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This book explores the hypothesis that public space - if conceptualized, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches - offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact landscapes.

"Plant Growth Regulators to Manage Biotic and Abiotic Stress in Agroecosystems" is a comprehensive book that explores the use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) as effective stress-reduction techniques in agricultural environments.

This edition has fully revised and updated to reflect the profound and unprecedented changes in both forests and climates since the first edition. It reflects key developments in the field of forest dynamics and large-scale processes, as well as the changes that are now manifesting in different types of forest across the globe.

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis

This book gathers theoretical and empirical studies exploring the link between global crises, sustainable tourism and the justice challenges being faced by vulnerable groups, individuals, and society. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

The photobook "Across the Sea" consists of photographs taken by Yoko Kusano during her first stay in London. For Kusano, whose photography captures everyday life's intricacies in sharp detail, it is her first contact with the city and its sights. Her story begins from somewhat distant viewpoint, but gradually Kusano accepts the muted loneliness she feels in this new world and begins to react purely and harmoniously to everything her eyes encounter. Her gaze somewhat blurred and sleepy, her vision yet lights up occasionally. The loneliness of London is the same loneliness she had known in Tokyo, after moving there on her own from her home in Fukushima. What Kusano sees before her is, after all, nothing but the same present moment as it exists anywhere else in the world. With great care, roshin books has combined Kusano's experiences into a single photobook. Born in Fukushima in 1993

This book discusses in detail the important components of battery development, such as electrodes, electrolytes, active materials, and battery construction. It starts with the advantages and limitations of the hallmark lithium-ion batteries, evolving to the introduction of other metal-based batteries.

An award-winning, beautiful, and fascinating natural history of seeds, jointly created by an artist and a scientist, now with a fully updated text and new images.

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the 21st century.

Embodying Otherness explores the presence, stillness and movement of bodies in the city, and the ways they are constantly restricted, codified and practiced. How can we challenge codes embedded in urban design which limit our right to be and move in the city? And how can we accommodate future changes by navigating the unknown and imagining alternative realities?Edited by Elahe Karimnia and Fani KostourouContributors: Adesola Akinleye/ Andrea Cetrulo/ Blanca Pujals/ Cecily Chua/ Elahe Karimnia/ Ellie Cosgrave/ Fani Kostourou/ Giuditta Vendrame/ John Bingham-Hall/ Lisa Sandlos/ Luke Gregory-Jones/ Marcos Villalba/ Matthias Sperling/ Paolo Patelli/ Paul Setúbal/ Pepa Ubera/ Rebecca Faulkner/ Rennie Tang/ Richard Sennett.

How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet? This book addresses this and related questions by adopting a local and transdisciplinary perspective on river deltas from different areas of the world. River deltas have historically been hotspots for human civilizations, as populations settled in their fertile grounds seeking resources and opportunities for prosperity. Despite this, the terrains and livelihoods of those who rely on them are under threat from human exploitation, environmental degradation, and rapidly accelerating climate change. Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this book provides a range of focused audiovisual analyses of deltaic spaces. Ranging across a variety of media, including documentary filmmaking, animation, photography, collaborative comic making, participatory visual art practices, soundwalking, and film analysis, it examines the role that contemporary audiovisual media play in forging global environmental imaginaries. In doing so, it adopts a transdisciplinary approach to the Blue Humanities from countries across the world, including Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing is a balanced and comprehensive guide to all aspects of hydraulic fracturing and covers all facets of the issue, including ongoing controversies about possible water pollution, drinking water contamination, and the potential for harmful chemical exposure.

Recalcitrant Pollutants Removal from Wastewaters examines the role of indigenous microbes in the degradation and detoxification of wastewater utilizing the latest biological treatment technologies.

