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Book SynopsisThe great progress which has been made in recent years in the field of the chemical and physical properties of water and the dependence of the life processes on these makes it appear desirable to take water as an environment as the central theme and this subject occupies half the text.This book has grown out of the course in Hydrobiology which has been given at the Biological Station at Lunz for some decades. This circumstance will make it clear why the text may seem to be overburdened with examples drawn from conditions in the lakes of Lunz and from work carried on at the Lunz Station.

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Book SynopsisVolume 3 of Annual Surfactants Review focuses on the diversity of surfactants, both in terms of chemical structure and physico-chemical / surface active properties. These properties may be predictable for simple molecules, but for most commercial surfactants (which may be regarded as multi-component blends) this is not so easy. In the first chapter of this volume, detailed consideration is given to surfactant applications in the context of structure-performance relationships. The end uses of surface active agents are classified by industrial sector and the surfactant properties required for each application are presented in detail. The result is a unique guide to the influence of chemical structure on performance in end use. Many applications of surfactants feature formulations which incorporate polymeric materials. The topic of surfactant-polymer interactions is receiving considerable attention at present and so a chapter has been included on this area. In an attempt to illustrate the diversity of surfactant uses and focus on some of the latest developments in application technology, five areas of application are presented: natural surfactants for drug delivery systems, surfactants used in the construction industry, preparation and end uses of inverse emulsions (for example, as flocculants), the use of surfactants in plastics flotation (part of the plastics recycling process) and the role of surfactants in 'dynamic wetting'.Trade Review"A fine book with excellent information presented in a pleasant form. I recommend it for purchase as both a 'technology update' book and as a 'reference' book" - Journal of Surfactants and DetergentsTable of ContentsSurfactant applications in the context of structure-performance relationships; Surfactants in inverse (water-in-oil) emulsion polymers of acrylamide; Inter-actions between polymers and surfactants; Use of surfactants in plastic flotation; Surface-active agents in the construction industry; The role of surfactants in dynamic wetting; Interfacial properties of natural surfactants and their application in drug delivery systems; References; Index.

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Trade Review"Tainted Earth stands out as a compelling demonstration of just how central lead and copper smelters were to the making of our modern science and regulation of environmental pollution in the United States. The research and writing on display are smoothly woven and in places, inspired." -- Christopher Sellers * Stony Brook University *"Sullivan’s comparative study is unique; she sets many of the regulatory problems of smelters into a firm analytical framework that will be useful for many years." -- Christian Warren * Brooklyn College *"Tainted Earth provides a detailed history, with a technical focus, of the environmental impact of three metal smelters located in Tacoma, Washington, El Paso, Texas, and Kellogg, Idaho. This is a well-documented story, providing a warning to other nations where the smelters now glow." * Choice *"Sullivan weaves compelling stories of communities where children's health was irreversibly damaged by heavy metal pollution following smelting industry efforts to downplay and obfuscate the risks of pollution, and efforts to stave off environmental regulation. Well-written and engaging...Tainted Earth will appeal to students oand professionals across a variety of fields, including public health, history of science, toxicology, geography, and environmental policy." * Global Public Health *"Marianne Sullivan's Tainted Earth makes a major contribution to the complex history of smelter smoke." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Tacoma Smelter2. City of Destiny, City of Smoke3. Uncovering a Crisis in El Paso4. Bunker Hill 5. Tacoma: A Disaster Is Discovered6. A Carcinogenic Threat 7. Sacrificed Conclusion Notes Index

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Trade ReviewThis gem of a book will prove indispensablein environmental studies. The editors have assembled brilliant thinkers who provide pithy yet ambitious reflections on key terms fundamental to environmental inquiry. This is a unique and essential resource. -- Rob Nixon,author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorProvides an engaging introduction and current perspective on some key concepts in the environmental sciences that foreground multidisciplinary aspects of the field. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPlanning and construction of the James Bay Hydroelectric project began in the early 1970s, when the effect of such projects on the physical and social environment was seldom considered. As the project matured, however, its unique and diverse environmental impacts came under intense scrutiny on both sides of the border.

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Book SynopsisExamines the natural and economic resource competition between Phoenix and Tucson and the other factors contributing to the divergent growth of the two cities.

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Book SynopsisSanders examines the rise of environmental activism in Seattle amidst the "urban crisis" of the 1960s and its aftermath. Seattle's activists came to influence everything from industry to politics, planning, and global environmental movements.

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Book SynopsisNew Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions.

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Book SynopsisToxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues on a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet.

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Book SynopsisFrom the late nineteenth century onwards religion gave way to science as the dominant force in society. This led to a questioning of the principle of free will—if the workings of the human mind could be reduced to purely physiological explanations, then what place was there for human agency and self-improvement?Trade ReviewConfirms Smith's truly remarkable breadth of knowledge, power of synthesis, and ability to use different historiographical and stylistic registers to convey a message that matters to many of us. Here is a historian who has shown that 'history' itself does, indeed, matter."" - —Isis

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Book SynopsisCharles Blanchard traces the rise of natural gas and the regulatory missteps that nearly ruined the market.

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Book SynopsisThomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program - created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime - aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy.

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Book SynopsisGlobally, poor hygiene and sanitation contribute to more than 1,000 daily deaths from diarrhoeal diseases among children under the age of 5, while two thirds of urban wastewaters are discharged without treatment into lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Across Europe the percentage of the population connected to wastewater treatment plants varies from 14% to >99% with many reliant on unsuitable decentralised sanitation systems or no wastewater treatment at all. With less than a decade left to achieve the 2030 sanitation targets as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an urgent need to develop new treatment solutions that can be rapidly deployed to meet the needs of growing urban and peri-urban populations, together with under-served rural communities. This book discusses decentralised wastewater treatment and the role of nature-based solutions within the context of the twenty-partner international INNOQUA project. INNOQUA set out to develop and demonstrate a suite of modular, low cost, decentralised solutions that use the combined capabilities of earthworms, bacteria, Cladocera and micro-algae to deliver nature-based primary, secondary and tertiary treatment – followed by UV disinfection. Design and operation principles are outlined, together with performance data and practical feedback from pilot and demonstration facilities situated in eleven countries from Ecuador to Scotland and India. Barriers and drivers towards more widespread uptake of these technologies are also examined, alongside an exploration of existing markets for nature-based sanitation in the Global South.Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 1. Introduction to the INNOQUA project Chapter 2. Drivers and Barriers towards a Sustainability Transition in the Wastewater Sector – A NEXUS perspective with nature-based solutions Chapter 3. Why choose nature-based wastewater treatment systems? Chapter 4. Nature-based wastewater treatment – overview & current common systems in the Global South Chapter 5. Primary and secondary treatment: Vermifiltration Chapter 6. Daphniafilter: a nature-based tertiary treatment Chapter 7. Tertiary treatment: microalgae-based wastewater treatment Chapter 8. Disinfection options for decentralised wastewater treatment Chapter 9. INNOQUA – commercialisation opportunities Afterword

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Book SynopsisIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. Drawing on social and environmental history, he connects the Amazonians intimately to their natural landscapes.

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Book SynopsisCanada includes within her boundaries at least 500,000 square miles of muskeg (peat-land). Only in recent years, to keep pace with the rapid development of the north has this remarkable organic terrain been subject to scientific study. This handbook is a compendium of the recommendations and conclusions of annual muskeg conferences (sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada) which have been held since 1955. It has been written by experts in various aspects of muskeg research and practice and is an ideal guide for engineers involved with the problems of constructing buildings, railways, highways and airstrips on muskeg. (Canadian Building Series No. 3)

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Book SynopsisIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. Drawing on social and environmental history, he connects the Amazonians intimately to their natural landscapes.

