Social impact of environmental issues Books

Book SynopsisFeaturing an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge. Envisaging a narrative of change that renders visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe, this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts, highlighting the potentiality of non-Western knowledge, concepts and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions. This book will be crucial reading for researchers and post-graduate students working in fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment, sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also be helpful for policy makers and research consultants in leveraging localised solutions to the current ecological crisis.Trade Review'Have we run out of time to think and live differently? In this timely, globally relevant text, Valtonen, Rantala and Farah invite us to travel with them on a journey of human-earth relationships in relation to ethics, politics and space. Contributors have collectively produced a critical and provocative text which touches. Beautifully and sensitively written, readers will be inspired to radically question the ways in which we have contributed to capitalism's destruction of our planet. What matters is radically rethinking our being with human and non-human others as a political and ethical intervention.' --Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia'Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene brings us stories that plumb the depths of both theory and grounded insights from the margins of Europe and the Indian sub-continent. With surprising and novel relations generated, this refreshing mix of voices counters growth-based, techno-oriented business as usual at our current climatic juncture and gives perspectives as well as hopes for an uncertain future of our making.' --Edward H. Huijbens, Wageningen University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: reimagining ways of talking about the Anthropocene 1 Anu Valtonen and Outi Rantala PART I REIMAGINATIONS 2 Imagining place and politics in the Anthropocene 17 Forrest Clingerman 3 Walking with rocks – with care 35 Outi Rantala, Anu Valtonen and Tarja Salmela 4 On scientific fabulation: storytelling in the more-than-human world 51 Emily Höckert PART II STORIES FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES 5 Rethinking knowledge, power, agency: learning from displaced and slum communities in Bangladesh 72 Afroja Khanam and Tiina Seppälä 6 Spaces of climate justice: towards an ethical politics of intervention in the Anthropocene 107 Paul Routledge 7 Between extractivism and sacredness: the struggle for environmental inheritances by the Adivasi communities of India 124 Arpita Bisht PART III LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 8 Beyond the Capitalocene: an ecocentric perspective for the energy transition 150 Giovanni Frigo 9 Temporality, technology and justice in Hannah Arendt: a critical approach 175 Jana Lozanoska 10 The Anthropocene and climate change in the post-Paris Agreement debate 197 Paolo Davide Farah and Marek Prityi 11 The role of imagination, marginalized communities, law and technology in building an ethical approach to the Anthropocene 210 Paolo Davide Farah Index

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Book SynopsisThis extraordinary book provides a critical review of the work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen in conventional economics, environmental economics and methodology. Particular attention is paid to the role of thermodynamics in Georgescu-Roegen's economics.Trade Review'Georgescu-Roegen was a truly great economist . . . This welcome exposition of his major ideas by Beard and Lozada should help economists understand Georgescu, both the revolutionary boldness and originality of many of his ideas and the careful logic with which he developed them. I believe Beard and Lozada have done an excellent job, both of selection and of exposition . . . My hope is that this book will do for Georgescu's ideas what Alvin Hansen did for the ideas of John Maynard Keynes with his A Guide to Keynes published back in 1953. In my view Georgescu's intellectual contribution will be even greater than that of Keynes.' -- From the foreword by Herman Daly, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Herman E. Daly 1. Introduction 2. Nicholas Georgesçu-Roegen: A Scholarly Refugee 3. Georgesçu-Roegen’s Epistemology and Economic Methodology 4. Georgesçu-Roegen and “Normal Science” 5. An Economist’s Primer on Thermodynamics 6. Thermodynamics and Georgesçu-Roegen’s Economics 7. Bioeconomics 8. Conclusion Bibliography References Index

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Book SynopsisThe assessment and management of risks to human health and the environment has become a topic of increasing importance and presents one of the major challenges to modern society. This comprehensive volume draws together key papers from a range of different perspectives and offers the reader an important insight into the basic principles of environmental risk management.Topics include the background to environmental risk, human health and ecological risk assessment, risk perception and communication, strategic issues in corporate environmental risk and environmental risk and siting hazardous facilities.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Simon Gerrard PART I BACKGROUND TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK 1. Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower (1985), ‘Risk Analysis and Risk Management: An Historical Perspective’ 2. Emmanuel Somers (1995), ‘Perspectives on Risk Management’ 3. W. Kip Viscusi (1993), ‘The Value of Risks to Life and Health’ 4. Roger E. Kasperson and Jeanne X. Kasperson (1996), ‘The Social Amplification and Attenuation of Risk’ 5. Thomas Dietz, Paul C. Stern and Robert W. Rycroft (1989), ‘Definitions of Conflict and the Legitimation of Resources: The Case of Environmental Risk’ 6. Cynthia G. Jardine and Steve E. Hrudey (1997), ‘Mixed Messages in Risk Communication’ 7. Barry A. Turner (1994), ‘The Future for Risk Research’ PART II HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT 8. John Solbé (1999), ‘Vipers, Humic Acids and Hurricances: Some Thoughts on Environmental Risk Assessment in Europe’ 9. Paolo F. Ricci and Mario C. Cirillo (1985), ‘Uncertainty in Health Risk Analysis’ 10. Michael Gough (1991), ‘Human Health Effects: What the Data Indicate’ 11. Keith R. Solomon (1996), ‘Overview of Recent Developments in Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment’ 12. Glenn W. Suter II, Barney W. Cornaby, Charles T. Hadden, Ruth N. Hull, Mark Stack and Fred A. Zafran (1995), ‘An Approach for Balancing Health and Ecological Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites’ 13. D.C. Kocher and F.O. Hoffman (1996), ‘Comment on "An Approach for Balancing Health and Ecological Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites"’ 14. Robert J. Kavlock and Gerald T. Ankley (1996), ‘A Perspective on the Risk Assessment Process for Endocrine-Disruptive Effects on Wildlife and Human Health’ 15. A. Dennis Lemly (1996), ‘Risk Assessment in the Regulatory Process for Wetlands’ 16. Joanna Burger (1994), ‘How Should Success be Measured in Ecological Risk Assessment? The Importance of Predictive Accuracy’ PART III RISK PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION 17. Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake (1990), ‘Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?’ 18. Cynthia J. Atman, Ann Bostrom, Baruch Fischhoff and M. Granger Morgan (1994), ‘Designing Risk Communications: Completing and Correcting Mental Models of Hazardous Processes, Part I’ 19. Ann Bostrom, Cynthia J. Atman, Baruch Fischhoff and M. Granger Morgan (1994), ‘Evaluating Risk Communications: Completing and Correcting Mental Models of Hazardous Processes, Part II’ 20. James Tansey and Tim O’Riordan (1999), ‘Cultural Theory and Risk: A Review’ 21. Richard P. Barke, Hank Jenkins-Smith and Paul Slovic (1997), ‘Risk Perceptions of Men and Women Scientists’ 22. Peter M. Sandman, Neil D. Weinstein and Paul Miller (1994), ‘High Risk or Low: How Location on a "Risk Ladder" Affects Perceived Risk’ 23. Ortwin Renn (1998), ‘The Role of Risk Communication and Public Dialogue for Improving Risk Management’ 24. Frank N. Laird (1989), ‘The Decline of Deference: The Political Context of Risk Communication’ 25. Tamara R. Lave and Lester B. Lave (1991), ‘Public Perception of the Risks of Floods: Implications for Communication’ 26. Roger E. Kasperson (1986), ‘Six Propositions on Public Participation and Their Relevance for Risk Communication’ 27. Baruch Fischhoff (1995), ‘Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged: Twenty Years of Process’ 28. Richard G. Peters, Vincent T. Covello and David B. McCallum (1997), ‘The Determinants of Trust and Credibility in Environmental Risk Communication: An Empirical Study’ 29. Josée C.M. Van Eijndhoven, Rob A.P.M. Weterings, Cor W. Worrell, Joop de Boer, Joop van der Pligt and Pieter-Jan M. Stallen (1994), ‘Risk Communication in The Netherlands: The Monitored Introduction of the EC "Post-Seveso" Directive’ PART IV STRATEGIC ISSUES IN CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK 30. M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell (1996), ‘Global Risk Management’ 31. A. Neale (1997), ‘Organisational Learning in Contested Environments: Lessons from Brent Spar’ 32. Susan L. Santos, Vincent T. Covello and David B. McCallum (1996), ‘Industry Response to SARA Title III: Pollution Prevention, Risk Reduction, and Risk Communication’ 33. Peter Mascini (1998), ‘Risky Information: Social Limits to Risk Management’ PART V ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND SITING HAZARDOUS FACILITIES 34. Michael K. Lindell and Timothy C. Earle (1983), ‘How Close Is Close Enough: Public Perceptions of the Risks of Industrial Facilities’ 35. Roger E. Kasperson, Dominic Golding and Seth Tuler (1992), ‘Social Distrust as a Factor in Siting Hazardous Facilities and Communicating Risks’ 36. Howard Kunreuther, Kevin Fitzgerald and Thomas D. Aarts (1993), ‘Siting Noxious Facilities: A Test of the Facility Siting Credo’ 37. Patrick Field, Howard Raiffa and Lawrence Susskind (1996), ‘Risk and Justice: Rethinking the Concept of Compensation’ PART VI ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT 38. Michael Thompson and Steve Rayner (1998), ‘Risk and Governance Part I: The Discourses of Climate Change’ 39. Michael Thompson, Steve Rayner and Steven Ney (1998), ‘Risk and Governance Part II: Policy in a Complex and Plurally Perceived World’ 40. David Lewis Feldman, Ruth Anne Hanahan and Ralph Perhac (1999), ‘Environmental Priority-Setting Through Comparative Risk Assessment’ 41. Paul Bennett (1999), ‘Governing Environmental Risk: Regulation, Insurance and Moral Economy’ 42. Richard J. Zeckhauser and W. Kip Viscusi (1996), ‘The Risk Management Dilemma’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisAs greater significance is placed on the relationship between people and their environment it is increasingly acknowledged that few environmental problems can be solved without considering the social context in which they arise. But what does it mean to incorporate the 'social' and what types of social sciences are needed? This incisive book critically reviews the theoretical perspectives that underlie social scientific contributions to natural resource management and argues for both a greater social science presence and for conceptual and methodological clarity within the social sciences themselves.The expert contributors explore how new concepts and approaches can contribute positively to natural resource management. They demonstrate how the social sciences can be used as a vehicle to highlight social concerns as well as to foster greater participation, co-operation, and integration among community members, natural resource managers and researchers. Through detailed case studies from Australasia and the Americas, the authors illustrate how different social science perspectives can be utilised. The range and variety of views provide a basis for the evaluation of various and often competing disciplinary paradigms within the social sciences. This book will undoubtedly contribute to a more sophisticated debate about the place of the 'social' in environmental research. It will prove to be of great worth to students and researchers of environmental and social issues, to those involved in environmental decision making and community planning, as well as environmental policymakers and natural resource managers.Trade Review'For those interested in land degradation, this book does provide some useful insights, as it is often as a result of poorly integrated land-management strategies that degradation can occur.' -- C. Sullivan, Land Degradation and DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The Role of the Social Sciences in Natural Resource Management Part II: Planning and Impact Assessment Part III: Sustaining Resources Part IV: Institutions and Regulation Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Impact Assessment (SIA) is the process of analysing and managing the intended and unintended consequences on the human environment of planned interventions (policies, programmes, plans, projects) so as to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in SIA.Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial development in the techniques useful to, and the thinking in, SIA. A distinguished group of contributors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the cutting-edge in SIA development.This Handbook outlines a new understanding and definition of SIA and, as such, will be an invaluable reference tool for both practitioners and scholars at different levels working in the fields of SIA and environmental studies (including both impact assessment and management).Trade Review'This book provides a valuable addition to the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature. While the volume addresses several good examples of "how to" case studies it also firmly addresses the importance of the need for firm conceptual and theoretical guidelines for SIA practice. . . the volume is an excellent contribution to the SIA literature and I highly recommend it to both practitioner and researcher alike.' -- Geoff Syme, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management'An innovative collection which takes social impact assessment to the frontiers of environmental and social policy and citizen awareness. Unusually, this collection includes both sophisticated quantitative tools and equally important chapters on participation, stakeholder involvement and environmental mediation. A most valuable source book.' -- Michael Redclift, King's College, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Social Impact Assessment Frank Vanclay PART I: CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT 2. Undertaking Longitudinal Research Nick Taylor, Colin Goodrich, Gerard Fitzgerald and Wayne McClintock 3. Using Local Knowledge James Baines, Wayne McClintock, Nick Taylor and Brigid Buckenham 4. Learning from Participatory Land Management Neil Powell and Janice Jiggins 5. Integrating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Roel Slootweg, Frank Vanclay and Marlies van Schooten 6. Conceptualizing Social Change Processes and Social Impacts Marlies van Schooten, Frank Vanclay and Roel Slootweg 7. Integrating Health and Social Impact Assessment Robert Rattle and Roy E. Kwiatkowski 8. An Ecological Model of Wellbeing Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor, Paula Tanemura Morelli, Jon Kei Matsuoka and Luciano Minerbi PART II: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR BEST PRACTICE 9. Theory Formation and Application in Social Impact Assessment Henk Becker 10. Computer-based Qualitative Data Methods Gerard Fitzgerald 11. Assessing Gender Impacts Bina Srinivasan and Lyla Mehta 12. Socioeconomic Modelling for Estimating Intergenerational Impacts Gijs Dekkers 13. Using Geographic Information Systems for Cultural Impact Assessment Luciano Minerbi, Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor and Jon Kei Matsuoka 14. Vulnerability and Capacity Measurement Mark Fenton, Sheridan Coakes and Nadine Marshall 15. Citizen Values Assessment Annelies Stolp 16. Involving the Public Richard Roberts 17. Handling Complex Societal Problems Dorien DeTombe 18. Environmental Mediation Helen Ross Index

