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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 The Routledge Companion to the Environmental
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues.Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities Inequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory <Table of ContentsIntroduction: Planet, Species, Justice—and the Stories We Tell about Them Ursula K. Heise Part 1: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth 1. The Anthropocene: Love It or Leave It Dale Jamieson 2. Domestication, Domesticated Landscapes, and Tropical Natures Susanna B. Hecht 3. "They Carry Life in Their Hair": Domestication and the African Diaspora Judith A. Carney 4. Domestication in a Post-Industrial World Libby Robin 5. Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments Yuki Masami 6. Hybrid Aversion: Wolves, Dogs, and the Humans Who Love to Keep Them Apart Emma Marris 7. Techno-Conservation in the Anthropocene: What Does It Mean to Save a Species? Ronald Sandler 8. Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World Bronislaw Szerszynski 9. Utopia's Afterlife in the Anthropocene Anahid Nersessian Part 2: Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities 10. Renaissance Selfhood and Shakespeare's Comedy of the Commons Robert N. Watson 11. Multispecies Epidemiology and the Viral Subject Genese Marie Sodikoff 12. Encountering a More-than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren 13. Loving the Native: Invasive Species and the Cultural Politics of Flourishing Jessica R. Cattelino 14. Artifacts and Habitats Dolly Jørgensen 15. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean-Oriented Ontology Una Chaudhuri 16. The Anthropocene at Sea: Temporality, Paradox, Compression Stacy Alaimo Part 3: Inequality and Environmental Justice 17. Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and Environmental Justice Jennifer Wenzel 18. Action-Research and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam Barbara Rose Johnston 19. Farming as Speculative Activity: The Ecological Basis of Farmers' Suicides in India Akhil Gupta 20. Ecological Security for Whom? The Politics of Flood Alleviation and Urban Environmental Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard 21. Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene Kyle Powys Whyte 22. Collected Things with Names like Mother Corn: Native North American Speculative Fiction and Film Joni Adamson 23. The Stone Guests: Buen Vivir and Popular Environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia Jorge Marcone Part 4: Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory 24. Play It Again, Sam: Decline and Finishing in Environmental Narratives Richard White 25. Hubris and Humility in Environmental Thought Michelle Niemann 26. Losing Primeval Forests: Degradation Narratives in South Asia Kathleen D. Morrison 27. Multidirectional Eco-Memory in an Era of Extinction: Colonial Whaling and Indigenous Dispossession in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance Rosanne Kennedy 28. The Caribbean's Agonizing Seashores: Tourism Resorts, Art, and the Future of the Region's Coastlines Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 29. Bear Down: Resilience and Multispecies Ethology Brett Buchanan Part 5: Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies 30. Contemporary Environmental Art James Nisbet 31. Slow Food, Low Tech: Environmental Narratives of Agribusiness and Its Alternatives Allison Carruth 32. Mattress Story: On Thing Power, Waste Management Rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro’s Trash Art Maite Zubiaurre 33. Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies Alexa Weik von Mossner 34. Climate, Design, and the Status of the Human: Obstacles and Opportunities for Architectural Scholarship in the Environmental Humanities Daniel A. Barber 35. Climate Visualizations: Making Data Experiential Heather Houser 36. Digital ? Environmental : Humanities Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus 37. From The Xenotext Christian Bök Part 6: The State of the Environmental Humanities 38. The Body and Environmental History in the Anthropocene Linda Nash 39. Material Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text Heather I. Sullivan 40. Fossil Freedoms: The Politics of Emancipation and the End of Oil Hannes Bergthaller 41. Scaling the Planetary Humanities: Environmental Globalization and the Arctic Sverker Sörlin 42. Some "F" Words for the Environmental Humanities: Feralities, Feminisms, Futurities Catriona Sandilands 43. Biocities: Urban Ecology and the Cultural Imagination Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise 44. Environmental Humanities: Notes Towards a Summary for Policymakers Greg Garrard 45. The Humanities after the Anthropocene Stephanie LeMenager
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Taylor & Francis NatureBased Solutions for Urban Renewal in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North
