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Octopus Publishing Group Life and Death Decisions: Saving lives in extreme
Book Synopsis'HONEST, POWERFUL AND RIVETING'Levison Wood, author of The Art of Exploration'JUST BRILLIANT...THE BOOK OF THE DECADE'Tim Flannery, former Australian of the Year'WOW. A HUGELY IMPORTANT AND ENJOYABLE BOOK THAT WILL RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN HUMANITY AND WHAT IS POSSIBLE'Sir Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization'ALL AT ONCE BRAVE, FUNNY, SHOCKING AND DOWN TO EARTH' Aaron Smith, author of The RockFrom the sinking islands of the Pacific to epidemics and war zones in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, doctors like Lachlan McIver work in some of the most extreme environments on earth. In this thrilling memoir, Lachlan takes us right into the heart of the action as he treats patients ravaged by tropical diseases, manages drug-resistant infections in war wounds, delivers babies by the light of a head torch, and narrowly avoids being kidnapped by militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Inevitably, the pressure takes its toll as Lachlan is forced to reckon with the global crises devastating more and more lives every single day... Life and Death Decisions is an exhilarating account of one doctor facing profound, extraordinary challenges - and saving lives against all odds.
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Saraband The Nature of Spring
Book SynopsisSpring is nature's season of rebirth and rejuvenation. Earth's northern hemisphere tilts towards the sun, winter yields to intensifying light and warmth, and a wild, elemental beauty transforms the Highland landscape and a repertoire of islands from Colonsay to Lindisfarne. Jim Crumley chronicles the wonder, tumult and spectacle of that transformation, but he shows too that it is no Wordsworthian idyll that unfolds. Climate chaos brings unwanted drama to the lives of badger and fox, seal and seabird and raptor, pine marten and sand martin. Jim lays bare the impact of global warming and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.Trade ReviewA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK; "There are books that transport us and Jim Crumley's ode to spring takes us there on the wings of a sea eagle ... Exquisitely observed ... uplifting and disquieting ... Crumley's masterful words take you into the canvas of nature as into the work of a grand master ... The joy, the passion, the complete understanding Jim has for his world is a portal. The world on our doorstep." Scottish Book of the Week, The Courier; "Nature writer and poet Jim Crumley returns with a third volume of close observations [and] charts the arrival of spring, from the February song of a mistle thrush to May's drowsy warmth. Crumley quotes Margiad Evans - 'Write in the very now where you find yourself' - and takes her advice to heart." New Statesman; "This thought-inducing paean to nature brings the issues of the natural world to the forefront ... Crumley writes movingly about the season of rebirth and transformation which sees the hibernators awaken and the daffodils rise. A wonderful read." Kirstin Tait, Scottish Field; "A fantastic writer ... exquisite observations of details in the landscape as well as sweeping vistas ... remarkable." Ben Hoare, BBC Countryfile magazine; "Compelling ... Radical ... Crumley writes of the creatures and landscape before him like a James Guthrie or Landseer of print ... He could be Ali Smith's naturalist twin." Rosemary Goring, Scottish Review of Books; "Beautifully written ... thoughtful and thought-provoking ... Jim Crumley does not shy away from the important issues facing the natural world [in] a book you'd like to think could have real influence on the world we live in." Undiscovered Scotland; Praise for Jim Crumley's writing: Wainwright Golden Beer Prize 2017, LONGLISTED (The Nature of Autumn); The Richard Jeffries Society & White Horse Bookshop Literary Prize for nature writing, SHORTLISTED; "A delightful meditation." Stephen Moss, Books of the Year, Guardian; "Nature writing is like trying to catch birds with cobwebs. Crumley's just has a higher tensile strength than most." Herald; "Breathtaking...This nature book is a delight...words that freshen and sparkle the everyday world and sprinkle warmth and colour into the heart of it." Miriam Darlington, BBC Wildlife; "Enchanting." Sara Maitland; "A passionate, compelling, very personal work... the honesty of his voice is striking." Scottish Review of Books; "Enthralling and often strident." ObserverTable of ContentsPart One: Harbingers; Chapter One: First Syllables; Chapter Two: Falcons of the Yellow Hill; Chapter Three: The Backward Spring; Chapter Four: The; Mountaineering Badger; Part Two: Island Spring; Chapter Five: The Nature of Second Spring; Chapter Six: Forty-eight Hours on Colonsay; Chapter Seven: Yell – No Need of Dreams; Chapter Eight: An Island Pilgrimage (1) – Mull and Iona; Chapter Nine: An Island Pilgrimage (2) – Lismore to Islandshire; Chapter Ten: An Island Pilgrimage (3) – Lindisfarne, Nature’s Island; Chapter Eleven: May in June; Part Three: Highland Spring Chapter Twelve: Glen Clova and the Definite Article; Chapter Thirteen: The Poetry of Mountain Flowers; Chapter Fourteen: The Sanctuary (1) – A Second Spring for the Wolf; Chapter Fifteen: The Sanctuary (2) – Loch Tulla; Chapter Sixteen: The Properties of Mercury; Chapter Seventeen: Renaissance
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Peak Study Resources Ltd Geography SL&HL: Urban Environments: Study &
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Rubbish
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Aurora Metro Publications West London Wildlife
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging collection of essays from new and established voices writing about nature, environment, conservation, biodiversity and the challenges that London faces to protect green spaces from urban development as well as the drive towards rewilding. The first of four books about London's wildlife, this edition focuses on the green spaces of Richmond Deer Park, Barnes Wetlands, Kew Gardens, Gunnersbury Triangle, Crane Park, Chiswick House, Bushy Park and many others.Trade Review"This slim volume of 136 pages with hard covers and numerous colour photos immediately exudes quality...It consists of a series of 14 essays covering different sites or areas of West London, written by ten different authors, interspersed with many colour photos (including double-page spreads). The diverse writing styles of the different authors add to the charm of the book, each seemingly representing an authentic voice of experience and expertise. In addition, between each chapter, there is a full-page image opposite a short ‘inspirational quote’, generally well-chosen and apposite; while some may see these as ’padders’, we found them useful to give the book space to breathe, the rest of the pages being either full of words and photos, or completely given over to large images. All too often such places are suffering at the hands of Man, and so need the sorts of actions, understanding and care that are amply demonstrated here. Each individual story could provide such inspiration for somebody faced with similar challenges, wherever they are." -- Chris and Jude Gilbert; "A gorgeous photography book showcasing some gorgeous wildlife featured in London. I often feel you see so much of the historical side and building ect so this is quite nice to see as well. I think readers will really enjoy it." ***** Jill Speedman - Librarian, Netgalley reviewer; "Having lived in West London all my life I was really interested to see what areas I knew here. My local venue in here is Ruislip lido, loved reading about the history of the lido. Many places in here I have visited and a few I haven't like the Wetland but this will be on my list. Beautiful photographs my favourites ones are the red deer and Jackdaw and mandarin duck both by James Yates, both stunning I would absolutely love to frame these photographs." ***** -- Lucy Cawte - Netgalley reviewer; "Beautiful photography throughout is interspersed with inspirational quotes by such diverse characters as William Shakespeare, Andy Warhol and Sir David Attenborough. Divided into chapters about different areas of open space in West London, there are a whole host of interesting facts about the biodiversity that can be found there. It has given me a taste for what I might see when next I venture to explore some of the beautiful parks and other wild spaces near me." ***** Sue Hill - Netgalley reviewer
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Tippermuir Books Limited If Rivers Could Sing: A Scottish River Wildlife