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Book SynopsisThis important volume presents a selection of influential articles written by leading scholars whose research is seminal in the development of environmental sociology. The contributors take the discussions of the environmental social sciences into new domains, for example genetics and 'de-materialisation', as well as suggesting new conceptual approaches to familiar problems, such as those of globalisation, scientific uncertainty and environmental citizenship. This outstanding collection, which is a fully up to date companion to the title The Sociology of the Environment, published in 1995, represents a landmark in a field of academic research that is increasingly important for wider policy questions. The volume will be useful to all those interested in environmental issues.Trade Review'This is an invaluable collection: a sharply-focused archive of contemporary thinking on society and nature.' -- William M. Adams, Downing College, Cambridge University, UKTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Graham Woodgate and Michael R. Redclift PART I SOCIAL THEORY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1. Riley E. Dunlap and William R. Catton, Jr. (2002), ‘Which Function(s) of the Environment Do We Study? A Comparison of Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology’ 2. Frederick H. Buttel (2000), ‘Classical Theory and Contemporary Environmental Sociology: Some Reflections on the Antecedents and Prospects for Reflexive Modernization Theories in the Study of Environment and Society’ 3. Allan Schnaiberg, David N. Pellow and Adam Weinberg (2002), ‘The Treadmill of Production and the Environmental State’ 4. John Bellamy Foster (1999), ‘Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology’ 5. Peter Dickens (2001), ‘Linking the Social and Natural Sciences: Is Capital Modifying Human Biology in Its Own Image?’ 6. Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helga Weisz (1999), ‘Society as Hybrid Between Material and Symbolic Realms: Toward a Theoretical Framework of Society-Nature Interaction’ 7. Arturo Escobar (1996), ‘Constructing Nature: Elements for a Poststructural Political Ecology’ 8. Éric Darier (1999), ‘Foucault and the Environment: An Introduction’ 9. Alan Irwin (2001), ‘Society, Nature, Knowledge: Co-constructing the Social and the Natural’ PART II ECOLOGICAL MODERNISATION 10. Joseph Murphy (2000), ‘Ecological Modernisation’ 11. Joseph Huber (2000), ‘Towards Industrial Ecology: Sustainable Development as a Concept of Ecological Modernization’ 12. Andrew Blowers (1997), ‘Environmental Policy: Ecological Modernisation or the Risk Society?’ 13. Arthur P.J. Mol (2000), ‘The Environmental Movement in an Era of Ecological Modernisation’ PART III SOCIETY, NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE, AND THE FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY 14. Noel Castree and Bruce Braun (1998), ‘The Construction of Nature and the Nature of Construction: Analytical and Political Tools for Building Survivable Futures’ 15. David Demeritt (1998), ‘Science, Social Constructivism and Nature’ 16. Sheila Jasanoff and Brian Wynne (1998), ‘Science and Decisionmaking’ 17. Joseph Murphy and Maurie J. Cohen (2001), ‘Consumption, Environment and Public Policy’ PART IV GLOBALISATION, THE STATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE 18. Wolfgang Sachs (1999), ‘Globalization and Sustainability’ 19. Steven Yearley (1996), ‘Rethinking the Global’ 20. David John Frank, Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer (2000), ‘The Nation-State and the Natural Environment Over the Twentieth Century’ 21. Frederick H. Buttel (2000), ‘World Society, the Nation-State, and Environmental Protection: Comment on Frank, Hironaka, and Schofer’ 22. David John Frank, Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer (2000), ‘Environmentalism as a Global Institution: Reply to Buttel’ 23. Jon Barnett (2001), ‘Environmental Security for People’ 24. Michael Redclift (2001), ‘Environmental Security and the Recombinant Human: Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century’ 25. John S. Dryzek (1997), ‘Leave it to the People: Democratic Pragmatism’ 26. Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Tim Allmark, Peter Buckley, Bindi Clements and Graham Woodgate (2002), ‘The Environmental State and the Forest: Of Lookouts, Lumberjacks, Leopards, and Losers’ PART V AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT 27. Margaret FitzSimmons and David Goodman (1998), ‘Incorporating Nature: Environmental Narratives and the Reproduction of Food’ 28. Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne (1997), ‘Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food’ 29. Graham Woodgate, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Ramón Fernandez Durán, Gloria Guzmán and Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán (1999), ‘Alternative Food and Agriculture Networks: An Agroecological Perspective on Responses to Economic Globalisation and the “New” Agrarian Question’ 30. Terry Marsden (2003), ‘Conclusions: Rural Development as “Real” Ecological Modernisation?’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects. In East Africa and beyond, pastoral groups find themselves and their livelihoods under increasing threat when dealing with rapid environmental change. On the one hand, they contemplate major upheaval as a result of landscape and climate change on a scale never seen before. At the same time, these often-marginalised groups find themselves subsumed by the wider interests of national political economies prioritising new investment in land as well as encouraging tourism. This book investigates one such group - the nomadic pastoralists in East Pokot in north-west Kenya - and traces their social and ecological transformation over the past two hundred years to show how modern challenges are linked to the past history and also shape the perceptions of pastoral futures. In East Pokot the grass bush savannah upon which the pastoral lifestyle depends has strongly declined over a long period of time, with encroachment of acacia. Though traditionally cattle-rearing, its people have been forced to diversify into raising other browsing animals as well as cattle husbandry. The development efforts of the Kenyan government to use natural resources have also threatened their environment and their way of life. Bringing a long view to the history of human-environmental relations, the author reveals a more complex picture of change that, contrary to earlier assumptions, is not due exclusively to the pastoralists' pasture management, but also to the extinction of wildlife populations in the region, which were hunted heavily in colonial times. Attempts to move beyond Pokot territory, to the regions west of Lake Baringo and to the hard-fought Laikipia Plateau, have often been compromised by violent conflicts. While a younger generation looks to develop new sources of income through the job opportunities created by geothermal energy production, and diversify into other agricultural activities, this has also brought a dynamic social transformation: increasing production and sale of alcohol, decreasingly nomadic lifestyle, growing differences between the older and younger generations, and so on. Contributing to debates on future rural Africa, ecological history and environmental change, the book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and development scholars. Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).Trade ReviewA solid and insightful modern ethnography of the Pokot people. Captures well the shifts in pastoral practice. An excellent book of its kind. * Judging Panel - Amaury Talbot Prize *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. East Pokot: A Place and its People 3. Pokot Pastoral Livelihoods 4. The Paka Community 5. Environmental Changes in East Pokot 6. Socio-Ecological Transformations in the Agro-Pastoral Highlands 7. Ecological Change and Local Livelihoods: Scientific and Pokot Perspectives 8. Ecological Invasions and Socio-Ecological Transformation 9. Ecological Challenges and Social Transformations Appendix: List of Plant Names (Pokot-Scientific - Scientific-Pokot) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRichly detailed and timely study on conservation, development and sustainability in Tanzania. Provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management and governance of wildlife, forestry and coastal resources. Responding to the urgent need to examine the outcome of interventions in governing natural resources, this book analyses different types of sustainability partnerships - with donors, governments, business, NGOs and other actors, and, crucially, assesses which result in better livelihood and environmental outcomes. The contributors, from a range of disciplines, compare 'more complex' partnerships to relatively 'simpler', more traditional top-down and centralized management systems and to location where sustainability partnerships are not in place. Within-sector comparisons allow a fine-tuned analysis that is formed of historical, location and resource-specific issues, which can be used as input for resource-specific policy and partnership design. Experiences and lessons can be drawn from comparisons across the three different sectors, which can be applied to natural resource governance more broadly. This book is openly available in digital formats under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.Trade ReviewContested Sustainability responds to the urgent need in writings on conservation, sustainability, and development to attend more thoughtfully, systematically, and innovatively to how politics structures sustainability outcomes at multiple levels. This brilliant collection is required reading for students, scholars, and researchers globally. * Professor Arun Agrawal, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan *An insightful and highly accessible book that meticulously uncovers the complexity of partnerships touted as crucial for achieving sustainability. It challenges us all to interrogate sustainability networks and their environmental and socio-economic outcomes. -- Maano Ramutsindela * University of Cape Town *Impels all actors to read, reflect and interrogate the design of decentralization and devolution models and reassess their delivery strategy. -- Isilda Nhantumbo * Micaia Foundation *A substantial contribution to evidence and analysis of complex natural resource governance in the Global South. -- Fiona Nunan * University of Birmingham *A rich mixture of field research, presentations and discussions in meetings in Europe and Tanzania, this book is a treasure to be taken seriously. -- Chris Maina Peter * University of Dar es Salaam *This is an absolute gem of a book! The impressive and highly readable culmination of a six-year, interdisciplinary research project, it provides a fascinating insight into the dynamics, legitimacy, and environmental and livelihood impacts of complex sustainability partnerships across three sectors in Southwest Tanzania. The collaborative research approach presents in-depth case studies and sophisticated comparative analysis of rich quantitative and qualitative data that give a nuanced perspective on the question whether more stakeholder involvement is always better. A must-read for scholars interested in conservation, development, and livelihood improvements in the Global South. -- Janina Grabs * Esade Business School *An important contribution to the field ... as well as governance partnerships, the book provides valuable insights into the successes and failures of the management of wildlife, forests and coastal resources. -- J. Terrence McCabe * University of Colorado Boulder *Table of ContentsPART I: ISSUES, BACKGROUND, AND METHODS 1 New partnerships for sustainability Stefano Ponte, Christine Noe, and Dan Brockington 2 Conservation and development in Tanzania: Background, history, and recent developments Christine Noe, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Opportuna Kweka, Ruth Warimu John, Pilly Silvano, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Rasul Ahmed Minja, Mette Fog Olwig, Dan Brockington, and Stefano Ponte 3 Design and Methodology Stefano Ponte, Christine Noe, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Opportuna Kweka, Kelvin Joseph Kamde, Mette Fog Olwig, Dan Brockington, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Ruth Warimu John, Pilly Silvano, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, Robert Eliakim Katikiro, Rasul Ahmed Minja, and Caleb Gallemore PART II: SECTORAL ANALYSIS 4 Sustainability partnerships in the wildlife sector in southeast Tanzania Christine Noe, RuthWarimu John, and Dan Brockington 5 Sustainability partnerships in the forestry sector in southeast Tanzania Asubisye Mwamfupe, Mette Fog Olwig, Pilly Silvano, Dan Brockington, and Lasse Folke Henriksen 6 Sustainability partnerships in the coastal resources sector in southeast Tanzania Opportuna Kweka, RobertEliakim Katikiro, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, Rasul Ahmed Minja, and Stefano Ponte PART III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 7 The legitimacy of sustainability partnerships in southeast Tanzania Rasul Ahmed Minja, Stefano Ponte, Asubisye Mwamfupe, and Christine Noe 8 The governance complexity of sustainability partnerships in southeast Tanzania: Institutional and network components Lasse Folke Henriksen, Caleb Gallemore, Ruth Warimu John, Faraja Daniel Namkesa, and Pilly Silvano 9 The environmental impacts of sustainability partnerships in southeast Tanzania Caleb Gallemore, Kelvin Joseph Kamde, Lasse Henriksen, and Dan Brockington 10 The livelihood impacts of sustainability partnerships in southeast Tanzania Caleb Gallemore, Kelvin Joseph Kamde, Asubisye Mwamfupe, Lasse Folke Henriksen, and Dan Brockington 11 Contested sustainability Dan Brockington, Christine Noe, and Stefano Ponte