Book SynopsisIn the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the blurred boundaries between nature and the human. Canadian artists such as Lawren Harris and Geronimo Inutiq are considered alongside artists from Scandinavia and Iceland such as J.C. Dahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Toril Johannessen, and BjÃrk. Table of ContentsList of Color Plates List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: ClimateChange and Nature in Art GRY HEDIN & ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUDPART IInteraction between Art and Science 1 Anthropocene Beginnings: Entanglements of Art and Science in Danish Art and Archaeology 1780– 1840 GRY HEDIN2 A Montage of Notes from Svalbard: Mediating the Arctic throughArtistic Research EVA LA COURPART IIChanging Narratives of the Anthropocene and the North 3 Northern Landscape and the Anthropocene: A Long View MARK A. CHEETHAM4 "We All Have to Live By What We Know": Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arctic Environmental Change NORMAN VORANOPART IIIMedia and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human 5 Conversations between Body, Tree and Camera in the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila KATARINA WADSTEIN MACLEOD6 Toril Johannessen’s In Search of Iceland Spar: Truth and Illusion in the Anthropocene SYNNØVE MARIE VIK7 From within the Porous Body: Modes of Engagement in Björk’s Biophilia Album ANN-SOFIE N. GREMAUDBibliography 156Index 169
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Accountability: Environmental
Book SynopsisThe growth of pollution that crosses national borders represents a significant threat to human health and ecological sustainability. Various international agreements exist between countries to reduce risks to their populations, however there is often a mismatch between national territories of state responsibility and transboundary hazards. All too often, state priorities do not correspond to the priorities of the people affected by pollution, who often have little recourse against major polluters, particularly transnational corporations operating across national boundaries. Drawing on case studies, The New Accountability provides a fresh understanding of democratic accountability for transboundary and global harm and argues that environmental responsibility should be established in open public discussions about harm and risk. Most critically it makes the case that, regardless of nationality, affected parties should be able to demand that polluters and harm producers be held accountable for their actions and if necessary provide reparations.Table of ContentsPreface * Introduction * Transnational Accountability for Environmental Harm: A Framework * Advocates for Environmental Accountability: Activist Groups, Networks and Movements * Citizenship Beyond National Borders? Affected Publics and International Environmental Regimes * The World Trade Regime and Environmental Accountability * Transnational Liability for Environmental Damage * The Environmental Accountability of Transnational Corporations * Conclusions * References * Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn
Book SynopsisThe traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, key legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change. Also covered are international agreements and objectives as diverse as the Kyoto Protocol, the Millennium Development Goals and international trade. The result is the most controversial and thorough examination to date of the subject and the enormous ramifications and challenges it poses to every aspect of international and domestic environmental, human rights, trade and public health law and policy.Trade Review'Laura Westra's book is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on environmental jurisprudence and the link to social justice' Elizabeth May, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada 'If outrage against social injustice galvanizes your life, Laura Westra's magisterial Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations is the single book you must read and use this year' Robert Goodland, former Chief Environmental Adviser to the World Bank Group 'Westra brings another important interdisciplinary perspective on this topic.' Journal of Human RightsTable of ContentsForeword * Part I: The Rights of the First Generation * The Child's Rights to Health and the Environment, and the Role of the World Health Organization * The Status of the Preborn in Civil Law Instruments * The Status of the Child and the Preborn in Common Law Instruments and Cases * Supranational Governance: The European Court of Human Rights, and the WTO-WHO Conflict * Part II: Ecojustice and Future Generations' Rights * The Impact of Consumerism and Social Policy on the Health of the Child * Future Generations' Rights: Linking Intergenerational and Intragenerational Rights in Ecojustice * Ecojustice and Consideration for the Future: The Persistence of Ecofootprint Disasters * Ecojustice and Industrial Operations: Irreconcilable Conflict or Possible Coexistence? * Developmental and Health Rights of Children in Developing Countries: Towards a Model Legislation for the Rights of the Child to Health * Appendices, Bibliography, List of cases, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a
Book SynopsisA bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army ordered it by the box. Now fully revised and updated, Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World is even more relevant, fresh, and motivating than when it first appeared in 1999. In a style that's refreshingly candid and vivid, with unforgettable personal anecdotes, AtKisson provides us with a bridge over the sea of despair, and shows us how to catch the wave to an enticing, sustainable future. He empowers the reader to join the pioneers who created the ideas, techniques and practices of sustainable living - the people who prove Cassandra's warnings wrong, by believing in them, and taking strategic action.Trade Review'Exceptionally readable and erudite ... I see Believing Cassandra as more than a book. I see it as a neurotransmitter that signals to humanity what to do and what not to do....As rigorous as this book is with respect to science