen's University Belfast, Journal of Environmental Policy and PlanningTable of ContentsPart 1: Foundations of Ecological Modernization Theory Part 2: Transformations in Environmental Governance and Participation Part 3: Greening Life-Cycles and Life-Styles Part 4: Environmental Reform in Asian and Other Emerging Economies
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Taylor & Francis Conducting Research in Conservation
Book SynopsisConducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling. Section two focuses on practical issues in carrying out fieldwork with local communities, from fieldwork preparation and data collection to the relationships between the researcher and the study community. Section three provides an in-depth focus on a range of social science methods including standard qualitative and quantitative methods such as participant observation, interviewing and questionnaires, and more advanced methods, such as ethnobiological methods for documenting local environmental knowledge and change, and participatory methods such as the âPRAâ toolbox. Section four theTrade Review"Social research is vital for effective conservation. Here at last is an authoritative, clear and practical guide to conducting successful social reserach in conservation. The authors effectively blend state-of-the-art thinking in social research with practical examples from conservation projects around the world. A must have book for conservation researchers and practitioners." Dr Paul Jepson, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford."Conducting Research in Conservation makes a much needed contribution to the field. Well written and highly accessible, this introduction to conservation-relevant social science methods will serve as a valuable resource for novices and experts alike. In particular, its practical guidance will help conservation professionals to navigate the complexities of social science research in the ‘real world.’" Dr Michael B. Mascia, World Wildlife Fund, USA.Table of ContentsSection 1: Planning a Research Project 1. Introduction: Social Science Research in Conservation 2. Defining the Research Topic 3. Developing the Research Design 4. Sampling Section 2: Methods 5. Participant Observation 6. Qualitative Interviews and Focus Groups 7. Questionnaires 8. Documenting Local Environmental Knowledge and Change 9. Community Workshops and the PRA Toolbox 10. Participatory Mapping Section 3: Fieldwork with Local Communities 11. Preparing for Fieldwork and Collecting and Managing Data in the Field 12. The Role of the Researcher 13. The Ethical Issues in Research Section 4: Data Processing and Analysis 14. Processing and Analysis of Qualitative Data 15. Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Statistics 16. Quantitative Analysis: Inferential Statistics Section 5: Writing up the Report 17. Writing up the Report 18. Final Dissemination and Follow-up
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Taylor & Francis Atmosphere Weather and Climate
Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to the weather processes and climatic conditions around the world, their observed variability and changes, and projected trends. This book offers a comprehensive coverage of global meteorology and climatology.Trade Review"A comprehensive introduction to weather and climate, describing phenomena from cloud scale to global scale in a very accessible way." Dave Gutzler, University of New Mexico"This book provides an excellent overview of the climate system from the global to the local scale. It is excellently written at a level that provides detail, whilst being accessible at the introductory level. It is my first choice for the core text for my intermediate level undergraduate climatology course." Julie Jones, Sheffield University, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction and History of Meteorology and Climatology 2. Atmospheric Composition, Mass and Structure 3. Solar Radiation and the Global Energy Budget 4. Atmospheric Moisture Budget 5. Atmospheric Instability, Cloud Formation and Precipitation Processes 6. Atmospheric Motion: Principles 7. Planetary-Scale Motions in the Atmosphere and Ocean 8. Modelling the Atmospheric Circulation and Climate 9. Mid-Latitude Synoptic Systems 10. Weather and Climate in Temperate and High Latitudes 11. Tropical Weather and Climate 12. Boundary Layer Climates 13. Climate Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Foundations of Engineering Geology
Book SynopsisNow in full colour, the third edition of this well established book provides a readable and highly illustrated overview of the aspects of geology that are most significant to civil engineers.Sections in the book include those devoted to the main rock types, weathering, ground investigation, rock mass strength, failures of old mines, subsidence on peats and clays, sinkholes on limestone and chalk, water in landslides, slope stabilization and understanding ground conditions. The roles of both natural and man-induced processes are assessed, and this understanding is developed into an appreciation of the geological environments potentially hazardous to civil engineering and construction projects. For each style of difficult ground, available techniques of site investigation and remediation are reviewed and evaluated.Each topic is presented as a double page spread with a careful mix of text and diagrams, with tabulated reference material on parameters such as bearing strengTrade Review"A useful source for a quick insight into the subject or a reminder for the practising engineer when difficult ground is encountered."