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S, Fineschi, IUFRO Working Party S2.04-01 Population Genetics and Ecological Genetics, IUFRO Working Party S2.04-05 Biochemical Genetics, and Joint Meeting of the Working Parties S2.04-01 Population Genetics and Ecological Genetics and S2.04-05 Biochemical Genetics of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) (1988 : Porano, Italy), eds. Biochemical markers in the population genetics of forest trees: Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Working Parties S2.04-01 Population Genetics and Ecological Genetics and S2.04-05 Biochemical genetics of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Porano, Italy, October 1988. SPB Academic Publishing, 1991.
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J, Pitcher T., Ratana Chuenpagdee, and University of British Columbia. Fisheries Centre., eds. Harvesting krill: Ecological impact, assessment, products and markets. Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 1995.
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Magnaghi, Alberto, ed. Il territorio bene comune. Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-134-8.
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The central theme of this book is ecological and territorialist conversion as a strategic response to the crisis. 'The return to the territory' can be conceived as a valorisation of the common heritage of assets (environmental, urban fabric, landscape, socio-cultural) that mould the identity and lifestyles of every place on the earth. This calls for several issues to be addressed: the fusing of fragmented knowledge into a science of the territory that addresses the problems of socio-territorial and environmental decay in an integrated manner; the definition of new markers and policies of public welfare and happiness, including the landscape as a measure of the quality of peoples' life-worlds; the boosting of tools of local democracy and supportive federalism; the restoration of centrality to the rural world in the production of healthy food, hydro-geological protection measures, ecological reclamation, urban and landscape quality and integrated economies.
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Kox, H. L. M. Influence of international markets on ecological sustainability of agricultural production: A conceptual model. Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Economische Wetnschappen en Econometrie, 1992.
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Lokakarya Tentang "Kepentingan Negara Berkembang atas Indikasi Geografis, Sumber Daya Genetika, dan Pengetahuan Tradisional" (2005 Jakarta, Indonesia). Kepentingan negara berkembang terhadap hak atas indikasi geografis, sumber daya genetika, dan pengetahuan tradisional. Lembaga Pengkajian Hukum Internasional, Fakultas Hukum, Universitas Indonesia, 2005.
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Gadzhiev, Nazirhan, Sergey Konovalenko, and Mihail Trofimov. Theoretical aspects of the formation and development of the ecological economy in Russia. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1836240.
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The monograph is devoted to the place and role of ecology and environmental safety in ensuring sustainable socio-economic development of society. In the conditions of the forced transition of the economies of the leading countries of the world from an industrial type to a new formation of a green economy aimed at ensuring the preservation of ecological systems and the maximum reduction of damage to the biodiversity of ecological systems, the Russian Federation faces the task of forming a new course of socio-economic development of society focused on the preservation of natural potential and ecology at a level normal for the maintenance of the vital activity of society, flora and fauna in the foreseeable future and in the long term.
 The role and importance of environmental safety in the system of ensuring the economic security of the state are outlined, the concept of the ideology of "Global Commons" in ensuring sustainable socio-economic development of society is considered, the problems and prospects of the implementation of the program "Green Course of Russia" are analyzed, special aspects of environmental audit, accounting and control, damage assessment in the field of ecology are investigated. Special attention is paid to the forecast of the dynamics of key environmental indicators for the medium term. The main directions of increasing the effectiveness of the mechanism for ensuring environmental safety in a market economy are proposed.
 For a wide range of readers interested in environmental economics. It will be useful for students, postgraduates and teachers of economic universities.
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Egorenkov, Leonid. Domestic tourism. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1882571.
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The textbook examines the tourist and recreational resources and the tourist and recreational potential of Russia, the geography of tourist demand, recreation and tourist infrastructure. The most popular tourist and recreational centers, facilities and routes are marked and characterized. A brief description of promising tourist and recreational areas of Russia is given, and Russia's place in world ecological tourism is shown. Attention is paid to the adaptive potential of the traveler and tourist, as well as the safety of tourism. It is intended for students studying in the recreational and tourism profiles of the training area "Service and Tourism". It can be useful for teachers, college students and a wide range of readers planning a vacation in Russia.