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Bookmarks Publications Socialism Or Extinction
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Urban Good Slow Ways Pocket Atlas
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The Conrad Press My Neighbour over the Border: Tales of towns and
Book SynopsisHow do towns and cities divided by the harsh reality of an international border manage to get on with each other when their closest neighbour lives just next door, but in another country? Are they thriving or surviving? Utterly dependent on each other or with backs turned, socially and economically? We visit towns and cities that you may not have heard of or know little about. Places like distant Blagoveshchensk and Heihe, Narva and Ivangorod and Gorlitz and Zgorzelec. But also the better known Nicosia, Europe’s only divided capital, Detroit with its Canadian neighbour Windsor, Geneva and its French suburb Annemasse and the cities of Sarajevo and Mostar, divided not by international borders but ethnic divisions baked into everyday life. This is a fascinating and well-researched study of thirty-_six towns and cities from across the world that are separated by borders. Paul Doe delves into the way in which these divisions came about and how the separated towns and cities manage to get along, or not, buffeted as they are by geopolitics, ethnic differences and historical animosities.Table of ContentsChapter One It all stops at the border 5 Chapter Two A borderless world 33 Chapter Three Life along the hardest of borders 65 Chapter Four Doing business on the far frontier 97 Chapter Five Rivalry over the border 130 Chapter Six Torn into two 164 Chapter Seven Living apart together 194 Chapter Eight The towns ‘doomed to each other’ 225 Chapter Nine Invisible borders 257 Bibliography 290 Acknowledgements 304
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The Book Guild Ltd England's Future: The impact of politics on
Book SynopsisThe 2019 general election radically changed the political map of England. People in “left-behind towns” want politics to reflect and respond to their needs. England needs its own devolution, and this book includes case studies where local communities have tackled these problems and embraced regeneration. These include the metropolitan areas of Greater London, Liverpool, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and Plymouth and the smaller towns of Stamford, Grantham and Blyth Valley, Northumberland, one of the Red Wall constituencies that changed political allegiance at the 2019 general election. England's Future discusses how politics influence the environment in England. Covering Brexit, the pandemic, and the 2019 general election, among other themes, this book will appeal to those who enjoy books on politics, social history, education, the environment and to those working in councils and the wider public sector.
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Monash University Publishing Retelling Australias Water Story
Book SynopsisSuccessive governments have claimed that despite (or because of) Australia's droughts and flooding rains', we are a world leader in water management. They have highlighted such successes as the 2004 National Water Initiative, robust water rights, highly efficient' irrigation infrastructure, basin planning, and the delivery of safe' drinking water to urban Australia. But the NWI barely mentions climate change; hugely valuable tradeable water rights were initially gifted to irrigators, with precious little allocated to Indigenous Australians; efficient' irrigators extract large volumes of upstream water even during drought, causing downstream communities to run out; and hundreds of thousands of Australians in rural and remote communities endure poor-quality water from their taps. It's high time to call out the mistruths and the post-truths and retell Australia's water story. In this book, Quentin Grafton explains how, from 1788 onwards, those in power have treated fresh water as a resource to be exploited rather than cared for. Over-extraction and misuse mean that Australia can now have too much, or too little, or too dirty water. Because of business-as-usual practices and climate change, these water crises will worsen, unless we apply made-in-Australia solutions that involve a rethink of how we value, measure and allocate water. Pathways to a better water future include leaving sufficient water in the landscape to sustain people and Country; respecting First Law, which sustained living waters for millennia; ensuring all communities, not just those with water rights, are actively involved in water decision-making; and prioritising the human right to water for all Australians.
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Holon Publishing / Collective Press Adventures of a Landlocked Diver
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Taylor & Francis Inc Adaptation and Resilience: The Economics of
Book SynopsisIn America's arid southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based recreation, and environmental protections. This book explores the challenges that climate change and variability pose for water and energy managers and users, communities, and policy makers in the arid Southwest and demonstrates the application of economic methods to address these challenges. It provides valuable tools for both those interested in resource management and climate change, and those seeking to understand how economic methods can be used to analyze contemporary social problems and craft appropriate responses. The book considers both adaptation to long-term climate change and more immediate issues of water and electricity management in the face of inter-annual climate variability and drought. Thus, no matter what one's perspective on long-run climate change projections, the book provides useful lessons for some of the region's most pressing resource management problems.Trade ReviewThese findings and recommendations will be useful to federal, state, and regional policy makers who set the legal and regulatory framework for the more effective use of climate information and functioning of efficient water markets. From the Foreword by Chuck Howe, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder Clear and readable...will be of interest to scholars and policy professionals. Robert A. Young, Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University I welcome this book and will use it in my own teaching and research. It brings together a body of research that shares the energy-climate-water nexus... David Letson, Chair of Division of Marine Affairs and Professor of Marine Affairs and Economics, University of MiamiTable of ContentsForeword 1. The Climate-Water-Energy Nexus in the Arid Southwest PART I: VOLUNTARY WATER TRANSFERS AS ADAPTATION MECHANISMS 2. Negotiated Water Transactions and Climate Change Adaptation 3. Applying Bargaining Theory to Western Water Transfers 4.Economic Tools For Climate Adaptation: Water Transaction Price Negotiations PART II: SECTOR IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 5. Water Shortages in the Southern Mountain States: Economic Impacts on Agriculture 6. Climate, Water Availability, Energy Costs and National Park Visitation 7. Climate, Changing Snowpack and the Future of Winter Recreation PART III: INFORMATION, TECHNOLOGY AND ADAPTATION 8. Irrigator Demand for Information, Management Practices, and Water Conservation Program Participation: The Role of Farm Size 9. Irrigation Technology Choice: The Role of Climate, Farm Size, Energy Costs, and Soils 10. Using Climate Information to Improve Electric Utility Load Forecasting 11. Use of Weather Information in Agricultural Decision-Making CONCLUSION 12. Modes of Adaptation and Regional Resilience to Climate Change
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Pixyjack Press, Inc. Surviving Wildfire: Get Prepared, Stay Alive,
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Oro Editions Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives
Book SynopsisMonotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of single industry towns, which emerged as a distinctive socio-political project of urbanisation in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Monotowns took form through the establishment of industrial enterprises strewn across remote parts of the Siberian hinterland, around which cities had to be built to provide labour. This model entailed the relocation of vast populations which would require services, housing, and social and physical infrastructure, all linked to a given industrial enterprise. By examining the ways in which monotowns have adapted over time in this expanded field, this book establishes a broader yet more specific dialogue about the challenges faced by towns within this particular single-industry etymology.