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Book SynopsisMobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate and landscape.Spanning Canada's diverse regions, throughout its history, from the closing of the age of sail to the contemporary era of just-on-time delivery, Moving Natures examines a wide range of topics, from the impact of seasonal climactic conditions on different transportation modes, to the environmental consequences of building mobility corridors and pathways, to the relationship between changing forms of mobility with tourism and other recreational activities. Contributors make use of traditional archival sources, as well as historical geographic information systems (HGIS), qualitative and quantitative analysis, and critical theory.This thought-provoking collection divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers' uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility. Together, they highlight three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites' experiences of the environment through mobility.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection should be seen as an initial step towards the refinement of mobility as a historical concept and a greater unpacking of mobility histories. - Alan Gordan, The Journal of Transport HistoryMoving Natures is a welcome intervention in several fields that engage with Canadaâs size, including environmental history, mobility studies, science and technology studies, and Canadian social and cultural history. Here, dominant narratives of transportation networks as annihilators of Canadian distances are complicated and decentralized by prying open the black boxes of mobility studies and environmental history with the crowbars of the other... The result is a well-rounded set of twelve interdisciplinary stories that address both the impact of mobility networks on the environment as well as changing perceptions of the environment when viewed from different transportation platforms. - Blair Stein, Scientia CanadensisMoving Natures presents an engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the potential of reimagining the interconnected roles of mobility and the environment in Canadian History - J.L. Weller, BC StudiesThis collection puts older themes in a new light, works outside of a nationalist perspective, and offers close readings of cases to make larger observations... Many historical geographers and environmental historians will find a great deal of interest within these pages, and the basis for fruitful comparisons with other cases and places. - Matthew Evenden, Journal of Historical Geography

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Book SynopsisEnergy engineers, technology managers, and political leaders all need a solid, holistic understanding of where the world finds its energy - the limits of that energy - and what we will need to do in the future if we are to have a cleaner and environmentally sustainable world, all without sacrificing our modern technological-based civilization. This book will shed some much needed light on that conundrum. It Provides a broad overview of our current energy sources, their uses and limitations and political and economic constraints Clarifies the urgency behind the sweeping changes in the world's energy needs and available supplies Offers a rational paradigm for how we can go about selecting the optimal mix of fossil, renewable and sustainable energy sources and how we can then aggressively move toward those more sustainable sources

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental site investigation and characterization is potentially the most important part of an environmental project. Site investigation is so important because nearly all other aspects of the project, from financial decisions to engineering designs and construction tasks, are based on the findings of an initial site investigation. The goal in site investigation is to use a number of methods to understand the conditions present at a site and to choose a clear and detailed method to record and present the findings for later reference. Economic and political factors often play a large role in the depth and accuracy of environmental site investigations. This text takes readers step by step through the site investigation process. The knowledge needed for site investigation is presented on an introductory level so that students and practitioners can see the great importance that site investigation lends to the overall success of a project. Additionally, by gaining a thorough understanding of the current state of technology and methodology used for environmental site investigation, readers will better understand how to make their site investigations more efficient and beneficial to a project.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental engineering is a discipline that focuses on sustainability with the natural cycles of the earth in conjunction with the built environment. The discipline is also concerned with the protection of human health from adverse effect and the mitigation of adverse effects on the environment from the human populace. This book is intended as a reference for the graduate level scholar on selected topics and environmental engineering. Topics encompassed in environmental engineering include treatment of water and wastewater, mitigation of environmental hazards, and sustainable practice. The book discusses the concepts and dimensions of environmental treatment, costs of poor environmental quality, the importance of sustainability in this highly competitive global economy, and environmental law. The text integrates concepts, methods, and historical context to give an overview of basic topics in environmental engineering. Also included is a glossary of terms in environmental engineering. This book fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive overview of topics in the environmental engineering discipline.

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Book SynopsisClimate Change is a collection of a number of papers as well as chapters about the science of the subject. This collection is meant to inflame and excite conversation among engineers and scientists with society at large. It would serve as a catalyst for a three-credit course as a relatively new engineering subject to both engineering and non-engineering university students. As university education develops to better prepare future leaders to appreciate science, technology, engineering and mathematics, engineering courses for a mix of engineering and non-engineering majors, are essential and so is the requirement of worthy textbooks. This monograph intends to be one of the useful tools available for this timely topic. The wide range of topics includes climate change and theories, the second law of thermodynamics, the global greenhouse effect, anthropogenic heat release, evidence around us owing to environmental change, sea level rise, jungles and forests, heat islands, atmospheric carbon dioxide removal via technology, nanotechnology and other innovations in response to climate change, the energy–water–food nexus.

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Book SynopsisConservation in protected areas has focused on preserving biodiversity of ecosystems and species, whereas conserving the genetic diversity contained within species has historically often been ignored. However, maintaining genetic diversity is fundamental to food security and the provision of raw materials and it is best preserved within plants' natural habitats. This is particularly true for wild plants that are directly related to crop species and can play a key role in providing beneficial traits, such as pest or disease resistance and yield improvement. These wild relatives are presently threatened due to processes of habitat destruction and change and methodologies have been adapted to provide in-situ conservation through the establishment of genetic reserves within the existing network of protected areas. Providing a long-awaited synthesis of these new methodologies, this book presents a practical set of management guidelines that can be used for the conservation of plant genetic diversity of crop wild relatives in protected areas.Table of Contents1: Introduction: The Integration of PGR Conservation with Protected Area Management 2: Genetic Reserve Location and Design 3: Genetic Reserve Management 4: Plant Population Monitoring Methodologies for the In Situ Genetic Conservation of CWR 5: Population and Habitat Recovery Techniques for the In Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Diversity 6: Complementing In Situ Conservation with Ex Situ Measures 7: Final Considerations for the In Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Diversity

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Book SynopsisFollowing several decades of popularity after the Second World War, the use of synthetic herbicides is now experiencing a backlash within the agriculture industry.The increase in organic farming and concerns about potential negative effects on human health and the environment is creating a demand for pesticide-free food and alternative weed management techniques. International research has now explored the potential, limitations and impacts of non-chemical alternatives and the effect of different strategies on the entire agro- or natural ecosystem. Through the re-evaluation of techniques previously considered uneconomical or impractical, this text provides a comprehensive examination of non-chemical weed management.Table of Contents1: Prevention Strategies in Weed Management 2: Understanding Weed-crop Interactions to Manage Weed Problems 3: Cultural Weed Management 4: Cover Crops and Weed Management 5: Allelopathy, a Potential Tool in the Development of Strategies for Biorational Weed Management 6: Biological Control of Weeds Using Arthropods 7: Bioherbicides for Weed Control 8: Mechanical Weed Management 9: Use of Non-living Mulches for Weed Control 10: Thermal Weed Control 11: Soil Solarization and Weed Management 12: Non-chemical Weed Management ? Synopsis, Integration, and the Future"

