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Taylor & Francis Creating Smart Cities
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Taylor & Francis Geographical Research with Vulnerable Groups Reexamining Methodological and Ethical Process
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Taylor & Francis Transport Issues and Problems in Southeastern Europe
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Taylor & Francis Urban Growth and Innovation
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in China Town and Country in a Developing Economy 19492000 AD 3 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in China Town and Country in a Developing Economy 19492000 AD 3 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Society Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environment and Society in Roman North Africa Studies in History and Archaeology Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Shaping Holland
Book SynopsisAll around the world, regions are facing major challenges: climate change, the transition to renewable energy, reinventing the food system, ongoing urbanisation and finding room to sustain biodiversity. These will radically transform our living and working environments. Regional design uses the power of visualisation to unite regional players around appealing spatial development visions for meeting those challenges. It offers a route to new forms of regional governance and planning that match the urgencies of our time. This book exposes the benefits and the pitfalls of regional plans and designs. Shaping Holland gives a unique insight into the emergence of contemporary regional planning and design practice in the Netherlands. This densely populated country in the delta of the Rhine and Meuse rivers is internationally renowned for its urban planning and design tradition. Drawing on first-hand accounts and a rich collection of illustrations, maps and diagrams, the book gTrade Review"In the 21st century, climate change will be the biggest differentiator between the haves and have-nots. As some of our lands become uninhabitable, the key to determining who will thrive and who will merely survive will be how prepared our communities areto make the tough choices. Only by working regionally will we be able to answer the tough questions: who will be forced to relocate, where they will go, and what will happen to communities receiving new neighbors to an often already-taxed infrastructure. "Shaping Holland" dives straight into those complexities to create a thoughtful approach to address how future generations can adapt to a wetter, dryer, hotter and colder environment."- Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild by Design"This richly illustrated book brings together a highly competent and experienced group of contributors including scholars, researchers, consultants and practitioners to provide a diverse set of insights into the Dutch renowned experimentations with regional spatial planning and design, using South Randstad as a high profile example. The book draws on wide range of approaches to the concept of ‘regional design’ and goes beyond the conventional understanding of ‘the region’ as a bounded spatial scale, and ‘design’ as an outcome. The book is an excellent example of how a productive link can be forged between visual and textual narratives, and how synergies can be generated from multiple ways of knowing and articulating socio-spatial relations."- Professor Simin Davoudi, Director of Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Co-Director of Centre for Researching Cities, Newcastle University, UK "This book reports on regional designs that were undertaken in Holland over the past 20 years from different perspectives: from the point of view of the practice of regional design, using illustrations of numerous practical design projects, through the lenses of the intellectual endeavors of the sciences that engaged in concept and theory formation, and last but not least, from the perspective of personal experience of responsible politicians, top policy makers, a planning director as well as an academic researcher, a planning advisor, and a professor in the planning sciences.The result is a diverse, animated and informative compendium that can be read with different intentions and intensities. After a general introduction to the performance and position in-between central government and municipalities of Dutch regional design, it provides six thematic chapters – titled Coast, Urban Growth, Landscape, Corridors, Regional Transit-Oriented Development, and Beyond the Port – and also briefly presents the most important "lessons" that one should take away from reading the individual chapters.This book could only be written in The Netherlands, building on an early planning culture that is still powerful today and which can ultimately be traced back to the centuries-old compulsion to control water.Regional design, as it is presented here, differs fundamentally from the making of plans which determine future development in a binding way. Regional design aims to identify the spatial implications of future socio-economic and technical problems, and to fathom and visualize spatial strategies for overcoming them. Regional design forms a basis for discussion in professional and political arenas. Regional design tells vivid stories, e.g. about the layering of the earth, about landscape-architectural characteristics, about the often conflicting interests that affect landscapes, about new economic and old natural cycles - always with the aim of composing a vivid and attractive image from the "stories," one that stimulates and inspires the imagination.Particularly beautiful examples are the "Sand engine," which uses characteristics of natural flows to stabilize and expand the beaches, the synopsis of the port industry and the glass house industry and the new development spaces that are opened up by this merging. And last but not least, the conception of a new type of "Parkstad" (Park City) that emerges from the permeation of urban development and agricultural production. I feel this tension between rational analysis and the creative invention of new spaces of possibility as a particularly valuable contribution of the Dutch variety of regional design.What could this book mean for the spatial planning debate in Germany? It could provide vital inspiration for releasing regional planning from its bureaucratic constrictions and for the development of a more creative regional planning approach. Everyday life has long ago exceeded the boundaries of the municipality and takes place in the region. Climate change, resource preservation and the circular economy call for a synopsis on a regional scale!"- Thomas Sieverts, award-winning architect, planner and urban theorist. He was a Professor of Urban Design at Technical University Darmstadt, and in 2000 become a Partner of S.K.A.T. Architecten und Stadtplaner. He is the author of Zwischenstadt (1997; first published in English in 2000 as Cities without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt)"This insightful book enhances and introduces regional design as a powerful technique to bridge the gap between regional planning and urban design. It is an inspiring contribution that adds value to current research-based and governance-oriented regional problem-solving, offering a methodology to face the regional era of global urbanization. Reshaping spatial planning with a broader sense of design, regional design is a revolutionary theory of shaping regions, based on the Southern Randstad experience, showing how regional development could be given direction and be transformed."- Shifu Wang, Professor of Urban Planning, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology"The regional governance debate is gridlocked between two contrary positions. While some argue that formal administrative boundaries need to be better aligned with functional urban areas to resolve challenges on supra-local scales, others insist on working within the given boundaries to preserve local identity and facilitate inter-municipal competition.The proposition of a design exercise at regional scale shifts the discourse from issues of formal governmental re-organisation towards multi-scalar and inter-scalar methodologies for imagining and narrating alternative spatial futures. ‘Shaping Holland’ conveys convincingly that regional designing is possible and impactful. Regional design thus is necessary for any structural transformation as a means to overcome pressing contemporary challenges."- Alain Thierstein, TU MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Coast 2. Urban growth 3. Landscape The Civil Servant / The Politician / The Director 4. Corridors 5. Regional transit-oriented development 6. Beyond the port The Researcher / The Advisor / The Academic 7. Regional Design Principles for the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Everyday LifeEnvironmentalism
Book SynopsisThis book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi. This concept emerged in the 1980s as a shared research framework among Japanese social scientists studying the adverse consequences of postwar industrialization on everyday life in communities.Life-environmentalism offers a lens through which the agency of small communities in sustaining their everyday life and living environment can be understood. The book provides an overview of this approach, including intellectual backgrounds and foundational concepts, along with a variety of empirical case studies that examine environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and other parts of Asia. It also includes critical reflections on the approach in light of contemporary sustainability challenges. The empirical topics covered in the book include local community responses to development projects, resource governance, disaster response andTable of Contents1. Introduction Daisaku Yamamoto2. Theorizing Everyday Life: The Life-Environmentalist Way Daisaku YamamotoPart I: Developmental Impulse and Everyday-Life Organizations3. Local Rules: Sustaining Local Everyday Life with Aqua-Tourism Takehito Noda4. Coexistence without Consensus: The Role of a Life Organization in Mediating between Fishermen and Surfers in a Coastal Community Shusuke Murata5. When Civil Society Falls Short: Rural Community Response to a Resort Development Project Daisaku Yamamoto and Yumiko YamamotoPart II: Governing Everyday-Life Spaces6. From Dichotomous Interpretations to Spectrum Thinking: Formation of a Community Organization in a Nuclear Host Locality Atsushi Yamamuro 7. “Public” (gong) as Village Norm: Urbanization and Community Response in China Meifang Yan 8. Multilayered Commons Space: Dry Riverbed Use in a Local Community in Ibaraki, Japan Takaaki IsogawaPart III: Living with Disasters9. Why Do Victims of Tsunami Return to the Coast? Kyoko Ueda and Hiroyuki Torigoe10. The Roots of Resilience: Forest Commons and the Cultivation and Disappearance of Livelihood Security in a Nuclear Disaster-Afflicted CommunityHiroyuki Kaneko11. Apparitions and the Recovery of Livelihoods after the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami DisasterKiyoshi KanebishiPart IV: Historic Environment and Urban Communities12. Living Traditional Culture: Gujo Dance in Hachiman Town, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, JapanShigekazu Adachi13. Embracing the Enemy’s Legacy: Historical Environmental Preservation in Daegu, South KoreaRie Matsui14. Boxing Camp as a Community School: Local Boxers in Metro Manila, PhilippinesTomonori IshiokaPart V: Critical Reflections and Prospects15. Empirically Speaking: Life-Environmentalism, Environmental Justice and Feminist Political EcologyDaisaku Yamamoto, Sophia Ferrero, and Keegan Kessler16. Life-Environmentalism, Critiques, and Prospects: Focusing on the Experientialist ApproachYasushi Arakawa17. The Future of Life-Environmentalism: A Sympathetic CritiqueMasaharu MatsumuraPart VI: Translated Excerpts from Sociological Theory of Environmental Problems (1989)18. Original Introduction of Life-Environmentalism (1989)Hiroyuki Torigoe