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Bellevue Literary Press Swimming to the Top of the Tide: Finding Life
Book SynopsisFour seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the TreesThe Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampshire. Patricia Hanlon and her husband built their home and raised their children alongside it. But it is not until the children are grown that they begin to swim the tidal estuary daily. Immersing herself, she experiences, with all her senses in all seasons, the vigor of a place where the two ecosystems of fresh and salt water mix, merge, and create new life.In Swimming to the Top of the Tide, Hanlon lyrically charts her explorations, at once intimate and scientific. Noting the disruptions caused by human intervention, she bears witness to the vitality of the watersheds, their essential role in the natural world, and the responsibility of those who love them to contribute to their sustainability.Patricia Hanlon is a visual artist who paints the beautiful ecosystem of New England’s Great Marsh and is involved in the watershed organizations of Greater Boston. Swimming to the Top of the Tide is her first book.Trade Review“Part how-to guide, part nature journal, part ecological call to action, this book inspires the reader to take a closer look at the everyday cycles in their own backyards.” —Tree Abraham, Electric Literature“Delightful. . . . Hanlon offers an alternative vision to environmental preservation that emphasizes communal responsibility over the pervasive doom and gloom of climate activism.” —Cleaver Magazine“In her charming debut . . . [Hanlon] turns the quotidian details of marriage and family life into a lyrical investigation of ‘something bigger and more complex than oneself.’ . . . Merging leisurely seaside adventure with ecological sensibilities, Hanlon delivers a lyrical ode to a changing environment.” —Publishers Weekly“Graceful in its descriptive power. . . . Hanlon understands how our moral imagination exerts a profound influence on our thoughts, attitudes, and actions. . . . [Her] observations are as gently propulsive as the rhythmic stroke of a swim fin.” —Kirkus Reviews“[Hanlon] is as skilled at demystifying complex scientific concepts as she is in portraying gold-spangled waterline sunsets and muted winter compositions of marsh grasses. The whole is enriched with personal reflections on raising a family, aging, and the changing nature of marriage.” —Foreword Reviews“Written with a swimmer’s spirit, a naturalist’s eye, and an ecologist’s heart, this book took me to places I have never been. I loved it!” —Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer and Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart“Hanlon’s narrative—spare and serene—flows to the rhythms of rising and falling water. Her account, rooted in the particular—nose level in a saltwater creek under the cerulean skies of an idyllic summer, or in icy slush on a dark winter night—is a timely call to consider the tragedies and possibilities of our moment.” —Deborah Cramer, author of Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World and The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the Trees“There is nothing quite so wonderful as slipping into a creek and letting it carry you upstream until the tide imperceptibly turns and carries you back out toward the ocean. It is doubly wonderful to discover someone who describes this experience with such love, lyricism, and scientific curiosity. Let Hanlon be your guide to this world.” —William Sargent, author of The House on Ipswich Marsh and Plum Island: 4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach“Hanlon, in a year of swimming her way through marshes, across tidal rivers and sculpted granite quarries unique to Cape Ann, observes with a remarkably steady gaze all the world has to offer—the beauty and losses both. In clear, spare prose and fine-tuned observation, she takes you on a journey you won’t soon forget.” —Tim Traver, author of Sippewissett: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh and Fly Fishing and Conservation in Vermont
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Suteki Creative What Wonders Await Outdoors
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University of Nevada Press Saving Grand Canyon: Dams, Deals, and a Noble
Book SynopsisGrand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary.Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America's most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a century of Colorado River water development demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came out of these controversies, and debunks the myth that the Sierra Club saved Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon's savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law.The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963-68 into the broader the context of Colorado River water development and debunks 50 years of Colorado River water development and Grand Canyon history.Trade ReviewThis book is a very important corrective to the literature on the history of the Grand Canyon and for twentieth-century U.S. environmental history that for so long now has not told the complete story (and truth) on exactly how dams were kept out of the greater Grand Canyon area. Along the way, he [Pearson] tells a compelling story on so many levels of this controversy." - Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History at the University of Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma"A fresh, bold new case for who should get the credit for preserving the Grand Canyon." - Bob Wyss, Professor of Journalism, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents Preface: Centennial Reflections Introduction Chapter 1: "Something to be Skinned" Chapter 2: New Lines in the Sand Chapter 3: Dinosaurs and Rainbows Chapter 4: A Time for Water Statesmanship Chapter 5: A "Fjord-like Setting" Chapter 6: "A Little Closer to God" Chapter 7: "Permanent Massive Things" Chapter 8: Be Careful What You Wish For . . . Chapter 9: Alternative Realities Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments About the Author
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Orchard Innovations Wildflowers of the Lake Mead Region
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Cranberry Press The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done!: How to
Book SynopsisSuccess is a daily decision for pursuing your dreams. When coupled with persistence it's a formula for obtaining higher and higher levels of success, tapping into your limitless potential and maintaining the life you truly desire. The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done may not be the key to overnight riches, but it will definitely help you lay the groundwork for persistent growth and give you the blueprint and techniques for massive success.Here you'll ask yourself questions to lay the framework for the life you want. You'll gain perspective on what occupies your mind. You'll learn to discover your talents. You'll understand how to build strong and meaningful relationships through achieving and maintaining the real necessity of meaningful love, for yourself and for others. You'll get tools to exercise your mind, your will and your emotions with intentionality and discipline. And you'll find out how to go out into the world to build the life you want. No excuses. The secret to knowing that it's already done is this: mastering the Art of Doing. You will learn to clearly visualize your specific goals, discover your skills and potential, plan your blueprint for action, dedicate your time, and do the work to obtain and maintain your evolving goals. Conviction empowers results. Your belief in your success determines what you'll do about gaining and maintaining it. Alex Morton reveals The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done, as only he can.
