The environment Books

Book SynopsisCongo is one of the most complex countries in the world, yet it is the most overlooked. It is one of the wealthiest in Africa as a result of its natural endowments, but its people are some of the poorest in the world. Congolese culture is informed by the brutality of war. Over 5 million Congolese died at the beginning of the 21st century because of our demand for the minerals that power our cellphones and laptops. Billions of dollars are being siphoned out of the country while billions in humanitarian aid and peacekeeping are coming in to clean up the mess. Although the country has paid a price for over five centuries, progress has and continues to be made. Wanting to learn more about this incredible land and history, Ryan Gosling and activist John Prendergast went to the Congo to learn first-hand how the prosperity of America and Europe has defined Congolese history for the last five centuries in a multitude of ways. CONGO STORIES introduces readers to the incredible men, w

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Book SynopsisThis book contains an analysis of regulatory reforms in Turkish energy markets (electricity, natural gas, renewable and nuclear energy), the impact of these reforms on country’s energy portfolio and role in global energy trade, especially between the EU, the Caspian, Caucasus, and Central Asia.

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Book SynopsisThe south-east Queensland region is currently experiencing the most rapid urbanisation in Australia. This growth puts pressure on the diverse natural environment of Moreton Bay. This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Moreton Bay, increasing understanding of existing and emerging pressures on the region and how these may be mitigated and managed.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Physical Environment – Geology, Geomorphology and Sedimentology Chapter 3 The History of Human Use of the Moreton Bay Region Chapter 4 Benthic Habitats in Moreton Bay Chapter 5 Fish and Invertebrate Diversity in the Moreton Bay Region Chapter 6 Species of Conservation Significance in Moreton Bay: The Charismatic Inhabitants Chapter 7 The Fisheries of Moreton Bay and the Fisheries Biology and Ecology of Key Species Chapter 8 Nutrients, Sediments, Pollutants and Their Impacts Chapter 9 Where to Now? Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the current knowledge on the status of the unique frogs of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. This book contributes to an understanding of the current conservation status of the amphibians of each region, aims to stimulate research into halting amphibian declines, and provides a better foundation for making conservation decisions.

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Book SynopsisA solid introduction to stable isotopes that can also be used as an instructive review for more experienced researchers and professionals. A novel, step-by-step spreadsheet modeling approach is also presented for circulating tracers in any ecological system, including any favorite system an ecologist might dream up while sitting at a computer.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:"The purpose of the book . . .is to equip researchers with the essential tools of isotope research … . creates the basis for a graduate and post-graduate course in stable isotope ecology. … Fry’s understanding of the world of stable isotope ecology is impressive and extensive … . Fry does an excellent job of conveying to the reader the proper use of isotopes as they circulate within the biosphere, as well as introducing the exciting world of isotope ecology." (Zachary T. Aanderud, Ecology - The Ecological Society of America, Vol. 88 (3), 2007)"Brian Fry who has now produced a very timely contribution of eight chapters that are designed to introduce novice graduate students to the field of stable isotope ecology.… Additional resource material is supplied...figures, color versions of cartoons, and problem sets…this would make an excellent primary textbook for a graduate course and will be enjoyed by both isoPopes and isotopeteers." (Keith A. Hobson, Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 82, September, 2007)Table of ContentsIsotope Notation and Measurement.- Using Stable Isotope Tracers.- Isotope Chi.- Mixing.- Isotope Additions.- Fractionation.- Scanning the Future.

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed as an introductory course in Tropical Meteorology for the graduate or advanced level undergraduate student. It then goes on to progressively smaller spatial and time scales – from the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Asian Monsoon, down to tropical waves, hurricanes, sea breezes, and tropical squall lines.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The book may prove valuable to researchers, given the lack of other books on the subject. Summing Up: Recommended. … Graduate students and researchers/faculty.” (S. G. Decker, Choice, Vol. 51 (6), February, 2014) Table of ContentsThe Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation.- Zonally Asymmetric Features in the Tropics.- The Intertropical Convergence Zone.- Heat Induced Circulations.- Monsoons.- Tropical Waves and Tropical Depressions.- The Madden Julian Oscillation.- Scale Interaction in the Tropics.- El Nino and Southern Oscillation.- Diabatic Potential Vorticity Over the Global Tropics.- Tropical Cloud Ensembles.- Tropical boundary layer.- Radiative Forcing.- Dry and moist static stability.- Hurricane Observations.- Genesis, Tracks and Intensification of Hurricanes.- Modeling and Forecasting of Hurricanes.- Sea Breeze and Diurnal Change Over the Tropics.- Tropical Squall Lines and Mesoscale convective systems.

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Book SynopsisWestern Canada's natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism. This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors' construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.Trade Review"The editors and writers of these thoughtful, challenging essays--diverse examples of the best work in the environmental humanities--take seriously the cultural assumptions that create and perpetuate contemporary environmental crises. With a scope that considers the potential of the poetic to alter the West's exploitative relationship with nature alongside cases of deteriorating ecosystems, which illustrate the need for a new social contract with the land, these writers call for radical change." -- Deanna Reder, Department of First Nations Studies and Department of English, Simon Fraser University; co-editor, with Linda M. Morra of 'Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations' (WLU Press, 2010)Table of Contents Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments, edited by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: What if the Problem is People? Liza Piper Part 1: Acting on Behalf Of Chapter 1: Grass Futures: Possibilities for a Re-engagement with Prairie Trevor Herriot Chapter 2: Wastewest: A State of Mind Warren Cariou Chapter 3: Sustaining Collaboration: The Woodhaven Eco Art Project Nancy Holmes Chapter 4: A Natural History and Dioramic Performance: Restoring Camosun Bog in Vancouver, British Columbia Lisa Szabo-Jones and David Brownstein Chapter 5: A Subtle Activism of the Heart Beth Carruthers Chapter 6: Sublime Animal Maria Whiteman Chapter 7: The Becoming-Animal of Being Caribou: Art, Ethics, Politics Dianne Chisholm Interlude: Creating Metaphors for Change Lyndal Osborne Part 2: Constructing Knowledge Chapter 8: Poetry, Science, and Knowledge of Place: A Dispatch from the Coast Nicholas Bradley Chapter 9: Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon Chapter 10: Escarpments, Agriculture, and the Historical Experience of Certainty in Manitoba and Ontario Shannon Stunden Bower and Sean Gouglas Chapter 11: Whatever Else Climate Change Is Freedom: Frontier Mythologies, the Carbon Imaginary, and British Columbia Coastal Forestry Novels Richard Pickard Chapter 12: Endangered Species, Endangered Spaces: Exploring the Grasslands of Trevor Herriot's Grass, Sky, Song and the Wetlands of Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge Angela Waldie Chapter 13: What Should We Sacrifice for Bitumen? Literature Interrupts Oil Capital's Utopian Imaginings Jon Gordon Interlude: Symphony for a Head of Wheat Burning in the Dark Harold Rhenisch Part 3: Maternal Expressions Chapter 14: Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge: A Practice of Reading Christine Stewart Chapter 15: Understory Enduring the Sixth Mass Extinction, ca 2009-11 Rita Wong Chapter 16: Seeding Coordinates, Planting Memories: Here, There, & Elsewhere in W.H. New's Underwood Log Travis V. Mason Chapter 17: Re-Envisioning epic in Jon Whyte's Rocky Mountain Poem The fells of brightness Harry Vandervlist Chapter 18: Ware's Waldo: Hydroelectric Development and the Creation of the Other in British Columbia Daniel Sims Afterword: Humming Along With the Bees: A Few Words on Cross-Pollination Pamela Banting Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCoastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons. Based on a project conducted under the auspices of NATO-CCMS, the book provides information and methodologies essential for selecting the most appropriate solution for a targeted lagoon environment, highlights issues that must be taken into account for optimal evaluation, and illustrates what short- and long-term changes that can be expected from the application of models presented. This book is a valuable tool for managers designing a sound, ecosystem oriented, model-based sustainable development solution.Table of ContentsCoastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons. Based on a project conducted under the auspices of NATO-CCMS, the book provides information and methodologies essential for selecting the most appropriate solution for a targeted lagoon environment, highlights issues that must be taken into account for optimal evaluation, and illustrates what short- and long-term changes that can be expected from the application of models presented. This book is a valuable tool for managers designing a sound, ecosystem oriented, model-based sustainable development solution.

