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

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Book SynopsisThe discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and qualities of these derelict sites are reimagined in the transformed landscape and considers how such approaches can reveal the dramatic changes that have been wrought on these places over a relatively short time scale. It discusses these issues with reference to eleven sites from the UK, Germany, the USA, Australia and China, focusing specifically on how designers incorporate evidence of landscape change, both cultural and natural. There has been little research into how these developed landscapes are perceived by visitors and local residents. This book examines how the tangible material traces of pastness are interpreted by the visitor and the impact of the intangible elements - hidden traces, experiences and memories. The book draws together theory in the field and implications for practice in landscape architecture and concludes with an examination of how different approaches to revealing and reimagining change can affect the future management of the site.Trade Review"The complex legacy of post-industrial and military landscapes presents ecological challenges across the world today, requiring close scrutiny and imaginative responses. Catherine Heatherington’s fine-grained exploration of the successful recuperation of the former gun-ranges at Rainham Marshes near London, along with other case studies, provides essential insights into how best to approach this new landscape condition. The book provides an invaluable resource for those who now manage such derelict and neglected sites and, ultimately, for the wider public - for whom they are the new landscapes of leisure and environmental renewal." Ken Worpole, Emeritus Professor, Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsPreamble1. Introduction 2. The qualities of derelict, underused and neglected sites 3. Eleven landscapes and their qualities 4. Designing to reveal change ‘Musing on the tracks – the first interlude 5. Perceptions of material and spatial qualities in developed sites ‘Temporalities at Orford Ness’ – the second interlude 6. Perceptions of temporal qualities in developed sites ‘My memories at Bentwaters’ - the third interlude 7. Perceptions of the qualities and their impact on memories 8. Implications for practice 9. Managing change

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

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Book SynopsisJust as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to consolidate their grip on power while nurturing their own vision of what the nation is or should become. This book delves into the complex and often hidden connection between water, technological advancement and the nation-state, addressing two major questions. First, the arguments deployed consider how water as a resource can be ideologically constructed, imagined and framed to create and reinforce a national identity, and secondly, how the idea of a nation-state can and is materially co-constituted out of the material infrastructure through which water is harnessed and channelled.The book consists of 13 theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary chapters covering four continents. The case studies cover a diverse range of geographical areas and countries, including China, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Nepal and Thailand, and together illustrate that the meaning and rationale behind water infrastructures goes well beyond the control and regulation of water resources, as it becomes central in the unfolding of power dynamics across time and space.Trade Review"Water, Technology and the Nation-State is an extraordinary and path-breaking master piece on the political ecologies of state-production and resistance -- intellectually rich, socially urgent and politically highly revealing. The book presents a careful, critical analysis of how flows of water and power interconnect technology, nature and society. In a sophisticated way, Menga, Swyngedouw, and their impressive assemblage of authors, scrutinize and illuminate the multi-dimensional interdependence among technological trajectories, hydro-territorial configurations and nation-state building. Constituting a powerful critique of neoliberal water governance and water’s de-politicizing expert-thinking, the book also offers crucial water-for-thought for building alternative hydrosocial territories." - Rutgerd Boelens, CEDLA/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands"The world’s water crisis is not only an issue of physical scarcity and declining water quality, rather it is a complex suite of social, political, and economic issues that are deeply rooted in power and the state. Menga and Swyngedouw’s thought-provoking edited volume brings together a highly talented and diverse group of scholars and practitioners that explore the inter-connection between water, technology and the nation-state. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in transcending national rhetoric around water, and working towards water justice and equity." - Emma S. Norman, Northwest Indian College, USA"Water, Technology and the Nation-State arrives at an opportune time for water-society scholars and practitioners interested in the profound ways that technological innovations have concurrently shaped waterscapes, state practices, and national identities over the past several decades. A diverse group of critical thinkers infuse cases of large-scale infrastructure development--spanning Asia, the Middle East, North America, Europe, and East Africa—with novel and incisive analyses of how water technologies are always and everywhere political and often fundamental to the exercise of state power. Combining conceptual muscle with heretofore rare case studies, this volume adds immeasurably to theories of state-nature relations and offers concrete instances of the myriad ways that dams, irrigation and hydropower have become hegemonic, and often domineering, technological interventions in human relations with water." - Christopher S. Sneddon, Dartmouth College, USA"...this book is important and should have wide appeal. Each chapter presents an insight into the complex and contradictoy relationship between Nation-State and water technology based on a case study analysis of a project or initative...There are 12 studies in total, with broad representation across the Global North and the Global South." - Lucy Goodman in Urban Studies, 2019"The nation state plays a privileged role in water management and hence is a central actor in all questions regarding processes of water allocation, water infrastructure construction, reform of water institutions, and regulation of water pollution. The collection put together by Menga and Swyngedouw presents historical and current cases of state-centred water politics...Altogether, the collection manages to extract an impressively broad spectrum of aspects of its guiding themes." - Sören Köpke in Water Alternatives, 2019Table of Contents1. States of Water 2. The Ocean Bountiful? De-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River 3. Piercing the Pyrenees, Connecting Catalonia to Europe: The ascendancy and dismissal of the Rhône Water Transfer Project (1994-2016) 4. Death by certainty: The Vinça dam, the French state, and the changing social relations of irrigation the Têt basin of the Eastern French Pyrénées 5. Big projects, strong states? Large scale investments in irrigation and state formation in the Beles valley, Ethiopia 6. Water Nationalism in Egypt: State-building, Nation-making and Nile Hydro-politics 7. Troubled Waters of Hegemony: Consent and Contestation in Turkey’s Hydropower Landscapes 8. An island of dams: ethnic conflict and the contradictions of statehood in Cyprus 9. Counter-infrastructure as resistance in the hydrosocial territory of the occupied Golan Heights 10. Development initiatives and transboundary water politics in the Talas waterscape (Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan): Towards the Conflicting Borderlands Hydrosocial Cycle 11. Speculation and Seismicity: Reconfiguring the Hydropower Future in Post-Earthquake Nepal 12. Irrigational illusions, national delusions and idealised constructions of water, agriculture and society in Southeast Asia: the case of Thailand 13. Building a Dam for China In the Three Gorges Region, 1919-1971

