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This timely book explores the innovative non-doctrinal methods
currently being used in environmental law research. Drawing on
their extensive experience, expert contributors provide insight on
how creative approaches to research can improve understanding of
law and policy, leading to more effective legal protection for the
environment. Focusing on qualitative research, chapters explain how
to use non-doctrinal methods in environmental law research,
including in-depth examples of successful uses. Contributors
identify the theoretical and practical challenges facing
contemporary environmental law researchers, providing guidance on
designing productive research programs. Alongside practical tips,
the book examines the scholarly philosophy of environmental law
research, determining how and why it differs from other areas of
research. It focuses in particular on how to respect scientific
principles when moving away from traditional doctrinal research
methods. Non-Doctrinal Research Methods in Environmental Law will
be an invaluable guide for environmental law academics and
researchers seeking to expand their understanding of modern
research methods. With extensive case studies and practical
guidance, it will also be a useful resource for research methods
scholars and teachers.
Elewa, known as ‘the Daughter of Peace’, bears a heavy
responsibility on her young shoulders: to maintain the fragile
truce between the warring peoples of her West African kingdom. But
as she begins to understand her role in the peace negotiations,
even greater pressures emerge. Elewa discovers that she has Yeseni,
a powerful gift that allows her to see events from any point in
time, and to travel into the past and future. When she experiences
horrific visions of life aboard a slave ship, she realises she has
to face the ultimate crossroads. She could use her gift to
intervene in the past and try to prevent historic injustices ever
taking place. But that means she, as the Daughter of Peace, would
be leaving her village behind at a precarious moment in the
reconciliation process. Whichever path she chooses to take, the
future of her people lies on her shoulders.
The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of
superlatives: England's largest national park, highest mountain,
deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. One of Britain's
best-loved and most visited locations unveils its secrets. This
unusual guidebook explores 111 of the area's most interesting
places, it leaves the well-trodden paths to find the unknown:
marvel at a stained glass window which inspired the American flag,
let others flock to Hill Top while you explore Beatrix Potter's
holiday home, walk through ancient forest to talk to fairies and
swim with immortal fish. Pause to wonder at a stunning lake where a
President proposed, view a constellation of stars like nowhere
else, find out why exotic spices are used in local cuisine.
This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies.
Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School – Adorno, Habermas,
Horkheimer, and Marcuse, among others – the chapters in the
volume examine a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender
activism to web journalism, from the classroom to the open streets.
It also presents theoretical and methodological guidelines to
researchers interested in • Expanding their critical outlook for
meaning brought on by the notion of criticality in contemporary
language studies. • Understanding criticality in languages
through historical, political, and social perspectives. • Using
linguistics and language studies as tools to dissect and disclose
social injustices. This book will be of great interest to scholars
and researchers of language studies and linguistics, philosophy,
politics, and sociology and social policy.
The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It
brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that
reveals what different research fields - such as sociology of
language, social psychology, history and political science, among
others - have to say about discourse criticism and de/coloniality.
In doing so, it also invites a critique of critical thinking,
acknowledging the relevance of dissonant voices that arise from
this debate. The essays in this volume discuss possibilities to
decolonize discursive studies without losing sight of its
contradictions. The book delves into how one can, as an
intellectual who enjoys the privileges of coloniality in academic
environments of the Global North, deal with the limitations and
paradox of a radical critique through discourse. It discusses how
ideas, entrenched in privilege, can be extracted, shared and
applied while ensuring the radicality of their local
contextualization. These ideas then must not only make sense within
themselves but also resonate with other contexts, readings and
peoples, in the South, without repeating the mistakes of hermetic
scholarly lexicons. A key reading on decoloniality, critical
thinking, methodologies, ideas, ideologies, language and critical
discourse analysis, this volume will be of immense interest to
scholar and researchers of language and literature, political
science, the social sciences and Global South Studies.
This volume systematically analyses why legal doctrines for the
protection of biodiversity are not sufficiently effective. It
examples implementation in Australia and Brazil, two megadiverse
countries with very differing legal and cultural traditions and
natural environments. Substantial effort goes into the development
and interpretation of legal doctrines for the protection of
biodiversity in national and international law. Despite this,
biodiversity continues in steep decline. Nowhere is this more
evident than in megadiverse countries, such as Australia and
Brazil, which possess the greatest number and diversity of animals
and plants on Earth. The book covers a wide range of topics,
including farming, mining, marine environments, indigenous
interests and governance. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in
Megadiverse Countries highlights specific causes of
underperformance in protecting diverse terrestrial and marine
environments. It provides proposals for more effective
implementation in these two jurisdictions, relevant to other
megadiverse territories, and for biodiversity protection generally.