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Oro Editions Media Matters in Landscape Architecture
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Outskirts Press The Steps of a Good Man: The Old Travelin'
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Hachette Livre - BNF Guide À Nantes (Éd.1870)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Côtes de la France. de Cherbourg À
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Naufragés, Ou Vingt Mois Sur Un Récif Des Îles Auckland (7e Éd.) (Éd.1894)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Odeurs de Paris (2e Éd.) (Éd.1867)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Innovation Capacity and the City: The Enabling Role of Design
Book SynopsisThis open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasible answers to complex global challenges. In this way, innovation can become disruptive, while also sparking a dynamic of gradual change in the “urbanscape” it acts within. To explore this potential, the book puts forward the concept of “design enabled innovation in urban environments” and examines the part that the city can play in promoting and facilitating the adoption of design among public and private sector innovators. This leads to a potential evaluation framework in which a given urbanscape is assessed both in terms of its capacity for generating innovation, and of the nature (more or less design-dependent or design-prone) of the innovative initiatives it hosts. This thread of reasoning holds many promising implications, including a possible “third way” between those who dream of an alternative economic model where revenues and growth are sacrificed on the altar of social and environmental respect, and the supporters of the traditional market-based view, who feel it is enough to add a touch of responsibility and concern to a system that should continue rewarding the profitability of innovations. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- A Triplet under focus: innovation, design, city.- Cities as enablers of innovation.- Innovation and design.- Design enabled innovation in urban environments.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Exploring Resilience: A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory
Book SynopsisResilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity which allow organizations to cope with unexpected situations. Fewer studies have developed testable models and theories that can be used to support interventions aiming to increase resilience and improve safety. In addition, the absent integration of different system levels from individuals, teams, organizations, regulatory bodies, and policy level in theory and practice imply that mechanisms through which resilience is linked across complex systems are not yet well understood. Scientific efforts have been made to develop constructs and models that present relationships; however, these cannot be characterized as sufficient for theory building. There is a need for taking a broader look at resilience practices as a foundation for developing a theoretical framework that can help improve safety in complex systems. This book does not advocate for one definition or one field of research when talking about resilience; it does not assume that the use of resilience concepts is necessarily positive for safety. We encourage a broad approach, seeking inspiration across different scientific and practical domains for the purpose of further developing resilience at a theoretical and an operational level of relevance for different high-risk industries. The aim of the book is twofold: 1. To explore different approaches for operationalization of resilience across scientific disciplines and system levels. 2. To create a theoretical foundation for a resilience framework across scientific disciplines and system levels. By presenting chapters from leading international authors representing different research disciplines and practical fields we develop suggestions and inspiration for the research community and practitioners in high-risk industries.This book is Open Access under a CC-BY licence. Table of ContentsExploring resilience – an introduction, by Siri Wiig and Babette Fahlbruch.- Resilience, reliability, safety: multilevel research challenges, by Jean-Christophe Le Coze.- Moments of resilience: time, space and the organisation of safety in complex sociotechnical systems, by Carl Macrae.- Resilience engineering as a quality improvement method in Healthcare, by Janet E. Anderson, A. J. Ross, J. Back, M. Duncan and P. Jaye.- Resilience and Essential Public Infrastructure, by Michael Baram.- Human performance, levels of service and system resilience, by Miltos Kyriakidis and Vinh N. Dang.- Precursor resilience in practice – an organizational response to weak signals, by Kenneth Pettersen Gould.- Leadership in resilient organizations, by Gudela Grote.- Modelling the influence of safety management tools on resilience, by Teemu Reiman and Kaupo Viitanen.- Resilient characteristics as described in empirical studies on health Care, by Siv Hilde Berg and Karina Aase.- Resilience from the United Nations Standpoint: The Challenges of “Vagueness”, by Leah R. Kimber.- Building resilience in humanitarian hospital programs during protracted conflicts: opportunities and limitations, by Ingrid Tjoflåt and Britt Sætre Hansen.- Exploring Resilience at Interconnected System Levels in Air Traffic Management, by Rogier Woltjer.- Resilience in healthcare: a modified stakeholder analysis, by Mary Chambers and Marianne Storm.- Resilience: From Practice to Theory and Back Again, by Carl Macrae and Siri Wiig.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies
Book SynopsisThe robots are coming! So too is the ‘age of automation’, the march of ‘invasive’ species, more intense natural disasters, and a potential cataclysm of other unprecedented events and phenomena of which we do not yet know, and cannot predict. This book is concerned with how to account for these non-humans and their effects within theories of social practice. In particular, this provocative collection tackles contemporary debates about the roles, relations and agencies of constantly changing, disruptive, intelligent or otherwise 'dynamic' non-humans, such as weather, animals and automated devices. In doing so contributors challenge and take forward existing understandings of dynamic non-humans in theories of social practice by reconsidering their potential roles in everyday life. The book will benefit sociology, geography, science and technology studies, and human- (and animal-) computer interaction design scholars seeking to make sense of the complex entanglement of non-human phenomena and things in the performance of social practices.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Dynamic non-humans in a changing worldPART I: Nature, materiality and processesChapter 2 Thriving in the Anthropocene: understanding human-weed relations and invasive plant management using theories of practiceChapter 3 Seeing wood for the trees: placing biological processes within practices of heating and harvestingChapter 4 ‘Dynamic’ non-human animals in theories of practice: views from the subalternChapter 5 Dynamic bodies in theories of social practice: vibrant materials and more-than-human assemblagesChapter 6 Mobile drinking – bottled water practices and ontological politicsChapter 7 Immersed in thermal flows: heat as productive of and produced by social practicesPART II: Technologies, automation and performativityChapter 8 Displacement: attending to the role of things in theories of practice through design researchChapter 9 How software matters: connective tissue and self-driving carsChapter 10 Automated artefacts as co-performers of social practices: washing machines, laundering and designChapter 11 Robots and Roomba riders: non-human performers in theories of social practiceChapter 12 Automation, smart homes and symmetrical anthropology: non-humans as performers of practices?.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of regionalism