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Taylor & Francis Mapping Urban Spaces
Book SynopsisMapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable â accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness â can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied, as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONThe ArcheA MethodLamberto AmistadiPART 1: MAPPING SPACES. The Phenomenological Approach to the City of Spaces.1. A Spatial Understanding of Architecture and the City.2. Landmarks in a History of Spatial Mapping.3. The Many-faceted Notion of Space: On the Hypothesis of Mapping and the Observation of Spatial Phenomena. 4. Stadtraumgestaltungen: On Perceiving and Reading Urban Spaces.5. Where the Compact and Open City Meets: Inner and Outer Spaces on the Periphery of Aachen North.6. Here and There: On the Ambivalence of Transitional Spaces.PART 2: MAPPING PLACES. The Italian Tradition of Urban Studies.7. Drawing the City. Form and Meaning.8. Urban Events and the Soul of the City. The Poetic Political Tripartition of Urban Form. 9. Civic Urbanity. The Places of Everyday Life.10. Venice as a Paradigm: Urban Studies and the Value of Emptiness in the City’s Design.11. Nature Prepares the Sites, But It Is Man Who Creates the Organism: Bologna Through Its Geography, Its History and Its Planning Tools. 12. New Urban Landscapes. Fragments of Civil Architecture.PART 3: MAPPING NATURAL SPACE. The Significance of Landscapes for the Urban Project13. The Role of Green Spaces in Urban Design Theories in France.14. Green Space as an Element for a New Urban Dynamic.15. Uses of Mapping: Methods of Investigation and Ways of Narrating Territory in Architectural Practice and Teaching.16. Towards a More ‘Natural’ City?PART 4: MAPPING CENTRALITIES. Urban Regeneration towards a Polycentric City.17. The Long-Term Method of the Urban Project in Italy and the Parma School.18. Designing the European Medium-Sized City. Urban Regeneration Technique Through the Structured Densification of the Centrality System. 19. The Project of a Metropolitan Urban Centrality. The Case of the Former Fruit and Vegetable Market of Bologna.20. Densification as the Key to Suburb Regeneration. The Case of Driescher Hof In Aachen.21. The European Medium-Sized City: The Characteristics of the Urban Form.22. The Idea of Space and Urban Sequences. The Case of Parma.PART 5: MAPPING SOCIAL SPACE. Demographic Analysis as an Image of Urban Complexity.23. Mapping Urban Spaces with the Use of Physical, Digital and Augmented Reality Models: Experiences from Applications in Architectural and Urban Education.24. The Urban Circle of Life’ of People with Disabilities: Mapping Urban Inconveniences.25. Multigenerational Spaces in Conceptual Urban Projects in Polish Cities.AFTERWORDProblems of the Contemporary CityRaffaella Neri
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Learning to Live with Climate Change
This imaginative and empowering book explores the ways that our emotions entangle us with climate change and offers strategies for engaging with climate anxiety that can contribute to social transformation. Climate educator Blanche Verlie draws on feminist, more-than-human and affect theories to argue that people in high-carbon societies need to learn to live-with' climate change: to appreciate that human lives are interconnected with the climate, and to cultivate the emotional capacities needed to respond to the climate crisis. Learning to Live with Climate Change explores the cultural, interpersonal and sociological dimensions of ecological distress. The book engages with Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer' of bushfires and smoke, undergraduate students' experiences of climate change, and contemporary activist movements such as the youth strikes for climate. Verlie outlines how we can collectively attune to, live with, and respond to the unsettling realities of cli
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research in the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. It is broadly focused on communication that presents human vulnerability as a cause for public concern and encompasses communication with respect to humanitarian aid and development as well as human rights and humanitarian wars.Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopolitan solidarity. The Handbook brings into dialogue these diverse fields, their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches as well as the public debates that lie at the heart of the contemporary politics of humanitarianism. It consolidates existing knowledge and maps out this eTable of ContentsIntroduction: Humanitarian Communication in the 21st Century PART I: DOMAINS 1. Disaster Aid as a Domain of Media and Humanitarian Politics 2. Development and its Narratives 3. Human Rights, Culture and Media 4. Media and Compassion in Digital War PART II: METHODS 5. The Audience of Humanitarian Communication 6. Text-analytical Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 7. Production-centered Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 8. Ethnography in Humanitarian Communication: Descending into the Lifeworlds of Witnessing and Wounded Subjects PART III: ISSUES Politics 9. The Logic of Projects in Humanitarian Relief 10. Micro-mapping: Digital Humanitarianism and the Politics of Material Participation in Disaster Relief 11. Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises 12. The Politics of Humanitarian Journalism 13. Conflicted Witnesses: Journalists and the Humanitarian Imaginary 14. Human Rights Protests and Mediated Violence Economy 15. Celebrity Advocacy 16. Brand Aid: Humanitarianism in Corporate Communication 17. Humanitarianism in the African Luxury Designer Market 18. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Humanitarian Civic Imaginary 19. Volunteer Tourism as Humanitarian Communication 20. Humanitarianism and Microfinance Histories and Futures 21. Humanitarian Imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity 22. Photography and Humanitarian Intervention: The Early Years, 1850s–1914 23. MSF: Silence heals. From the Cold War to the War on Terror 24. How Do We Arm the Other Eleven? Humanitarianism, Commodities and Jobs 25. Post-humanitarianism: Solidarity beyond the Politics of Pity 26. Data Witnessing: Attending to Injustice with Data in Amnesty International’s Decoders Project
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program. Over this period dozens of scientists from different disciplines but with a common interest in rural issues and policy have collaboratively studied the policies in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world.A core element of the book is the idea and practice of comparative research and analysis what can be learned from comparisons, how and why policies vary in different contexts, and what lessons might or might not be transferable across borders. It provides skills for the use of comparative methods as important tools to analyze the functioning of strategies and specific policy interventions in different contexts and a holistic approach for the management of resources in rural regions. It promotes innovation as a tool to valorize endogenousTable of ContentsList of figures. List of tables. Notes on contributors. Acknowledgements. Rural Policy Learning Commons. Introduction.Part I: Introduction to comparative rural policy studies 1 What is rural? What is rural policy? What is rural development policy? 2 Comparing ruralities: the case of Canada and the United States. 3 What is rural? The historical evolution of rural typologies in Europe. 4 A comparative rural profile across OECD member countries. 5 Why comparative rural policy studies? Comparative theory and methods. 6 Policy process theory for rural policy. 7 Policy outcomes of decentralized public programs: implications for rural policy. 8 Co-constructing rural futures: understanding place-based development and policy. 9 Territorial capital in rural policy development.Part II: People and society 10 International migration: sustaining rural communities. 11 Rural immigration and welcoming communities. 12 The role of women in rural areas. 13 Rural poverty in a comparative context. 14 Understanding the dimensions of aging and old age in rural areas. 15 Rural health and well-being. 16 Rural policy and the cultural construction of the urban/rural divide in the United States and Europe. Part III: Resources and environment 17 Environmental policy: what are the options? 18 The inefficiency of resource policy as a mechanism to deliver rural policy. 19 The water–energy–food–climate nexus. 20 Governance of watersheds in rural areas. 21 Rethinking energy in agricultural and rural areas. 22 Conventional and alternative agri-food chains. 23 Building sustainable regional food systems: policies and support. 24 Drivers of food losses and their implications for the agro-food chain: selected case studies. 25 Fish as food: policies affecting food sovereignty for rural Indigenous communities in North America. 26 Public policies affecting community forest management.Part IV: Innovation 27 Social economy and entrepreneurship in rural areas. 28 Grounded innovation in the rural bioeconomy. 29 Innovation, broadband, and community resilience. 30 Climate change adaptation by farmers: the case of Nepal.Part V: Rural policy reviews 31 Rural policy in the United States. 32 Rural policy in Canada. 33 Rural policy in Europe. 34 Rural policy in the Western Balkans.Part VI: Comparative rural policy case studies 35 Peri-urban agricultural policies in Canada and France. 36 A non-profit as a policy actor? A case study of the Breds Treasure Beach Foundation in Jamaica. 37 Post-Soviet rural areas towards European integration: the difficult transition of Moldova. 38 “Why local governments?” An ongoing debate in rural New Brunswick, Canada. 39 A comparative case study of the Main Street Program in the United States. 40 Community-managed forestry in Palo Seco, Mexico. 41 Land ownership and land management policies in Norway and Scotland. 42 Local policies addressing poverty and social exclusion in rural Spain during the recession. 43 Integral mountain development in Spain: an historical review.Index.
