Physical geography and topography Books

Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive look at the role of North American suburbs in the last half century, departing from traditional and outdated notions of American suburbia.Trade Review"Drawing on major metropoles and smaller cities across the US and Canada, and the rather outlying case of Mexico City, the authors (primarily geographers) map varied suburban forms and beliefs from Vancouver to Miami, while looking closely at issues of race and political-economic struggles that focus on the dynamics of suburbs and central cities in the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Each essay's argument is comprehensive, compelling, and valuable for classroom us." -- G. W. McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and Tables Preface 1. Introduction: Elusive Suburbia Jan Nijman Part 1: Questioning North American Suburbia 2. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa Richard Harris 3. Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries Liette Gilbert 4. Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami Jan Nijman and Tom Clery 5. Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region Fang Wei and Paul Knox Part 2: Changing Political Economies of Suburbanization 6. The Strange Case of the Bay Area Richard Walker and Alex Schafran 7. Vancouverism as Suburbanism Elliot Siemiatycki, Jamie Peck, and Elvin Wyly 8. Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis? Claire Poitras and Pierre Hamel 9. New York’s Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region James Defilippis and Christopher Niedt Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and the Remaking of Suburbia 10. Diverging Racial Geographies in Phoenix’s Postwar and Post–Civil Rights Suburbs Deirdre Pfeiffer 11. Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the “Black Mecca” Katherine Hankins and Steve Holloway 12. Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan Rob Shields, Dianne Gillespie, and Kieran Moran 13. Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago David Wilson Part 4: Contested Suburbs 14. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles Roger Keil and Derek Brunelle 15. Reaching Suburbia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa Caroline Andrew and Angela Franovic 16. Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Canadian Cities Jill L. Grant 17. Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces Jan Nijman Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOriginating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built environments throughout history.Trade Review"While the book certainly is focused largely on the history and theories of city planning, the inclusion of archetypes expands the discussion to the fields of psychology and, to a more limited degree, philosophy." -- Frederick Lutt, University of Cincinnati * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction: Modernity and Its Urban Context 1. Paradigms of City Form in the Urbanism of Ebenezer Howard and Jane Jacobs 2. Howard vs. Jacobs: Ideal City or Authentic Street? 3. Twentieth-Century Transformations of the Garden and the City 4. The Neighbourhood as a State of Wonderment: The Urbanist Dream of Jane Jacobs 5. Spectacle and Contempt in City Form: Howard and Jacobs 6. The Ghost of Howard: Advent of the Masterplan and the Loss of Place 7. "Growth Ain’t Expansion": Jacobs in Toronto 8. Urban Space: Medium or Message? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBridging area and postcolonial studies with the critical political economy of South Korea.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Core Location, Asia as Method, and a Relational Understanding of Places Laam Hae, York University and Jesook Song, University of Toronto 1. The Idea of Chinatown: Rethinking Cities from the Periphery Sujin Eom, Dartmouth College 2. Seeing the Development of Jeju Global Education City from the Margins Youjeong Oh, University of Texas at Austin 3. Against the Construction State: Korean Pro-Greenbelt Activism as Method Laam Hae, York University 4. Marriage Migration as Spatio-Temporal Fix in Pohang’s Post-Industrial Urban Development through Saemaul Hyeseon Jeong, University of Newcastle, Australia 5. "Locations of Reflexivity": South Korean Community Activism and Its Affective Promise for "Solidarity" Mun Young Cho, Yonsei University, South Korea 6. The Education Welfare Project at Pine Tree Hill: A Core Location to Assess Distributional and Transitional Forms of Justice Jesook Song, University of Toronto 7. Situating the Space of Labour: Activism, Work, and Urban Regeneration Seo Young Park, Scripps College Afterword Jesook Song, University of Toronto and Laam Hae, York University

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Book SynopsisValentina Capurri addresses a topic that has been largely ignored, posing new questions on how immigration and disability in Canada have been constructed.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Personal and the Political 1. The Right Citizen 2. Parliament and Medically Inadmissible Immigrants 3. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1902-1985 4. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1985-2002 5. Medical Admissibility in the Federal and Supreme Courts of Canada Conclusion Appendix: Changes to the Medical Admissibility Provision in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1869-2001 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFacing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behaviour. The Wonder of Water explores how human experience including our cultural paradigms, value systems, and personal biases impacts decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices. Case studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations, and more. The overarchingTrade Review"It is no accident that The Wonder of Water starts and ends with poetry. While it is an academic and rigorous compilation, most of its contributors infuse their prose with expressive admiration of water’s foundational and life-affirming properties in a way that’s wonder inducing indeed." -- Rachel Jagareski * Foreword Reviews, January/February 2020 *"The twelve chapters of The Wonder of Water pin-point Stefanovic’s ethical and moral concerns in relation to water, the landscapes of water, and places associated with water, whether river, bay, sea, or otherwise. As editor, her aim is to incorporate thinking that highlights ‘the genuine meaning of water in its visceral quality, its vitality and its primordiality.’" * Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Part One: The Lived Experience of Water Rain Queen Kirby Manià, Simon Fraser University 1. Water Gaia: Toward a Scientific Phenomenology of Water Stephan Harding, Schumacher College 2. Flow Motions and Kinethic Responsiveness Stephen J. Smith, Simon Fraser University 3. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet David Abram, Author and Cultural Ecologist 4. When Salmon Are Deemed Superfluous: Reflecting on a Struggle of Stories Martin Lee Mueller, Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo Part Two: Water and Place 5. The Place of Water Janet Donohoe, University of West Georgia 6. Engaging the Water Monster of Amsterdam: Meandering Toward a Fair Urban Riversphere Irene Klaver, University of North Texas 7. Water and the City: Towards an Ethos of Fluid Urbanism Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University 8. What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Water: Race, Imperial Politics, and Ruination in Flint, Michigan Sarah King, Grand Rapids University Part Three: Rethinking Water Policy, Practice, and Ethics 9. The Bonding Properties of Water: Community, Urban River Restoration, and Non-human Agency Bryan Bannon, Merrimack College 10. Standing Rock: Water Protectors in a Time of Failed Policy Trish Glazebrook, Washington State University and Jeff Gessas, University of North Texas 11. Phenomenology, Water Policy, and the Conception of the Polis Henry Dicks, Université Jean Moulin, France 12. Towards a Complexity Ethics: Understanding and Action on Behalf of Life-World Well-Being Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington Part Four: Closing Reflections Conclusion: Looking Forward: From Poetics to Praxis Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University The Lure of Water: Four Poems Dilys Leman, Toronto List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisInternational borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not just important to the peoples and governments who face each other across the borderline any international border can become a regional hotspot of global concern. But aside from the significant role borders play in national and international affairs, borders are also places and spaces where people live, work, raise families, and build businesses. Written for students across disciplines, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers introduces readers to the study of borders and border cultures. Thomas M. Wilson examines both historical foundations and current developments in the field, with an emphasis on anthropological contributions. Ultimately, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers encourages students to explore the role anthropology plays in the understanding of contemporary borders.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries, and Frontiers 2. Globalization and Borders in a Borderless World 3. Border Walls and the Violence of Security 4. Border Energetics: The Frontiers of Sovereignty and Citizenship 5. Chameleon Borders and Everyday Transnationalism: Border Cultures and Identities 6. Future Borders and New Normals in Border Studies 7. Conclusion: New and Critical Border Thinking