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Book SynopsisA much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge. Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South Africa, land reform is gathering pace and African people hold an increasing proportion of thelivestock in the country. Animal health has become a central issue for rural development. Yet African veterinary medical knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book seeks to fill that gap. It captures for the first time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere of local knowledge. Beinart and Brown argue that African approaches to animal health rest largely in environmental and nutritional explanations. They explore the widespread use of plants as well as biomedicines for healing. While rural populations remain concerned about supernatural threats, and many men think that women can harm their cattle, the authors challenge current ideas on the modernisation of witchcraft. They examine more ambient forms of supernatural danger expressed in little-known concepts such as mohato and umkhondo. They take the reader into the homesteads and kraals of rural black South Africans and engage with a key rural concern - vividly reporting the ideas of livestock owners. This is groundbreaking research which will have important implications for analyses of local knowledge more generally as well as effectivestate interventions and animal treatments in South Africa. William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford; Karen Brown is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University PressTrade ReviewThis work is an important and timely intervention.[and] should thus be of wide interest to scholars and policy makers alike. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *African Local Knowledge is an important book. Its wider arguments are engaging and should encourage a rethinking of older, binary oppositions between 'science' and 'tradition' in other regions of African pastoral production where patterns of grazing management have also changed and where these ideas now seem equally outdated. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *'a path-breaking view of South African animal disease and remedies where African owners are concerned. Focusing on local veterinary knowledge and therapeutics by African owners in such depth through 200 interviews in five areas is innovative and opens up an original field of knowledge and practice.' - -- Professor Anne Digby, Oxford Brookes UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: African Local Knowledge and Veterinary Pluralism Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases and the Limits of Local Knowledge 'The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach': Environment and Nutrition in the Explanation and Prevention of Livestock Diseases Transhumance, Animal Diseases and Environment Plants and Drugs: Medicating Livestock Medicinal Plants: Their Selection and their Properties Animal Health and Ideas of the Supernatural Gender, Space and the Supernatural Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis important text develops an institutional response to the core issues raised in public policy making and develops a distinct understanding of the role of institutions, not least in the study of environmental problems. It questions: how are conflicting interests shaped and taken into account in policy making? How should they be accounted for? What motivates the behaviour of firms and individuals, and how is it possible to change these motivations to produce the favoured common outcomes?The author addresses these questions by integrating elements from classical institutional economics, neoclassical economics, sociology and ecological economics. He argues that public policy in general, and environmental policy in particular, are best examined from an institutional perspective. In this way the author presents a distinct and consistent alternative to standard neoclassical economics for students and scholars who are interested in an institutional understanding of environmental policy making. The book is written in a clear and accessible style with boxes and figures to help explain the issues and, as such, would be an ideal alternative or supplement to the standard environmental economics texts.Trade Review'Vatn has prepared a vast feast for his readers. Hopefully, this book will become one of the core textbooks both in institutional economics and in resource economics. As a political scientist, I can recommend it to social scientists more generally. I must confess, I enjoyed it all.' -- Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate, Land Economics'Institutions and the Environment indeed serves as a first-rate starting point for students and researchers regardless of whether they are mainly interested in institutions in general or environmental governance and ecological economics in particular.' -- Charlotta Soderberg, Environmental Politics -- Jack Reardon, Journal of Economic Issues'Vatn's book addresses the urgent question of environmental policy and shows that an understanding of the role of institutions is vital in this area. It incorporates insights on institutions from both mainstream and heterodox traditions of thought. Magisterial and comprehensive, it is both a textbook and an inspiring, pioneering monograph.' -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Institutions: The Web of Human Life Part I: Understanding Institutions 2. Institutions: The Individual and the Society 3. Institutions: Coordination and Conflict 4. Institutional Economics: Different Positions Part II: From Institutions to Action 5. Rationality 6. Preferences and Values Part III: From Action to Institutions 7. Explaining Institutional Change 8. Evaluating Institutional Change: The Normative Aspect of Institutions Part IV: Institutions, Environment and Policy 9. The Environment 10. Resource Regimes 11. Valuing the Environment 12. Comparing Value Articulating Institutions 13. Policy and Policy Measures 14. Policies for a Sustainable Future References Index

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Book SynopsisThis significant new book analyses fundamental changes in society-nature interaction: the socioeconomic use of materials, energy and land. The volume presents a number of case studies addressing transitions from an agrarian to an industrial socioecological regime, analysed within the materials and energy flow accounting (MEFA) framework. It is argued that by concentrating on the biophysical dimensions of change in the course of industrialization, social development issues can be explicitly linked to changes in the natural environment. From the historical transition in Europe, to current transitions in developing countries, the book offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of transition processes across scales, from local to national. The comparison of historical and current assessments allows a theory of the underlying patterns of the agrarian-industrial transition to emerge. On this basis, future trends and possible pathways towards (or indeed further departures from) sustainability are discussed.Empirical in character and cautious in its assumptions, this insightful book provides rich and in-depth material for further studies in socioecological research. It will be essential reading for students and researchers of ecological economics, industrial ecology, human ecology, environmental sociology, environmental history, geography as well as land, energy and development studies.Trade Review'Unlike so many books that analyze material and energy flows in society and the developments therein, this is one of the few that link such information to developments in social organization and that discusses how limits in one sphere influence the other and in reverse.' -- Arnold Tukker, Journal of Industrial Ecology'This book is a neat summary of the main research developments achieved by the editors and their colleagues at the Institute of Social Ecology at Klagenfurt University in Vienna, and represents an interesting and important landmark in the social metabolism approach to sustainable development. The book is arranged over eight chapters, each of which can stand alone as an interesting paper with a specific focus, though several chapters are complimentary. . . The various chapters are largely written in an interesting and engaging style and the material covered is well presented, so that the largely social science content should be easily assimilated by a wide general readership. . . The book is well laid out. . . Any ecologists interested in flows of energy and materials within changing agrarian and industrial landscapes would be well served by reading this approachable text.' -- Robert A. Francis, Landscape Ecology'In an important contribution to sustainability science, Fischer-Kowalski and Haberl extend the frontiers of contemporary socio-ecological research to articulate a theory of material, energy and land-use transitions across multiple scales based on detailed empirical studies in Europe and Asia. The insights it presents on agrarian-industrial transitions are crucial to understand the potential impact of emerging nations like India and China on global change.' -- Aromar Revi, India China Institute, The New School University, US'This volume represents the culmination of several years of empirical research and refinement of the social metabolism approach. That approach is one of the most exciting and illuminating innovations in the fields of human ecology, industrial ecology, and environmental history. Here the team from Vienna's Institute of Social Ecology shows masterfully how the insights of social metabolism shed light on transitions to high-energy society in Austria, in Britain, and in the world at large.' -- J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Joan Martinez-Alier 1. Conceptualizing, Observing and Comparing Socioecological Transitions Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl 2. Land-use Change and Socioeconomic Metabolism: A Macro View of Austria 1830–2000 Fridolin Krausmann and Helmut Haberl 3. The Fossil-Fuel-Powered Carbon Sink: Carbon Flows and Austria’s Energetic Metabolism in a Long-term Perspective Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl and Fridolin Krausmann 4. The Great Transformation: A Socio-metabolic Reading of the Industrialization of the United Kingdom Heinz Schandl and Fridolin Krausmann 5. The Local Base of the Historical Agrarian – Industrial Transition and the Interaction between Scales Helmut Haberl and Fridolin Krausmann 6. The Local Base of Transitions in Developing Countries Clemens M. Grünbühel, Simron J. Singh and Marina Fischer-Kowalski 7. Transition in a Contemporary Context: Patterns of Development in a Globalizing World Nina Eisenmenger, Jesus Ramos Martin and Heinz Schandl 8. Conclusions: Likely and Unlikely Pasts, Possible and Impossible Futures Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl and Fridolin Krausmann Index

