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Baby Professor Major Rivers of the World Earth Geography Grade 4
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Baby Professor The Strongest Quakes That Shook the Earth
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Coach House Books Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to
Book SynopsisA warning, a movement, a collection borne of protest. In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps are melting, wildfires are raging, and species extinction is accelerating. Dire predictions about the climate emergency from scientists, Indigenous land and water defenders, and striking school children have mostly been ignored by the very institutions – government, education, industry, and media – with the power to do something about it. Writers and artists confront colonization, racism, and the social inequalities that are endemic to the climate crisis. Here the imagination amplifies and humanizes the science. These works are impassioned, desperate, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical. This is a call to climate-justice action. Edited by Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, Kathryn Mockler, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, and Jacqueline Valencia Proceeds will be donated to RAVEN and Climate Justice Toronto.Trade ReviewThis makes Watch Your Head bigger than the sum of its parts. By assembling so many voices, the book shows what an ethic of climate justice needs to look like: a place where multiple perspectives are bound together and share some common needs, but raise distinct concerns that will not be reduced to a singular vision. —Canadian Literature
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the
Book SynopsisChronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Chronicles is a book literally risen from the ashes-beginning in 2008 after her home burned to the ground-and collectively is an accounting of Winona's personal path of recovery, finding strength and resilience in the writing itself as well as in her work. Long awaited, Chronicles is a labour of love, a tribute to those who have passed on and those yet to arrive.
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Broadview Press Ltd Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents
Book SynopsisIn 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This decision concluded a decade-long, highly contentious debate over the dam-and-reservoir complex to supply water to post-earthquake San Francisco, a battle that was dramatic, unsettling, and consequential. Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context. Key to understanding the debate is the prior and violent dispossession of California Indians from the valley they had stewarded for thousands of years. Their removal by the mid-19th century enabled white elite tourism to take over, setting the stage for the subsequent debate for and against the dam in the early 20th century. That debate contained a Faustian bargain. To secure an essential water supply for San Francisco meant the destruction of the valley John Muir and others praised so highly. This contentious situation continues reverberate, as interest groups now battle over whether to tear down the dam and restore the valley. Hetch Hetchy remains a dramatic flash point in American environmental culture.Trade Review“Carefully constructed, brilliantly brought together by design and expert commentary, this collection is a wonder. It will influence how I teach environmental history, the history of California, the history of conservation, and the history of water in the West…. This is what documents collections should all strive to be. Expertly edited, deeply researched, and cast out across thousands of years of history, this Hetch Hetchy collection is a must-have compilation of documents and images. In brilliant case-study fashion, the book works outward from a specific site to tell much broader stories about nature, landscape, and history.” — William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West“Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents is a much-needed addition to any discussions of public lands in the United States. Char Miller has brought together an impressive collection of documents, not simply outlining the classic Muir-Pinchot debate that is so commonly referenced in environmental literature but also including the origin stories and other narratives of the valley’s original Indigenous inhabitants and the violent history of their expulsion to make way for Yosemite National Park. By encouraging readers to engage with the original materials, rather than simply read someone else’s analysis, the book encourages a renewed and more nuanced look at the Hetch Hetchy Valley and the controversies that continue to arise about the ‘best’ use of this place.” — Laura A. Watt, Sonoma State University“A treasure of painstakingly gathered and annotated primary historical documents that animate the vibrant history of Hetch Hetchy Valley and Yosemite National Park in the words of those who lived it, this book serves as an invaluable resource for students of the park or of California or U.S. environmental history—or anyone interested in the turbulent history of the valley. The lives of the Indigenous inhabitants and their struggles to remain on the land, the park as tourist object, the landmark early twentieth-century battle between preservationists (chief among them John Muir, who would save the valley) and conservationists (who would dam and flood it), and more recent efforts to restore the valley by tearing down the dam, all come to light through contemporary writings, testimony, diaries, magazine articles, and photographs. Indeed, through this book Hetch Hetchy Valley itself emerges back into daylight. I am excited to use it with my students.” — Kenneth Worthy, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology Questions to Consider Part 1: INDIGENOUS GROUNDS Origin Stories 1. How the World Grew 2. Origin of the Mountains 3. The Legend of Tu-Tok-A-Nu’-La 4. The Origins of the Present Floor of the Yosemite Valley 5. The Legend of Tis-se’-yak 6. The Spirits of Po-ho-no Expulsion 7. Extracts from Governor Peter Burnett, "State of the State Address" (1851) 8. Extract from James Mason Hutchings, "The Yo-Ham-i-te Valley," Hutchings’ California Magazine (1856) 9. Extract from L. H. Bunnell, "How the Yo-semite Valley was Discovered and Named," Hutchings’ California Magazine (1859) 10. Yosemite Indian Petition to the United States (1891) 11. Extracts from John Muir, The Mountains of California (1894) Part 2: TOURIST SANCTUARY Image Gallery: Visitors’ Views 12. Extracts from James Mason Hutchings, "The Yo-Ham-i-te Valley," Hutchings’ California Magazine (1856) 13. Extracts from the Diary of Sarah Haight, "Wedding Party in Yosemite," (1858) 14. The Yosemite Grant Act of 1864 15. Extract from Frederick Law Olmsted, Preliminary Report upon the Yosemite and Big Tree Grove (1865) 16. Extracts from Alice Ives Van Schaak, A Familiar Letter from a daughter to her mother (1871) 17. Extracts from Helen Hunt, Bits of Travel at Home (1878) Part 3: BATTLE FOR WILDERNESS 18. Charles Frederick Hoffmann, "Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley," Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (1868) 19. John Muir, "The Hetch Hetchy Valley," Boston Weekly Transcript (1873) 20. An act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations (1890) 21. Joint Resolution Accepting the recession by the State of California of the Yosemite Valley Grant and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove (1906) 22. Letter from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt, September 9, 1907 23. Letter of Theodore Roosevelt to John Muir, September 16, 1907 24. Petition of Marsden Manson, City Engineer of San Francisco, on Behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, May 7, 1908 25. Decision of the Secretary of the Interior, May 11, 1908 26. Letter of the American Civic Association to the Committee on Public Lands, December 15, 1908 27. Letter of the Appalachian Mountain Club to the Committee on Public Lands, December 15, 1908 28. Telegram from the Sierra Club to the Committee on Public Lands, December 16, 1908 