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Book SynopsisBeyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile and Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México Part I: Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America 1. Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkeley, USA 2. Urban Community and Resistance Raul Zibechi, Independent Writer and Journalist, Uruguay 3. Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America Martín Arboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile Part II: Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism 4. Large-scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in Urban Space Production in the Mexico City Megaregion Clara Salazar, El Colegio de México, Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México, and Ann Varley, University College London, UK 5. Periurban Satellite Towns in Santiago: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle-Class Periurban Dwellers César Cáceres, Viña del Mar, Chile 6. Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery Liz Mason-Deeze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Part III: Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins 7. The Self-Built-City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima’s Hybrid Peripheries Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany 8. Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte João Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 9. Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-Urban Bolivia Hannah-Hunt Moeller, University of Michigan, USA 10. Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas Christina Schiavoni, International Institute for Social Studies, The Netherlands and Ana Felicien, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela Part IV: Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes 11. Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador Gustavo Duran, Jonathan Menoscal, and Manuel Bayón, FLACSO Ecuador 12. Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile 13. Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras in Motul, Yucatán: Unveiling Abstract Space in the Ex-City Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Malmö University, Sweden 14. Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil Alisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil/Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil 15. The Urbanization of Mexico’s Rural World: A Socio-Cultural Anthropology Approach Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS, Mexico Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theory Nadine Reis, El Colegio de México and Michael Lukas, Universidad de Chile Author Biographies

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from New York to Vancouver, Atlanta to Chicago, Montreal to Phoenix, The Life of North American Suburbs traces the insightful connection between the evolution of suburbs and the cultural dynamics of modern society. Suburbs are uniquely significant spaces: their creation and evolution reflect the shifting demographics, race relations, modes of production, cultural fabric, and class structures of society at large. The case studies investigate the place of suburbs within their wider metropolitan constellations: the crucial role they play in the cultural, economic, political, and spatial organization of the city. Together, the chapters paint a compelling portrait of North American cities and their dynamic suburban landscapes. Trade Review"Drawing on major metropoles and smaller cities across the US and Canada, and the rather outlying case of Mexico City, the authors (primarily geographers) map varied suburban forms and beliefs from Vancouver to Miami, while looking closely at issues of race and political-economic struggles that focus on the dynamics of suburbs and central cities in the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Each essay's argument is comprehensive, compelling, and valuable for classroom us." -- G. W. McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and Tables Preface 1. Introduction: Elusive Suburbia Jan Nijman Part 1: Questioning North American Suburbia 2. Using Toronto to Explore Three Suburban Stereotypes, and Vice Versa Richard Harris 3. Mexico City: Elusive Suburbs, Ubiquitous Peripheries Liette Gilbert 4. Searching for Suburbia in Metropolitan Miami Jan Nijman and Tom Clery 5. Spatial Transformations in the Suburbs of the North Carolina Piedmont Region Fang Wei and Paul Knox Part 2: Changing Political Economies of Suburbanization 6. The Strange Case of the Bay Area Richard Walker and Alex Schafran 7. Vancouverism as Suburbanism Elliot Siemiatycki, Jamie Peck, and Elvin Wyly 8. Montreal: An Ordinary North American Metropolis? Claire Poitras and Pierre Hamel 9. New York’s Suburbs in a Globalized Metropolitan Region James Defilippis and Christopher Niedt Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and the Remaking of Suburbia 10. Diverging Racial Geographies in Phoenix’s Postwar and Post–Civil Rights Suburbs Deirdre Pfeiffer 11. Suburbanization and the Making of Atlanta as the “Black Mecca” Katherine Hankins and Steve Holloway 12. Edmonton, Mill Woods, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan Rob Shields, Dianne Gillespie, and Kieran Moran 13. Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago David Wilson Part 4: Contested Suburbs 14. Governance, Politics, and Suburbanization in Los Angeles Roger Keil and Derek Brunelle 15. Reaching Suburbia: Towards a Socially Just Transit System for Ottawa Caroline Andrew and Angela Franovic 16. Contested Spaces: Suburban Development in Halifax and Other Midsized Canadian Cities Jill L. Grant 17. Epilogue: Suburbs as Transitional Spaces Jan Nijman Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNot Good Enough for Canada investigates the development of Canadian immigration policy with respect to persons with a disease or disability throughout the twentieth century. With an emphasis on social history, this book examines the way the state operates through legislation to achieve its goals of self-preservation even when such legislation contradicts state commitments to equality rights. Looking at the ways federal politicians, mainstream media, and the judicial system have perceived persons with disabilities, specifically immigrant applicants with disabilities, this book reveals how Canadian immigration policy has systematically omitted any reference to this group, rendering them socially invisible. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Personal and the Political 1. The Right Citizen 2. Parliament and Medically Inadmissible Immigrants 3. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1902-1985 4. