Consuming cities : the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration / / edited by Nicholas Low. [et al.] |
Autore | Elander Ingemar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina |
304.2/09173/2
307.76 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LowNicholas |
Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Urban ecology (Sociology) |
Soggetto non controllato |
ecologically
sustainable development rio declaration ecological modernisation conference sustainability global |
ISBN |
1-134-66111-8
1-280-16454-9 0-203-98461-7 9786610164547 1-283-70797-7 1-134-66112-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Cities as consumers of the world's environment; Introduction; Sustainable development and the changing model of growth; The discourse of urban sustainable development; The model of economic development; The urban environment in the global economy; The demographic context: destabilised population growth; The economic context: marketisation, poverty and spatial polarisation; The political-cultural context: neo-liberal ascendancy and 'competitive cities'; Environmental distribution
Ecological distributionConclusion; References; 2 The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives; Introduction; Global environmental governance; Different approaches to environmental governance; Agenda, 21, Habitat II and the partnership approach; The rationale of partnership; From environmental threat to sustainable development; From Earth Summit to City Summit and beyond; Human Settlements; Beyond Habitat; Sustainable development and urban policy; Agenda 21 and global environmental governance: concluding remarks; References; 3 A rough road out of Rio; Introduction The Earth Summit and its promiseThe official American opposition to Rio; Antiglobalism and ultranationalism in the USA; Anti-statism as anti-environmentalism; Conclusions: rough road ahead; References; 4 Contradictions at the local scale; Introduction; Adoption of local Agenda 21 programs in the USA; Motivations for initiating Local Agenda 21 programs; Local Agenda 21 program characteristics; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5 Britain: unsustainable cities; Britain in international context; Urbanisation and the construction of social inequality; The social impact of urban planning British cities and the Rio processAction at the National Level; Action at the level of the city; Progress on LA21; Other impacts at the level of the city; The significance of Rio; Factors affecting progress on LA21; The conditions for sustainable urban development; Note; References; 6 Sustainability and urban policy in Germany; Introduction; Sustainable development at national level; Federal gavernment policy; Development co-operation: the BMZ; National urban planning of the BMBau; Environmental policy of the BMU; Civil society activities; New networks (http://www.oneworldweb.de/forum) New organisations: Germanwatch (http://www.germanwatch.org)New campaigns: sustainable Germany; The general framework of local authorities in Germany; Scope for policy development; The idea of a 'leitbild'; The institutionalisation of Local Agenda 21 in German municipalities; The issues of Local Agenda 21 in German municipalities; Problems of implementation of Local Agenda 21 in Germany; Structural changes at local level after the Rio Declaration; Changes at the inter-municipal level: the networks; Structural changes within the municipality; Summing up; Note; References 7 Japanese urban policy |
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Elander Ingemar
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Histories of Ethos: World Perspectives on Rhetoric |
Autore | Baumlin James S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (226 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
ethos
selfhood identity authenticity authority persona positionality postmodernism haunt iatrology trust storytelling Archer Aristotle Bourdieu Corder Foucault Geertz Giddens Gusdorf Heidegger African American literature slave narratives Phillis Wheatley Martin Luther King Malcolm X W.E.B. Du Bois Booker T. Washington Oglala Lakota wound ecology ecological Wounded Knee American Indian cultural wound hip hop black aesthetics New York flow layering rupture productive consumption hype entrepreneurship politics counter-knowledge class social class working class habitus social capital GLBT/LGBTQ queer normativity homonormativity polemic futurity undecidability re/disorientation legitimacy rhetorical agency outness Islamic ethos nonwestern rhetorics Islamophobia The Qur’an Sunnah Ijtihad Islamic State Muslim community (Ummah) Caliphate disability invention rehabilitation accessibility inclusion intersectionality cross-disability identity actant cyborg COVID-19 deep ecology pandemic posthumanism skeptron technoculture Braidotti Haraway Latour African slave trade trauma visual rhetorics wolof language Dakar Door of No Return Gorée Island House of Slaves Senegal contemporary ethos Ghana dialogic heteroglossia postmodern discourses proverbs sexual identity sexual presentation conservative values tradition Chinese ethos rhetoric early Chinese rhetoric Heaven cultural heritage |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Histories of Ethos |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910566472303321 |
Baumlin James S
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Introduction to horned lizards of North America [[electronic resource] /] / Wade C. Sherbrooke |
Autore | Sherbrooke Wade C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina | 597.95 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SherbrookeWade C |
Collana | California natural history guides |
Soggetto topico |
Horned toads - West (U.S.)