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Book SynopsisGlobal climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure? Why are some people more disposed to reflect on confounding issues like climate change, recognise the danger, seek a solution, and act accordingly, more than others? This book is concerned with how we think and act in response to climate change. In particular, faced with deep uncertainty and the multifaceted complexities that characterise the climate change conundrum, how the various actors and institutions involved in the policymaking process make decisions that both aid and impede in the design and implementation of climate change policy. This book focuses on how these actors and institutions frame and use the knowledge available â under conditions of competing ideologies and interests â and synthesise it to form often-disparate mental models, or worldviews, that inspire them to become firm advocates of meaningful climate change action or indeed, sceptics that continue to downplay the threat, and hence the need for urgency. By exploring how we think about climate change and the disparate mental models we hold as a result, this book explores why humankind has thus far failed in its endeavours to solve the climate change problem.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and environmental psychology.Table of ContentsDedicationList of Figures1. Introduction: Contemplating Climate Change2. The Stealthy Art of Framing3. Mental-Modelling: In Search of a Theory4. The General Model of the Policymaking Process5. The Institutions Process Model6. The Mental Model Process7. Deductions8. Summary and ConclusionsGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisUnderground coal mining disturbs both the overburden strata and the immediate floor strata. The subject of surface subsidence deals with the issues associated with the movement of overburden strata, which are the layers from the seam to the surface, where structures and water resources important to human activities are located. Surface Subsidence Engineering provides comprehensive coverage of the major issues associated with surface subsidence. The chapters are written by experts on surface subsidence in the three leading coal producing and consuming countries in the world: Australia, China and the United States. They discuss general features and terminologies, subsidence prediction, subsidence measurement techniques, subsidence impact on water bodies, subsidence damage, mitigation and control, and subsidence on abandoned coal mines. In addition, the final chapter addresses some of the unique features of surface subsidence found in Australian coal mines. The book provides information on coal seams ranging from flat to gently inclined to steep to ultra-steep seams. Written for mining engineers, geotechnical engineers and students of mining engineering, this book covers both theories and practices of surface subsidence. Unlike previous publications, it also deals with the subsidence impact on surface and groundwater bodies, crucial resources that are often neglected by subsidence researchers.Table of Contents1. General Features of Surface Movement Basin; 2. Prediction of Surface Subsidence; 3. Measurement of Surface Subsidence and Surface Structures; 4. Subsidence Impact on Water Systems; 5. Surface Subsidence Damage, Mitigation and Control; 6. Subsidence over Abandoned Mines: US Experience; 7. Surface Subsidence: Australian Experience; Index.

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

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Book SynopsisFrom its creation in January 2012, The Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture as a service to society, questions the idea of the individual creator in favour of collaborative design, and challenges the traditional master-student relationship. This book documents the projects and, in so doing, explains the practices and pedagogic methods which the studio has developed in relation to architecture education in general and design build education in particular. Aimed at students, teachers, and professionals who are exploring the possibilities of design build, the 16 built projects are fully documented in text, drawings, and photos and can be used as both inspiration and references. Projects are based in Norway, Finland, Chile, Ecuador (GalÃpagos), Kenya, South Africa, China, Argentina, and Lebanon.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword, Karl Otto Ellefsen Introduction PART I 1. Principles 2. Practice PART II 3. Social Architecture 3.1. Eco Moyo Education Centre 3.2. Pumanque Community Centre 3.3. La Casa de la Mujer y la Diversidad 4. Testing Development Strategies 4.1. Public Space on Sørenga Bridge 4.2. New Rural Settlement Patterns in Nes 5. Collaboration and Communication, Social Skills 5.1. The Open City or Ciudad Abierta 5.2. Collaborating with Tianjin University, UED Magazine, and China Building Center 6. The Locality 6.1. The Bands, Sauna and Outdoor Facilities 6.2. The Wave, Public Performance Space 6.3. 2 x 2, Bathing Platform 7. When Things Go Wrong, Unpredictability, Serendipity, and Zemblanity 7.1. Flying Compression, Outdoor Eating Area 7.2. Galapagos, Scout’s Centre and Beach Shade Shelter 7.3. WolfHorse, Nomadic Art Space 7.4. SALT, Cultural Centre 7.5. Bourj al Shamali Refugee Camp, Public Space 7.6. Gratton School, Classrooms Index

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

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Book SynopsisConceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental design media by both emerging and well-established designers and educators of landscape architecture. It questions where and, more importantly, how the process of design starts. The book deconstructs the steps of conceptualizing design in order to reignite pedagogical discussions about timing and design fundamentals, and to reveal how the spark of an idea happens from a range of unique perspectives. Through a careful arrangement of visual essays that integrate analog, digital, and mixed-media works and processes, the book highlights differences between diverse techniques and triggers debate between design, representation, technology, and creative culture in the field. Taken together, the book's visual investigation of the conceptual design process serves as a learning tool for aspiring designers and sTrade Review"How do we initiate the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes frustrating, sometimes daunting process of creativity that leads from inception through iteration and interrogation to a coherent and lush and functional design? Simon Bussiere and his colleagues from teaching institutions around the world probe the depths of this question for landscape architecture students and emerging professionals—and even the more seasoned among us—exploring not one or two but a multitude of starting points for the creative process. In doing so, Bussiere offers us insights into the critical minds of leading academics—giving us a clear and comprehensive sense of the state of the contemporary academy. More importantly, however, the sheer diversity of approaches invites young and aspiring designers into the conversation, begging for them to write the next chapters of design teaching as they explore their own individualized and situated understandings of the world today. A remarkable collection for those interested in understanding how new ideas are born."Chris Reed, FASLA, Founding Director, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design"The design "concept," and the mysteries of how conceptualization ossifies is always a profound topic among beginning design students and among seasoned practitioners. What Simon expertly curates in Conceptual Landscapes is a series of essays that unpack a plurality of approaches to concept generation. Importantly, the manuscript highlights the humanity in design and makes the case for promoting a diversity of voices in the design professions in an age where society is often looking for technologies and metrics to solve complex problems. Conceptual Landscapes will serve as an important text for beginning design students and those interested in the formation of landscape design ideas for years to come."Bradley Cantrell, FAAR, ASLA, Chair and Professor in Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture"What I appreciate most about Simon Bussiere's approach to the topic of ‘conceptualization’ is his understanding that ideas are found in myriad experiences, sources and processes, from individual to the collective consciousness. He has assembled the knowledge base and reflections of significant practitioners and academics to explore the realm of creativity, and how that informs how landscapes are written and read. This publication will surely be on every burgeoning landscape architect’s ‘must read’ list."David A. Rubin, FASLA, Founding Principal, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective"Clearly, Bussiere delights in the ‘ephemeral, sporadic, recursive, and bewildering’ nature of the creative process. Fortunately for readers, he has assembled here a diverse and charismatic array of landscape architecture professors and practitioners, whose approaches and methods embody the endless possibilities of conceptualizing landscapes. Readers are likely to leave this volume more humble yet more courageous designers."Timothy A. Schuler, Contributing Editor, Landscape Architecture MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Spark of an Idea Excavating Ideas Elizabeth Mossop Obsessions Emma Mendel Composite Drawings + Landscape Ideations Karen Lutsky Pictorial Cartography and Digital Printmaking: Experiments in Representing the Working Landscape Forbes Lipschitz Materiality as Inquiry: Environmental History for Enacting New Worlds Sara Jacobs Developing Concepts Scott Jennings Melbourne Critical Making Emily Vogler Part 2: Concept in Translation Materializing Atmospheres: Translating the Immaterial Zaneta Hong Tacit Concepts Ferdinand Ludwig & Sergio Sanna Sediment in Process: designing an active channel for Alameda Creek Justine Holzman & Rob Holmes Grounding the Site: Uncovering Concepts in the Landscape Architecture Design Process Mary Pat McGuire From Ideas to Design Actions Yun Hye Hwang Translations between Patent Innovation and Environmental Design Pedagogy Richard Hindle Part 3: Forming Futures Designing Parks – The Art of Creating Lively Places Leonard Grosch Disrupted Futures: The Rise of Speculative Digital Landscape Simulation in Conceptual Design. Aidan Ackerman Landscape: "For Illustration Purposes Only" Fadi Masoud Conceptualizing the Design of Fluid Geographies Kees Lokman UX for Landscape Architects: A New Paradigm for Conceptual Design Andrea HansenAfterword: A concept, in five partsSimon Bussiere