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1985-2002 5. Medical Admissibility in the Federal and Supreme Courts of Canada Conclusion Appendix: Changes to the Medical Admissibility Provision in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1869-2001 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFacing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behaviour. The Wonder of Water explores how human experience including our cultural paradigms, value systems, and personal biases impacts decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices. Case studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations, and more. The overarchingTrade Review"It is no accident that The Wonder of Water starts and ends with poetry. While it is an academic and rigorous compilation, most of its contributors infuse their prose with expressive admiration of water’s foundational and life-affirming properties in a way that’s wonder inducing indeed." -- Rachel Jagareski * Foreword Reviews, January/February 2020 *"The twelve chapters of The Wonder of Water pin-point Stefanovic’s ethical and moral concerns in relation to water, the landscapes of water, and places associated with water, whether river, bay, sea, or otherwise. As editor, her aim is to incorporate thinking that highlights ‘the genuine meaning of water in its visceral quality, its vitality and its primordiality.’" -- Environmental & Architectural PhenomenologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Part One: The Lived Experience of Water Rain Queen Kirby Manià, Simon Fraser University 1. Water Gaia: Toward a Scientific Phenomenology of Water Stephan Harding, Schumacher College 2. Flow Motions and Kinethic Responsiveness Stephen J. Smith, Simon Fraser University 3. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet David Abram, Author and Cultural Ecologist 4. When Salmon Are Deemed Superfluous: Reflecting on a Struggle of Stories Martin Lee Mueller, Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo Part Two: Water and Place 5. The Place of Water Janet Donohoe, University of West Georgia 6. Engaging the Water Monster of Amsterdam: Meandering Toward a Fair Urban Riversphere Irene Klaver, University of North Texas 7. Water and the City: Towards an Ethos of Fluid Urbanism Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University 8. What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Water: Race, Imperial Politics, and Ruination in Flint, Michigan Sarah King, Grand Rapids University Part Three: Rethinking Water Policy, Practice, and Ethics 9. The Bonding Properties of Water: Community, Urban River Restoration, and Non-human Agency Bryan Bannon, Merrimack College 10. Standing Rock: Water Protectors in a Time of Failed Policy Trish Glazebrook, Washington State University and Jeff Gessas, University of North Texas 11. Phenomenology, Water Policy, and the Conception of the Polis Henry Dicks, Université Jean Moulin, France 12. Towards a Complexity Ethics: Understanding and Action on Behalf of Life-World Well-Being Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington Part Four: Closing Reflections Conclusion: Looking Forward: From Poetics to Praxis Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University The Lure of Water: Four Poems Dilys Leman, Toronto List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisInnate Terrain surveys landscape architecture from across Canada, documenting the inspiring breadth of contemporary projects.Table of ContentsForeword Ron Williams Introduction: Consequent of the Land Alissa North and Peter Jamie Reford Native Land Physical-Human-Geographical Regions / Land Use / Land Claims / Land Management 1. Collaboration with the Keepers of Traditional Knowledge Grant Fahlgren 2. Nouveaux Paysages: Contemporary Installations by Canadian Landscape Architects Adrien Sun Hall 3. Resolve: Negotiation and Implementation of Land Claims James C. Thomas 4. Landscapes of Culture: Inuit Traditional Knowledge Applied Chris Grosset and Marla Limousin 5. Working in the Wild: Landscape Architecture in Canada’s National Parks Shelley Long True North Regionalism / Critical Regionalism / Resources / Cultural-Biological Resources 6. Nature Alissa North 7. The Power of Local in East Coast Landscapes Matthew A.J. Brown, Stéphane LeBlanc, James Allan MacDonald-Nelson, and Andrea Mantin 8. L’anarchie Resplandissante – Resplendent Anarchy Marc Hallé and Yannick Roberge 9. Wide Open Space: Towards a Phenomenology for Prairie Landscape Architecture Karen Wilson Baptist Far and Wide Cities / Megalopolises / Urbanity / Urban Conurbations / Urban Ecology 10. Technology Driven Shift in the Digital Representation of Landscape Architecture Fadi Masoud, Matthew Spremulli, and Shadi Ramos 11. Landscape Verified as Infrastructure: Toronto’s Waterfront Transformation James A. Roche 12. The Right Tree in the Right Place Michael Ormston-Holloway 13. Supernatural: An Account of Vancouver’s Post-Industrial Landscape Susan Herrington 14. Urbanization and the Large Canadian Park in the Nineteenth Century and Today Sandra A. Cooke

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Book SynopsisMany historians and political scientists argue that ties between Canada and Latin America have been weak and intermittent because of lack of mutual interest and common objectives. Has this record of diverging paths changed as Canada has attempted to expand its economic and diplomatic ties with the region? Has Canada become an imperialist power? Canada’s Past and Future in Latin America investigates the historical origins of and more recent developments in Canadian foreign policy in the region. It offers a detailed evaluation of the Harper and Trudeau governments’ approaches to Latin America, touching on political diplomacy, bilateral development cooperation, and civil society initiatives. Leading scholars of CanadaLatin America relations offer insights from unique perspectives on a range of issues, such as the impact of Canadian mining investment, security relations, democracy promotion, and the changing nature of Latin American migration to CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction: Canada’s Past and Future in the Americas: Beyond the “Americas Strategy” Pablo Heidrich and Laura Macdonald 2. Locating Latin America: Geography, Identity, and the Americas in Canadian Foreign Policy Asa Mckercher 3. Life-death-rebirth: The Latin American Working Group and Civil Society Relations with Latin America John W. Foster 4. Canadian Security and Defence Policies Towards Latin America: Liberal Engagement or Harsh Realism? Federmán Rodríguez 5. Canada And Democracy Promotion: The 2015 Electoral Crisis in Haiti Yasmine Shamsie 6. Latin American Migration to Canada: New and Complex Patterns of Mobility Laura Macdonald and Christina Gabriel 7. Trudeau, Harper and Civil Society: Advocacy Chill or Sunny Ways? Kalowatie Deonandan and Toveli Schmuland 8. Mexico-Canada Relations and the Impact of the NAFTA Renegotiations María Teresa Gutiérrez Haces 9. ‘Wrapped in the Canadian Flag’: Precious Metals Mining and Canadian Deadly Diplomacy In Latin America Jen Moore 10. Voluntary or Legislated? The Home-Country Regulation of Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America Paul Haslam 11. Conclusions Pablo Heidrich and Laura Macdonald Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOrganizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada’s resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from ecosystem component to resource, this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economieTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables List of Maps List of Boxes Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 From How to Why 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources 1.3 Politics beyond Policy 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes Discussion Questions 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Governments 2.3 Communities 2.4 Built Environments 2.5 Culture and Ideas 2.6 Economies 2.7 Bodies and Identities 2.8 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions 3. From Fish to Fisheries 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries 3.5 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions Pedagogical Resources 4. From Forests to Timber 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests 4.5 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions Pedagogical Resources 5. From Carbon to Energy 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon 5.6 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions Pedagogical Resources 6. From H2O to Water 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Diversions and Damming 6.2.1 Diversion 6.2.2 Damming 6.3 Drinking Water 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek–Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962–? 