Book SynopsisAccess to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine. However large parts of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have poor or no access to modern energy. Victoria Nalule argues that SSA countries have many common energy challenges which could be tackled with collective efforts through regional cooperation. By means of a legal and comparative analysis and a seven-step framework, the book explores the current regional mechanisms employed in Africa to address the challenge of energy poverty and access and whether they are effective in tackling the challenge of energy access, including regional energy infrastructure and regional energy regulations.Chapters discuss the evolution of regionalism in SSA and the role of regional cooperation in the development of renewable energy as a means of confronting both energy access and climate change. Specifically the nexus between energy access, renewable energy and climate change is covered as well as the potential of fossil fuels in addressing energy poverty. The establishment and development of regional energy infrastructure as one of the mechanisms of addressing energy access challenges in SSA and regional efforts to harmonise energy regulation are explored. Finally a concluding chapter provides recommendations for policy makers and other relevant stakeholders on how best to implement some of the suggestions made in previous chapters. International organisations, regional organisations, government officials, scholars and students with interest in the energy sector will highly benefit from this book.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Energy Access in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 3: Regionalism in Addressing Energy Access ChallengesChapter 4: Regional Cooperation in Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuel DevelopmentChapter 5: Regional Cooperation in the Establishment of Regional Energy InfrastructureChapter 6: Harmonisation of Regional Energy RegulationsChapter 7: Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Life Concepts from Aristotle to Darwin: On
Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology. Philosophers have long struggled with the relationship between physics, physiology, and psychology, asking questions of organization, purpose, and agency. For two millennia, the vegetable soul, nutrition, and reproduction were commonly used to understand basic life and connect it to “higher” animal and vegetable life. Cartesian dualism and mechanism destroyed this bridge and left biology without an organizing principle until Darwin. Modern biology parallels Aristotelian vegetable life-concepts, but remains incompatible with the animal, rational, subjective, and spiritual life-concepts that developed through the centuries. Recent discoveries call for a second look at Aristotle’s ideas – though not their medieval descendants. Life remains an active, chemical process whose cause, identity, and purpose is self-perpetuation.Trade Review“Life Concepts, Mix (Harvard) provides a comprehensive treatise of the soul, emphasizing nutritive or vegetable souls, from the concept's beginnings with Homer and pre-Socratic philosophers to significant development of the disparate views of Plato and Aristotle. … As a philosophical and theological work, Mix provides a meaningful and engaging account of a deep, enduring subject.” (Z. B. Johnson, Choice, Vol. 56 (8), April, 2019)Table of Contents1. Vegetable Souls? 2. Greek Life – Psyche and Early Life-Concepts 3. Strangely Moved – Appetitive Souls in Plato 4. Three Causes in One – Biological Explanation in Aristotle 5. Life in Action – Nutritive Souls in Aristotle 6. Plants versus Animals in Hellenistic Thought 7. The Breath of Life – Nephesh in Hebrew Scriptures 8. Life after Life – Spiritual Life in Christianity 9. Invisible Seeds – Life-Concepts in Augustine 10. Aristotle Returns – A Second Medieval Synthesis 11. Life Divided – Vegetable Life in Aquinas 12. Mechanism Displaces the Soul 13. Divided Hopes – Physics versus Metaphysics 14. Ghosts in the Machine – Vitalism 15. The Same and Different – Early Theories of Evolution 16. Vegetable Significance – Evolution by Natural Selection 17. “Vegetables” versus Modern Plants 18. Counting Lives- Regulators and Replicators 19. What Can Be Revived (and What Cannot)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Wellbeing and Self-Transformation in Natural Landscapes
Book SynopsisThis book explores how natural landscapes are linked to positive mental wellbeing. While natural landscapes have long been represented and portrayed as transformative, the link to mental wellbeing is an area that researchers are still aiming to comprehend. Accompanying five groups of people to rural Scotland, the author considers individual, external and group motivations for journeying from urban environments, examining in what ways these excursions are personally and socially transformative. Far more than traversing mere physical boundaries, this book illustrates the new challenges, experiences, territories and cultures provided by these excursions, firmly anchored in the Scottish countryside. In doing so, the author questions the extent to which people’s own narratives link to the perception that the outdoors are positively transformative – and what indeed does have the power to influence transformation. Grounded in extensive qualitative research, this contemplative and ethnographic book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the outdoors and its connection to wellbeing. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONEngaging in autobiographical reflexivity to begin with, the introduction will set up a familiar scenario of nature disconnection and the inevitable draw to spending time within nature. However, this introduction will introduce new and un-covered themes. These themes are due to my time spent within the field aiming to understand real experiences of leaving urban environments in pursuit of natural spaces and the positive transformation they are believed to offer. The most significant difference is real life participation, being within and understanding from individuals perspectives. This book will offer full qualitative accounts. The introduction will establish some of the pre-conceived ideas regarding nature and physiological benefits however will push towards the intangible experience of nature connection and argue that the only way to comprehend this is to truly understand from individual perspectives. The introduction will also tackle the contested term ‘nature.’CHAPTER ONE: A phenomenonChapter one will introduce the diversity amongst my case studies in terms of agenda, back ground and perceptions. It will also introduce the individuals with whom I worked and in doing so will situate nature within this research context. This chapter will also outline much of the interdisciplinary research in nature and wellbeing to date and highlight this research’s contributions to the field(s). This will focus on the nature experience: sociality, place and the self, ethnographic research in groups in nature, transdisciplinary ways of looking and detailing my belief that these encounters can draw similarities with performance. Within this chapter I will also discuss narratives, abstraction and personal narrative and how these have significant impact upon experience of these shared encounters.CHAPTER TWO: Mind and bodyChapter two will question how one might approach experiences that are both physical and psychological and why a transdisciplinary strategy was necessary. It will discuss my serendipitous ethnography, responsive and flexible methods as well as my Goethian ethic in observation. It will also detail why such an ethic was necessary. This chapter will outline key moments within fieldwork and how opportunity became a methodology. It will outline my being with groups and the responsive, flexible methods in context. Ultimately, this chapter will tackle journey and participation, ambiguity and development.CHAPTER THREE: BelongingThis chapter will speak of new cultural interactions, friendship, new social interactions, feeling secure, empathy, social facilitation, belonging and self-identification. The key theme within this chapter is the motivation of individuals to self-verify, to reach an ideal sense of self and to become a part of the group in the landscape. This chapter will introduce notions of liminality and the self before being fully explored in chapter four.CHAPTER FOUR: The Liminal Loop.Chapter four begins with unearthing liminality within this context, drawing from the work of Victor Turner and van Gennep. Importantly this work re-creates these terms in a metaphorical context relating to the self, the group dynamic and the perception of the landscape. First the liminoid context is explored before moving on to ideas surrounding the framing of activity, communitas, new physical and mental experiences, group dynamics and group theory. Key to this chapter is my theory that there are three sites of liminality within these rural nature experiences. This chapter also considers anti-structure and reflection, affordance and abstraction, opportunities in the landscape, changing perceptions of afforded opportunities, building context and experience, new contexts and personal narratives and the dynamics of experience.CHAPTER FIVE: Anthropocentrism and the transforming selfChapter Five is dedicated to understandings of non-human intention. It will discuss the effect of the group on perception of the non-human. The belief of some individuals in the reciprocity of the interactions between human and non will be explored by looking at personification and anthropomorphism, language and metaphor. This chapter considers nature as social and becoming effective