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Book SynopsisA timely and important examination of the environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that reveals why previous conservation efforts failed. The eastern part of the Mau Forest, the most important closed-canopy forest in East Africa, has come under severe threat since the 1990s. In this political ecology Lisa Fuchs exploring the failure of the government-led forest restoration and rehabilitation initiative to 'Save the Mau', launched in 2009, the author examines two of the most contentious issues in Kenya since colonial times: land and the environment. She sheds light on the structural factors and the role of individuals in the forest's destruction and of non-protection and traces the colonial legacy of post-independent environmental conservation policies and practices. In doing so, Fuchs demonstrates that the Mau crisis is more than an environmental crisis: it is also a political, an economic, and a socio-cultural crisis. Though a detailed empirical analysis, the author shows that the 'Mau crisis' led to the near collapse of landscapes and livelihoods in the Mau Forest ecosystem. She traces the implementation of insufficient conservation programmes, which resulted from historical path-dependency and the adoption of global environmental governance blueprints, forest allocation and benefits, and exposes a forest management system that prioritises commercial forest production over biodiversity conservation. Access and entitlements to the highly fertile forest land, and the amalgamation of forest rehabilitation with the reclamation of grabbed public forest are emphasised as a further core contributor to the crisis. The socio-cultural dynamics within and among various forest-dwelling communities, including the indigenous hunting and gathering Ogiek and 'in-migrant' groups, are also analysed. The book highlights that local types of environmentalism are caught between the 'invention of traditions' and 'perverse modernisation' and shows the contradictory effects of the celebrated, highly anticipated but poorly executed 'Save the Mau' initiative, and how the presence of political will to maintain the crisis conditioned its perseverance. Finally, the book proposes realistic alternatives to sustainable forest management in politicised environments, whose relevance and applicability are considerable in this age of anthropogenic 'environmental' crises and conflicts. Published in association with IFRA/AFRICAETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Politics of Conservation Aid: The Development State 'Saving the Mau' 2. Institutional Failure or Setting Priorities? The Continuation in Exploitation-focused Forest Management 3. The Political Economy of Land: Maintaining Control over Forest Land Allocation and Distribution 4. The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Response to Changes in the Eastern Mau: The Complex Definition of Legitimate Land and Resource Use 5. Conclusions

