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Book SynopsisThis manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities. These landscapes are central to American mindsets as they combine the dreams, expectations, and experiences of the nation in expressive cultural landscapes. An interpretive-analytical methodology is used in this single-authored, multidisciplinary work which draws on insights from history, American Studies, social sciences, urban studies, and environmental studies, and cultural studies in order to portray lifestyle and settlement phenomena overlooked by single disciplinary fields. Telling the story of how penurban landscapes emerged, the work blends original research with a re-reading of existing work to understand developing lifestyle and settlement patterns. The book aims at readers in history, urban studies, environmental studies, consumerism and American Studies.Trade Review'The geographically-based case studies incorporated into Being American on the Edge represent the very essence of Goddard's work. His attention to popular culture - film, magazines, and newspapers - is also handled effectively as well as engagingly. Indeed, it lends essential context to his work. A significant book." - Michael H. Ebner, professor emeritus of American History, Lake Forest College, and author of Creating Chicago's North Shore, A Suburban History "Exurbs, edge cities, and now penurbia: we are bombarded with new language to describe new types of settlements. But seldom has a term met a more demanding wordsmith than Joseph Goddard. Drawing great insights from interdisciplinary research, he conveys not only a physical space, but also the lifestyle and culture of two very different American metropolitan regions and their evolution since World War II. Penurbia, he argues, is a national phenomenon. To understand this new type of settlement is to understand the dreams and expectations of Americans in the twenty-first century." - David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and editor of the Journal of Urban History Penurbia is an intriguing hybrid landscape with a low density population of urban émigrés that has emerged on the edge of American cities since 1945, as farmland has been converted into a new order of countryside. Characterized by neo-rustic homes and weekend retreats, wineries, stables and hobby farms, penurbia is the newest frontier of American settlement and land use. Goddard's book digs deep and perceptively into the mindset behind this landscape that looks like the country but thinks like the city. Goddard does for penurbia what Adam Rome's The Bulldozer in the Countryside (2001) did for suburbia. A valuable addition to American cultural history, urban history and environmental history. Goddard's absorbing study is the first book length treatment of that newest category of American landscape which has been dubbed penurbia a new frontier of settlement and land use that is just beginning to attract the scholarly attention it deserves. Through telling case studies, Goddard probes deep into the hybrid landscape known as penurbia that has emerged on the edge of American cities since 1945 to unsettle received notions of the urban, rural and suburban and reveal American culture's profound associations with the pastoral, the frontier and the healing power of nature. - Peter Coates, professor of American and Environmental History, University of BristolTable of ContentsIntroducing Penurbia Thinking about City Edges Penurbanites and Exurbanites - Peoples of the Fringe Charting Penurban Growth Politics, Planning, and Administration Penurban Civil Society Images from Popular Culture Magazines and Penurbia Professional Views of Penurban Change

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Book SynopsisDiversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Migration, Cities, Diversities 'Old' and 'New'; Steven Vertovec PART I: EXAMINING DIVERSITIES OLD AND NEW 2. Astoria, New York City; Sofya Aptekar and Anna Cieslik 3. Jurong West, Singapore; Laavanya Kathiravelu and Junjia Ye 4. Hillbrow, Johannesburg; Rajohane Matshedisho and Alex Wafer PART II: DIVERSITIES AND SPACES: COMING TOGETHER AND REMAINING APART 5. Religion in Public Spaces of Astoria; Anna Cieslik 6. Boundaries and Surveillance in Astoria; Sofya Aptekar 7. Encounter, Transport and Transitory Spaces in Jurong West; Laavanya Kathiravelu 8. Flea Markets and Familiar Strangers in Jurong West; Junjia Ye 9. Homelessness in Berea Park, Hillbrow; Rajohane Matshedisho 10. Precarity and Intimacy in Super-Diverse Hillbrow; Alex Wafer PART III: SOCIAL-SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ENCOUNTERING DIVERSITY 11. Route-ines 12. Rooms without Walls 13. Corridors of Dissociation 14. Conclusion; Steven Vertovec

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Book SynopsisAn original exploration of how the relationship between society and ''nature'' is conceptualized, focusing on theories of social exclusion and difference. A comprehensive overview of feminist and environmental theories of society-environment relations, considering the range of theoretical and political influences on such theorizing such as socialist and Marxist theory amongst others and the turn to post structuralism and postmodernism within the social sciences. Cudworth also develops her own theoretical account for the interrelations between forms of social domination and contributes to important debates with sociology, social theory, feminist theory and environmentalism.Trade Review'...a work of scholarly devotion with a breathtaking breadth and depth of reading.' - Mary Mellor, International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction Social Difference and Ecologism Complex Systems: 'Nature', 'Society' and 'Human' Domination Different Feminisms Ecofeminism and the Question of Difference Embodiment, Material Relations and Symbolic Regimes Domination in a Lifeworld of Complexity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice.Trade Review'This volume by first rate scholars about one of the great transformations of our time is a worthy addition. It is essential reading for students of comparative urban politics, international political economy and urban development. The volume's good organization and the accessibility of most of the chapters make this a suitable book for classroom use' - Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 'In the year in which the urban population of the planet exceeds the rural for the first time this book gives us many insights into the new challenges that city leaders and policy makers now face. By examining the experiences of very different metropolitan areas in different parts of the world Hambleton and Gross lead us in an exploration of the most relevant issues concerning urban governance in a time of rapid globalization. The case study illustrations and theoretical reflections demonstrate how important it now is to engage in cross-national learning, not just to understand urban phenomena but also to create the capacity to govern effectively in modern time.' - Professor Sandro Balducci, Head of the Department of Architecture and Planning, Milan Polytechnic, Italy 'This book provides invaluable insights on the changing dynamics of city development in different continents. The various chapters provide many helpful suggestions for city leaders on how to respond to the major urban challenges we now face. The Chinese experience is valuable for examining and sharing.' - Dr. Baoxing Qiu, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Construction, China 'The world is now urban and the largest cities have formed a global connective tissue that is stronger than nation states. As big cities enter a global era they struggle with their parochial mission of meeting the needs of their local communities. But what is local in a global era? Is it a region, a mega-region or a system of cities? These are the issues of governance that Hambleton and Gross tackle with insight, breadth and depth. This book provides an important contribution that will be of interest to all concerned about the future of cities' - Edward J. Blakely, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney, Australia and Executive Director Recovery, City of New Orleans, USA 'This is a "must buy" book for those who care about cities and the future of cities. By bringing together contributions from leading urban scholars in different continents the editors illuminate the challenges now facing city leaders in a refreshing and inventive way. The forces of globalization gather pace but, as the authors of this volume show with great insight, this does not mean that everywhere has to become the same. Luckily cities are different. I recommend this book to readers from north and south, east and west.' - Suketu Mehta, Author of Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage Books, New York, 2004) 'This ambitious book on cities aims to achieve truly international coverage of the challenges posed by globalization, demographic change, social diversity, economic competition, growing inequality and contemporary governance reforms. Using case studies of individual cities and comparisons between cities, the authors identify trends, innovations and contradictions. With significant contributions from Hambleton and Gross, they critically reappraise prevalent theories, reflect on policy and practice, and suggest how the challenges might be tackled more effectively and equitably. Academics, policy makers and opinion formers from around the world will find much to interest, disturb and inspire them in this book.' - Carole Rakodi, Professor, Department of International Development, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK 'Cities have become the strategic spaces where global forces shape current events, often in unexpected ways. New intercity geographies span 'the globe, making trans-local processes and relations part of the urban social, economic and political life. Hambleton and Gross have brought together a diverse abd international group of authors to provide us with one of the best books on the challenges of governing cities in a global era.' - Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights 'Hambleton and Gross have brought us a big book with a grand sweep. The editors and authors of this volume breathe new life into globalization and the city's response to it. They illuminate globalization's uneven effects showing how governmental responses differ in advanced, transitional and underdeveloped cities. This important collection is the product of an international cast of authors who not only cover a lot of ground, but do it with aplomb and incisiveness. Scholars and policy makers would do well to discover its lessons.' - Hank Savitch, Brown and Williamson Distinguished Research Professor, School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, USA 'Practitioners such as mayors, city managers, city planners and community organizers would to well to study this book closely. It covers major issues - such as the need to provide both efficiency and democracy, legitimacy and participation - and discusses in realistic terms the stress upon city governance. I expect it to be an important book for more than a decade and to spawn debates farther into the future.' - Dick Simpson, Professor and Department Head, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 'This book opens an interesting discussion about urban governance which concerns not only cities of the northern hemisphere, but also those in the southern regions of the world. Furthermore, Hambleton and Gross introduce a wide variety of cases that challenge us to adopt a more critical attitude to the globalization process and to consider new vocations that could be developed to improve the quality of life in cities given current international pressures.' - Sergio Zermeño, Researcher, Social Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico Distilling common themes from such a large and disparate group of research papers is always a challenge. The editors of this book must be complemented for having so seamlessly and adroitly integrated the articles into three thematic sections that can reveal the challenges globalisation and urbanisation pose for social and economic change in the twenty-first century...[a] stellar contribution to scholarship.' In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and SocietiesTable of ContentsGlobal Trends, Diversity, and Local Democracy; J.S.Gross& R.Hambleton PART I: GLOBAL PRESSURES ON URBAN GOVERNANCE Rethinking Globalization: The Impact of Central Governments on World Cities; T.Tsukamoto& R.K.Vogel Governing and Capital: Institutional Reform in Berlin, London, and Paris; M.Röber& E.Schröter Globalization, Urban Governance, and the Inner City: Lessons from Dublin; M.Punch, D.Redmond& S.Kelly Globalization and Urban Governance: Challenges for Developing Countries; R.Stren PART II: INNOVATIONS IN URBAN GOVERNMENT Restructuring Local Institutions: Comparing Responses to Diversity; J.S.Gross Changing Forms of Urban Government in Central and Eastern Europe; P.Swianiewicz Innovation in Chinese Urban Government: The Shanghai Experience; T.Zhang Urban Challenges in Latin American Cities: Medellin and the Limits of Governance; J.Betancur Metropolitan Governance in Australia: The Sydney Experience; D.Kubler& B.Randolph The New Ecology of Urban Governance: Special Purpose Authorities and Urban Development; D.R.Judd& J.M.Smith PART III: LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, AND THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE New Leadership for Democratic Urban Space; R.Hambleton Building the Global City: The Immigrant Experience of Urban Revitalization; J.Bockmeyer Professionals and the Conflicting Forces of Administrative Modernization and Civic Engagement; J.Nalbandian The Limits of Partnership in Urban Governance; J.Davies PART IV: GOVERNING CITIES IN A GLOBAL ERA From Governance to Governing; R.Hambleton& J.S.Gross