Image Gallery: 1910 Resolutions on Hetch Hetchy i. Resolution of the Graffort Club of Portsmouth NH ii. Resolution from the Hypatia Women’s Club of San Francisco 29. John Muir, "Dam Hetch Hetchy" from The Yosemite (1912) 30. AN ACT Granting to the city and county of San Francisco certain rights of way in, over and through certain public lands (1913) 31. Extracts of the Statement of Mr. W.C. Lehane, of California, to the Committee on Public Lands (1913) 32. Extracts of Gifford Pinchot’s Testimony before the Committee on Public Lands, (1913) 33. Extracts of the Statement of Hon. Herbert Parsons, of New York City, before the Committee on Public Lands (1913) 34. Extracts of James Phelan’s testimony before the Committee on Public Lands (1913) 35. Extracts of the Statement of Mt. Richard B. Waltrous, of Washington D.C., Secretary of the American Civic Association, to the Committee on Public Lands (1913) 36. Extracts of the Statement of Mr. John R. Freeman, of Boston, Mass., Engineer in Charge of the Hetch Hetchy Project (1913) 37. Extracts of the Statement of Hon. William Kent, Representative in Congress from California, to the Committee on Public Lands (1913) Image Gallery: 1913 Petitions i. HR 7207: A Bill granting the city of San Francisco… ii. Protest Against the Diversion of Water from Lands Requiring Irrigation iii. Petition from the Widows and Orphans and Mutual Aid Associations of San Francisco iv. Petition from the Society for the Preservation of National Parks Against Granting San Francisco the Hetch Hetchy Valley v. Resolution from the Augusta, Hallowell, and Gardner Central Labor Union of Maine in Favor of the Raker Bill vi. Petition from the University of Oklahoma Professors vii. Telegram from the SF Council of Knights of Columbus 615 viii. Resolution of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs ix. San Francisco Examiner Petition to the Senate of the United States Part 4: HETCH HETCHY RESTORED? 38. Carl Pope, "Undamming Hetch Hetchy," Sierra Magazine (1987) 39. "Interview with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel," Environs (1988) 40. Extracts from the State of California Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study (2006) 41. San Francisco Proposition F Ballot Measure (2012) 42. Tim Redmond, "Not until we have clean energy," Earth Island Journal (2012) 43. Spreck Rosekrans, "Hetch Hetchy: A century of occupation in Yosemite National Park," Maven’s Notebook (2013) Glossary of Key Figures and Terms Select Bibliography
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Affordable Housing Mediation – Building Consensus for Regional Agreements in the Hartford and Greater Bridgeport Areas
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Implementing a Local Property Tax Where There Is
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Smart Growth Policies – An Evaluation of Programs
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Arrested Developments – Combating Zombie
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Making Land Legible – Cadastres for Urban
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Island Press Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the
Book SynopsisIn Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human domination; causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they are; overemphasizes success and careers; separates feeling from intellect and the practical from the theoretical; deadens the sense of wonder for the created world. The crisis we face, Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge. The author begins by establishing the grounds for a debate about education and knowledge. He describes the problems of education from an ecological perspective, and challenges the "terrible simplifiers" who wish to substitute numbers for values. He follows with a presentation of principles for re-creating education in the broadest way possible, discussing topics such as biophilia, the disciplinary structure of knowledge, the architecture of educational buildings, and the idea of ecological intelligence. Orr concludes by presenting concrete proposals for reorganizing the curriculum to draw out our affinity for life.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Agrometeorology: Principles and Applications of
Book SynopsisLearn how the climate can affect crop production! Agrometeorology: Principles and Applications of Climate Studies in Agriculture is a much-needed reference resource on the practice of merging the science of meteorology with the service of agriculture. Written in a concise, straightforward style, the book presents examples of clinical applications (methods, techniques, models, and services) in varying climates and agricultural systems, documenting up-to-date research literature from around the world. Its systematic approachdifferent from most books on the subjectmakes it an essential tool for teaching, planning, and practical use by working farmers, as it examines topics such as solar radiation, effective rain, drought monitoring, evapotranspiration, and remote sensing. Agrometeorology: Principles and Applications of Climate Studies in Agriculture examines the developing discipline that international agencies such as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have declared to be an important growth area in university education. A panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners explore the role of agrometeorology in optimum crop growth, from the interactions between meteorological and hydrological factors and agriculture, including horticulture, animal husbandry, and forestry. The book addresses pressing topics of agriculture resource utilization and management, such as regional and land use planning; soil and water conservation; frost; growing degree day; risk analysis of climate hazards; animal parasites; harvest forecasts; crop models; decision support systems (DSS); agroclimatological forecast; and the ecological and economic implications of climate change. Agrometeorology: Principles and Applications of Climate Studies in Agriculture also addresses: managing farm water resources environmental temperature planning for frost mitigation photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) thermoperiodism managing the extremesdroughts and floods using computers to manage agricultural systems and much more! The interdisciplinary focus and reader-friendly style of Agrometeorology: Principles and Applications of Climate Studies in Agriculture make the book invaluable to scientists, planners, and academics working in the major agricultural sciences, geography, natural resource studies, and meteorology.Table of ContentsPreface,, Acknowledgments,, Chapter 1. Agrometeorology: Perspectives and Applications,, Definition,, A Holistic Science,, Scope,, Practical Utility,, Chronology of Developments,, Future Needs,, Chapter 2. Solar Radiation and Its Role in Plant Growth,, The Sun: The Source of Energy,, Nature and Laws of Radiation,, Earth’s Annual Global Mean Radiative Energy Budget,, Solar Radiation and Crop Plants,, Solar Radiation Interception by Plants,, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR),, Solar Radiation Use Efficiency,, Chapter 3. Environmental Temperature and Crop Production,, Soil Temperature,, Air Temperature,, Plant Injury Due to Sudden Changes in Temperature,, Frost: Damage and Control,, Thermoperiodism,, Temperature As a Measure of Plant Growth and Development,, Chapter 4. Climatological Methods for Managing Farm Water Resources,, Water for Crop Production,, Making Effective Use of Rainfall,, Evaporation and Evapotranspiration,, Water Use and Loss in Irrigation,, Climatological Information in Improving Water-Use Efficiency (WUE),, Reducing Water Losses from Reservoirs,, Chapter 5. Drought Monitoring and Planning for Mitigation,, Definition of Drought,, Meteorological Indicators of Drought,, Drought Monitoring in Australia,, Drought Exceptional Circumstances,, Overview of Drought Assessment Methods,, Meeting the Challenge: A Drought Mitigation Plan,, Desertification,, Chapter 6. Climate, Crop Pests, and Parasites of Animals,, Role of Weather
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Environment & Energy
Book SynopsisPart of the "Energy & Environmental Progress" Series.