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

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Book SynopsisThis informed and lively book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable - or subsequently 'integrated' - transport policy 10 years after the publication of "A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone". Written by prominent transport experts and with a foreword by Christian Wolmar, the book identifies the modest successes and, sadly, the far more significant failures in government policy over the last decade. The authors also uncover why it has proved so difficult to adopt a more sustainable approach to transport and break Britain's love-affair with the car. The book reviews the links between the idea of sustainability and transport policy, and provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the political realities surrounding the delivery of a sustainable transport agenda in the UK. It picks up on the principal components of "A New Deal for Transport" and evaluates to what extent these have, or haven't, been delivered in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The contributors analyse why delivering sustainable transport policies seems to present particular difficulties to ministers across the UK, and considers the UK's experience in an international perspective. The book draws lessons from the last 10 years in order to better inform future policy development. "Traffic Jam" is an indispensable analysis of the difficulties involved in turning policy ideals into practical reality, and as such will be of interest to scholars, students, planners, policy analysts and policy makers.Trade Review"A pungent analysis that slices apart the last ten years' transport policy. The authors intend it to make waves and it will. Required reading for an incoming government." Jim Steer, Director, Steer Davies GleaveTable of ContentsPart One: Policy and politics: New deal or no new deal? A decade of 'sustainable' transport in the UK ~ Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty; Devolution and the UK's new transport policy landscape ~ Danny MacKinnon and Geoff Vigar; Part Two: Progress in policy implementation: Roads and traffic: from 'predict and provide' to 'making best use' ~ Graham Parkhurst and Geoff Dudley; Is Labour delivering a sustainable railway? ~ John Preston; Buses and light rail: stalled en route? ~ Richard D. Knowles and Pedro Abrantes; Walking and cycling: easy wins for a sustainable transport policy? ~ Rodney Tolley; UK air travel: taking off for growth? ~ Brian Graham; Economic versus environmental sustainability for ports and shipping: charting a new course? ~ David Pinder; Part Three: Ten years since A new deal for transport: signposts to the UK's transport future? Transport for London: success despite Westminster? ~ Peter White; Mind the gap! The UK's record in European perspective ~ Tom Rye; Traffic jam? Policy debates after 10 years of 'sustainable' transport ~ Phil Goodwin.

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Book SynopsisThis informed and lively book offers a timely analysis of the UK government's sustainable - or subsequently 'integrated' - transport policy 10 years after the publication of "A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone". Written by prominent transport experts and with a foreword by Christian Wolmar, the book identifies the modest successes and, sadly, the far more significant failures in government policy over the last decade. The authors also uncover why it has proved so difficult to adopt a more sustainable approach to transport and break Britain's love-affair with the car. The book reviews the links between the idea of sustainability and transport policy, and provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the political realities surrounding the delivery of a sustainable transport agenda in the UK. It picks up on the principal components of "A New Deal for Transport" and evaluates to what extent these have, or haven't, been delivered in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The contributors analyse why delivering sustainable transport policies seems to present particular difficulties to ministers across the UK, and considers the UK's experience in an international perspective. The book draws lessons from the last 10 years in order to better inform future policy development. "Traffic Jam" is an indispensable analysis of the difficulties involved in turning policy ideals into practical reality, and as such will be of interest to scholars, students, planners, policy analysts and policy makers.Trade Review"A pungent analysis that slices apart the last ten years' transport policy. The authors intend it to make waves and it will. Required reading for an incoming government." Jim Steer, Director, Steer Davies GleaveTable of ContentsPart One: Policy and politics: New deal or no new deal? A decade of 'sustainable' transport in the UK ~ Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty; Devolution and the UK's new transport policy landscape ~ Danny MacKinnon and Geoff Vigar; Part Two: Progress in policy implementation: Roads and traffic: from 'predict and provide' to 'making best use' ~ Graham Parkhurst and Geoff Dudley; Is Labour delivering a sustainable railway? ~ John Preston; Buses and light rail: stalled en route? ~ Richard D. Knowles and Pedro Abrantes; Walking and cycling: easy wins for a sustainable transport policy? ~ Rodney Tolley; UK air travel: taking off for growth? ~ Brian Graham; Economic versus environmental sustainability for ports and shipping: charting a new course? ~ David Pinder; Part Three: Ten years since A new deal for transport: signposts to the UK's transport future? Transport for London: success despite Westminster? ~ Peter White; Mind the gap! The UK's record in European perspective ~ Tom Rye; Traffic jam? Policy debates after 10 years of 'sustainable' transport ~ Phil Goodwin.

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Book SynopsisBringing together leading experts, this textbook explores the key social, political, economic and moral challenges that environmental problems pose for social policy in a global context. Combining theory and practice with an interdisciplinary approach, the book reviews the current strategies and policies and provides a critique of proposed future developments in the field. Understanding the environment and social policy guides the reader through the subject in an accessible way using chapter summaries, further reading, recommended webpages, a glossary and questions for discussion. Providing a much-needed overview, the book will be invaluable reading for students, teachers, activists, practitioners and policymakers.Trade Review"..this book is extremely helpful in providing a comprehensive introduction to environmental policy to first-year undergraduate and masters students, as well as future environmental policy makers." Maria Carvalho in Environment & Planning C"This book does exactly what it sets out to do. It offers us understanding of the environment and social policy, and it does it well." Citizen's Income Newsletter, Issue 1, 2012'This book does exactly what it sets out to do. It offers us understanding of the environment and social policy, and it does it well.' Citizen's Income Newsletter"The intersection of social policy and environmental policy is strategically and morally vital yet has remained a strangely neglected area. No longer. This comprehensive book covers real world challenges, sustainable ethics, a host of applied policy issues, and some bigger questions about the possibility of a green welfare state." Ian Gough, Emeritus Professor, University of Bath"Tony Fitzpatrick has assembled a very thoughtful collection of chapters which examine the various ways in which social and environmental concerns intersect with one another. At a very general level, sustainability offers a neat and tidy way to reconcile them. But as this book usefully reveals, in practice they interact in ways that are far from straight forward." Professor Andrew Jordan, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part One: Challenges: The environmental challenge; The challenge to society; The challenge to governance; The challenge to social policy ~ Tim Doyle; Part Two: Responses: Environmental ethics and philosophies; Mainstream environmental politics; Assessing social democratic and free market capitalisms ~ Lorraine Elliott; Radical environmental politics ~ Tony Fitzpatrick; Part Three: Policies: Poverties and inequalities ~ Elizabeth Stanton; Planning and the urban environment ~ Stephen M. Wheeler; Health and quality of life ~ Glenda Verrinda; Employment and income; Citizenship and social care ~ Sherilyn MacGregor; Transport and infrastructure ~ Michael Cahill; Administration and policy-making ~ Peter Christoff.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, 'China's responsibility for climate change' describes China's contribution to global warming and analyzes its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's practical and ethical responsibilities to climate change from a variety of perspectives. They explore policies that could mitigate China's environmental impact while promoting its own interests and meeting the international community's expectations. The book is accessible to a wide readership, including academics, policy makers and activists. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to Friends of the Earth.Trade Review"....an important addition to the field." Miranda Schreurs, Free University, BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Paul G. Harris; The Climate box: Evaluating ethical obligations in climate change strategies for China ~ Erich W. Schienke; Equal aspirations and the obligation to be different: A basis for a common future ~ Olivia Bina; Climate duties: Human rights and historic emmissions ~ Derek Bell; Differentiating historic responsibilities for climate change: Exploring the case of China ~ Christian Ellermann and Niklas Hohne; Short-lived greenhouse gases: A fair and effective climate compromise between China and the West ~ Frances C. Moore and Michael C. MacCracken; The non-co-operator-pays principle: A climate change mitigation strategy for China ~ Partick Schroeder; Affluence and consumption in modern China: Foundations for climate-related duties ~ Paul G. Harris.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, 'China's responsibility for climate change' describes China's contribution to global warming and analyzes its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's practical and ethical responsibilities to climate change from a variety of perspectives. They explore policies that could mitigate China's environmental impact while promoting its own interests and meeting the international community's expectations. The book is accessible to a wide readership, including academics, policy makers and activists. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to Friends of the Earth.Trade Review"....an important addition to the field." Miranda Schreurs, Free University, BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Paul G. Harris; The Climate box: Evaluating ethical obligations in climate change strategies for China ~ Erich W. Schienke; Equal aspirations and the obligation to be different: A basis for a common future ~ Olivia Bina; Climate duties: Human rights and historic emmissions ~ Derek Bell; Differentiating historic responsibilities for climate change: Exploring the case of China ~ Christian Ellermann and Niklas Hohne; Short-lived greenhouse gases: A fair and effective climate compromise between China and the West ~ Frances C. Moore and Michael C. MacCracken; The non-co-operator-pays principle: A climate change mitigation strategy for China ~ Partick Schroeder; Affluence and consumption in modern China: Foundations for climate-related duties ~ Paul G. Harris.