Reptiles - West (U.S.) |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
animal biology animal ecology animal evolution animal studies biology california canada cultural studies culture ecological ecology evolution horned lizards lizard biology lizards mexico mythology natural history natural world north america north american animals north american lizards reptile biology reptiles scholarly social studies united states |
ISBN |
1-282-35583-X
9786612355837 0-520-92675-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SPECIES ACCOUNTS -- NATURAL HISTORY -- SELECTED REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL CAPTIONS -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778594503321 |
Sherbrooke Wade C
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Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck |
Autore | Meybeck Michel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of California Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 551.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Rivers - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency
anthropocene blue nile basin case study chicago river city state drainage ecological ecology ecosystem engineering ethics ethnography flooding great flood immigration landscape natural history natural world nile river public ecology rivers riverscape scholars seine river society water system waterways western europe world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96793-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996333145503316 |
Meybeck Michel
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Taxonomy and Ecology of Marine Algae |
Autore | Park Bum Soo |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (218 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences |
Soggetto non controllato |
Ulva prolifera
Bacillus sp allelopathy photosynthetic system reactive oxygen species (ROS) antioxidative system Chlorella vulgaris cold-tolerant PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids) calorific value Cystoseira algal cartography abrasion platforms SE Mediterranean phylogeny supertree DNA sequencing harmful algal blooms brown tide life history Aureococcus anophagefferens resting stage cell Karlodinium trophic modes phagotrophy mixotrophy Scrippsiella resting cyst intercalary plate precingular plate ribotype Tetraselmis suecica associated bacterial community free-living bacteria particle associated bacteria Bacillus nitratireducens fermentation broth polyaluminum chloride coagulation (PAC) Gymnodinium catenatum cysts sub-fossil diatom sediment Suncheonman Bay new record Bysmatrum cyst eyespot morphology lagoon new record diatoms taxonomic ecological habitat Acrochaetioid Colaconema formosanum COI-5P Endophytic alga Nemaliophycidae rbcL taxonomy harmful algae molecular detection monitoring Jeju coastal waters Changjiang southwestern Yellow Sea outbreak mechanisms wind anomaly |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557613503321 |
Park Bum Soo
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Tracer and Timescale Methods for Passive and Reactive Transport in Fluid Flows |
Autore | Deleersnijder Eric |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (364 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences |
Soggetto non controllato |
residence time
Three Gorges Reservoir tributary bay density current water level regulation marina water renewal transport timescales return-flow macro-tidal wind influence floating structures San Francisco Estuary Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water age transport time scales hydrodynamic model tidal hydrodynamics stable isotopes reactive tracers tailor-made tracer design hydrogeological tracer test kinetics partitioning Mahakam Delta age exposure time return coefficient CART source water fingerprinting floodplain turbulence ADCP measurement wave bias Reynolds stress transport process passive tracers terrestrial dissolved substances Pearl River Estuary shallow lake meteorological influence sub-basins Delft3D partial differential equations boundary conditions geophysical and environmental fluid flows reactive transport interpretation methods diagnostic timescales age distribution function radionuclide tracer data collection antimony 125 (125Sb) tritium (3H) dispersion modeling English Channel North Sea Biscay Bay timescale transport hydrodynamic ecological biogeochemical coastal estuary flushing time shallow reservoir numerical modeling Lagrangian transport modelling coupled wave-ocean models ocean drifters wave-induced processes model skills |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910576873603321 |
Deleersnijder Eric
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The view from Bald Hill [[electronic resource] ] : thirty years in an Arizona grassland / / Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock ; with a foreword by Harry W. Greene |
Autore | Bock Carl E. <1942-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
Disciplina | 577.4/09791/79 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BockJane H |
Collana | Organisms and environments |
Soggetto topico | Grassland ecology - Arizona - Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary |
Soggetto non controllato |
1500s
academic american southwest animal sanctuary arizona breeding animals domestic livestock domestic ecological ecology fieldwork grasslands grazing cattle grazing livestock habitats livestock natural history natural world raising animals raising cattle raising horses raising sheep ranch life regional research sanctuary scholarly southwestern united states species |
ISBN |
1-59734-977-1
1-282-37069-3 9786612370694 0-520-92426-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- One. THE GRASSLANDS OF CORONADO -- Two. ON BEING THE CONTROL -- Three. WAITING FOR RAIN -- Four. FENCELINES -- Five. HERPS -- Six. ISLANDS OF FIRE -- Seven. OAKS,ACORNS, AND RUGGED GROUPS -- Eight. LITTLE BROWN BIRDS -- Nine. FRAGMENTS -- Ten. THE NEST BOX EXPERIMENT -- Eleven. PLAINS LOVEGRASS -- Twelve. COTTON RATS AND REAL DOGS -- Thirteen. ALIENS -- Fourteen. THE WORLD IS FULL OF LIFE -- Appendix. SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS -- NOTES -- LITERATURE CITED -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782910703321 |
Bock Carl E. <1942->
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