social agents amongst the material rural landscape. I will finally discuss the inevitability of centrism. Chapter Five also the opposing end of the spectrum - looking at understandings of the agency of only the self and group, efficacy, sociality and belonging, self-development, deprivation and challenge (getting back to basics) as well as how, within some groups, excursions are designed. This chapter will also ask whether the landscape is even relevant to notions of wellbeing within such social encounters.CHAPTER SIX: Being a good personThis final chapter details how people engaging in the natural landscape compete for the moral high-ground in relation to interactions within the outdoors. This is discussed in relation to how people perceive positive transformation. This chapter poses the question - if all case studies aim for the bettering of human experience, are agendas so drastically different? Finally this chapter comes some way in pinning down the intangible ‘something’ that all individuals seemed to be looking for within their engagement with these groups and landscapes. This chapter will end with a section named Returning to the Earth: A final performance – This section is dedicated to the death of an individual within fieldwork and to her final self-verification as someone who aligns herself with the natural landscape. Here we will look at identity symbols and performing identity, bringing the text full circle.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement: Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Book SynopsisThis study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded to multiple disruptions during the nineteenth century. Moving from the ecological level of systems of settlements and variations among individual ones down to the immediate built environment, the book explores how both physical and human space influenced responses to everyday lives and emigration to America. Table of ContentsSECTION 1: IntroductionChapter 1: Orientation, Overview and OmissionsSECTION 2: Three Geographies of the Pale of SettlementChapter 2: The Physical Geography of the PaleChapter 3: The Human Geography of the PaleChapter 4: Individual Settlements are Members of Discrete Settlement SystemsSECTION 3: Order and Disorder in Everyday LivesChapter 5: Ordered Life in Individual Shtetlach, Towns and CitiesChapter 6: Ordered Life in the Immediate Built and Social EnvironmentsChapter 7: The Changing Order in the World of WorkChapter 8: Order and Disorder in Jewish Marriages, Families and KinshipSECTION 4: Tracking Responses to DisorderChapter 9: Nineteenth-Century Disorder in the Pale and ElsewhereSECTION 5: New HistoriesChapter 10: A Research Agenda for New Historians
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: Local Development and Techno-Economic Aspects
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary: Connective Education and Global Change
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human population's lifestyle: what should the educational response be to these various aspects of global change? To answer this, the values of an ecological response are developed, leading to the notion of an 'Ecological Social Imaginary', which looks at how humans can change their way of living to one that is more in harmony with the planet that they live on and depend upon. To enable this, an ecological form of education, Connective Education, is proposed. This focuses on how the human and natural world can be connected for the benefit of humankind and all living and non-living entities, joining head, hand, heart and spirit to the web of life. It is argued that through Connective Education, a particular type of person is formed: one who is able to take their place in the human and natural world, and in this way truly connect with their planet. The book will be essential reading for those working in the fields of Education and Environmental Studies. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Setting the Scene: Domains, Challenges and the Social Imaginary.- Chapter 3. The Modern Social Imaginary.- Chapter 4. Education in the Modern Social Imaginary.- Chapter 5. The Major Challenges of the 21st Century?.- Chapter 6. The Challenges of the 21st Century and the Modern Social Imaginary.- Chapter 7. The Ecological Social Imaginary.- Chapter 8. Education in the Ecological Social Imaginary.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post Professional Era
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing: Estimation of Agricultural Crop Biomass Water Equivalent
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World
Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsustainable ones thus constitute substantial, almost overwhelming challenges for science and policy. This book brings together leading scholars on land-use change and sustainability to systematically discuss the relevance of telecoupling research in addressing these challenges. The book presents an overview of the telecoupling approach, reflects on a number of the most pressing issues surrounding land-use change today and discusses the agenda for advancing understanding on sustainable land-use change through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.Table of Contents1 Global Land-Use Change through a Telecoupling Lens: An Introduction; Cecilie Friis and Jonas Ø. NielsenPart I: Overview2 What Is Telecoupling?; Jinguo Liu, Anna Herzberger, Kelly Kapsar, Andrew K. Carlson, and Thomas Connor3 Telecoupling: A New Framework for Researching Land-Use Change in a Globalised World; Cecilie Friis4 Explanations in Telecoupling Research; Patrick MeyfroidtPart II: Topics5 Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production;Christian Levers and Daniel Müller6 Telecoupling and Consumption in Agri-Food Systems; Rachael Garrett and Ximena Rueda7 Toolbox: Flow Analysis—Social Metabolism in the Analysis of Telecoupling; Anke Schaffartzik and Thomas Kastner8 Trade and Land-Use Telecouplings; Javier Godar and Toby Gardner9 Governance for Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems; Edward Challies, Jens Newig, and Andrea Lenschow10 Toolbox: Operationalising Telecoupling with Network Analysis; Jonathan W. Seaquist and Emma Li Johansson11 Environmental Justice in Telecoupling Research; Esteve Corbera, Louise Marie Busck-Lumholt, Finn Mempel, and Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos12 Livelihoods through the Lens of Telecoupling; Yann le Polain de Waroux13 Toolbox: Spatial Analysis and Modelling; Peter H. Verburg14 Urban Telecouplings; Dagmar Haase15 Conservation Telecouplings; Tobias Kuemmerle, Thomas Kastner, Patrick Meyfroidt, and Siyu Qin16 Toolbox: Capturing and Understanding Telecoupling through Qualitative Research; Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Janine Hauer, and Cecilie Friis17 Discursive Telecouplings; Joel Persson and Ole MertzPart III: Agenda18 Beyond Integration: Exploring the Interdisciplinary Potential of Telecoupling Research; Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Cecilie Friis, and Jörg Niewöhner19 Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems; Julie G. Zaehringer, Flurina Schneider, Andreas Heinimann, and Peter Messerli
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good?: Exploring the Intersection of Corporate Water Stewardship and Global Water Governance
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives. In various geographies, companies spearhead a quest for more sustainable water management within and beyond their own operations. This book critically examines such strategies and provides an overarching analysis of the effects that mounting corporate involvement has had on the global water discourse. More specifically, it explains why companies from the food, beverage, textile, and mining sectors have started to incorporate water management objectives into their business strategies, how companies work in partnerships with other stakeholders to realize these objectives, and how these actions acquire wider political legitimacy. It presents insightful interview material from business leaders and other high-level stakeholders. Readers will gain the necessary knowledge to develop a critical view and respond appropriately.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing Corporate Water Stewardship in the Context of Global Water Governance.- Part I: Incorporation.- Chapter 2. Understanding the Enabling Environment.- Chapter 3. The Rise of Corporate Water Stewardship.- Part II: Involvement.- Chapter 4. Companies and Water Resources Management.- Chapter 5. Companies and Water Sanitation and Hygiene.- Part III: Influence.- Chapter 6. Corporate Legitimacy in Collective Action.- Chapter 7. Corporations and the Shaping of the Global Water Agenda.- Chapter 8. Imagining Pathways Forward: Corporate Water Stewardship and the future of Global Water Governance.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Survival or Extinction?: How to Save Elephants