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present.Trade Review"An enjoyable and insightful read with a strong, interesting narrative. Cook provides a well-researched ethnographic study that centers on issues of migration, ethnicity and racial identity, and assimilation." - Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University "An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities." - The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: Points of Arrival and Departure Bazaar Situations Vulnerable and Spatialising Subjects "Free" Travellers and Developers Navigating Boundaries Another One in the Oven Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?

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Book SynopsisThe appreciation of nature and natural beauty demands our attention as environmental issues become ever more urgent. In this timely introduction, Glenn Parsons provides an overview of philosophical work on the aesthetics of nature, identifying key conceptual questions, clarifying central theories, and analyzing the ethical ramifications of our experience of natural beauty. Outlining five major approaches to understanding the aesthetic value of nature, this second edition explores the aesthetic appreciation of nature as it occurs in wilderness, in gardens, and in the context of appreciating environmental art. Now updated to cover recent developments in the field, it includes: A new chapter on the sublime, the picturesque, and the beautiful Expanded discussion of empirical and evolutionary accounts of nature appreciation, as well as the appreciation of the environment in non-Western cultures A new chapter on the aesthetic appreciation oTrade ReviewWeaving together ideas from an impressively wide range of authors, this volume will be of remarkable value to newcomers and experts alike, across the Environmental Humanities. Glenn Parsons' writing is exceptionally clear and accessible, all while being precise and faithful to original sources. If there were only one book I could suggest on the topic, it would be this one. * Levi Tenen, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kettering University, USA *This text fills a critical omission in the discussion of aesthetics and nature. Parsons captures aesthetic approaches to nature and does so through an exhaustive list of genres such as painting, sculpture, film, literature and more. All the big names in the field are represented as well as movements and schools. The text is essential for scholars in the burgeoning field of literature and the environment, and groups such as the Association for Studies in Literature and the Environment. * Peter Quigley, Peter Quigley, Professor of English, retired, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Aesthetics and Nature from an Analytic Perspective 1. The Conceptual Background: Nature 1.1 The end of Nature? 1.2 Is Nature a Useful concept? 1.3 Some Alternatives: Wilderness, Landscape, Environment 2. The Conceptual Background: Beauty and Aesthetic Value 2.1 Beauty 2.2 The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Aesthetic 2.3 Two Questions About Aesthetic Value 2.4 Two Accounts of Aesthetic Value 3. Imagination, Belief and Aesthetic Judgement 3.1 From Ethics to Ice Cream 3.2 Thought Contents 3.3 Anything goes? A Relativist Approach 3.4 Objections to the Relativist Approach 4. Formalism 4.1 Traditional Formalism 4.2 Strengths of Formalism 4.3 Quantification and Formalism in Empirical Landscape Assessment 4.4 Objections to Traditional Formalism 4.5 Zangwill’s Formalism 5. Science and the Aesthetics of Nature 5.1 Science and the nature critic 5.2 Another Turn in the Taste for Landscape? Positive Aesthetics 5.3 Objections to the science-based approach 5.4 The Fusion Problem 6. Pluralism 6.1 A Modest Pluralism 6.2 Robust Pluralism 6.3 Problems for Robust Pluralism (two arguments redux) 6.4 Modest Pluralism Again 7. Nature and the Aesthetics of Engagement 7.1 The Challenge to Disinterestedness 7.2 An Engaged Aesthetics of Nature 7.3 Problems for Berleant’s Engaged Aesthetic 7.4 Engagement, Unity, and the Aesthetic 8. Animals 8.1 Appreciating Animals 8.2 Normative Questions 8.3 Are there ugly species? 9. Aesthetic Issues in Environmental Protection, Restoration and Rewilding 9.1 Aesthetic Protection in Theory and Practice 9.2 Two Issues for Aesthetic Protection 9.3 Aesthetic Protection, Ethics, and the Problem of Taste 9.4 Biodiversity and the Politics of Aesthetic Protection 9.5 Aesthetic Remediation, Restoration and Rewilding 10. The Sublime, the Picturesque, and the Beautiful 10.1 Rise and Fall of the Sublime 10.2 Contemporary Theories of the Sublime 10.3 Reappraising the Picturesque 10.4 Beauty, Taste and Love of Place 11. Nature in the Garden 11.1 The Garden as Nature 11.2 The Garden as Art 11.3 Is Nature Essential to the Garden? 11.4 Appreciating Gardens: Interaction, Achievement, Atmosphere 12. Art In Nature 12.1 The Ethics of Environmental Art: Four Questions 12.2 Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature? 12.3 Is the Effrontery Charge Justified? 12.4 Is the Effrontery Charge Coherent? 13. Nature Through Art: Mediated Appreciation 13.1 Mediated Appreciation 13.2 Two Problems for Mediated Appreciation 13.3 Beyond Accuracy: Generative Mediation 14. Epilogue: Aesthetics in the Anthropocene? Philosophical and Empirical Challenges Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno's lesser-known work, Minima Moralia, and makes the case for its application to the most urgent concerns of the 21st century. Contributing authors situate Adorno at the heart of contemporary debates on the ecological crisis, the changing nature of work, the idea of utopia, and the rise of fascism. Exploring the role of critical pedagogy in shaping responses to fascistic regimes, alongside discussions of extractive economies and the need for leisure under increasingly precarious working conditions, this volume makes new connections between Minima Moralia and critical theory today. Another line of focus is the aphoristic style of Minima Moralia and its connection to Adorno's wider commitment to small and minor literary forms, which enable capitalist critique to be both subversive and poetic. This critique is further located in Adorno's discussion of a utopia that is reliant on complete rejection of the totalising system Trade ReviewThis compelling collection on Adorno’s aphoristic masterwork snaps it into contemporary focus with a range of essays addressing ‘damaged life’ in the present, from the resurgence of fascism in politics to the colonisation of life by work and the escalation of ecological violence. Adorno, it turns out, has been waiting for us in the twenty-first century. * Nicholas Lawrence, University of Warwick, UK *Minima Moralia is the exquisite entrée into Adorno’s thought: intense aphorisms that quietly juxtapose and interweave autobiographical reflection, miniatures of sociological critique, and philosophical analysis. The essays in Filar and Irr’s volume are the perfect companion for contemporary readers, pointedly focusing on the bond between the textures of ordinary life and fascism; animality, racism, and anthropocentrism; aphorisms as artwork-like modes of writing that resist the calls instrumental reason and capitalist exchange; and Adorno’s “reflections from damaged life” as the agonized adumbration of life in the Anthropocene. Together these essays reveal Adorno as a challenging and urgent contemporary. * Jay Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA *Table of ContentsForeword by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA) Introduction 1. An Adorno for the 21st Century: Introduction Caren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA) Part I Thought After Fascism 2. Minima Moralia and the Contradictions of Post-War Pedagogy Jakob Norberg (Duke University, USA) 3. Breathtaking Leaps,” or from Doorknobs to Fascism Oshrat C. Silberbusch (author of Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical) Part II The Effects of the Aphorism 4. Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique S.D. Chrostowska (York University, Canada) 5. Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia Wyatt Sarafin (Harvard University, USA) Part III A Labor Theory of the Present 6. “The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job”: Minima Moralia, Utopian Idleness, and the Capitalocene Clint Williamson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 7. Self-Preservation, Self-Destruction Caleb Shaoning Fridell (CUNY, USA) Part IV Adorno’s Ecology 8. Adorno and Animality After Auschwitz Andrea Dara Cooper (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA) 9. Living with Damage: Adorno in the Anthropocene Caren Irr (Brandeis University, USA) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is rapidly becoming a competitive space for geopolitical rivalries. The growth in China-U.S. strategic competition is creating deep anxiety among Southeast Asia leaders, China''s rising power is felt across every corner of Southeast Asia, and many leaders are worried about the long-term implications of rising Chinese influence in the region. The United States'' increasingly assertive approach towards China is welcomed by some governments, but the growth in tensions is creating deep anxiety about a possible new Cold War. How can the region prevent a repeat of the divisions and bitter rivalries of the previous Cold War?This book argues that Southeast Asia is emerging as an open, autonomous region, where small and middle powers can maintain their sovereignty and shape the regional order. Despite new superpower pressures, the region is moving towards a multi-polar order, with greater agency for Southeast Asian countries. The key to Southeast Asia''s future may beTrade ReviewShould feature not only in the briefing packets of those deployed to the region, but on the desks of their many minders back home. * Asia Times *Southeast Asia's Multipolar Future is meticulously researched and written in a lively and engaging manner. Through numerous interviews and conversations, Tom Parks refreshingly offers a view from Southeast Asia and accurately captures the visions and wishes of the people in the region. He demonstrates that smaller countries can shape their own future even in the midst of great power rivalry. In the process, Parks sees a way forward that does not necessarily end in conflict for the United States, China, and the region. * Selina Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore *By reminding us that the middle powers in and around Southeast Asia have an interest in, and an impact on, the trajectory of great power competition in the Indo-Pacific, Thomas Parks fills in spaces too often ignored by policy makers and commentators. This is required reading for everyone with an interest in Asia's future. * Allan Gyngell, National President, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia *Thomas Parks has written an important and timely book, which should be read in all the relevant capitals, especially Beijing and Washington D.C. Parks deftly locates Southeast Asia in the wider context of East Asia, South Asia, and Australasia. The region benefits from multipolarity. * Tej Bunnag, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand *Parks demonstrates Southeast Asia’s agency in the unfolding geopolitics of the region, smashing the trope that ASEAN states are just passive victims of great power maneuvering. A must read for scholars and policymakers focused on the Indo-Pacific. * Michael J. Green, University of Sydney, Australia *Nuanced and insightful, this book offers an essential corrective to portrayals of Southeast Asian states as pawns on a Sino-American chessboard. Parks instead shows the region to be a bamboo forest: Southeast Asian governments bend to geopolitical winds but remain strongly rooted in defending their interests and autonomy. Parks illuminates how Southeast Asians exercise agency as they alternately engage with and resist external powers to craft a multipolar regional order. Anyone keen to understand international relations in Southeast Asia should read this book. * John D. Ciorciari, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Small and Middle Powers in a Dangerous World 1.Southeast Asia’s Emerging Order 2.Unseen Agency 3.ASEAN: Indispensable and Misunderstood 4.The Normative Divide 5.Multipolarity Emerging 6.Diversifying Partners 7.Japan: The Understated Giant 8.Australia: Middle Power Balancing Act 9.India: A Fellow Traveler 10.Europe: Renewed Presence, Uncertain Future Conclusion: Averting History Bibliography Endnotes