Each chapter was written by teams of Australian and Brazilian
authors, so that similar issues are considered across both
jurisdictions, to provide both country-specific and generalisable
insights. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse
Countries will be of great interest to students and scholars of
environmental law and governance and biodiversity conservation, as
well as policymakers, practitioners and NGOs working in these
fields.
This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies.
Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School - Adorno, Habermas,
Horkheimer, and Marcuse, among others - the chapters in the volume
examine a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender activism to
web journalism, from the classroom to the open streets. It also
presents theoretical and methodological guidelines to researchers
interested in * Expanding their critical outlook for meaning
brought on by the notion of criticality in contemporary language
studies. * Understanding criticality in languages through
historical, political, and social perspectives. * Using linguistics
and language studies as tools to dissect and disclose social
injustices. This book will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of language studies and linguistics, philosophy,
politics, and sociology and social policy.
The equations of phyllotaxis were discovered by Douady and Couder:
these describe the inhibition "force" generated by an incipient
primordium, preventing the initiation of other primordia in its
vicinity: the method that was lacking was to take into account the
distance of primordia to the meristem apex over the course of its
development. With these parameters, our model integrates both
biochemical "forces" (inhibition due to auxin) and mechanical
forces (contact pressure). This powerful tool allows us to revisit
many important notions of plant biology. For example, we model
auxin concentrations at the plant apex, as well as the development
of vegetative and reproductive meristems. We also explain why the
whorls of monocots are trimerous and those of plants with
quincuncial perianths are pentamerous. We design a geometric method
for reconstructing inflorescences from their building blocks, i.e.
floral meristems. We also show that phyllotaxic spirals are only
the application of a general property of symmetry, the advantages
of which have been exploited by natural selection.
Greenwich is the one London district whose name resonates around
the world. As 'the place where time began', everyone has heard of
it, so naturally everyone wants to come here when they visit the
capital. With a memorable and picturesque Thames-side location, its
maritime history means that there's more to see here per square
foot than any other outer London neighbourhood, and this new guide
tells you how to do it. 111 Places not only tracks down the most
interesting nuggets among Greenwich's mainstream sights, from the
Cutty Sark to the Meridian Line, it also lifts the lid on the
area's lesser-known attractions - from haunted Jacobean houses and
mudlarking in Deptford Creek to classic pie and mash shops and
famous riverside pubs. It explores beyond the confines of Greenwich
town centre, turning up treasures like Henry VIII's favourite
residence, Eltham Palace - now an Art Deco gem - and nearby
engineering feats like the Thames Barrier. You could come to London
and spend half your time in Greenwich, and we wouldn't blame you if
you did. This book tells you how to make the most of London's
maritime borough.
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between
historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority
groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and
religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These
negative perceptions have recently led to a significant increase in
popular support for right and extreme right nationalist discourses,
and have created so much public tension that national governments
have had no choice but to respond. In the last two decades, in
several Western contexts in particular, the issues raised by such
combined challenges have culminated in the creation of
government-initiated or private national commissions. This book
presents the results of a multidisciplinary analysis, from a
broader framework that includes the national public commissions
which have addressed the challenges of managing cultural and
religious diversity in Belgium, Britain, Canada (Quebec), France,
Morocco and Norway (including also other cases of public management
in Australia and Singapore). It includes in-depth studies of the
issues and controversies examined by each of the commissions, such
as the ways they perceived the issues, their results and impact,
the key political players involved, the media debates and reception
surrounding each commission, the communication strategies and
difficulties their leaders encountered, as well as the legal
aspects each commission has raised. The reports represent a rich
body of work charting the fundamental questions nations face about
their nature, history and future while the impact on peoples' lives
tells us much about different approaches to the issues of cultural
identity between countries.