Book SynopsisWritten with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better. It takes an overview of how the current situation came to pass by exploring poaching and its devastating consequences and the pivotal role of organized crime. The discussion of how matters are starting to improve covers the investigation and monitoring of ivory markets, sustainable uses and the key role of local communities.Enforcement of the law is vital in this story. Enter the enforcers, the technology they use to defeat the poachers and the evidence they require to prosecute offenders. Cases, some deeply shocking, are included, as well as a number of fascinating case studies, while the exploits of organized crime gangs make lively, as well as disturbing reading. Throughout the message is clear. We can and must save these animals from extinction.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionPART I: CAST OF ‘CHARACTERS’Chapter 2: The Animals: Elephants, Rhinos and People PART II: THE LAW Chapter 3: CITES and the CBD Chapter 4: Sustainable Use: golden thread or fool’s gold? PART III: THE COMMODITIESChapter 5: Elephant Ivory and Rhino Horn Chapter 6: The Products, their Retail Outlets, their Sellers and their Buyers PART IV: POACHING AND SMUGGLINGChapter 7: Poaching and its Consequences Chapter 8: The Survivors Chapter 9: Smugglers and Smuggling Routes PART V: THE ONE-OFF SALES OF ELEPHANT IVORYChapter 10: The One-off Sales of Elephant Ivory and their Aftermath PART VI: SURVEYING THE IVORY MARKETS Chapter 11: The Confusing Nature of Ivory Markets Chapter 12: Researchers and their Methodology Chapter 13: Markets in Africa Chapter 14: Markets in Southeast Asia Chapter 15: Markets in the United States of America Chapter 16: Markets in the UK PART VII: ILLEGAL TRADING IN RHINO HORN Chapter 17: The History of Rhinoceros Listing on CITES Chapter 18: The Illegal Trade in Rhino Horn PART VIII: OTHER PROBLEMS REVEALED Chapter 19: In Which We Meet Our First Organized Crime Gang and The Law is ChangedChapter 20: Organized Crime Chapter 21: Rebel Militia and ‘Blood Ivory’ Chapter 22: The Internet Chapter 23: Religious Ivory Chapter 24: Bribery and Corruption PART IX: ENFORCEMENT Chapter 25: The Enforcers Chapter 26: Seizures and arrests Chapter 27: Evidence Chapter 28: Prosecutions Chapter 29: Technology to the Rescue PART X: IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTSChapter 30: The London Conference and what followedChapter 31: CoP16 Chapter 32: Updates on Some Countries Chapter 33: Rhino Trophy Hunting in South AfricaPART XI: RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONChapter 34: Research Chapter 35: Education PART XII: SUSTAINABLE USEChapter 36: The CBD Re-visited Chapter 37: Sustainable Use: Contentious IssuesPART XIII: SEEDS OF HOPE Chapter 38: PeopleChapter 39: Countries Chapter 40: Zoos, ecosystems and translocations PART XIV: TOWARDS A RESOLUTIONChapter 41: Last Chance to SaveChapter 42: Living Together: Resolutions to Human-elephant Conflict and Other Problems Chapter 43: Working Together Creates People Power Chapter 44: Survival or Extinction?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work
Book SynopsisLoïc Wacquant is one of the most influential sociological theorists of the contemporary era with his research and writings resonating widely across the social sciences. This edited collection critically responds to Wacquant’s distinct approach to understanding the contemporary urban condition in advanced capitalist societies. It comprises chapters focused on Europe and North America from leading international scholars and new emergent voices, which chart new empirical, theoretical and methodological territory. Pivoting on the relationship between class, ethnicity and the state in the (re-)making of urban marginality, the volume takes stock of Wacquant’s body of work and assesses its value as a springboard for rethinking urban inequality in polarizing times. Heeding Wacquant’s call for constant theoretical critique and development in understanding dynamic urban relations and processes, the contributions challenge, develop and refine Wacquant’s framework, while also synthesizing it with other perspectives and bringing it into dialogue with new areas of inquiry. How can Wacquant’s work aid the empirical understanding of today’s complex urban inequalities? And how can empirical investigation and theoretical synthesis aid the development of Wacquant’s framework? The diverse contributors to the collection ask these, and other, searching questions – and Wacquant responds to this critique in the final chapter. This book will be of interest to scholars engaged in understanding the drivers, contexts, and potential responses to contemporary urban marginality.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Putting Wacquant to Work; John Flint and Ryan Powell2. Class, Ethnicity and State in the Making of Urban Marginality; Loїc WacquantPart 1 –Class: Gender, Families and Surveillance3. ‘We live like prisoners in a camp’: Surveillance, Governance and Agency in a US Housing Project; Talja Blokland4. Maternal Outcasts: Governing Vulnerable Mothers in Advanced Marginality; Larissa Povey5. Exploring Family-Based Intervention Mechanisms as a Form of Statecraft; Emily BallPart 2 – Ethnicity: Invisibilization, Informality and (Dis) identifications6. Fluid Identifications in the Age of Advanced Marginality; Fabien Truong (translated by Lorenzo Posocco)7. Informality and the Neo-Ghetto: Modulating Power Through Roma Camps; Isabella Clough Marinaro8. Housing, Ethnicity and Advanced Marginality in England; Ryan Powell and David RobinsonPart 3 – State: Governing Marginality—Home, Street, Neighbourhood, City9. All Leviathan’s Children: Race, Punishment and the (Re-)Making of the City; Rueben Miller10. Social Work and Advanced Marginality; Ian Cummins11. Bringing the Third Sector Back into Ghetto Studies: Roma Segregation and Civil Society Associations in Italy12. Between Street and Shelter: Seclusion, Exclusion, and theNeutralization of PovertyResponse13. Dispossession and Dishonour in the Polarized Metropolis: Reactions and Recommendations; Loїc Wacquant
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Climate Change and Arctic Security: Searching for a Paradigm Shift
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the construction of security in the context of climate change, with a focus on the Arctic region. It examines and discusses changes in the security premises of the Arctic states, from traditional security to environmental and human security. In particular, the book explores how climate change impacts security discourses and premises as well as theoretically discussing the possibility for another change, from circumpolar stability into peaceful change. Chapters cover topics such as the ethics of climate change in the arctic, China’s emerging power and influence on arctic climate security, the discursive transformation of the definition of security and the intersection between urban, climate and Arctic studies. The book concludes with the question of whether a paradigm shift in our understanding of traditional security is possible, and whether it is already occurring in the Arctic. Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was a member republic of the USSR). The first two parts of the book provide contextual material to help readers understand the vision behind housing estates in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These sections present the background of housing estates in the Baltic Republics as well as challenges and debates concerning their formation, evolution, and present condition and importance. Subsequent parts of the book consist of: demographic analyses of the socioeconomic characteristics and ethnicity of housing estate residents (past and present) in the three Baltic capital cities, case studies of people and places related to housing estates in the Baltic countries, and chapters exploring relevant special topics and themes. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and advocates interested in understanding the past, present, and future importance of housing estates in the Baltic countries.Trade Review“This is a useful book that addresses the breadth and depth of issues related to housing estate revitalization across Europe and should meet students’ and academics’ appetites for more detailed excavations of housing estates development today. It presents substantial progress in understanding urban issues like ethnic-spatial segregation, inner city revitalization, limiting urban sprawl, and social cohesion, and generates fresh ideas for potential collaboration, among many other things.” (Marcela Mele, Eurasian Geography and Economics, May 8, 2023)“This much-needed book pays great attention to explaining the historical context of the birth of this sort of housing, the use of standardized types and projects versus innovative planning principles … and the architect’s aspiration towards novelty and original solutions in developing housing estates for the Soviet man.” (Triin Ojari, European Planning Studies, Vol. 28 (6), 2020)“I strongly recommend [this book] to housing scholars and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic. The editors and the publisher, Springer Open, deserve credit for publishing two attractive and useful books that address the breadth and depth of issues related to housing estate revitalization across Europe. The numerous photographs (color as well as black-white) throughout the book helped me to understand changes in the design of European housing estates—the good as well as the bad.” (David P. Varady, Geography Research Forum, Vol. 39, 2019)Table of ContentsPrologue-A Place to Live, Work, and Play: Housing Demand and Urbanization in the Baltic Countries.