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Book SynopsisMartín Ávila is a designer, researcher, and Professor of Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Martín's postdoctoral project Symbiotic Tactics (2013-2016) was the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. His research is design-driven and addresses forms of interspecies cohabitation.Trade ReviewThe book’s greatest strength is its insistence that more-than human beings be taken seriously as co-habitants of human habitations. But instead of simply making the case for his thesis in words, the author has practiced and built experiments in creating interspecies co-habitations. In this original book, Ávila does not romanticize or demonize interspecies relations, but treats them with the nuance they deserve, giving due respect to the complexities of our relations, our attractions, our revulsions. -- Kriti Sharma, California Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, Andreas Weber (Bard College Berlin, Germany) Acknowledgements Introduction: Bio-centric? 1. Poetics of Relating 2. Responding 3. Alter-natives 4. (De)signing Alter-natives As a Mode of Closing: Encounters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiscover the extraordinary realities of the world's most advanced cybersecurity companies and tech In The Battle for Your Computer: Israel and the Growth of the Global Cyber-Security Industry, Israeli Defense Force (IDF) cyberwarfare veteran and tech product leader Alon Arvatz examines the why and the how of the extraordinarily strong connection between Israel's elite cyber military unit and that country's booming offensive and defensive cybersecurity industry. In the book, you'll explore the central role played by Israel in the global fight for cybersecurity supremacy. Featuring interviews with some of the world's leading cybersecurity professionals and leaders, The Battle for Your Computer explains how the IDF's Unit 8200 became the globe's most fruitful incubator of cyber technologies. You'll also find: Explanations of how the technologies that protect your own computers at home and at work probably began their lives in IDF personnel or equipmeTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Section 1: What is Cybersecurity? Chapter 1: The New Gold—Cybersecurity 101 Chapter 2: The Keyboard War—How Global Militaries Exploited the New Domain Chapter 3: “Hello, It’s Me, a Nigerian Prince”—New Crime Chapter 4: The New Money—Catalysts of Cybercrime Section 2: Cybernation Chapter 5: The Pioneer—The Story of Checkpoint Chapter 6: The Love Letter That Leaked—From Personal Security to Systems Security Chapter 7: From Security to Defense—The Cyber “Iron Dome” Chapter 8: The Best Cyberdefense—“Daddy, What Do You Do?” Chapter 9: From Crisis to Crisis—Israeli Cyber Grows Up Section 3: Offensive Cybersecurity Chapter 10: Reaching Through the Darkness: NSO and Zero-Click Disruption Chapter 11: In the Right Hands—the Israeli Companies that Stretched the Boundaries of Possibility Chapter 12: Criticism of Offensive Cybertechnology Chapter 13: Selling to the Good Guys —Regulation, Self-Criticism, and “Clean” Offensive Cybertechnology Section 4: Building a Cyberstate Chapter 13: The Israeli Silicon Valley—Small State, Big Data Chapter 14: Unit 8200—Secrets of the IDF’s Success Chapter 15: A Professor and a Hacker—Academia and Cybersecurity Chapter 16: Free Hand or Bear Hug—The State’s Role in the World of Innovation Chapter 17: Small and Nimble—Being a Small Island-Nation in the Middle East is Not Such a Bad Start Chapter 18: “Bro”—What Makes Israel’s Culture an Incubator of Cybersecurity Innovation? Chapter 19: The Cybersecurity Industry Snowball Effect—Elements of the Israeli Ecosystem Conclusion: Where Is Everything Going? The Ten Commandments of the Budding Entrepreneur Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the environmental policies of transnational and militant Islamist groupsTrade Review"Karagiannis's well-researched work outlines Islamist approaches to environmental issues. Its analysis of six organisations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah and ISIS, shows that political self-interest, rather than a theological rationale, drives the shift to environmentalism. This excellent volume enriches our knowledge of Islamist ideas and policies and exposes the secular motivations behind the religious veneer that overlays them. " -Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xvii Website xix 1 A Framework for Structural Geology 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.1.1 Deformation 1 1.1.2 Empirical vs. Theoretical Approaches 1 1.1.3 Continuum Mechanics and its Applicability to Structural Geology 6 1.1.4 How to use this Book 6 References 8 2 Structures Produced by Deformation 10 2.1 Geological Structures 10 2.1.1 Structural Fabrics 10 2.1.2 Folds and Boudinage 12 2.1.3 Fractures and Stylolites 15 2.1.4 Faults and Fault Zones 17 2.1.5 Shear Zones 22 2.2 Additional Considerations 25 3 Microstructures 26 3.1 Introduction 26 3.1.1 Overview 26 3.1.2 Framework 27 3.1.3 Imaging of Microstructures 27 3.2 Fractures 28 3.3 Fault Rocks 30 3.4 Overgrowths, Pressure Shadows and Fringes, and Veins 33 3.5 Indenting, Truncating and Interpenetrating Grain Contacts, Strain Caps, and Stylolites 37 3.6 Aligned Grain Boundaries, T Grain Boundaries, and Foam Texture 38 3.7 Undulose Extinction, Subgrains, Deformation and Kink Bands, Deformation Lamellae, Grain Boundary Bulges, and Core-and-Mantle Microstructure 40 3.8 Deformation Twins 43 3.9 Grain Shape Fabrics, Ribbon Grains, and Gneissic Banding 43 3.10 Porphyroblasts 47 3.11 Crystallographic Fabrics (Crystallographic Preferred Orientations) 49 3.12 Shear Sense Indicators, Mylonites, and Porphyroclasts 49 3.12.1 Asymmetric Pressure Shadows and Fringes 53 3.12.2 Foliation Obliquity and Curvature 55 3.12.3 SC, SC′, and SCC′ Fabrics 55 3.12.4 Porphyroclast Systems 56 3.12.5 Precautions with Shear Sense Determination 59 3.13 Collecting Oriented Samples and Relating Sample to Geographic Frames of Reference 60 References 65 4 Displacements 66 4.1 Overview 66 4.2 Chapter Organization 66 4A Displacements: Conceptual Foundation 67 4A.1 Specifying Displacements or Individual Particles 67 4A.1.1 Basic Ideas 67 4A.1.2 Geological Example 69 4A.2 Particle Paths and Velocities 70 4A.2.1 Particle Paths 70 4A.2.2 Velocities 71 4A.3 Displacements of Collections of Particles – Displacement Fields 74 4A.3.1 Displacement Fields 74 4A.3.2 Uniform vs. Nonuniform and Distributed vs. Discrete Displacement Fields 76 4A.3.3 Classes of Displacement Fields 77 4A.4 Components of Displacement Fields: Translation, Rotation, and Pure Strain 79 4A.5 Idealized, Two-Dimensional Displacement Fields 85 4A.5.1 Simple Shear 87 4A.5.2 Pure Shear 88 4A.6 Idealized, Three-Dimensional Displacement Fields 89 4A.7 Summary 90 4B Displacements: Comprehensive Treatment 90 4B.1 Specifying Displacements for Individual Particles 90 4B.1.1 Defining Vector Quantities 90 4B.1.2 Types of Vectors 92 4B.1.3 Relating Position and Displacement Vectors 94 4B.1.4 Characterizing Vector Quantities 95 4B.2 Particle Paths and Velocities 97 4B.2.1 Incremental Displacements for Particles 97 4B.2.2 Particle Paths and Movement Histories 98 4b.2.3 Dated Particle Paths, Instantaneous Movement Directions, and Velocities 99 4B.3 Displacements of Collections of Particles – Displacement Fields 101 4B.3.1 Concept of a Displacement Field 101 4B.3.2 Field Quantities 103 4b.3.3 Gradients of the Displacement Field: Discrete and Distributed Deformation 103 4B.3.4 Idealized Versus True Gradients of the Displacement Field 104 4B.4 The Displacement Gradient Tensor – Relating Position and Displacement Vectors 106 4b.4.1 Components of Displacement Fields: Translation, Rotation, and Pure Strain 107 4B.4.2 Translation Displacement Fields 107 4B.4.3 Rigid Rotation Displacement Fields 107 4B.4.4 Pure Strain Displacement Fields 109 4B.4.5 Total Displacement Fields 110 4b.4.6 Using Displacement Gradient Matrices to Represent Displacement Fields 110 4B.5 Idealized, Two- dimensional Displacement Fields 111 4B.5.1 Simple Shear Displacement Fields 111 4B.5.2 Uniaxial Convergence or Uniaxial Divergence Displacement Fields 113 4B.5.3 Pure Shear Displacement Fields 115 4B.5.4 General Shear Displacement Fields 117 4B.6 Idealized, Three-Dimensional Displacement Fields 117 4B.6.1 Three-Dimensional Simple Shear Displacement Fields 119 4b.6.2 Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Convergence and Divergence Displacement Fields 121 4B.6.3 Pure Shearing Displacement Fields 121 4B.6.4 Constrictional Displacement Fields 122 4B.6.5 Flattening Displacement Fields 123 4B.6.6 Three-Dimensional General Shearing Displacement Fields 124 4B.7 Summary 124 Appendix 4-I: Vectors 124 4-I.1 Simple Mathematical Operations with Vectors 124 4-I.2 Vector Magnitudes 126 4-I.3 Properties of Vector Quantities 126 4-I.4 Relating Magnitude and Orientation to Cartesian Coordinates 127 4-I.5 Vector Products 129 Appendix 4-II: Matrix Operations 130 4-II.1 Defining Matrices 130 4-II.2 Matrix Addition and Subtraction 130 4-II.3 Matrix Multiplication 131 4-II.3.1 Multiplying Two “2 × 2” Matrices 132 4-II.3.2 Multiplying Two “3 × 3” Matrices 132 4-II.3.3 Multiplying a 2 × 2 Matrix Times a 2 × 1 Matrix 133 4-II.3.4 Multiplying a 3 × 3 Matrix Times a 3 × 1 Matrix 133 4-II.3.5 Scalar Multiplication 134 4-II.4 Transpose of a Matrix 134 4-II.5 Determinant of a Square Matrix 135 4-II.6 Inverse of a Square Matrix 135 4-II.7 Rotation Matrices 136 References 137 5 Strain 138 5.1 Overview 138 5.2 Chapter Organization 139 5A Strain: Conceptual Foundation 139 5A.1 Specifying Strain in Deformed Rocks 139 5A.2 One-dimensional Manifestations of Strain 141 5A.2.1 Basic Ideas 141 5A.2.2 Geological Example 142 5A.3 Two-dimensional Manifestations of Strain 143 5A.3.1 Longitudinal Strains in Different Directions 143 5A.3.2 Shear Strain 147 5A.4 Relating Strain to Displacements 151 5A.5 Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Strain 153 5A.6 Finite Strain Ellipse and Finite Strain Ellipsoid 154 5A.6.1 Finite Strain Ellipse 154 5A.6.2 Finite Strain Ellipsoid 159 5A.7 States of Strain and Strain Paths 163 5A.7.1 States of Strain 163 5A.7.2 Strain Paths and Dated Strain Paths 163 5A.7.3 Coaxial Versus Non-Coaxial Strain Paths 164 5A.8 Instantaneous Strains and Strain Rates 166 5A.9 Infinitesimal Strains 166 5A.10 Summary 167 5A.11 Practical Methods for Measuring Strain 167 5A.11.1 Using Fabrics to Estimate Strain Ellipsoid Shape 167 5A.11.2 Types of Methods for Measuring Strain in Two Dimensions 168 5A.11.3 Measuring Strain in Two Dimensions Using Deformed Markers 169 5B Strain: Comprehensive Treatment 176 5B.4 Relating Strain to Displacements 176 5B.4.1 Longitudinal Strains and Displacement Gradients 177 5B.4.2 Longitudinal Strains and Position Gradients 179 5B.4.3 Relating Displacement Gradients and Position Gradients 179 5B.4.4 Longitudinal Strain in Continuous Deformation 179 5B.4.5 Consequences of Longitudinal Strains 181 5B.4.6 Displacement Gradients and Longitudinal Strains in Different Directions 182 5B.4.7 Position Gradients and Longitudinal Strains in Different Directions 184 5B.4.8 Relating Displacement Gradients and Position Gradients in Two Dimensions 185 5B.4.9 Area Ratios in Two-Dimensional Deformation 186 5B.4.10 Discontinuous Deformation in Two Dimensions 186 5B.4.11 Displacement Gradients and Shear Strains 187 5B.4.12 Shear Strains and Position Gradients 188 5B.4.13 Applying Matrix Algebra to Two-dimensional Deformation 188 5B.4.14 Applying Matrix Algebra to Three-dimensional Deformation 195 5B.5 Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Deformation 197 5B.5.1 Homogeneous Deformation 197 5B.5.2 Inhomogeneous Deformation 198 5B.6 Finite Strain Ellipse and Finite Strain Ellipsoid 200 5B.6.1 Homogeneous Deformations and the Finite Strain Ellipse 200 5B.6.2 Working with Strain Markers 200 5B.6.3 Finite Strain Ellipsoid 205 5B.7 States of Strain and Strain Paths 205 5B.7.1 States of Strain 205 5B.7.2 Strain Paths 206 5B.7.3 Velocity Gradient Tensor and Decomposition 207 5B.8 Vorticity 210 5B.8.1 Vorticity Vector 211 5B.8.2 Kinematic Vorticity Number 213 5B.9 Summary 213 Appendix 5-I 214 References 216 6 Stress 217 6.1 Overview 217 6A Stress: Conceptual Foundation 218 6A.1 Forces, Tractions, and Stress 220 6A.1.1 Accelerations and the Forces that Act on Objects 220 6A.1.2 Forces Transmitted Through Objects 221 6A.1.3 Traction – A Measure of “Force Intensity” within Objects 221 6A.1.4 Stress 223 6A.2 Characteristics of Stress in Two Dimensions 225 6A.2.1 Normal and Tangential Stress Components 225 6A.2.2 Stresses on Planes with Different Orientations 227 6A.2.3 Principal Stresses and Differential Stress 227 6A.2.4 The Fundamental Stress Equations 231 6A.3 State of Stress in Two Dimensions 233 6A.3.1 The Stress Matrix 233 6A.3.2 The Stress Ellipse 234 6A.3.3 The Mohr circle 235 6A.3.4 Hydrostatic vs. Non-hydrostatic Stress 246 6A.3.5 Homogeneous vs. Inhomogeneous Stress 248 6A.4 Stress in Three Dimensions 248 6A.4.1 The Stress Ellipsoid 251 6A.4.2 Hydrostatic, Lithostatic, and Deviatoric Stresses 251 6A.5 Pore-fluid Pressure and Effective Stress 253 6A.6 Three-dimensional States of Stress 254 6A.7 The State of Stress in Earth 255 6A.8 Change of Stress: Paleostress, Path, and History 256 6A.9 Comparison of Displacements, Strain and Stress 257 6A.10 Summary 259 6A.11 Practical Methods for Measuring Stress 261 6A.11.1 In situ Stress Measurements 261 6A.11.2 Paleostress 268 6B Stress: Comprehensive Treatment 272 6B.1 Force, Traction, and Stress Vectors 272 6B.1.1 Accelerations and Forces 272 6B.1.2 Traction or Stress Vectors 273 6b.1.3 Relating Traction or Stress Vector Components in Different Coordinate Frames 274 6B.1.4 Stress Transformation Law in Two Dimensions and the Mohr Circle 277 6b.1.5 Stress Transformation Law in Three Dimensions and the Mohr Diagram 279 6B.1.6 An Alternative Way to Define Traction or Stress Vectors 281 6B.1.7 Determining Stress Principal Directions and Magnitudes 282 6B.1.8 Stress Invariants 284 6B.1.9 Spatial Variation in Stress 285 Appendix 6-I 289 References 291 7 Rheology 292 7.1 Overview 292 7A Rheology: Conceptual Foundation 293 7A.1 Moving Beyond Equilibrium 293 7A.1.1 Conducting and Interpreting Deformation Experiments 294 7A.1.2 Recoverable Deformation versus Material Failure 297 7A.1.3 Moving from Deformation Experiments to Mathematical Relations 301 7A.2 Models of Rock Deformation 303 7A.2.1 Elastic Behavior 303 7A.2.2 Criteria for Fracture or Fault Formation 308 7A.2.3 Yield and Creep 321 7A.2.4 Viscous Behavior 322 7A.2.5 Plastic Behavior 322 7A.2.6 Constitutive Equations for Viscous Creep and Plastic Yield 324 7A.3 Summary 327 7B Rheology: Comprehensive Treatment 328 7B.1 Combining Deformation Models to Describe Rock Properties 328 7B.2 Rock Deformation Modes 332 7B.2.1 Elasticity 332 7B.2.2 Fracture or Fault Formation 337 7B.2.3 Differential Stress, Pore Fluid Pressure, and Failure Mode 356 7B.2.4 Yield and Creep 359 7B.2.5 Viscous Behavior 360 7B.2.6 Plastic Behavior 363 7B.2.7 Lithospheric Strength Profiles 363 References 364 8 Deformation Mechanisms 367 8.1 Overview 367 8A Deformation Mechanisms: Conceptual Foundation 370 8A.1 Elastic Distortion 371 8A.2 Cataclastic Deformation Mechanisms 373 8A.2.1 Fracture of Geological Materials 373 8A.2.2 Frictional Sliding 376 8A.2.3 Microstructures Associated with Cataclasis and Frictional Sliding 380 8A.2.4 Cataclasis and Frictional Sliding as a Deformation Mechanism 380 8A.3 Diffusional Deformation Mechanisms 380 8A.3.1 Diffusion 380 8A.3.2 Grain Shape Change by Diffusion 385 8A.3.3 Microstructures Associated with Diffusional Mass Transfer 387 8A.3.4 Diffusional Mass Transfer as a Deformation Mechanism 390 8a.3.5 Flow Laws for Three Diffusional Mass Transfer Deformation Mechanisms 391 8A.4 Dislocational Deformation Mechanisms 393 8A.4.1 Dislocations as Elements of Lattice Distortion 393 8A.4.2 Dislocation Interactions 403 8A.4.3 Recovery and Recrystallization 405 8a.4.4 Microstructures Indicative of Dislocation- Accommodated Deformation 409 8A.4.5 Dislocation Glide: A Deformation Mechanism 414 8A.4.6 Flow Law for Dislocation Glide 415 8A.4.7 Dislocation Creep: A Deformation Mechanism 415 8A.4.8 Flow Law for Dislocation Creep 415 8A.4.9 Other Lattice Deformation Processes – Twinning and Kinking 416 8A.5 Diffusion- and/or Dislocation-Accommodated Grain Boundary Sliding 418 8A.6 Deformation Mechanism Maps 419 8A.7 Summary 422 8B Deformation Mechanisms: Comprehensive Treatment 423 8B.1 Cataclastic Deformation Mechanisms 423 8B.1.1 Joints, Fractures, and Mesoscopic Faults 423 8B1.2 Fault Zones 431 8B.2 Diffusional Deformation Mechanisms 448 8B.2.1 Diffusional Mass Transfer Structures 448 8B.2.2 Understanding Diffusion Through Crystalline Materials 453 8B.2.3 The Effect of Differential Stress 455 8B.2.4 Flow Laws for Diffusional Deformation Mechanisms 456 8B.2.5 Paths of Rapid Diffusion – Dislocations and Grain Boundaries 458 8B.2.6 The Effect of Fluid Phases Along Grain Boundaries 459 8B.3 Dislocational Deformation Mechanisms 460 8B.3.1 Origin of Dislocations 460 8B.3.2 Dislocation Movement 461 8B.3.3 Dislocation Interactions 467 8B.3.4 Stresses Associated with Dislocations 470 8B.3.5 Strains Accommodated by the Glide of Dislocations 470 8B.3.6 Constitutive Equations for Dislocation Creep 473 8B.3.7 Recovery, Recrystallization, and Dislocation Creep Regimes 475 8B.3.8 Twinning and Kinking 477 8B.4 Grain Boundary Sliding and Superplasticity 482 Appendix 8-I 484 Appendix 8-II 486 References 487 9 Case Studies of Deformation and Rheology 496 9.1 Overview 496 9.2 Integrating Structural Geology and Geochronology: Ruby Gap Duplex, Redbank Thrust Zone, Australia 497 9.2.1 Geological Setting and Deformation Character 497 9.2.2 Microstructures and Deformation Mechanisms 502 9.2.3 Rheological Analysis Using Microstructures by Comparison to Experimental Deformation 508 9.2.4 Geochronology 508 9.2.5 Evaluating Displacement Through Time 510 9.2.6 Orogenic Development Through Time 512 9.2.7 Summarizing Deformation in the Ruby Gap Duplex 512 9.3 The Interplay of Deformation Mechanisms and Rheologies in the Mid-Crust: Copper Creek Thrust Sheet, Appalachian Valley and Ridge, Tennessee, United States 514 9.3.1 Introduction 514 9.3.2 General Characteristics of the Southern Appalachian Fold-Thrust Belt 514 9.3.3 Deformation of the Copper Creek Thrust Sheet 518 9.3.4 Summarizing Deformation of the Copper Creek Thrust Sheet 534 9.4 Induced Seismicity 535 9.4.1 Overview of Induced Seismicity 535 9.4.2 Earthquakes in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa 536 9.4.3 Basel, Switzerland 539 9.4.4 Blackpool, United Kingdom 540 9.4.5 Oklahoma, United States 543 9.4.6 Koyna and Warna, India 545 9.4.7 A Framework for Understanding Induced Seismicity 549 9.5 Using Case Studies to Assess Lithospheric Strength Profiles 556 9.5.1 Lithospheric Strength Profiles 556 9.5.2 Comparing Stress Magnitudes Inferred from the Case Studies to Lithospheric Strength Profiles 562 9.5.3 Recap 564 9.6 Broader Horizons 565 References 566 Index 573