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Book SynopsisScience tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge.Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. Cogent and compellingly written, Facing the Anthropocene offers a unique synthesis of natural and social science that illustrates how capitalism's inexorable drive for growth, powered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels that took millions of years to form, has driven our world to the brink of disaster.Survival in the Anthropocene, Angus argues, requires radical social change, replacing fossil capitalism with a new, ecosocialist civilization. "Trade Review"A crisp, eloquent and deeply informed call to arms by a leading eco-socialist."-Mike Davis"

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Book SynopsisSickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth s ability to support other forms of life. Capitalism s imperative to make profit at all costs and expand without end is destabilizing Earth s climate, while increasing human misery and inequality on a planetary scale. Already, hundreds of millions of people are facing poverty in the midst of untold wealth, perpetual war, growing racism, and gender oppression. The need to organize for social and environmental reforms has never been greater. But crucial as reforms are, they cannot solve our intertwined ecological and social crises. Creating an Ecological Society reveals an overwhelmingly simple truth: Fighting for reforms is vital, but revolution is essential. Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. Their book shows that it is possible to envision and create a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable. And possible not one moment too soon for society to change fundamentally and be brought into harmony with nature."

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Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, the vexing problems of climate change and finite resources have ignited contentious global debates about alternative energy technologies. In this lucid, balanced book, Rody Johnson investigates the development and deployment of one such technology—wind power—and, in particular, the ways in which a heated battle over that energy source played out in an Appalachian community.Johnson’s wide-ranging account examines the history of wind power; its capacity and output in comparison to such sources as fossil fuels, other renewables, and nuclear energy; the infrastructural challenges of transmitting electricity from wind farms to end users; global efforts to curb carbon emissions, including the Kyoto treaty; the role of public policy, government subsidies, and tax breaks; and the differences and similarities between wind power regimes in the United States and Europe.Interwoven throughout this discussion is the compelling narrative of how, beginning in 2005, the proposed construction of a wind farm along mountain ridges in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, pitted locals against each other—a story that puts a human face on the arguments about wind power’s promise of clean, renewable energy and its potentially negative effects, including bird and bat kills, a disfigured natural landscape, and noise pollution. Drawing on countless hours he spent attending public meetings and interviewing those on both sides of the issue, Johnson not only pictures the Greenbrier County struggle in illuminating detail but also makes valuable comparisons between it and similarly pitched battles in another West Virginia county, where a wind farm had already been built, and in Florida, where plans to erect beachside wind turbines next to a nuclear plant faltered.Concluding with a thoughtful, realistic assessment of a 2012 study suggesting that the country has the capability of receiving 80 percent of its electrical generation from renewables by 2050, Chasing the Wind makes a vital contribution to the ongoing dialogue regarding America’s energy challenges and what is likely required to meet them.

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Book SynopsisIn print for the first time in fifty years, Mount Le Conte is a reissue of the important 1966 self-published memoir by Paul J. Adams (1901–1985), a well-known Tennessee naturalist and the first custodian of the Smoky Mountain’s majestic summit in the years before the area was declared a national park. Appointed custodian of Mount Le Conte in 1925 by the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association—the organization leading the national park efforts that would come to fruition in 1934—Adams went to work immediately and spent a year making the camp suitable for overnight visitors. Mount Le Conte, a massive mile-high formation extending five miles from the main divide of the Great Smoky Mountains, with its rugged landscapes, rushing streams, and fecund forests, was considered a prime showplace in efforts to establish the Smokies as a national park. In addition to an extensive introduction, the editors have augmented the original text of Mount Le Conte with several photographs and sketches gleaned from Adams’s personal papers, resulting in a fuller, more complete reconstruction of Adams’s role in establishing the camp that would later come to be known as Le Conte Lodge. An important source on the fascinating history of Mount Le Conte in the pre-Park era, this book is a companion to the recently published Smoky Jack: The Adventures of a Dog and his Master on Mount Le Conte (University of Tennessee Press, 2016).

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Book SynopsisTravel Ruminations is a personal account of the author's walking, hiking, and mountain climbing over a 75-year career in all 50 U.S. states and 38 countries, but it is more than a mere memoir. Interspersed are remarks on the ecological aspects of his environments and the devastation caused by human activity.

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Book SynopsisDestined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’, it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.Trade ReviewThis outstanding volume at last brings us a much-awaited sequel to the highly acclaimed Feminist Political Ecology. It illustrates like no other book I know the unprecedented coalitions being pioneered by women in regions across the world. * Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *Moving beyond narratives of eco-hero/ines to nuanced explorations of identity, activism, and the complexity of environmental justice in the lived world, this collection represents a high-water mark in the new feminist political ecology. * Joni Seager, author of Earth Follies and Carson's Silent Spring *This wonderful book brings vital counter-visions and practices to today’s debates about the green economy and sustainable development. This should be required reading for all concerned with the troubling future of humanity on our planet. * Melissa Leach, University of Sussex *Table of ContentsIntroduction: are we 'green' yet? And the violence of asking such a question - Wendy Harcourt and Ingrid L. Nelson Section I: Positioning feminist political ecology 1. A situated view of feminist political ecology from my networks, roots and territories - Dianne Rocheleau 2. Contesting green growth, connecting care, commons and enough - Christa Wichterich 3. Life, nature and gender otherwise: feminist reflections and provocations from the Andes - Catherine Walsh Section II: Rethinking feminist political ecology 4. Feminist political ecology and the (un)making of 'heroes': encounters in Mozambique - Ingrid L. Nelson 5. Hegemonic waters and rethinking natures otherwise - Leila M. Harris 6. Challenging the romance with resilience: communities, scale and climate change - Andrea J. Nightingale Section III: Living feminist political ecology 7. A new spelling of sustainability: engaging feminist-environmental justice theory and practice - Giovanna Di Chiro 8. The slips and slides of trying to live feminist political ecology - Wendy Harcourt 9. Knowledge about, knowledge with: dilemmas of researching lives, nature and genders otherwise - Larissa Barbosa da Costa, Rosalba Icaza and Angélica María Ocampo Talero 10. World-wise otherwise stories for our endtimes: conversations on queer ecologies - Wendy Harcourt, Sacha Knox and Tara Tabassi