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Book SynopsisGeoProc2008 collects the proceedings of the International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C (thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, chemical) Processes in Geosystems.Table of ContentsPreface xiii Keynote Lectures 1 Physical Mechanics of In-Pore Phase Transition – O. Coussy 3 Localized Failure in Brittle Rock – J. W. Rudnicki 25 Coupled Analysis of Chemo-Mechanical Processes – A. Gens, L. do N. Guimarães, A. M. Fernández, S. Olivella, M. Sánchez 41 Drilling Into the San Andreas Fault – T.-F. Wong 59 Section 1 Fundamentals of Mechanics of Porous Media 75 A Numerical Model for CO2 Wells Ageing through Water/Supercritical CO2/Cement Interactions – J. Corvisier, A. Fabbri, F. Brunet, Y. Leroy, B. Goffé, G. Rimmelé, V. Barlet-Gouédard 77 Study on Shear Stress-Strain Model for Unsaturated Soil – W. Wang, T. Lu, L. Ji 85 How Lead Affects the Hydraulic and Microscopic Properties of a Smectite H. Souli, J-M Fleureau 93 Study of Settlements in a Granular Medium by a Probabilistic Approach D. Boumezerane, L. Herzine, F. Ouali, B. Tabti 101 Mechanics of a Soil, a Dynamically Coupled Solid-Water Gas System Conceptual Aspects – J. P. Oostveen 113 Mechanics of a Soil, a Dynamically Coupled Solid-Water Gas System Undrained Compression – J. P. Oostveen 121 Mechanics of a Soil, a Dynamically Coupled Solid-Water Gas System Shear Compression Interaction – J. P. Oostveen 131 Simulation and Contrastive Analysis of Typical Pollutant Transporting L. Chen, Y. Liang 141 Section 2 Experimental Characterization of Coupled T-H-M-C Processes in Porous Media 149 Gas Retention Phenomenon in Dry or Partially-Saturated Concrete: Permeability Assessment – X. Chen, F. Robert, C. Davy, F. Skoczylas, M. Moranville 151 Simultaneous Measurement of Expansion and Water Humidity Sorption on Montmorillonitic Clays – I. Kolarikova, R. Hanus 161 Effect of Temperature on Migration of Gas and Brine in Compacted Salt Y. Cinar, H. Alkan, O. Olafuyi 171 The effect of Wetting Conditions on the Mechanical Strength of Chalk B. Zangiabadi, T. A. Davidian, R. I. Korsnes, K. A. N. Vorland, T. G. Kristiansen, M. V. Madland 179 Induced Geometry in Chalk during Hydrochloric Acid Stimulation – E. Omdal, E. Dirdal, K. Ormark, K.A.N. Vorland, R.I. Korsnes, T.G. Kristiansen, T.L. Knutsen, T. Hildebrand-Habel, M.V. Madland 187 An Experimental Investigation of the Evolution of Rock Poromechanical Properties Associated with Chemical Alteration Processes – E. Bemer, J-M. Lombard 195 Electrokinetic Treatment of a Natural Silt in Saturated and Unsaturated Conditions – L. Gabrieli, C. Jommi, G. Musso, E. Romero 203 Normal Stress-Induced Permeability Reduction of a Fracture in a Large Granite Cylinder – A.P.S Selvadurai 211 Experimental Study of the Water Permeability of a Partially Saturated Argillite – P. Semete, C. Imbert, P. Desgree, B. Février, A. Courtois, G. Touzé 219 Application of the Maturity Concept for the Prediction of Restrained Autogenous Shrinkage of Cement Pastes – A. Pertué, P. Mounanga, A. Khelidj 231 Laboratory Experiments on Thermal Effects on Clay Rocks – C-L Zhang, T. Rothfuchs, K. Su 239 Mechanical Compaction of Porous Sandstone: an Experimental Study using Acoustic Emission (AE) Monitoring – J. Fortin, S. Stanchits, G. Dresen, Y. Guéguen 251 An Analysis of the Pulse Test and the Light of Residual Hydraulic Potentials A.P.S Selvadurai 259 Section 3 Constitutive Models for T-H-M-C Coupling and Multi-scale Approaches 267 Formulating Material Properties in Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Modeling G. Ziefle, J. Maßmann, M. Kohlmeier, W. Zielke 269 Partially Coupled Fluid Flow Modeling for Stress Sensitive Naturally Fractured Reservoirs – A.R Shaik, N.H. Tran, M.A. Aghighi, A.H. Syed, S.S. Rahman 277 Poromechanical Modeling of Hygric Shrinkage and Crystallization Swelling in Layered Porous Materials – H. Derluyn, A.S. Poupeleer, D. Van Gemert, J. Carmeliet 289 Fan-shaped Model of Clay Swelling Process – M. G. Khramchenkov 297 Early Age Autogenous Deformations of Cement-Based Materials M. Bouasker, F. Grondin, P. Mounanga, A. Khelidj 305 Identification of the Hydro-Mechanical in-Situ Properties of Tournemire Argillite from Mine-by-test Experiment – A. Millard, A. Rejeb 313 Model of Coupled Thermo-Hydraulic Transport in Bentonite Based on Mobile and Immobile Water Phase – M. Hokr, D. Frydrych 321 Orthotropic Anisotropic Damage Coupled Modeling of Saturated Porous Rock – Y.F. Lu, D.F. Liu 329 Numerical Evaluation of Effective Transport Properties of Random Cell Models: Two-Point Probability Approach – A. Rozanski, D. Lydzba, J. F. Shao 345 Section 4 Numerical Modeling of T-H-M-C Processes 353 Numerical Analysis of the Desaturation Process at the Argillaceous Tournemire Site (France) – J. Maßmann, G. Ziefle, M. Kohlmeier, W. Zielke, H. Shao, A. Rejeb 355 Numerical Study of the Influence of Fractures on the EDZ around a Nuclear Waste Emplacement Drift – X-T Feng, J. Rutqvist, P-Z Pan 363 Modeling THM Processes in Rocks with the Aid of Parallel Computing – R. Blaheta, P. Byczanski, R. Kohut, J. Starý 373 Influence of Excavation of Disposal Tunnel on the Near-Field Coupled Thermal, Hydraulic and Mechanical Phenomena – M. Chijimatsu, Y. Tsukada, A. Kobayashi, T. Fujita 381 The Probabilistic Method: An Efficient Tool to Take into Account the Parameters Variability of Modeling for Durability Design Process F. Deby, M. Carcasses, A. Sellier 391 The Influence of Fractures in the Wall-Block Model Domain in the EDZ using an EPCA Code – P-Z Pan, X-T Feng, X-H Huang, H. Zhou 399 Simulations of the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of an Annular Reinforced Concrete Structure Heated up to 200°C – M. V. G. De Morais, B. Bary, G. Ranc, S. Durand, A. Courtois 409 Hydraulic Modeling of Unsaturated Zones Around Three Openings at the Argillaceous Tournemire Site (France) – S. Uehara, A. Kobayashi, M. Chijimatsu, Y. Ohnishi, T. Fujita, A. Rejeb 419 Modeling of Non-Isothermal THM Coupled Processes In Multi-Phase Porous Media – W. Wang, H. Shao, O. Kolditz 427 Scale and Stress Effects on Permeability Tensor of Fractured Rocks with Correlated Fracture Length and Aperture – A. Baghbanan, L. Jing 439 3D Fully Coupled Multiphase Modeling of Ekofisk Reservoir – C. Ringlet, R. Charlier, Ch. Schroeder, F. Collin 447 Evolution of Permeability in Siliceous Rocks by Dissolution and Precipitation Under Hydrothermal Conditions – H. Yasuhara, N. Kinoshita, H. Kurikami, S. Nakashima, K. Kishida 457 Are Uncertainties on the Spatial Distribution of Rock Properties Influential in Coupled Reservoir/Geomechanical Modeling? – T. Hu, F. Fournier, J-J. Royer 465 Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Concrete at High Temperature C. Melhem, H. Boussa, H. Dumontet 473 Development of Loads in a Shaft Foundation in Salt Rock due to Seasonal Temperature Changes – S. Krug, J. Hesser, H. Shao 481 An Analytical Model to Calculate the Stress Field Induced by a Thin Axisymmetric Producing Reservoir – M. Chertov, M. Thiercelin 489 Time and Chemical Effects on Rock Sample Failure – M. Rinne, B. Shen, T. Backers 499 Effects of Pore Pressure on Failure Process and Acoustic Emissions of Rock Specimen with Pre-existing Random Imperfections – X.B.Wang 507 Modeling the Three-dimensional Hydraulic Performance of a Prototype Repository System within Fractured Crystalline Rock – P. Vardon, H.R. Thomas, P. Cleall 517 Numerical Simulation of laboratory coupled shear-flow tests for Rock Fractures – T. Koyama, T. Tsukahara, L. Jing, H. Kawamura, Y. Ohnishi 525 Section 5 - T-H-M-C Processes in Durability Mechanics of Concrete and Structures 533 Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete Activation Energy A. Kamen, H. Sadouki 535 Modeling of Mechanical Behavior of Steel Fibre-Reinforced Concrete in a Chemical Evolution Context – G. Camps, A. Turatsinze, A. Sellier, G. Escadeillas, X. Bourbon 543 A Model for Hydration-Drying Interactions in the Concrete Cover M.D. Nguyen, M. Thiery, P. Belin 553 Performance Assessment of a Mortar Added with High Calcareous Filler Amounts – Y. Benachour, C. A. Davy, F. Skoczylas, H. Houari 563 Modeling of Isothermal Drying Process in Cementitious Materials – M. Thiery, P. Belin, V. Baroghel-Bouny, M. D. Nguyen 571 Separation of Damage Mechanisms in Concrete at High Temperature C. De Sa, F. Benboudjema, J. Sicard 581 Experimental Analysis of Concrete Structures Affected by DEF – R.-P. Martin, D. Siegert, F. Toutlemonde 589 Percolation and Early Age Behavior of Concrete – L. Stefan, F. Benboudjema, J.M. Torrenti, B. Bissonnette 597 How can a Crack Opening be Extracted from a Continuous Damage Finite Element Computation? Application for the Estimation of Permeability M. Choinska, F. Dufour, G. Pijaudier-Cabot, A. Huerta, A. Khelidj 605 Effect of Carbonation on the Hydro-Mechanical Properties of Portland Cement A. Fabbri, J. Corvisier, A. Schubnel, F. Brunet, J. Fortin, B. Goffé, V. Barlet- Gouédard, G. Rimmele, Y. Leroy 613 Assessing the Long-Term Behavior of a Radioactive Waste Disposal Tunnel with a Damage Model Incorporating Chemical Degradation Effects A. Kobayashi, M. Chijimatsu, T. Fujita, K. Yamamoto 621 Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of a Petroleum Cement Paste: Chemical Degradation Effects – I. Yurtdas, S. Xie, J. Secq, N. Burlion, J.-F. Shao, J. Saint-Marc 629 Experimental Study of Water Desorption and Shrinkage in Mortars and Cement Pastes – T. Rougelot, F. Skoczylas, N. Burlion 637 Section 6 T-H-M-C in Engineering Applications and In-situ Investigations 647 Hydro-Mechanical Response of the Tournemire Argillite to the Underground Openings Excavation: Unsaturated Zones and Mine-by-test Experiment A. Rejeb, K. Ben Slimane, J. Cabrera, J.M. Matray, S. Savoye 649 The Belgian Supercontainer Concept for Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal – S. Poyet 657 Comparative Simulation Study on THM-induced Changes in Hydrological Properties of Fractured Rock near Nuclear Waste Repositories – J. Rutqvist, D. Barr, J.T. Birkholzer, K. Fujisaki, O. Kolditz, Q.-S. Liu, T. Fujita, W. Wang, C.-Y. Zhang 669 Long-term Response of Near-Field BMT Models around a Deposition Hole by BEM – H.S. Lee, M. Rinne, B. Shen 679 Assessment of Modeling Approaches for Analysis of Coupled THMC Processes in the EDZ of Geological Nuclear Waste Repositories – J. Rutqvist, A. Bäckström, M. Chijimatsu, X-T Feng, P-Z Pan, J. Hudson, L. Jing, A. Kobayashi, T. Koyama, H-S Lee, X.-H Huang, M. Rinne, B. Shen, E. Sonnenthal 687 Hydro–Mechanical Modeling of Seepage in Gotvand Dam Foundation M. Sharifzadeh, R. Nateghi, M. Kiyani 697 Atomized Rainfall Effect on Stability of Coupling Hydraulic-Mechanical Unsaturated Rock Slope – Q. Ren, W Y.Xu 707 Index of Authors 715

