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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America â€â€¦
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- 9783030780395
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- xxi, 264 p. : ill.
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- 304.2014 SJO a
Asia-Pacific fishing livelihoods
This open access book explores fishing livelihoods in the context of the wider contexts in which they are embedded. Drawing on case studies from across the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights how fishing livelihoods are shaped by globalisation, social relationships and governance. The book concludes by showing how better understanding these relationships can contribute to governance for he…
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- 9783030795917
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- xv, 112 p. : ill.
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- 333.956095 FAB a
Beyond holy Russia: the life and times of Stephen Graham
This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best k…
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- 9781783740147
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- x, 355 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- Call Number
- 914.703
African cities and collaborative futures : urban platforms and metropolitan l…
African cities and collaborative futures: Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the nature of African cities – the interactions of residents with infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability, seen through local narratives and theories. This groundbreaking collection, drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first…
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- 9781526155351
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- xvi, 190 p. : ill
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- 307.76096 KEI a
Parental life courses after separation and divorce in Europe
This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how le…
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- 9783030445751
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- x, 308 p. : ill.
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies volume 12
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- 306.815 KRE p
Microplastic in the environment: pattern and process
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…
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- 9783030786274
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- xv, 354 p. : ill.
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- Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management
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- 363.738 BAN m
Coleridge's laws : a study of Coleridge in Malta
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power—acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this book, Barry Hough and Howard…
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- 9781906924140
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- xvi. :406 p.
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- 340.094585.
Global governance in a world of change
Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, …
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- 9781108915199
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- xii, 381 p. : ill.
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- 341.2 BAR g
Scale : discourse and dimensions of social life
"Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macro events. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scala…
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- 15
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- 9780520965430
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- xi, 277 p. : ill.
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- 300.72 LEM s
Global Pathways to Education : Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International …
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajectoÂries and patÂterns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and deÂvelopment of educaÂtion systems can be traced back to inherent national factors, as well as to the internaÂtional diffusion of ideas. The research prese…
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- 9783030788858
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- 318p. ; ill.
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- 370.1 KER g
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