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This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law
and policy in Europe. Following the Fitness Check evaluation of the
Birds and Habitats Directives, in 2017 the EU adopted an Action
Plan for nature, people and the economy to rapidly improve the
Directives' implementation and accelerate progress towards the EU's
biodiversity targets for 2020. More recently, the EU has adopted a
Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and proposed an EU Nature
Restoration Law. This book makes a timely contribution by examining
the current state of play in light of recent and historical
developments, as well as the post-2020 nature law and policy
landscape. While evidence suggests that Natura 2000 and the
Habitats and Birds Directives have delivered conservation benefits
for wildlife in Europe, biodiversity loss continues apace. The book
reviews the requirements for an effective international nature
conservation system, with reference to the Birds and Habitats
Directives. It examines regulatory regimes, current legal issues in
the fields of site protection and species protection, the
protection of areas outside Natura 2000, recent developments in the
EU and the UK, including the implications of Brexit, agriculture
and nature conservation, litigation, science and access to justice.
Written by leading experts in the field, from a range of
stakeholder groups, the volume draws on diverse experiences as well
as providing interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume will be
essential reading for students and scholars interested in European
environmental policy and law, including lawyers, ecologists,
environmental scientists, political scientists, natural resource
managers, and planners. It will also be of interest to conservation
practitioners, policy-makers and NGOs.
This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law
and policy in Europe. Following the Fitness Check evaluation of the
Birds and Habitats Directives, in 2017 the EU adopted an Action
Plan for nature, people and the economy to rapidly improve the
Directives' implementation and accelerate progress towards the EU's
biodiversity targets for 2020. More recently, the EU has adopted a
Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and proposed an EU Nature
Restoration Law. This book makes a timely contribution by examining
the current state of play in light of recent and historical
developments, as well as the post-2020 nature law and policy
landscape. While evidence suggests that Natura 2000 and the
Habitats and Birds Directives have delivered conservation benefits
for wildlife in Europe, biodiversity loss continues apace. The book
reviews the requirements for an effective international nature
conservation system, with reference to the Birds and Habitats
Directives. It examines regulatory regimes, current legal issues in
the fields of site protection and species protection, the
protection of areas outside Natura 2000, recent developments in the
EU and the UK, including the implications of Brexit, agriculture
and nature conservation, litigation, science and access to justice.
Written by leading experts in the field, from a range of
stakeholder groups, the volume draws on diverse experiences as well
as providing interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume will be
essential reading for students and scholars interested in European
environmental policy and law, including lawyers, ecologists,
environmental scientists, political scientists, natural resource
managers, and planners. It will also be of interest to conservation
practitioners, policy-makers and NGOs.
Damian Lee directs this Canadian action thriller starring Brendan
Fraser, Dominic Purcell and Ethan Suplee. When a pair of crooks,
Tommy (Purcell) and Kenny (Suplee), believe that a couple of kids
on a camping trip have witnessed them committing murder they waste
no time in setting about tracking the youngsters, a brother and
sister, with the intention of eliminating them. However, Tommy and
Kenny haven't counted on the presence of the kids' father, Jack
Damson (Fraser), who orchestrates a prison break in order to
protect his offspring. Who will make it out of the resulting game
of cat and mouse alive?
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The Walking School Bus (Hardcover)
Aaron Friedland, Ndileka Mandela; Afterword by Julian Lennon; Illustrated by Andrew Jackson Obol
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A remarkable story about a brother and sister's determination to
attend school—and their inventive solution to get there safely.
Features an afterword from Julian Lennon, and notes from co-authors
Aaron Friedland and Ndileka Mandela. Every morning, Shaka and his
little sister Nandi walk with their father to school. Though the
journey is long and hot, they arrive at school happy to see their
friends and ready to learn. Then one day, their father gives them
terrible news: he has to go work in a mine far away, and they
won’t be able to go to school anymore. The route is too dangerous
for them to walk alone, so they'll have to stay home. But when they
discover a yellow toy bus in the dirt, Shaka and Nandi let their
imaginations run wild. Could they buy their own school bus? Or
build one themselves? Their plans prove much harder than they
thought—but just when they're about to give up, Shaka and Nandi
come up with an ingenious solution to get to school, one that will
take the whole community to help. With lively illustrations from
Andrew Jackson Obol, The Walking School Bus is an engaging story
that shows the challenges many children around the world face in
accessing education, as well as the creativity and community spirit
that can help overcome them.
This book provides a diplomatic history of a turning point in
Antarctic governance: the 1991 adoption of comprehensive
environmental protection obligations for an entire continent, which
prohibited mining. Solving the mining issue became a symbol of
finding diplomatic consensus. The book combines historiographic
concepts of contingency, conjuncture and accidental events with
theories of structural, entrepreneurial and intellectual
leadership. Drawing on archival documents, it shows that Antarctic
governance is more adaptive than some imagine, and policy success
depends on the interplay of normative practices, serendipitous
events, public engagement and influential players able to exploit
those circumstances. Ultimately, the events revealed in this book
show that the protection of the Antarctic Treaty itself remains as
important as protecting the Antarctic environment.