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Christopher, Heath, and Kamperman Sanders Anselm, eds. New frontiers of intellectual property law: IP and cultural heritage, geographical indicators, enforcement, overprotection. Hart Publishing, 2005.
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Serebryakov, Andrey, Lyubov' Ushivceva, Viktor Pyhalov, and Zhanetta Kalashnik. Calculation of geological reserves and resources of oil, gas, condensate and commercial products. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1225035.
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The modern methods of assessing geological reserves and resources of oil, gas and condensate, concepts and criteria for allocating categories of reserves and resources in accordance with the properties of oils, gases and condensates, which are scientifically based on the international market, are described. For the first time, the calculation of the stocks of commercial products contained in the composition of oil, gas and condensate is given. The categories of reserves and resources according to Russian and foreign classifications are compared. The state of hydrocarbon reserves by countries and continents is described. The interrelationships of the stages of geological exploration with the calculation technologies and categories of reserves and resources are clarified. The ecological tasks of exploration and development of hydrocarbons are highlighted. The main directions and technologies of oil, gas and condensate refining, which are an integral stage of calculating and developing reserves, are given.
 At the end of each chapter, control questions and tasks are given to assess the level of knowledge and the volume of assimilation of materials.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state standards of higher education of the latest generation.
 It is intended for undergraduates of the "Geology" direction, graduate students of the "Earth Sciences" direction, students and teachers of universities, specialists in the exploration and processing of oil, gas and condensate, employees of the fuel and energy complex.
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Kongolo, Tshimanga. Unsettled international intellectual property issues. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2008.
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Amiard-Triquet, Claude. Ecological Biomarkers: Indicators of Ecotoxicological Effects. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
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Rainbow, Philip S., Claude Amiard-Triquet, and Jean-Claude Amiard. Ecological Biomarkers: Indicators of Ecotoxicological Effects. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Rainbow, Philip S., Claude Amiard-Triquet, and Jean-Claude Amiard. Ecological Biomarkers: Indicators of Ecotoxicological Effects. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Ecological Biomarkers: Indicators of Ecotoxicological Effects. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.
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McClain, J. Scott. Laboratory characterization and ecological applications of five inducible gene biomarkers of toxicant exposure in rainbow trout (O. mykiss). 2002.
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Markets Against Modernity: Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2022.
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Murphy, Ryan H. Markets against Modernity: Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private. Lexington Books, 2019.
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Kaup, Monika. New Ecological Realisms. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474483094.001.0001.
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What is the singular reality of humanistic objects of study? New Ecological Realism argues that our contemporary moment after the exhaustion of postmodernism presents an unprecedented opportunity to pursue this question. It proposes that the answer is found in a new concept of the real that hinges on, instead of denying, context, organization and form. New Ecological Realism showcases a context-based concept of the real, arguing that new realisms of complex and embedded wholes, actor-networks, and ecologies, rather than old realisms of isolated parts and things, represent the most promising escape from the impasses of constructivism and positivism. To achieve this, this study devotes equal attention to literature and theory. By pairing post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler, and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories, this study shows that, just as new realist theories can illuminate post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction also embeds new theories of the real. Reassessing the recent revival of interest in ontology in contemporary theory, this study brings together four contemporary theories that formulate context-based realisms: Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory; Chilean neurophenomenologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s theories of autopoiesis and enactivism; German philosopher Markus Gabriel’s new ontology of fields of sense; French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of givenness and American philosopher Alphonso Lingis’s writings on passionate identification. Their shared emphasis on interconnectedness over individuation has gone unnoticed because these theories have never been considered together before.
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Murphy, Ryan H. Markets against Modernity. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666997736.
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In Markets Against Modernity, economist Ryan Murphy documents a clear continuity between the systematic errors people make in their personal lives and the gaps between public opinion and informed opinion. These errors cluster around specific divergences between how the modern world’s institutions function—including global markets, pluralistic democracy, and even science itself—and how evolution trained our brains to understand the nature of economic relationships, social relationships, and humanity’s relationship to the physical world. Murphy calls these systematic divergences Ecological Irrationality. Exploring them leads him to even more prickly questions—and to conclusions that may challenge the beliefs of those who understand that, for instance, modern vaccines are safe and effective. Do we actually want a less cohesive society? Is doing a task yourself financially prudent? And if we recognize an expert consensus, is there even a way to implement it and achieve the desired effects?