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Sedimentology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly expanding field which addresses the functioning and dynamics of contemporary sediment systems and how these systems respond to a range of both natural and anthropogenically-induced disturbance events.Trade Review"This text covers a wide range of well-written and well-researched material that is presented to a high standard. The individual chapters are all well worth reading and present thorough coverage of concepts and debates relevant to the different environments in question.... Anyone who is interested in any aspect of sediment transfer will find something of interest in this book." (Geographical Journal, June 2008)Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Environmental Sedimentology: Introduction: Chris Perry & Kevin Taylor (Manchester Metropolitan University). 2. Mountain Environments: Jeff Warburton (University of Durham). 3. Fluvial Environments: Karen Hudson-Edwards (Birkbeck College, London). 4. Lake Environments: Lars Hakanson (University of Uppsala). 5. Arid Environments: Anne Mather (University of Plymouth). 6. Urban Environments: Kevin Taylor (Manchester Metropolitan University). 7. Deltaic and Estuarine Environments: Peter French (Royal Holloway, University of London). 8. Temperate Coastal Environments: Andrew Cooper (University of Ulster). 9. Tropical Coastal Environments: Coral Reefs and Mangroves: Chris Perry (Manchester Metropolitan University). 10. Continental Shelf Environments: Piers Larcombe (CEFAS, UK). Index