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water 6.5 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions Pedagogical Resources 7. From Land to Property 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Soil 7.3 Symbol 7.4 Space 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land 7.6 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions Pedagogical Resources 8. From Bodies to Life 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife 8.3 Human Resources 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma 8.3.2 Surrogacy 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life 8.5 Summary and Conclusions Discussion Questions Pedagogical Resources 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers 9.1 Channels in Action 9.2 Common Themes 9.2.1 Commodification 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession 9.2.3 Artificial Nature–Society Binary 9.3 Why Does ‘Resource Thinking’ Matter? 9.3.1 Winning and Losing 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy? Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisThe global environmental future is a matter of major scientific and public importance. Problems such as deforestation, pollution, the loss of natural habitats, and greenhouse-gas induced global warming have grave and often uncertain implications. But what do these processes involve? What is causing them and what will or might be their consequences? Global warming would, for example, have far-reaching effects on sea levels, rainfall, glacier dynamics, and the distribution of plants and animals, as well as on a wide range of human activities. The Changing Global Environment provides a clear, well-integrated account by leading scientists of the nature of change in the earth's natural environment in the past, present and future. Taken as a whole, it is distinguished by its concern to understand and to link environmental variations at local, regional and planetary scales, by its clear analyses of human-environment interactions, by its historical perspective, and by an awareness of the social and political causes and consequences of environmental change. The subject is as complex as it is crucial: the authors have aimed not to simplify but to clarify uncertainties, issues and processes. Written to be accessible to both specialist and non-specialist readers, this book also provides a powerful and stimulating framework for the teaching of environmental issues in higher education.Trade Review"Here we have a genuine attempt by the editor and most of the authors to think in terms of truly world-wide processes, such as those to be found in the ocean-atmosphere system, or at least to describe specific local outcomes of global mechanisms. The concepts and technical information are often complex but the language is accessible and the issues tackled are both interesting and very relevant for geography and environmental science courses. Each chapter is well illustrated and has guidance for further reading." International Journal of Environmental Studies "Aimed largely at an undergraduate audience it would do very well as a source for teachers and senior pupils. This is a good book and I can recommend it as the best available offering of this ilk." Geography "Considering the enormity of topics implied by the title, The Changing Global Environment does a good job, providing a useful overview of many important issues." Journal of PaleolimnologyTable of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms. Preface and Acknowledgements. Part I: The Nature of Environmental Change:. 1. The Global Environmental Future: Neil Roberts. 2. Remote Sensing of Environmental Change: Roy Haines-Young. Part II: Global Climate Change: . 3. Past Climates and Future Greenhouse Warming: F. Alayne Street-Perrott and Neil Roberts. 4. Historic Records and Recent Climatic Change: Mike Hulme. 5. Numerical Modelling of Global Climate: Ann Henderson-Sellers. Part III: Ice and Ocean:. 6. Global Warming and Periglacial Landscapes: Eduard A. Koster. 7. Ice Volumes and Climate Change: David Sugden and Nick Hulton. 8. Sea-level Response to Climate: Michael J. Tooley. 9. Tropical Coral Islands - An Uncertain Future?: Tom Spencer. Part IV: The Hydrological System:. 10. Surface Water Acidification: Richard W. Battarbee. 11. Reconstructing the History of Soil Erosion: John Dearing. 12. Large-scale River Regulation: Geoff Petts. Part V: The Tropics:. 13. Savanna Landscapes and Global Environmental Change: Philip Stott. 14. Tropical Moist Forests - Transformation or Conservation?: Peter A. Furley. 15. Land Degradation in the Humid Tropics: Ian Douglas. 16. Dryland Degradation: Andrew Goudie. Part VI: Case Studies of Human Impact:. 17. Case 1: Changing Use of the Sahara Desert: Erhard Schulz. 18. Case 2: The Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System: Grace S. Brush. 19. Case 3: China's Yellow River Basin: Edward Derbyshire and Jingtai Wang. 20. Case 4: Deforestation in the Himalaya: Martin J. Haigh. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisA cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The stress throughout will be on representations – literary, cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form – as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.Trade Review'This book offers a rich and stimulating cultural topography of the Marais quarter of Paris, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The author nimbly synthesizes a wide range of historical research on the quarter. This in turn furnishes the context for the more original dimension of the project: the close reading of the ways in which the Marais figures in a range of cultural representations.'Douglas Smith, University College DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One’The poor and the well-to-do lived side by side in the same street’ : The Marais before the French RevolutionChapter Two ‘Grass grows, a passer-by is an event, and everybody knows everybody else’: the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary PeriodChapter Three‘This is why the Jews had their ghetto there’ : the Marais in the pre-Second War twentieth centuryChapter Four‘The Occupation robbed them of their childhood, their adolescence’: the Marais in the war years and the Fourth RepublicChapter Five‘The inhabitants are taken into account’ (?): the conservation of the MaraisChapter Six‘A different kind of ghetto’ : the gay Marais comes to dominate its Jewish predecessor

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Book SynopsisA cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The stress throughout will be on representations – literary, cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form – as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.Trade Review'This book offers a rich and stimulating cultural topography of the Marais quarter of Paris, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The author nimbly synthesizes a wide range of historical research on the quarter. This in turn furnishes the context for the more original dimension of the project: the close reading of the ways in which the Marais figures in a range of cultural representations.'Douglas Smith, University College DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One’The poor and the well-to-do lived side by side in the same street’ : The Marais before the French RevolutionChapter Two ‘Grass grows, a passer-by is an event, and everybody knows everybody else’: the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary PeriodChapter Three‘This is why the Jews had their ghetto there’ : the Marais in the pre-Second War twentieth centuryChapter Four‘The Occupation robbed them of their childhood, their adolescence’: the Marais in the war years and the Fourth RepublicChapter Five‘The inhabitants are taken into account’ (?): the conservation of the MaraisChapter Six‘A different kind of ghetto’ : the gay Marais comes to dominate its Jewish predecessor

