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Calling for intentional, inclusive, and, above all, immediate action, this collection cuts through the dynamic education landscape to highlight its material contribution and actions needed to achieve 'Quality Education'.

Revisiting Sustainable Tourism in the Philippines offers a novel perspective about how sustainable tourism can be pursued against the backdrop of the events that have occurred over the years, through four themes: value chain integration, thinking small, customization of services, and quality over quantity.

This insightful work analyses how the tourism and hospitality industry may lower its carbon footprint and maintain its long-term viability by implementing energy-efficient and waste-reduction technology. The book will discuss how sustainable tourism may achieve its sustainable development objectives and contribute to a green global economy.

Focusing on opportunities for Higher Education to positively influence academic, innovation, and policy agendas, this synthesis of global approaches is an inspirational call to action for increasing meaningful engagement by universities and colleges to address SDG2 Zero Hunger.

This definitive reference edition uniquely integrates urban planning, advanced computational, and government policy-making aspects, with a focus on disseminating the momentum of Smart Cities Research in the Gulf Region.

This volume describes degradation of pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in the environment. It delves into microbes and microbial enzymes, plant microbe interactions, organophosphorus degradation, endosulfan degradation. It discusses PCBs, cypermethrin, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, and more.

This volume on bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies in sustainable soil management identifies existing developments in theoretical and functional implementation systems from recent scientific research studies on different facets of bioremediation.

Covers fundamental aspects of contaminated soil sites, discussing phytoremediation and phytotechnologies and environmental factors, assessment techniques, and remediation methods designed to combat soil and agricultural degradation. It looks at types of soil pollution and offers phytoremediation techniques. Biopesticides are also discussed.

Volume 2 of this 4-volume set focuses on rhizobacteria, archae, cyanobacteria, and microalgae as biofertilizers and for soil bioremediation. New technologies for assessment of soil bioremediation are explored.

This book provides an enlightening picture of the role of microbes for sustaining life systems and how climatic factors change the course of the processes.

Explores the various microbial responses of plants and soils caused directly or indirectly by climate change resulting from rising greenhouse gases and other factors. It considers the rapidly changing environment and the important role of microbiomes in restoring soil and plant health and in creating sustainable approaches.

Focuses on the applications of microalgae and cyanobacteria in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals, discussing techniques in algal cultivation and extraction, biological properties, and uses of algal metabolites and microalgae-based compounds in drug development, food nutrition, and cosmetics with medicinal properties.

Fungi Unveiled: Immerse yourself in cultural tales, scientific revelations, and vivid psychedelic visuals--a botanical masterpiece that enchants both the curious and the connoisseur. Explore the secret lives of 60 mushrooms in Powerful Mushrooms. Powerful Mushrooms tells the story of 60 mushrooms - divided by taxonomy and healing properties. This elegant book also highlights cultural, scientific, and historical anecdotes for readers to enjoy. All further exalted by pop- and psychedelic-style images, this book is a pleasure to browse and will become a classical botanical treatise. The mushrooms will be divided into the following categories: Exquisite Mushrooms Visionary Mushrooms Venomous Mushrooms Medicinal Mushrooms Mycoremediation Strange Mushrooms & Incredible Things

In her debut collection of comics, artist and climate activist Madeleine Jubilee Saito offers a quietly radical message of hope. Framed as a letter in response to a loved one's pain, this series of ethereal vignettes takes readers on a journey from seemingly inescapable isolation and despair, through grief and rage, toward the hope of community and connection. Drawing on her faith as well as the traditions of climate and disability justice, Saito reminds readers that if we're going to challenge fossil fuel capitalism, we must first imagine what lies beyond it: The beauty and joy of a healed world.