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Book SynopsisMarine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong critical acclaim and was described as a standard text for years to come.' This third edition of Marine Geochemistry has been written at a time when the role of the oceans in the Earth System is becoming increasingly apparent. Following the successful format adopted previously, this new edition treats the oceans as a unified entity, and addresses the question how do the oceans work as a chemical system?' To address this question, the text has been updated to cover recent advances in our understanding of topics such as the carbon chemistry of the oceans, nutrient cycling and its effect on marine chemistry, the acidification of sea water, and the role of the oceans in climate change. In addition, the importance of shelf seas in oceanic cycles has been re-evaluated in the light of nTrade Review“The third edition of Marine Geochemistry is an invaluable resource for a wide range of readers from undergraduates to researchers, providing a concise up to date summary of the interplay of chemical and biological factors that control ocean cheamistry.” (Journal of Geological Magazine, 1 August 2013 “Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals in marine sciences.” (Choice, 1 May 2013) Table of ContentsPreface to the third edition vii 1 Introduction 1 Part I The Global Journey: Material Sources 7 2 The input of material to the ocean reservoir 9 3 The transport of material to the oceans: the fluvial pathway 11 4 The transport of material to the oceans: the atmospheric pathway 52 5 The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermal pathway 83 6 The transport of material to the oceans: relative fl ux magnitudes 92 Part II The Global Journey: The Ocean Reservoir 125 7 Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters 127 8 Air–sea gas exchange 154 9 Nutrients oxygen organic carbon and the carbon cycle in seawater 163 10 Particulate material in the oceans 208 11 Trace elements in the oceans 223 12 Down-column fl uxes and the benthic boundary layer 253 Part III The Global Journey: Material Sinks 271 13 Marine sediments 273 14 Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis 290 15 The components of marine sediments 321 16 Unscrambling the sediment-forming chemical signals 352 Part IV The Global Journey: Synthesis 389 17 Marine geochemistry: an overview 391 Index 405 Colour plate pages fall between pp. 216 and 217.