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Book SynopsisStatehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent. This volume discusses the differences between the social developments, political decisions, and historical experience that have influenced processes of state-building, with a focus on the structural problems of the region and the different paths taken to overcome them. The book addresses processes of building social orders and examines the contribution of state institutions to social and cultural integration and disintegration. It analyses institutional and personnel continuities that have outlasted the great political changes of the twentieth century and addresses the expansion of state activity in shaping property relations in agriculture and industry as well as in social security and family politics. Taking a comparTable of ContentsVolume Introduction 1 Projections and Representations of Statehood 2 Towards a New Quality of Statehood: Bureaucratization and State-Building in Empires and Nation States Before 1914 3 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Statehood: The Impact of the World Wars (Part I) – The First World War 4 Statehood in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: The Interwar Period 5 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Statehood: The Impact of the World Wars (Part II) – The Second World War 6 Statehood in Socialism 7 1989 and beyond

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Book SynopsisIntellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.For most of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern European ideas and cultures constituted an integral part of wider European trends. However, the intellectual and cultural history of this diverse region has rarely been incorporated sufficiently into nominally comprehensive histories of Europe. This volume redresses this underrepresentation and provides a more balanced perspective on the recent past of the continent through original, critical overviews of themes ranging from the social and conceptual history of intellectuals and histories of political thought and historiography, to literary, visual and religious cultures, to perceptions and representations of the region in the twentieth century. While structured thematically, individual contributions are organized cTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Spatial configurations: regional intellectual imageries in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe 2 Thinking dangerously: political thought in twentieth-century East Central Europe 3 A history of fiction in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe 4 Writing history in twentieth-century Eastern Europe 5 Nationalization vs. secularization: the Christian churches in East Central Europe 6 Visual cultures: tele-visions

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity's deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth, only a few dozen of them are really dangerousso that the question arises as to whether humans and their mosquito foe can learn to live peacefully with one another.Chapters assess polarizing arguments for conserving and preserving mosquitoes, as well as for controlling and killing them, elaborating on possible consequences of both strategies. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we? Offering insights spanning the technical to the philosophical, this is the go to book for exploring humanity's many relationships with the mosquitowhich becomes a journey toTrade Review“This book is a fascinating and thought-provoking discussion provided by a diverse array of authors with unique viewpoints and observations regarding the mosquito-human interaction while we, as humans, contemplate our place within a Mosquitopia.” James Cilek, Medical Entomologist“The collection as a whole is indispensable for anyone with a scholarly interest in mosquitoes, mosquito-borne disease, and mosquito control.”John McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Clifford Mutero Part 1: COULD WE (SHOULD WE) ELIMINATE MOSQUITOES? 1. Killing Mosquitoes? Think before you swat By Marcus Hall; Dan Tamir 2. The Mosquito: An introduction By Frances M. Hawkes; Richard J. Hopkins 3. Disappearance, Invasion and Resistance: Multispecies ethnography, insect control and loss By Uli Beisel; Carsten Wergin Part 2: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE 4. The Long Arc of Mosquito Control By James Webb, Jr. 5. Domesticated Mosquitoes: Colonization and the growth of mosquito habitats in North America By Urmi Engineer Willoughby 6. Could We / Should We Eradicate Mosquitoes? The case of the yellow fever vector By Nancy Leys Stepan 7. Fighting Nuisance on the Northern Fringe: Controlling mosquitoes in Britain between the World Wars By Peter Coates Part 3: KNOW THY ENEMY 8. The Mosquito and Malaria: Would mosquito control alone eliminate the disease? By Willem Takken 9. Living with Mosquitoes in Disease-free Contexts: Attitudes and perceptions of risk in English wetlands By Adriana Ford; Mary Gearey; Tim G. Acott 10. Little one I hold my breath So you can’t find me By Kerry Morrison; Helmut Lemke Part 4: KNOW THYSELF 11. Enacting Politics with Mosquitoes: Beyond eradication and control By Jean Segata 12. Eradication against Ambivalence By Alex Nading 13. The Innocent Mosquito? The Environmental Ethics of Mosquito Eradication By Anna Wienhues Part 5: IMPROVING HUMAN-MOSQUITO RELATIONSHIPS 14. Mosquito Control: Success, failure and expectation in a context of arboviruses expansion and emergence By Isabelle Dusfour; Sarah C. Chaney 15. Designer mosquitoes By Ramya M. Rajagopalan 16. The Mosquitome By Frederic Simard 17. Mosquito Utopias and Dystopias: A concluding dispatch from the front lines By Indra Vythilingam AFTERWORD By Ashwani Kumar

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Book SynopsisIn the five years since the publication of the first edition of Spatial Analysis: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods, many new developments have taken shape regarding the implementation of new tools and methods for spatial analysis with R. The use and growth of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning algorithms with a spatial perspective, and the interdisciplinary use of spatial analysis are all covered in this second edition along with traditional statistical methods and algorithms to provide a concept-based problem-solving learning approach to mastering practical spatial analysis. Spatial Analysis with R: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods, Second Edition provides a balance between concepts and practicums of spatial statistics with a comprehensive coverage of the most important approaches to understand spatial data, analyze spatial relationships and patterns, and predict spatial processes. New in the Second Edition: Includes new practical exercises and worked-out examples using R Presents a wide range of hands-on spatial analysis worktables and lab exercises All chapters are revised and include new illustrations of different concepts using data from environmental and social sciences Expanded material on spatiotemporal methods, visual analytics methods, data science, and computational methods Explains big data, data management, and data mining This second edition of an established textbook, with new datasets, insights, excellent illustrations, and numerous examples with R, is perfect for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in geography and the geosciences.Table of ContentsThe Context and Relevance of Spatial Analysis. Scientific Observations and Measurements in Spatial Analysis. Using Statistical Measures to Analyze Data Distributions. Exploratory Data Analysis, Visualization, and Hypothesis Testing. Analyzing Spatial Statistical Relationships. Engaging in Point Pattern Analysis. Engaging in Areal Pattern Analysis Using Global and Local Statistics. Engaging in Geostatistical Analysis. Data Science: Understanding Computing Systems and Analytics for Big Data