- Turbulent Political History and the Legacy of State Socialism in the Baltic Countries.- Soviet-Era Housing Systems Explained: Constructing and Inhabiting Socialist Housing Estates in the Baltics.- Freedom and Constraints: Ideals Transferred but Eclipsed by Industrialised Housing Production.- Mass Housing and ‘Extensive Urbanism’ in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Overview.- The Ethnic and Social Landscape of Residents in Tallinn’s Socialist Housing Estates.- Residential Change and Socio-Demographic Challenges for Large Housing Estates: Exploring Post-Soviet Riga.- Soviet Housing Estates and their Residents in Vilnius.- Living in a Large Housing Estate: An Insiders’ Perspective from Lithuania.- Innovation Inside and Outside “The System”: Revisiting the Role of Architects in Planning Socialist-Era Residential Districts in Estonia.- Evolution of Award-Winning Microrayons and Housing Estates in the Baltics.- Aspirations versus Reality in the Formation of Mikrorayon Commercial Centers in Lithuania.- Forms of Governing Parking in Housing Estates in Tallinn, Estonia.- State-Subsidized Renovation of Socialist Apartment Blocks in Estonia.- Large Housing Estates in Latvia: Origin and Future Challenges.- Possibilities for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Renovation of Socialist Residential Space: “Smart City” Redevelopment in Tartu, Estonia
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Paleoclimatology
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Geography Education Research in the UK: Retrospect and Prospect: The UK Case, Within the Global Context
Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique assessment of the development of research in geography education and its future prospects, offering a challenging critique of subject-based education research, with particular reference to geography education across a range of different jurisdictions. It covers a range of topics, including the changing role of research in geography education; the relationship between education research and professional practice, with special reference to geography education research; the place of academic subject knowledge in geography education research; critiques of the functions of research in geography education; and the key issues for education policy and policymakers concerning educational research at national and international levels.Importantly, in a period marked by radical change for education research and researchers, the book offers a timely appraisal of possible ways forward for geography education research. Addressing the needs of academics, research students, policymakers, and education practitioners who undertake, use or shape the future of research in geography education, it comprehensively explores the forces that have driven the development of geography education research and pedagogy. Further, by positioning its analysis in the context of education policy debates in the UK, and further afield, it assesses the role and function of research in education, and offers an outlook on its future. This book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand the sporadic and increasingly uncertain development of subject-based research in educationTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The origins of geography education research.- Chapter 3. Contemporary developments in geography education research and theory.- Chapter 4. Geography education research methods.- Chapter 5. The policy context – government perspectives and influences on (geography) education research.- Chapter 6. The consequences of assessment of the quality of research outputs (REF).- Chapter 7. International perspectives on geography education research.- Chapter 8. Research in geography and geography education: the roles of theory and thought.- Chapter 9. The prospects for geography education research – what are the ways forwards?.- Chapter 10. Conclusions.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political
Book SynopsisOffering a thought provoking theoretical conversation around ecological crisis and natural resource extraction, this book suggests that we are on a trajectory geared towards total extractivism guided by the mythological Worldeater. The authors discuss why and how we have come to live in this catastrophic predicament, rooting the present in an original perspective that animates the forces of global techno-capitalist development. They argue that the Worldeater helps us make sense of the insatiable forces that transform, convert and consume the world. The book combines this unique approach with detailed academic review of critical agrarian studies and political ecology, the militarization of nature and the conventional and ‘green’ extraction nexus. It seeks radical reflection on the role people play in the construction and perpetuation of these crises, and concludes with some suggestions on how to tackle them.Trade Review“Those readers interested in creative new approaches to the most pressing dilemmas facing human and non-human nature, this book will be a source of insight and inspiration.” (W. Nathan Green, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, December 2, 2020)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction—Consuming Everything: Capitalism and the Imperative of Total Extractivism.Chapter 2: The Spirit and Metaphysical Form of Capitalism: Devils, Worms, Octopuses and Worldeater(s).Chapter 3: Studying the Worldeater(s): Political Ecology and Critical Agrarian Studies and their Origins, Differences and Convergence.Chapter 4: Claws & Teeth: The Militarization of Nature.Chapter 5: The Worldeater(s) in Process: Uncovering the Nexus of Conventional and ‘Green’ Extraction.Chapter 6: Conclusion—Out of the Entrails: Reflections on Human Power.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous introduction to the global social movement for ‘climate justice’ and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic climate change.Deploying relational understandings of nature-society, space, and power, Brandon Derman shows that climate change has been co-produced with social inequality. Mismatching levels of responsibility and vulnerability, and institutions that emerged in tandem with those disproportionalities compose the terrain on which NGOs and social movements now contest climate injustice in a wide-ranging “politics of connection.” Case-based chapters explore the defining commitments of affected and allied communities, and how they have shaped specific struggles mobilizing human rights, international treaties, transnational activist forums, national and local constituencies, and broad-based demonstrations. Derman synthesizes these cases and similar efforts across the globe to identify and explore crosscutting themes in climate justice politics as well as the opportunities and dilemmas facing advocates and activists, and those who would ally with them going forward. How should we understand campaigns for climate justice? What do these initiatives share, and what differentiates them? What, in fact, does “climate justice” mean in these contexts? And what do the framing and progression of such efforts in different settings suggest about the broader conditions that produce and sustain climate injustice, how those conditions could be unmade, and what might take their place? Struggles for Climate Justice approaches these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as scholars of geography, social movements, environmental politics, policy, and socio-legal studies. Trade Review“This book is set to become a foundational tool for climate justice policy advocates and local leaders in marginalized communities, as well as students and scholars of environmental studies, geography, social movements, and public international law.” (Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, June, 2020)Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Foregrounding Urban Agendas: The New Urban Issue in European Experiences of Policy-Making
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