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Milkweed Editions North American Odyssey
Book Synopsis“Deep down, there is just something that draws us to the land, to wild places. We were there to listen to the land.”When National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman marry, they set out on an unusual honeymoon: a three-year, 12,000-mile journey across North America. From Alaska’s Inside Passage to Florida’s Key West, they traverse the continent by kayak, canoe, dogsled, and skis, encountering wildlife, sublime landscapes, and harrowing challenges.Along the way, the Freemans also bear witness to environmental degradation and climate change—from plastic-covered beaches to forest fires to retreating glaciers. And as they engage with Native and rural communities most impacted by the changes resulting from modern industrial society and meet individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the natural world, their adventure deepens in ways they never imagined.From the white-knuckle rush of paddling white wa
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Guilford Publications Eight Eurocentric Historians
Book SynopsisThis volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his previous book, The Colonizer's Model of the World, which provided a systematic overview of the nature and evolution of Eurocentrism, Blaut focuses in depth on Max Weber, Lynn White, Jr., Robert Brenner, Eric L. Jones, Michael Mann, John A. Hall, Jared Diamond, and David Landes. The role of each of these thinkers in generating colonialist understandings of history is described, and the fallacious assumptions at the roots of their arguments are revealed. Working toward an alternative understanding of the origins of modernity, this clearly written book provides invaluable insights and tools for students and scholars of history, geography, sociology, anthropology, and postcolonialism. Trade ReviewThis is a hard-hitting but infinitely justified skewering of the standard line on the 'miracle' of the West's rise to hegemony. Blaut begins with the Eurocentric racism of Max Weber vis-à-vis Islam and the Far East, and proceeds methodically down to Weber's most recent heirs, including Eric Jones and David Landes. He demonstrates his points through a close, albeit critical, reading of the works of these eight historians who have attributed Western superiority to ideology, values, capitalism, geopolitics, climate, and technological inventiveness. Blaut sets forth a powerful alternative explanation, one he promises to expand in a forthcoming third volume. --Janet Abu-Lughod, Department of Sociology, New School for Social ResearchThis book is a sequel and complement to Blaut's earlier work, The Colonizer's Model of the World, in which he examined and rejected alleged European exeptionalism' and superiority based on religion, race, environment, and culture. Blaut returns to this same battlefield now. One after another, as in a shooting gallery, he not only hits but dissects and completely demolishes the ideology-dressed-up-as-theory of the eight most prominent exponents of Eurocentrism, from the now classic statement of Max Weber to its contemporary best selling versions by Jared Diamond and David Landes. A 'must' for macro sociologists and historians. --Andre Gunder Frank, Visiting Professor of International Relations, University of Miami and Florida International UniversityThis book dissects and completely demolishes the ideology-dressed-up-as-theory of the eight most prominent exponents of Eurocentrism in world history, from the now classic statement of Max Weber to its contemporary bestselling versions by Jared Diamond and David Landes. A 'must' for macro sociologists and historians. --Andre Gunder Frank, Visiting Professor of International Relations, University of Miami and Florida International UniversityThis is a significant work, one that is sure to be both widely read and controversial. Blaut contends with some major thinkers whose work has been relatively unchallenged. He takes strong critical positions and backs them up thoroughly. --Ronald H. Chilcote, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside; editor of Latin American PerspectivesThis book is original...timely, well-written, and accessible. I would recommend it for capstone undergraduate history courses and for introductory graduate-level courses in world history. --Peter Gran, Department of History, Temple University, author of Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History -Table of Contents1. Eurocentric History2. Max Weber: Western Rationality3. Lynn White, Jr.: Inventive Europeans4. Robert Brenner: The Tunnel of Time5. Eric L. Jones: The European Miracle6. Michael Mann: The March of History7. John A. Hall: Democratic Europeans8. Jared Diamond: Euro-Environmentalism9. David Landes: The Empire Strikes Back10. Thirty Reasons Why Europeans Are Better Than Everyone Else (A Checklist)11. The Model
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SteinerBooks, Inc Sensitive Beekeeping: Practicing Vulnerability
Book SynopsisYou might have heard that bees are in trouble -- but in fact, the trouble is coming our way too and bees are just showing it first. The looming environmental crisis means that, as a result of modern agricultural practices and pesticide,s we may well fail to prevent honeybee collapse.Honeybees are vital to the health of our planet, and this book is designed to equip and encourage small-scale backyard beekeepers -- who may end up having the only strong, healthy honeybees left. An expert beekeeper, Jack Bresette-Mills calls his approach 'sensitive beekeeping'. He promotes beekeeping without fear, beekeeping for the sake of the bee rather than for profit, and learning to answer your own questions about beekeeping. It's an approach that takes time, practice and patience to develop, and requires physical, mental and spiritual transformation. In the long run though, it results in healthier, sustainable hives and a happier beekeeper.Trade Review'This little book differs from all the other beekeeping books I have read by inviting the reader to undertake personal development and suggests some simple exercises for enhancing thinking, feeling and willing.'-- Natural Bee Husbandry
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ESRI Press Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS
Book SynopsisHuman geography, taught with live, interactive maps and data for a unique geographic perspective.The essential concepts and theories of human geography are brought to life thanks to the innovative integration of modern web maps.Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online, second edition, explains topics such as migration, race and ethnicity, food and agriculture, manufacturing and services, urban geography, and cultural geography. Unlike traditional textbooks, this book approaches geography through the use of ArcGIS® Online and provides exercises for interacting with, analyzing, and creating maps. ArcGIS Online is a browser-based geographic information system (GIS) that allows users to explore thousands of geographic datasets and interactive maps.Students using this book use live data and maps to ground their understanding of how the world is organized and how human and physical features interact to create unique places and regions. Each chapter includes ArcGIS Online exercises that reinforce geographic concepts.This second edition features updated maps, figures, and charts reflecting the latest data and includes new text on contemporary issues, from race, ethnicity, and political geography to pollution and climate change.Designed for undergraduate college and AP high school students, Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online, second edition, uses the latest geospatial data and web-based technology to teach critical thinking and evaluate the diversity of people within their environments and their global impact.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 PopulationsChapter 3 MigrationChapter 4 Race and ethnicityChapter 5 Urban geographyChapter 6 Food and agricultureChapter 7 ManufacturingChapter 8 ServicesChapter 9 DevelopmentChapter 10 Culturual geography -- folk and popular culture, language, religionChapter 11 Political geographyChapter 12 Climate changeIndex