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the effectiveness of district administration from critical management perspective. Using classical organizational theory and leadership competency framework, the authors conducted a comparative study of two exemplary districts with distinctive traits in India â a rural district in the developed state of Maharashtra and an urban district from the underdeveloped state of Madhya Pradesh. The book delves into the dynamics of district administration by breaking down the processes further and mapping the role of the district magistrates on the UNDP competency framework. Given the changing scope and challenges of public service, this comparative analysis of the two districts would provide insights into district administration and would be of significant relevance to administrators and management professionals across the globe in assessing their effectiveness.The book provides an eclectic framework for public administration from an overall sustainability perTrade Review"I enjoyed the book, especially learning about these places in India and the near-heroic role of district collectors, and am pleased to recommend it." --Christopher L. Atkinson, University of West Florida, USA Table of ContentsChapter 1. District Administration in the Context of Public Management. Chapter 2. Different Perspectives of Public Administration and Management. Chapter 3. Case Study of an Urban District, Bhopal. Chapter 4. Case Study of a Rural District, Osmanabad. Chapter 5. Critical Analysis of District Case Studies. Chapter 6. Prospects of District Administration

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

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films, which have orchestrated a recent renaissance in the Bollywood-dominated Indian cinema sphere.Spotlighting a specific timeline, from the Indiesâ consolidated emergence in 2010 across a decade of their development, the book takes note of recent transformations in the Indian political, economic, cultural and social matrix and the concurrent release of unflinchingly interrogative and radically evocative films that traverse LGBTQ+ issues, female empowerment, caste discrimination, populist politics and religious violence.A combination of essential Indie-specific information and concise case studies makes this a must-have quick guide to the future torchbearers of Indian cinema for scholars, students, early career researchers and a global audience interested in intersecting aspects of cinema, culture, politics and society in contemporary India.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the changing approaches to urban common good in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. The question of common good is fundamental to urban living; however, understanding of the term varies depending on local contexts and conditions, particularly complex in countries with experience of communism.In cities east of the former Iron Curtain, the once ideologically imposed principle of common good became gradually devalued throughout the 20th century due to the lack of citizen agency, only to reappear as a response to the ills of neoliberal capitalism around the 2010s. The book reveals how the idea of urban common good has been reconstructed and practiced in European cities after socialism. It documents the paradigm shift from city as a communal infrastructure to city as a commodity, which lately has been challenged by the approach to city as a commons. These transformations have been traced and analysed within several urban themes: housing, public transport, gre

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Book SynopsisThe piling industry has, in recent years, developed a variety of press-in piling technologies with a view to mitigate noise & vibration nuisance. This book focuses on the Walk-on-Pile type press-in piling system, which offers an alternative engineering solution for piling works. This type of piling has unique features, including the application of the compact piling machine using pre-installed piles as a source of reaction force to jack in a new pile by hydraulic pressure. Moreover, the machine can walk along the top of piles already installed, thus enabling piling in a limited space and headroom with minimum disruption to social functions and services of existing infrastructure. These features are opening up a new horizon in piling, leading to novel application of embedded walls previously considered impossible.This introductory book provides a historical development of press-in piling and various challenging applications worldwide as well as scientific research outcomes, foTable of ContentsIntroduction, Construction by Press-in Piling, Innovative Applications, Emerging Applications, Responses of piles installed by the press-in method, Appendix: The list of research papers related to the geotechnical aspects of the Press-in Engineering.

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Book SynopsisAmphibians are the oldest tetrapod group and show an astonishing diversity in lifestyles, many of them being unique. However, globally, they are on a decline. Hence, their study is fundamental to understanding the evolution of diversity and conserving them. This book, authored by experts from around the world, summarizes the current knowledge on the evolutionary ecology of amphibians. The book treats biological concepts related to the evolution, ecology, physiology, immunology, behaviour, and morphology of amphibians in their different states. This book constitutes an actualized work indispensable for evolutionary ecologists and herpetologists.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Book. Origin, Evolution and Diversification of Extant Amphibians. Amphibian Ecophysiology. Eco-Immunology of Amphibians. Amphibian Crisis and the Impact of Emerging Pathogens. Thermoregulation and Hydric Balance in Amphibians. The Biogeography of Body Size in Amphibians. Evolution and Ecology of Locomotion in Amphibians. Diversity of Reproductive Strategies in the Amphibia. Chemical Communication and Deterrence in Amphibians. Acoustic Communication in Anurans. Amphibian Coloration: Proximate Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution.

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

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Book SynopsisThe Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames, the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world.Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors, with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum, the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa, Asia, theTable of Contents1. The Power of New Urban Tourism: An Introduction. Part I: Consuming the City: New Urban Tourism in Urban Centres and Metropolitan Peripheries. 2. Bohemia and the New Urban Tourism. 3. "Tourist Platformisation": New Urban Tourism in Milan. 4. Peer-to-Peer Tourist Accommodation and its Impact on the Local Housing Market in Berlin Neighbourhoods. 5. Redefining a Mature Destination as a Low-Cost Neighbourhood: Relations Between Socio-Spatial Segregation in Torremolinos and Urban Tourism in Malaga, Spain. 6. Tourism in a Peripheral Territory in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Almada. Part II: Protest and Frictions: Contesting New Urban Tourism. 7. Sustaining a Political System: New Urban Tourism in Cuba and Related Conflicts. 8. Embattled Consumptionscape of Tourism: Networked Urban Contention Against Inbound Tourist Shoppers in Hong Kong. 9. Between Political Protest and Tourism Gentrification: Impacts of New Urban Tourism in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel. 10. The Empty Boxes of Venice: Overtourism—Conflicts, Politicisation and Activism. 11. Powerful Ways of (not) Knowing New Urban Tourism Conflicts: Thin Problematisation as Limitation for Tourism Governance in Berlin. Part III: Representations and Identities: Hopes and Challenges for New Urban Tourism. 12. Shock of the New: The Rhetoric of Global Urban Tourism in the Rebuild of Christchurch, New Zealand. 13. New Urban Tourism in the Post-Conflict City: Sharing Experiences of Violence and Peace in West Belfast. 14. The Race, Class and Gender of Websites: Marketing and Mythologising Urban Africa Online. 15. New Urban Tourism and the Right to Complain: Tourism as a Catchall for Urban Problems. 16. Science Driven Mobility as a Form of New Urban Tourism: Insights from Student and Research Internationalisation in Lund, Sweden. Part IV: Concluding Remarks. 17. So, what is new about New Urban Tourism?