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Book SynopsisIn 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the entourage of the French Ambassador to Suleiman the Magnificent. En route, he visited Venice, Ragusa, Corfu and Crete, and over the next two years travelled throughout the Ottoman domains, - to Egypt, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Holy Land - returning to France in 1549. Wherever he went, Belon described plants, birds, mammals and fish, and recorded the customs of the inhabitants - what they ate, how they reared their children - collecting information on almost every aspect of the lands through which he passes. He did not rely on hearsay, on previous accounts, or on authority: what we have are his own observations, and the result of assiduous questioning and meticulous recording. His Observations, 'written in our ordinary French tongue', were published in 1553. In April 1564, Pierre Belon was murdered by persons unknown while crossing the Bois de Boulogne. Although Pierre Belon is well known as a naturalist, and - with his treatises on fish and birds - as a founder of comparative anatomy, his Observations have not previously appeared, in full, in English. Following a distinguished career as a civil servant, James Hogarth acquired a reputation as a versatile and punctilious translator. His translations span travel guides, archaeological texts, and novels. His 2002 translation of Victor Hugo's Travailleurs de la Mer was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He died in 2006.

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Book SynopsisThis unique dictionary and introduction to Global Environmental Governance (GEG), written and compiled by two veterans of the international stage, provides a compilation of over 5500 terms, organizations and acronyms, drawn from hundreds of official sources. An introductory essay frames the major issues in GEG and outlines the pitfalls of talking past one another when discussing the most critical of issues facing the planet. It challenges those who are concerned with the management of our planet and its inhabitants to understand and accept a vocabulary common to the often-opposing objectives sought in the many GEG instruments. The result is a practical tool that should find a central place on the desk of anyone involved in environmental management, development or sustainability issues anywhere in the world, including the United Nations, government policy makers, NGOs and other stakeholder groups, the business community, and students and professionals. This fully revised and updated edition contains over 500 new entries and acronyms on global environmental governance as well a new introductory section on global water governance, one of the most pressing environmental issues in our era of climate change, growing populations and food shortages. Praise for the first edition:Trade Review'Indispensable and illuminating.... a virtual astrolabe for international environmental policy.' Tom Lovejoy, President, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment 'A dictionary ... that will be used by all involved parties and hopefully bring a bit of understanding, if not order, to a very disordered process.' Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman, Green Cross International 'How amazing to find a spirited and passionate glossary!' Margaret Catley-Carlson, Secretary General Advisory Board on Water; Chair, Global Water Partnership 'This book will become the 'yellow pages' for students and practitioners alike, assisting them in becoming 'fluent' in the ways of GEG and envirospeak.' James Gustave Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry, Former Administrator of UNDP 'Without question, this book should be a great help to the novice and veteran negotiator alike.' Yolanda Kakabads, Former President, IUCN 'This book contains a profoundly unambiguous message, with prose that borders on the poetic.' Robin Rosenberg, Deputy Director, Dante B. Fascell North-South Center, University of Miami 'A very useful addition to the reference shelf.' Ecological and Environmental Education 'Words matter - they transform ideas into action. This power of communication is amplified with a common vocabulary. Saunier and Meganck's ambitious glossary makes a valuable contribution to enhancing the potential of global environmental agreement.' Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Former Executive Director, UNEP 'Saunier and Meganck have zeroed-in on one of the most confounding issues related to Global Environmental Governance: language and most importantly its context. This book will become the 'yellow pages' for students and practitioners alike, assisting them in becoming 'fluent' in the ways of GEG and envirospeak.' James Gustave Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry, Former Administrator of UNDP 'A useful tool in order to come to terms with the vocabulary of GEG'. Harry Bauer, Environment and Planning C; Government and Policy, 2008. 'Well-crafted and unique, this will appeal to a specialized audience. Recommended for large academic or specialised collections' Mary Rumsey, BurrellesLuce, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction * Part I: Global Environmental Governance: An Essay * Global Environmental Governance: An Essay * Part II: A Dictionary of Selected Terms, Concepts, Jargon, Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in Global Environmental Governance * Sources Used to Develop the Dictionary and List of Acronyms * Dictionary * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLong before it became fashionable to talk of climate change, drought and water shortages, the authors of this lucid and trenchant dialogue were warning that planet earth was heading for uninhabitability. They exchange viewpoints and insights that have matured over many years of thought, study and reflection. One of the authors is a Westerner - a man of many parts, both wartime resistance fighter and leading industrialist, who founded one of the first think tanks to address seriously the human prospects for global survival. The other represents the philosophical and ethical perspectives of the East - a Buddhist leader who has visited country after country, campaigning tirelessly for the abolition of nuclear weapons and war in all its forms.Engaging constructively and imaginatively with such seemingly intractable problems as population growth, the decline of natural resources, desertification, pollution and deforestation, Ikeda and Peccei show that many of these problems are interrelated. Only by addressing them as part of a web of complex but combined issues, and by working together for peace and justice, can human beings expect to find lasting solutions. The best prospect for the future lies in an ethical revolution whereby humanity can find a fresh understanding of itself in holistic connection with, rather than separation and alienation from, the planet itself.

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Book SynopsisWhile reflecting the style and character of its predecessor, 'A Summer in Kintyre', this new book is rich in differences. The narrative begins in April 2014 and ends in September, but real time is irrelevant, as the author dips frequently into history and prehistory, evoking people and events associated with the places he visits by bicycle and on foot. Artists, poets, musicians, cave-dwellers, convicts, winkle-pickers, travelling tinsmiths, shipwrecked sailors, saints, school friends, fishermen, shepherds, farmers and fellow-ramblers share the pages with flowers, butterflies, birds, otters, whales, adders, and much else. A close engagement with places, people and nature is ever-present and, using the journals he has kept since his teens, the author is able to recreate his early adventures in the outdoors. Besides familiar haunts in South Kintyre (Learside, Ben Gullion, Inneans, and Largiebaan), he visits Barr Glen, Ballochroy Glen and Lussa, and explores their history. Illustrated with 50 images, the result will inform and delight any reader with an interest in one of Scotland's most fascinating yet least appreciated areas.Trade Review'Wind-swept, rain-lashed - but often sun-kissed - Kintyre, through Angus Martin's eyes, is a garment permanently worn in its newest gloss, an ever-changing spectacle to be enjoyed.', John McCallum, Campbeltown Courier, June 2015; '... A welcome addition is the inclusion of map references for the places mentioned in the chapters. With an O.S. Landranger or Explorer map of Kintyre, readers can locate these places described in the book and perhaps set out on their own voyages of discovery. As the book progresses, the reader becomes aware of how much Angus values the memories and views of others. Fishermen and 'wilk'-gatherers, walkers and cyclists, shepherds and farmers, all appear in this travelling tale and all add their own weft to the warp that Angus has established. By the end of the book, the reader will have become a part of the intriguing tapestry that is this land of Kintyre.' Kintyre Magazine, Autumn 2015; '[These] latest offerings are an absorbing, idiosyncratic excursion into travel writing. Travel for Angus, in his own inimitable way, means cycling and walking through South Kintyre, with the occasional foray into more northern areas such as Ballachroy and Barr Glen. ... Whilst the narrative begins in April 2014 and ends in September, sequential time proves largely irrelevant, as he is always dipping into his own personal past, the past of friends and acquaintances he meets and the deeper past of the folk who fascinate him.' Ed Tyler, Kist Magazine.

