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Changing Senses of Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Changing Senses of Place

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.

Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 930

Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental managers, and many institutions are now developing teaching programmes to equip the next generation with the skills needed to apply the concepts more effectively. This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Colle...

Public Roads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 760

Public Roads

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Urbanization and Affordances that Promote Well-Being for (Urban) People and for a Healthy Biosphere
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Urbanization and Affordances that Promote Well-Being for (Urban) People and for a Healthy Biosphere

The world is urbanizing at an unprecedented rate. It is estimated that in the near future urban landscapes for another ca. 2.7 billion people will be built on planet Earth, approximately converting land equivalent to the size of South Africa. Such land conversion, coupled with citizen densification, increasing in-equalities, shifting diets, and emerging technologies, challenge human well-being and pose ever-increasing demand for resources generated by the Biosphere. This Research Topic concentrates on the various ways urbanization can promote individual well-being (mental, physical, and social health) as well as ecological health (a healthy Biosphere). What kind of affordances for human heal...

Stewardship and the Future of the Planet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Stewardship and the Future of the Planet

This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it. The idea of stewardship – human responsibility to tend the Earth – has been central to human cultures throughout history, as evident in the Judeo-Christian Genesis story of the Garden of Eden and in a diverse range of parallel tales from other traditions around the world. Despite such foundational hortatory stories about preserving the earth on which we live, humanity in the Anthropocene is nevertheless currently destroying the plan...

Research and Development and Economic Growth/productivity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Research and Development and Economic Growth/productivity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Multimodal Political Networks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Multimodal Political Networks

Theories and methods for analyzing multimodal relations connecting political entities, including voters, politicians, parties, events, and nations.

Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic

Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, nonetheless still has untapped potential. Presenting numerous examples and substantial data from a pan-Arctic survey and several workshops around the Arctic, Ths book offers a state of the field and a guide for mapping out the next steps. Contributors include Finn Danielsen, Noor Johnson, Olivia Lee, Maryann Fidel, Lisbeth Iversen, Michael K. Poulsen, Hajo Eicken, Ania Albin, Simone G. Hansen, Peter L. Pulsifer, Peter Thorne, and Martin Enghoff.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 483

Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the causes and potential solutions to one of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century: climate change. With deep intellectual rigour, this Encyclopedia adeptly surveys the nature and application of various international climate change policies.