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Politics and the Environment has established itself as the most
comprehensive textbook in this area. This new edition has been
completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and
the theory to practice focus which made the first two editions so
successful. This text is designed to introduce students to the key
concepts and issues which surround environmental problems and their
political solutions. The authors investigate the people, movements
and organisations that form and implement these policies, and
explore the barriers which hinder successful introduction of
international environmental politics. * This new edition has been
expanded to include: * The shift in focus in environmental politics
from sustainable development to climate change governance * Far
more material on climate change including institutional, national
and global responses in the aftermath of the Kyoto protocol * An
increased international focus with more case studies from the UK,
Europe, Australia and North America * More discussion of global
environmental social movements including the US environmental
organisations, in particular the Green Party and the environmental
justice groups * There is an additional co-author for this edition,
David Benson from the University of East Anglia This textbook is an
invaluable and accessible resource for undergraduates studying
environmental politics.
Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of
the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has
been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features
and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first two editions
so successful.
This text is designed to introduce students to the key concepts
and issues which surround environmental problems and their
political solutions. The authors investigate the people, movements
and organisations that form and implement these policies, and
explore the barriers which hinder successful introduction of
international environmental politics.
The 3rd edition has been expanded to include:
- The shift in focus in environmental politics from sustainable
development to climate change governance
- An extensive discussion on climate change: including
institutional, national and global responses in the aftermath of
the Kyoto protocol
- An increased international focus with more case studies from
the UK, Europe, Australia and North America
- More discussion of global environmental social movements:
including the US environmental organisations, in particular the
Green Party and the environmental justice groups
This textbook is an invaluable and accessible resource for
undergraduates studying environmental politics.
Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world's
great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English
about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by
the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own
profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres, styles, characters
and other competing elements creates a powerful literary experience
for each reader. This book explores the diversity and
contradictions produced by the poem without attempting to resolve
them. It is accessible to those reading the poem for the first
time, but equally stimulating to those who know it well, stressing
the importance of the role of individual readers in response to the
openness of the poem. Although previous criticism tends to
emphasize one or two aspects while ignoring others, Benson argues
all critical readings are of interest because they make one aware
of the poem's many contrasting layers and possibilities. Beginning
with the principal source, Boccaccio's Filostrato, the work
examines the many different elements added to this source; which
contains internal tensions and thus develops Boccaccio's story in a
variety of often contradictory directions. The author considers
Chaucer's treatment of setting, characterization, love, fortune and
religion, showing how these affect the character of the poem and
make it simultaneously more chivalric and comic, more Christian and
more pagan.
Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world's
great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English
about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by
the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own
profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres, styles, characters
and other competing elements creates a powerful literary experience
for each reader. This book explores the diversity and
contradictions produced by the poem without attempting to resolve
them. It is accessible to those reading the poem for the first
time, but equally stimulating to those who know it well, stressing
the importance of the role of individual readers in response to the
openness of the poem. Although previous criticism tends to
emphasize one or two aspects while ignoring others, Benson argues
all critical readings are of interest because they make one aware
of the poem's many contrasting layers and possibilities. Beginning
with the principal source, Boccaccio's Filostrato, the work
examines the many different elements added to this source; which
contains internal tensions and thus develops Boccaccio's story in a
variety of often contradictory directions. The author considers
Chaucer's treatment of setting, characterization, love, fortune and
religion, showing how these affect the character of the poem and
make it simultaneously more chivalric and comic, more Christian and
more pagan.
This timely new book outlines a whole-school approach to embedding
a sustainable model of teaching and learning that puts the learner
at the heart of the system. It provides an entire framework for
ensuring all students achieve above their expectations;
incorporating school vision, teacher professional development,
assessment models, school culture, leadership and management, and
core classroom practices. It takes what the current research
suggests does - and does not - work and builds it into a practical
approach that has been tried, tested and proven to work. Each
section incorporates the research, a model of how this can be
embedded across a school and then a training section that allows
senior leaders in schools to teach the skill-set to others to
ensure it can be embedded and reviewed. Covering all aspect of
teaching and learning including curriculum design, teacher
practices, assessment and leadership, the book features: a clear
planning framework that is easy to implement; subject based case
studies to exemplify good practice; diagrams to clarify and
consolidate information; training activities throughout each
chapter, also available to download at
www.routledge.com/9780415831178. Designed to be used as a training
tool for both new and established teachers, this book is essential
reading for senior leaders that want to equip their teachers with
the skills and knowledge to create a school of outstanding
classrooms.