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the intersection of geographical knowledge and artistic research in terms of both creative methods and practice-based research. In doing so it brings together geography's creative turn' with the art world's research turn.'Based on a decade and a half of ethnographic stories of working at the intersection of creative arts practices and geographical research, this book offers a much-needed critical account of these forms of knowledge production. Adopting a geohumanities approach to investigating how these forms of knowledge are produced, consumed, and circulated, it queries what imaginaries and practices of the key sites of knowledge making (including the field, the artist's studio, the PhD thesis, and the exhibition) emerge and how these might challenge existing understandings of these locations. Inspired by the geographies of science and knowledge, art history and theory, and accounts of working within and beyond disciplines, this book seeks to understand tTable of Contents1. Field 2. Studio 3. Laboratory 4. Community 5. Residency 6. Thesis 7. Page 8. Exhibition

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

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Book SynopsisC. S. Lewis rightly instructed, The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. This book aims to achieve this task by pushing the frontiers of scholarship for securing a sustainable future through green energy and infrastructure. This encompasses the notion that what we create is in harmony and integration with both the spatial and temporal domains. Through numerous practical examples and illustrations, this book examines a comprehensive review of the latest science on indoor environmental health, energy requirements for buildings, and the greening of infrastructure. Also, it provides a discussion on the underlying properties of biomass and its influence on furthering energy conversion technologies. Energy storage is essential for driving the integration of renewable energy, and different storage approaches are discussed in terms of power balancing, grid stability, and reliability.Features: Focuses on the importance of coupling green energy with green infrastructure Provides an unbiased update of the state-of-the-art of sustainability science Discusses utilizing sustainable building materials for simultaneous improvement in energy, economic, and environmental bottom lines for industry Illuminates practical steps that need to be undertaken to achieve a greener infrastructure Green Energy and Infrastructure: Securing a Sustainable Future is appropriate for researchers, students, and decision-makers seeking the latest, practical information on environmental sustainability.Table of ContentsEnergy for Buildings: Practises, Policies and Prospects. Green design effectiveness for a mini automotive-repair facility. Green hospitals and sustainability: case of companion house of a research hospital. Sustainable development and indoor air quality. What is priority: energy saving or people wellbeing?. Properties and conversion technologies of biomass. Wind resource forecasting error in flat and complex terrains. Wind Power Forecasting via Deep Learning Methods. Green Energy: Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal Storage. New Energy Mining: Compressed Air Energy Storage in Abandoned Mines. Hydrostatically Compensated Energy Storage Technology. Bioconstruction and Harmonic Complexity of Biomimicry Organism. Back to the Basics: Return to Origin, Gaudi and Nature. Triple Bottom Line Analysis, Methodology and Its Implementation.

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Book SynopsisThe word territory' has taken on renewed significance in a world where its close association with state sovereignty has made a serious comeback, invoked alike by proponents of Brexit in the UK, Making America Great Again' in the USA, and myriad populists from India to Brazil by way of Italy and Hungary. The word has had a contentious history in social science and political theory. In its first seven years, the journal Territory, Politics, Governance has published numerous articles examining the ways in which territory figures into contemporary political debates and its limits as a concept when applied to a world in which sovereignty never has simply pooled up within self-evidently distinctive blocs of space named as territories.' Among other things, the limits of territory are apparent in terms of the history of a global capitalism that always bursts beyond established boundaries, the fact that some states are much more powerful and exercise much more spatial reach than do otTable of Contents1. Introduction John AgnewSection 1: Territorial Perspectives2. The territorialization of property in land: space, power and practice Nicholas Blomley3. Territory, Scale and Why Capitalism Matters Kevin R. Cox4. Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance Bob Jessop5. On the ecological blindspot in the territorial rights debate Omar DahbourSection 2: Interrogating Territory 6. When Territory Deborders Territoriality Saskia Sassen7. Taking back control? The myth of territorial sovereignty and the Brexit fiasco John Agnew 8. How Should We Do the History of Territory? Stuart EldenSection 3: Confines of Territory9. Revisiting politicide: state annihilation in Israel/Palestine Merav Amir10. The intertwined geopolitics and geoeconomics of hopes/fears: China’s triple economic bubbles and the ‘One Belt One Road’ imaginaryNgai-Ling Sum 11. Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America Nick Clare, Victoria Habermehl and Liz Mason-Deese

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Book SynopsisDegrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumptionand, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystemsto sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the idea of degrowth as an economic alternative to offer a more sustainable and just future.A growing number of scientists and scholars now recognize that a system that continues to prioritize economic growth will prevent us from effectively addressing the dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. To establish the case for degrowth, the text opens by posing critical questions about our current system and identifying its limitations, as well as discussing the ineffectiveness of false solutions that seem to offer something new but would actually preserve the status quo. The concept of degrowth is then fully introduced along with a discussion of core principles and goals as well as major critiques and queTable of Contents1. Addressing Our Environmental Crisis 2. Beyond False Solutions 3. The Case Against Economic Growth 4. The Degrowth Alternative 5. Questions and Critiques 6. Pathways for Change

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive study of regional industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth century to the present. Using case studies on regional industrialization, the book provides insights into similarities and differences in industrialization processes between European, Eurasian and Asian countries. Important factors include the transition from traditional to modern industrial production, industrial policy, agglomeration forces, market integration, and the determinants of industrial location over time. The book is an invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic history, political history, economic geography, and economics while contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and globalization.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Global patterns of regional industrialization 2. Economic geography and economic history: a literature overview. Part One. Regional industrialization in Europe 3. Regional industrialization in Belgium and the Netherlands 4. Regional industrialization in Yugoslavia 5. Regional industrialization in Italy. Part Two. Regional industrialization in Asia 6. Regional industrialization in China: the basic metals sector 7. Regional industrialization in China: the Yangtze and Zhujiang regions 8. Regional industrialization in Japan. Part Three. Theories on regional industrialization 9. Regional industrialization: determinants of industrial location 10. Regional industrialization: evidence on industry agglomeration 11. Regional industrialization: role of industrial policy