Examines the 1990s growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and
cinephilia within South Korean cinema This book is a narrative
history of art film exhibition and cinephilia in post-dictatorship
South Korea It is the first study to consider the practical,
cultural, and social experience of cinema-going during a formative
period of Korean film history It presents an argument about the
important legacy of the 1990s period of cinephilia; especially, its
connections to the critical and economic success of South Korean
film The book charts the rise and subsequent fall of art film
exhibition spaces like videotheques (cinematheques) and independent
art houses and the reasons for the decline of the art film sector
The research is based on data drawn from contemporary media
reports, archival research, as well as interviews and surveys with
art film exhibitors, distributors, importers, and spectators from
the period This monograph examines an unexplored area of South
Korean cinema history the 1985-1997 growth of art film exhibition,
consumption, and cinephilia. This moment of heightened interest in
art film altered how many Koreans conceptualised cinema and helped
pave the way for the critical success of South Korean film. This
historical study analyses the cultural, political, social, and
economic developments of the post-1985 period that increased
interest in European art film. It looks at the interactions of art
house exhibitors with cinephile audiences, the media and the
state-level administrators responsible for governing the industry.
The aim of young cinephiles was nothing less than a bottom-up
cultural transformation of a society emerging from three decades of
dictatorship. The analysis is based on the previously unheard
voices of audiences who participated in the cinephilia. This study
is both a history of an era in Korean cinema and an argument about
the impact of this period of cultural renewal on the industry.
This 1841 work by the American landscape designer and writer Andrew
Jackson Downing (1815-52), reissued here in its 1849 fourth
edition, was the first such book published in the United States.
Downing, the son of a nurseryman, saw that a 'taste for rural
improvements of every description is advancing silently, but with
great rapidity in this country', and he aims to provide the
prosperous east-coast dweller with a guide to beautifying his
surroundings. The emphasis is on landscape and overall effects
rather than the minutiae of gardening, with chapters on
plantations, specimen trees, and the construction of walks, water
features, and other architectural elements. Downing went on to edit
The Horticulturist magazine and to work on significant landscape
projects, including the grounds of the White House and the
surroundings of the Smithsonian Institution, before he was
tragically killed, aged only 36, in an explosion on a river
steamer.
In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John
Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of
slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister,
the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the
hands of a ""Christian"" master and mistress. He offers a scathing
review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could
not see the contradiction between worshiping a merciful God on
Sundays and holding slaves under inhumane conditions. Jackson
details his escape from slavery into Massachusetts as a ship
stowaway after he is separated by sale from his first wife and
child. He also describes his interactions with Harriet Beecher
Stowe; his failed attempts to purchase the freedom of his family
members; and his eventual escape into Canada following the passage
of the Fugitive Slave Law. His work also includes a variety of
carefully recorded hymns and antislavery songs. Jackson would
eventually flee to England with his second wife before returning to
South Carolina after the War. A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration
between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill Library brings selected classic works from the digital library
of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books
uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available
as downloadable e-books or print-on-demand publications. DocSouth
Books are unaltered from the original publication, providing
affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of
scholars, students, and general readers.
In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy
analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the
labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen
historical analysis with a political manifesto for today. As one of
the few trade union economists in Canada, Jackson brings a unique
insider perspective and decades of experience to bear on his
critical reflections on the history and changing fortunes of the
NDP, the failures of neoliberalism, and the waning and recent
renewal of the democratic socialist tradition. What plays out is a
battle of ideas fought by Jackson and the wider left--one meant to
rekindle both political veterans and a new generation of activists
who believe that a true democracy cannot exist with great
inequalities of wealth and political power, and that social
ownership and public investment must be brought squarely into the
mainstream.
This book provides a diplomatic history of a turning point in
Antarctic governance: the 1991 adoption of comprehensive
environmental protection obligations for an entire continent, which
prohibited mining. Solving the mining issue became a symbol of
finding diplomatic consensus. The book combines historiographic
concepts of contingency, conjuncture and accidental events with
theories of structural, entrepreneurial and intellectual
leadership. Drawing on archival documents, it shows that Antarctic
governance is more adaptive than some imagine, and policy success
depends on the interplay of normative practices, serendipitous
events, public engagement and influential players able to exploit
those circumstances. Ultimately, the events revealed in this book
show that the protection of the Antarctic Treaty itself remains as
important as protecting the Antarctic environment.
THIS 52 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Harmonial
Philosophy, by Andrew Jackson Davis. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 0766141527.
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The Harmonial Man
Andrew Jackson Davis
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The Harmonial Man
Andrew Jackson Davis
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Dorset’s county town of Dorchester is famous for its association
with the writer Thomas Hardy but its history contains much more
that has often been overlooked. Secret Dorchester & Around
delves deep into the town’s lost, forgotten and hidden histories,
recounting some remarkable stories. The area was an important Iron
Age stronghold, the huge hill fort of Maiden Castle outside
today’s town being taken over by the Romans in the first century
AD. The Romans left an extensive legacy in Dorchester including an
amphitheatre at Maumbury Rings which was later used as an execution
site for eighty rebels from the Monmouth Rebellion condemned to
death by Judge Jeffreys at the Bloody Assizes held in the town. Two
centuries later, the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced in Dorchester
to penal servitude in Australia following their attempts to set up
a trade union of agricultural workers in the nearby village of
Tolpuddle. With tales of remarkable characters, unusual events and
tucked-away or disappeared historical buildings and locations,
Secret Dorchester & Around will appeal to all those with an
interest in the history of this town in Dorset.
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Death and The After-Life
Andrew Jackson Davis
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