—Ground Engineering"This is an excellent book that will be invaluable not only as a textbook for students taking an engineering geology, geology or civil engineering course but also as a reference book/aide memoire in later years as they (and we more advanced practitioners) follow their careers."—Geological MagazineTable of ContentsGeology. Igneous Rocks. Surface Processes. Sedimentary Rocks. Metamorphic Rocks. Geological Structures. Geological Maps. Map Interpretation. Tectonics. Boundary Hazards. Rocks of Britain. Rocks of the US. Weathering and Soils. Floodplains and Alluvium. Glacial Deposits. Climatic Variants. Coastal Processes. Groundwater. Ground Investigation. Desk Study. Ground Investigation Boreholes. Geophysical Surveys. Assessment of Difficult Ground. Rock Strength. Rock Mass Strength. Soil Strength. Ground Subsidence. Subsidence on Clays. Subsidence on Limestone. Subsidence Over Old Mines. Mining Subsidence. Slope Failure and Landslides. Water in Landslides. Soil Failures and Flowslides. Landslide Hazards. Slope Stabilization. Ground Conditions. Rock Excavation. Tunnels in Rock. Stone and Aggregate. Appendices. Rock Mass Quality Q System. Abbreviations and Notation. Further Reading. Index.
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Taylor & Francis MerleauPonty for Architects
Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908â1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge, Kenneth Frampton, David Leatherbarrow and Alberto PÃrez-GÃmez in North America and Juhani Pallasmaa in Finland. Merleau-Ponty suggested that the value of peopleâs experience of the world gained through their immediate bodily engagement with it remains greater than the value of understanding gleaned through abstract mathematical, scientific or technological systems. This book summarizes what Merleau-Pontyâs philosophy has to offer specifically for architects. It locates architectural thinking in the context of his work, placing it in relation to themes such as space, movement, materiality and creativity, introduces key texts, helps decode difficult terms and provides quick reference for further reading.Trade Review'The phenomenological features of Merleau-Ponty’s notion of embodiment have today received extensive support by contemporary biological and neuroscientific research. Hale’s book, which highlights and distills the pivotal insights of the French philosopher, is essential reading for every architect who might ponder how people actually perceive their designed environments.' - Harry Francis Mallgrave, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsSeries Editor Preface. Acknowledgements. Illustration Credits. Introduction. 1. Embodied Space – It’s Not What You Think 2. Expressive Form – Since Feeling is First 3. Tectonics and Materials – The Flesh of the World 4. Creativity and Innovation – From Spoken to Speaking Speech Postscript. Further Reading. Bibliography. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Environmental Policy Routledge Introductions to
Book SynopsisEvidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year. This second edition of Environmental Policy explains how policy can respond and bring about greater sustainability in individual lifestyles, corporate strategies, national policies and international relations. The book discusses the interaction between environmental and human systems, proposing environmental policy as a way to steer human systems to function within environmental constraints.The second edition has been completely updated to reflect advances in scholarship (for example developments in governance theory) and the increasing primacy of climate policy within environmental policy as a whole. Key political, social and economic concepts are used to explain how effective environmental policies can be designed, implemented and evaluated. Environmental problems, the role of human beings in creating them and sustainable development are all introduced. Environmental policy formulation, implementation and evaluation are discussed within three specific contexts: the firm, the nation state and at an international level. The book reviews the relationship of economics, science and technology to environmental policy. It ends by reflecting upon the predicament of humankind in the twenty-first century and the potential of achieve sustainability through the use of the environmental policy âtoolboxâ.Environmental Policy is an accessible text with a multi-disciplinary perspective. Lively case studies drawn from a range of international examples â and completely updated for this second edition â illustrate issues such as climate change, international trade, tourism and human rights. It includes chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and links to relevant web resources.Trade Review"This book (1st ed., 2004), part of the Routledge Introductions to Environment series, reflects the more matter-of-fact and cooperative ways that the EU deals with environmental issues....This well-written book will therefore be valuable to American universities as an introductory resource that can be used alongside American works to provide a more balanced treatment of the subject."—F. T. Manheim, George Mason University, Highly recommended title, CHOICETable of Contents1. So, What's the Problem? 2. The Roots of Environmental Problems 3. Sustainable Development and the Goals of Environmental Policy 4. Science and Technology: Policies and Paradoxes 5. Corporate Environmental Policy Making 6. Environmental Policy Making in Government 7. International Environmental Policy Making 8. Environmental Economics 9. Conclusion: Making Policy for the Planet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Animals and Human Society