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Housing Policy in the United States refreshes its classic, foundational coverage of the field with new data, analysis, and comparative focus. This landmark volume offers a broad overview that synthesizes a wide range of material to highlight the significant problems, concepts, programs and debates that all defi ne the aims, challenges, and milestones within and involving housing policy. Expanded discussion in this edition centers on state and local activity to produce and preserve affordable housing, the impact and the implications of reduced fi nancial incentives for homeowners.Other features of this new edition include:â Analysis of the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 on housing- related taxexpenditures;â Review of the state of fair housing programs in the wake of the Trump Administrationâs rollbackof several key programs and policies;â Cross- examination of U.S. housing policy and conditionsTrade ReviewMy copy of an earlier edition of Alex Schwartz’s Housing Policy in the United States is dog-eared, creased, and underlined, proof that I’ve returned to that text again and again over the years. Now updated and expanded—including with international comparisons—this is the go-to book for anyone who wants to understand the nature and consequences of housing policy in the United States. Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, Author of EvictedAlex Schwartz’s book is, hands-down, the best single resource on U.S. housing policy. It’s a perfect introduction for those just coming to the field as well as a terrific reference for those who need to brush up on details or statistics about particular programs and policies. Clearly written and comprehensive, it is the rare book that is useful for both scholars and practitioners. Ingrid Gould Ellen, Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning and Faculty Director, NYU Furman Center, New York UniversityAlex Schwartz has done it again with the fourth edition of what has come to be the go-to housing policy text in the U.S. It’s amazing that he is able to update loads of existing material and then continue to add newly relevant sections. I’m thrilled with the new chapter on comparative international housing policy. I can’t wait to add it to my own housing policy course.Dan Immergluck, Professor, Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State UniversityThe fourth edition of Alex Schwartz’s book covers the full range of federal housing policies for renters, owners, and special needs populations. The book remains accessible to all readers, from the layman to the seasoned housing policy expert. Finally, the book is well substantiated with many extremely helpful tables and figures that assist the reader in understanding the many insights offered in the text.Kirk McClure, Professor, Urban Planning, University of KansasAlex Schwartz has done a great service to the housing field with his 4th edition of Housing Policy in the United States. He has crafted an indispensable resource for understanding why housing matters in all its dimensions. Most of what you need to know about housing is in this book. Sandra Newman, Professor of Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis time Alex Schwartz goes global with the most comprehensive and a most readable examination of US housing policy in its international context up to and including the impact of Covid-19 and beyond. Gregory D. Squires, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy & Public Administration, George Washington UniversityThis latest edition remains the single best place to find up-to-date answers to nearly all questions about American housing policy. More than a clear technical guide, it shows how these policies are cultural and political products, now viewed in helpful international comparison. Lawrence J. Vale, Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThis is a definitive text for understanding the history and functioning of housing policy. The new comparative international chapter is especially insightful and useful. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book is a most valuable resource for practitioners, policy makers and all who wish to be informed about US housing policy.Susan Wachter, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Trends, Patterns, Problems 3. Housing Finance 4. Taxes and Housing 5. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit 6. Public Housing 7. Privately Owned Rental Housing Built with Federal Subsidy 8. Vouchers 9. State and Local Housing Policy and the Nonprofit Sector 10. Housing for People with Special Needs 11. Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment 12. Homeownership and Income Integration 13. An International Perspective on US Housing Policy: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom 14. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisAcademic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling.Based upon primary research in a variety of contexts such as London, Shanghai and Taipei, this book demonstrates that recent developments in urban cycling policy and practice are closely linked to broader processes of capital accumulation. It argues that cycling is increasingly caught up in discourses around smart cities that emphasise technological solutions to environmental problems and neoliberal ideas on individual responsibility and bio-political conduct, which only results in solutions that prioritise those who are already mobile. Accordingly, the central argument of the book is not that the popularisation of cycling is inherently bad, but that the manner in which cycling is being popularised gives cause for social and environmental conTable of Contents1. Cycling toward sustainability? 2. Towards a political-economy of cycling 3. Making up the (productive) cycling subject: excluding the ‘non-standard’ user in cycle infrastructure design 4. Extracting surplus value from mobility: cycling policy and practice in London (UK) as a mode of political-economic and bio-political governance 5. Economising ‘trick’ cycling on London’s South Bank: culture-led regeneration, spectacle and ‘entertailing’ 6. Building the Taiwanese mobilityscape: an actor-network account of the journey from Bicycle Kingdom to Cycling Paradise 7. Transport solution or vehicle for surveillance capitalism? A case study of Dockless Public Bike Sharing (PBSS2.0) in Shanghai 8. Conclusions: where do we go from here?

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Book SynopsisBiophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the authors' wide range of experience, to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement. It considers the ways that we interact with our environments, presenting a comprehensive account of how people negotiate and use the urban landscape. Set within current debates concerning urban futures, societal issues, sustainable cities, health and well-being, the book explores our innate need for contact with the natural world through biophilic design thinking to expand our knowledge base and promote a wider understanding of the importance of these interactions on our collective well-being. It responds to questions such as, what are the urban qualities that support our well-being? As an urbanised society what are the environmental determinants that promote healthy and satisfying lifestyles? Beginning with an overview of cTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Multi-Dimensions of Environmental Engagement 2. Exploring Biophilia 3. Pathways, Nature Placings and Green Infrastructure 4. Choreography of the Landscape Experience 5. Biophilia as an Embodied Experience: The Emotional Dimension and Agency of the Arts 6. Listening into Nature: Exploring Children’s Biophilic Experiences of Urban Wild-Spaces 7. Urban Food Growing as a Biophilic Pathway 8. Moving from Theory to Practice: Approaches and Parameters 9. Case Studies 10. Biophilically Focussed Environmental Aesthetic

