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This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences. It will be a must-read for energy policy makers, researchers, and environmental historians.

Data governance is the cornerstone of digital economy growth, particularly in Asia, where both the digital economy and the policy space are fast expanding. The essays collected delve into how diverse and rapidly evolving data governance models of ASEAN countries and their Asian partners are shaping the regional digital economy integration.

This book offers the first systematic review of public bank lending in the Global South's water sector. It appeals to students and scholars of water resource management, water and health, sanitation, and sustainable development, and professionals and policymakers working with public and development banks to deliver safe water and sanitation.

This book offers an overview of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulation and sustainable development in Bangladesh. For researchers, students, and academics of economics, politics, sustainable development and economic growth. Also FDI strategists, policymakers, negotiators, administrators, and legislators.

Responding to growing interest in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and global concern over climate change, this volume provides an analysis of how our understanding of the relationship between environment and education has evolved during the past fifty years.

This book questions the definition of what makes a product sustainable and argues that a holistic approach to sustainable product design is required. For researchers and students of sustainable product design, environmental studies, engineering, and sustainable business management, and also representatives of the business community.

This book questions the definition of what makes a product sustainable and argues that a holistic approach to sustainable product design is required. For researchers and students of sustainable product design, environmental studies, engineering, and sustainable business management, and also representatives of the business community.

This book critically analyses key facets of pre-census activity, including its timing, duration, and method of enumeration.

This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities.Achieving more equitable and prosperous urban places requires a critical examination of the design and layout of our cities.

This book analyzes landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Tel Aviv, emphasizing the global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments. For scholars, researchers, and academics studying waste studies, the environment, cities, and sustainable development, as well as for policymakers and eco artists.

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, a tool to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services. For scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students of sustainability, design, visual communication, fashion, consumption, media and journalism, and sustainable development.

This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales. It introduces an innovative 'plotted' approach which empowers reading, creates connections to localities, histories, and communities, and inspires interest in literature and geography.

A comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchersOver the past half century, major achievements have been made in the study of Earth’s surface structure and kinematics and the internal dynamics of the lithosphere and mantle. Many of these advances have relied on the integration of data and models from plate tectonics and geodynamics, yet traditional divisions persist in how these two disciplines are taught and practiced. This textbook bridges the gap, connecting geophysical and geological approaches to understand the physical processes that shape our planet’s evolution, from mantle convection to orogeny and earthquakes. An innovative approach to the solid Earth system, Tectonic Geodynamics provides a basis to explore the fundamental connections between the planet’s deep interior dynamics and the surface.The first textbook to integrate tectonics, structural geology, geodynamics, geodesy, and seismology in a single volumeOffers a physics-focused guide for understanding how the solid Earth system operatesUses a “no prerequisites” approach supported by an extensive appendix that includes a calculus and linear algebra primer and coverage of key topics such as coordinate systems and spectral analysisIncludes a wealth of exercises and end-of-chapter review questionsAn ideal textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in geology, geophysics, and related fields such as physics and engineeringInvaluable for self-study and as a self-contained resource for researchersSupporting materials provided for instructors, including an instruction guide, full-color illustration package, and sample syllabi

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Focusing on the lived experiences of Afro-Colombians processing and resisting violence against their ecological communities, Visions of Global Environmental Justice employs accounts of the supernatural narratively and analytically to frame a contemporary struggle for environmental justice. The book applies Achille Mbembé's theorization of necropolitics to the environmental racism of the US War on Drugs in Colombia, specifically the aerial eradication of coca in the comunidades negras of the Pacific Coast. Through critical examination and deconstruction of transnational mythmaking and local oral tradition, Visions of Global Environmental Justice illustrates that non/humans rendered expendable by US-driven drug (necro)politics are indispensable to both the conceptualization and the realization of environmental justice globally. Far from being a study singularly focused on the symptoms of environmental issues, this book creatively guides us toward a broader conceptualization of environmental racism and justice across geographic scales and non/human agencies.

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digital technologies and the religious experiences of African Americans.

Immerse yourself in this beautiful, absorbing guide to the marine world.Earth owes its identity as the blue planet to the vast oceans of water that cover almost 70 per cent of its surface. Home to an abundance of marine life and vital in regulating Earth's climate, the oceans are also the backdrop to daring exploits of seafaring and to colourful mythological tales. Combining arresting photography, rich illustrations, and engaging, expertly written text, The Ocean Book showcases the animals and plants, physical geography, and captivating human stories of the world's oceans.Whether you're interested in blue whales, penguins, coral reefs, whirlpools, or the golden age of pirates, this is the perfect exploration of the ocean realm.