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Guilford Publications The Europeans, Second Edition: A Geography of
Book SynopsisThis leading text offers a comprehensive, richly nuanced, and authoritative introduction to European geography. Coverage encompasses the entire region: its physical setting and environment, population and migration, languages and religions, and political organization. Particular attention is given to historic and contemporary features of the diverse urban environments in which most Europeans live, work, and play. Combining vivid description, essential information, and cogent analysis, the text is illustrated with more than 200 photographs and 64 maps.New to This Edition *Fully updated to reflect ongoing changes in this dynamic region. *Expanded coverage of timely topics such as emissions and energy policy, aging of the population, migration, religiosity and secularization, ethnonationalism, health care, popular culture, and the future of the European Union. *Engaging vignettes in every chapter on European places, cultural issues, and daily life. *Over 45 new photographs and maps.Trade ReviewThis accessible text provides insights into historical and current issues in Europe, integrating concepts from physical, urban, political, and cultural geography. Students gain a comprehensive understanding of European geography and get useful suggestions for further reading. The new vignettes in the second edition illustrate concepts introduced in each chapter.--Micheline van Riemsdijk, Department of Geography, University of TennesseeWell written and admirably comprehensive, this book covers topics ranging from the retooling of the welfare state in formerly Communist countries, to continent-wide patterns of retailing, to religiosity and secularization. The authors reveal plenty of firsthand experience in the region. Updates in the second edition enhance what was already a fine textbook for undergraduate courses.--John Western, Department of Geography, Syracuse UniversityThe Europeans has quickly become the standard textbook for undergraduate geography courses on the region and its people. Retaining the clear structure, accessible writing, and appealing layout that characterized its predecessor, this second edition has been thoroughly revised to cover recent developments in the region. In addition to dozens of new images and maps, each chapter is accompanied by new vignettes on diverse topics--including urbanization and environmental change, immigration and nationalism, energy use, and health care--which help bring the region and its people to life for students.--Joshua Hagen, Department of Geography, Marshall UniversityA superb introduction to European geography, this text is impressive for its expansive breadth and meticulous attention to detail. Each chapter examines historic and contemporary features of a geographic theme, combining canonic knowledge of Europe with critical insights into the construction of our cultural perspectives. The clear and consistent structure, engaging writing, and informative illustrations make this book ideal for undergraduate education.--Paul Stangl, Department of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University- This volume is an excellent general text for undergraduate students of geography and all others interested in a thorough introduction to this most important region. It is very well written, tightly edited and nicely structured so that it holds the reader's attention....This book's structure is refreshing and engaging....Virtually every important point made in the text is supplemented by a map, table, or photograph. The maps are especially clear, well chosen, and useful. --Regional Studies, 3/9/2011Table of Contents1. Introduction: Europe as a Culture Realm I. People and Environment 2. European Environments 3. Population 4. Human–Environment Interaction II. Culture and Identity 5. Language 6. Religion and Values 7. The Political Landscape III. Towns and Cities 8. Cities and Urban Life to World War I 9. Modern and Postmodern Urbanism IV. Work and Leisure 10. Making a Living 11. Consumption, Leisure, and Popular Culture 12. Epilogue: European Futures
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MONDIAL Crusoes in Siberia. The Fairest Judgment
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The Library of America Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Acid Rain Research Focus
Book SynopsisAcid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation which is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals and buildings. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulphur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. In recent years, many governments have introduced laws to reduce these emissions. This book examines new research results from around the world.
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Workman Publishing Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to
Book Synopsis“Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started!” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. Even more important, it’s practical, effective, and easy—you will walk away with specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard. If you’re concerned about doing something good for the environment, Nature’s Best Hope is the blueprint you need. By acting now, you can help preserve our precious wildlife—and the planet—for future generations.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Natural Resource Management
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Rodale Press The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers,
Book SynopsisJournalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world''s soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. As the granddaughter of farmers and the daughter of avid gardeners, Ohlson has long had an appreciation for the soil. A chance conversation with a local chef led her to the crossroads of science, farming, food, and environmentalism and the discovery of the only significant way to remove carbon dioxide from the air—an ecological approach that tends not only to plants and animals but also to the vast population of underground microorganisms that fix carbon in the soil. Ohlson introduces the visionaries—scientists, farmers, ranchers, and landscapers—who are figuring out in the lab and on the ground how to build healthy soil, which solves myriad problems: drought, erosion, air and water pollution, and food quality, as well as climate change. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
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Island Press Urban Street Design Guide
Book SynopsisThe NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritise safe driving and transit, cycling, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasises the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird's eye view to granular details. Case studies show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city's unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: Streets are public spaces - streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic; Great streets are great for business - well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners; Design for safety - traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, cycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely; and, Streets can be changed - transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street, and many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.