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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone, national parks were set aside to preserve for future generations the most spectacular and inspirational features of the country. The best representative examples were sought out of major ecosystems, such as Yosemite, geologic forms, such as the Grand Canyon, archaeological sites, such as Mesa Verde, and scenes of human events, such as Gettysburg. But one type of habitat—the desert—was overlooked until travel writers and the Automobile Age began to change Americans’ perceptions about desert landscapes.As the National Park Service began to explore the better-known Mojave and Colorado Deserts of southern California during the 1920s for a possible desert park, many agency leaders still held the same negative image of arid lands shared by many Americans—that they are hostile environments and largely useless. But one wealthy woman—Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, from Pasadena—came forward, believing in the value of the desert, and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a national monument that would protect the unique and iconic Joshua trees and other desert flora and fauna. Thus was Joshua Tree National Monument officially established in 1936, and when the area later was expanded in 1994, it became Joshua Tree National Park.Since 1936 the National Park Service and a growing cadre of environmentalists and recreationalists have fought to block ongoing proposals from miners, ranchers, private landowners, and real estate developers who historically have refused to accept the idea that desert might be suitable for anything other than their consumptive activities. Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently been uncovered in Sweden and are being curated there by the Grenna Museum. The three unpublished diaries of Herbert Chermside were lent to the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1939 by Mrs. Benjamin Leigh Smith. For the first time, Chermside’s diaries are published in their entirety, with the original photographs shown alongside modern images of the same locations. This includes the first photographic record of the north coast of Svalbard, images that are today being used as comparative data for the study of climate change in the archipelago.The diaries have been fully transcribed and edited. Introductory chapters are included, written by specialists in the history of exploration, history of science, and the history of photography from Penn State University, the University of Gothenburg, and UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, as well as contributors from the UK and Germany.This volume is published in association with Grenna Museum, which will present Chermside’s photographs in a 2022 exhibit on Leigh Smith and A.E. Nordenskiold.Table of ContentsForeword by Charlotte Moore, author and descendent of Benjamin Leigh SmithForeword by Håkan Jorikson, Director of Grenna Museum (Swedish)Introduction: Herbert C. Chermside and his chronicle of Benjamin Leigh Smith’s 1873 exploration of Spitzbergen by P.J. CapelottiOne: The 19th century exploration of Spitzbergen by Susan BarrTwo: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and the Swedish expedition of 1872-73 by Urban WråkbergThree: Axel W. Engvall and Leigh Smith’s rescue of Nordenskiöld by Anders LarssonFour: Alfred Eaton and the biological collections of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition by C.L. DevlinFive: Chermside's observations of marine mammals during a Spitzbergen hunt by C.L. DevlinSix: Chermside’s Arctic birds by Magnus ForsbergSeven: The discovery of Chermside’s Spitzbergen photographs by Håkan Jorikson and Anders LarssonEight: Chermside’s Spitzbergen imagery, then and now by Tyrone Martinsson and Andreas UmbreitNine: Chermside’s diary of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition edited by P.J. CapelottiAppendix 1: Spitzbergen/Svalbard Place Names, 1873 and currentAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living—from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy. Along the way, readers will learn about the field of sustainability and the “three E’s” of sustainable living—environment, economy, and equity. We are in the midst of great environmental change and all of us need to do everything we can to try to live more gently on the planet. Robert Brinkmann provides a range of options for readers as to what they can do to try to make a difference. Some involve simple lifestyle changes - but he also challenges all of us to commit to make more difficult and more meaningful changes to create a greener, more sustainable world. The book also delves into how we can create more sustainable communities, schools, and organizations. It showcases many examples of people and organizations that are making significant contributions to improving our planet’s sustainability that serve as inspiration and guidance for all of us trying to live more sustainably. Table of ContentsPart I. Defining our Great Global Challenges.- Chapter 1. Change Yourself and Change the World.- Chapter 2. Our Climate Change Challenge.- Chapter 3. Our Great Sustainability Challenge.- Chapter 4. Our Ethical Responsibility.- Part II. Tackling Climate Change.- Chapter 5. How You and Your Family Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint.- Chapter 6 How Your Community Can Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Impact.- Chapter 7. How Your School, Non-Profit Organization, or Business Can Reduce Eliminate Its Carbon Footprint.- Part III. Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 8 Moving to Green Energy.- Chapter 9. Protecting Our Water Resources.- Chapter 10. Dealing with the Garbage Around Us.- Chapter 11. Saving Ecosystems.- Part IV. Building Just and Equitable Economic and Social Systems.- Chapter 12. Building a Just and Sustainable Society.- Chapter 13. Green Your Economy.- Chapter 14. Sustainable Travel and Leisure.- Chapter 15. Tune Out, Buy Nothing, and Get Educated.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the only comprehensive summary of natural resources of Oregon and adds to World Soil Book Series state-level collection. Due to broad latitudinal and elevation differences, Oregon has an exceptionally diverse climate, which exerts a major influence on soil formation. The mean annual temperature in Oregon ranges from 0°C in the Wallowa and Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon to 13 °C in south-central Oregon. The mean annual precipitation ranges from 175 mm in southeastern Oregon to over 5,000 mm at higher elevations in the Coast Range. The dominant vegetation type in Oregon is temperate shrublands, followed by forests dominated by lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and mixed conifers, grasslands, subalpine forests, maritime Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests, and ponderosa pine-dominated forests. Oregon is divided into 17 Major Land Resource Areas, the largest of which include the Malheur High Plateau, the Cascade Mountains, the Blue Mountain Foothills, and Blue Mountains. The single most important geologic event in Oregon was the deposition of Mazama ash 7,700 years by the explosion of Mt. Mazama. Oregon has soil series representative of 10 orders, 40 suborders, 114 great groups, 389 subgroups, over 1,000 families, and over 1,700 soil series. Mollisols are the dominant order in Oregon, followed by Aridisols, Inceptisols, Andisols, Ultisols, and Alfisols. Soils in Oregon are used primarily for forest products, livestock grazing, agricultural crops, and wildlife management. Key land use issues in Oregon are climate change; wetland loss; flooding; landslides; volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis; coastal erosion; and wildfires.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- History of Soil Studies.- Soil-Forming Factor.- Elevation Gradients in the Oregon Mountain Ranges.- General Soil Regions of Oregon.- Diagnostic Horizons and Taxonomic Structure of Oregon Soils.- Taxonomic Soil Regions.- Mollisols.- Inceptisols.- Aridisols.- Andisols.- Ultisols.- Alfisols.- Entisols, Vertisols, Spodosols, and Histosols.- Soil-Forming Processes.- Benchmark, Endemic, Rare, and Endangered Soils.- Land Use in Oregon.- Yields, Soil Conservation, and Production System.- Summary.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses Turkey's karst systems' most critical features, one of the world's most important karst areas. This publication has been prepared to assist geologists and professionals working in karst areas by solving several different problems, for example, to conduct groundwater analysis in regions with karstic depressions and examine subsidence problems through geotechnical and hydrogeological studies to solve dams' technical challenges from Karstic areas.Table of ContentsCaves And Karst Of Turkey.- Turkey’s Karst And Water Resources.- Karst Hydrogeology Of Manavgat River Basin.- Karst Of Antalya Travertine, South West Of Turkey.- Geologic And Hydrogeologic Factors Affecting Sinkhole (Obruk) Development In Central Turkey.- Karst Areas Of Turkey.- Karst Springs Of Turkey.- Dumanli Karst Springs, Manavgat River, Antalya, Turkey.- Karst Hydrogeology In Geothermal Reservoirs.- Karstic Hot Water Aquifers In Turkey.