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Book SynopsisThe challenge presented by climate change is by its nature, global. The populations of the Mexican Caribbean, the focus of this book, are faced by everyday decisions not unlike those in the urban North. The difference is that for the people of the Mexican Caribbean, evidence of the effects of climate change, including hurricanes, is very familiar to them. This important study documents the choices and risks of people who are powerless to change the economic development model which is itself forcing climate change.The book examines the Mexican Caribbean coast and explores the wider issues of managing climate change in vulnerable areas of the tropics. It also points to the inability to integrate development thinking into climate change adaptation. The authors suggest that failures in local governance - the transparency of state actions, and the local populations lack of effective power - represents a greater threat to adaptation than the absence of technical capacity in vulnerable areas.Using local case studies of communities, fishing villages and tourist destinations, this well-researched book will appeal to international students and academics working on climate change and professionals in development, conservation and tourism industries.Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Dynamics of Coastal Urbanisation; 3. Nature and Space in the 'Discovery' of the Mexican Caribbean; 4. The Development of Mass Tourism in Mexico; 5. Human Security and Governance; 6. Governance as Process: the Evolution of 'Power Spheres' and Climate Change; 7. Lived Experiences on the Coast: Holbox and Mahahual; 8. ConclusionTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Dynamics of Coastal Urbanization 3. Nature and Space in the ‘Discovery’ of the Mexican Caribbean 4. The Development of Mass Tourism in Mexico 5. Human Security and Governance 6. Governance as Process: The Evolution of ‘Power Spheres’ and Climate Change 7. Lived Experiences on the Coast: Holbox and Mahahual 8. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Sociology of the Environment, Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate have brought together a diverse collection of writings from within the human sciences. These papers chart the progress which sociology has made in addressing the environment. Although they are not all written by sociologists, they do illuminate a number of largely unresolved issues for sociology, which mark important departures for the discipline and which necessitate a radical rethink of inherited assumptions.The readings are organized under a number of different themes, ranging from the theoretical foundations of the discipline to post-industrial Utopianism. Other areas covered include Marxism and the environment, neo-Malthusianism and environmental determination, biocentric theories, radical ecology, scientific enquiry and the environment, international perspection, and social movement and the environment. The editors conclude that sociology still has much to do in rising to the challenge of interpreting environmental change, indicating that this must be done by forging relationships with other disciplines, in which the contribution that sociology can make is underlined rather than lost.Table of Contents97 articles, dating from 1949 to 1993 Contents: Foundations, Marxism and the Environment, Neo-Malthusianism and Environmental Determination, Biocentric Theories: Deep Ecology, Gaia Ecofeminism, Radical Ecology, Scientific Enquiry and the Environment, International Perspection, Social Movement and the Environment and Post-Industrial Utopianism

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Book SynopsisCurrent population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological consequences by blending the insights of analytical economics and behavioural ecology.The book begins by looking at population from a long term perspective and considers the ecological influences before going on to examine the economics of population growth. Reproduction decisions of the family are then analysed, and the welfare effect of these decisions on society as a whole are considered. Anup Shah pays particular attention to policies which could try to prevent or cure overpopulation. He asks whether there is a case for intervening in order to prevent overpopulation, and suggests that one way of reducing the effects of population growth is through technological advances which can help compensate for the adverse external effects. Finally, he examines the future of urban centres in the light of population growth.The book is written from a multidisciplinary approach and will have a wide readership throughout the social sciences. It will have particular appeal for economists, geographers, earth scientists, ecologists, environmentalists and those working in the area of development studies.Trade Review'Shah makes clear the need for a discourse on population between biologists and economists. . .'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Ecological Analysis 2. The Ecological Foundations of Fertility 3. Moving Down the Eltonian Pyramid Part II: Economic Analysis 4. Malthusian Economics Versus the Demographic Transition 5. The Demographic Transition to Smaller Families 6. The Third World Couple Part III: Normative Analysis 7. Overpopulation 8. Self-regulation of Family Size in a Community 9. Indirect Intervention 10. Direct Intervention Part IV: Wherein lies the Future? 11. An Urban Future 12. Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisThis two volume collection of pioneering material includes landmarks and significant contributions to the subjects of global environmental issues. The editors have prepared a new introduction for this authoritative collection.This collection enables the reader, whether an economist or environmentalist, to have access to material published in a wide range of journals, many of which are relatively unavailable. It will be of considerable value to researchers and teachers in all of the disciplines, including: theoretical ecology; resource and environmental economics; industrial ecology and environmental science.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Ecological/Biological Perspective: Human Impacts on Biosphere, Gaia, Etc. 1. W.I. Vernadsky (1945), ‘The Biosphere and Noosphere’ 2. G.E. Hutchinson (1948), ‘On Living in the Biosphere’ 3. Walter Isard (1968), ‘Some Notes on the Linkage of Ecologic and Economic Systems’ 4. Lester Machta (1972), ‘The Role of the Oceans and Biosphere in the Carbon Dioxide Cycle’ 5. James E. Lovelock and Lynn Margulis (1974), ‘Atmospheric Homeostasis by and for the Biosphere: The Gaia Hypothesis’ 6. M.J. Chadwick (1975), ‘The Cycling of Materials in Disturbed Environments’ 7. J.M. Wood and E.D. Goldberg (1977), ‘Impact of Metals on the Biosphere’ 8. Rudolph B. Husar and Janet M. Holloway (1983), ‘Sulfur and Nitrogen over North America’ 9. William C. Clark (1989), ‘The Human Ecology of Global Change’ 10. Paul P. Christensen (1989), ‘Historical Roots for Ecological Economics – Biophysical versus Allocative Approaches’ 11. Anne P. Kinzig and Robert H. Socolow (1994), ‘Human Impacts on the Nitrogen Cycle’ 12. Robert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton and Marjan van den Belt (1997), ‘The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital’ Part II: Physical Economics Perspective: Materials Energy, Entropy, Mass Balance 13. William D. Nordhaus (1973), ‘The Allocation of Energy Resources’ 14. Clark W. Bullard III and Robert A. Herendeen (1975), ‘Energy Impact of Consumption Decisions’ 15. Bruce Hannon (1975), ‘Energy Conservation and the Consumer’ 16. R.U. Ayres and M. Narkus-Kramer (1976), ‘An Assessment of Methodologies for Estimating National Energy Efficiency’ 17. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1976), ‘Process Analysis and the Neoclassical Theory of Production’ and ‘The Economics of Production’ 18. R. Stephen Berry, Peter Salamon and Geoffrey Heal (1978), ‘On a Relation Between Economic and Thermodynamic Optima’ 19. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1979), ‘Energy Analysis and Economic Valuation’ 20. Cutler J. Cleveland, Robert Costanza, Charles A.S. Hall and Robert Kaufmann (1984), ‘Energy and the US Economy: A Biophysical Perspective’ 21. Robert U. Ayres (1989), ‘Industrial Metabolism’ 22. R.U. Ayres and A.V. Kneese (1989), ‘Externalities: Economics & Thermodynamics’ 23. Evan Mills, Deborah Wilson and Thomas B. Johansson (1991), ‘Getting Started: No-Regrets Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions’ 24. Herman E. Daly (1992), ‘Is the Entropy Law Relevant to the Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity? – Yes, of course it is!’ 25. C. Bianciardi, A. Donati and S. Ulgiati (1993), ‘On the Relationship between the Economic Process, the Carnot Cycle and the Entropy Law’ 26. A. Azapagic and R. Clift (1995), ‘Life Cycle Assessment and Linear Programming – Environmental Optimisation of Product System’ 27. Sander de Bruyn, Jeroen van den Bergh and Hans Opschoor (1997), ‘Structural Change, Growth, and Dematerialization: An Empirical Analysis’ Name Index Volume II: Part I: Resource/Environmental Perspective: Materials Energy, Exergy, Entropy, Mass Balance 1. John H. Cumberland (1966), ‘A Regional Interindustry Model for Analysis of Development Objectives’ 2. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), ‘The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth’ 3. Herman E. Daly (1968), ‘On Economics as a Life Science’ 4. Robert U. Ayres and Allen V. Kneese (1969), ‘Production, Consumption, and Externalities’ 5. Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen V. Kneese (1972), ‘Environmental Quality and International Trade’ 6. Thomas D. Crocker and John Tschirhart (1972), ‘Ecosystems, Externalities, and Economies’ 7. Kenneth C. Hoffman and Dale W. Jorgenson (1977), ‘Economic and Technological Models for Evaluation of Energy Policy’ 8. Richard Grace, R. Kerry Turner and Ingo Walter (1978), ‘Secondary Materials and International Trade’ 9. David James (1985), ‘Environmental Economics, Industrial Process Models, and Regional-Residuals Management Models’ 10. Curt L. Anderson (1987), ‘The Production Process: Inputs and Wastes’ 11. Martin Jänicke, Harald Mönch and Manfred Binder (1993), ‘Ecological Aspects of Structural Change’ 12. Udo E. Simonis (1989), ‘Ecological Modernization of Industrial Society: Three Strategic Elements’ 13. A. Rose and C.Y. Chen (1991), ‘Sources of Change in Energy Use in the U.S. Economy, 1972-1982: A Structural Decomposition Analysis’ 14. David T. Allen and Nasrin Behmanesh (1994), ‘Wastes as Raw Materials’ 15. Don Fullerton and Thomas C. Kinnaman (1995), ‘Garbage, Recycling, and Illicit Burning or Dumping’ 16. S.M. de Bruyn and J.B. Opschoor (1997), ‘Developments in the Throughput-Income Relationship: Theoretical and Empirical Observations’ Part II: Sustainability and Growth Perspective Limits, Factors. . . 17. P.S. Dasgupta (1969), ‘On the Concept of Optimum Population’ 18. Ralph C. d’Arge (1971), ‘Essay on Economic Growth and Environmental Quality’ 19. R.C. d’Arge and K.C. Kogiku (1973), ‘Economic Growth and the Environment’ 20. Herman E. Daly (1974), ‘The Economics of the Steady State’ 21. Partha Dasgupta and Geoffrey Heal (1974), ‘The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources’ 22. Edward A. Hudson and Dale W. Jorgenson (1974), ‘U.S. Energy Policy and Economic Growth, 1975-2000’ 23. Robert M. Solow (1974), ‘The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics’ 24. John M. Hartwick (1977), ‘Intergenerational Equity and the Investing of Rents from Exhaustible Resources’ 25. J.E. Stiglitz (1979), ‘A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources’ 26. Bruce Hannon and John Joyce (1981), ‘Energy and Technical Progress’ 27. Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Göran Mäler (1991), ‘The Environment and Emerging Development Issues’ 28. L.S. Gross and E.C.H. Veendorp (1990), ‘Growth with Exhaustible Resources and a Materials-Balance Production Function’ 29. Paul M. Romer (1990), ‘Endogenous Technological Change’ 30. Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Peter Nijkamp (1994), ‘Dynamic Macro Modelling and Materials Balance: Economic-Environmental Integration for Sustainable Development’ 31. David Pearce, Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson (1996), ‘Measuring Sustainable Development: Progress on Indicators’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisFor almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences of the approximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch down across the United States annually. During this time, Simmons and Sutter have been compiling information from sources such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Census in order to examine the casualties caused by tornadoes and to evaluate the National Weather Service's efforts to reduce these casualties. In "Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes", Simmons and Sutter present their findings. This analysis will be extremely useful to anyone studying meteorology and imperative for anyone working in emergency disaster management.