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SectionTrade Review“Both advanced students and professional geologists should have this book at hand.” (Geologos, 2012) Table of ContentsContributors vii Preface xi Part 1: Introduction 1. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, With Revised Nomenclature 3 Raymond V. Ingersoll Part 2: New Techniques and Modeling 2. Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology: Current Methods and New Opportunities 47 George Gehrels 3. Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide Techniques for Assessing Exposure History of Surfaces and Sediments in Active Tectonic Regions 63 John C. Gosse 4. Magnetostratigraphic Methods and Applications 80 Guillaume Dupont-Nivet and Wout Krijgsman 5. 3d Seismic Interpretation Techniques: Applications to Basin Analysis 95 Christopher A-L. Jackson and Karla E. Kane 6. Dispersal and Preservation of Tectonically Generated Alluvial Gravels in Sedimentary Basins 111 Philip A. Allen and Paul L. Heller 7. Source-To-Sink Sediment Volumes Within A Tectono-Stratigraphic Model For A Laramide Shelf-To-Deep-Water Basin: Methods And Results 131 Cristian Carvajal and Ron Steel 8. Modeling the Interaction Between Lithospheric And Surface Processes In Foreland Basins 152 Daniel Garcia-Castellanos and Sierd Cloetingh Part 3: Rift, Post-Rift, Transtensional, and Strike-Slip Basin Settings 9. Continental Rift Basins: The East African Perspective 185 Cynthia Ebinger and Christopher A. Scholz 10. Influence of Sediment Input and Plate-Motion Obliquity on Basin Development Along An Active Oblique-Divergent Plate Boundary: Gulf Of California And Salton Trough 209 Rebecca J. Dorsey And Paul J. Umhoefer 11. Active Transtensional Intracontinental Basins: Walker Lane in the Western Great Basin 226 Angela S. Jayko and Marcus Bursik 12. Post-Rift Deformation of The North East and South Atlantic Margins: Are “Passive Margins” Really Passive? 249 Douglas Paton 13. The Impact Of Early Cretaceous Deformation On Deposition In The Passive-Margin Scotian Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada 270 Georgia Pe-Piper And David J.W. Piper Part 4: Convergent Margins: Subduction And Collision, From Outboard To Inboard Settings 14. Sedimentation At Plate Boundaries In Transition 291 Kathleen M. Marsaglia 15. Evolution of Sedimentary Environments in the Subduction Zone Of Southwest Japan: Recent Results From The Nantroseize Kumano Transect 310 Michael B. Underwood and Gregory F. Moore 16. Modification of Continental Forearc Basins By Flat-Slab Subduction Processes: A Case Study From Southern Alaska 327 Kenneth D. Ridgway, Jeffrey M. Trop and Emily S. Finzel 17. Basins in Arc-Continent Collisions 347 Amy E. Draut and Peter D. Clift 18. The Pampa Del Tamarugal Forearc Basin in Northern Chile: The Interaction of Tectonics and Climate 369 Peter Nester and Teresa Jordan 19. Extensional and Transtensional Continental Arc Basins: Case Studies From The Southwestern United States 382 Cathy J. Busby 20. Foreland Basin Systems Revisited: Variations in Response to Tectonic Settings 405 Peter G. Decelles 21. Cenozoic Evolution of Hinterland Basins in the Andes and Tibet 427 Brian K. Horton 22. Basin Response To Active Extension And Strike-Slip Deformation In The Hinterland Of The Tibetan Plateau 445 Michael H. Taylor, Paul A. Kapp, And Brian K. Horton 23. The Betic Intramontane Basins (Se Spain): Stratigraphy, Subsidence, and Tectonic History 461 Jose´ Rodri´Guez-Ferna´Ndez, Antonio Azor, and Jose´ Miguel Azan˜o´N 24. Dynamic Relationship Between Subsidence, Sedimentation, And Unconformities In Mid-Cretaceous, Shallow-Marine Strata Of The Western Canada Foreland Basin: Links To Cordilleran Tectonics 480 A. Guy Plint, Aditya Tyagi, Phil J.A. Mccausland, Jessica R. Krawetz (Nee Rylaarsdam), Heng Zhang, Xavier Roca, Bogdan L. Varban, Y. Greg Hu, Michael A. Kreitner And Michael J. Hay 25. Structural, Geomorphic, And Depositional Characteristics Of Contiguous And Broken Foreland Basins: Examples From The Eastern Flanks Of The Central Andes In Bolivia And Nw Argentina 508 Manfred R. Strecker, George E. Hilley, Bodo Bookhagen, And Edward R. Sobel 26. Thrust Wedge/Foreland Basin Systems 522 Hugh Sinclair 27. 2d Kinematic Models of Growth Fault-Related Folds in Contractional Settings 538 Josep Poblet Part 5: Plate Interior Basins and Widespread Basin Types 28. Plate Interior Poly-Phase Basins 567 Cari L. Johnson and Bradley D. Ritts 29. The Great Grenvillian Sedimentation Episode: Record of Supercontinent Rodinia’s Assembly 583 Robert Rainbird, Peter Cawood and George Gehrels 30. Cratonic Basins 602 Philip A. Allen and John J. Armitage 31. Endorheic Basins 621 Gary Nichols Index 633

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Book SynopsisSitting on a riverbank, with rod and line, must count as one of the most relaxing and enjoyable yet occasionally frustrating experiences known to man.Chris Yates discovered the joys of fishing early in life and was quickly hooked by its pleasures. Many years later, he is still content to sit, day after day, observing the quirks of different fish and losing track of time. For him, fishing is much more than just a question of technique; sometimes it's about listening to nothing but your instincts, and at other times it's about enjoying the perfect cup of tea. And it's always about not knowing how the day is going to unfold . . .There's no better guide for the uninitiated and no better companion for those already familiar with the satisfactions of fishing than Chris Yates. And immersing yourself in How To Fish is almost as delightful an activity as fishing itself.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEnergy Humanities is an ambitious and stimulating collection that will assist the reader in understanding the importance of explicitly engaging with energy across the arts, humanities and social sciences. It is equally suited for undergraduate students and advanced academics who are interested in exploring the fecundity of interdisciplinary discussion and creative critique.—Capitalism, Nature, SocialismWhile the collection serves scholars in offering an organization of a specific context that is still emerging, and will most likely keep growing in importance in the 21st century, this publication will most definitely prove useful as a way to introduce students to the questions of energy as a specific subfield of the arts, humanities and social sciences.—Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human SciencesExplore[s] ways of thinking and talking about the environment more creatively, aiming to circumvent our denial and despair, so that we may learn how to dwell on the things that are disappearing, and to carry on living in the world they leave behind.—Clare Saxby, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer, "On the Energy Humanities" Opening Image Set: Judy Natal Amy De'Ath, "Institutional Critique" Part I Energy and Modernity: Histories and FuturesSection Intro 1. Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses"2. Imre Szeman, "System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster" 3. David Nye, "The Great White Way"4. Pablo Neruda, "Standard Oil Co."5. Italo Calvino, "The Petrol Pump"6. Stephen Collis, "Reading Wordsworth in the Tar Sands"7. Hermann Scheer, "The Visible Hand of the Sun."8. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Frenzy of Fossil Fuels"9. Paolo Bacigalupi, excerpt from The Windup Girl 10. Margaret Atwood, "It's Not Climate Change, It's Everything Change" Part II Energy, Power and Politics Section Intro11. Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy" 12. Dominic Boyer, "Energopower: An Introduction" 13. Jean-Francois Mouhot, "Past Connections and Present Similarities in Slave Ownership and Fossil Fuel Usage"14. Michael Watts, "Imperial Oil: The Anatomy of a Nigerian Oil Insurgency"15. John McGrath, excerpt from The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil16. Gabrielle Hecht, "Nuclear Ontologies"17. Gokce Gunel, "A Dark Art: Field Notes on Carbon Capture and Storage Policy Negotiations at COP 17"18. Sheena Wilson, "Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations"19. Cymene Howe, "Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca."20. Pope Francis, "Global Inequality"21. Ken Saro-Wiwa, "Night Ride" Part III Energy in Philosophy: Ethics, Politics, and BeingSection Intro22. Allan Stoekl, "Bataille's Ethics"23. Joseph Masco, "Atomic Health, Or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death"24. Laura Watts, "The Draukie's Tale"25. Timothy Morton, "A Quake in Being"26. Martin McQuillan, "Notes Toward a Post-Carbon Philosophy"27. Roy Scranton, "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene"28. Dale Jamieson, "Ethics for the Anthropocene" 29. Claire Colebrook, "We Have Always Been Post-Anthropocene"30. Karen Pinkus, excerpt from Fuel31. Reza Negarastani, excerpt from Cyclonopedia. Part IV The Aesthetics of PetroculturesSection Intro32. Amitav Ghosh. "Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel." 33. Patricia Yaeger, "Literature in the Ages of Wood..."34. AbdulRahman Munif, Excerpt from Cities of Salt 35. Leslie Battler, poems from Endangered Hydrocarbons36. Julia Kasdorf, poems from Shale Play37. Stephanie LeMenager, "Petro-Melancholia: The BP Blowout and the Arts of Grief"38. Jennifer Wenzel, "Petro-Magic-Realism: Toward a Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature."39. Ursula Biemann and Andrew Pendakis, "This is Not a Pipeline: On the Politico-Aesthetics of Oil"40. Adam Dickinson, excerpt from The Polymers41. Warren Cariou, "An Athabasca Story"42. Barry Lord, "The Culture of Stewardship"43. Graeme MacDonald, "The Resources of Culture." Closing Image Set: Marina Zurkow References Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together disparate conversations about wildlife conservation and renewable energy, suggesting ways these two critical fields can work hand in hand. Renewable energy is often termed simply green energy, but its effects on wildlife and other forms of biodiversity can be quite complex. While capturing renewable resources like wind, solar, and energy from biomass can require more land than fossil fuel production, potentially displacing wildlife habitat, renewable energy infrastructure can also create habitat and promote species health when thoughtfully implemented. The authors of Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation argue that in order to achieve a balanced plan for addressing these two crucially important sustainability issues, our actions at the nexus of these fields must be directed by current scientific information related to the ecological effects of renewable energy production. Synthesizing an extensive, rapidly growing base of research and insights from practitionerTrade ReviewA coming-together of noted authorities in [the energy and conservation] fields seeking a beneficial solution to both their respective purposes is heartening indeed. Given this, and all the information presented in its pages, Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation is a book that should be read by all who are professionally involved in both these fields as well as any others who are simply in search of a better understanding of two of the defining challenges of our age.—Johannes E. Riutta, The Well-Read NaturalistTable of ContentsList of ContributorsIntroduction. Renewable Energy and Wildlife ConservationChristopher E. Moorman, Steven M. Grodsky, and Susan P. RuppPART I BIOENERGY AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION1 Short-Rotation Woody Crops and Wildlife ConservationRachel Greene, James A. Martin, and T. Bently Wigley2 Effects of Harvesting Forest-Based Biomass on Terrestrial WildlifeJessica A. Homyack and Jake Verschuyl3 Impacts on Wildlife of Annual Crops for Biofuel ProductionClint Otto4 Second-Generation Feedstocks from Dedicated Energy Crops:Implications for Wildlife and Wildlife HabitatSusan P. Rupp and Christine A. RibicPART II WIND ENERGY AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION5 Wind Energy Effects on BirdsRegan Dohm and David Drake6 Wind Energy Effects on BatsCris D. Hein and Amanda M. Hale7 Effects of Wind Energy on Wildlife: Emerging Issues and Underrepresented TaxaNicole M. Korfanta and Victoria H. ZeroPART III SOLAR ENERGY, WATERPOWER, AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION8 Solar Energy: A Technology with Multi-Scale Opportunities to Integrate Wildlife ConservationBrian B. Boroski9 Waterpower: Hydropower and Marine Hydrokinetic EnergyHenriette I. Jager and Lindsay M. WickmanPART IV THE FUTURE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION10 Renewable Energy Policy Directives: Implications for Wildlife ConservationEdward B. Arnett11 Renewable Energy Ecology: The Next Frontier in Wildlife ScienceSteven M. Grodsky, Sarah R. Fritts, and Rebecca R. HernandezIndex