"People live by their stories - -how can we use them to accelerate action on climate change? Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples, exploring how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined. Through stories both raucous and poignant -- of far-flung expeditions, finding artistic inspiration in research, and traversing the systemic barriers women and mothers face in science and politics -- she brings readers into the daily rhythms and intimacies of scientific research and political negotiation. Grounded in her experiences as a climate scientist, an environmental policy advisor to Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Governor Mark Dayton, and a constant juggler of the many roles and responsibilities of professional moms, Henderson's eclectic, unconventional essays range from observations, confessions, and meditations on lab and fieldwork to a packing list for a trip to the State Capitol and a lactation diary. Readers are invited on voyages as far afield as the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico, the Juneau Icefield in Alaska, and a meteor crater in Ghana -- and as close to home as a town hall meeting in America's corn belt. A love letter to science and a bracing (and sometimes hilarious) portrait of the many obstacles women, mothers, and people digging for truth navigate, Core Samples illuminates the messy, contradictory humanity of our scientific and political institutions. Bringing us behind the closed doors of discovery and debate, Henderson exposes the flaws in research institutions, the halls of government, and the role of science in policy, yet she shows how each crack is also an invitation for camaraderie, creativity, and change."--

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region's original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first centuryPhiladelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of the nation's founding. Philadelphians, too, value these same buildings and artifacts for the stories they tell about their city. But Philadelphia existed long before the Liberty Bell was first rung, and its history extends well beyond the American Revolution.In Philadelphia: A Narrative History, Paul Kahan presents a comprehensive portrait of the city, from the region's original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century.As any history of Philadelphia should, this book chronicles the people and places that make the city unique: from Independence Hall to Eastern State Penitentiary, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross to Cecil B. Moore and Cherelle Parker. Kahan also shows us how Philadelphia has always been defined by ethnic, religious, and racial diversity-from the seventeenth century, when Dutch, Swedes, and Lenapes lived side by side along the Delaware; to the nineteenth century, when the city was home to a vibrant community of free Black and formerly enslaved people; to the twentieth century, when it attracted immigrants from around the world. This diversity, however, often resulted in conflict, especially over access to public spaces. Those two themes- diversity and conflict- have shaped Philadelphia's development and remain visible in the city's culture, society, and even its geography. Understanding Philadelphia's past, Kahan says, is key to envisioning future possibilities for the City of Brotherly Love.

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .

Is there a connection between the environmental, climate, and political crises facing us today and Western dualism? By critically examining the subject/object dualism that has supported Western philosophy and aesthetics since the 17th century, Nicola Perullo presents a relational and co-operative account of aesthetic experience and human existence.Exploring science, ontology and aesthetics through the perspectives of quantum physics' relational interpretation and non-dualistic philosophies, Perullo draws on Western theories in anthropology and cultural traditions such as Buddhism and Daoism. We see how the ontology supported by dualism renders the world to consist of static, solid, and discrete things, making them vulnerable to be controlled, dominated, and possessed. In Perullo's ground-breaking analysis an alternative way of perceiving is offered: the "haptic" modality which is guided by cooperation, communication, and correspondence. Such a mode of perception and experience is ecological, precluding the possibility of domination, hierarchy, and exploitation. This challenge to the ramifications of the subject-object model, the very cornerstone of Western thought, is an exciting invitation to rethink the purpose of philosophizing and its impact on life.

This book further develops the interventionist literature on wild animal suffering using different theoretical frameworks, including some that have never previously been used to ground our positive duties to wild animals. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment.

Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency responses. This book's operational and theoretical insights will be useful for a range of readers, from humanitarian and migration researchers and students to practitioners and policymakers.

Microfibers, synthetic fibers like polyester and nylon, are emerging contaminants widely distributed in air, water, and soil, posing significant ecological risks. The textile industry, driven by fast fashion trends, is a major source of microfiber pollution in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.

This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and GBV, arguing that the insights from this extremely tough period could be used as a springboard for positive legal, cultural and policy changes. The book will interest policymakers and researchers of gender, public health, philosophy, sociology, and politics.

This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role of mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews and other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in transforming economic life and social relations.