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Butt, Daniel. Law, Governance, and the Ecological Ethos. Edited by Stephen M. Gardiner and Allen Thompson. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.5.
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This chapter examines the limitations of both command-and-control and market-based legal mechanisms in the pursuit of environmental justice. If the environment is to be protected to at least a minimally acceptable degree, approaches that focus on the coercive force of the state must be complemented by the development of an “ecological ethos,” whereby groups and individuals are motivated to act with non-self-interested concern for the environment. The need for this ethos means that the state is dependent on the cooperation of a wide range of non-state actors. Recent work on environmental governance emphasizes the delegation of aspects of governing to such actors and supports efforts to increase popular participation in governmental processes. The chapter therefore advocates a governance approach that seeks to rectify some of the limitations of state-led environmental law, while encouraging popular participation in a way that can encourage the development of an ecological ethos among the citizenry.
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Baer, Hans A., and Liam Cooper. Urban Eco-Communities in Australia: Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets? Springer, 2018.
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Baer, Hans A., and Liam Cooper. Urban Eco-Communities in Australia: Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets? Springer, 2018.
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Gurgenidze, Davit, and Givi Gavardashvili. Fundamentals of The Ecological-Economic Theory of Integrated Natural Resource Management. Georgian Technical University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36073/978-9941-28-869-2.
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The main effective indicator of the use of natural resources is the natural capacity, which is determined by the volume of natural resources used and the final products. There are two types (levels) of natural capacity: Macro level - the level of the whole economy and the level of productivity. It is argued that the measurement of the rate of naturalness in dynamics may become one of the main criteria for the transition to solid development. We can distinguish three mechanisms for the implementation of environmental-economic policies: direct regulation (state influence); Economic stimulus (market mechanisms); Mixed mechanisms. The experience of the world in 2010-2020 shows that it is impossible to solve environmental problems only through state intervention or market mechanisms. There are "principal" reasons for the failure of the market mechanism (external, low prices, etc.) and the ineffectiveness of state influence (subsidies, taxes, etc.) in the areas of environmental protection and use of natural resources. In this regard, a mixed mechanism is most acceptable, which allows the implementation of environmental-economic policies, etc., using state influence and market mechanisms. In view of all the above, the monograph "Fundamentals of the Ecological-Economic Theory of Integrated Natural Resource Management" discusses the necessary and necessary theoretical-practical issues, which knowledge will help PhD students, masters and researchers interested in the field of ecology and economics to take an active part in solving the tasks required for the safe operation of Georgia's energy and transport corridors at the modern level.
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Brendle-Behnisch, Günther, Claudius Moseler, and Christoph Raabs, eds. Wirtschaft ohne Wachstumszwang. Tectum – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783828876903.
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This book presents a blueprint for a new ecological, social market economy with which to tackle the emerging climate crisis, the ecological crisis and the social upheaval associated with them, containing an abundance of demands, appropriate and important measures to be taken, concepts and visions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the issue which takes into account interrelationships, contradictions, reciprocal effects and partnerships. It presents a new ecological, social and socio-economic master plan, which stems from a symposium involving renowned academics and experts from various social and economic fields, that not only pinpoints its goal but also its implementation.
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Mantz, Felix, Mariko Frame, and Samuel Leguizamon Grant, eds. Grassroots Responses to Extractivism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350331631.
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This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South, in response to the injustices of the current global ecological crises.Rooted in contemporary ecological imperialism, these crises are subjecting marginalized communities in the Global South to the worst socio-ecological repercussions worldwide, whilst mainstream environmental policies and solutions reproduce market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western world-view. The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa and the Americas, such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia – among many others. The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.
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Murphy, Patrick D. Amazonian Indigenous Green. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.003.0006.