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Book SynopsisThis pocket guide, intended to help you put in place an EMS, is specifically focused on ISO14001. It is designed to enable industry managers, who may be lacking in specialist knowledge, to achieve compliance with the Standard.

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Book SynopsisIn Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britain's nuclear history – the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing – he offers a powerful critique of such judicial procedures and the underlying assumptions of the rationalist approach. This second edition makes available again this classic and still very relevant work. Debates about nuclear power have come to the fore once again. Yet we still do not have adequate ways to make decisions or frame policy deliberation on these big issues, involving true public debate, rather than ritualistic processes in which the rules and scope of the debate are presumed and imposed by those in authority. The perspectives in this book are as significant and original as they were when it was written. The new edition contains a substantial introduction by the author reflecting on changes (and lack of) in the intervening years and introducing new themes, relevant to today's world of big science and technology, that can be drawn out of the original text. A new foreword by Gordon MacKerron, an expert on energy and nuclear policy, sets this seminal work in the context of contemporary nuclear and related big technology debates.Trade Review'Profound and stimulating...a brilliant analysis' – Dr Alvin Weinberg, former Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Physics Division 'A wonderful, original and still-timely book. Very sensitively and powerfully, Wynne shows how authentic progress is compromised and crippled, effectively by 'rational' pre-emption of authentic debate.' – Professor Ulrich Beck, University of Munich , Germany 'A profound and lasting challenge to conventional academic as well as policy wisdom on scientific rationality and the politics of technology.' – Professor Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada 'Raises questions far beyond its specific subject matter and will be an important reference point for future work in the area.' – Nature 'A book rich in insight.' – British Journal of History of Science 'A splendid example of how social science analysis ... can inform our understanding of science and technology policy making.' – Isis 'A detailed scholarly study... This book should prove particularly valuable for students of comparative regulatory process who are looking for informed discussions of non-US regulatory systems.' – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 'The revival of official commitment to nuclear power alone makes a re-reading of 'Rationality and Ritual' an important contribution to understanding the issues. But while Brian Wynne's book is based empirically on nuclear power as a particularly powerful exemplar, it has wider resonance in its deep dissection of the moral, political and cultural issues that the relationship between scientific expertise and political process - more recently in debates about genetics and biotechnology - involves. The book was a pioneering study in its depth and capacity to illuminate. It remains so to this day.' – From the Foreword by Gordon MacKerron, Director of SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex and former Chair of CoRWM (Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) 'One thing is certain: there are few occasions in which such a concentration of high-powered legal advocates have enjoyed debate. By any standard the cast is impressive...Even at their best however they have not outshone some of the lay advocates, such as Dr Brian Wynne, for Network for Nuclear Concern...' – From the article, 'At Windscale, the amateurs shine in the battle of the legal giants' in the Times, 28th October 1977Table of ContentsForeword by Gordon MacKerron Rationality and Ritual: A Quarter-Century Retrospect Preface to Original Edition Introduction The Decision-making Legacy Oxide Reprocessing: The Background The Public Inquiry Tradition: A Comparative Perspective The Emergence of THORP from a Private to a Public Issue The Process and Impact of the Inquiry Judicial Rationality, Expert Conflict and Political Authority The Rationality and Politics of Analysis Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPresents a thorough and accessible overview of the ways in which sustainability is charted worldwide. Some articles introduce basic concepts, such as quantitative versus qualitative data or the weak versus strong sustainability debate; others examine how indicators in specific areas have been applied (or not) to different regions.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses how research efforts have established an organic link between pedology and edaphology of five pedogenetically important soil orders as Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of tropical Indian environments. The book highlights how this new knowledge was gained when research efforts were complemented by high resolution mineralogical, micro morphological and age-control tools. This advancement in basic and fundamental knowledge on Indian tropical soils makes it possible to develop several index soil properties as simple methods to study their pedology and edaphology. More than one-third of the world’s soils are tropical soils. Thus the recent advances in developing simple and ingenuous methods to study pedology and edaphology of Indian tropical soils may also be adopted by both graduate students and young soil researchers to aid in the development of a national soil information system to enhance crop productivity and maintain soil health in the 21st century. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Methods to study Pedology and Edaphology of Indian Tropical Soils: An Overview.- Chapter 2: Evidence of Clay Illuviation in Soils of the Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) and Red Ferruginous (RF) Soils.- Chapter 3: Clay Illuviation and Pedoturbation in SAT Vertisols Chapter 4: Cracking Depths in Indian Vertisols: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change .- Chapter 5: Unique Depth Distributions of Clays in SAT Alfisols: Evidence of Landscape Modifications.- Chapter 6: Easy Identifications of Soil Modifiers.- Chapter 7: Mineralogy Class of Indian Tropical soils.- Chapter 8: Hydraulic Conductivity to Evaluate the SAT Vertisols for Deep Rooted Crops.- Chapter 9: Clay and Other Minerals in Selected Edaphological Issues.- Chapter 10: A Critique on Degradation of HT and SAT Soils in View of Their Pedology and Mineralogy.- Chapter 11: Anomalous Potassium Release and Adsorption Reactions: Evidence of Polygenesis of Indian Tropical Soils.- Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisThe fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were transformed by the massive mobilization of human and natural resources to support the conflict. But at the same time, the war saw remarkable resilience among the human and non-human residents of cities. Foregrounding the concept of urban resilience, this collection uncovers the creative survival strategies that city-dwellers of all kinds turned to in the midst of environmental devastation. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt.Table of ContentsI. Introduction1. Environmental History, the Second World War, and Urban ResilienceII. Urban Environment2. Critical Networks3. Fortress City: The Militarized Landscape of Seattle4. War and Urban-Industrial Air Pollution in the UK and US5. Imagined ResilienceIII. Urban Nature6. Guerrilla Gardening? Urban Agriculture and the Environment7. Gaining Strength from Nature8. Resilience behind Bars9. Where Have all the Pigeons GoneIV. Urban Society10. Partial Resilience in Nationalist China's Wartime Capital11. Japanese-Occupied Hanoi12. The Esteros and Manila’s Postwar Remaking13. Apocalyptic Urban FutureV. Conclusions14. Epilogue: What Makes a City Resilient?