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Book SynopsisLife today is rife with rapid-fire “high alert” responses, a proliferating trend that is especially pronounced in the United States (though most certainly felt elsewhere as well), where past catastrophes shape expanding perceptions of imminent danger. September 11, 2001 looms as an inescapable spectral presence, defining an important baseline for the ramping up of biosecurity measures. However, the contributors to this volume argue against biosecurity as the new status quo by focusing instead on the ugly underbelly. Through considering the vulnerability of individuals and groups and particularly looking at how vulnerability propagates in the shadow of biosecurity, BioInsecurity and Vulnerability challenges the acceptance of surveillance measures or security interventions as necessities of life in the new millennium.

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Book SynopsisChristian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists. Knoeller starts out with Audubon, and cites Thoreau’s journals in the 1850s as he assesses an early 17th century account of New England’s natural resources by William Wood, showing the epic decline in game and bird populations in Concord. This reading of environmental history is replicated throughout with a gallery of novelists, poets, essayists, and other commentators as they explore ecological memory and environmental destruction. In apt discussions of Matthiessen, Lopez, Wendell Berry, William Stafford and many others, Knoeller offers vibrant insights into literary history. He also cites his own memoir of perpetual development on his family’s farm in Indiana, enriching the scholarship and making an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination. Reading across centuries and genres, Knoeller gives us a vibrant new appraisal of Midwestern/North American interior literary traditions and makes clear how vital environmental writing is to this region. To date, no one has written such an eloquent and comprehensive cross-genre analysis of Midwestern environmental literature.Trade ReviewReimagining Environmental History provides a chronological and cross genre analysis of the environmental history of the Midwest. Knoeller provides a fresh and compelling perspective on many landscapes of the Midwest that include the Ohio River Valley, the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and lands of the Great Lakes, to stretches of tallgrass prairie and the High Plains of North America. The book is well-supported through careful reading of primary texts and parsing of secondary literature."" - Susan Naramore Maher, author of Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains""Knoeller’s book is an important addition to ongoing scholarship on environmental history in literature, eco criticism, and the intersection of landscape and imaginative vision in literature. It is extremely well written in a voice that will reach scholarly communities and the general public pursuing insights and solutions to dealing with climate change. The research is meticulously careful and thorough. The approach is a close reading of texts leading to new insights on literary history, an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination, and an exquisitely clear memoir on the author’s experiences which enrich the scholarship."" - Ronald Primeau, author of Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the media frame environmental and scientific disputes faced by American Indian communities. Most people will never know what it is like to live on an Indian reservation in North America, or what it means to identify as an American Indian. However, when conflicts embroil Indigenous folk, as shown by the protests over a crude oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017, camera crews and reporters descend on “the rez” to cover the event. The focus of the book is how stories frame clashes in Indian Country surrounding environmental and scientific disputes, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline construction, and the discovery of an ancient skeleton in Washington. The narratives told over social media and news programs often fail to capture the issues of key importance to Native Americans, such as sovereignty: the right to self- governance. The book offers insight into how the history of Indian-settler relations sets the stage for modern clashes, and examines American Indian knowledge systems, and how they take a back seat to mainstream approaches to science in discourse.Table of Contents1. Introduction.2. Buckshot for Brains: Cultivation of the American Indian Mind.3. Hunting for Trophies and the Underbelly of Race.4. The Underpinnings of Discourse.5. We Came to Fight a Black Snake.6. How resistance crystallized to resilience in the Kennewick Man controversy.7. Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisSouth Florida continues to attract new residents despite its susceptibility to sea-level rise. This book explores the views of real estate agent with respect to how prospective homebuyers assess the risk of flooding. It reports on their observations as to whether house prices are stagnant or falling in coastal areas vulnerable to flooding, and their conclusions after working with prospective homebuyers as to whether coastal south Florida is a good place to find a home or, alternatively, a risky investment in a place that will eventually be submerged by rising seas. The book reports on a 2020 survey of real estate agents and concludes that it is not clear that the housing market has integrated flood risk either into reduced demand for housing or in reduced prices for houses susceptible to flooding. These conclusions have important implications for understanding how the risks of climate change and sea-level rise are reflected in the housing market both now and in the near-term future. Table of ContentsDedication.- Acknowledgements.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Development of Vulnerable Real Estate in South Florida.- Chapter 3. House Price Trends in Coastal US Cities.- Chapter 4. Effective Communication about Climate Change and Sea-level Rise.- Chapter 5. The Role of the Real Estate Agent.- Chapter 6. Methodology: Survey of South Florida Realtors.- Chapter 7. Information about Sea-level Rise and Its Effects on Home Search Behavior.- Chapter 8. The Housing Market in Coastal South Florida from the Perspective of the Real Estate Agent.- Chapter 9. Four Communities: Vulnerable by Design.- Chapter 10. Implications of Housing Market Responses to Sea-level.- Appendix.

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Book SynopsisThe book Current Trends in Global Environment offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary environmental issues, presenting clear and concise information that is accessible to readers from all disciplines. The author strives to present the material in a manner that is both understandable and relevant to both beginners and experts in the field. This book is an excellent reference source for its up-to-date content, providing users with the information they need in a timely and efficient manner. Unlike many other books on the subject, which can be dense and difficult to read, this book is written in a clear and concise style, making it easier to understand. The book covers a range of important topics, including The Greenhouse Effect, natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, continental drift, sustainable environments, and space ecology. The glossary is especially useful for those new to the subject or those unfamiliar with certain aspects of the topic. The index has been designed to be as comprehensive as possible, including words and short phrases as they naturally appear in related topics.

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Book SynopsisThe present publication provides an extensive summary of the most current analytical techniques for evaluating crucial indicators of soil health, such as physical, chemical, and biological parameters. Unlike many existing soil analysis manuals that mainly concentrate on basic chemical and physical properties, this book highlights the significance of soil health assessment. Literary sources suggest that indicator parameters, including soil carbon pools, soil aggregation behavior, aggregate-associated carbon content, and biological activity, are increasingly being employed to monitor shifts in soil quality and soil health over time. The analytical protocols for these parameters can be located in several research journals. This book is a necessary reference for researchers, postgraduate students, academics, and policymakers operating in the disciplines of Soil Science, Agronomy, Natural Resource Management, and Forestry.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an in-depth exploration of the potential plants that can contribute to human survival. It delves into the medicinal properties of plants and the ongoing research to discover new drugs, molecules, and leads. It also covers ethnic and traditional applications, as well as the nutraceutical values of plants. The book provides a comprehensive baseline of information on plants and their potential impact on human health. It is based on twenty-five research articles and focuses primarily on plant species such as Boswellia serrata, Butea monosperma, Colebrookea oppositifolia, Cymbopogon khasianus, Dendrophthe falcata, Dysoxylum binectariferum, Echinacea purpurea, Grewia asiatica, Picrorrhiza kurroa, Saussurea costus, Withania somnifera, Zanthoxylum armatum, as well as different species of Aconitum and Panax, Ashtavarga groups (Habenaria intermedia, Habenaria edgeworthii, Malaxis acuminata, Malaxis muscifera, Lilium polyphyllum, Polygonatum verticillatum, Polygonatum cirrhifolium, and Roscoea procera), and hundreds of other plants used by ethnic tribes in the Himalayan region for food, shelter, and medicine. The books research studies and clinical trials can help in the development of medicine formulations and products. The introduction section emphasizes specific research avenues for drug development programs. The books collections of views represent a diverse range of scientific perspectives, reflecting the thousands of ideas that enabled thoughtful deliberations from various scientific fields.