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Taylor & Francis Feminist African Philosophy
The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continent.African philosophy as an academic discipline emerged as a direct challenge to Western and Eurocentric hegemonies. It sought to actualize the project of decolonization and to contribute African perspectives to global discourses. There has, however, been a dominance of male perspectives in this field of human knowledge. This book argues that African philosophy cannot claim to have liberated people of African descent from marginalization until the androcentric nature of African philosophy is addressed. Key concepts such as Ujamaa, Negritude, Ubuntu, Consciencism, and African Socialism are explored as they relate to African women's lives or as models of inclusion or exclusion from politics. In addition to offering a feminist critique of African philosophy, the book also discusses top
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization
Financialization has become the go-to term for scholars grappling with the growth of finance. This Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the scholarship on financialization, connecting finance with changes in politics, technology, culture, society and the economy.It takes stock of the diverse avenues of research that comprise financialization studies and the contributions they have made to understanding the changes in contemporary societies driven by the rise of finance. The chapters chart the field's evolution from research describing and critiquing the manifestations of financialization towards scholarship that pinpoints the driving forces, mechanisms and boundaries of financialization. Written for researchers and students not only in economics but from across the social sciences and the humanities, this book offers a decidedly global and pluri-disciplinary view on financialization for those who are looking to understand the ch
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Seamless 3D Navigation in Indoor and Outdoor
Book SynopsisThis book presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation. It elaborates on 3D spaces reconstructed automatically and how indoor, semi-indoor, semi-outdoor, and outdoor spaces can mimic the indoor environments and originate a network based on the 3D connectivity of spaces. Case studies help readers understand theories, approaches, and models, including data preparation, space classification and reconstruction, space selection, unified space-based navigation model derivation, path planning, and comparison of results.Features: Provides novel models, theories, and approaches for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation path planning Includes real-life case studies demonstrating the most feasible approaches today Presents a generic space definition framework that can be used in research areas for spaces shaped by built structurTable of Contents1 Introduction. 2 Spaces for Seamless Navigation. 3 Space-based Navigation Models. 4 Unified Space-based Navigation Model. 5 Four New Path Options. 6 Reconstruction of 3D Spaces. 7 Implementation and Case Studies. 8 Conclusion and Recommendations.
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Taylor & Francis Geopolitics Military Modernisation and the Future of the IndoPacific
Book SynopsisThis book examines to what extent geopolitics explains the current wave of force modernisation in the Indo-Pacific region. Examining the leading Indo-Pacific nations in terms of defence spending: the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand, geopolitical principles are used to create hypotheses that can be tested against the military modernisation programmes of the major actors in the Indo-Pacific region. The book represents a bridge between reference works and the literature on international politics in the Indo-Pacific. The empirical chapters provide qualitative narratives that explore the force postures, military modernisation and procurement patterns of the cases, and assess why these nationsâ military modernisation has followed particular courses and evaluate this evidence against the expectations of geopolitics and its rivals. This book will be a valuable addition to scholars, practitioners and, indeed, anyone interested in the future stability of one of the worldâs most important and dynamic regions.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consuming Atmospheres
Book SynopsisAtmosphere is a term often used in everyday life to describe how a consumption space feels and has long been an important theme within marketing. There has been renewed interest in atmosphere over recent years in marketing and beyond, with the concept at a crucial point in its development. However, research about atmosphere is often confined into disciplinary silos.Consuming Atmospheres unsettles such disciplinary boundaries by delivering an interdisciplinary collection of cutting-edge work on atmosphere and consumption. Specifically, the book brings together experts from various disciplinary backgrounds to explore how atmospheres are designed, experienced, and researched. Within these three thematic parts organising the collection, atmosphere is explored across a range of consumption and geographic contexts, including pop-up stores, music festivals, tourist spaces, town centres, sports stadia, amusement arcades, food and drink, urban squats, and seaside piers acrossTable of ContentsForeword. 1. Consuming atmospheres: A journey through the past, present, and future of atmospheres in marketing. Part I: Designing atmospheres. 2. Creating temporary atmospheres: Theorising pop-up retailing. 3. Making music festival atmospheres: Nature, materials, and the play of atmospheric properties. 4. Tourist atmospheres. 5. Two Centuries of Stink: Smell mapping Widnes past and present. Part II: Experiencing atmospheres. 6 . What makes Anfield atmospheric? Dense interaction ritual chains. 7. Between illumination and darkness: Blackpool’s contemporary amusement arcade atmosphere. 8. Tasting Tunnocks teacakes: Accidental atmospheres in Scottish food tourism. 9. The atmospheric tensions of Ljubljana’s urban squats: Consumption in the lawscape. Part III: Researching atmospheres. 10. Researching atmospheres: Concepts, configurations, and collaborations. 11. Researching atmos-spheres of alcohol consumption. 12. Using multi-sensory methods to study atmospheres
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Taylor & Francis Exploring the Natural Underground
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Language Demography
Book SynopsisLanguage Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field, as well as the various factors affecting language demography. Taking a global perspective supported by examples, it gives explanations of how demolinguistic analyses are performed and their main applications in relation to minority and majority languages.Language Demography will be of interest to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from linguistics and modern languages to sociology, anthropology, and human geography.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Demography and DemolinguisticsDemolinguistics and GeodemolinguisticsDemolinguistics and GeographyDenominations for DemolinguisticsThe Precursors of DemolinguisticsSummary2. Linguistics for DemographersFundamental Linguistic ConceptsGeographic ConsiderationsPsychosocial ConsiderationsSocial and Ethnic ConsiderationsLanguage VitalitySummary3. Demography for LinguistsPopulationComposition of the PopulationPopulation DistributionDemographic ChangesMigrationsFrom Facts to TheoriesSummary4. Demolinguistic Data and SourcesDataSourcesAdministrative RegistersCensusesSurveys International and Digital SourcesEncyclopedias, Catalogs, and Other SourcesSummary5. Demolinguistic FactorsSpeakers and Their CommunitiesSpeaker ProfilesExplanatory FactorsSummary6. Demolinguistic AnalysesObjectives and Levels of Demolinguistic AnalysisQualitative and Quantitative AnalysisThe Statistical Elements of DemographyErrors, Biases, and Changes in CriteriaGraphical RepresentationsSummary7. Applications of DemolinguisticsEthnic, Local, and Social Minority LanguagesImmigrant Minority Languages Regional and National LanguagesTransnational Majority LanguagesSummaryConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Coloniality of Modern Taste
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomyâs engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization of its conceptualization of taste. The Coloniality of Modern Taste provides an understanding of gastronomy that moves away from the usual celebratory approach. Through a discussion of nineteenth-century gastronomic publications, this book illustrates how the gastronomic notion of taste was shaped by a number of specifically modern constraints. It compares the gastronomic approach to taste to conceptualizations of taste that emerged in other geographical and philosophical contexts to illustrate that the gastronomic approach stands out as particularly bereft of affect. The book argues that the understanding of taste constructed by gastronomic texts continues to burden the affective experience of taste, while encouraging patterns of food consumption that rely on an exploitative and unsustainable global food system. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cultural studies, decoloniality, affect theory, sensory studies, gastronomy and food studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Gastronomy?1. The Narrative of Gastronomic Progress2. Desensualizing Taste3. Bureaucratizing Taste4. Racializing Taste5. Taste, OtherwiseConclusion: The Gustatory Logic of Consumer Capitalism
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Taylor & Francis Planning and Urban Design for Attractive Arctic
Book SynopsisThis book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic. Attractive Arctic Cities require job opportunities, good societal and commercial services, and importantly, high-quality built environments in order to thrive. The cities of the European Arctic are generally small and sit in sparsely populated regions, with large travel times between places, making them uniquely challenging from a planning and design perspective. The chapters detail the planning process and place-shaping in the Arctic. Emphasis is placed on the importance of urban design, microclimate, cultural heritage, and movement and transport. The objective is to provide an overview for students and practitioners of architecture, urban design and town planning, of the design and planning of Arctic settlements in the European Arctic (Finland, Norway, Sweden) as well as in North America, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Greenland, and China.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Geography of Transport Systems
Book SynopsisThis expanded and revised sixth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. It explores the spatial aspects of transportation and focuses on how the mobility of passengers and freight is linked with geography.The book is divided into ten chapters, each covering a specific conceptual dimension, including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation, and environmental impacts, and updated with the latest information available. The sixth edition offers new and updated material on information technologies and mobility, e-commerce, transport and the economy, mobility and society, supply chains, security, pandemics, energy and the environment, and climate change. With over 140 updated figures and maps, The Geography of Transport Systems presents transportation systems at different scales ranging fro