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses those involved in research or R&D. It introduces the principles of eco-innovation and the importance of the impact of their activity. This topic is considered in the context of natural and digital ecosystems powered by intelligent assistants (technology). Chapter 1 positions the innovation as a process and component of ecosystems including research, enterprises, technology (digitalecosystems) and environment. Sustainable success is a condition of survival and an expectation of those who invest in innovation. Chapter 2 describes the main elements to consider and gives some tips. Chapter 3 presents some selected initiatives at the national and European level and provides a way of measuring success.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix FOREWORD xi INTRODUCTION xv ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xxi CHAPTER 1. INNOVATION LANDSCAPE AND FIELDS 1 1.1. From intensive industrialization to intensive innovation: consequences of global business 1 1.2. Computer sciences, the Internet and mass media 7 1.2.1. Example of applying environmental principles 11 1.2.2. Artificial intelligence 17 1.3. Medicine and biotechnologies 23 1.3.1. Human spare parts and augmented human 25 1.3.2. Ambient assisted living 26 1.3.3. Biotechnology 27 1.4. Nanotechnologies 30 1.4.1. Biological risks of nanoparticles 32 1.5. Agriculture and food industry 33 1.6. Knowledge city, smart city, green city and wise city 38 1.7. Tourism and business travel 41 1.8. Fashion victims 41 1.9. Responsible innovation? 43 1.9.1. What alternative? 45 CHAPTER 2. INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS 49 2.1. The innovation biosphere 49 2.2. Some definitions 52 2.3. Innovation life 58 2.3.1. Continuous innovation and its context 58 2.3.2. Innovation dynamics 60 2.3.3. Balance: conditions for sustainable success 63 2.3.4. Role of knowledge and skills 70 2.4. Barriers, constraints and paradoxes 74 2.5 Some paradoxes 76 2.6. Measuring benefits78 2.7. Trends and future innovation 79 CHAPTER 3. CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION POLICIES 81 3.1. Challenges for the next decades 81 3.2. Main challenges: global, European and French perspectives 83 3.2.1. Challenges for Europe 85 3.2.2. Unemployment paradoxes and quick fixes 87 3.2.3. Challenge for France 91 3.2.4. Best practices in matching offer and demand 94 3.3. Innovation policy 95 3.3.1. Innovation policies in Europe 100 3.3.2. French innovation policy 113 3.4. Matching policy and challenges 118 CHAPTER 4. EXPERIMENTATIONS AND RESULTS 123 4.1. Ubiquitous or sustainable innovation 123 4.2. Selected actions around the world 124 4.2.1. Open Systems Science: Tokyo and Paris 129 4.2.2. Qatar Foundation 135 4.3. Europe 137 4.3.1. From Living Labs and Enoll to Innovation 2.0 137 4.3.2. Future Centers 144 4.3.3. Green and eco-innovation 150 4.3.4. Social and service innovation 152 4.4. Experiments in France 153 4.4.1. Merging for multidisciplinary (and cost saving) 156 4.5. Results and perspectives 157 CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS 159 5.1. Know, appreciate and protect what we have 159 5.2. Problem solving 161 5.2.1. Motivation 162 5.2.2. Understanding the problem to solve 163 5.2.3. Solutions from the past and alternative solutions 163 5.3. Innovating in harmony with environmental intelligence 164 5.3.1. Minds of plants 165 5.3.2. Copying nature: biomimicry 167 5.4. Conditions for sustainable success 173 5.4.1. Removing the barriers 177 5.4.2. New professions: perspective for jobs 179 CONDITIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 181 BIBLIOGRAPHY 185 INDEX 201