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Book SynopsisSoil Science is a vital and foundational discipline in agriculture that encompasses various aspects of soil research, such as soil formation, genesis, and classification, soil physics, chemistry, fertility, and plant nutrition, and soil biology, among others. Accurate analysis and description of soils are crucial for their characterization and understanding. While the physical properties of soils dictate their suitability for cultivation, chemical properties provide information about their chemical environment and nutrient status, which are essential for crop production on this densely populated planet. The first step towards effective soil management and scientific recommendations for increasing crop yields is to determine various soil physical and chemical properties in the field or laboratory using appropriate analytical methods.

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Book SynopsisThe present book Current Trends in Global Environment" deals with each and every important and recent issue of environment with clear-cut facts in a lucid manner of presentation, which are likely to be come across by its readers, irrespective of their discipline. An attempt has been made to present the matter in a perceptible and comprehensible manner which would be equally important to a beginner and specialist. Worthy for a reference for its up-to-date content that satisfy its user in a minimum of time. By far majority of books are from the mainstream with heavy a textual load. It has s on present day burning topics like The Greenhouse Effect, Natural Disasters i.e., Tsunami, Earthquake, Continental Drift, Sustainable Environment, Space Ecology, The Glossary will be useful for an individual new to the subject and anyone inexperienced in dealing with some aspects of the subjects. The index has been designed with upper most principle that it should be as complete as possible, of words and short phrases as they naturally appear in related species. We hope that his Global publication by a global famed personality will fit the subject gap for the readers and above all institutional libraries.Table of Contents01: Environment and Human 02: Natural Resources: Present Status and Future Needs 03: Natural Resources: Conservation and Management 04: Wildlife: Conservation and Management 05: Air Pollution 06: The Greenhouse Effect 07: El Nino and La Nina 08: Effects of Ozone Layer 09: Water Pollution 10: Soil Pollution 11: Noise Pollution 12: Pesticides Pollution 13: Natural Disasters and their Management 14: Tsunami 15: Continental Drift 16: Population and Urbanization 17: Space Ecology 18: Sustainable Environment.

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Book SynopsisThe well being of the humans including animals depend upon very much on how the soil productivity is maintained without ecosystems degradation. Most likely soil can efficiently sustain humanity with food, fibre, feed to animals and clean environmental maintenance only when it is considered and managed from the holistic and ecosystem points of view. Plants need at least 16 essential elements for their normal growth and to complete their life. The soil testing provides the status of the nutrients determined in the laboratory for the application of appropriate rate of fertilizers to eliminate the nutrients limiting for production. The soil testing along with plant analysis gives the true status of plant nutrients affected by soil properties to take the proper care for the plant growth. Our available water resources are diminishing and getting polluted with excess use of fertilizers and pesticides which are ultimately affecting the environment, food produced and water quality. The purpose of this book 'Soil Testing and Analysis' is i to provide the vital plant nutrients functions for which soil testing is to be made; ii to determine the nutrient status of the soil with appropriate methods, measurements and criteria for interpreting those assessments; iii to analyze the appropriate parts of the plant samples for nutrient elements with available methods of analysis; iv to analyze the important water quality parameters with interpretations; and v to prepare the soil, plant and water samples for the analysis of pesticide residues with the different available methods. This is a comprehensive presentation of useful information for the scientific and technical personals involved in such types of analysis.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sampling of Soil for Nutrient Tests 3. Soil Analysis 4. Plant Analysis 5. Water Analysis 6. Pesticide Residue Analysis in / on Plants, Water and Soils 7. Rapid Soil Testing Kit 8. Establishing a Soil Testing Laboratory 9. Instruments in a Soil Testing Laboratory 10. Conversion Factors 11. Basic Analytical Calculations or Test Exercise 12. Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe climate crisis is the most pressing issue of our times, one that is threatening progress on gender equality and human rights and hindering the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this backdrop of rising global temperatures and unfulfilled national pledges, women, girls and gender-diverse people are mobilizing to demand that their voices be heard in decision-making on climate policy. To answer their demands, this paper describes how to achieve feminist climate justice through four interlinked dimensions (recognition, redistribution, representation and reparation) and the principles of interdependence and intersectionality. It provides practical guidance on what countries need to do to transition to low-emission economies that are resilient to a changing climate, while advancing gender equality and recognising the leadership of women, girls and gender-diverse people in driving the change that is so urgently needed. In doing so, it zooms in on the global food system as just one illustration of how this framework can be applied, as well as provides analysis of the major barriers to accountability for gender-responsive climate action and how they can be overcome. The vision for feminist climate justice is of a world in which everyone can enjoy the full range of human rights, free from discrimination, and flourish on a planet that is healthy and sustainable. With this conceptual framework, UN-Women aims to open up space for discussion of feminist alternatives to the status quo and to inform the next edition of its flagship report, Progress of the World's Women, on gender equality in the age of climate crisis

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Book SynopsisThis edition examines the current and emerging cross-cutting role of the ocean in advancing economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. It builds on the discussions and outcomes of the Fourth United Nations Oceans Forum on trade-related aspects of SDG 14, life below water, which took place in Geneva from 6 to 8 April 2022. The Review examines and provides an analysis of several key and emerging topics for the ocean economy, including the seaweed sector as a lever for a sustainable economic recovery; fisheries subsidies and non-tariff measures (NTMs); the decarbonization of shipping and maritime supply chains; and plastic litter and other ocean waste challenges. It explores these issues, identifies the main opportunities and challenges and concludes by offering a bottom-up menu of action-oriented policy recommendations for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and coastal developing countries. It calls for a 'Blue Deal' on trade and finance to accelerate the implementation of SDG 14 and identify practical yet far-reaching development paths towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive ocean economy by 2030 and beyond

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Book SynopsisThe guidance aims to assist Parties in more effectively mitigating the effects of possible industrial accidents and the consequences on human health, the environment and cultural heritage within countries and across borders. The general guidance (Part A) does this by sharing examples and pointing to good practices of countries' efforts in the UNECE region to integrate industrial safety considerations into environmental assessment and land-use planning processes. It also highlights the important interlinkages, synergies and complementarities between these and other instruments, including the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention), aiming to assist competent authorities and practitioners in applying the provisions. This is supplemented by the technical guidance (Part B), which focuses on the risk aspects.

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Book SynopsisSoil Science is an important and basic science in agriculture which deals with different domains of soil research namely, soil formation, genesis and classification, soil physics, soil chemistry, soil fertility and plant nutrition, soil biology, etc. Characterization as well as our understanding of soils requires that they are precisely analysed and described. While the physical properties of soils determine their adaptability to cultivation, chemical properties tells about their chemical environment and nutrient status to the crop production - the most important use of soils on this densely populated planet. Determination of different soil physical and chemical properties in the field or in the laboratory following suitable analytical methods is first step towards appropriate soil managements and scientific recommendations for increasing crop production.Table of Contents01. Collection and Processing of Soil Samples 02. Soil Texture and Textural Class 03. Density and Porosity of Soil 04. Soil Aggregate Analysis 05. Soil Moisture 06. Flow of Water in Soil 07. Soil Consistency 08. Basics of Quantitative Chemical Analysis 09. Instrument and its Principle of Functioning 10. Soil Reaction 11. Electrical Conductivity and Water Soluble Salt 12. Soil Organic Matter 13. Ion Exchange Capacity and Exchangeable Bases 14. Nitrogen in Soil 15. Phosphorus in Soil 16. Potassium in Soil 17. Sulphur in Soil 18. Micronutrients in Soil 19. Some Soil Polluting Heavy Metals

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Book SynopsisThe Psychology of Sustainability: Understanding the Relationship between Self and Earth is a dynamic anthology that, through a uniquely psychological lens, provides students with insight into the connection between humans and their environment.With each chapter, the author presents students with insight into the applicability of psychological concepts for holistically resolving sustainability problems. Articles that explore the psychological underpinnings of why we behave towards each other and Earth are included in each chapter, and the author's original material allows students to contextualize those readings and inspires their critical thinking.Over the course of 11 chapters, students read about the relationship between human dignity and perceived responsibility to act sustainably, the interconnected nature of human ecology, and the effect of parenting, attachment, social value orientation on an individual's sustainability inclination, and more.The second edition features a brand-new chapter titled "Participatory Action Research: Improving Human Dignity through Research for Sustainability." Additionally, Chapter 6 has been enhanced and now includes topical information on Fertile Crescent Phenomenon Theory.The Psychology of Sustainability is an ideal text for courses in sustainability studies, sustainability science, environmental science, built environment, and psychology.