This book is a comprehensive guide to sustainable development and construction in Asia. Chapters focus on different aspects of sustainable construction, offering in-depth analysis, case studies, and practical insights. A useful read for practitioners, researchers and consultants in the field of sustainable development in construction.

"What did America lose with the decline of the passenger train? Much more than most Americans think, observes Alfred Runte, a leading historian of our national parks. Including parks and wilderness, the greatest loss has been to the American land. No technology was ever more respectful-protective-of what it means to have a national landscape. In song and story we call it America the Beautiful. And yet we let our best beautifiers disappear. Now the landscape suffers in our mindless rush to get rid of old technology and blindly embrace the new. Wind farms and solar power plants cajole us to redefine beauty itself, allowing access even to protected wilderness. No railroad ever asked for that' Originally published in 2006 as Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation, the book today is even more timely, now we see what policy-makers have in mind as replacements for railroads. Offering a new preface and epilogue, Runte stands his ground. Absent restraint, no technology is practicing conservation. Railroads renew the hope that the trains, i.e., the restraint, we so carelessly threw away may still be restored to preserve the remaining glories of our continent"--

"Find pleasure, joy, and calm through communing with nature's majesty in a self-care book overflowing with untamed beauty. Chad Hanson's captivating photography allows us to observe wild horses in their natural element, offering life-changing moments of splendor, mindfulness, and wonder"--

This book addresses scientific and engineering aspects of earthquakes, which are generally taught and published on separately. This book intends to fill the gap between these two fields associated with earthquakes and help seismologists and earthquake engineers better communicate with and understand each other.

This collection of 40 orchids tells the many intriguing stories of this beguiling plant, including notes and letters held in Kew's archives from the Victorian plant hunters who scoured the globe for new species. Box includes 40 frameable art prints.

The discovery of a bird painting by Edward Wilson, who died with Scott on their return from the South Pole, hit the headlines in 2017. The bird was a dead treecreeper, an insignificant inhabitant of European woodland. Why was it there?

From the “scientist finding climate change’s smoking gun” (WIRED) and a Time 100 Most Influential Person comes a bracing investigation into extreme weather’s impact on the world’s most vulnerable. For fans of Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg.Climate change does not affect everyone equally. While many scientists focus on studying climate change as a physics problem, Friederike Otto, one of the world’s most renowned climate scientists, sees it as a symptom of the global crisis of inequality, not its cause. In this ambitious, fast-paced book, she offers concrete examples of how extreme weather events caused by climate change reveal uncomfortable truths about the failures of political and social infrastructures around the world.Comparing eight extreme weather events—including heat waves in North America, floods in Pakistan, droughts in Madagascar, and wildfires in Australia—Otto reveals how climate change is affecting the world’s most vulnerable, whether they are women working on farms in Ghana during heat waves, or elderly people who died during floods in Germany. In particular, Otto examines the Global North’s extractionist view of the Global South, a view that ensures elites are protected while others bear the brunt of the climate disaster.Climate Injustice shares the stories of real people, shining a light on the real damage inflicted on real lives. Above all, it shows how racism, colonialism, sexism, and climate change are interconnected, and how positive changes on one level can lead to positive effects on another. Authored by the co-founder of World Weather Attribution, a cutting-edge scientific method that pinpointed the role of climate change in extreme weather events for the first time, Climate Injustice offers a groundbreaking view on the fires, floods, heatwaves, and storms that are wreaking havoc at an alarming pace.Inequality and injustice are at the core of what makes climate change a problem for humanity. Fairness and global justice must therefore be at the core of the solution. Climate justice concerns everyone.

From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world—a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways.“Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife.”—from the New York Times profile of author Benoît GallotFor Benoît Gallot, Père Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You’re guaranteed to lose your way. You’ll feel as though you’ve stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Père Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace—a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones.In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Père Lachaise—its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments—alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Père-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourists—plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death.Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox—in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot’s daily photographs of Père-Lachaise’s flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living.A bestseller in France, lauded as “a superb book … full of humor, empathy, and great sweetness” by the French literary press, The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a life-affirming read that will stand the test of time.

A spell casting parable of possibility, as well as a meditation on sacrifice, solitude, and the mother-daughter relationship. Crocosmia is a philosophical fable, a work of speculative, feminist eco-fiction centered on Maya, an elderly woman, recollecting the "great turning"-an epochal shift away from Capitalist death drive towards egalitarian eco-socialism. Maya recalls how her mother, Jane, a revolutionary poet, artist, and carpenter-philosopher created a telekinetic artwork that helped catalyze radical social transformation and the demise of patriarchal warlordism. The novel dreams of environmental healing, radical social, economic, and cultural transformation and speculates about the artist's role in this process.