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Drawing from the cultural survival efforts of the Kayapó and the Paiter-Suruí, this chapter traces how indigenous rights and Western environmentalism have shaped each other. At the core of analysis is how, through the different periods of Amazonian activism, indigenous actors have been both framed by and drawn from the notion of the “Ecologically Noble Savage.” The political currency of this reoccurring trope has informed the creation of alliances between indigenous communities and Western eco-conscious actors to “save the rainforest.” While these partnerships have benefited both the “First World” and “Fourth World” actors involved, they have often been built on the false assumptions and divergent agendas. This shifting ground has produced very different environmental discourses over the last 40 years, moving the place of native Amazonians from one of confrontational eco-conscious cultural activists aligned with Green Radicalism to the shared market-based, scientifically validated indicators consistent with Ecological Modernization.
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Mauldin, Erin Stewart. Facing Limits. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865177.003.0006.
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Changes in land use combined with ecological factors meant that many farmers’ land required too many inputs to remain profitable. Farmers had to plant cotton to pay for the fertilizer, seed, and provisions they needed to plant cotton. Had the subsistence economy existed as it had before the war, southern farmers might have used common spaces to raise provisions or livestock. Instead, sharecropping and tenancy created an ecological feedback loop that kept cotton farmers chained to that crop despite diminishing returns. By the 1880s, the South was producing more cotton than ever before, but the rates of debt and tenancy had escalated, spurring a wave of migration out of rural spaces and in to cities. Ultimately, by intensifying cotton production, farmers not only increased their integration with the market but also unwittingly accelerated a cycle of ecological change initiated by the war.
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Hermann, Christoph. The Critique of Commodification. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197576755.001.0001.
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This book explores the intellectual history, nature, and consequences of commodification. While many use the term “commodification,” few realize that it was only introduced in the 1970s by Marxist scholars in Britain and the United States. However, while Marxists initially used commodification to challenge capitalism, subsequent scholars used it mainly to criticize certain markets and certain forms of exchange. The result is what this book identifies as moral and pragmatic critiques of commodification. In contrast, this book follows the materialist critique and, subsequently, argues that commodification entails the subjugation of use value, or usefulness, to market value, or the ability to generate profit. To capture this process, the book distinguishes between formal, real, and fictitious commodification. While capitalism depends on commodity production, the extent of commodification can differ, depending on market regulation and public provision. The book examines a range of neoliberal policies that promoted (re)commodification, including privatization, liberalization, and deregulation. The primacy of profits over needs has major consequences on how social needs are satisfied. The book identifies twelve consequences that have troubling effects for social reproduction and the environment, including the exclusion of those who cannot pay, the focus on highly profitable wants at the expense of less profitable but socially more relevant needs, collectivization of costs, and speculation. Given the negative effects, the book also discusses limits of commodification and argues that the ecological limit is the most dramatic one. In order to avoid catastrophic decommodification, the book proposes an alternative that is based on the maximization of use value rather than market value.
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Jones, Geoffrey. Accidental Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198706977.003.0005.
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This chapter examines the scaling and diffusion of green entrepreneurship between 1980 and the present. It explores how entrepreneurs and business leaders promoted the idea that business and sustainability were compatible. It then examines the rapid growth of organic foods, natural beauty, ecological architecture, and eco-tourism. Green firms sometimes grew to a large scale, such as the retailer Whole Foods Market in the United States. The chapter explores how greater mainstreaming of these businesses resulted in a new set of challenges arising from scaling. Organic food was now transported across large distances causing a negative impact on carbon emissions. More eco-tourism resulted in more air travel and bigger airports. In other industries scaling had a more positive impact. Towns were major polluters, so more ecological buildings had a positive impact.
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Hine, Robert, ed. A Dictionary of Biology. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198821489.001.0001.
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Over 5,800 entries This new eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, with particular expansion to the areas of ecology, cell biology, and plant and animal development. Over 150 new entries include de-extinction, ecological footprint, rewilding, and Zika virus. Numerous appendices include classifications of the animal and plant kingdoms, SI units, Nobel prizewinners, and a new appendix on anatomical terms. With new diagrams and updated web links, this remains the market-leading dictionary for students of biology, both at sixth form college and university level.
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Davidson, Debra J., and Matthias Gross. A Time of Change, a Time for Change. Edited by Debra J. Davidson and Matthias Gross. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633851.013.32.