and facts, I see it as a blessing, not a warning, a benediction rather than an omen, because the information we need to make the transition from a culture of unimpeded growth to one of humane development is the same information that describes our demise, if it is ignored.' – From the Foreword by Paul Hawken'AtKisson's lively book seeks to encourage its readers to similarly believe in and act to achieve a sustainable future.' – Bryan Walker, hot-topic.co.nzTable of ContentsForeword by Paul Hawken. Preface to the Second Edition. A Note on Usage. Prologue. Part I CASSANDRA'S DILEMMA 1. When Worlds Collapse 2. A Brief History of Cassandra's Dilemma 3. In the Gallery of Global Trends 4. It's the System 5. Cassandra's Laughter, Cassandra's Tears 6. Armageddon, Utopia, or Both? Part II REINVENTING THE WORLD 7. The Future in a Word 8. The Proof of the Possible 9. The Innovation Diffusion Game 10. Accelerate to Survive Coda. Notes. Sources. Index
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Cambridge University Press The Majangir Ecology and Society of a Southwest Ethiopian People 5 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Urban Ecology and Health in the Third World 32 Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series Series Number 32
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Sustainable Development
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Cambridge University Press Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012
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Cambridge University Press Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012
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Cambridge University Press Rising Waters
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change
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Cambridge University Press Biotechnology
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Cambridge University Press The West Indies Patterns of Development Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 8 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Historical Geography Mod Australia The Restive Fringe 11 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia 93
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Cambridge University Press Urban Ecology and Health in the Third World 32 Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series Series Number 32
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Cambridge University Press The Nuclear Peninsula
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of Settlement Growth
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Cambridge University Press Seasonality and Human Ecology 35 Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press Planetary Overload
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Cambridge University Press Planetary Overload
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Cambridge University Press Nature and Society in Historical Context
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Cambridge University Press Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
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Cambridge University Press Nature and Society in Historical Context
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Cambridge University Press Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador 71 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 71
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Cambridge University Press Human Impact on the Earth
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Cambridge University Press Sediments of Time
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Cambridge University Press Misreading the African Landscape
Book SynopsisAfrican forest landscapes are often considered as degraded. However, this fascinating 1996 study reveals how inhabitants have enriched their land when scientists believe they have damaged it. It provides a framework for ecological anthropology, and a challenge to old assumptions about the African landscape.Trade Review'This is a bold and important book, an analytical tour de force. It mounts a forceful attack against the received wisdom on deforestation and the spread of the desert.' Wendy James and Richard P. Werbner Amaury Talbot Prize 1997'Misreading the African Landscape is a powerful and ambitious book which offers a compelling new paradigm of research method and management philosophy.' Journal of African History'Misreading the African Landscape is a powerful and ambitious book which offers a compelling new paradigm of research method and management philosophy … No doubt Fairhead and Leach seek to inspire an audience of social scientists and policy specialists - they doubtlessly will do so. Yet, more than anyone, I hope historians will be the ones responding to this superb example of environmental research.''James Fairhead and Melissa Leach provide a splendid example of the new genre in a thoroughly researched and well-presented case study of the 'islands' of Kissidougou.'Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science; 2. Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change; 3. Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history; 4. Ecology and society in a Kuranko village; 5. Ecology and society in a Kissi village; 6. Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions; 7. Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography; 8. Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy; 9. Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss; 10. Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history.