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

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Book SynopsisInterest in green and sustainable design is growing throughout the world. Both national and local governments are active in promoting reuse and recycling in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. This guide identifies how building designers and constructors can minimize the generation of waste at the design stage of a building project by using reclaimed components and materials.Authoritative, accessible and much-needed, this book highlights the opportunities for using reclaimed components and materials and recycled-content building products for each element of a building, from structure and foundations to building services and external works. Current experience is illustrated with international case studies and practical advice. It discusses different approaches to designing with recycling in mind, and identifies the key issues to address when specifying reclaimed components and recycled materials in construction work.This book will beTrade Review'Expert advice on reuse and recycling in building construction is urgently needed. Using existing resources in a more responsible way is central to this design guide. A very welcome addition to the literature'Tom Woolley, Professor of Architecture, Queens University Belfast, and author of the acclaimed Green Building Handbook'The message from this book is that if you have the time and inclination then it is possible to source, check and incorporate reused materials into your buildings.'EcotechTable of ContentsIntroduction * Part I: The World of Reclamation, Reuse and Recycling * Why do it? * Reclamation, reuse and recycling are not new ideas * The basic concepts of reclamation, reuse and recycling * The reuse and recycling market place * Part II: Case Studies of Reuse and Recycling * Swedish student accommodation made from reclaimed materials * BedZED, London, UK * The C.K. Choi Building, University of British Columbia, Canada * The reclaimed vicarage, Birmingham, UK * Using recycled-content building products in the US * BRE Building 16: The 'energy-efficient office of the future', Garston, UK * The Earth Centre, Sheffield, UK * Westborough School, Southend, UK * Canalside West, Huddersfield, UK * Reusing structural steelwork * Fitout of Duchi shoe shop, Scheveningen, Netherlands * Part III: Making Reclamation, Reuse and Recycling Happen * Not the 'usual' approach to design and procurement * Decision-making * Opportunities for reuse and recycling * Seeking and finding the buildings, goods and materials * Ensuring reclamation, reuse and recycling happens * Part IV: Design Guidance: Foundations and Retaining Structures * Building foundations * Reuse of foundations in situ * Use of reclaimed products and materials * Recycled-content building products * Case studies * Part V: Design Guidance: Building Structure * Reuse, reclamation and recycling in the structure of buildings * Masonry (load-bearing and non-load-bearing) * Structural frame: Timber * Structural frame: Iron and steel * Structural frame: In situ concrete and pre-cast concrete * Floors in the structural frame * Part VI: Design Guidance: Building Envelope * Reclamation, reuse and recycling in the building envelope * Cladding systems * Roofing * Waterproofing * Case studies: Fa ade reuse and refurbishment * Part VII: Design Guidance: Enclosure, Interiors and External Works * Space enclosure: Partitions, insulation, ceilings, raised floors * Windows * Doors * Stairs and balustrades * Surface finishes/floor coverings * Furniture and equipment * Sanitary, laundry and cleaning equipment * External works * Part VIII: Design Guidance: Mechanical and Electrical Services * Mechanical and electrical services * Mechanical heating/cooling/refrigeration systems * Ventilation and air-conditioning systems * Piped supply and disposal systems * Electrical supply, power and lighting systems * Information and communications products * Lifts and escalators *

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

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

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Book SynopsisNeoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful concepts to emerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers in which neoliberalism has evolved.The Handbook of Neoliberalism seeks to offer a wide-ranging overview of the phenomenon of neoliberalism by examining a number of ways that it has been theorized, promoted, critiqued, and put into practice in a variety of geographical locations and institutional frameworks. With contributions from over 50 leadingauthors working at institutions around the world, the volumeâs seven sections provide a systematic overview of neoliberalismâs origins, political implications, social tensions, knowledge productions, spaces, natures and environments, and aftermaths in addressing ongoing and emerging debates. The volume aims to provide the first comprehensive overview of the field and to advance the established and emergent debates in a field that has grown exponentially over the past two decades, coinciding with the meteoric rise of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology, state form, policy and program, and governmentality. It includes a substantive introductory chapter and will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars alike.Trade Review'This extraordinary collection offers a comprehensive review of neoliberalism. It answers all questions you may have about neoliberalization including those you might be afraid to pose. A must read for all those who believe that a different world must be possible.'Erik Swyngedouw, MAE, Professor of Geography, School of Education, Environment and Development, Manchester University, UK'Providing a comprehensive introduction to one of the most contentious terms in contemporary social science, this multi-disciplinary handbook draws together established scholars and new contributors. Collectively these authors offer an extraordinarily wide range of debates and perspectives, making this a landmark contribution to the field.' Wendy Larner, Provost and Professor of Human Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'This is the most wide-ranging and multi-perspectival overview of neoliberalism available. The book is a true treasure trove where graduate students can find countless ideas for designing original research projects.'Henk Overbeek, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands"‘Neoliberalism is a slippery concept, meaning different things to different people’ (p. 1). Springer, Birch and MacLeavy’s excellently edited volume starts its mission with this nailing definition. Neoliberalism has become one of the concepts that one cannot avoid mentioning in analysing a recent development in social sciences. It is safe to argue that neoliberalism is now a term that is overly used even in partly overlapping and partly contradictory ways (Ferguson 2010: 166). There is not any easy way of defining what neoliberalism is. Is it a state form, or a policy, or a version of governmentality, or an ideology? Or simply, is it an epistemology? Perhaps, because of this nuisance, no scholar has attempted tTable of ContentsPart I Origins Part 2 Political Implications Part 3 Social Tensions Part 4 Knowledge Productions Part 5 Spaces Part 6 Natures and Environments Part 7 Aftermaths

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In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII and the incarceration of another million, many of them for a decade or more without any legal process. This drive was justified and enabled by a propaganda campaign in which communists were painted as atheist, hypersexual, amoral and intent to destroy the nation. To date, the effects of this campaign are still felt, and the victims are denied the right of association and freedom of speech. This book presents the history of the genocide and propaganda campaign and the process towards the International People's Tribunal on 1965 crimes against humanity in Indonesia (IPT 1965), which was held in November 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands. The authors, an Indonesian Human Rights lawyer and a Dutch academ

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

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Book SynopsisStudies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, reveal that the prevailing definitions and practices of compact cities are tied primarily to traditional Western urban forms.This book reinterprets compact city, and develops a ground-breaking discourse of Vertical Urbanism, a concept that has never been critically articulated. It emphasizes Vertical Urbanism as a dynamic design strategy instead of a static form, distinguishing it from the stereotyped concept of vertical city or towers in the park dominant in China and elsewhere, and suggests its adaptability to different geographic and cultural contexts. Using Chinese cities as laboratories of investigation, this book explores the design, ecological, and sociocultural dimensions of building compact cities, and addresses important global urban issues through localized design solutions, such as tTable of ContentsList of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface Part I: Framing the Discourse of Vertical Urbanism 1. Vertical Urbanism: Re-conceptualizing the Compact City 2. When New Urbanism Gets Old: Cultural Difference in Global City Design 3. Hong Kong’s Transit-Oriented Podium-Tower Development 4. City without Landmark: The Soft City for the Ageing Society 5. From Manhattan-ism to Bigness: Reconsidering an Alternative Urbanism of Rem Koolhaas Part II: Urban Design and Transformation of Chinese Cities 6. The City after the City 7. Urban Regeneration and Public Space Making: Case Study of Urban Design for the North Bund in Shanghai 8. Urbanism in a Skyscraper: A Study of Vertical Malls in Hong Kong 9. Deterritorialization and the Collective Memories of Contemporary Shanghai 10. Restoring Hydrophilic Cities: Strategies of Urban Waterfront Space Classification and Design in Suzhou 11. Vertical Development and Urban Design: The Jiefangbei Experience Part III: Compact City and Eco-city 12. Performance-based Model for Vertical Urbanism 13. Compact Development in Hong Kong 14. Spatial Metrics of Urban Form: Measuring Compact Cities in China 15. Eco-city Planning in China: A Review of Policies and Cases 2009–2015 16. Living off the Ground: Cautionary Tales from a Small Island Part IV Expanding Pedagogical Territory 17. Experiencing the Compact City: A Pedagogy of Global Engagement 18. Suzhou Industrial Park High-speed Rail Station Business District 19. Redevelopment of Xiangmen Area in the Historic Center of Suzhou 20. Wuyuan Bay Waterfront Redevelopment in Xiamen Index