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This chapter discusses prospects for energy-society relations in the twenty-first century, with emphasis on the present challenge: to effect a sociotechnical transition to energy-society relations that are free from greenhouse gas emissions while also minimizing other environmental impacts and ensuring equitable access to energy resources. Three important drivers of this transition are explained: new political realities, new material realities, and new epistemological realities. The chapter considers how the reluctant acceptance by members of the international political elite of the inevitability and severity of the impacts of climate change has altered the politics of energy; how various energy resources exert a physical (and ecological) reality that comes into play in markets, politics, and cultures; and how the genre of energy and society research in the social sciences has evolved over the past century. An overview of the organization of this Handbook is also presented.
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Jaramillo, George S., and Juliane Tomann, eds. Transcending the Nostalgic: Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation. Berghahn Books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800732216.
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Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that, increasingly, produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.
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Shatkin, Gavin. Cities for Profit. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501709906.001.0001.
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In the past three decades, urban real estate megaprojects—massive, master planned, for profit urban developments—have captured the imagination of politicians and policy-makers across Asia. This book argues that state actors have been major drivers of these transformative projects, and have realized them through increasingly aggressive efforts to reclaim or acquire land, and to transfer land rights to corporate developers. State actors have specifically sought to monetize land as a strategy of state empowerment, a means to generate budget revenue, distribute patronage, and drive economic growth. This newly assertive state role in land markets constitutes the real estate turn in urban politics in the subtitle of the book. This real estate turn has significant implications for social, political, and ecological change in these societies. The book explores the varied spatial impacts of this real estate turn in three cities—Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing—that differ in their systems of property rights and urban governance.
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Cole, Daniel H., and Michael D. McGinnis. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy. Lexington Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666993882.
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In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on “economic governance, especially the commons,” Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others expanding on her work, brings together the strands of her entire empirical, analytical, theoretical, and methodological research program. Together with Vincent’s important theoretical contributions, they defined a distinctive “Bloomington School” of political-economic thought. Volume 2 examines Lin’s work on “the commons,” in which she demonstrated that, in many cases, local resource users can solve collective-action problems through common-property management regimes. It comprises papers, including some that are not well known, related to and building on the findings of Governing the Commons (1990). Part I focuses on key attributes of biophysical resources and the institutions human communities have designed to govern them. Part II shows how in various social and ecological circumstances, different sets of institutions facilitate or impede the long-run sustainability of resources. Part III highlights Ostrom’s first major research project on water resources in Southern California. It was a topic she (and her students) returned to with the specific intention of gathering data (more than 50 years’ worth) for longitudinal analyses of combined institutional and ecological change. In sum, this volume contextualizes what is, at present, thought to be Lin’s greatest legacy to social science: the conditions under which resources can be sustainably managed over very long periods of time by the collective action of ordinary people, beyond markets and states.
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Wells, Anjanette, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Will Ross, Carol Camp Yeakey, and Sheri Notaro. Poverty and Place. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978725898.
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This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of health equity becomes a matter of paramount importance. The volume demonstrates the importance of place and the historical inequity in socio-environmental settings that have contributed to marked health disparities. Through original research, this volume demonstrates that addressing the causes and contributors to women’s health disparities is a complex process that requires intervention from a socio-ecological framework, at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of influence. The book highlights critical aspects of a practical multidimensional model of community engagement with important influences of the various levels of research, policy and practice. More pointedly, the authors support a new model of community engagement that focuses on individuals in their broader ecological context. In so doing, they seek to advance the art and science of community engagement and collaboration, while disavowing the ‘parachute’ model of research, policy and practice that reinforces and sustains the problems associated with the status quo. The bookconcludes with broader national policy considerations in the face of the erosion of the social safety net for America’s citizenry.
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Aloi, Giovanni. I'm Not an Artist. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350417960.
