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Urban Growth and the Circular Economy
Presented at the 1st International Conference on Urban Growth and the Circular Economy that was held in Alicante, Spain the papers included in this book focus on the continuing and rapid growth of cities and their regions of influence and how that has led to the need to find new solutions which allow for promoting their sustainable development. The quest for the Sustainable City has until recently focused on the efficient use of resources with the application of technical advances giving rise to the definition of SMART Cities. The economic model emphasised however is still “linear” in the sense that the design and consumption follows the pattern of extraction of natural resources, manufa...
Women and Counter-Power
This landmark collection of essays by scholars and activists compares the experiences of women in various countries, both historically and currently. "These scholarly essays document women's political activity in anti-establishment movements, both historical and recent, in some of the nations peripheral to the powerful Western democracies and the U.S.S.R. Material provides information, as well as insights, not readily available elsewhere."--Small Press
Vampire
In der Figur des Vampirs manifestiert sich das Beste wie das Schlechteste, was Menschen sich selbst zutrauen. Unsere Vorstellungen vom blutsaugenden Wesen haben im Laufe der letzten Jahrhunderte einen Wandel erlebt, den Thomas Macho als einen "Zivilisationsprozess der Vampire" bezeichnet hat. Der Sammelband mit Beiträgen aus ethnologisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zeichnet diesen Bedeutungswandel nach, den Vampir_innen in der Gegenwart erfahren haben: von der Verkörperung grenzüberschreitend-eskapistischer Wünsche hin zum alltäglich gelebten Triebverzicht der ›guten‹ Vampire, wie man sie beispielsweise aus der Twilight-Serie kennt. Die Beiträger_innen widmen sich der gesamten Bandbreite moderner Imaginationen von Vampirgestalten in digitalen Spielen, Serien und literarischen Fiktionen und geben darüber hinaus auf der Grundlage lebensgeschichtlicher Interviews mit sogenannten "Vampyr_innen" Einblicke in das Phänomen eines gelebten "Vampyrismus".
Cell Biology of Viral Infections
Viruses exhibit an elegant simplicity as they are so basic, but so frightening. Although only a few are life threatening, they have substantial implications for human health and the economy, as exemplified by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Viruses are rather small infectious agents found in all types of life forms, from animals and plants to prokaryotes and archaebacteria. They are obligate intracellular parasites, and as such, subvert many molecular and cellular processes of the host cell to ensure their own replication, amplification, and subsequent spread. This Special Issue addresses the cell biology of viral infections based on a collection of original research articles, communications, opinions, and reviews on various aspects of virus–host cell interactions. Together, these articles not only provide a glance into the latest research on the cell biology of viral infections but also include novel technological developments.
Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as ‘victims’, overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children’s capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
Theories Of The Policy Process
Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each policy process theory. In this thoroughly revised fifth edition, each chapter has been updated to reflect recent empirical work, innovative theorizing, and a world facing challenges of historic proportions with climate change, social and political inequities, and pandemics, among recent events. Updated and revised chapters include Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Multiple Streams Framework, Policy Feedback Theory, Advocacy Coalition Framework, Narrative Policy Framework, Institut...
Fascist Pigs
How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion. In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil. Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in th...