Book SynopsisModern society is beginning to re-examine its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently issues such as animal welfare and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, these issues attract vast numbers of articulate supporters who collectively exercise considerable political muscle. Animals, both wild and domestic, form the primary focus of concern in this often acrimonious debate. Yet why do animals evoke such strong and contradictory emotions in people - and do our western attitudes have anything in common with those of other societies and cultures? Bringing together a range of contributions from distinguished experts in the field, Animals and Society explores the importance of animals in society from social, historical and cross-cultural perspectives.Trade Review'For those interested in the history of cultural and ethical aspects of animal use, this book provides a wealth of diverse material. The book consists of ten chapters, six on historical aspects of human-animal relations, three on contemporary issues, and a concluding commentary. The book is enriched by excellent design and graphics.' – Applied Animal Behaviour Science'For those interested in the history of cultural and ethical aspects of animal use, this book provides a wealth of diverse material.' – David FraserTable of ContentsTim Ingold, Manchester Uni; Juliet Clutton-Brock, Natural History Museum; Calvin W Schwabe, USA; Esther Cohen,Israel; Andreas-Holger Maehle, Wellcome Inst, London NW1; Harriet Ritvo, USA; James Serpell, USA; Elizabeth Paul, Cambridge; Arnold Arluke, USA; Stephen Kellert, USA; Mary Midgely, Newcastle
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Taylor & Francis Can Neighbourhoods Save the City
Book SynopsisFor decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organiziTrade Review"A common criticism of edited volumes is that they can sometimes be little more than a loosely connected series of chapters. However, Can Neighbourhoods Save the City does not fall into this trap. Not only are the empirical chapters, which form the body of the book, connected through a commonly considered analytical framework, but a solid narrative draws the reader through from conception to conclusion. Ultimately, it is clear that sub-city initiatives provide hugely generative sites of social cohesion that co-exist alongside official state-driven forms of city governance. Many of these initiatives are not new, although the invocation of innovation and enterprise within their analysis may not have been so emphasised in previous eras."–Professor Anna Davies, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents1. Social Innovation and Community Development: Concepts and Theories 2. Historical Roots of Social Change: Philosophies and Movements 3. ALMOLIN: How to Analyse Social Innovation at the Local Level 4. Kommunales Forum Wedding – Innovation in Local Governance in Berlin 5. Arts Factory, Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales 6. Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Innovation in the Neighbourhood of Epeule (Roubaix). The Case of the Association Alentour 7. The End of Social Innovation in Urban Development Strategies? Neighbourhood Development Corporations in Antwerp 8. How do you Build a Shared Interest? Olinda - a Case of Social Innovation Between Strategy and Organizational Learning in Milano 9. Centro Sociale Leoncavallo - Milan - Italy. A building-block for an Enlarged Citizenship in Milan 10. Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli (AQS) - Naples 11. New Deal for Communities in Newcastle 12. The Ouseburn Valley. A Struggle to Innovate in the Context of a Weak Local State 13. The Contradictions of Controlled Modernisation: Local Area Management in Vienna 14. Self-determined Urban Interventions as Tools for Social Innovation: The Case of City Mine(d) in Brussels 15. Creative Designing the Urban Future: Building on Experiences - A Transversal Analysis of Socially Innovative Case-Studies 16. Socially Innovative Projects, Governance Dynamics and Urban Change: A Policy Framework
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Taylor & Francis Geopolitics and Development
Book SynopsisGeopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror. It illustrates the various ways in which the meanings and relations of development as a discourse, an apparatus and an aspiration, have been geopolitically imagined andTable of Contents1. Introduction: geopolitics and the assemblage of development 2. Post-colonialism, geopolitics and the periphery 3. Modernising the Third World 4. Cold War geopolitics and Foreign Aid 5. The State and Development 6. The political geographies of contemporary US foreign assistance 7. The rise of the South 8. Conclusions: development and (counter)insurgency
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