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Book SynopsisImmigration is when individuals leave their country of residency to permanently settle in a different country. According to the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in 2017 a cumulative of 258 million persons were residents in a country that differed from their own. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the increase in prohibited immigration impelled the United States (US) to propose a number of immigration laws. In 2012, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which allowed undocumented immigrants to work legally without being deported as long as they maintain a useful and lawful status. Approximately 800,000 immigrants attained DACA standing, permitting them to legally work and go to school in the US.Furthermore, the immigration law of 1965 prompted an excessive entrance of multicultural immigrants to the United States which brought about a great representation of children who live with immigrant families. These children faced several environmental structures which were affected by changes and multiplicity in their family situations. Immigrant children attempted to understand a different culture, values, and emerging issues in relation to their assimilation paths.The purpose of this volume is to offer a complete representation of the way immigrant children and families respond and develop in the US and Europe. It will extend current knowledge and reinforce contemporary frameworks that associate the cultural differences between immigrant families and teachers. In the classroom environment teachers have the opportunity to effectively assume both nurturing and instructional roles to aid young children to cultivate their social and cognitive abilities. The teachers' personal characteristics, formal education, specialized training, and cultural knowledge may affect their effectiveness in the classroom environment. Most of the studies show that both family and teachers have the most significant effects on the children's development and learning. Immigration researchers and scholars were invited to review, critically analyze, discuss, and submit a manuscript for the volume titled, Contemporary Perspectives on Research on Immigration in Early Childhood Education.The concept of immigration has heavily influenced modern views in early childhood education. Researchers, scholars, and educators need to understand the current sources based on theoretical frameworks that contribute to the purposes of immigration in the United States and Europe. The contents of the volume reflect the major shifts in the views of early childhood researchers, scholars, and educators in relation to the research on immigration, its historical roots, the role of immigration in early childhood education, and its relationship to theory, research, and practice.

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Book SynopsisImmigration is when individuals leave their country of residency to permanently settle in a different country. According to the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in 2017 a cumulative of 258 million persons were residents in a country that differed from their own. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the increase in prohibited immigration impelled the United States (US) to propose a number of immigration laws. In 2012, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which allowed undocumented immigrants to work legally without being deported as long as they maintain a useful and lawful status. Approximately 800,000 immigrants attained DACA standing, permitting them to legally work and go to school in the US.Furthermore, the immigration law of 1965 prompted an excessive entrance of multicultural immigrants to the United States which brought about a great representation of children who live with immigrant families. These children faced several environmental structures which were affected by changes and multiplicity in their family situations. Immigrant children attempted to understand a different culture, values, and emerging issues in relation to their assimilation paths.The purpose of this volume is to offer a complete representation of the way immigrant children and families respond and develop in the US and Europe. It will extend current knowledge and reinforce contemporary frameworks that associate the cultural differences between immigrant families and teachers. In the classroom environment teachers have the opportunity to effectively assume both nurturing and instructional roles to aid young children to cultivate their social and cognitive abilities. The teachers' personal characteristics, formal education, specialized training, and cultural knowledge may affect their effectiveness in the classroom environment. Most of the studies show that both family and teachers have the most significant effects on the children's development and learning. Immigration researchers and scholars were invited to review, critically analyze, discuss, and submit a manuscript for the volume titled, Contemporary Perspectives on Research on Immigration in Early Childhood Education.The concept of immigration has heavily influenced modern views in early childhood education. Researchers, scholars, and educators need to understand the current sources based on theoretical frameworks that contribute to the purposes of immigration in the United States and Europe. The contents of the volume reflect the major shifts in the views of early childhood researchers, scholars, and educators in relation to the research on immigration, its historical roots, the role of immigration in early childhood education, and its relationship to theory, research, and practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the tourism-climate system and provides a sound basis for those interested in tourism management and climate change mitigation, adaptation and policy. In the first three chapters, the book provides a general overview of the relationships between tourism and climate change and illustrates the complexity in four case studies that are relevant to the wide audience of tourism stakeholders. In the following seven chapters detailed discussion of the tourism and climate systems, greenhouse gas accounting for tourism, mitigation, climate risk management and comprehensive tourism-climate policies are provided. This book compiles and critically analyses the latest knowledge in this field of research and seeks to make it accessible to tourism practitioners and other stakeholders involved in tourism or climate change.Trade ReviewThis book by Becken and Hay represents the most comprehensive synthesis of tourism and climate change issues thus far. Becken and Hay have made a significant contribution to the literature that will stimulate policy discourse and empirical research on the tourism-climate system. Highly recommended. * Y.-F. Leung, North Carolina State University, Choice, February 2008 *I fully expect this book to become required reading for tourism and ecotourism courses in universities around the world. As an up-to-date summary of a rapidly expanding area of tourism research it deserves a wide readership and, unusually for an academic book, will be genuinely useful to practitioners and planners. -- Richard Ladle, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, in Environmental Conservation, Volume 35/1, 2008This is the most comprehensive book on climate change and tourism that I’m aware of. It is a substantial and useful contribution to the literature. It is packed with valuable information. * Geoffrey Wall, University of Waterloo, Canada in Tourism Recreation Research 33(3), 2008 *This is a very valuable volume, and one which researchers in all areas of tourism studies could well keep close to hand as a routine reference. * Ralf Buckley, Griffith University, Australia in Tourism Recreation Research 33(3), 2008 *This book is a welcome addition given the dearth of climate change studies in the tourism literature. The authors have managed to pull together a vast amount of information in such a way that the reader is inspired to contribute to solutions, whether that is by learning, researching, or planning for the future. Most importantly, they provide for a way forward. * Caroline Winter, La Trobe University in Annals of Tourism 35 (2008) *The book is an authoritative and comprehensive overview of a rapidly evolving area of tourism research. The fresh thinking on the complexities of climate change and tourism interactions makes the book essential reading for scholars and decision-makers throughout the tourism community that are seriously interested in the sustainability of tourism in the 21st century. * Dr. Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada *Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Tourism-Climate System 3 Case-studies of the Tourism-Climate System 4 An Overview of Tourism 5 Global and Regional Climate Change 6 Methodologies for Greenhouse Gas Accounting 7 Climate Change Mitigation Measures 8 Climate Change-related Risks and Adaptation 9 Climate Change Policies and Practices for Tourism 10 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a standardized set of protocols for measuring soil properties, to facilitatte corss-site synthesis and evaluation of ecosystem processess. The book should be of interest to a rather broad range of ecologists, agronomists, and soil scientists. It is the second volume in the Long-term Ecological Research Network series.Trade Review"Sure an old farmer can taste the dirt and tell whether to plant cotton or corn, but scientists working on studies that may stretch over decades and will probably include other people need some uniformity in how they take measurements and record the results. So in 1996 a group of scientists began developing a set of common protocols that could be used to characterize the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil and soil organisms from disparate sites ranging from tundra permafrost to desert aridosols, and with the land use ranging from annual cropping systems to old-growth forest. Their report also includes protocols for soil sampling, preparation, archiving, and quality control and for characterizing sites and landscapes for ecological studies."--SciTech Book News "Sure an old farmer can taste the dirt and tell whether to plant cotton or corn, but scientists working on studies that may stretch over decades and will probably include other people need some uniformity in how they take measurements and record the results. So in 1996 a group of scientists began developing a set of common protocols that could be used to characterize the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil and soil organisms from disparate sites ranging from tundra permafrost to desert aridosols, and with the land use ranging from annual cropping systems to old-growth forest. Their report also includes protocols for soil sampling, preparation, archiving, and quality control and for characterizing sites and landscapes for ecological studies."--SciTech Book NewsTable of Contents1. Soil Sampling, Preparation, Archiving, and Quality Control ; 2. Site and Landscape Characterization for Ecological Studies ; I. SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ; 3. Soil Water and Temperature Status ; 4. Soil Structural and Other Physical Properties ; II. SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES ; 5. Soil Carbon and Nitrogen: Pools and Fractions ; 6. Exchangeable Ions, pH, and Cation Exchange Capacity ; 7. Soil Phosphorus: Characterization and Total Elemental Analysis ; 8. Analysis of Detritus and Organic Horizons for Mineral and Organic Constituents ; 9. Collection of Soil Solution ; III. SOIL BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES ; 10. Soil CO[2, N[2O, and CH[4 Exchange ; 11. Measuing Decomposition, Nutrient Turnover, and Stores in Plant Litter ; 12. Dinitrogen Fixation ; 13. Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Availability: Nitrogen Mineralization, Nitrification, and Soil Respiration Potentials ; 14. Denitrification ; IV. SOIL ORGANISMS ; 15. The Determination of Microbial Biomass ; 16. Characterizing Soil Microbial Communities ; 17. Soil Invertebrates ; 18. Methods for Ecological Studies of Mycorrhizae ; 19. Measurement of Static Root Parameters: Biomass, Length, and Distribution in the Soil Profile ; 20. Fine Root Production and Demography

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