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Book SynopsisThis highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth. Drawing on records from the past two centuries, as well as his own expeditions to the island in 1997 and 2016, the author provides visual evidence for the changes wrought by climate change, erosion, and environmental policy. Various phenomena not previously observed on Heard Island are documented, such as fluid dynamic instabilities and the destruction of the seawalls of a major lagoon. Based on the past, the author makes predictions about Heard Island for specific years in the future: 2031 (decade), 2051 (tricade), 2121 (century), 3021 (millennium), and 1,002,021 (millionium). The book serves as an important link between the past and future of Heard Island.Table of ContentsPart1. Two centuries of change.- Section1. Island.- Chapter1. Description.- Chapter2. Images.- Chapter3. Maps.- Section2. History.- Chapter4. Events.- Chapter5. Facilities.- Chapter6. Debris.- Part2. Rocks.- Section3. Provinces.- Chapter7. Atlas Cove.- Chapter8. Laurens Peninsula.- Chapter9. The Spit.- Section4. Volcano.- Chapter10. Big Ben.- Chapter11. Mawson Peak.- Chapter12. Volcanic features.- Section5. Lithics.- Chapter13. Outcroppings.- Chapter14. Till.- Chapter15. Sediment.- Part3. Water.- Section6. Glaciers.- Chapter16. Stephenson Glacier.- Chapter17. AU1141 Glacier.- Chapter18. Glacial features.- Section7. Streams.- Chapter19. Inland streams.- Chapter20. Tidewater streams.- Section8. Lakes.- Chapter21. Stephenson Lagoon.- Chapter22. Large lakes.- Chapter23. Small lakes.- Part4. Ecosystem.- Section9. Biota.- Chapter24. Plants.- Chapter25. Invertebrates.- Chapter26. Birds.- Chapter27. Mammals.- Section10. Environment.- Chapter28. Ocean.- Chapter29. Atmosphere.- Chapter30. Sky.- Part5. More Coming.- Section11. Dynamics.- Chapter31. Populations.- Chapter32. Systems.- Chapter33. EcoSimulation.- Section12. The Future.- Chapter34. Research.- Chapter35. Resources.- Chapter36. The Future of Heard Island.

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Book SynopsisGeneral Introduction.- Physical Geography of Abbay Basin.- The Geology of Abbay Basin.- The Geomorphology of Abbay Basin.- Remote sensing for River Basin Management.- Human and Social Geography of Abbay Basin.- Industrial Development and Manufacturing.- Urban Geography of the Basin.- Agriculture.- Sustainable Tourism Development and Management in the Basin.- Soils of Abbay Basin.- Basin Hydrology.- Surface water  Hydrology.- Hydrology of Lake Tana Basin.- Groundwater Hydrology.- Forest Resources.- Monitoring and Mapping of Earthquake and Landslides.- Monitoring and Mapping of Flood Risk and Hazard.- Monitoring of Drought Events in the Abbay Basin.- Land Degradation.- Land-Use and Land-Cover Science and Change Analysis.- Contemporary Climate Change Issues in the Abbay Basin.- Features and Hydrology of  GERD.- National Development Implications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.- Hydropower Development Agenda.- Irrigation Development Agenda.- Water Resource Management and Development in the 21st century and beyond.- The Geopolitics and Legal Dimension of Ethiopia's Right to Utilize Abbay River.- Integrated Natural Resources Management: needs and efforts.- Integrated Basin Management (IBM).- Soil and Water Conservation and the Green Legacy.- Lessons learned from over 50 years of Watershed Management.- Crop area mapping and Yield Estimation.- Climatological and Hydrological analysis algorithms, tools and techniques.- Tools, Techniques and Algorithms of Retrieving Soil Moisture.- Tools, Techniques and Algorithms of Digital Soil Mapping.- Tools and Techniques of Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics.- Space and time specific fertilizer optimization techniques and tools.- Text mining and analytics to guide decisions in Abbay basin.- Future Research, Planning and Management Directions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Mahananda river: A geographical account.- Chapter 3: Human interference in the Mahananda river system.- Chapter 4: Hydromorphological quality of the Mahananda river system.- Chapter 5: Water quality of the Mahananda river system.- Chapter 6: Hydrobiological functions of the Mahananda system.- Chapter 7: Factors affecting the River Health condition.- Chapter 8: Conclusion and Suggestive measures.

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Book SynopsisSeit der ersten Auflage 2007 hat sich das von Hans Gebhardt, Rüdiger Glaser, Ulrich Radtke und Paul Reuber herausgegebene Lehrbuch Geographie zu einem viel zitierten Standardwerk der gesamten Geographie entwickelt, das Studierenden sowie Schülerinnen und Schülern die Möglichkeit bietet, die „Welt“ und ihre Zukunftsprobleme aus einer breiteren Perspektive verstehen zu lernen, als viele der rein natur- oder kulturwissenschaftlichen Nachbardisziplinen sie vermitteln.Das Buch liegt nunmehr in einer dritten, gründlich überarbeiteten Auflage vor und bietet das notwendige Grundwissen sowie einen Überblick über aktuelle Themen des faszinierenden Studien- und Schulfachs Geographie. Andreas Vött hat das Team der Herausgeber ergänzt, zahlreiche neue Autorinnen und Autoren stehen für neue Ansätze und Einsichten und machen die Vielfalt der Geographie auf mehr als 1000 Seiten erlebbar.Was ist neu?• Alle Kapitel sind gründlich überarbeitet und aktualisiert.• Zahlen und Abbildungen wurden auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.• Neue Kapitel zur Finanzgeographie, zu Geographien der Migration, Geographien der Mobilität sowie zu Geographien der Gesundheit sind hinzugekommen.• Neue und perspektivische Themenfelder der IT werden im Kapitel "Von der Geokommunikation und Geoinformatik zur Geographie 4.0" behandelt.• Das Kapitel zur Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Forschung bzw. zu den Global-Change-Diskursen wurde neu verfasst und um zahlreiche neue Perspektiven und Fragestellungen ergänzt, welche den aktuellen Diskussionsstand dieses wichtigen Themas der Geographie aufzeigen.• Sachverhalte werden anschaulich visualisiert und tragen damit zum Verständnis bei.• Beteiligt sind über 180 Autorinnen und Autoren aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum.Table of ContentsI Einführung in die Geographie.- 1 Globale Risiken und die Rolle der Geographie.- 2 Räume und Regionalisierungen als Forschungsgegenstände der Geographie.- 3 Geographische Wissenschaft.- II Methoden.- 4 Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Geographie.- 5 Kritischer Rationalismus und naturwissenschaftlich orientierte Verfahren.- 6 Hermeneutische und poststrukturalistische Verfahren.- 7 Von der Geokommunikation und Geoinformatik zur Geographie 4.0.- III Physische Geographie.- 8 Klimageographie.- 9 Geomorphologie.- 10 Bodengeographie.- 11 Biogeographie.- 12 Hydrogeographie.- 13 Landschafts- und Stadtökologie.- IV Humangeographie.- 14 Humangeographie im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft und Raum.- 15 Sozialgeographie.- 16 Politische Geographie.- 17 Geographie der Finanzen.- 18 Wirtschaftsgeographie.- 19 Geographien des Handels und des Konsums.- 20 Stadtgeographie.- 21 Geographien des ländlichen Raums.- 22 Geographische Entwicklungsforschung.- 23 Bevölkerungsgeographie.- 24 Geographien der Migration.- 25 Geographien der Mobilität.- 26 Geographien der Gesundheit.- 27 Geographie des Tourismus.- 28 Historische Geographie.- V Geographische Gesellschafts-Umwelt-Forschung.- 29 Konzepte der Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Forschung.- 30 Gefahren - Risiken – Katastrophen.- 31 Globaler Umwelthandel – globale Ressourcenknappheit.