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between
historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority
groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and
religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These
negative perceptions have recently led to a significant increase in
popular support for right and extreme right nationalist discourses,
and have created so much public tension that national governments
have had no choice but to respond. In the last two decades, in
several Western contexts in particular, the issues raised by such
combined challenges have culminated in the creation of
government-initiated or private national commissions. This book
presents the results of a multidisciplinary analysis, from a
broader framework that includes the national public commissions
which have addressed the challenges of managing cultural and
religious diversity in Belgium, Britain, Canada (Quebec), France,
Morocco and Norway (including also other cases of public management
in Australia and Singapore). It includes in-depth studies of the
issues and controversies examined by each of the commissions, such
as the ways they perceived the issues, their results and impact,
the key political players involved, the media debates and reception
surrounding each commission, the communication strategies and
difficulties their leaders encountered, as well as the legal
aspects each commission has raised. The reports represent a rich
body of work charting the fundamental questions nations face about
their nature, history and future while the impact on peoples' lives
tells us much about different approaches to the issues of cultural
identity between countries.
Marina Perez Simao (1981) is an internationally recognised
contemporary artist who uses a variety of techniques, such as
collage, drawing, watercolour and oil painting, as starting points
in order to combine interior and exterior landscapes. She composes
visual journeys that sometimes traverse the unknown, the abstract,
and the nebulous, but also include visions and memories. Simao s
work is held in several public collections worldwide, including the
Musee d Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne in France, The
Ekard Collection in the Netherlands, and the Samdani Art Foundation
in Bangladesh, the Sifang Museum in China, as well as the Speed Art
Museum in Kentucky, the University of Chicago, the MCA Miami and
Chicago, Dallas Museum in the United States.
This volume systematically analyses why legal doctrines for the
protection of biodiversity are not sufficiently effective. It
examples implementation in Australia and Brazil, two megadiverse
countries with very differing legal and cultural traditions and
natural environments. Substantial effort goes into the development
and interpretation of legal doctrines for the protection of
biodiversity in national and international law. Despite this,
biodiversity continues in steep decline. Nowhere is this more
evident than in megadiverse countries, such as Australia and
Brazil, which possess the greatest number and diversity of animals
and plants on Earth. The book covers a wide range of topics,
including farming, mining, marine environments, indigenous
interests and governance. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in
Megadiverse Countries highlights specific causes of
underperformance in protecting diverse terrestrial and marine
environments. It provides proposals for more effective
implementation in these two jurisdictions, relevant to other
megadiverse territories, and for biodiversity protection generally.
Each chapter was written by teams of Australian and Brazilian
authors, so that similar issues are considered across both
jurisdictions, to provide both country-specific and generalisable
insights. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse
Countries will be of great interest to students and scholars of
environmental law and governance and biodiversity conservation, as
well as policymakers, practitioners and NGOs working in these
fields.
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Art - The Path To Knowledge
Luiz Fernando Pereira, Marcos H. Camargo, Solange Straube Stecz
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Biomass Fractionation Technologies for a Lignocellulosic
Feedstock-based Biorefinery reviews the extensive research and
tremendous scientific and technological developments that have
occurred in the area of biorefinering, including industrial
processes and product development using 'green technologies', often
referred as white biotechnology. As there is a huge need for new
design concepts for modern biorefineries as an alternative and
amendment to industrial crude oil and gas refineries, this book
presents the most important topics related to biomass
fractionation, including advances, challenges, and perspectives,
all with references to current literature for further study.
Presented in 26 chapters by international field specialists, each
chapter consists of review text that comprises the most recent
advances, challenges, and perspectives for each fractionation
technique. The book is an indispensable reference for all
professionals, students, and workers involved in biomass
biorefinery, assisting them in establishing efficient and
economically viable process technologies for biomass fractionation.
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Dos Extraños
Solange Dal Santo
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Arnold has never stepped into a palatial mansion, being waited on hand and foot by maids and butlers of the Kufulula estate. The poor boy knows no etiquette rules and has never mingled with the upper class nor indulged in the privileges and frivolities of high society. All he knows is an impecunious livelihood with his mom - a curious woman sporadically vanishing from him for reasons he knows not.
His house is a tiny structure in the inner city, and he has never blown a wish from his birthday cake. But all that changes when mysterious people arrive to take him away and introduce him to a different reality.
Thanks to his grandfather, he later discovers his true identity. He also makes lasting friendships, is christened the Wolf of Congo, and travels to India, America, and back to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to manifest The African Dream. The reward of the Bapindi prophecy awaits him, to see if Arnold can accomplish his destiny as the Prince of Kinshasa and take over the throne as the rightful Bapindi king.
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