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Region
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the concept of region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words region' and regional' mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the forms they might take in the future. Region is explored in many thematic guises: as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity; as a mythical locus of enduring value; as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques; as a site of architectural and artistic imagination; as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical and literary page through to architectural and urban practice, and from the scale of the domestic hearth through to the ocean archipelago and international law, enriching the long-standing trope of viewing architectural regionalism purely as a matter of style. Curated into four key thematic areas Theorised RegiTable of ContentsPart 1: THEORISED REGIONS 1. A ‘true organ of Humanity’: on the Anti-feminist Architectural Regionalism of Comtean Positivism in Victorian Britain 2. The Question Concerning Types: A Review 3. Four decades on three fronts: the unfinished projects of Critical Regionalism 4. On the Unique Intertwining of Region, Nature, and Architecture in Norway Part 2: CONTESTED REGIONS 5. On ‘Region’: Alterity and Regional Encounters in a Postcolonial Archipelago 6. The Azorean archipelago: the invention of a political region 7. Dismantling the Territorial Exclusions 8. Holding the Street: An Assemblage of Nicosia’s Borders 9. The implications of power on the status of women in society and its reciprocal relationship with the home space in Azerbaijan, Iran Part 3: HERITAGE REGIONS 10. How Wealth Kills Craft 11. Material Culture and Decolonisation: Post-Partition Lahore 12. Southwestern Fantasy: Pueblo Revival and regional authenticity in New Mexico 13. The Mediterranean: Between Vernacular and Contemporary. Tradition, Modernity and Tourism in the Architecture of Germán Rodríguez Arias Part 4: FUTURE REGIONS 14. The Case of Capri: Landscape, Regional Culture and Modern Architecture 15. Oscillating between cosmos and roots: the case of Geoffrey Bawa and his architecture 16. Designing for adaptability and sustainability in regional architecture: lessons from residences in North East Brazil 17. Infrastructural Peripheries in the City-Region: Airport Spatial Influences Part 5: REIMAGINING THE ARTEFACT The Infinity Porch. Mythical-ities: Spatial transcriptions of votive offerings dedicated to the Nymphs. A Wild Plant of Life. Forget-me-Not. Mis-reading. Wound-up. Waxed. Rotted. Yuanlin Region and Piranesi Region. Panam: The Lost City of Muslin. New Babylon. Resurrecting Architectural Ghosts [An Anticipation of Collective Memory]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens. The blue humanities is a way of understanding humanity's relationship with water and manifestations of what is referred to as the blue' reefs, oceans, rivers, creeks, basins, and inland bodies of water.In its scope, this collection emphasises both the importance of the local and the interconnectedness of Australia with global environmental concerns. It considers how we conceptualise watery spaces and shades of blue in a country where water is often marked by its absence, its ephemerality, its politicisation, and its dangers. Contributors from environmental history, environmental social science, political science, literary studies, creative arts, Indigenous Knowledge, education, and anthropology tackle various entanglements between the human, the more-than-human, and watery Australian spaces in modern culture. It is the first volume to offer a specific,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing
Book SynopsisAdvances in signal and image processing for remote sensing have been tremendous in recent years. The progress has been particularly significant with the use of deep learning based techniques to solve remote sensing problems. These advancements are the focus of this third edition of Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing. It emphasizes the use of machine learning approaches for the extraction of remote sensing information. Other topics include change detection in remote sensing and compressed sensing. With 19 new chapters written by world leaders in the field, this book provides an authoritative examination and offers a unique point of view on signal and image processing.Features Includes all new content and does not replace the previous edition Covers machine learning approaches in both signal and image processing for remote sensing Studies deep learning methods for remote sensing information extraction that is found
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Heritage is Movement
Book SynopsisThis book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It addresses the ways physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes of management, access and care. The book analyzes a critical practice of heritage work oriented to recognizing and collaborating with diverse knowledge holders and their practices of caring for heritage. This requires rethinking accepted heritage concepts, such as heritage management, artifact, site and the definition of heritage itself. The book presents an engaging and applied approach to this task through examples that include Majapahit statues and temples in Indonesia, skating in London, an online heritage movement, building bivouacs in Australia, First Nations advocacy for Country and batik collections in the Netherlands. Offering a new model for collaborative heritage research and analysis, this book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners. DrTable of ContentsIntroduction. Heritage, movement, and the care of precious thingsTod Jones1. Making bivouacs, sustaining heritage: how heritage is movement in configuration with an environmentTod Jones2. A response to skate heritageTod Jones3. Why heritage is movement in configuration with an environment. A framework for heritage based on flows rather than objectsTod Jones4. Scale and World Heritage on the Ningaloo Coast Roy Jones and Michael Hughes5. Residents and artefacts Adrian Perkasa6. Sites: reconstruction and resident relationships with Majapahit heritage Adrian Perkasa7. Settler colonial cultural landscapes: Badimia experiences of advocating for their sovereignty, community and Country Carol Dowling8. How social media changes heritage (and everything else)Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim9. Bol Brutu visits Cirebon. Reminiscences of a blusukan Transpiosa Riomandha, translated by Tod Jones10. Living cultures and heritage processes: heritagisation and batikTod JonesConclusionTod JonesAppendix 1: Information on research methods used in Heritage is movement
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Taylor & Francis Foreign Policy in Greenland
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Showing Social Solidarity with Future Generations
Book SynopsisToday's generations can affect the future ecosystem more than any previous generations and aggravate the welfare of future people. People who have not yet been born are excluded from political decisions important to their lives. Due to the future generations' lack of influence, current generations have a responsibility to act.The current generation''s responsibility for the well-being of future generations has been used as an argument for an increasing number of legislative and policy measures across the world but are rarely followed up in practice.This book examines when commitments to future generations are followed up in practice and in what situations they are not.A concept of solidarity with future generations is developed and applied to four policy areas: the UN 2030 Agenda, national political institutions for future generations, constitutions and climate lawsuits, and regulations of economic debt or savings for future generations. Germany and Norway are s
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Smart City Blueprint
Book SynopsisThe smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe, in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives, along with the constant push of global technology giants, has reinforced the popularity of this movement. This two-volume treatment on smart cities thoroughly explores and sheds light on the prominent elements of the smart city phenomenon and generates a smart city blueprint.This first volume, with its 12 chapters, provides a sound understanding on the key foundations and growth directions of smart city frameworks, technologies, and platforms, with theoretical expansions, practical implications, and real-world case study lessons.The second companion volume offers sophisticated perspectives on the key foundations and directions of smart city policTrade Review‘Finding a place among the seminal works and explaining the way cities are and the way they should be, is Tan Yigitcanlar’s two-volume Smart City Blueprint book. These volumes explain how in the second decade of the 21st century information and communications technologies are ubiquitous and part of every urban network, every urban infrastructure.’—Professor Richard E. Hanley, The City University of New York, USA‘Smart City Blueprint that comes in two volumes provides an innovative, holistic view of smart cities that will prove invaluable for research, classroom, and practice. From a novel examination of their development to a rethinking of the concept, 24 chapters of these volumes offer new frameworks and evidence that will surely influence the future of the field.’—Professor Karen Mossberger, Arizona State University, USA‘Drawing together and synthesising a vast range of literature and empirical case examples of applied practice, the two volumes of Smart City Blueprint form a comprehensive resource for policymakers, communities and academics interested in critically evaluating and implementing smart city initiatives globally.’—Professor Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Ireland‘Notwithstanding recent trends to localise the smart city within particular contexts, there remains a need for critical knowledge about key principles underlying the smart city. In response, the two volumes of Smart City Blueprint deliver a comprehensive framework that maps core building blocks for use in smart city theory, policy, and planning. A must read.’—Professor Simon Joss, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsPart 1: Smart City Framework. 1. Multidimensional Perspective. 2. Smart and Sustainable. 3. Transformation Readiness. Part 2: Smart City Technology. 4. Perception and Utilisation. 5. Smarter with Technology. 6. Urban Artificial Intelligences. 7. Green Artificial Intelligence. 8. Smart Urban Mobility. Part 3: Smart City Platform. 9. Mobile Energy as a Service. 10. Mobility as a Service. 11. Urban Management Platform. 12. City as a Platform.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in
