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This book argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children's growth and socialization. It explores how child-friendly social capital can be cultivated through urban planning and community development in cooperative housing, outdoor play spaces, streets, parks, and neighborhoods.

This book argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children's growth and socialization. It explores how child-friendly social capital can be cultivated through urban planning and community development in cooperative housing, outdoor play spaces, streets, parks, and neighborhoods.

This book is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture. It will appeal to researchers of vegetarianism and veganism, human-animal relations, childhood studies, children's literature, periodical studies and Victorian studies.

How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road.

This book presents evidence of how digitalization and task-biased technological change are affecting the labor markets of different regions of the world and examines the factors that cause this inequality among nations. It considers questions such as what the impact of digital skills on employment, inequalities and public policies might be.

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene.

This book covers perspectives addressing the sustainable development goals through analytical and case studies on municipal and biomedical waste management. It consists of ten selectively curated highly technical chapters including practical case studies and examples.

This book assembles diverse voices and approaches in geographic thinking on race and racialization during an era of climate crisis, toxic legacies, state violence, mass extinctions, carceral logics, and racial injustices that shape-and are shaped by-the (re)production of nature.

This book explores the representations of Central and Eastern European histories in digital games.

This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of fictional and non-fictional narratives of 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India. It contributes to the expanding field of trauma and memory studies in literature through an interdisciplinary approach.

Emergent Pollutants in Freshwater Plankton Communities introduces the environmental and health monitoring techniques for emergent pollutants and their influences on the community structure of lentic freshwater plankton. It highlights the challenges posed by the improper treatment or disposal of industrial pharmaceutical wastes.

This volume shows music educators how music teaching and learning can help address humanity's greatest challenge-the ecological crisis. It provides essential background knowledge in ecomusicology, from compositions about nature, soundscape experiences, activist songs, and practical lesson ideas.

The Transnational Law of Renewable Energy provides a unified and comprehensive analysis of the transnational law that governs renewable energy projects, providing a transnational legal approach to derisking these projects. The volume establishes the first transnational lex regenerative, or transnational law of renewable energy.

This book discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the European Union's climate and energy policy.

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume covers the period from Industrial and Post-Industrial Scotland in 1850 to the present day.

Experts from the natural and social sciences examine the coexistence of productive and exploitative behavior strategies observable in many species at many levels. In the natural world, some agents (investors) employ strategies that provide resources, services, or information, while others (exploiters) gain advantages through these efforts. This behavior coexists and can be observed in many species and at many levels. For example, bacteria depend on the existence of biofilms to synthesize constituent proteins; cancerous cells employ angiogenesis to feed a tumor; and parents forgo vaccinating their children yet benefit from herd immunity. Two independent research traditions have developed to analyze this behavior--one couched in evolutionary theory championed by behavioral ecologists, the other in social science concepts advocated by economists. In this book experts from economics, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, public health, and anthropology look for commonalities in understanding and approach. The contributors consider parasitic strategies in ecological and economic terms; the governance of natural resources, with insights from "producer-scrounger models," forest management, and game theory; human health, discussing therapeutic opportunities, public health economics, and the integration of perspectives; and behavioral, social, and institutional consequences of exploitation strategies. Contributors Michal Arbilly, Zoltán Barta, Jan Börner, Sam P. Brown, Max Burton-Chellew, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Sasha R. X. Dall, Miguel dos Santos, Frédérique Dubois, Paul W. Ewald, Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Ben Greiner, Reem Hajjar, Philipp Heeb, Markus Herrmann, Tatsuya Kameda, Alex Kacelnik, Kiryl Khalmetski, Andrew J. King, Hanna Kokko, Michael Kosfeld, Wolfgang Leininger, Arnem Lotem, Kimberley J. Mathot, John M. McNamara, Friederike Mengel, Johan A. Oldekop, Daniel Pauly, Benjamin Roche, Devesh Rustagi, William J. Sutherland, Frédéric Thomas, Thomas J. Valone, Joël van der Weele, Björn Vollan, Claus Wedekind, Bruce Winterhalder