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Romanticized notions of how one becomes an “artist” have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterize the art world and conforming our creative potential to well-trodden stereotypes? I'm Not an Artistis a critical appraisal of the role of the artist through time and an account of how successful artists have conquered their spot in the history of art, from the rise of the Renaissance artist star to the multiplicity of artistic identities we see in the creative landscape today. Entertaining, informative, and packed with important but lesser-known stories about how artists became famous, it examines the cultural importance of the professional label “artist” and invites readers to “give up the artist myth” in order to rediscover creativity beyond the stronghold of institutions, markets, trends, and cultural clichés. It’s a book about art, artists, art history, and the art market as well as the role creativity plays in our lives and how outdated power structures and professional labels are a hindrance to unlocking creative potential. Openly engaging with the contradictions and paradoxes that currently define the relationship between artists, the education system, and the art market, the book proposes an eco-cultural model that can allow artists to reconfigure their identities, and in the process tilt the artworld’s axis. By turns a critical framework for examining what constitutes the term “artist”, an alternative art historical account and a no holds barred guide to how the art world really works, this boundary-breaking book challenges existing practices, methodologies, and metrics of success, calling for a fairer art world that is non-elitist and multicultural. It allows readers to critically position themselves in today’s art world in a clear, ethically grounded, and responsible way. Let’s imagine a world without artists. The romantic artist myth belongs to the category of colonial heroes we no longer need, so why do we still fetishize it in popular culture and let its stereotypes define our creative potential? I’m Not an Artist examines the cultural importance of the professional label “artist”, the history of its myth, and its influence across time to critically address the complications it brings to the creative panorama of our time. This is a book about art, artists, art history, and the art market as well as the role creativity plays in our lives and how our creative potential is hindered when we trap ourselves in outdated power structures and outdated professional labels. Written for art students, art lovers, and artists whose careers have not yet begun or are not going as planned, this book focuses on how artists truly became successful by carefully negotiating, masterminding, and orchestrating their success. The word artist is a ruin, a crumbling monolith stuck in the past. What shall we do with it? I’m Not an Artist proposes an ecological model that invites us to overcome the entrapments of the artist myth and rediscover creativity beyond the stronghold of institutions, markets, trends, and cultural clichés.
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Garrard, Greg. Introduction. Edited by Greg Garrard. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742929.013.035.
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Ecocriticism began as an environmentalist literary movement that challenged Marxists and New Historicists over the meaning and significance of British Romanticism. An important component of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism has been characterized using the metaphor of waves. “First-wave” ecocriticism is inclined to celebrate nature rather than query “nature” as a concept and to derive inspiration as directly as possible from wilderness preservation and environmentalist movements. “Second-wave” ecocriticism is linked to social ecological movements and maintains a more skeptical relationship with the natural sciences. The contributions to the book, which encompass both “waves”, are organized in a widening spiral, from critical historicizations of “nature” in predominantly Euro-American literature in the first section to a series of surveys of work in ecocriticism’s “emerging markets” – Japan, China, India and Germany – in the last. The “Theory” section includes essays adopting perspectives from Latourian science studies, queer theory, deconstruction, animal studies, ecofeminism and postcolonialism. The “Genre” section demonstrates the diverse applications of ecocriticism with topics ranging from British literary fiction, Old Time music, environmental humour, climate change nonfiction.
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Fiorino, Daniel J. The Green Growth Policy Agenda. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190605803.003.0006.
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The concept of green growth offers both a means of reframing ecology–economy relationships and defining an agenda for change. This chapter sets out the framework for a green growth policy agenda. This agenda builds upon existing strategies and tools, such as use of mandatory technology or performance standards, but also is distinctive in expanding the scope of policymaking, emphasizing ecology–economy positive-sums, looking beyond ecological to other policy sectors, granting critical ecosystems principled priority in decisions, and incorporating social costs. As for tools, the green growth agenda relies heavily on market-like mechanisms such as pollution taxes or trading, on methods for valuing ecosystems services, and on reorienting investment strategies for green sectors and goals. In sum, there exists a rich and varied green growth policy agenda that may support a transition toward green growth.
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Mauldin, Erin Stewart. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865177.003.0001.
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The American Civil War marked a watershed moment in the history of southern agriculture. Throughout the antebellum period, the Cotton Kingdom’s geographic boundaries remained relatively limited. After the war, however, the diversity of the antebellum agricultural landscape disappeared. Landowners, yeomen, and recently freed slaves in all areas of the South invested heavily in cotton cultivation, often accruing enormous debts to do so. But why did postwar southern farmers rely on continuous cotton cultivation? What caused such a fundamental shift in attitudes toward self-sufficiency in farming areas known for their relative crop diversity? Why did poor whites and emancipated blacks grow cotton at the expense of everything else despite shrinking financial incentives? The introduction surveys the way this book answers those questions: by connecting postwar agricultural shifts to the ecological legacies of the Civil War and emancipation.