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Book SynopsisA seasoned writer and teacher of memoir explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Since 2013, David Chrisinger has taught military veterans, their families, and other trauma survivors how to make sense of and recount their stories of loss and transformation. The lessons he imparts can be used by anyone who has ever experienced trauma, particularly people with a deep need to share that experience in a way that leads to connection and understanding. In Stories Are What Save Us, Chrisinger showsthrough writing exercises, memoir excerpts, and lessons he's learned from his studentsthe most efficient ways to uncover and effectively communicate what you've learned while fighting your life's battles, whatever they may be. Chrisinger explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Weaving together his journey as a writer, editor, andTrade ReviewI was thoroughly engaged both by Chrisinger's stories of his family and friends, as well as his journey to craft his experiences into stories.—John Capecci, Living Proof AdvocacyTable of ContentsForeword, by Brian TurnerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. AtonementPart I. The SearchingChapter 1. Finding Your Story of TransformationChapter 2. Uncovering Your Object of DesireChapter 3. Recognizing the Story underneath Your StoryChapter 4. Turning Yourself into a CharacterPart II. The StructureChapter 5. Incorporating the Five Essentials of StorytellingChapter 6. Starting with One True ThingPart III. The StoryChapter 7. Crafting Immersive ScenesChapter 8. Using Fiction to Tell the TruthChapter 9. Telling Your Story to Build Connection and UnderstandingAfterword, by Angela RickettsStorytelling ExercisesSuggested Further ReadingAbout the AuthorIndex

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Book SynopsisThe captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic over the course of six decades is a front-row seat to iconic feats of exploration, from the successful hunt for the Titanic to Jane Goodall's field studies, offering a rare portrait of one of the most iconic media empires in history and making an impassioned argument for our enduring need to know and care for our world.Though his career path had been paved by four generations of his family before him, Gilbert M. Grosvenor left his own mark on the National Geographic Society, founded in 1888 and recognised the world over by its ubiquitous yellow border. In an unflinchingly honest memoir as big as the world and all that is in it, Grosvenor shows us what it was like to 'grow up Geographic' in a family home where explorers like Robert Peary, Louis Leakey, and Jane Goodall regularly crossed the threshold. As staff photographer, editor in chief and then president of the organisation, Grosvenor oversaw the

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Book SynopsisIn this mesmerizing book of photography, acclaimed photographer David Liittschwager reveals the unnerving beauty of three notoriously mysterious sea creatures--the jellyfish, octopus, and seahorse--and how they perceive the world.   The jellyfish, the octopus, and the seahorse are among the most wondrous species on Earth--as well as some of the most difficult to document using traditional photography methods. Enter celebrated photographer David Liittschwager, who has spent decades developing specialized portraiture techniques to capture these creatures’ pulsating bioluminescence, translucent bodies, and ethereal movements.   This luminous collection showcases 200 of Liittschwager’s most revealing photographs, paired with penetrating essays that explain how a creature without a brain or without bones perceives the world. Bestselling science writers Elizabeth Kolbert, Jennifer Holland, and Olivia Judson explain the biology and advanced

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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the interconnected nature of environmental geology and the multidimensional processes of the Earth, this new edition of Merritt''s classic text provides a balanced approach to environmental issues and builds student understanding with case studies, conceptual explanations, and relevant presentation of material.

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Book SynopsisWater resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. To investigate water politics, this unique work focuses on the issue transboundary water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa.Based on extensive field research, it offers a comparative study of the Orange Senqu and Nile basins in Africa, arguing that both causal and behavioral factors (such as localization and trust building) drive the multi-leveled development of cooperative management norms and foster the creation of regional communities of interest.The book combines theory, analysis, and fieldwork within the framework of Constructivism as well as a wide range of examples to identify and analyze the nature of norms in hydropolitics. By doing so, it will help shape the debate on how water conflict and cooperative governance should evolve and will interest anyoneTrade Review[Jacobs'] empirical materials are rich, and the book provides a good introduction to the international dimension of these issues. * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction / 1. Constructing Complexity and Soft Power in Transboundary Water Governance / 2. Multi-level Water Governance: Factors, Actors, Process / 3. The Orange-Senqu River Basin and the Importance of the Past / 4. The Nile River Basin and a Changing Landscape / 5. Comparison of Multi-level Water Governance in Southern and East Africa / 6. Scaling out to Environmental Politics: Lessons learned from Water / 7. Water as a tool for Regional Integration and Policy Implications / Conclusion. Exploring New Frontiers in Transboundary Water Governance

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Book SynopsisPreface.- I. CONTEXT.- The Ecosystem Concept.- Earth's Climate System.- Geology, Soils, and Sediments.- II. MECHANISMS.- Water and Energy Balance.- Carbon Inputs to  Ecosystems.- Plant Carbon Budgets.- TerrDecomposition and Ecosystem Carbon Budgets.- Plant Nutrient Use.- Nutrient Cycling.- Trophic Dynamics.- Species Effects on Ecosystem Processes.- III. PATTERNS.- Temporal Dynamics.- Landscape Heterogeneity and Ecosystem Dynamics.- IV. INTEGRATION.- Changes in the Earth System.- Managing and Sustaining Ecosystem.- Abbreviations.- Glossary.- References.Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition:"This textbook includes 16 chapters, each ending with a summary, review questions and references to additional readings. … It is especially characterized by the great importance (250 pp.) which is attributed to abiotic aspects of ecosystem ecology and to production processes as well as nutrient cycling … . All these chapters are structured in an excellent and well organized way. … Altogether, the authors have well succeeded in writing a comprehensive textbook, mainly for graduate students." (Angelika Schwabe, Phytocoenologia, Vol. 34 (3), 2004)"This comprehensive textbook outlines the central processes that characterize terrestrial ecosystems, tracing the flow of water, carbon, and nutrients from their abiotic origins to their cycles through plants, animals, and decomposer organisms. … This book synthesizes current advances in ecology with established theory to offer a complete survey of ecosystem pattern and process in the terrestrial environment. … suitable for use in all courses on ecosystem ecology. Resource managers, land use managers, and researchers will also welcome its thorough presentation of ecosystem essentials." (Ethology, Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 15 (4), 2003)From the reviews of the second edition:“An outstanding textbook which, after definitions, sets the stage with primers on Earth’s climate system and geological processes. What follows is a magisterial and comprehensive account of the movements of water, energy, carbon and nutrients though natural systems. … authors delve into the finer detail and explain how biological processes can have important modulating effects through space and time. … The book is well written throughout and punctuated with excellent colour illustrations; no-one from undergraduates to established researchers can fail to learn something from it.” (Frontiers of Biogeography, Vol. 3 (3), 2011)Table of ContentsPreface.- I. CONTEXT.- The Ecosystem Concept.- Earth's Climate System.- Geology, Soils, and Sediments.- II. MECHANISMS.- Water and Energy Balance.- Carbon Inputs to Ecosystems.- Plant Carbon Budgets.- TerrDecomposition and Ecosystem Carbon Budgets.- Plant Nutrient Use.- Nutrient Cycling.- Trophic Dynamics.- Species Effects on Ecosystem Processes.- III. PATTERNS.- Temporal Dynamics.- Landscape Heterogeneity and Ecosystem Dynamics.- IV. INTEGRATION.- Changes in the Earth System.- Managing and Sustaining Ecosystem.- Abbreviations.- Glossary.- References.