Book SynopsisThis volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people through locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices accomplish activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as part of their everyday lives.The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its boundaries, and paves the way for the development of future interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors represent diverse fields of research, sTrade ReviewThe field of ethnomethodological conversation analysis (“EMCA”), like the people whose interactions EMCA researchers investigate, is in motion. This important collection showcases cutting-edge approaches in the quest to understand the multimodal, embodied, and material domains of social interaction – while critically addressing fundamental questions about what EMCA research is, should, and can be.Elizabeth Stokoe, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Tiina Eilittä, Pentti Haddington, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen & Anna Vatanen. Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in motion: An introductionPart 1 – Exploring ‘being a member’ 2. Federico Rossano. How to study interactional history in non-human animals? Challenges and opportunities3. Hannah Pelikan. Transcribing human-robot interaction: Methodological implications of participating machines4. Brian Due. Ocularcentric participation frameworks: Dealing with a blind member’s perspectivePart 2 – Broadening analyst’s access to member’s perspective by using various video materials5. Iuliia Avgustis & Florence Oloff. Collecting and analysing multi-source video data: Grasping the opacity of smartphone use in face-to-face encounters6. Laura Kohonen-Aho & Pentti Haddington. From distributed ecologies to distributed bodies in interaction: Capturing and analyzing ‘dual embodiment’ in virtual environments7. Pirkko Raudaskoski. 360-cameras used by a team participating in a mobile gathering Part 3 – Augmenting analyses of member’s perspective with multiple research materials and methods 8. Antti Kamunen, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen & Pentti Haddington. Inductive approach in EMCA: The role of accumulated ethnographic knowledge and video based observations in studying crisis management training9. Joe Blythe, Francesco Possemato, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner & Lesley Stirling. A satellite view of spatial points in conversation10. Melisa Stevanovic. EMCA informed experimentation as a way of investigating (also) “non-accountable” interactional phenomena Part 4 – Enhancing transparency of analytical processes 11. Paul McIlvenny & Jacob Davidsen. Beyond Video: Using Practice-based VolCap Analysis to Understand Analytical Practices Volumetrically 12. Eric Laurier & Tobias Boelt Back. Recurrent problems and recent experiments in transcribing video: live transcribing in data sessions and depicting perspectiveIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist
Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary gender and feminist geographies in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It features 48 new contributions from both experienced and emerging scholars, artists and activists who critically review and appraise current spatial politics. Each chapter advances the future development of feminist geography and gender studies, as well as empirical evidence of changing relationships between gender, power, place and space. Following an introduction by the Editors, the handbook presents original work organized into four parts which engage with relevant issues including violence, resistance, agency and desire: Establishing feminist geographies Placing feminist geographies Engaging feminist geographies Doing feminist geographies Trade Review"The four parts together provide an extensive overview of the conceptual, theoretical and methodological contributions of feminist geographies to a multitude of societal issues at various scales. The handbook is strongest when chapters introduce a topic or approach and illustrate it with a research project, such as the entries men and masculinities, the nation, and GIS. These chapters offer conceptual and practical understandings of key ideas." - Sander van Lenen, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie Table of Contents1. Introduction: Establishing, Placing, Engaging and Doing Feminist Geographies 2. Indigenous Australian Sexualities Explored through the Lens of Sex Work 3. From Order to Chaos: Geographies of sexualities 4. Hip-hop Urbanism, Placemaking, and Community-Building among Black LGBT Youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5. Shifting Multiple Masculinities: Alternative views from Japan and Papua New Guinea 6. Disabled Women Academics Reshaping the Landscape of the Academy 7. Gender and the Discipline of Geography: Case studies of relational networks of support in Western academia 8. Skin, Sweat and Materiality: Feminist geographies of emotion and effect 9. On the Subject of Performativity: Judith Butler’s influence in geography 10. Politics and Space/Time 11. Feminist Engagement with the Economy: Spaces of resistance and transformation 12. Disentangling Globalization: Towards a feminist geography of hair and beauty 13. Embodiment: Lesbians, space, sperm and reproductive technologies 14. The Intimate Geopolitics of Race and Gender in the United States 15. Home-keeping in Long-term Displacement 16. Environmental Politics in the Everyday: Jam, red meat and showers 17. Gender and Urban Neoliberalization 18. Gender and Sexuality in Participatory Planning in Israel: A journey between discourses 19. Rurality, Geography and Feminism: Troubling relationships 20. Nationhood: Feminist approaches, emancipatory processes and intersecting identities 21. Unsettling Gender and Sexuality Across Nations: Transnationalism within and between nations 22. Mobilities and Citizenship 23. Geographies of Gendered Migration: Place as difference and connection 24. Representing Women and Gender in Memory Landscapes 25. Feminist Political Ecologies: Race, bodies, and the human 26. Trauma, Gender and Space 27. Geographies of Violence: Feminist geopolitical approaches 28. Scaling a Survivor-centric Approach for Survivors of Sexual Violence: The case of an action-based research project in India 29. Motherhood in Feminist Geography: Current trends and themes 30. Embodied Labour in the Bioeconomy 31. Care, Health and Migration 32. Contexts of ‘Caring Masculinities’: The gendered and intergenerational geographies of men’s care responsibilities in later life 33. Giving Birth to Geographies of Young People: The importance of feminist geography beyond feminist geography 34. Gendered Geographies of Development 35. Feminist Visceral Politics: From taste to territory 36. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberal Globalization, (Post)feminisms and (Homo)normativities 37. Embodied Translations: Decolonizing methodologies of knowing and being 38. ‘Still We Rise’: Critical participatory action research for justice 39. Spaces and Scales of Feminist Activism 40. An Artful Feminist Geopolitics of Climate Change 41. Feminist Geography in the Anthropocene: Sciences, bodies, features 42. QGIS in Feminist Geography Research: Its merits and limits 43. Doing Gender in the Digital: Feminist geographic methods changing research? 44. Drone Queen of the Homeland: The gendered geopolitics of television drama in the age of media coverage 45. Historical Research: Gender, politics and ethics 46. Teaching Feminist Geography: Practices and perspectives 47. Autogeography: Placing research in the first-person singular 48. Narrating New Spaces: Theories and practices of storytelling in feminist geographies
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Taylor & Francis Public Diplomacy and Civil Society Organisations
Book SynopsisThis book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change. It provides up-to-date analysis of the challenges and constraints facing CSOs involved in diplomatic missions and working with foreign donors.Bringing together case studies from Cameroon, Egypt, Poland, Palestine, Lebanon and Libya, this edited collection reflects on how external calls for proposals in the fields of womenâs empowerment, community development, education, training, exchange programmes, democracy, human rights and peacebuilding influence the way civil society organisations contribute, deliver, intervene and position themselves in various societies. It explores the lessons learnt by various CSOs in identifying societal problems, understanding grassroots demands, prioritising development agendas and campaigning for peacebuilding. Grounded in a firm theoretical framework and based on up-to-date empiricTable of Contents1. Introducing Public Diplomacy in Civil Society Organisations 2. Exploring New Concepts and Practices of Civil Society Organisations’ Public Diplomacy 3. Historical review of public diplomacy: Milestones for civic engagement and business 4. Public Diplomacy and Civil Society Penetration: The New ‘scramble for Africa’ 5. Being at the forefront: Polish CSOs’ contribution to public diplomacy and development cooperation efforts 6. Barriers to CSOs’ public diplomacy: Failure of Multilateral Intervention, Conflict, Violence and Militarism 7. Civil society organisations’ public diplomacy and youth political participation in Egypt 8. Challenges to civil society Organisations’ public diplomacy: Militarism, restrictions and violence in Libya and Lebanon 9. Concluding Thoughts: New Directions for Civil Society Organisations’ Public Diplomacy
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Taylor & Francis Industrialization and Underdeveloped Countries
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1966, Industrialization and Under-Developed Countries traces the distribution, causes and problems of under-development and, from the point of view of the economic geographer, goes on to examine the difficulties and possibilities of industrialization as a remedy. Particular emphasis is laid upon the demographic factor both in the world situation and as affecting the way of life of individual countries. This book will be of interest to students of economics and geography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Social Housing
Book SynopsisThis book proposes operational approaches to public sector support to community-led development of urban low-income group social housing in the prevailing and medium-term. Within the context of mitigating and redressing the existential threats of climate change and global pathogenic transmission, building on current concerns of global heating and the lessons learnt from the 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic, the book closely examines recent examples from a wide international range of countries and cities from the Sri Lanka experience to Arab States of the Middle East and the Andes. Topics include maintenance and management of public sector housing, poverty alleviation objectives, climate change mitigation, housing density, local land management and planning, land rights, affordable housing markets, and international governance and administration, ultimately pointing to the universal need for institutional, organisational and human skills development and the compilation and dissemination of opeTrade Review‘Responses to the need for low-income urban housing have evolved over the past 80 years. It is still evolving, influenced even more so now by the climate crisis and the need to consider public health. In this book, Professor Wakely captures the essence of these and other key determinants in influencing that evolution, including land tenure, land use management, financing, and the need for ongoing partnership and collaboration. This book is a valuable resource for those engaged in low-income urban housing and must contribute to shaping future strategies and responses for all role players in this field.’Greg Munro, Director, Cities Alliance, Belgium‘Departing from the critical distinction between "public" and "social" housing, this book offers a historical account