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Xiaojing, Zhou. Migrant Ecologies. Lexington Books, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666998054.
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Migrant Ecologies investigates the ways in which Zheng Xiaoqiong’s poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies embedded within local and global networks of capital and labor. The author contends that women migrant workers in particular, as portrayed in Zheng’s poems, are the visible manifestation of the interconnections between the so-called “factories of the world” and slum villages-in-the-city, between urban development and rural decline, and between the local environmental degradation and the global market. By adopting an ecological approach to Zheng’s poems about women migrant workers in China, the author explores what Donna Haraway calls “webbed ecologies” (49). The concept of “ecologies” serves to enhance not only the layered, complex interconnections underlying women migrant workers’ plight and environmental degradation in China, but also the emergence and transformation of migrant spaces, subjects, activism, and networks resulting in part from globalization.
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von Reden, Sitta, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108265249.
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This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
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Murphy, Patrick D. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.003.0007.
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The conclusion digests the main issues explored in the previous chapters. The core argument put forward is that the global media landscape that materialized at the end of the twentieth century has become a central mediator of eco-consciousness around the globe. This landscape is defined primary by the Promethean discourse, which assumes that growth is perpetual and that individuals operating within the market have the agency to solve any and all environmental problems. This discourse is problematic when considered in the face of anthropogenic climate change and declining natural resource reserves. However, even powerful discourses co-produced and are hence not immune to challenges. This means that alternative environmental discourses can be found within market driven media, suggesting that while the contemporary media commons is the domain of non-ecologically responsive normative trends, its also offers openings for more progressive environmental thought and action.
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Mason, Emma. Kinship and Creation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198723691.003.0003.
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Rossetti’s involvement with the Pre-Raphaelites transformed her perception of the visible and invisible world, shaping her Christological and ecological reading of all things as part of one body. While critics have acknowledged her relationship with Pre-Raphaelitism, its influence has often been separated from her faith. This chapter suggests, however, that Rossetti’s reading of an early Pre-Raphaelite affinity with what Dante Gabriel Rossetti called an ‘art-Catholic’ helped found her nondual understanding of creation as embracing both the material and the divine, and that her vision of an interconnected creation evolved in this period in her encounters with Plato, Gregory of Nyssa, Francis of Assisi, and William Blake. Through a series of close readings of her earliest published poetry, including ‘Goblin Market’, and contributions to the Pre-Raphaelite periodical The Germ, the chapter relates her communal and participatory vision of creation to a form of kinship modelled in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Watson, John Scott. Saving the Land by Developing It. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039867.003.0001.
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This chapter provides an introduction to Prairie Crossing, a novel experiment in urban public policy that took root in Grayslake, a small community located in suburban Lake County. Developed by George and Vicky Ranney, Prairie Crossing was conceived as one of the country's first conservation communities. Despite the re-creation and restoration of hundreds of acres of green space, the $100 million project is a profit-making venture designed to compete in the marketplace with conventional housing developments. Prairie Crossing is a for-profit derivative of the traditional land trust concept, a free-market attempt to preserve and restore environmentally sensitive land. The Ranneys wanted to show that it was possible to save the land by developing it. The chapter presents an overview of Prairie Crossing, envisioned by the Ranneys as a creative policy response to urban sprawl, a conservation community for a new kind of living. It also assesses Prairie Crossing's conservation impact and its goal of creating ecological value through development.
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Earth Day Activity Book for Kids Ages 4-8: Earth Day Easy Activity Book for Preschoolers, Kindergarten, Boys and Girls with Mazes, Dot Marker Coloring Pages and Many More with Pictures in Ecological and Environmental Theme. Independently Published, 2022.
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NEW FUNCTIONAL SUBSTANCES AND MATERIALS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. PH “Akademperiodyka”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/akademperiodyka.444.332.