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Cambridge University Press In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia 0093 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 93
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Cambridge University Press Returning to Nothing
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Cambridge University Press Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy
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Cambridge University Press Nature and Power
Book SynopsisNature and Power explores the interaction between humanity and the natural environment from prehistoric times to the present. It explores human attempts to control nature as well as the efforts of societies and states to regulate people's use of nature and natural resources.Trade Review"Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power offers the best overview of world environmental history available in the English language. Radkau has an independent cast of mind and an uncanny ability to focus on the 'hot' topics in the global environmental field. His perspective is always fresh and insightful, even when he is taking the reader down well-trodden paths." - Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz"Americans may have invented the field of environmental history, but today some of the most ambitious work is coming from outside the country, offering provocative new approaches and perspectives. Joachim Radkau joins that international band of innovative historians with this extraordinary work of global synthesis. It is bold, opinionated, and important." - Donald Worster, University of Kansas"...an indispensable addition to library collections on environmental history. Essential." -Choice"A review like this cannot do justice to the richness of Radkau’s account of world environmental history. And it is perhaps the richness, the diversity, and the complexity of this account that will be this book’s most important legacy to world environmental history." - David Christian"Radkau has crafted a book of extraordinary scope by building on regional environmental histories as well as earlier world histories...Thomas Dunlap translated Nature and Power for this English edition, and his translation is virtually flawless, providing exquisite prose that never reveals that the ideas originated in a different language." World History Bulletin, Kim Little, University of Central ArkansasTable of Contents1. Thinking about environmental history; 2. The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge - primeval symbioses between humans and nature; 3. Water, forests, and power; 4. Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history; 5. At the limits of nature; 6. In the labyrinth of globalization; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Perspectives on Global Change
Book SynopsisDescribes the structure, assumptions, philosophy and innovative results of an advanced global integrated assessment model, TARGETS. Of interest to a broad audience, from researchers and modellers of global change in science and social science, to policy analysts, decision makers and economists, and students of all aspects of global change.Trade Review'The book will be of interest to a wide audience ranging from policy makers to students of all aspect of global change.' I. Colbeck, Water, Air and Soil PollutionTable of Contents1. Global change and sustainable development Rotmans, van Asselt, de Vries; 2. Concepts Rotmans, van Asselt, de Vries; 3. The TARGETS model Rotmans et al.; 4. The population and health submodel Niessen and Hilderink; 5. The energy submodel: TIME de Vries and Janssen; 6. The water submodel: AQUA Hoekstra; 7. The land and food submodel: TERRA Strengers, den Elzen and Köster; 8. The biogeochemical submodel: CYCLES den Elzen et al.; 9. Indicators for sustainable development Rotmans; 10. Uncertainties in perspective van Asselt and Rotmans; 11. Towards an integrated assessment of global change Rotmans et al.; 12. Population and health in perspective Hilderink and van Asselt; 13. Energy systems in transition de Vries, Beusen and Janssen; 14. Water in crisis Hoekstra et al.; 15. Food for the future Strengers et al.; 16. Human disturbance of the global biogeochemical cycles den Elzen; 17. The larger picture: Utopian futures de Vries; 18. Uncertainty and risk: Dystopian futures de Vries; 19. Global change: fresh insights, no simple answers de Vries et al.; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Sustainable Development
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Cambridge University Press Games Against Nature
Book SynopsisRobert Harms explores nature and culture in the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the Zaire River. Increasing population impinged upon the limits of available resources in the late eighteenth century, eventually resulting in civil war in the 1960s.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The antecedents; 3. The tactics; 4; The strategies; 5. The Drylands; 6. The river; 7. The core; 8. The region; 9. The traders; 10. The troubles; 11. The opportunities; 12. The battle; 13. Conclusion: nature and culture.
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Protection Law and Policy
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change Biological and Human Aspects
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights and Climate Change
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Cambridge University Press The Amazon from an International Law Perspective
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Cambridge University Press HunterGatherers An Interdisciplinary Perspective 13 Biosocial Society Symposium Series Series Number 13
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