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Book SynopsisIndustrial Ecology is perhaps the first serious attempt to go beyond general statements regarding the desirability of 'clean technology' and to assess realistically and quantitatively the range of practicable possibilities for reducing materials extraction, consumption and waste.This major new book examines strategic options for reducing wastes and pollution and increasing the productivity of materials. Using an industrial ecology perspective, the authors analyse thirteen generic cases of material, beginning with four families of metals (aluminium, chromium, copper and zinc), several families of chemicals (phosphates and fluorine; suphur-based, nitrogen-based and chlorine-based), silicon and several different types of waste. Opportunities for creating 'industrial ecosystems' by deliberate design are discussed as well as the use of low-value by-products as feed stocks for useful products. In addition to surveying the technological possibilities, the authors also consider the public interest, institutional barriers and the range of possible alternatives that might be applicable. Environmental scientists, economists, practitioners and policy makers will welcome Industrial Ecology's integrated approach and the emphasis which it places on resource productivity, materials cycle optimization and waste minimization.Trade Review'True to form, Ayres and Ayre's Industrial Ecology is a significant addition to the field, full of new and provocative ideas. While most works on industrial ecology can manage only a handful of case studies, the list of chapters in itself shows that this is a tour de force.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Materials Perspective 2. Resource Perspective 3. Alumina, Aluminum and Gallium 4. Copper, Cobalt, Silver and Arsenic 5. Chromium Sources, Uses and Losses 6. Zinc and Cadmium 7. Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid 8. Phosphorus, Fluorine and Gypsum 9. Nitrogen-Based Chemicals 10. The Chlor-Alkali Sector 11. Electronic Grade Silicon (EGS) for Semiconductors 12. Post-Consumer Packaging Wastes 13. Scrap Tires 14. Coal Ash: Sources and Possible Uses 15. On Industrial Ecosystems 16. Summary and Conclusions References Indexes

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Book SynopsisFeaturing real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk expertly demonstrates that policymakers need to consider how people learn about those risks. Offering insights into examples such as hazardous waste, radon, smoking, hurricanes and terrorist threats over the past four decades, this intuitive book illustrates environmental risks and the choices made to mitigate the potential effects.Providing a deep dive into how public policies and information affect private choices, this book highlights the successes and failings of these choices, recognising how decisions made can have an influence on the hazards that are faced. It also focuses on important lessons to be learnt by officials providing information on risk and designing policies for managing them. Further consideration is also given to how experts understand these risks and how the public interprets the information provided.Scholars and students of public policy, risk analysis and environmental and resource economics will value the useful examples found in this informative volume. Policymakers in risk and insurance, and risk management programs will also find this an instructive guide on the ever-changing environmental risks we face.Trade Review‘Kerry Smith is a Renaissance Man of Economics. This book represents the master at work, drawing implications from research that traverses four decades of scholarship, the economics of environmental risk comes alive in ideas that scale, policies that are cost-effective, and insights that generalize to situations beyond risk. Anyone who wants to learn, or is just curious about pathbreaking economic work, should pick up this insightful and encyclopedic collection of articles.’ -- John List, University of Chicago, US‘Much of what I know about risk I learned from reading Kerry Smith’s papers in this volume. He is the master of understanding how microeconomic theory and real world behavior meld together to provide insights into how to communicate risk, value risk, and improve policies designed to help manage risk.’ -- Richard T. Carson, University of California, San Diego, US‘How much is it worth to decrease pollution? Kerry Smith, a pioneer in using surveys to understand the public’s perception and valuation of environmental health risks, brings together the insights he and his colleagues gleaned as they developed the methods that have become fundamental to evaluating environmental policy.’ -- James K. Hammitt, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: I SETTING THE STAGE 1 ‘Introducing The Economics of Environmental Risk’, December 2022 2 II VALUING ENVIRONMENTAL RISK REDUCTIONS 2 ‘The Valuation of Environmental Risks and Hazardous Waste Policy’, with William H. Desvousges, Land Economics, 64 (3), August, 1988, 211–219 30 3 ‘An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Value of Risk Changes’, with William H. Desvousges, Journal of Political Economy, 95 (1), February, 1987, 89–114 39 4 ‘The Welfare Cost of Uncertainty in Policy Outcomes’, with Edward E. Schlee, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 98, September, 2019, 1–12 65 5 ‘Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects’, with Mary F. Evans, Environmental and Resource Economics, 41, November, 2008, 381–400 77 6 ‘VSL Reconsidered: What do Labor Supply Estimates Reveal about Risk Preferences?’ with Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and George L. Van Houtven, Economics Letters, 80 (2), 2003, 147–153 97 III RISK PERCEPTION AND CONTEXT 7 ‘How Do Risk Perceptions Respond to Information? The Case of Radon’, with F. Reed Johnson, Review of Economics and Statistics, 70 (1), February, 1988, 1–8 105 8 ‘Subjective Versus Technical Risk Estimates: Do Risk Communication Policies Increase Consistency?’, with William H. Desvousges, Economics Letters, 31, December, 1989, 287–291 113 9 ‘Risk Communication and Attitude Change: Taiwan’s National Debate over Nuclear Power’, with Jin Tan Liu, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 3, December, 1990, 331–349 118 10 ‘Information, Addiction, and “Bad Choices”: Lessons from a Century of Cigarettes’, with Frank A. Sloan and Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Economics Letters, 77, September, 2002, 147–155 137 11 ‘Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?’ with Donald H. Taylor, Jr. and Frank A. Sloan, American Economic Review, 91 (4), September, 2001, 1126–1134 146 IV DO RISK INFORMATION PROGRAMS ‘WORK’? 12 ‘Learning About Radon’s Risk’, with William H. Desvousges, Ann Fisher and F. Reed Johnson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1, June, 1988, 233–258 156 13 ‘Can Public Information Programs Affect Risk Perceptions?’ with William H. Desvousges, F. Reed Johnson and Ann Fisher, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 9 (1), Fall, 1990, 41–59 182 14 ‘Do Risk Information Programs Promote Mitigating Behavior?’, with William H. Desvousges and John W. Payne, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 10, May, 1995 203–221 201 15 ‘Communicating Radon Risks Effectively: The Maryland Experience’, with William H. Desvousges and Hiller H. Rink III, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 11 (1) Fall, 1992, 68–78 220 16 ‘Terrorist Threats, Information Disclosures, and Consumer Sovereignty’, with Carol Mansfield and H. Allen Klaiber, Information Economics and Policy, 25, December, 2013, 225–234 231 V BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO RISK 17 ‘The Value of Avoiding a LULU: Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites’, with William H. Desvousges, Review of Economics and Statistics, 68 (2), May, 1986, 293–299 242 18 ‘Risk Communication and the Value of Information: Radon as a Case Study’, with William H. Desvousges, Review of Economics and Statistics, 72 (1), February, 1990, 137–142 249 19 ‘Do Smokers Respond to Health Shocks?’, with Donald H. Taylor, Jr., Frank A. Sloan, F. Reed Johnson and William H. Desvousges, Review of Economics and Statistics, 83 (4), November, 2001, 675–687 255 20 ‘Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles’, with Carol Mansfield and Laurel Clayton, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 38, June, 2009, 215–243 268 21 ‘Adjusting to Natural Disasters’, with Jared C. Carbone, Jaren C. Pope, Daniel G. Hallstrom, and Michael E. Darden, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 33, 2006, 37–54 297 22 ‘Who Lives in Flood Prone Areas?’, with Ben Whitmore, 2022 315 VI POLICY DESIGN FOR RISKS 23 ‘Can Environmental Bonds Manage Policy-Induced Risks?’ Prepared for the Environment Canada Research Network through the University of Ottawa, October 2014 332 24 ‘Pre-positioned Policy as Public Adaptation to Climate Change’, June 2010 366