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Michigan State University Press Green Communication and China: On Crisis, Care,
Book SynopsisHow does China speak for nature? How are the pollution and climate change crises being addressed? What are the possibilities and limitations of mobilizing publics to care about the environment through new media, tourism, and government policy? Green Communication and China is the first volume to identify the importance of studying environmental communication in, about, and with China, a rising global environmental leader whose ecological and political controversies often make international headlines. Organized into three sections on communicating crisis, communicating care, and environmental futurity, these essays span multimodal communication practices and methods in green public culture and address topics ranging from The North Face advertisements to NGO advocacy to global governmental policy. The volume showcases the work of leading scholars, all of them deeply intimate with China, in disciplines ranging from cultural studies and rhetoric to public opinion polling, discourse analysis, ethnic studies, and sociology. These complex projects engage transnational and national politics, ecological and economic challenges, media saturation, and government control. Holding these tensions together without glossing over differences, Green Communication and China will inform new agendas for environmental communication in China, the United States, and beyond.Trade ReviewA must-read for those interested in environmental issues in the globalized China. This collection eloquently weaves influential forces from various sectors to examine how the environment is engaged from the Chinese cultural lens. A groundbreaking resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of environmental communication." - Hsin-i Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University
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Michigan State University Press Wilderness Water and Rust
Book SynopsisWeaving together memories from her life in the upper Midwest with nearly fifty years of environmental policy advocacy work, Elder provides a uniquely moving insider's perspective into the quest to protect the Great Lakes and surrounding public lands.
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Charrette Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to successful charrettes -- those extended exercises that help citizens envision new possibilities for their communities. Based on a program developed by the National Charrette Institute, the book offers a three-phase approach to project management, describing how to organize for a charrette, how to conduct one, and how to put the resulting ideas into effect. The section on preparation has been extensively overhauled for this edition.Table of Contents1. Introduction to the NCI Charrette System 2. The History of the Charrette Process 3. NCI Charrette System Tools and Techniques 4. Charrette Case Studies
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Melville House Publishing The 100% Solution: A Framework for Solving
Book SynopsisThis pithy, accessible and argument-driven book shows the way to 100% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.
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Brown Books Publishing Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death
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The Experiment LLC Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving
Book SynopsisFrom the underreported frontlines of the climate emergency, an at-turns alarming and awe-inspiring work that follows the harrowing migrations of animals and plants fleeing rising temperatures and drought in their natural habitats. As humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And when even these places become too hot and inhospitable, wildlife is left with only one path to survival: an often-formidable journey toward the poles as they race to find a new home in a warming world. Tropical zones lose their inhabitants, beavers settle in Alaska, and gigantic shoals of fish disappear — just to reappear along foreign coastlines. Award-winning environmental journalist Benjamin von Brackel traces these awe-inspiring journeys and celebrates the remarkable resilience of species around the world. But the lengths these plants and animals must go to avoid extinction are as alarming as they are inspirational: Sea animals — like fish — move on average 45 miles a decade to cooler regions, while land animals — like beavers and butterflies — move 11 miles. As even the poles of the Earth heat up, we’re left with a stark and irreversible choice: Halt the climate emergency now, or face a massive die-off of species, who are increasingly left with nowhere else to go.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Foreign Investment in the Petroleum and Mineral Industries: Case Studies of Investor-Host Country Relations
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The New Press The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from
Book SynopsisThe inspiring people and grassroots organizations that are on the front lines of the battle to save the planet As the world's scientists have come together and declared a "climate emergency," the fight to protect our planet's ecological resources and the people that depend on them is more urgent than ever. But the real battles for our future are taking place far from the headlines and international conferences, in mostly forgotten American communities where the brutal realities of industrial pollution and environmental degradation have long been playing out. The World We Need provides a vivid introduction to America's largely unsung grassroots environmental groups—often led by activists of color and the poor—valiantly fighting back in America's so-called sacrifice zones against industries poisoning our skies and waterways and heating our planet. Through original reporting, profiles, artwork, and interviews, we learn how these activist groups, almost always working on shoestring budgets, are devising creative new tactics; building sustainable projects to transform local economies; and organizing people long overlooked by the environmental movement—changing its face along the way. Capturing the riveting stories and hard-won strategies from a broad cross section of pivotal environmental actions—from Standing Rock to Puerto Rico—The World We Need offers a powerful new model for the larger environmental movement, and inspiration for concerned citizens everywhere.Trade ReviewPraise for The World We Need:"[An] illuminating anthology. . . . Lim crisscrosses the country and selects her profile subjects wisely, resulting in an invigorating survey that breaks down stereotypes about tree-hugging coastal elites and highlights just how much change can be achieved at the local level. Progressive policy makers and environmental activists should take note.”—Publishers Weekly “A gripping new anthology. . . . [The World We Need] expertly shows how and why environmental science and social justice activism must work together.”—Forbes “This book is a testament to the idea that choosing people over profits is environmental justice.”—Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and a 2020 MacArthur “genius” fellow “This is a truly important book, piecing together the story of what is, cumulatively, a massive uprising for environmental justice. I’ve gotten to know and work with many of these activists, and everyone should get a charge of optimism from their stories, as well as a sense of the daunting odds they face down so skillfully. We use the word ‘heroes’ a little loosely sometimes, but these people surely are!”—Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
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University of Massachusetts Press Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980
Book SynopsisThe Adirondack region is trapped in a cycle of conflict. Nature lovers advocate for the preservation of wilderness, while sports enthusiasts demand infrastructure for recreation. Local residents seek economic opportunities, while environmentalists fight industrial or real estate growth. These clashes have played out over the course of the twentieth century and continue into the twenty-first.Through a series of case studies, historian Jonathan D. Anzalone highlights the role of public and private interests in the region and shows how partnerships frayed and realigned in the course of several key developments: the rise of camping in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics; the construction of a highway to the top of Whiteface Mountain; the postwar rise of downhill skiing; the completion of I-87 and the resulting demand for second homes; and the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. Battles of the North Country reveals how class, economic self-interest, state power, and a wide range of environmental concerns have shaped modern politics in the Adirondacks and beyond.
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University of Massachusetts Press Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966
Book SynopsisWith skillful storytelling, Matthew McKenzie weaves together the industrial, cultural, political, and ecological history of New England's fisheries through the story of how the Boston haddock fleet - one of the region's largest and most heavily industrialized - rose, flourished, and then fished itself into near oblivion before the arrival of foreign competition in 1961. This fleet also embodied the industry's change during this period, as it shucked its sail-and-oar, hook-and-line origins to embrace mechanized power and propulsion, more sophisticated business practices, and political engagement.Books, films, and the media have long portrayed the Yankee fisherman's hard-scrabble existence, as he faced brutal weather on the open seas and unnecessary governmental restrictions. As McKenzie contends, this simplistic view has long betrayed commercial fisheries' sophisticated legislative campaigns in Washington, DC, as they sought federal subsidies and relief and, eventually, fewer constricting regulations. This clash between fisheries' representation and their reality still grips fishing communities today as they struggle to navigate age-old trends of fleet consolidation, stock decline, and intense competition.