of the evolution of housing policies from the twentieth century to the present day. In doing so, it examines the travelling of policy and legal framings across the so-called Global North and South and the emergence and recognition of collective processes of social production of habitat, adopted in the commodified production of housing through the State and/or the private sector.Professor Wakely takes us through this journey while looking at why the right to adequate housing cannot be advanced in dissociation from other contemporary crises, notably the climate emergency and the global health crisis that last manifested through the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–2023. The book is important reading for those seeking to understand the trajectory of different narratives and approaches to today’s debates on urban social housing.’Adriana Allen, University College London, UK‘The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the fast-growing global warming process have both highlighted the centrality of housing and health conditions in urban areas: more than ever, discussion of housing policies is imperative. In an increasingly urbanised world, it is urgently necessary to critically understand the limits and possibilities of the range of strategies aiming to provide access to housing, especially for the more vulnerable groups and for the urban poor.We must all learn from the lessons already available, such as those so well organised by Professor Patrick Wakely in this important and timely book. Written with precision as a result of decades of reflection, research, teaching and action in several countries, the book articulates information, analysis, and original proposals for the formulation of answers to the global housing crisis. It is a fundamental reading for urban managers, development agencies, academics, students and members of social movements.’Edesio Fernandes, Urban and Environmental Researcher, Brazil‘In this concise work, Pat Wakely draws on his extensive academic and professional experience to capture the essential characteristics of the post-war urban social housing policy development, including recent times. Focusing primarily on the Global South, and drawing on some of the key examples from the Global North, he identifies important lessons for policy makers including key reflections for addressing the new challenges posed by global heating and potential future pandemics. In particular he highlights the critical role of subsidiarity and participatory partnerships between key public and community actors to enable effective policy interventions for social housing delivery.’Ramin Keivani, Oxford Brookes University, UKTable of ContentsForeword (by Robert Biel) Preface & Introduction Chapter 1. Prevailing and emerging policy approaches Chapter 2. Implementation strategies Chapter 3. Land & Location Chapter4. Land use and landscape planning & management Chapter 5. Legislation, norms, standards and land use planning Chapter6. Financial support and the way ahead.
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Taylor & Francis Democracy as Creative Practice
Book SynopsisDemocracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities in a range of countries including the United States, Australia, Portugal, Nepal, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The book demonstrates how creativity is integrated in place-based actions, aesthetic strategies, learning environments, and civic processes. As long-time champions and observers of community-based creative and cultural practices, editors Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer elucidate work that not only responds to sociopolitical conditions but advances practice. They call on artists, funders, cultural organizations, community groups, educational institutions, government, and oth
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Taylor & Francis Automobility in Transition
Book SynopsisIs the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national governments, citizens, car drivers, transport planners and civil society. Two guiding questions are: Will we see a greening of cars, based on technological innovations that sustain the existing car-based system? Or is something more radical desirable and likely, such as the development of travel regimes in which car use is less dominant?
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Taylor & Francis Tourism and Sustainability
Book SynopsisBy January 2015 the worldâs richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the worldâs population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct. So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality between the rich and poor? Are ever-expanding tourism markets a smoke-free, socioculturally sensitive form of human industrialisation? Is alternative tourism really a credible lever for reducing global inequality and eliminating poverty? Tourism and Sustainability critically explores the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century â development, globalisation and sustainability â and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order. The fourth edition has been exTrade ReviewComments on the fourth edition:"This book meets the continuing need for a clear-eyed, critical look at the global tourism industry and its sometimes uncomfortable relationship with ongoing problems of uneven development and inequality, especially in the less developed world. Mowforth and Munt write incisively of complex matters, yet their work has a real humanity at its core. This new edition will be a key resource for another generation of students and researchers."Dr Mark Hampton, Reader in Tourism Management, University of KentCommonly associated with lightness and frivolity, with sand beaches and holidays, the authors fully succeed in their goal of repositioning tourism as a serious and important discipline within political science and development. In this fourth edition Mowforth and Munt masterfully accomplish what seemed impossible: they deepen further the enquiry, updating throughout with new events and case studies, and adding three new chapters bridging the links between tourism and poverty, human security, migration, terrorism and urbanisation. Never before has an analysis been so far-reaching, so present-to-day, so perceptive. An essential volume for students and academics across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in understanding our contemporary world through the powerful lens that tourism offers.Professor Andréa Sousa Dantas, Department of Tourism, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil In short, this fourth edition updates the states of matter and analysis of the debates raised in the past, and introduces new issues that increasingly abundant academic literature has generated in recent years. It does so by staying away from the conformist or slightly reformist visions, as already mentioned, they are dominant. Thanks to all this, it remains a necessary reference text, essential to understand the development of the tourism phenomenon (especially in countries of the global South) and to meet the academic analysis done about it.Jordi Gascón, Universitat de Barcelona & Foro de Turismo ResponsableReviews on previous editions of Tourism and Sustainability:‘This book should be compulsory reading for all those engaged in tourism research.’ – Erlet Cater, In Focus, Tourism Concern ‘…one of the most significant books produced on tourism in the past few years.’– Geoffrey Wall, Annals of Tourism Research ‘A valuable and overdue contribution to a multi-disciplinary area. This book meets the challenge to say something clear and interesting in a quicksand of ambiguities.’ – Professor John Lea, University of Sydney ‘Informative, stimulating, and provocative, the book deserves to be read by a wide audience … It is absolutely essential reading for all those serious scholars of tourism studies wishing to appreciate "the bigger picture".’– Brian Wheeller, Annals of Tourism Research ‘…the book is quite simply one of the most important theoretical contributions to the growing subdiscipline of tourism geography and is likely to be a mainstay for many years to come.’– Keith Debbage, Annals of the Association of American Geographers ‘…a far-reaching, timely and quite penetrating critique of some of the forms of tourism that have emerged as a direct response to the clarion call for sustainable tourism development’– Michael Parnwell, Journal of Development StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1 2. Globalisation, Sustainability, Development 3. Power and Tourism 4. Tourism and Sustainability Part 2 The Actors 5. A New Class of Tourist: trendies on the trail 6. Socio-Environmental Organisations: where shall we save next? 7. The Industry: lies, damned lies and sustainability 8. 'Hosts' and Destinations: for what we are about to receive..9. Governance, Governments and Tourism: selling the Third World Part 3 New Issues 10. Climate Change, Carbon Accounting and New Tourism 11. New Tourism and the Poor 12. New Tourism in Cities: guess who's coming to town? 13. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Island Studies 4vol. set
Book SynopsisBig or small, islands and their inhabitant communities have long been the focus of intellectual enquiry, but in recent years a whole host of new academic institutes, journals, and conferences have devoted themselves to their study and research. And while early scholarly work mostly originated from those working in the natural sciences, and in Physical and Human Geography, Anthropology, and Archaeology, in the last twenty years or so serious research has also burgeoned under the rubric of, for example, Cultural Geography, Regional Development, Environmental Studies, Tourism, and Identity Studies.This new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive reference work to allow users to make better sense of this voluminous scholarly and practical literature. Indeed, the sheer scaleâand rangeâof the research output makes this title especially welcome.Island Studies is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the material in its intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars, advanced students, and policy-makers as a vital one-stop research resource.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Atlas of Environmental Migration
Book SynopsisClimate change has a significant and direct impact on human migration. This atlas provides a comprehensive and illustrated account of environmental migration worldwide, supported by expert analysis and presented in an accessible and informative way. Trade Review"The numbers, maps and fine-grained detail of this work illuminate and delineate the intersection of key challenges of globalization. It brings much needed explanation and perspective to this contested area. This Atlas really does try to balance the sky on its shoulders." – Neil Adger, University of Exeter, UK"There is a tragic connection between the incapacity of nation states to respond to migration and to climate change. In both cases, it is the very notion of sovereignty that seems questioned. One solution is to try to maintain the status quo, the other to map how inefficient the notion of sovereignty has become. This is one of the major achievements of this Atlas." – Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, France"The fates of individuals and communities most vulnerable to climate change are often forgotten in political debates. Climate justice, which links human rights and development to achieve a human-centred approach, requires us to safeguard the rights of the most vulnerable people and share the burdens and benefits of climate change and its impacts equitably and fairly. The Atlas of Environmental Migration deserves much praise for bringing people and their rights into the heart of the issue of environmental displacement." – Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, Ireland"Climate stresses and the degradation of resources and agriculture are major drivers of migration in Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world. This Atlas provides a balanced picture of how the mismanagement of the environment can directly impact people's lives. It highlights the importance of protecting our environment thus reducing the risk of forced migration and how coherent migration-based strategies can provide a lifeline to millions of people." – Thomas L. Friedman, author and columnist, USATable of Contents1. Forewords 2. Current migration and environmental migration 3. Factors of environmental migration 4. Challenges and opportunities 5. Governance and policy responses