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Book SynopsisEverybody can be a thinking person when it comes to climate change, and this book is a perfect roadmap. Start a web search for “climate change” and the first three suggestions are “facts,” “news,” and “hoax.” The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change is rooted in the first, up to date on the second, and anything but the last. Produced by one of the most venerable atmospheric science organizations, it is a must-read for anyone looking for the full story on climate change. Using global research and written with nonscientists in mind, the Guide breaks down the issues into straightforward categories: “Symptoms” covers signs such as melting ice and extreme weather, while “Science” lays out what we know and how we figured it out. “Debates” tackles the controversy and politics, while “Solutions” and “Actions” discuss what we can do as individuals and communities to create the best possible future. Full-color illustrations offer explanations of everything from how the greenhouse effect traps heat to which activities in everyday life emit the most carbon. Special-feature boxes zoom in on locations across the globe already experiencing the effects of a shifting climate. The new edition of The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change has been thoroughly updated, including content on new global record highs, new research across the spectrum, and the Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gases. This reference provides the most comprehensive, yet accessible, overview of where climate science stands today, acknowledging controversies but standing strong in its stance that the climate is changing—and something needs to be done.

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Book SynopsisFrom the discovery of ozone in the eighteenth century, through the late twentieth-century international agreements to protect humanity from the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere, Guy P. Brasseur traces the evolution of our scientific knowledge on air quality issues and stratospheric chemistry and dynamics. The history of ozone research is marked by typical examples of the scientific method at work, perfectly illustrating how knowledge progresses. Hypotheses are contested and then eventually accepted or rejected; truths once believed to be universal and permanent can be called into question; and debates and disagreements between scientists are settled by information from laboratory and field experiments. Of course, the scientific method can also lead to new observations—in this case, the discovery of the ozone hole. This finding took researchers by surprise, leading to new investigations and research programs. This first complete study of ozone research demonstrates the key role fundamental research plays in solving global environmental, climate, and human health problems. More importantly, it shows that the scientific method works. Convincing decision makers of research results that do not correspond to their values, or to the interests of certain business groups, stands to be the highest hurdle in using science to benefit humanity. Students, early-career scientists, and even specialists who do not know much about the history of their field will benefit from this big picture view, offered by a researcher who has played leadership roles in stewarding this science through decades of discovery.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the various aspects and considerations required in effective project management and the tools that can be used by a nonprofessional project manager to appropriately evaluate how well the professional is doing or effectively manage smaller projects without the need for a professional project manager. Project management is an evolving profession. Originally considered part and parcel of the design function, the practice of project management has evolved into a separate classification of professional practice. Professional project managers of today use sophisticated computer programs to achieve in seconds what took days to accomplish and evaluate in the past. Cost estimating and project scheduling have become key elements in assuring on-budget and on-time delivery of final projects. Key to those is how well the project manager addresses environmental issues that arise. Those issues need to be considered from the planning stages of a project to the end-of-life stages of the project and the disposal of the remnants of the project decades in the future.

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume set describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet human needs for WELF resources and how to guarantee their respective securities has changed over time from looking at all four sectors in isolation to understanding their interdependency through the so-called WELF nexus. The approach presented in this book responds to the overall agreement in the WELF nexus literature that the management and allocation of WELF resources at the community level need to be examined in a more systemic, multidisciplinary, participatory, and practical manner while seeking to increase synergies and reduce trade-offs. This book was written to explore the value proposition of that approach. Volume 1 focuses on defining the landscape in which the nexus operates and outlines the proposed methodology. Volume 2 explores the quantitative and qualitative modeling of the nexus and landscape using system modeling tools including system dynamics. It presents a road map for the formulation, simulation, selection, and ranking of possible intervention plans. The proposed methodology is designed to serve as a guide for different groups involved in the science and policy decision aspects of the WELF nexus within the context of community development. The methodology focuses mostly on WELF-related issues in small-scale and low-income communities where securing resources is critical to their short- and long-term livelihood and development.

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet human needs for WELF resources and how to guarantee their respective securities has changed over time from looking at all four sectors in isolation to understanding their interdependency through the so-called WELF nexus. The approach presented in this book responds to the overall agreement in the WELF nexus literature that the management and allocation of WELF resources at the community level need to be examined in a more systemic, multidisciplinary, participatory, and practical manner while seeking to increase synergies and reduce trade-offs. This book was written to explore the value proposition of that approach. This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Volume 1 focuses on defining the landscape in which the nexus operates and outlines the proposed methodology. Volume 2 explores the quantitative and qualitative modeling of the nexus and landscape using system modeling tools including system dynamics. It presents a road map for the formulation, simulation, selection, and ranking of possible intervention plans. The proposed methodology is designed to serve as a guide for different groups involved in the science and policy decision aspects of the WELF nexus within the context of community development. The methodology focuses mostly on WELF-related issues in small-scale and low-income communities where securing resources is critical to their short- and long-term livelihood and development.