"Claire Mercer tells a story about the transformation of Dar es Salaam's periphery that is being replicated everywhere in Africa. The story is about the conversion of farmland into suburban housing necklaces--not produced through large-scale corporate investments but rather through the exertions of Tanzania's middle classes. It is a story about urban ambitions as much as it is about bricks and mortar. The gates and walls of the houses in these communities do not merely speak to a desire for safety; they are also a cipher for intense dreams and aspirations. This book will resonate well beyond its immediate audience."--Ato Quayson, author of Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism "Professor Mercer presents a case of the formation and transformation of middle-class urbanites as they acquire and develop land at the city frontier without mortgage finance, creating spectacular neighborhoods. She traces access to land in Dar es Salaam from the colonial era to the independence era, when an entrepreneur class of new urbanites, whose insatiable appetite for land, has driven the city outwards at supersonic speed. The politics of the day, like the Ujamaa socialist era, provides new opportunities of acquiring land and property. The moving of the frontier is an unending episode, which makes the book extremely interesting to read."--J.M. Lusugga Kironde, Professor of Urban Economics and Management, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam "The Suburban Frontier is a major intervention concerning debates on the African city. In exploring the role of the suburbs in middle-class formation, Mercer argues that class is not an a priori category, but instead a process, one that is enacted through the everyday repetition of certain actions and practices."--Jason Sumich, author of The Middle Class in Mozambique: The State and the Politics of Transformation in Southern Africa "From discourses around the aesthetics of urban landscapes to the status associated with the 'capacity to build' and the growth of 'archipelagos' of suburban lifestyle services, Mercer takes us on a journey through the long-term and everyday processes of middle-class construction that are reconstituting the city. For anyone interested in how the middle classes come to define themselves and their spatial milieu--not just in Tanzania, but anywhere--this will be essential reading."--Tom Goodfellow, author of Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa "Through her dynamic notion of the 'suburban frontier, ' Claire Mercer has produced a model study of spatial sociology that analyzes historical and contemporary patterns of urbanization. The result is a culturally informed argument about how the aspirations, anxieties, and investments of African middle classes are shaping the world's fastest growing cities."--James R. Brennan, author of Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania "The Suburban Frontier connects very well with debates about land in the region by linking the struggle for land with middle-class aspirations. Mercer truly shows us what 'middle-classness' means and effectively utilizes the historiography of Dar es Salaam, deploying an archaeology of historical and social science research over the last thirty to forty years or more."--Garth Myers, author of Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South "Based on deep reflection on Dar es Salaam city and selected neighborhoods, Mercer examines and brings to the fore nuances that depict the everyday life shaping the urban frontiers. The ethnographic narrative approach captures quite well the sociocultural practices including the new consumption, lifestyles, leisure, and movement modes that have eluded most studies on spatialization of African cities. This is much-needed food for thought for those who are curious to understand and are acting on African urbanisms."--W. J. Kombe, Professor of Human Settlements Studies, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam

The artist's book consists of risograph printed images of 21 sculptures created for Animal Housing Fair, an art festival in Loviisa, Finland. Organic materials were gathered on site, rearranged in the studio, and returned to the original location. Foreword by ant researcher Heikki Helantera, professorof evolutionary biology, University of Oulu, Finland. Author: Timo VaittinenDesigner: Timo Vaittinen

Trophic Verses explores the life and phenomena in and around the Earth's body of soil in a dialogue between art and science. The soil reader brings together artists, curators, researchers and farmers involved in the long-term project initiated by artist Teemu Lehmusruusu. The book maps an ongoing process through the participants' approaches, knowledges, experiences and artworks.

ENGThis timely book analyses the status of hydrocarbon energy in Russia as both a saleable commodity and as a source of societal and political power. Through empirical studies in domestic and foreign policy contexts, Veli-Pekka Tykkynen explores the development of a hydrocarbon culture in Russia and the impact this has on its politics, identity and approach to climate change and renewable energy.RUSКнига «Энергия России: Углеводородная культура и изменение климата» рассказывает о том, как нефть и газ текут через российское общество. В работе исследуется и то, как зависимость от ископаемых источников энергии объясняется и оправдывается в глазах простых россиян и какую роль эти источники играют в политике страны. Хотя современная Россия полностью зависит от нефти и газа, ст&

This book delves into the neglected potential for mitigating regional disparities, conducting a meticulous examination of environmental disparities, economic imbalances, and overarching social inequalities in Southern European regions.

The book provides up-to-date insights into the potential of microbial and enzyme-based processes for wastewater treatment, addressing challenges and limitations while offering alternative methods for effluent treatment and water reclamation.