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability. Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue, and confronts some current practice, policy and research that is preventing the attainment of sustainability and a healthy environment for all. She combines two of the biggest challenges facing humanity: that millions of people around the world still do not have their social and environmental needs met (including healthy food, clean water, affordable energy, clean air); and that the earth’s resources have been over-used or misused. Bell explores various solutions to these social and ecological crises and lays out an agenda for simultaneously achieving greater well-being, equality and sustainability. The result will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and policy-makers working to achieve environmental and social justice, as well as to students and scholars across social policy, sociology, human geography, and environmental studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Environmental Classism.- 2. Class and Classism.- 3. Carrying the Environmental Burdens.- 4. The Environmental Policy Makers.- 5. The Environmental Policy Influencers.- 6. Working-Class Environmentalism.- 7. Explaining Environmental Classism?.- 8. Supporting Working-Class Environmentalism.

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Book SynopsisThe book provides readers with essential insights into key issues in connection with planning, developing and financing sustainable energy projects in China that are relevant for practitioners, investors and developers involved in the emerging sustainable energy sector. It offers readers a deeper understanding of these contemporary issues by drawing on the lessons learned in real-world sustainable energy and green finance development activities in China, which are driven by central planning and policy implementation and complemented by investments and finances from public-private partnerships. Table of ContentsDevelopment of the sustainable energy in the Greater Bay Area of China: Policy and planning perspectives.- Renewable and sustainable energy through the power generating sector.- Carbon trade in Guangdong: Opportunities and Challenges.- A comprehensive framework for green financing in the Greater Bay Area.- Domestic Green financing strategies through the Stock Exchange of Shenzhen.- International Green financing strategies: Hong Kong.- Green credit for renewal of energy facilities: Cases with ADB.- Sustainable energy through smart buildings.- Utility perspectives about financing renewable and sustainable energy projects.- Electric vehicles for the Greater Bay Area.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach can be used to achieve greater interoperability among such infrastructures in the environmental and earth sciences. The 20 contributions in this book are structured in 5 parts on the design, development, deployment, operation and use of research infrastructures. Part one provides an overview of the state of the art of research infrastructure and relevant e-Infrastructure technologies, part two discusses the reference model guided engineering approach, the third part presents the software and tools developed for common data management challenges, the fourth part demonstrates the software via several use cases, and the last part discusses the sustainability and future directions.Table of ContentsSupporting cross-domain system-level environmental and earth science.- ICT infrastructure for environmental and earth sciences.- Common challenges and requirements.- ENVRI reference model.- Reference model guided engineering.- Semantic and knowledge engineering using ENVRI RM.- Data curation and preservation.- Data cataloguing.- Data identification and citation.- Data processing.- Virtual infrastructure optimization.- Data provenance.- Metadata, semantic linking.- Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting.- Virtual research environment.- Case study: e.g., data subscriptions using elastic Cloud service.- Case study: e.g., D4Science: a VRE solution for RI.- Case study: LifeWatch.- Sustainability.- Future challenges.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk. It is based on experiences in sub-Saharan Africa through the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) applied research programme. It begins by dealing with underlying principles and structures designed to facilitate effective engagement about climate risk, including the robustness of information and the construction of knowledge through co-production. Chapters then move on to explore examples of using climate information to inform adaptation and resilience through early warning, river basin development, urban planning and rural livelihoods based in a variety of contexts. These insights inform new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of knowledge from multiple disciplines, including climate science that provides understanding of future climate risk and the social science of response through adaptation.The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students and postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in geography, environment, international development and related disciplines.Table of Contents‘These insights inform new ways to promote action in policy and praxis through the blending of knowledge from multiple disciplines, including climate science that provides understanding of future climate risk and the social science of response through adaptation.’

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Book SynopsisThis book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching environmental science statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2016 for Environmental Sciences Statistics, this book is a step-by-step, exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical environmental science problems. If understanding statistics isn’t the reader’s strongest suit, the reader is not mathematically inclined, or if the reader is new to computers or to Excel, this is the book to start off with.Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in environmental science courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. Excel 2019 for Environmental Sciences Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems capitalizes on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.In this new edition, each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand environmental science problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an appendix. Separately, there is a full practice test (with answers in an appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.Table of ContentsPreface.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean.- 2 Random Number Generator.- 3 Confidence Interval About the Mean Using the TINV Function and Hypothesis Testing.- 4 One-Group t-Test for the Mean.- 5 Two-Group t-Test of the Difference of the Means for Independent Groups.- 6 Correlation and Simple Linear Regression.- 7 Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression.- 8 One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- Appendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter Practice Problems.- Appendix B: Practice Test.- Appendix C: Answers to Practice Test.- Appendix D: Statistical Formulas.- Appendix E: t-table.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal can conflict with other development goals such as decent work and economic growth. Furthermore, innovation in energy transition is introduced, both in technology and citizens’ engagement. The book presents the latest developments on energy access and transition to sustainability throughout the overall value chain: from basic research in universities to documentation of lessons learned in the field. The empirical evidence presented makes this book appealing to scholars in the field of energy sustainability as well as to policy-makers and energy service companies.Table of ContentsSustainable Energy Access for Sustainable Communities – Introduction by a Social Scientist.- Local Dimensions of Sustainable Energy Governance: Case Study.- Can Municipalities Lead the Energy Transition? On Available Policy, Competences and Requirements for Action.- Local Action for Energy Sustainability: A Review of Policies’ Impact.- Techno-Economic Assessment of Renewable Energy Potential in Cities: Case Studies of Solar Photovoltaic, Waste-To-Energy and Wind Energy.- Management of Intermittent Solar and Wind Energy Resources: Storage and Grid Stabilization.- Modelling Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities: Case Studies of LEAP, ENPEP-BALANCE, and Moces.- Hidden Costs of Decarbonizing Utility Generation: Investment on Grid Stability & Contribution of Renewable Energies.- Democratization of Energy Planning: On a New Planning Tool Tailored to the Needs of Developing Countries.- Innovation for the Better: How Renewable Energy Technologies Improve Living Standard.- Energy Potential of Crop Residues in Senegal: Technology Solutions for Valorization.- Energy in Development Objectives: How the Energy Ecological Footprint Affect Development Indicators?.- Electricity Consumption in Working-Class Districts: Case Studies of Grand Yoff and Grand Dakar.- Cookinations: Mechanisms to Decouple Wood Production and Food Preparation in Sub-Urban Areas.- Citizen Awareness of the Social Dimension of Energy: Lessons From a Survey in Dakar.