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Book SynopsisCases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international lawboth its content and its relevance become clearer in times of controversybut conflict can also help shape the law.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Constructive Conflicts 2. Trail Smelter and Beyond: Evolving Regimes, Emerging Principles 3. Indonesian Haze 4. Baia Mare Cyanide Spill 5. MOX at Sellafield 6. Turbot War 7. Voyage of the Clemenceau 8. Uruguayan Pulp Mills 9. From Conflict to Law Bibliography List of Acronyms Index

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Book SynopsisThe world''s coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas, they are of enormous importance to humans and understanding how they are shaped and change is crucial to our future.Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphologybegins by discussing coastal systems and shows how these systems link to the processes examined in detail throughout the book. These include the morphodynamic paradigm, tides, waves and sediment transport. Later chapters explore fluvial deltas, estuaries, beaches and barriers, coastal sand dunes and geologically-influenced coasts such as cliffs, coral reefs and atolls. A new chapter addresses the forward-facing aspect of coastal morphodynamics, including the ways in which coasts respond to rapid climate changes such as present day global warming. Also new to this second edition is a chapter on future coasts which considers the wider effects of coastal change on other importaTable of Contents1. Coastal systems2. Sea level3. Tides4. Waves5. Sediments, boundary layers and transport6. Fluvial-dominated coastal environments - deltas7. Tide-dominated coastal environments - Estuaries8. Wave-dominated coastal environments - beaches and barriers9. Coastal sand dunes10. Geologically-controlled coastal environments - rocky shorelines and coral coasts11. Coasts and climate change12. Future coasts

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Book SynopsisIn North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy all include elements of historical ecology in their planning processes. Similar approaches are part of land management and conservation in Europe and Australia. Each of these user groups must struggle with the added complication of rapid climate change, rapid land-use change, and technical issues in order to employ historical ecology effectively. Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management explores the utility of historical ecology in a management and conservation context and the development of concepts related to understanding future ranges of variability. It provides guidance and insights to all those entrusted with managing aTrade Review“The book provides a rich summary and critique of such ideas and approaches that will provide material both for under-graduate courses and for ecologists interested in the theory and practice of understanding historical ecological dynamics.” (Ecological Management & Restoration, 18 May 2015) “But each chapter provides guidance on how historical ecology may be fruitfully applied to specific cases of management giving the reader much hope for the future and for potential course corrections on the landscape.” (Landscape Ecol, 15 January 2015) "Overall, a very useful reference for advanced students in conservation and ecosystem management as well as researchers and managers developing future adaptation plans. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 March 2013)Table of ContentsContributors, vii Foreword, x Preface, xii Acknowledgments, xiv SECTION 1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, 1 JOHN A. WIENS 1 Setting the stage: theoretical and conceptual background of historical range of variation, 3 WILLIAM H. ROMME, JOHN A. WIENS, AND HUGH D. SAFFORD 2 Development of historical ecology concepts and their application to resource management and conservation, 19 WAYNE PADGETT, BARBARA SCHRADER, MARY MANNING, AND TIMOTHY TEAR SECTION 2 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES, 29 HUGH D. SAFFORD 3 Challenges in the application of historical range of variation to conservation and land management, 32 GREGORY D. HAYWARD, THOMAS T. VEBLEN, LOWELL H. SURING, AND BOB DAVIS 4 Historical ecology, climate change, and resource management: can the past still inform the future? 46 HUGH D. SAFFORD, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, NICOLE E. HELLER, AND JOHN A. WIENS 5 What is the scope of "history" in historical ecology? Issues of scale in management and conservation, 63 JOHN A. WIENS, HUGH D. SAFFORD, KEVIN MCGARIGAL, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND MARY MANNING 6 Native Americans, ecosystem development, and historical range of variation, 76 GREGORY J. NOWACKI, DOUGLAS W. MACCLEERY, AND FRANK K. LAKE 7 Conservation and resource management in a changing world: extending historical range of variation beyond the baseline, 92 STEPHEN T. JACKSON SECTION 3 MODELING HISTORIC VARIATION AND ITS APPLICATION FOR UNDERSTANDING FUTURE VARIABILITY, 111 ROBERT E. KEANE 8 Creating historical range of variation (HRV) time series using landscape modeling: overview and issues, 113 ROBERT E. KEANE 9 Modeling historical range of variability at a range of scales: an example application, 128 KEVIN MCGARIGAL AND WILLIAM H. ROMME SECTION 4 CASE STUDIES OF APPLICATIONS, 147 GREGORY D. HAYWARD 10 Regional application of historical ecology at ecologically defi ned scales: forest ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range, 149 THOMAS T. VEBLEN, WILLIAM H. ROMME, AND CLAUDIA REGAN 11 Incorporating concepts of historical range of variation in ecosystem-based management of British Columbia's coastal temperate rainforest, 166 ANDY MACKINNON AND SARI C. SAUNDERS 12 Incorporating HRV in Minnesota national forest land and resource management plans: a practitioner's story, 176 MARY SHEDD, JIM GALLAGHER, MICHAEL JIMÉNEZ, AND DUANE LULA 13 Applying historical fire-regime concepts to forest management in the western United States: three case studies, 194 THOMAS E. DEMEO, FREDERICK J. SWANSON, EDWARD B. SMITH, STEVEN C. BUTTRICK, JANE KERTIS, JEANNE RICE, CHRISTOPHER D. RINGO, AMY WALTZ, CHRIS ZANGER, CHERYL A. FRIESEN, AND JOHN H. CISSEL 14 Using historical ecology to inform wildlife conservation, restoration, and management, 205 BETH A. HAHN AND JOHN L. CURNUTT 15 River floodplain restoration experiments offer a window into the past, 218 RAMONA O. SWENSON, RICHARD J. REINER, MARK REYNOLDS, AND JAYMEE MARTY 16 Streams past and future: fluvial responses to rapid environmental change in the context of historical variation, 232 DANIEL A. AUERBACH, N. LEROY POFF, RYAN R. MCSHANE, DAVID M. MERRITT, MATTHEW I. PYNE, AND THOMAS K. WILDING 17 A framework for applying the historical range of variation concept to ecosystem management, 246 WILLIAM H. ROMME, GREGORY D. HAYWARD, AND CLAUDIA REGAN SECTION 5 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, 263 JOHN A. WIENS 18 Ecological history guides the future of conservation: lessons from Africa, 265 A.R.E. SINCLAIR 19 Ecological history has present and future ecological consequences – case studies from Australia, 273 DAVID LINDENMAYER 20 A view from the past to the future, 281 KEITH J. KIRBY 21 Is the historical range of variation relevant to rangeland management? 289 BRANDON T. BESTELMEYER 22 Knowing the Fennoscandian taiga: ecohistorical lessons, 297 YRJÖ HAILA SECTION 6 CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE, 305 23 Reflections on the relevance of history in a nonstationary world, 307 JULIO L. BETANCOURT 24 The growing importance of the past in managing ecosystems of the future, 319 HUGH D. SAFFORD, JOHN A. WIENS, AND GREGORY D. HAYWARD Index, 329 Colour plate pages fall between pp. 162 and 163

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Book SynopsisIn this provocative book, journalist Peter Hetherington argues that Britain, particularly England, needs an active land policy to protect against record land price increases that threaten food security and housing provision for Britain's expanding population.Trade Review"In his thought-provoking and insightful book Peter Hetherington poses an important question about the future of Britain, do we use land for the benefit of all our citizens or for a privileged few? It is the right question to ask." Kate Henderson, TCPA Chief Executive"Peter Hetherington breaks the extraordinary silence that surrounds land ownership and compels us to address what should be one of the great political controversies of modern Britain." Professor John Tomaney, UCL“[Peter Hetherington] puts at the centre concerns about who owns Britain and details the consequences this can have for individuals, for communities and for society at large.” People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsLand for All?; The People’s Land?; Land Denied; Land Secure?; Unclear Ownership; Land for the People; Villages and neighbourhoods rising; Highlands and islands rising; Will England Rise?.

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