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

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Book SynopsisThe third volume of Sustainable Soil and Land Management and Climate Change presents a complete overview of plant soil interactions in a climate affected by greenhouse gas emissions and organic carbon. It presents approaches and managements strategies for the stabilization of soil organic matter.The latest in the respected Footprints of Climate Variability on Plant Diversity series, this book enhances the readerâs knowledge of the preservation of organic matter through microbial approaches as well as through soil and plant interactions. Written by teams of specialist scientists, it presents research outcomes, practical applications and future challenges for this important field.Features: Presents microbial tactics for the alleviation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils and for reclaiming saline soil. Provides an overview of scientific investigations into greenhouse gas emissions. Outlines priming techniques developed in response to a changing climate. This book is written for students of agronomy, soil science and the environmental sciences as well as researchers interested in management technologies to improve soil fertility.Table of Contents1. Consequences of Salt and Drought Stresses In Rice and Their Mitigation Strategies Through Intrinsic Biochemical Adaptation and Applying Stress Regulators 2. Biological Nitrogen Fixation In Changing Climate 3. Organic Agriculture and Its Promotion 4. Soil Salinity Management and Plant Growth Under Climate Change 5. Application of Biochar For The Mitigation of Abiotic Stress-Induced Damages 6. Heavy Metals Stress and Plants Defense Responses 7. Soil Salinity and Climate Change 8. Heavy Metal Toxicity and Plant Defense Responses 9. Soil Biodiversity and Climate Change 10. Soil Fertility Decline Under Climate Change 11. Plant Diversity of Cholistan Desert of Pakistan, Anthropogenic Factors and Conservation 12. Bio Fertilizer As A Tool For Soil Fertility Management In Changing Climate

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Book SynopsisIndia Migration Report 2020 examines how migration surveys operate to collect, analyse and bring to life socio-economic issues in social science research. With a focus on the strategies and the importance of information collected by Kerala Migration Surveys since 1998, the volume: Explores the effect of male migration on women left behind; attitudes of male migrants within households; the role of transnational migration and it effect on attitudes towards women; Investigates consumption of remittances and their utilization; asset accumulation and changing economic statuses of households; financial inclusion of migrants and migration strategies during times of crises like the Kerala floods of 2018; Highlights the twenty-year experience of the Kerala Migration Surveys, how its model has been adapted in various states and led to the proposed large-scale India Migration Survey; and Explores issues of migration politics and governance,Table of Contents1. Large Scale Migration Surveys: Replication of Kerala Model of Migration Surveys to India Migration Survey 2024 2. Keeping up with Kerala’s Joneses 3. Remittances, Health Expenditure and Demand for Health Care Services 4. Remittances and asset accumulation among the left behind households 5. Impact of Male Migrants, and their return, on Women Left-Behind 6. Socio-Economic Dynamics of Gulf Migration: A Panel Data Analysis 7. Why do Migrants Transfer Money? Motivations of Remittance from Emigrants 8. Reintegration and future plans of return migrants 9. Emigration and its Effect on the Labour Force Participation of Women in the Left-behind Household 10. Transnational Migration and Gender Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis 11. Labour Migration: Decision to Migrate and Choice of Destination 12. Keralan in Circulation: Field Observations from Kerala and Dubai 13. The Alcohol Paradox: Revisiting the Kerala Model of Development 14. Financial cost of international migration from South India: What does data spanning three decades tell us? 15. Exploitative or ethical? Understanding the labour recruitment practices in the 21st century from Kerala 16. Remittances and Overseas Migrants Economic Shocks: Evidence from Kerala’s Recipient Households after 2008 global crisis 17. Cultural Production of Narratives as Counter-Archives In Kerala Gulf Migration Studies 18. Migration and Asset Accumulation in South India: Comparing Gains to Internal and International Migration from Kerala 19. Tracing the changing Economic status of Kerala households: The KMS Experience 20. The Janus-faced dilemma of Migration as Adaptation: The impact of rapid-onset floods on labour migration in Kerala, 2018 21. Climate Change, Migration and Development: The Aftermath of the 2018 Floods in Kerala 22. Impact of Migration on Financial Inclusion and local financial system 23. International Migration and Global Diplomacy 24. Emigration Governance in India 25. Empowerment of Female Return Migrant Initiatives in Indonesia: Lessons for India

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.The book situates digital-era problems relative to those of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations and relations of production, recognizing variation across contexts and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance, despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital technologies, requires attention. The book explains blindness to social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled with governance in universities and the private sector that protect these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits of communitarianism, which strives for change emanating from civil society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However, enduring problems require critical reflection, continual revision of strategies, and active participation among diverse community citizens.This book is written with critical geographic sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences, humanities, and data sciences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Technological Advance across Socio-technical Milieux3. Pedagogy of Technocracy4. The ‘Normal Science’ of the Data Sciences and its Governance5. Scaling Communitarian Practice6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisGod and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings.Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans adopted a machine cosmology in which humans are the sole intelligent agency. The resultant imbalance between human and Earthly agencies is degrading the species diversity of ecosystems, causing local climate changes, and threatens to destabilise the Earth as a System. Across eight chapters this ambitious text engages with traditional cosmologies from the Indian Vedas and classical Greece to Medieval Christianity, with case material from Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Great BritaTrade Review“In this stimulating collection… [Michael Northcott] makes extensive and welcome connections with other Western and Eastern faith traditions and shares Pope Francis’s plea for them to cooperate to make the Earth more sustainable for future generations. He also uses his newfound academic freedom to roam, in order to collect examples of sustainable and unsustainable farming across the world, placing his own photographs of them alongside his passionate text. He is never dull. A book well worth pondering and buying.” Robin Gill in an excerpt from Theology, 2023, Vol. 126(5)Table of Contents1. From Deep Time to Ancestral Time 2. In Borneo 3. Diversity and Development 4. Reverse Engineering Life 5. Biosecurity, Covid-19 and Human-Earth Healing 6. The Earth as Gaia 7. Gaia and Religions 8. Gaian Ethics

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