1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910566468603321

Autore

Gasparatos Dionisios

Titolo

Soil Contamination by Heavy Metals and Metalloids

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Soil contamination has been identified as one of the main threats to soil, inducing the degradation of global soils and driving long-term losses of the ecosystem services that they provide. As a result of human activities, the amount of soil contamination caused by heavy metal(loid)s has severely increased over the last few decades and has become a worldwide environmental issue that has attracted considerable public attention. Although many research efforts have highlighted how soil contamination is a global threat and provided an overview of the importance of healthy soil, there is still a great need for additional information from different regions around the world, and concrete strategies, which can be implemented to address the causes and impacts of this major threat, urgently need to be developed. In this context, this book was launched with the scope of bringing together articles presenting the development of novel science-based methods and applications that enhance the remediation of contaminated soil by focusing on the identification of the main sources of soil contamination caused by heavy metal(loid)s (HM)/potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in different soil types; the chemistry, potential mobility, and bioavailability of the contaminants that are commonly found in contaminated soils; the assessment of the negative impacts and risks associated with HM/PTE-induced soil contamination on crop yields; soil biota, food security, and human health; and the available methods and strategies for monitoring, assessing, and remediating soils that have been



contaminated by HM/PTEs.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910404105403321

Titolo

Normed Children : Effects of Gender and Sex Related Normativity on Childhood and Adolescence / Erik Schneider, Christel Baltes-Löhr, Matthias Müller, Svantje Volkens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

9783839430200

3839430208

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Collana

Gender Studies

Disciplina

155.43

Soggetti

Diversity In Gender

Childhood

Medicine

Law

Ethics

Education Studies

Gender

Education

Gender Studies

Educational Research

Youth

Sociology of Family

Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 CONTENTS    5 Introduction    9 Always Gender - Always Different    17 Human Diversity: To the Detriment of Norms    39 Gender Identities and Human Rights    45 The Gender Issue, a Question of Non-Discrimination    57 The Concept of Human Gender: Its Epistemological and Ethical Impact    63 The Art of not Being



Categorized Quite So (Much)    81 Who has a Disorder? Who gets to Decide?    95 An Unusual Way of Addressing Sex/Gender    113 The Sex of Knowledge: Sexuated and Gendered Anatomy    123 Determining Sex/Gender: Genes and DNA Precisely Do Not Predict the Development of a Genital Tract...    137 Cuba: A Revolution of Sexualities, Sexes/Genders and Bodies    155 Trans-Children: Between Normative Power and Self-Determination    167 Hormone Treatment of Transsexual Adolescents    189 Genetic or Biological Trans Parenthood: Dream or Reality?    197 Intersex/Gender-Related Constitutiveness: Specific Realities, Specific Norms    209 Intersex: Medical Measures on the Test Bed    229 Intersex and Human Rights    245 Medical Resistance to Criticism of Intersex Activists: Operations on the Frontline of Credibility    257 The Parent-Child Attachment and its Influence on Children Developing beyond the Binary Sex/Gender Norm    273 Transmitting Gender Competence in Biology Teacher Training    285 Prisoners of Lexicon: Cultural Cisgenderism and Transgender Children    297 Educational Activities: From Binary to Gender-Plural Approaches    313 Transidentity and Puberty    339 Optimism, Happiness and other Cruelties from a Conference on Sex/Gender Norms    351 Authors    365

Sommario/riassunto

Gender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education of children and adolescents? Conveyed via parents/family, school, and peers, they seem to be an inseparable part of human relations.After its favorable reception in German-speaking countries from 2014 onwards, this title is now available in English. The texts show that the traditional assumption of a dualistic, bipolar normativity of sex and gender leads to children being taught gender-typical behavior. The contributions in this volume explore the reasons for these practices and open the debate on the divergence between the prevailing norms and the plurality of different life plans. In addition, the book helps to disengage the topic of sex and gender from a hitherto narrowly circumscribed context of sexual orientation.The contributions point the way towards a culture of respect and mutual acceptance and show new methodological as well as theoretical approaches, e.g. by introducing the figure of the continuum, so that, in future research projects, more than just the two sexes and genders of female and male might be considered as a new normality.