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Transport in Human Scale Cities
This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the city and within various organisations responsible for cities.
Handbook on the Business of Sustainability
This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research.
The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha
A “compelling and elegantly written” history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual (Times Literary Supplement, UK). The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, the Brazilian author and geographer Euclides da Cunha led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river. The Scramble for th...
Tuulin viemää
Pakko löytää jostain sulhanen kun hääpäivä on kerran sovittu. Meteorologinaisen kolmenkympin kriisistä kertova romanttinen komedia lajin parhaiden brittielokuvien tapaan saa lukijan mainiolle tuulelle. Tuuli viihtyy mukavasti meteorologin työssään, kunnes eräänä päivänä kilahtaa kuunnellessaan työkaverinsa häävalmisteluja. Hänenkin on päästävä naimisiin, ja ajankohdaksi hän päättää 30-vuotissyntymäpäivänsä. Pieni ongelma on se, että hän sopii sen vain itsensä kanssa, sulhasesta ei ole tietoakaan.?? Työkaverit tyrmistyvät kun Tuuli irtisanoutuu työstään keskittyäkseen häävalmisteluihin arvoituksellisen, ulkomailla viihtyvän tulevan puolison kanssa miehen jota ei ole kukaan nähnyt. ?Löytääkseen prinssin joutuu joskus suutelemaan muutamaa sammakkoa. Mutta sammakoksi kandidaatit paljastuvat vasta jonkin ajan jälkeen, niin työkaveri kuin eksäkin. Vaikka Tuuli oli jo varma siitä, että oli löytänyt sen oikean. Mutta entä sitten sisaren lanko, salskea ja kunnollinen palomies?
Sociolinguistic Variation in Urban Linguistic Landscapes
Urban linguistic landscapes reflect and create sociolinguistic, societal and urban dynamics. This book explores these relations scientifically and, focusing on the linguistic landscapes of selected cities in northern and southern Europe, sheds light on how urban areas with diverse profiles differ, and how linguistic landscapes change through tourism and migration, or in times of crisis. The book puts forward sophisticated and novel ways of approaching urban sociolinguistics and enhances understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced when studying sociolinguistic variation in these linguistic landscapes. This book is targeted especially at scholars in the field of urban sociolinguistics wishing to approach the subject through the lens of linguistic landscapes. It also raises interesting points to anyone involved in language planning and policy reflection, as well as those engaged in urban redevelopment planning. Last but not least, it offers theoretical and methodological guidance to students and researchers in a wider variety of disciplines.
Maito
Kaataako lasiin maitoa vai ei? Miksi mitään maitoon liittyvää ei ennen kyseenalaistettu, mutta nyt niin tehdään? Superjuomasta kiistelevien äärilaitojen keskusteluun tuodaan järjen ääni. Lihansyönnin vähentämisestä paasaavat kaikki, mutta miten on maidon laita? Mainoksissa Teemu Selänne menestyi maidon ansiosta, Lemmy Kilmister sen takia, ettei sitä juonut. Eikä se ole ainoa kiista, jota maidosta on käyty. Kansallisylpeydestä kiistakapulaksi joutuminen herättää kuumia tunteita, ja se jos jokin kertoo siitä, kuinka tärkeä maito suomalaisille on. Maito oli ennen ruokapöydän itsestäänselvyys ja terveen elämän peruspilari. Sittemmin maidonjuonnin autuutta on nouss...
Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental Sustainability: A Socioeconomic and Political Analysis
This report is a socioeconomic and political analysis of environmental sustainability in terms of the present state of the environment, what we can do to reverse the negative trends, and what the current and potential barriers are. First, it offers a background of the issue through a historical perspective. How we got here has a lot to do with how previous generations behaved towards the environment. Similarly, how we behave will determine the kind of environment future generations will have to contend with. It looks at the dynamics likely to impact the balance of nature. Also, because understanding what is biodiversity and why is it important are essential in order to grasp the concept of s...
Environmental Issues Today [2 volumes]
This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of the major environmental issues of the 21st century, with a special focus on current challenges, trends, and policy choices. This set provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and focused resource for understanding the nature and scope of environmental challenges facing the United States and the world in the 21st century, as well as options for meeting those challenges. Volume One covers environmental trends and challenges within the United States, while Volume Two illuminates environmental issues and choices around the world. Issues covered in both volumes include vital topics such as climate change, air and water pollution, natural resource and species protection, and agricultural/industrial impacts on the environment and public health. For all topics, the authors—scholars and experts hailing from a wide range of environmental and policy fields—detail a range of political, social, and economic options for the future and explain why the issue in question is important for society and people as well as the natural world.
