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Sand Stories
The overuse of sand is 'one of the major sustainability challenges of the 21st-century.' - United Nations Environment Program, 2019 Sand is the hidden foundation of our society. In Sand Stories, Kiran Pereira maps out the big picture of why it is the most consumed commodity on the planet after water. The book also examines the impacts of our seemingly insatiable demand for sand on our global Sustainable Development Goals. The concern is that sand is a non-renewable resource and not every kind of sand is useful. While the number of sand's uses beyond glass and concrete is growing, its sources are not. The good news is that there are solutions to this alarming global problem including those that foster a circular economy. We now need the political will to enact them.
Sand Stories
In Sand Stories, Kiran Pereira examines why sand is the most consumed commodity on the planet after water and the impacts of this seemingly insatiable demand for sand. The book offers a wealth of potential solutions and is richly illustrated.
Nature, Economy and Society
This book presents an enquiry into the interface between nature, economy and society, which is still in its early stages, notwithstanding the commendable progress and advances made in the field of environmental and natural resource economics within the ever-expanding boundaries of economics as a discipline. It further delineates the evolution of an inter-disciplinary framework for analyzing the status, the future goals, mechanisms and policy instruments that can help move towards a more ecologically sustainable, economically beneficial and socially just future. A pre-requisite for preparing a comprehensive and coherent framework involves unfolding the multiple layers of interconnectedness be...
Digital Lives in the Global City
Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life as digital infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging work with personal time and space, increasing the power of financial institutions, and enhancing state and corporate surveillance capacities. This nuanced exploration engages with a wide range of issues: the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, the rise and fall of illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York. In the process, it reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities.
The World in a Grain
A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our l...
Überbau
Wo werden die Rohstoffe für die fortschrittverheißenden architektonischen und infrastrukturellen Großprojekte in Stahl und Beton abgebaut? Wie ist Architektur mit dem globalen System der Lieferketten verstrickt? Wer profitiert von der Verteilung von Grund und Boden? Welche Arbeits- bedingungen herrschen auf europäischen Großbaustellen? Und in bundesrepublikanischen Architekturbüros? Wie wird Architektur heute produziert? Die Publikation handelt von Umweltzerstörung und Land Grabbing der Zementindustrie in Indonesien und Vietnam, den Methoden der Sandmafia am Mekong, und die Extrakti- on von Lithium in Bolivien für die Batterien unserer Smart Cities. Sie beleuchtet strukturelle bodenp...
Geosoziologie
Markus Schroer plädiert in seinem neuen Buch für eine umfassende Ausweitung der soziologischen Denkzone angesichts der Herausforderungen des Anthropozäns. Dieses ist nicht bloß der Begriff für ein neues geologisches Zeitalter, sondern steht für eine umfassende Infragestellung des bisherigen Selbstverständnisses des Menschen und seiner bisherigen Auffassung von Natur, Kultur und Gesellschaft. Geosoziologie untersucht unter Rückgriff auf klassische und aktuelle Texte, wie Böden, Steine, Berge, Meere, Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen in wechselnden Nachbarschafts-, Konkurrenz- und Kooperationsbeziehungen die Erde als Raum des Lebens gestalten.
Canadian Medical Directory
A biographical listing of physicians practicing in Canada. Data includes name, address, university, graduation date, degrees, specialist certificates, and field of practice. Includes information pertaining to the practice of medicine in Canada including organizations, boards, and a listing of hospitals and universities.
The Impossibility Of Mapping (Urban Asia)
Following the lifework (1960s to 2010) of visionary Singaporean architect William S. W. Lim, The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) is a compelling compilation of case studies and historical projects. This multifaceted publication takes Lim's ideas to a future Asia: a region defined by an irreducibly complex urban topography under constant flux. Looking from Singapore to Southeast Asia, and from this region to Asia more expansively (and beyond), it presents a diverse range of activities which may be productively framed through the notion of critical spatial practice.The book has three interconnected points of departure: Lim's lifework; the interdisciplinary exhibition 'Incomplete Urbanism...
Encounter with Kiran
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