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The most important results of the scientific studies, carried out by the Institutes of the National Academy of sciences of Ukraine in the frames of the program for scientific research of the NAS of Ukraine "New Functional Substances and Materials for Chemical Engineering" in 2017-2021, are summarized. In the result of fulfillment of the projects of the Program a number of principally new organic, inorganic, polymeric substances and materials as well as composited based thereon of various functional destination were created, new energy-, resource-saving and ecologically-friendly ways for low-tonnage obtaining of substances and materials of chemical engineering were developed. Use of the obtained materials and methods of chemical substances obtaining in different fields of the national industry will improve the competitive capacity of the national products on the external and internal markets, will favor to significant reduction of the dependency of the country on import of deep technology chemical products, setting up of production of a wide range of chemical products, reagents and preparations in Ukraine.
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Lindenmayer, David, and Philip Gibbons, eds. Biodiversity Monitoring in Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643103580.
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Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually. What can be done to rectify this situation?
 This book tackles many aspects of the problem of biodiversity monitoring. It arose from a major workshop held at The Australian National University in February 2011, attended by leaders in the science, policy-making and management arenas of biodiversity conservation. The diversity of participants was deliberate – successful biodiversity monitoring is dependent on partnerships among people with different kinds of expertise. 
 Chapter contributors examine what has led to successful monitoring, the key problems with biodiversity monitoring and practical solutions to those problems. By capturing critical insights into successes, failures and solutions, the authors provide high-level guidance for important initiatives such as the National Biodiversity Strategy, similar kinds of conservation initiatives in state government agencies, as well as non-government organisations that aim to improve conservation outcomes in Australia. Ultimately, the authors hope to considerably improve the quality and effectiveness of biodiversity monitoring in Australia, and to arrest the decline of biodiversity.
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Sorace, Christian P. Shaken Authority. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501707537.001.0001.
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This book examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. The book takes Chinese Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. It argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. It demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering the Chinese economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. It takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, and demonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. The book provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Party plans, rationalities, and discourses in the earthquake zone. The three case studies presented each demonstrates a different type of reconstruction and model of development: urban–rural integration, tourism, and ecological civilization. The book emphasizes the need for a grounded literacy in the political concepts, discourses, and vocabularies of the Communist Party itself.
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Shiva, Vandana. Soil, Not Oil. Zed Books Ltd, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350222663.
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‘One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.’—The Guardian This book is classic of the environmental movement. In it, Vandana Shiva envisions a world beyond our current dependence on fossil fuels and globalization, and makes the compelling case that food crises, oil dependency and climate change are all inherently interlinked. Any attempt to solve one without addressing the others is therefore doomed to failure. Condemning industrial agriculture and biofuels as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva instead champions small independent farmers. What is needed most, in a time of hunger and changing climates, are sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are better able to resist disease, drought and flooding. Calling for a return to local economies and small-scale agriculture, Shiva argues that humanity’s choice is a stark one: we can either continue to pursue a market-centred approach, which will ultimately make our planet unliveable, or we can instead strive for a people-centred, oil-free future, one which offers a decent living for all. This edition features a new introduction by the author, in which she outlines recent developments in ecology and environmentalism, and offers new prescriptions for the environmental movement.
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Dryzek, John S., and Jonathan Pickering. The Politics of the Anthropocene. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809616.001.0001.
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The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities. However, the world remains stuck with practices and modes of thinking that were developed in the Holocene – the epoch of around 12,000 years of unusual stability in the Earth system, toward the end of which modern institutions such as states and capitalist markets arose. These institutions persist despite their potentially catastrophic failure to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene, foremost among them a rapidly changing climate and accelerating biodiversity loss. The pathological trajectories of these institutions need to be disrupted by advancing ecological reflexivity: the capacity of structures, systems, and sets of ideas to question their own core commitments, and if necessary change themselves, while listening and responding effectively to signals from the Earth system. This book envisages a world in which humans are no longer estranged from the Earth system but engage with it in a more productive relationship. We can still pursue democracy, social justice, and sustainability – but not as before. In future, all politics should be first and foremost a politics of the Anthropocene. The arguments are developed in the context of issues such as climate change, biodiversity, and global efforts to address sustainability.