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Speedy Publishing LLC Simple Living: The Beginners Guide to Minimalism
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Boyle & Dalton Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of
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Prometheus Books On Solid Ground: Why the Earth Isn’t as
Book SynopsisOn Solid Ground is intended to inform a general audience about what geologists know about the earth. It will do so by telling the stories of the people who made the discoveries. It will also chronicle the doubters and nay-sayers who have worked so hard to undermine our understanding of the earth. We know, for example, that the earth is old, in part because William Smith created our modern system of dating fossils to win a bar bet. The warming properties of atmospheric carbon dioxide were first discovered by Eunice Newton Foote, when she wasn’t pursuing her other passion –fighting for women’s rights at Seneca Falls. We are sure the earth is round despite the efforts of Samuel Birley Rowbotham, a conman who convinced thousands of people that it was flat before moving on from science to sell bogus health tonics .Each of its nine chapters will contain three things: the human story of a geologic controversy, an explanation of why geologists are so sure about the right answer to that controversy, and a short discussion of the logical fallacies being used by those still unwilling to accept geologic expertise
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Pegasus Books How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History
Book SynopsisThe incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun."Exuberant. Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller [and] challenges the conventional wisdom. This will enrich your everyday personal experiences.”—The Wall Street Journal The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet?For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona?It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet.With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, this revised edition of John Dvorak's monumental How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.Trade Review“Earth scientist John Dvorak’s exuberant new book How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America puts these Anthropocene fires into the context of deep time. Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller. He weaves disparate threads of past worlds into a coherent fabric of time, place and life that provides the ultimate context for all specific modern environmental issues. When reading How the Mountains Grew, I could easily imagine being outdoors with him breaking rocks in a search for fossils, crawling up some canyon wall to count the sands of time or trekking across one of our great ice sheets. His human stories are also fascinating, especially those involving serendipitous discoveries. Is this really a ‘new’ geologic history? Yes. Dvorak challenges the conventional wisdom. [The book] has a vast scope and an envelope-pushing narrative. This new geologic history of North America will enrich your everyday personal experiences.” -- Robert M. Thorson * The Wall Street Journal *“Imagine a world where pigeon-sized dragonflies soar above spiders with half-meter-long legs, where 2-meter-long millipedes slither and 20-kilogram scorpions hunt. About 300 million years ago, such surreal creatures thrived; today, rocks hint at how these and other creatures in the deep past lived. These clues allow geologist and writer John Dvorak to vividly re-create ancient landscapes in How the Mountains Grew.Far from a dusty tome plodding through plate tectonics, the book teems with life as Dvorak establishes inextricable links between geology and biology. Dvorak’s storytelling shines bright.” * Science News *Praise for John Dvorak “Dvorak has done earthquake science sterling service by writing what is unarguably the best, the most comprehensive and compellingly readable book about the great fault that will one day affect all our lives.” -- Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author“For a more expansive look at how eclipses have been mythologized throughout history, turn to Mask of the Sun. Dvorak offers useful, engaging background, and provides a deeper understanding.” * The New York Times *“A lively biography. Dvorak is a great storyteller with a keen eye for details. His descriptions of the intense heat almost singe the page. Riveting.” * Wall Street Journal *"Bubbling and sloughing under the surface of John Dvorak's terrific new book is the quietly terrifying reminder that we somehow manage to live on a tectonically active planet. A remarkable story.” * The Christian Science Monitor *“Dvorak’s meticulously researched book covers the history of human reactions and interpretations from Homer to the Bible and beyond. A well-rounded, entertaining, and authoritative survey.” * Omnivoracious *“A rich chronicle.” * NATURE *“The story of Thomas Jagger and Isabel Maydwell is an inspiring tale of devotion, both to science and to each other.” * Scientific American *“Jaggar's thrilling adventures to volcanic hot zones like Alaska and Hawaii, where he explored inside active volcanoes, makes one appreciate the fearless nature required for a life of volcanology. Riveting.” * The American Scholar *“Dvorak brings Jagger to life in a richly researched narrative as thrilling as his topic, creating the sort of popular science history that flies off the shelves.” * Booklist (starred review) *“Earth scientist John Dvorak’s exuberant new book How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America puts these Anthropocene fires into the context of deep time. Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller. He weaves disparate threads of past worlds into a coherent fabric of time, place and life that provides the ultimate context for all specific modern environmental issues. When reading How the Mountains Grew, I could easily imagine being outdoors with him breaking rocks in a search for fossils, crawling up some canyon wall to count the sands of time or trekking across one of our great ice sheets. His human stories are also fascinating, especially those involving serendipitous discoveries. Is this really a ‘new’ geologic history? Yes. Dvorak challenges the conventional wisdom. [The book] has a vast scope and an envelope-pushing narrative. This new geologic history of North America will enrich your everyday personal experiences.” -- Robert M. Thorson * The Wall Street Journal *“Earth scientist John Dvorak’s exuberant new book How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America puts these Anthropocene fires into the context of deep time. Dvorak is a wonderful storyteller. He weaves disparate threads of past worlds into a coherent fabric of time, place and life that provides the ultimate context for all specific modern environmental issues. When reading How the Mountains Grew, I could easily imagine being outdoors with him breaking rocks in a search for fossils, crawling up some canyon wall to count the sands of time or trekking across one of our great ice sheets. His human stories are also fascinating, especially those involving serendipitous discoveries. Is this really a ‘new’ geologic history? Yes. Dvorak challenges the conventional wisdom. [The book] has a vast scope and an envelope-pushing narrative. This new geologic history of North America will enrich your everyday personal experiences.” -- Robert M. Thorson * The Wall Street Journal *
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States Academic Press Principles and Applications of Climatology
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Haymarket Books No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate