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Book SynopsisDer erste Tagebuchband der amerikanischen Reise Alexander von Humboldts gibt Einblicke in die Überfahrt von Europa nach Amerika, den Aufenthalt auf Teneriffa und in das Leben und Arbeiten in Cumaná. In seinem Tagebuch beschreibt Humboldt, wie Klima und Vegetation die Kulturgeschichte des Menschen prägen, und bringt seinen Abscheu gegenüber der Sklaverei zum Ausdruck. Sein Interesse gilt ebenso der tropischen Pflanzen- und Tierwelt wie der Lebensweise der indigenen Bevölkerung. Im Herbst 1799 wird er zudem Zeuge einer Sonnenfinsternis, eines Erdbebens und eines beeindruckenden Meteorschauers. Besonders zu faszinieren vermag sein beständiges Ringen um eine Optimierung der Messmethoden. Sein Ziel ist die Kartierung eines noch weitgehend unerschlossenen Kontinents, und er weiß, dass die enormen Anstrengungen, die er und sein Forschungspartner Aimé Bonpland auf sich nehmen, nur dann gerechtfertigt wären, wenn die erhobenen Daten valide sind. – Der durchgängig kommentierte Text ist in neun Kapitel unterteilt, denen jeweils kleine Einführungen vorangestellt sind.Table of ContentsVorwort Cécile Wajsbrot.- Vorwort Ottmar Ette.- Einleitung.- „Ich habe es mir zur Pflicht gemacht, alle angestellten Beobachtungen ohne Auswahl in mein Tagebuch einzutragen“. Über die digitale Neuausgabe der amerikanischen Reisejournale, 1. Band (September 2018).- Linnés Normen, Willdenows Lehren und Bonplands Feldtagebuch. Die Pflanzenbeschreibungen in Alexander von Humboldts erstem Amerikanischen Reisetagebuch.- Der erste Tagebuchband der amerikanischen Reise Alexander von Humboldts/Voyage d’Espagne aux Canaries et à Cumaná. Observations astronomiques de Juin à Octobre 1799.- I. Die Seereise von Europa nach Amerika (5.6. bis 16.7. 1799).- II. Der erste Aufenthalt in Cumaná (16.7. bis 3.9.1799).- III. Spuren der Reise nach Caripe vom September 1799 im ersten Tagebuchband.- IV. Der zweite Aufenthalt in Cumaná (25.9. bis 18.11.1799).- V. Abhandlungen zur Landeskunde und Kulturgeschichte (1799).- VI. Messdatenreihen zur Meteorologie.- VII. Kleinere undatierte Texte (vor allem 1799).- VIII. Der dritte und letzte Aufenthalt in Cumaná (26.8. bis 16.11.1800).- Daten erheben.- Daten auswerten.- Zusätze aus der Zeit nach der Reise (Exzerpte). Register

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Book SynopsisThis textbook covers all important aspects of mountain glaciers, from their formation and their importance as water reservoirs to the threat posed by current global warming. Glaciers themselves can also pose a threat to humans and represent a natural hazard in populated mountain areas in the form of ice avalanches and glacial lake outbursts. In addition, however, they are also important landscape formers and have helped to shape large parts of the present-day relief of the Earth, which is one of the classic fields of work of geomorphology and geology.In the individual chapters, the current state of research is presented in a comprehensible manner and illustrated with concise examples, photos and graphics.The book offers a compact introduction for all students of geosciences, curious mountaineers and laymen interested in nature.Table of ContentsIntroduction and history of research.- Formation of glaciers.- Ice movement. Mass and energy balance of glaciers.- Glacier types and distribution.- Glaciers and climate.- Glaciers and water. and distribution.- Glaciers and climate.- Glaciers and water.- Glacier history.- Glacial hazards.- Glacial erosion.- Glacial accumulation. Accumulation.- Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.Table of ContentsSection 1: IntroductionChapter 1: Introduction: Essays in Honour of Rana P.B. SinghRavi S. Singh, Arun K. Singh, Bharat Dahiya and Padma C. PoudelChapter 2: Practising Cultural Geographies: The Academic Contribution of Rana P.B. SinghRavi S. Singh and Bharat DahiyaSection 2: LandscapesChapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape PerceptionPrem Chhetri and Anjali ChhetriChapter 4: Ayurveda in the Rural Landscape: Poomully Mana in Kerala, IndiaBharat DahiyaChapter 5: Char Landscapes of the Brahmaputra Riverine Tract, Assam: Elements of Evolutionand Cultural EcologyA.K. Bhagabati and N. DekaChapter 6: Satellite Based Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Landscape Dynamics and Land SurfaceTemperature Patterns in Hanoi, VietnamNguyen Vu Giang, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Pham Viet Hoa, Hoang Thi Hang, and Atiqur RahmanSection 3: ReligionChapter 7: The Priesthood of the temple of Viṭhobā in Pandharpur, MaharashtraErik Reenberg SandChapter 8: Geographical Spread of Hindu Religion and Culture into the WestMartin J. HaighChapter 9: Cultural heritage in the north-eastern borderland of India: A case study ofindigenous religious belief systemsRavi S. SinghSection 4: HeritageChapter 10: Kautilya’s Political Geography-Concepts and Ideas: An Example of Ancient IndianGeographical ThinkingSudeepto AdhikariChapter 11: The Two Faces of BodhgayaNikhil JoshiChapter 12: Instilling Local Knowledge Education: Promoting Vernacular Landscape Identity,Heritage and Sustainability of School Youth in Dongshan Town, Suzhou, ChinaJuncheng Dai, Ruihong Zhang, Shangyi Zhou, and Shunying TangChapter 13: Cultural Approaches to Animal Geographies: Cattle and Urban-Rural