This timely new book outlines a whole-school approach to embedding
a sustainable model of teaching and learning that puts the learner
at the heart of the system. It provides an entire framework for
ensuring all students achieve above their expectations;
incorporating school vision, teacher professional development,
assessment models, school culture, leadership and management, and
core classroom practices. It takes what the current research
suggests does - and does not - work and builds it into a practical
approach that has been tried, tested and proven to work. Each
section incorporates the research, a model of how this can be
embedded across a school and then a training section that allows
senior leaders in schools to teach the skill-set to others to
ensure it can be embedded and reviewed. Covering all aspect of
teaching and learning including curriculum design, teacher
practices, assessment and leadership, the book features: a clear
planning framework that is easy to implement; subject based case
studies to exemplify good practice; diagrams to clarify and
consolidate information; training activities throughout each
chapter, also available to download at
www.routledge.com/9780415831178. Designed to be used as a training
tool for both new and established teachers, this book is essential
reading for senior leaders that want to equip their teachers with
the skills and knowledge to create a school of outstanding
classrooms.
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis
of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision
of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal
arrangements. The authors present a systematic analysis of case
study river systems drawn from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the
Netherlands, UK and USA to provide an integrated global assessment
of the scale and key features of catchment management. A key
premise explored is that despite the diversity of jurisdictions and
catchments there are commonalities to a successful approach. The
authors show that environmental and public health water quality
criteria must be integrated with the economic and social goals of
those affected, necessitating a 'twin-track' and holistic
(cross-sector and discipline) approach of stakeholder engagement
and sound scientific research. A final synthesis presents a set of
principles for adaptive catchment management. These principles
demonstrate how to integrate the best scientific and technical
knowledge with policy, governance and legal provisions. It is shown
how decision-making and implementation at the appropriate
geographic and governmental scales can resolve conflicts and share
best sustainable practices.
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis
of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision
of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal
arrangements. The authors present a systematic analysis of case
study river systems drawn from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the
Netherlands, UK and USA to provide an integrated global assessment
of the scale and key features of catchment management. A key
premise explored is that despite the diversity of jurisdictions and
catchments there are commonalities to a successful approach. The
authors show that environmental and public health water quality
criteria must be integrated with the economic and social goals of
those affected, necessitating a 'twin-track' and holistic
(cross-sector and discipline) approach of stakeholder engagement
and sound scientific research. A final synthesis presents a set of
principles for adaptive catchment management. These principles
demonstrate how to integrate the best scientific and technical
knowledge with policy, governance and legal provisions. It is shown
how decision-making and implementation at the appropriate
geographic and governmental scales can resolve conflicts and share
best sustainable practices.
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Chaucer and the City (Hardcover)
Ardis Butterfield; Contributions by Ardis Butterfield, Barbara Nolan, C. David Benson, Christopher Cannon, …
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R2,184
Discovery Miles 21 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban
context for his writings. Literature of the city and the city in
literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume
enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London
poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history,
steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians
on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays
address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of
Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors
explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and
geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships
between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak
for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and
public order. A final section considers the longer history and
memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great
Fire and into the Victorian period. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader
in English at University College London. Contributors: ARDIS
BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER
CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON,
ELLIOTKENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental
Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the
emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory
frameworks supporting them. This new book reviews and categorizes
the potential environmental impacts of several main PV
technologies, examining the extent to which current EU governance
frameworks regulate such impacts. By identifying the gaps or
regulatory mismatches and creating a basis for normative
recommendations on governance change, this book analyzes potential
governance implications and their impacts in relation to
manufacturers upscaling PV production techniques.
This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient
Rome-one of the most important European cities in the medieval
imagination-in late Middle English poetry. Once the capital of a
great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the
Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of Christian
pilgrimage owing to the fame of its early martyrs, whose relics
sanctified the city and whose help was sought by pilgrims to their
shrines. C. David Benson analyzes the variety of ways that Rome and
its citizens, both pre-Christian and Christian, are presented in a
range of Middle English poems, from lesser-known, anonymous works
to the poetry of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate. Benson
discusses how these poets conceive of ancient Rome and its
citizens-especially the women of Rome-as well as why this matters
to their works. An insightful and innovative study, Imagined Romes
addresses a crucial lacuna in the scholarship of Rome in the
medieval imaginary and provides fresh perspectives on the work of
four of the most prominent Middle English poets.
A quantitative correlational research study was conducted to
determine if a significant relationship existed between individual
Coast Guard recruiter alignment with Coast Guard policies and
procedures and recruiter job performance, recruiter job
satisfaction, and recruiter career intentions. The study examined
the relationship between employee-organization alignment (EOA) and
job performance, job satisfaction, and career intentions using an
on-line survey instrument based upon the Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award (MBNQA) criteria.
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