Book SynopsisAn urgent call for climate justice from Teen Vogue, one of this generation’s leading voices, using an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe. This book is a guide, a toolkit, a warning and a cause for hope. "I hope that this book embodies Teen Vogue’s motto of making young people feel seen and heard all over the world. I hope that it forces their parents, communities, loved ones, friends, and—most importantly—those in power to see that the health of our planet depends on how quickly and drastically we change our behaviors. I hope it forces them all to respond." —From the foreword by Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Lindsay Peoples WagnerTrade Review"(An) insightful anthology . . . the collection proves hopeful, informative, and urgent." ﹣Publishers Weekly "Young people are the great leaders in the climate fight, and this fine volume captures their voices with clarity, insight, and power. A must-read!"﹣Bill McKibben, 350.org “This isn't your grandparent's environmental movement. A generation is on the move. Climate justice is young, queer, Black, Indigenous, and militant af. No Planet B demonstrates it is inexorably linked to racial justice, decolonization, and abolition. There's no turning back.”﹣Nick Estes, Red Nation “We all need a plain language book for the complex issue and the diverse topics engendered by climate change and the struggle for climate justice. No Planet B presents that and more﹣ a context and a landscape of voices of young activists who define the issues, tell their stories and concerns about the disrupting effects of climate change on our lives, our health, and the future of our world. The essays span the globe and focus on an array of topics in the nexus of climate, environment, and the human condition. It features activists from all walks of life and is inspirational in its call to action.” ﹣Peggy M. Shepard, Executive Director, Co-Founder, WE ACT For Environmental Justice Praise for Teen Vogue: “A passionate and informed, if unexpected, voice for the resistance.”﹣The Guardian “Teen Vogue has approached social and political topics fiercely yet fairly.”﹣Forbes
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Haymarket Books Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility,
Book SynopsisResponding to the deteriorating situation of migrants today and the complex geographies they navigate, Coercive Geographies examines historical and contemporary forms of coercion and constraint exercised by a wide range of actors in diverse settings. It links the question of spatial confines to that of labor. Coercive Geographies represents an important attempt to bring together space, precarity, labor coercion and mobility in an analytical lens. Precarity emerges in particular geographical and historical contexts, which are decisive for how it is shaped. This volume analyzes coercive geographies as localized and spatialized intersections between labor regulations and migration policies, which become detrimental to existing mobility frameworks. Contributors include: Irina Aguiari, Abdulkadir Osman Farah, Leandros Fischer, Konstantinos Floros, Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Apostolos Kapsalis, Karin Krifors, Sven Van Melkebeke, Susi Meret, and Vasileios Spyridon Vlassis.
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Island Press A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting
Book SynopsisTens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a changing climate. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities. In this book, coastal adaptation experts discuss the interrelated challenges facing communities experiencing sea level rise and increasing storm impacts. These issues extend far beyond land use planning into housing policy, financing for public infrastructure, insurance, fostering healthier coastal ecosystems, and more. Deftly addressing far-reaching problems from cleaning up contaminated, abandoned sites, to changes in drinking water composition, chapters give a clear-eyed view of how we might yet chart a course for thriving coastal communities. They offer a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, while preserving the economic value of these locations, their natural environments, and their community and cultural values. Lessons are drawn from coastal communities around the United States to present equitable solutions. The book provides tools for evaluating necessary trade-offs to think more comprehensively about the future of our coastal communities. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but planning for it is critical to the survival of many communities. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.Table of ContentsForeword, Jeff Goodell Introduction Section I: New Approaches to Designing and Implementing Coastal Resilience 1. Structures of Coastal Resilience: Adaptive Design for Jamaica Bay, Catherine Seavitt 2. Coastal Urbanism: Designing the Future Waterfront, Rafi Segal and Susannah Drake 3. Dutch Design along the American Coast, Matthijs Bouw 4. Resilient by Design in San Francisco, Karen M'Closkey and Keith Vandersys Section II: Planning the Next Generation of Coastal Communities 5. A Comprehensive Framework for Coastal Risk Reduction: Charting a Path Towards Resiliency, Sam Brody 6. Coding Flux: From “End-State’ Zoning to Zoning Process and Potential, Fadi Masoud and David Vega-Barachowitz 7. Adapting Coastal Drinking Water to Rising Seas, Allison Lassiter Section III: Innovative Policy and Finance for Coastal Adaptation 8. Public Financing of Coastal Adaptation, Carlos Martin 9. Adapt/Prepare/Retreat: A Tale of Two Cities, Joyce Coffee 10. New Options for Financing – Environmental Impact Bonds, Shannon Cunniff 11. Clean Up after Yourselves: Legal and Financial Options for Relocation Clean Up, Thomas Ruppert Conclusion
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Island Press Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10 years ago, the field of healthy community design has evolved significantly to address major societal problems, including health disparities, obesity, and climate change. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended how we live, work, learn, play, and travel. In Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability, planning and public health experts Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, and Howard Frumkin bring together scholars and practitioners from across the globe in fields ranging from public health, planning, and urban design, to sustainability, social work, and public policy. This updated and expanded edition explains how to design and build places that are beneficial to the physical, mental, and emotional health of humans, while also considering the health of the planet. This edition expands the treatment of some topics that received less attention a decade ago, such as the relationship of the built environment to equity and health disparities, climate change, resilience, new technology developments, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the latest research, Making Healthy Places, Second Edition imparts a wealth of practical information on the role of the built environment in advancing major societal goals, such as health and well-being, equity, sustainability, and resilience. This update of a classic is a must-read for students and practicing professionals in public health, planning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and related fields.