Intersectionsin Delhi, IndiaPratyusha BasuChapter 14: The Misings of Assam in the Midst of Tradition and Modernity: A ComparativeStudy Of Selected Rural And Urban AreasPahari Doley and Bimal Kumar KarSection 5: Pilgrimage and TourismChapter 15: Lumbini, Nepal: The Birth Place of Buddha and the Powerful Place of Pilgrimage inthe WorldPadma Chandra PoudelChapter 16: Pañcakroshi Yatra: SymbolicManifestation of the Spatial to the SpiritualVandana SehgalChapter 17: Cultural Tourism based Regional Development in Rajasthan, IndiaR.B. Singh and Ajay KumarChapter 18: Baul-Sufi interface and Cultural Tourism: A study in Northern Rarh of West Bengal,IndiaPremangshu Chakrabarty and Tushar MandalSection 6: SettlementsChapter 19: Cultural Images of Kolkata: A Contemporary PerspectiveL. N. SatpatiChapter 20: Urban Sanitation in Indian cities: Reflections from VaranasiArun K. SinghChapter 21: Perspective on Agricultural Land Use Trajectory in the Peri-Urban Interface of aDeveloping Economy. A Case StudyNasrin Banu and Shahab FazalChapter 22: Urban Renewal and Redevelopment of Public Space: An Approach towardsCommunity Resource Optimization in VaranasiSarbeswar PraharajSection 7: EpilogueChapter 23: Emerging PerspectivesBharat Dahiya and Ravi S. Singh​

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia covers the sedimentological aspects of sediments and sedimentary rocks. It features more than 250 entries by some 180 eminent contributors from all over the world, excellent indices, cross references, and extensive bibliographies. Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "…Like all other volumes in the "Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series," this is sure to be a classic, essential for earth science reference collections. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and higher."(M. L. Larsgaard, Choice, January 2004) "Primarily for advanced undergraduates, this Encyclopedia does provide comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the processes that form sedimentary rocks. It will prove invaluable to both students of geology and professionals"(Helen Ashton, Science and Technology, Vol. 18, no 2, 2004) "This massive tome is part of the series Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences … . Most articles also give copious bibliographic references to both general texts and research articles and there is an index of authors cited, which is very useful. The illustrations are … with some good diagrams and reasonable photographs. … Primarily for advanced undergraduates, this Encyclopedia does provide comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the processes that form sedimentary rocks. It will prove invaluable to both students of geology and professionals." (Reference Reviews, Vol. 18 (2), 2004)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Guide to the Reader. Algal and Bacterial Carbonate Sediments; R. Riding. Allophane and Imogolite; R.L. Parfitt. Alluvial Fan; A.M. Harvey. Anabranching Rivers; G.C. Nanson, M.R. Gibling. Ancient Karst; B. Jones. Angle of Repose; P.D. Komar. Anhydrite and Gypsum; L. Hardie. Ankerite; J.P. Hendry. Armor; R. Ferguson. Atterberg Limits; M.J. Bovis. Attrition (abrasion), Fluvial; M. Church. Attrition (Abrasion), Marine; H. Ibbeken. Authigenesis; J.R. Boles. Autosuspension; H. Pantin. Avalanch and Rock Fall; M.J. Bovis. Avulsion; N.D. Smith. Bacteria in Sediments; N. Noffke. Ball-and-Pillow Structure; G. Owen. Bar, Littoral; B. Greenwood. Barrier Islands; D.M. Fitzgerald, I.V. Buynevich. Bauxite; R. Frost. Beachrock; E. Gischler. Bedding and Internal Structures; F. Ricci-Lucchi, A. Amorosi. Bedset and Laminaset; J.S. Bridge. Bentonite and Tonstein; D.A. Spears. Berthierine; F.J. Longstaffe. Bioclasts; P. Enos. Bioerosion; M. Bertling. Biogenic Sedimentary Structures; G.S. Pemberton. Black Shales; J. Schieber. Braided Channels; P. Ashmore. Caliche (Calcrete); V.P. Wright. Calcite Compensation Depth; S. Wise. Carbonate Diagenesis and Microfabrics; R.G.C. Bathurst. Carbonate Mineraloty and Geochemistry; F.T. Mackenzie. Carbonate Mud Mounds; F.-A. Bourque. Cathodoluminescence; S. Burley. Cation Exchange; B. Singh. Cave Sediments; B. Jones. Cements and Cementation; P.A. Scholle. Chalk; I. Fabricius. Charcoal in Sediments; A.C. Schott. Chlorite in Sediments; S. Hillier. Classification of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks; G.M. Friedman. Clastic (Neptunian) Dykes and Sills; A. Demoulin. Clathrates; M. Kastner. Clay Minerals; S. Hillier. Climatic Control of Sedimentation; G.M. Mack. Coal Balls; A.C. Scott. Coal; P. McCabe. Coastal Sedimentary Facies; H.E. Clifton. Colloidal Properties of Sediments; S.Chattopadhyay, D. Chattopadhyay. Color of Sedimentary Rocks; P. Myrow. Compaction (Cosolidation); K. Bjørlykke. Convolute Stratification; G.V. Middleton. Core, Coring Methods; A.H. Bouma. Cross-Stratification; D. Rubin. Cyclic Sedimentation; R.K. Goldhammer. Debris Flow; J. Major. Dedolomitization; M. Coniglio. Deformation of Sediments; J. Collinson. Deformation Structures and Growth Faults; J. Collinson. Deltas and Estuaries; J. Bhattacharya. Depositional Fabric of Mudrocks; J. Schieber. Desert Sedimentary Environments; J.P. Smoot. Dessication Structures; G. Tanner. Diagenesis; K.L. Milliken. Diagenetic Structures; P. 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