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Change Governance and Adaptation
Book SynopsisClimate change adaptation in South Asia is redefining the roles of different actors in the governance processes. The existing governance lack capacity, knowledge, and leadership skills to manage the uncertainties and challenges posed by climate change. This book aims to explain how the governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation is being shaped in the region and how climate change is impacting upon the governance of natural resources. Although the focus is on South Asia, the editors draw a wide range of contributions from northern and southern communities and across various agro-ecological contexts. Climate Change Governance and Adaptation: Case Studies from South Asia sees the changing climate not only as an environmental problem but as a societal challenge and discusses the governance challenges from an interdisciplinary social science perspective across different levels: local, state, and national. Discusses also the challenges and opportuniTable of Contents1. Governance of Climate Change: Issues and Challenges in South Asia 2. "A Disappearing" or a Resilient Ganga? Climate Change Perspectives from the Himalaya 3. Deliberative Governance on Vulnerability to Climate Change: Voices from Madhesi Farmers 4. Waste or Savior? Two Cases of Emerging Wastewater Irrigation in Urbanizing Kathmandu Valley 5. Climate Migration and Flood Related Disasters 6. Changing Social Capital in the Mountains and the Implications for Adaptation Interventions: An Exploratory Analysis with Case Studies from the Hindu Kush Himalaya 7. Enhancing Adaptive Capacity through Education: A Case Study of Rural Mountain Communities, Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya India 8. Governing National Actions for Global Climate Change Stabilization: Examples from India 9. Bridges and Barriers for Governance of Water Resources in South Asia—Insights from Brahmaputra Basin in India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and
Book SynopsisThe goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a legible, clear, and coherent manner, drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography.This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who are beginning a course of study in geospatial sciences or who wish to begin producing their own maps. While the book assumes no a priori knowledge or experience with geospatial software, it may also serve GIS analysts and technicians who wish to explore the principles of cartographic design.The first part of the book explores the key decisions behind every map, with the aim of providing the reader with a solid foundation in fundamental cartography concepts. Chapters 1 through 3 review foundational mapping concepts and some of the decisions that are a part of every map. This is followed by a discussion of the guiding principles of cartographic dTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Mapping concepts 3. The language of maps 4. Cartographic design 5. Coordinate systems and projections 6. Text and typography 7. Color in cartography 8. 3D, animated, and web cartography 9. Scholarly research in cartography 10. Data in mapping 11. GIS and graphics software 12. Examples from the field Appendix 1: Map gallery, “Maps from the wild” Appendix 2: Sources of spatial data Appendix 3: Eleven guidelines for constructing and critiquing maps Appendix 4: Professional cartography societies Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Populism and the European Culture Wars The
Book SynopsisConcern and hostility towards populism has become a distinctive feature of contemporary political culture. In Europe such concerns are frequently directed at Eurosceptics, whose opposition to the European Union is often portrayed as a cultural crime. Ancient anti-democratic claims about the gullibility, ignorance and irrationality of the masses are frequently recycled through the anti-populist condemnation of people who vote the wrong way.This book argues that the current outburst of anti-populist anxiety is symptomatic of a loss of faith in democracy and in the ability of the demos to assume the role of responsible citizens. Distrust of the people and of parliamentary sovereignty is reinforced by the concern that, on its own, liberal democracy lacks the normative foundation to inspire the loyalty and affection of ordinary citizens. Through focusing on the conflict between the European Unionâs Commission and the Government of Hungary, this book explores contrasting attitudes towards national sovereignty, popular sovereignty and the question of tradition and the past as the main drivers of the culture war in Europe.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Who Decides Europe’s Values? 2. Why Hide Our Shared Values? The Problem of Tradition 3. National Consciousness vs Denationalized Identity 4. Memory Wars or the Crusade Against the Past 5. Anti-Populism and the Crisis of Valuation Conclusion Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis The Shared Space The Two Circuits of the Urban
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book, Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization and spatial organization in underdeveloped countries are inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which is so badly needed. He describes the urban economy in these countries in terms of two circuits of activity â an upper circuit consisting of those enterprises and structures which are based on modern technology and are oriented towards the advanced capitalist world, and a lower circuit comprised of more traditional processes and forms of exchange. The dialectical interaction of these two circuits is seen to generate the patterns of growth, forms of State intervention and, above all, the spatial organization characteristic of Third World economies. This was a revision and translation of LâEspace Partagà (1975). Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 1. Introduction: Towards a New Paradigm 2. The Two Circuits of the Urban Economy: Evolution and Characteristics 3. The Colonial Urban Economy: Two Circuits? Part 2 4. The Upper Circuit 5. The State and the Upper Circuit Part 3 6. Third World Poverty and the Lower Circuit 7. The Nature of Lower Circuit Employment 8. The Financial Mechanisms of the Lower Circuit 9. Adaptability and Rationality in the Lower Circuit 10. Inter-circuit Relations and the Parameters of Growth Part 4 11. Monopoly, the State and Macrospatial Organization 12. The Shared Space 13. Conclusion
£34.19
Taylor & Francis Ltd Disaster Risk
Book SynopsisThe text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate students studying geography and environmental studies/science. It will also be of relevance to students/professionals from a wide range of social and physical science disciplines, including public health and public policy, sociology, anthropology, political science and geology.Trade ReviewThe authors have hit the nail on the head with the need for a book that covers the breadth of the natural hazard and disaster management field from a largely social perspective and which can be traversed in different ways – Professor Melissa Parsons, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England, USThe approach of covering the topic widely from the point of view of physical processes, social research into hazards, vulnerability and specific sub-topics within these fields is useful. I have a preference for textbooks on disaster risk which look at both physical and social aspects of the issue and the authors approach does this. My preference for this broad scope reflects the interdisciplinary nature of disaster risk reduction and management. Dr Kate Taylor Smith Cambourne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsPart I: The nature and impact of disasters. 1.What’s disaster risk? 2.Where and when do disasters occur? 3.The impact of disasters. Part II: Vulnerabilities and capacities. 4.Why do disasters occur? 5.People’s vulnerability. 6.People’s capacities. Part III: Natural and socio-natural hazards. 7.Endogenous processes: Earthquake, Volcanoes and Tsunamis. 8.Gravity-Driven ‘Natural’ Exogenous Processes. 9.Climatological and hydro-meteorological hazards. 10.Socio-natural hazards. Part IV: People’s response to and resilience during and after disasters. 11.People’s behaviour in time of disaster. 12.People’s resilience. 13.Moving Towards Disaster Recovery. Part V: Disaster risk reduction and management. 14.Disaster risk reduction. 15.Disaster management. 16.Fostering disaster recovery. 17.Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Food Security
Book SynopsisThis book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective. It offers a detailed and systematic examination of food security from its historical backgrounds, concepts and measurements, to the determinants and approaches to achieve food security. The book also introduces the key challenges and root causes of food insecurity. Through country-specific cases, the book highlights instances of both successful and disastrous national food security management and their outcomes. The invaluable learning experiences of these countries shed light on food security practices, and the straightforward demand-supply framework effectively guides readers in understanding food security issues. This is an essential resource for anyone who is keen to learn more about food security, particularly researchers and university students who are new to the field. The book endeavours to help us reflect on the current phenomenon and strategize better for the future. Trade Review"Global Food Security: What Matters? is a timely textbook on a topic that remains of utmost importance. University students and scholars gain tools and knowledge toward an understanding of how food security and food systems are related, with essential country case studies that are truly global in scope." — Dr Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), Washington, USA"Zhang-Yue Zhou’s Global Food Security: What Matters? is an amazingly complete and comprehensive reference text book on the subject of food security in the world today. It covers every aspect and dimension of the subject from history, concepts and experience to challenges, policy and institutions in an easy-to-understand way. What makes the book outstanding is also the clear conceptual presentation of policy choices and their consequences and impacts, with numerous real-country examples from across the world. I very