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Book SynopsisThis book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems. Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.Table of ContentsPREFACE INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE CHAPTER 1 GLOBAL WARMING PATTERNS PROVIDING EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL WARMING Increased CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere and warming climate Ocean acidification from increased absorbtion of atmospheric CO2 Rising ocean temperatures and sea levels Diminishing polar ice, mountain glaciers, permafrost and gas hydrates 16 record breaking air temperatures of the past 136 years since 2001 More intense extreme weather events e.g hurricanes, droughts, wildfires Increasing animal extinction rates CHAPTER 2 MY GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIESMY EARLY ADVENTURES RELATED TO POSSIBLE GLOBAL CHANGE MY FIRST SCIENTIFIC LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE UNIVERSITY LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE MASTERS DEGREE LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE ADVENTURES WHILE STUDYING CRATER LAKE PhD GRADUATE SCHOOL LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE ADVENTURES DURING PhD STUDIES WORLDWIDE INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL CHANGE FIRST USGS LESSONS IN ALASKAN GLOBAL CHANGE LOOKING FOR GOLD RESOURCES IN OFFSHORE ALASKA 1960s ALASKAN ADVENTURES EARLY 1970s RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IN ALASKA EARLY 1970s ALASKAN ADVENTURES ALASKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS IN 1976 1976 ALASKAN ADVENTURES ALASKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS IN 1977 1977 ALASKAN ANDVENTURES 1978 AND 1980 ALASKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS 1978 ALASKAN ANDVENTURES POTENTIAL VOLCANIC HAZARDS IN CRATER LAKE, OREGON CRATER LAKE ADVENTURES HOW POLITICS AFFECTS GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH GLOBAL CHANGE RELATED TO MARINE MAMMALS IN ALASKA GLOBAL CHANGE EFFECTS ON WALRUS GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS FROM SPANISH STUDIES IN THE 1980s RESOURCE AND GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS IN GULF OF MEXICO GULF OF MEXICO ANVENTURES AND GLOBAL CHANGE HAZARDS RESOURCE AND GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS IN LAKE BAIKAL LAKE BAIKAL ADVENTURES AND GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS VAR & CORSICA HUMAN & NATURAL GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS ANTARCTIC ADVENTURES IN A NATURAL LANDSCAPE GLOBAL CHANGES RELATED TO EARTHQUAKES GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS AND A SUSTAINABLE PLANET CHAPTER 3 GLOBAL CHANGE AND EARTH SUSTAINABILITY Introduction Energy The energy future Clean air Potable or safe drinking water Arable soil or farmland Radioactive global contamination of air, water and soil Ocean fisheries, coastal habitats and pollution Population control Lake Tanganyika, an example of combined global change Education as a solution for global sustainability Summary for earth sustainability TAKE HOME POINTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE PLANET FINAL WORD ON GLOBAL WARMING MESSAGE TO GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS AND SKEPTICS POSITIVE SIGNS FOR FUTURE SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND COOPERATION NATIONAL AND LOCAL AGREEMENTS TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR HUMAN-CAUSED AND NATURAL GLOBAL CHANGE 178 IMPROVED MEDIA COVERAGE FOR GLOBAL CHANGE GLOBAL CHANGE AND THE FUTURE FOR HUMANS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES CITED ADDITIONAL READING

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an international group of authors to discuss the outdoor environmental education (OEE) theory and practice that educators can use to support teaching and learning in higher education. The book contents are organised around a recently established list of threshold concepts that can be used to describe the knowledge and skills that university students would develop if they complete a major in outdoor education. There are six key sections: the theoretical foundations and philosophies of OEE; the pedagogical approaches and issues involved in teaching OEE; the ways in which OEE is a social, cultural and environmental endeavour; how outdoor educators can advocate for social justice; key approaches to safety management; and the need for on-going professional practice. The threshold concepts that form the premise of the book describe outdoor educators as creating opportunities for experiential learning using pedagogies that align their programme’s purpose and practice. Outdoor educators are place-responsive, and see their work as a social, cultural and environmental endeavour. They advocate for social and environmental justice, and they understand and apply safety principles and routinely engage in reflective practice. This book will provide clarity and direction for emerging and established outdoor educators around the world and will also be relevant to students and professionals working in related fields such as environmental education, adventure therapy, and outdoor recreation.Table of ContentsForeword; Professor Noel Gough and Professor Annette Gough.- Introduction; Glyn Thomas, Janet Dyment and Heather Prince.- Part 1. Theoretical foundations and philosophies.- 1.1 Experiential learning/education philosophy; Assoc. Prof. John Quay.- 1.2 Worldviews and the environment; Kathleen Pleasants and Noel Gough.- 1.3 Human-nature relationships; Dr David Clarkeand and Dr Jamie Mcphie.- 1.4 Leadership theory; Dr Heidi Smith.- 1.5 Sense of place; Assoc. Prof. Mark Leather and Jakob Thorsteinsson.- 1.6 Education for Sustainability; Prof. Jo-Anne Ferreira.- Part 2 Pedagogical approaches and issues.- 2.1 Intentional Teaching and leading; Dr Glyn Thomas.- 2.2 Beyond experiential learning cycles; Assoc. Prof. Jayson Seaman.- 2.3 Pedagogical content knowledge; Assoc. Prof. Janet Dyment.- 2.4 Place-based OEE; Dr Brian Wattchow.- 2.5 Adventure and risk in OEE; Professor Simon Beames.- 2.6 Journeying in OEE; Dr Beau Miles.- 2.7 Wild Pedagogy; Dr Marcus Morse.- 2.8 Technology in OEE; David Hills & Dr Glyn Thomas.- 2.9 Therapeutic Interventions; Dr Anita Pryor, Dr Cathryn Carpenter, Dr Nevine Harper.- Part 3 OEE as a social, cultural and environmental endeavour.- 3.1 Nature connectedness; Dr Marg Cosgriff.- 3.2 Reading the landscape; Dr Alistair Stewart.- 3.3 Indigenous education; Dr Greg Lowan-Trudeau.- 3.4 Cultural Ecology; Professor Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt.- 3.5 Post-colonial land ethics; Kathryn Riley.- 3.6 Climate Change; Dr Kate Rawles.- 3.7 Local community; Dr Allen Hill and Dr Monica Green.- 4. Advocacy.- 4.1 Social justice in OEE; Dr Mary Breunig.- 4.2 Gender equity in OEE; Dr Lisa Hunter.- 4.3 Inclusion and diversity in OEE; Professor Tom Potter and Professor TA Loeffler.- 5. Safety management.- 5.1 Fatality prevention in OEE; Assoc. Prof. Andrew Brookes.- 5.2 Fatality prevention in action; Dr Marcus Morse, Lucas Bester and Anthony Manglesdorf.- 5.3 Systems thinking; Dr Clare Dallat.- 6. Professional practice.- 6.1 How research informs reflective practice; Professor Heather Prince.- 6.2 The currency battle; Scott Polley.- 6.3 Ecologies of skill for leaders; Assoc. Prof. Phillip Mullins.- 6.4 On being a reflective practitioner; Assoc. Prof. Morton Asfeldt.- 6.5 Managing outdoor fieldwork; Brendon Munge, Dr Glyn Thomasa and Assoc. Prof. Deb Heck.-

