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Books > Earth & environment > Geography
A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and
geography. Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action-to expand
imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully
through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous
and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies.
The original essays in this collection center three themes to
unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site
where differences generate both productive and immobilizing
frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political
struggle, and the embodied work of building the future. Drawing on
diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites,
contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class
often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing
it. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make
claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these
politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The book
also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews
with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives
speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic
spaces. Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist
geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the
production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge
production, and gender's constitutive role in shaping social life.
Mobilisation of Forest Bioenergy in the Boreal and Temperate
Biomes: Challenges, Opportunities, and Case Studies features input
from key international experts who identify and analyze the main
opportunities and roadblocks for the implementation of sustainable
forest biomass supply chains in the boreal and temperate regions.
It draws from responses to surveys that were sent to specialists
from different countries, compares models of bioenergy deployment,
and discusses different types of bioenergy carriers. Efficiency and
profitability of the supply chain are analyzed and the scale and
level of confidence of feedstock inventory estimates are
highlighted. Logistics and ecological and socio-economic footprints
are also covered. This book provides a synthesis of the scientific
and technical literature on specific aspects of forest biomass
supply chains, and quantifies future potentials in comparison to
estimates provided by other sources and the targets for bioenergy
production set by various organizations (IEA, IPCC, etc.). Finally,
the book proposes recommendations for practitioners, policymakers,
and future research. This approach makes the book especially
relevant for professionals, policymakers, researchers, and graduate
students in the field of bioenergy conversion and management, as
well as those interested in sustainable management of natural
resources.
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