strongly recommend this book as a complete international text and reference book on food security, as well as the related food policies and economics." — Vasant P. Gandhi, PhD (Stanford), NABARD Chair Professor, Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India"The issue of secure food supply across the world is often presented and explained in parts. The author has done an immense service by tackling the issue of global food security in a whole system, multi-disciplinary way, taking careful note of all the dimensions and influences involved in determining the access to daily food, or lack of it, of people all around the world. Solutions to parts are not solutions to wholes: this multi-dimensional problem of food security can only be understood, explained and solved using the comprehensive perspective presented in this extremely useful work.Global Food Security: What Matters? is a masterly primer with a whole-of-system, global perspective. A comprehensive work providing readers with a useful and useable understanding of the detail and principles – all that matters – about the scientific, economic and institutional factors that determine the current state and future of world food supply and demand. This succinct, well written book leads readers through the meaning, detail, determinants and solutions to problems of the current state of global food security. Readers are introduced, almost by stealth, to understanding the key economic principles at play. The importance of institutions and politics to causing problems of food security, and solving them, is prominent, while detailed carefully chosen case studies make the book an invaluable pedagogical source." — Dr Bill Malcolm, Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia"Food security is a hot topic at public policy debates in many countries due to its importance in national security, agricultural and rural development, general welfare of the population, poverty alleviation, and more. As such, it has stimulated interest across different population groups. This book certainly meets the needs of a large audience, especially that of non-professionals.It provides a comprehensive and quite complete review of the evolution of the concept of food security, a set of widely accepted measurements of food security, a detailed comparative analysis of the status of food security across the globe, as well as major reasons behind the disparity of food security among nations and regions. The contents of the book will help readers understand fundamental information regarding food security, and the book also provides very useful information for those who are interested in further study in the field." — Dr Funing Zhong, Distinguished Professor, College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China"This textbook appears timely when the COVID-19 Pandemic foreshadows looming global famines of "biblical proportion,"… Zhang-yue Zhou offers the world a comprehensive examination of food security at national and global levels. Presented in a straightforward manner, this book does a great job of explaining the historical backgrounds of food security, key concepts, and measurements, as well as the determinants of, and approaches to achieve, food security…This textbook has many great features that are handy to both students and teachers. Each chapter begins with a summary of key points and ends with sections of review questions, discussion questions, and recommended readings. A few appendices further explain some concepts, such as food system and its difference from food security, demand and supply, price ceiling, and procurement quota. This is a crucial resource for undergraduate students and researchers who are new to the field." ─ Food, Culture & Society, 2 July 2020"it is nevertheless a well-crafted textbook that will allow the diligent reader to understand the fundamentals of food security, the basics of supply and demand, and the rudiments of graphical welfare analysis. This makes it a book worth adding to course lists as either a required or a supplementary text in relation to food security, agricultural development or agricultural economics." ─ R. Quentin Grafton, Australian National University, for Economic Record, 2021“Global Food Security: What Matters? is a timely textbook on a topic that remains of utmost importance. University students and scholars gain tools and knowledge toward an understanding of how food security and food systems are related, with essential country case studies that are truly global in scope.” — Dr Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), Washington, USA“Zhang-Yue Zhou’s Global Food Security: What Matters? is an amazingly complete and comprehensive reference text book on the subject of food security in the world today. It covers every aspect and dimension of the subject from history, concepts, and experience to challenges, policy, and institutions in an easy-to-understand way. What makes the book outstanding is also the clear conceptual presentation of policy choices and their consequences and impacts, with numerous real-country examples from across the world. I very strongly recommend this book as a complete international text and reference book on food security, as well as the related food policies and economics.” — Vasant P. Gandhi, PhD (Stanford), NABARD Chair Professor, Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India“The issue of secure food supply across the world is often presented and explained in parts. The author has done an immense service by tackling the issue of global food security in a whole system, multi-disciplinary way, taking careful note of all the dimensions and influences involved in determining the access to daily food, or lack of it, of people all around the world. Solutions to parts are not solutions to wholes: this multi-dimensional problem of food security can only be understood, explained, and solved using the comprehensive perspective presented in this extremely useful work.Global Food Security: What Matters? is a masterly primer with a whole-of-system, global perspective. A comprehensive work providing readers with a useful and useable understanding of the detail and principles – all that matters – about the scientific, economic, and institutional factors that determine the current state and future of world food supply and demand.This succinct, well-written book leads readers through the meaning, detail, determinants, and solutions to problems of the current state of global food security. Readers are introduced, almost by stealth, to understanding the key economic principles at play. The importance of institutions and politics to causing problems of food security, and solving them, is prominent, while detailed carefully chosen case studies make the book an invaluable pedagogical source.” — Dr Bill Malcolm, Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia“Food security is a hot topic at public policy debates in many countries due to its importance in national security, agricultural and rural development, general welfare of the population, poverty alleviation, and more. As such, it has stimulated interest across different population groups. This book certainly meets the needs of a large audience, especially that of non-professionals.It provides a comprehensive and quite complete review of the evolution of the concept of food security, a set of widely accepted measurements of food security, a detailed comparative analysis of the status of food security across the globe, as well as major reasons behind the disparity of food security among nations and regions. The contents of the book will help readers understand fundamental information regarding food security, and the book also provides very useful information for those who are interested in further study in the field.” — Dr Funing Zhong, Distinguished Professor, College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, China"This textbook appears timely when the COVID-19 Pandemic foreshadows looming global famines of "biblical proportion,"… Zhang-yue Zhou offers the world a comprehensive examination of food security at national and global levels. Presented in a straightforward manner, this book does a great job of explaining the historical backgrounds of food security, key concepts, and measurements, as well as the determinants of, and approaches to achieve, food security…This textbook has many great features that are handy to both students and teachers. Each chapter begins with a summary of key points and ends with sections of review questions, discussion questions, and recommended readings. A few appendices further explain some concepts, such as food system and its difference from food security, demand and supply, price ceiling, and procurement quota. This is a crucial resource for undergraduate students and researchers who are new to the field." ─ Food, Culture & Society, 2 July 2020"it is nevertheless a well-crafted textbook that will allow the diligent reader to understand the fundamentals of food security, the basics of supply and demand, and the rudiments of graphical welfare analysis. This makes it a book worth adding to course lists as either a required or a supplementary text in relation to food security, agricultural development or agricultural economics." ─ R. Quentin Grafton, Australian National University, for Economic Record, 2021Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Food security: concept and measurement 2. Global food security: an overview Part 2: Food security: demand side 3. Population and food demand 4. Income and food demand 5. Other determinants of food demand Part 3: Food security: supply side 6. Natural resources and food supply 7. Technological progress and food supply 8. Other determinants of food supply Part 4: Coordinating demand and supply for food security 9. Balancing food demand and supply for food security: approaches used at the national level 10. Coordinating demand and supply for food security: collaboration at the international level Part 5: Quest for food security: country experiences 11. Country cases: low and medium level of food security 12. Country cases: high level of food security 13. Why countries’ food security levels differ Part 6: Achieving food security: what ultimately matters 14. Achieving food security: the importance of institutions
£45.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographies of Plague Pandemics
Book SynopsisGeographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and the source of ancient and modern plagues. This book also discusses the role plague has played in shifting power from Mediterranean Europe to north-western Europe during the 500 years that plague has raged across the continent. The book demonstrates how recent colonial structures influenced the spread and mortality of plague while changing colonial histories. In addition, this book provides critical insight into how plague has shaped modern medicine, public health, and disease monitoring, and what role, if any, it might play as a terror weapon.The scope and breadth of Geographies of Plague Pandemics offers geographers, hiTable of ContentsChapter 1 Plague, its emergence and persistence through recent human history Chapter 2 The Athenian Pandemic Chapter 3 Antonine Pandemic and Justinianic Plague Chapter 4 The medieval Black Death Arrives in Europe Chapter 5 The scourge of Y. pestis re-emerges and persists from 1361 to 1879 Chapter 6 Re-emergence in China and spread to Singapore, Taiwan, Bombay, San Francisco and Australia before 1901 Chapter 7 1901 to present Chapter 8 Weaponized Plague and Plague Surveillance
£128.25