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Dedication Foreword by Richard J. Jackson Preface by Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin) 1.An Introduction to Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Places by Howard Frumkin, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Nisha D. Botchwey PART I. Health Impacts of the Built Environment 1.Physical Activity and the Built Environment by Nisha D. Botchwey, M. Renée Umstattd Meyer, Meaghan McSorley 1.Food, Nutrition, and Community Design by Roxanne Dupuis, Karen Glanz, Carolyn Cannuscio 1.The Built Environment and Air Quality by Patrick Lott Kinney, Priyanka Nadia deSouza 1.Injury, Violence, and the Built Environment by Corinne Peek-Asa, Christopher N. Morrison 1.Water, Health, and the Built Environment by Charisma S. Acey, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah 1.Built Environments, Mental Health and Well-being by Xiangrong Jiang, Chia-Ching Wu, Chun-Yen Chang, William C. Sullivan 1.Social Capital and Community Design by Kasley Killam, Ichiro Kawachi 1.Inequity, Gentrification, and Urban Health by Helen V. S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski 1.Healthy Places Across the Lifespan by Nisha Botchwey, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Jordana L. Maisel, Howard Frumkin PART II. Designing Places for Well-being, Equity, and Sustainability 1.Transportation, Land Use, and Health by Susan Handy 1.Healthy Homes by David E. Jacobs, Amanda Reddy 1.Healthy Workplaces by Jonathan A. Bach, Paul Schulte, L. Casey Chosewood, Gregory R. Wagner 1.Healthy Healthcare Settings by Craig Zimring, Jennifer R. DuBose, Bea Sennewald 1.Healthy Schools by Claire L. Barnett, Erika Sita Eitland 1.Contact with Nature by Howard Frumkin 1.Climate Change, Cities, and Health by José G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik 1.Community Resilience and Healthy Places by José G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik, Kimberley O’Sullivan PART III. Strategies for Healthy Places: A Toolkit 1.Healthy Behavioral Choices and the Built Environment by Christopher Coutts, Patrice C. Williams 1.Legislation, Policy, and Governance for Healthy Places by Eugenie L. Birch 1.Community Engagement for Health, Equity, and Sustainability by Manal J. Aboelata, Jasneet K. Bains 1.Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying Healthy Places by Carolyn A. Fan, Andrew L. Dannenberg PART IV. Looking Forward, Taking Action 1.Training the Next Generation of Healthy Placemakers by Nisha D. Botchwey, Olivia E. Chatman, Matthew Trowbridge, Yakut Gazi 1.Innovative Technologies for Healthy Places by J. Aaron Hipp, Mariela Alfonzo, Sonia Sequeira 1.Healthy Places Research: Emerging Opportunities by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Nisha D. Botchwey, Howard Frumkin 1.COVID and the Built Environment: Lessons Learned by Howard Frumkin 1.Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Built Environments for the Future individual contributions by Hugh Barton, Timothy Beatley, Rachel Hodgdon, Blessing Mberu, Charles Montgomery, Toks Omishakin, Tolullah Oni, Carlo Ratti, Sagar Shah, Mitchell J. Silver, Bruce Stiftel, Alice Sverdlik, Katie Swenson, Susan Thompson, Jason Vargo Glossary About the Editors List of Contributors Index
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Island Press Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought,
Book SynopsisIn March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naively—that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead, they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it. Never have so many undertaken such a widespread, hurried attempt to remake the world. Predictably, our hubris has led to unintended—and sometimes disastrous—consequences. Academics call it maladaptation; in simple terms, it’s about solutions that backfire. Over the Seawall tells us the stories behind these unintended consequences and about the fixes that can do more harm than good. From seawalls in coastal Japan, to the re-engineered waters in the Ganges River Delta, to the artificial ribbon of water supporting both farms and urban centres in parched Arizona, Stephen Robert Miller traces the histories of engineering marvels that were once deemed too smart and too big to fail. In each he takes us into the land and culture, seeking out locals and experts to better understand how complicated, grandiose schemes led instead to failure, and to find answers to the technologic holes we’ve dug ourselves into. Over the Seawall urges us to take a hard look at the fortifications we build and how they’ve fared in the past. It embraces humanity’s penchant for problem-solving, but argues that if we are to adapt successfully to climate change, we must recognize that working with nature is not surrender but the only way to assure a secure future.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Soutei-gai – Northeast Japan Part II: Pagal, By Any Other Name – Southwest Bangladesh Part III: The Audacity of Desert Living – Central Arizona Acknowledgments Notes About the Author Index
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Pogo Books Rainbows
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Booklocker.com Fighting Pollution and Climate Change: An EPA
Book Synopsis"A former Environmental Protection Agency attorney delivers an impassioned plea to fight pollution and climate change. Timely and engaging; a heroic environmental story well told." - Kirkus Book Review, April 22, 2020 (50th Anniversary of Earth Day) "Written both as a historic record and ''how to'' guide aimed at inspiring change makers, this unvarnished and timely depiction from 1980 to today has something to offer readers of any age or ilk. Emory pulls back the curtain to expose the inner workings of the federal government and the EPA. He dives into the data-historic indicators, scientific and economic data, and policy choices-as well as humorously illustrating his forays abroad and his courtroom adventures. He tells the story of rampant pollution and how the US has fallen so far behind in its response to climate change and transition to clean energy. Emory has faith in forthcoming environmentalists, and his solutions-oriented presentation of the facts makes complex, cross-sector challenges feel within our grasp." - Fiona Gordon, published in Maine Environment newsletter of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (Augusta, Maine, spring & summer 2020)"This hybrid that is a must-read memoir and climate change book is NOT another dry treatise or one-sided, unbalanced diatribe. Richard Emory has written a very thoroughly knowledgeable and realistic account of the truth about EPA and how to fight pollution. He weaves in wonderful personal climate change stories and anecdotes about successes and failures of environmental policies enacted in the U.S. and other countries and how national attitudes have affected climate change & EPA''s mission. Young people will be inspired to learn how to protect our environment." - David Katz, retired Assistant United States Attorney * * * * *With the election of President Biden and a new Congress, America is rejoining the Western world that sees the need for the U.S. to revive its EPA, formulate a "Green New Deal," and restore U.S. global leadership within the Paris Climate Accord.Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is a must-read memoir by Richard W. Emory, Jr., our nation''s former top legal advisor to all EPA federal special agents. Emory witnessed how the U.S Department of Justice failed to effectively prosecute crimes of pollution. He became a whistleblower when interviewed by Congress that was investigating reports of mishandled pollution cases. In the second half of his career, working within EPA''s foreign assistance mission, to the waiting world he helped spread effective measures for pollution control and for the implementation of global environmental treaties.Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is a "page-turner" - you will laugh, you will cry, but you won''t be bored. You will learn the truth about U.S. and international successes and failures in the fight against air, water, pesticides and toxic-waste pollution. You''ll be encouraged by his insider perspective as he tells how to protect the climate using today''s technologies and EPA''s proven policies. Who will benefit from this important environmental book?Aspiring environmental activists - both young and old - who want to learn how to fight pollution and take action on climate changeLovers of memoirs and nature, who will be touched by one individual''s adventures in the exciting work of pollution control that can and must be expanded to climate protectionGlobal leaders and movements prepared to face the next chapter of unifying our world under a much stronger agenda to heal the Earth and protect our planet
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Microcosm Publishing Bug Life
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