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UNINA9910789145403321 |
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Barlow Maude |
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Blue future : protecting water for people and the planet forever / / Maude Barlow |
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New York : , : New Press, The, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Water resources development - Economic aspects |
Water resources development - Government policy |
Water rights - Government policy |
Water-supply - Political aspects |
Water-supply - Economic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction; Principle One: Water Is a Human RIght; 1. The Case for the Right to Water; 2. The Fight for the Right to Water; 3. Implementing the Right to Water; 4. Paying for Water for All; PrInciple Two: Water Is a Common HerItage; 5. Water - Commons or Commodity?; 6. Targeting Public Water Services; 7. The Loss of the Water Commons Devastates Communities; 8. Reclaiming the Water Commons; PrInciple Three: Water Has Rights Too; 9. The Trouble with "Modern Water"; 10. Corporate Control of Farming Is Extinguishing Water; 11. Energy Demands Place an Unsustainable Burden on Water |
12. Putting Water at the Centre of Our LivesPrInciple Four: Water Can Teach Us How to LIve Together; 13. Confronting the Tyranny of the One Percent; 14. Creating a Just Economy; 15. Protecting Land, Protecting Water; 16. A Road Map to Conflict or to Peace?; Notes; Further ReadIng; Acknowledgements; Index |
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"In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, |
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grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right-but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing crisis. In this major new book, Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a "water-secure and water-just world." Not only does she reveal the powerful players even now impeding the recognition of the human right to water, she argues that water must not become a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Focusing on solutions, she includes stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as government policies that work for both people and the planet. At a time when climate change has moved to the top of the national agenda and when the stage is being set for unprecedented drought, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees in search of water, Blue Future is an urgent call to preserve our most valuable resource for generations to come. "-- |
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UNINA9910437570803321 |
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Shape perception in human and computer vision : an interdisciplinary perspective / / Sven J. Dickinson, Zygmunt Pizlo, editors |
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New York, : Springer, 2013 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 502 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Advances in computer vision and pattern recognition, , 2191-6586 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DickinsonSven J |
PizloZygmunt |
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Form perception |
Computer vision |
Pattern recognition systems |
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The Role of Mid-Level Shape Priors in Perceptual Grouping and Image Abstraction -- Symmetry is the Sine Qua Non of Shape -- Flux Graphs |
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for 2D Shape Analysis -- An Integrated Bayesian Approach to Shape Representation and Perceptual Organization -- Perceptual Organization of Shape -- Two-Dimensional Shape as a Mid-Level Vision Gestalt -- Shape Priors for Image Segmentation -- Observations on Shape from Shading in Humans -- Deformations and Lighting -- The Shape of Space -- The Visual Hierarchy Mirage -- Natural Selection and Shape Perception -- Shape as an Emergent Property -- Representing 3D Shape and Location -- Joint Registration and Shape Analysis of Curves and Surfaces -- The Statistics of Shape, and Reflectance, and Lighting in Real-World Scenes -- Structure vs. Appearance and 3D vs. 2D -- Visual Shape Perception and Representation -- 3D Face Reconstruction from Single Two-Tone and Color Images -- Perception and Action without Veridical Metric Reconstruction -- A Stochastic Grammar for Natural Shapes -- Hard-Wired and Plastic Mechanisms in 3D Shape Perception -- Holistic Shape Recognition -- Shape Processing as Inherently Three-Dimensional -- The Role of Shape in Visual Recognition -- Human Object Recognition -- Shape-Based Object Discovery in Images -- Schema-Driven Influences in Recovering 3D Shape from Motion in Human and Computer Vision -- Detecting, Representing and Attending to Visual Shape -- Toward a Dynamical View of Object Perception -- Modeling Shapes with Higher-Order Graphs: Methodology and Applications -- Multisensory Shape Processing -- Shape-Based Instance Detection under Arbitrary Viewpoint. |
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Shape perception has always been important in vision research, yet it is now attracting more interest than ever before, fueling the need for an interdisciplinary approach that bridges the fields of computer vision and human vision. This comprehensive and authoritative text/reference presents a unique, multidisciplinary perspective on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision. Rather than focusing purely on the state of the art, the book provides viewpoints from world-class researchers reflecting broadly on the issues that have shaped the field. Drawing upon many years of experience, each contributor discusses the trends followed and the progress made, in addition to identifying the major challenges that still lie ahead. Topics and features: Presents 33 contributions from an international selection of pre-eminent researchers from both the computer vision and human vision communities Examines each topic from a range of viewpoints, rather than promoting a specific paradigm Discusses topics on contours, shape hierarchies, shape grammars, shape priors, and 3D shape inference Reviews issues relating to surfaces, invariants, parts, multiple views, learning, simplicity, shape constancy and shape illusions Addresses concepts from the historically separate disciplines of computer vision and human vision using the same “language” and methods This interdisciplinary collection is essential reading for students and researchers seeking to understand the broader landscape of the problem in order to build their expertise on a firm foundation. Dr. Sven Dickinson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Zygmunt Pizlo is Professor of Mathematical/Computational Cognitive Science in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, USA. |
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