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches. Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the edited collection critically reviews the potential of co-creative research praxis to nurture just and transformative processes of change. Included amongst the individual chapters are first-hand accounts of such as: militant research strategies and guerrilla narrative, decolonial participative approaches, appreciative inquiry and care-ethics, deep-mapping, photo-voice, community-arts, digital participatory mapping, creative workshops and living labs. The collection considers how, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, such co-creative methods can be used to stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. It provides illustrations of (and problematizes) the use of co-creative methods as overtly disruptive interventions in their own right, and as a means of enriching the transformative potential of transdisciplinary and more traditional forms of social science research inquiry. The positionality of the researcher, together with the emotional and embodied dimensions of engaged scholarship, are threads which run throughout the book. So too does the question of how to communicate sustainability science research in a meaningful way.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sustainability Science as Co-Creative Research Praxis.- 2. Painting Outside the Lines: Transgressing the Managerial University, Avoiding Forced Creativity.- 3. Cooking commoning subjectivities: guerrilla narrative in the Cooperation Birmingham solidarity kitchen.- 4. Participative and decolonial approaches in environmental history.- 5. An Ethos and Practice of Appreciation for Transformative Research: Appreciative Inquiry, Care Ethics, and Creative Method.- 6. Imaginative Leadership: A conceptual frame for the design and facilitation of creative methods and generative engagement.- 7. Insights and inspiration from explorative research into the impacts of a community arts project.- 8. How to nurture ground for arts-based co-creative practice in an invited space: reflections on a community in North Netherlands.- 9. Reflections on doing cross-cultural research through and with visual methods.- 10. The Eye of the Beholder: Applying visual analysis in an historical study of lynxes’ representations in the Bavarian Forest region.- 11. Back to the drawing board: creative mapping methods for inclusion and connection.- 12. ‘Getting deep into things’: Deep mapping in a ‘vacant’ landscape.- 13. Engaging 'future generations' in meaning making through visual methods: an alternative approach to defining city-regions.- 14. Technology as a Tool for Environmental Engagement. The case of Digital Participatory Mapping (DPM).- 15. Living Labs: a creative and collaborative planning approach.- 16. Supporting institutional transformations: experimenting with reflexive and embodied cross-boundary research.- 17. How to make policy makers care about “wicked problems” such as biodiversity loss? – the case of a policy campaign.

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Book SynopsisThis open access handbook is distinguished by its emphasis on international energy, rather than domestic energy policies or international geopolitic aspects. Addressing key topics such as energy production and distribution, renewables and corporate energy structures, alongside global energy trends, regional case studies and emerging areas such as the digitalization of energy and energy transition, this handbook provides a major new contribution to the field of international energy economics. Written by academics, practitioners and policy-makers, this handbook is a valuable and timely addition to the literature on international energy economics. This book was published open access with the support of Eni. Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Part 1: Economics of energy production and distribution1.1. Economics of oil and gas production - Nadine Bret-Rouzeaut (SciencesPo, France) - Relative cost of exploration and development under different conditions (onshore, offshore, unconventional). Evaluation of upstream projects. Sensitivity to price changes.1.2. Economics of oil tanker transportation - TBC - Cyclicality of tanker business. Main determinants of tanker cost. Cost of transporting oil over long distances. Implications for arbitrage.1.3. Economics of gas transportation by pipeline or LNG - Manfred Hafner (IFP School, Switzerland) - Cost determinants of long-distance pipelines. Implications for cost of transport of gas over long distance. Implications for gas supply contracts and price discovery. Determinants of cost of LNG plants and cost of transport by tanker.1.4. Economics of oil refining - Jean-Pierre Favennec (IFP School, Switzerland) - Determinants of refinery cost and competitiveness. Complexity and oil quality. Implications of shifting patterns of products consumption and refinery localization.1.5. Economics of biofuels - Adam Brown, International Energy Agency - Types of biofuels, respective cost structures, international trade in biomass/biofuels.1.6. Economics of power generation - Arash Farnoush (IFP School, Switzerland) or Martin Everts (Head of Energy Economics at AxPo Holding AG, Switzerland) and/or Eicke Bluhme-Werri (AxPo Holding AG, Switzerland) - Alternative technologies for power generation and their respective key economic characteristics (CAPEX, OPEX, dispatchability, flexibility, location constraints, etc.)1.6.1. Coal and oil-based generation1.6.2. Gas-based generation (OCGT/CCGT)1.6.3. Nuclear generation (including SMRs)1.6.4. Hydropower (different forms)1.6.5. Solar energy1.6.6. Wind energy1.6.7. Other renewables1.7. Economics of energy networks - Andrea Bonzanni (SciencesPo, France) - Gas and electricity as network-based energy sources. Cost of network, natural monopoly, TPA, regulation, tarification, hubs.1.8. Economics of energy storage – TBC - Which energies can be stored and to what extent. Cost and revenue opportunities of storage. Storage and security of supply1.9. Financing of energy investment – TBC - Different financial models normally adopted to finance different energy investment projects: equity/debt ratios, project financing, risk, investors’ profiles.2. Part 2: Economics of energy trading and price discovery2.1. International trade in energy in the context of globalization - Giacomo Luciani, (SciencesPo, France) - Importance of energy products in the context of global trade; potential evolution in light of energy transition and income growth at the global level2.2. The trading and price discovery for crude oils - Giacomo Luciani or Bassam Fattouh (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, UK) or Liz Bossley (CEO, Consilience Energy Advisory Group Ltd, UK) - The structure and functioning of the global oil market, physical and paper. Issues of financialization and volatility. Price makers and price takers.2.3. The trading and price discovery for oil products - Liz Bossley (CEO, Consilience Energy Advisory Group Ltd, UK) - The structure and functioning of markets for petroleum products. Major contracts and derivatives, opportunities for hedging, influence of products on crude oil prices2.4. The trading and price discovery for natural gas - Manfred Hafner (IFP School, Switzerland) - Alternative price discovery mechanisms, their respective rationale and evolving importance of each for pipeline gas and LNG2.5. The trading and price discovery for coal - Sylvie Cornot-Gandolphe (Oxofrd Institute for Energy Studies) or Jan Beckaert - Different coal qualities and price discovery tools. Major contracts. Price makers.2.6. The trading and price discovery for biofuels - major existing biofuels markets: ethanol and biodiesel. Major markets (Ethanol: US and Brazil; biodiesel: EU). Competition with food chain. Subsidies and their implications on trading. Arbitrage between different potential uses of biomass.2.7. The trading of electricity - Eleanor Morrison (London Financial Studies) and/or Philippe Vassilopoulos (Cambridge University) - Structures of major liberalized power markets. Main traded contracts. Impact of variable renewables on market based on marginal cost. Capacity markets.2.8. The trading of carbon - Alfred Evans (Climate Change Capital Ltd) or Eleanor Morrison (London Financial Studies) - The rationale for ETSs and the various implementations of the concept. The experience of the EU ETS and its ongoing evolution.3. Part 3: Corporate energy structures3.1. Determinants of vertical integration in energy – TBC - What is the rationale for vertical integration in the energy industry and does it stand to critical evaluation?3.2. Unbundling, markets and regulation - Eleanor Morrison (London Financial Studies) - Breaking up vertically integrated incumbent monopolies and enforcing competition through regulation: alternative approaches3.3. Energy companies: sensible conglomerates? – TBC - Does an energy conglomerate make more sense than conglomerates in general? Is there an advantage in simultaneously investing in several forms of energy?3.4. Energy (power) decentralization and the future of networks - TBC - Decentralization of power generation may either mean an enhanced role for network or their erosion, possibly implosion. Cost/benefit of extended networks3.5. Energy corporate governance - John Gault (former Chief Economist of the International Energy Development Corporation, US) - Dialectic of major stakeholders in shaping energy investment decisions. Corporate responsibility, transparency, corruption3.6. The impact of digitalization - TBC - From the digital well to blockchain, and issues of cyber security: cost/benefit of digitalization4. Part 4: Global energy trends4.1. Energy scenarios: comparative analysis of black boxes - Manfred Hafner (IFP School, Switzerland) - Comparing the methodology, assumptions and results of major scenarios from industry, international organizations, individual governments and NGOs4.2. Disruptive technologies - Fabio Genoese (Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium) - Technologies having the potential of radically changing our understanding of energy futures4.3. Drivers of energy demand - TBC - Opportunities for energy saving and economic obstacles to their realization4.3.1. Energy demand for buildings4.3.2. Energy demand for industry4.3.3. Energy demand for transportation5. Part 5: The trilemma and economics of tradeoffs5.1. Internalizing externalities: market vs. regulatory approaches to decarbonisation – TBC - GHG emissions as market failure: can the cost be effectively internalized? Carbon tax vs. ETSs. Regulation undermines market approaches5.2. Market solutions to security of supply - Giacomo Luciani (SciencesPo, France) - Security of supply has a cost and the final consumer should be able to decide how much security he wants. How can the cost of security be transferred to the final consumer?5.3. Energy subsidies - TBC - Mapping widespread subsidization of energy products and the debate on their validity5.4. Economics of access to energy - What economic obstacles prevent 1.2 billion people from having access to modern commercial energy? and policies/approaches to overcome the same6. Part 6: Energy and the economy - Energy models differ very significantly across regions. This group of chapters will discuss the interplay of energy supply/demand and economic development with an emphasis on how issues of access and decarbonization opportunities affect each region.6.1. Energy and the economy in China6.2. Energy and the economy in India - Dagmar Graczyk (International Energy Agency)6.3. Energy and the economy in Sub Saharan Africa – Philippe Copinschi (SciencesPo)6.4. Energy and the economy in Latin America - TBC6.5. Energy and the economy in the Middle East and North Africa - TBC6.6. Energy and the economy in Russia - Tatiana Mitrova (Russian Academy of Sciences)6.7. Energy and the economy in North America - TBC6.8. Energy and the economy in Europe - TBC

