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The negotiation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade agreement in 1985-88
initiated a period of substantially increased North American, and
later, global economic integration. However, events since the
election of Donald Trump in 2016 have created the potential for
major policy shifts arising from NAFTA's renegotiation and
continuing political uncertainties in the United States and with
Canada's other major trading partners. Navigating a Changing World
draws together scholars from both countries to examine Canada-U.S.
policy relations, the evolution of various processes for regulating
market and human movements across national borders, and the
specific application of these dynamics to a cross-section of policy
fields with significant implications for Canadian public policy. It
explores the impact of territorial institutions and
extra-territorial forces - institutional, economic, and
technological, among others - on interactions across national
borders, both within North America and, where relevant, in broader
economic relationships affecting the movement of goods, services,
people, and capital. Above all, Navigating a Changing World
represents the first major study to address Canada's international
policy relations within and beyond North America since the
elections of Justin Trudeau in 2015 and Donald Trump in 2016 and
the renegotiation of NAFTA.
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly
reignites Amy-Jane Beer's love of rivers setting her on a journey
of natural, cultural and emotional discovery. On New Year's Day
2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of
others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home,
and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and
unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises
how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always
felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of
exploration. The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it
meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes
and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky
Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers
of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and
rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and
healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation.
Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow
is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological
place in nature.
Geomorphological landforms and processes exert a strong influence
on surface engineering works, yet comparatively little systematic
information on geomorphology is available to engineers. This book
presents a worldwide view of geomorphology for engineers and other
professionals on the near-surface engineering problems associated
with the various landscapes. This new and completely revised
edition has additional chapters with an improved format and is
broadly divided into three parts.;The first part is concerned with
the major factors which control the materials, form and processes
on the Earth's surfaces. The second part deals with the
geomorphological processes which help shape land surfaces and
influence their engineering characteristics and the final part
covers environments and landscapes, including some specialist
chapters. Each chapter is written by leading authorities on the
subject and is both self-contained and referenced with other
chapters as appropriate to make a balanced whole.;Readership:
practitioners and academics in civil, geotechnical, foundation
engineering, soil and rock mechanics, and engineering geology.;
Practitioners, postgraduate and advanced undergraduates
Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize Shortlisted for the Richard
Jeffries Award The story of one woman's passion for glaciers As one
of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has
devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the
Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in
peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable
glaciers are retreating; in Antarctica, meanwhile, thinning ice
sheets are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and
may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored deep beneath
them. The potential consequences for humanity are almost
unfathomable. Jemma's first encounter with a glacier, as a student,
sparked her love of these icy landscapes. There is nowhere on Earth
she feels more alive. Whether abseiling down crevasses, skidooing
across frozen fjords, exploring ice caverns, or dodging polar bears
- for a glaciologist, it's all in a day's work. Prompted by an
illness that took her to the brink of death and back, in Ice Rivers
Jemma recalls twenty-five years of expeditions around the globe,
revealing why the glaciers mean so much to her - and what they
should mean to us. As she guides us from the Alps to the Andes, the
importance of the ice to crucial ecosystems and human livelihoods
becomes clear - our lives are entwined with these coldest places on
the planet. This is a memoir like no other: an eye-witness account
by a top scientist at the frontline of the climate crisis, and an
impassioned love letter to the glaciers that are her obsession.
An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives
about Jerusalem's social history. Overlooking the Border:
Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the
dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. The book's
starting point is the border that separated the city between Jordan
and Israel in 1948-1967, a lesser-known but significant period for
cultural representations of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic
fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal
narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street
plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the
city since the decline of the peace process and the second
intifada. What emerges is a portrayal of Jerusalem both as a local
place with unique rhythms and topography and as a setting for
national imaginaries and agendas with their attendant political and
social tensions. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets,
and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged
narratives about belonging and rights to place. Recollections of
local customs and lifeways in the mid-twentieth century coalesce
around residents' desire for stability amid periods of war,
dispossession, and relocation?? intertwining the mythical with the
mundane. Hercbergs begins by taking the reader to the historically
Arab neighborhoods of West Jerusalem, whose streets are a
battleground for competing historical narratives about the
Israeli-Arab War of 1948. She goes on to explore the connections
and tensions between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians living across
the border from one another in Musrara, a neighborhood straddling
West and East Jerusalem. The author rounds out the monograph with a
semiotic analysis of contemporary tourism and architectural
ventures that are entrenching ethno-national separation in the
post-Oslo period. These rhetorical expressions illuminate what it
means to be a ??erusalemite in the context of the city's fraught
history. Overlooking the Border examines the social and geographic
significance of borders for residents' sense of self, place, and
community, and for representations of the city both locally and
abroad. It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced
undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies,
history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
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