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Book SynopsisWhen oil and gas exploration was expanding across Aotearoa New Zealand, Patricia Widener was there interviewing affected residents and environmental and climate activists, and attending community meetings and anti-drilling rallies. Exploration was occurring on an unprecedented scale when oil disasters dwelled in recent memory, socioecological worries were high, campaigns for climate action were becoming global, and transitioning toward a low carbon society seemed possible. Yet unlike other communities who have experienced either an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances created the foundation for an organized civil society to construct and then magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative--in dialogue, practice, and aspiration. Community advocates and socioecological activists mobilized for their health and well-being, for their neighborhoods and beaches, for Planet Earth and Planet Ocean, and for terrestrial and aquatic species and ecosystems. They rallied against toxic, climate-altering pollution; the extraction of fossil fuels; a myriad of historic and contemporary inequities; and for local, just, and sustainable communities, ecologies, economies, and/or energy sources. In this allied ethnography, quotes are used extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most passionate and committed people. By analyzing the intersections of a social movement and the political economy of oil, Widener reveals a nuanced story of oil resistance and promotion at a time when many anti-drilling activists believed themselves to be on the front lines of the industry’s inevitable decline.Trade Review"The care that Widener takes in her research is outstanding– she manages to convey a strong sense of the real nature of ethnographic and case study research: unpredictable, problematic, and exciting." -- Sherry Cable * author of Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World *"A gripping analysis of the motivations of those who protested against the surge in oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa New Zealand’s oceans and lands in the 2010s. Drawing from her own experiences in the field, Widener immerses the reader in the physical and emotional realities of protest action, and shows how the interplay of culture, identity, politics, and environmental concerns gave rise to a multi-faceted resistance to an expansionist oil and gas program." -- Janet Stephenson * Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago *"Unlike others who have experienced an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore oil and gas exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances mobilized civil society to construct and then to magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative – in dialogue, local practice, and national aspiration. In this allied ethnography, quotes are used extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most passionate and committed people, including many community advocates and anti-drilling activists who believed themselves to be on the front lines of the oil industry’s promotions and inevitable decline." * ASA Environmental Newsletter *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Which Way Aotearoa New Zealand?Kia Ora: Welcome to the Bottom of the World Becoming another Oil Story A Social Analysis of Oil Advocacy & Resistance Chapter 2: An Allied Ethnography Critical Place Ethical Comparisons Surveillance Banking Time Chapter 3: Dominant & Critical Oil Narratives Three Flows of Oil New Zealand’s O&G History Dominant Oil Paradigm Critical Oil Paradigm Chapter 4: Oil at the Bottom of the World Cultural Capture & Conflict Regulatory Capture & Toxic Alliances Accommodating Extraction: Then & Now Preserving Cultural or Capital Taonga? Chapter 5: License to Criticize: From Disasters to Resistance Routinization of Violence Oil Promises, Human LossesRena: An Oil & Cargo Spill “A Little Government Waits” Sweat Equity, 8000-Strong Distinctly Māori National Resistance: Now-or-never Focusing Events Illusions of Recovery & Safety Chapter 6: Marine Justice: Defending the Seas, Claiming the Coastline Coastal & Saltwater Sociology A Harbinger: Punching beyond the Shoreline Māori vs Petrobras The “Dodgy Bullshit” of Anadarko Greenpeace: An Ideal Type of Resistance Kaikoura: Kaitiaki & Whale-watching Otago’s Natural Gas & Divided Alliances Marine Justice: Whose Ocean? Our Ocean? Chapter 7: Mobilizing the Middle: Ka Nui! “No Mining, No Drilling, No Fracking, Enough!” Unconventional Technologies, Controversial Impacts Rousing the Middle “Their Truth:” Global Flow of Citizen Knowledge From Taranaki, with Intent Problematizing Taranaki Enabling a Sacrifice Chapter 8: Tainting a Clean, Green Image Pure Products, Green Jobs Generational Pride, Ecocultural Consciousness Realism or a “Green Mirage”? Greenies Silenced by Association Hypocrite Drivers “Feeling a Bit Under Siege” Aotearoa Justice Chapter 9: Oil: Catalyst for Reviving Climate Activism Inverse Accounting “The Failure of the World” Re-energizing the Frontlines “Bubbling Away Underneath” Bind of a Spill Struggle to Localize Impacts Intergenerational Worry Chasing Global Justice Chapter 10: Disrupting Oil for Transformative Justice Applying Critical Environmental Justice Advancing Just Transitions About the Author References Index

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Book SynopsisResidues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.Trade Review"Residues shows how the chemicals we systematically ignore are powerful agents shaping our environmental future. A compelling argument for putting forgotten materials front and center in environmental research and politics." — Evan Hepler-Smith, Duke University "This erudite and accessible book presents a novel theoretical framing that draws on examples from a multiplicity of intriguing case studies from across the globe. Residues is distinguished by its collaborative authorship and multi-disciplinary and multinational scope, seeking to change how scholars in a range of disciplines study chemicals."— Sara Shostak, author of Exposed Science "Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation."— American Sociological Association - Environmental Sociology NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. Residues Properties 2. Legacy 3. Accretion 4. Apprehension 5. Residual Materialism Bibliography Authors' Biographies

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Book SynopsisResidues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.Trade Review"Residues shows how the chemicals we systematically ignore are powerful agents shaping our environmental future. A compelling argument for putting forgotten materials front and center in environmental research and politics." — Evan Hepler-Smith, Duke University "This erudite and accessible book presents a novel theoretical framing that draws on examples from a multiplicity of intriguing case studies from across the globe. Residues is distinguished by its collaborative authorship and multi-disciplinary and multinational scope, seeking to change how scholars in a range of disciplines study chemicals."— Sara Shostak, author of Exposed Science "Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation."— American Sociological Association - Environmental Sociology NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. Residues Properties 2. Legacy 3. Accretion 4. Apprehension 5. Residual Materialism Bibliography Authors' Biographies

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Book SynopsisWhen leaded gasoline was first developed in the 1920s, medical experts were quick to warn of the public health catastrophes it would cause. Yet government regulators did not heed their advice, and for more than half a century, nearly all cars used leaded gasoline, which contributed to a nationwide epidemic of lead poisoning. By the 1970s, 99.8% of American children had significantly elevated levels of lead in their blood. Unleaded tells the story of how crusading scientists and activists convinced the U.S. government to ban lead additives in gasoline. It also reveals how, for nearly fifty years, scientific experts paid by the oil and mining industries abused their authority to convince the public that leaded gasoline was perfectly harmless. Combining environmental history, sociology, and neuroscience, Carrie Nielsen explores how lead exposure affects the developing brains of children and is linked to social problems including academic failure, teen pregnancies, and violent crime. She also shows how, even after the nationwide outrage over Flint’s polluted water, many poor and minority communities and communities of color across the United States still have dangerously high lead levels. Unleaded vividly depicts the importance of sound science and strong environmental regulations to protect our nation’s most vulnerable populations.Trade Review"Nielsen has developed a sophisticated analysis of childhood lead exposure. One of the real joys of this book is that it is written in an accessible style and makes an important contribution to the historical literature on childhood lead poisoning."— Gerald Markowitz, author of Lead Wars "Carrie Nielsen’s Unleaded provides a scientific perspective on an early-twentieth-century federal policy that misguidedly allowed the rapid rise and then, sensibly, the decline of a single product, leaded gasoline. The outcomes of these policy decisions changed the global environment and the socioeconomic fate of millions of people, mainly in the U.S. but also worldwide."— Howard Mielke, Tulane University School of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface 1 Lead in 20th Century America 2 Where the Lead Came From 3 Getting the Lead Out 4 Lead in America’s Children 5 Brains and Behavior and Lead 6 Lead and Violence 7 The Lead Problem Persists 8 Lessons from the Lead Battles Conclusion: Understanding our Leaded World Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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