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Book SynopsisMaking Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of state-controlled electricity systems which had become established across Europe after the Second World War. By studying early liberalisation processes in Britain and the Nordic region, and analysing the role of the EEC, the book shows that the creation of electricity markets involved political decisions about the feasibility and desirability of introducing competition into electricity supply industries. Competition introduced risks, so in designing the process politicians needed to evaluate who the likely winners and losers might be and the degree to which competition would impact key national industries reliant on cross-subsidies from the electricity sector, in particular coal mining, nuclear power and energy intensive production. The book discusses how an understanding of the origins of electricity markets and their political character can inform contemporary debates about renewables and low carbon energy transitions. Trade Review“This book is therefore neither a history of technology work nor even a history of energy. However, Bolton succeeds in making understandable a particular period, that of the incomplete transformation of the electrical sys­tems inherited from the second Industrial Revolution into the fundamental infrastructures of energy transitions.” (Yves Bouvier, Technology and Culture, Vol. 64 (2), April, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Britain: Inventing competition.- Trade-offs: Competition or Cash?.- Competition: A work in progress.- Europe: The economic logics of trade.- National electricity regimes: France and Germany.- The political market.- Power exchange: Norwegian origins.- Constructing a multinational market.- Conclusion: Remaking Markets.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches), but not exclusively.The content has a broader theme in order to encompass. regulation issues, the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) balanced approach, progresses made on technologies and reduction of noise at source, impact of possible future civil supersonic aircraft, land-use planning issues, as well as the core topics of the ANIMA project, i.e. impact on human beings, annoyance, quality of life, health and findings of the project in this respect.This book differs from traditional research programmes on aviation noise as the authors endeavour, not to lower noise at source, but to reduce the annoyance. This book examines these non-acoustic factors in an effort to help those most affected by aviation noise – communities living close to airports, and also help airport managers, policy-makers, local authorities and researchers to deal with this issue holistically. The book concludes with some recommendations for EU, national and local policy-makers, airport and aviation authorities, and more broadly a scientifically literate audience. These recommendations may help to identify gaps for progress in terms of research but also genuine implementation actions for political and regulatory authorities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding the basics of aviation noise.- Status: Noise burden in Europe.- Part I: Regulating and reducing noise today.- Balanced approach to aircraft noise management.- Perspective on 25 years of European aircraft noise reduction technology efforts and shift towards global research aimed at quieter air transport.- Future aircraft and the future of aircraft noise.- Competing agendas for land-use around airports.- Part II: Beyond flying machines, Human beings.- Impact of aircraft noise on health.- Coping with aviation noise: Non-acoustic factors influencing annoyance and sleep disturbance from noise.- Engaging communities in the hard quest for consensus.- Towards innovative ways to assess annoyance.- Towards mapping of noise impact.- ANIMA noise platform and ANIMA methodology: One-stop shop for aviation noise management.- Overall perspectives.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook discusses environmental and natural resource economics. It presents foundational knowledge for applying economics to understand environmental economics as well as for managing environmental problems and optimizing the level of natural resource extraction. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics bridges knowledge between the major natural environmental issues and which economic policies could be applied for reducing human impacts on such issues. It is distinctive from other environmental economics textbooks by covering not only basic concepts introduced in environmental economics but also explains economic models developed in resource economics for optimizing the use of non-renewable and renewable resources for sustainability. This textbook will help students understand how to apply economics for utilizing policies to mitigate environmental issues caused from the output side of economic activities such as emitting pollutants or generating wastes and those derived from the input side such as natural resource extractions.Table of ContentsWhat is Environmental Economics?.- Economic Instrument and Environmental Problems.- Economics and the Value of Nature.- Economics and Cross-Regional Environmental Problems.- Economics and Non-Renewable/Renewable Resources.- Energy and Waste Problems.- Future Issues of Environmental Economics.

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