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Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water
sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public
health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed
in regulations. More than 85% of the world's faecal wastes is from
domestic animals such as poultry, cattle, sheep and pigs. These
animals harbor zoonotic pathogens that are transported in the
environment by water, especially runoff. However little information
exists on health effects associated with exposure to this potential
hazard to human health; and water standards focused on control of
human fecal contamination do reflect the contribution of non-human
fecal contamination to risk. Does compliance with current
monitoring practices using microbial indicators provide protection
against animal and bird sources of fecal contamination? Prepared
with contributions from a group of international experts, Animal
Waste, Water Quality and Human Health considers microbial
contamination from domestic animal and bird sources and explores
the health hazards associated with this microbial contamination and
approaches to protecting public health. Animal Waste, Water Quality
and Human Health will be of interest to regulators with
responsibility for recreational waters, drinking water quality and
water reuse; policymakers working in water quality, public health
and agriculture; decision makers responsible for livestock
management; and scientists and practitioners concerned with many
affected subjects. Topics covered include: Credible waterborne
zoonotic pathogens are discussed and ranked according to their
potential hazard level. Each pathogen is described with regard to
their sources, reservoirs, and infectivity. Faecal production rates
of various domestic animals are discussed, alongside pathogen
transmission in animal populations, pathogen prevalence in animals
and "supershedders". Transport of fecal indicator organisms and
their episodic occurrence in catchments. Interventions for
improving food safety and reducing production losses. The impact of
interventions, e.g. enhanced attenuation and storage to prevent
spills; benchmarking against best management practices to reduce
diffuse source contamination. Models to inform design of farm-scale
best management practices and the effectiveness of best management
practices for attenuating pathogen transport within catchments. The
complex nature of human exposure to zoonotic waterborne pathogens;
including the relationships among livestock waste contamination,
water impairment, zoonotic pathogens, and human infection and
illness. Human exposure interventions include case studies that
discuss eradicating disease in discharging populations, adding
filtration to minimal treated water to reduce Cryptosporidium
occurrence and UV disinfection of beach waters to reduce beach
postings. Indicators, sanitary surveys and source attribution
techniques; risk assessment of exposure to zoonotic pathogens,
including an interactive risk comparison approach. A review of
epidemiological studies that address the relationship between
swimmer illness and exposure to waters contaminated by nonhuman
fecal wastes. Economic evaluation of the costs and benefits
associated with animal waste management and human health.
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In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President
James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency
government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared
British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack
the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that
territory for America. The man Madison sent to pursue those
challenging tasks was Anthony Morris, a friend of Dolley Madison's
from their youth in Philadelphia and a devout Quaker lawyer who had
never before journeyed abroad. Morris, a widower, had willingly
accepted the president's call, despite the separation it would
impose from his four teenage children. The Morris mission did not
proceed as intended, as developments in Spain conspired to alter
its scope and prolong its duration. Long after the war had ended,
Morris was compelled to persevere at his post as the only American
link to an unfriendly Spanish monarchy. As he dutifully carried on,
ill-founded accusations by two other frustrated American diplomats
slurred his reputation. Meanwhile, he thirsted to rejoin his
maturing children, whose lives were taking paths that would have
been unlikely had he never left them. Throughout this ordeal, a
steadfastly philosophical Anthony Morris strove to counter his
distress by thoughtful exploration of a national culture and a
religious faith so very different from his own. The full story of
this distinctive but little-remembered diplomatic endeavor has not
previously been recounted. The telling of it here reveals much
about the vexation and confusion endemic to American diplomacy in
the age of sail, when events often moved faster than the mails.
Interwoven with that historical account is the poignant revelation
of the spiritual and cultural growth that Anthony Morris reaped
from his odyssey, as displayed in a stream of intimate, charming
letters to the daughters he had left at home. Published in the
ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series
This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young
adults by sharing their views on their journey toward desistance
from crime and social and community (re)integration. Building in
interviews with 140 justice-involved youth and young adults (aged
16 to 35), the book explores the challenges they faced while they
were under the control of the justice system, the ways in which
they navigated the obstacles they came up against, and the support
they needed to overcome them. What and who they consider to be
facilitators in their journeys are presented. The book also
examines experiences of assisted desistance in different settings,
such as incarceration, addiction services and community
supervision. What distinguishes this book is its focus on how
justice-involved youth and young adults perceive their own
experiences of desistance from crime and social and community
(re)integration. An accessible and compelling read, Understanding
Desistance From Crime and Social and Community (Re)Integration will
be of interest to those engaged with desistance studies,
rehabilitation, re-entry, juvenile and adult justice, and recovery
from addiction.
Modern ecological and environmental sciences are dominated by
observational data. As a result, traditional statistical training
often leaves scientists ill-prepared for the data analysis tasks
they encounter in their work. Bayesian methods provide a more
robust and flexible tool for data analysis, as they enable
information from different sources to be brought into the modelling
process. Bayesian Applications in Evnironmental and Ecological
Studies with R and Stan provides a Bayesian framework for model
formulation, parameter estimation, and model evaluation in the
context of analyzing environmental and ecological data. Features:
An accessible overview of Bayesian methods in environmental and
ecological studies Emphasizes the hypothetical deductive process,
particularly model formulation Necessary background material on
Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo simulation Detailed case
studies, covering water quality monitoring and assessment,
ecosystem response to urbanization, fisheries ecology, and more
Advanced chapter on Bayesian applications, including Bayesian
networks and a change point model Complete code for all examples,
along with the data used in the book, are available via GitHub The
book is primarily aimed at graduate students and researchers in the
environmental and ecological sciences, as well as environmental
management professionals. This is a group of people representing
diverse subject matter fields, who could benefit from the potential
power and flexibility of Bayesian methods.
In Cultures Built to Last: Systemic PLCs at Work, two of North
America's most prominent educational thinkers team up to examine
how to improve education. Combining Richard DuFour's extensive
knowledge on what PLCs look like, how to create them, and their
benefit for students and teachers with Michael Fullan's
best-practice research for meaningful change in schools, districts,
and whole systems, this book takes PLCs to the next level.
DuFour and Fullan believe it is time for PLCs to go big, and in
this book, they present a roadmap for the journey to systemwide
implementation to systemic PLCs. Many individual schools have
implemented the PLC process successfully, with great results for
student achievement. However, some schools find it difficult to
sustain the process unless the larger system provides a more
positive and supportive context. In systemic PLCs, every person is
an instrument in cultural change; there is no waiting for others to
make the necessary chan
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of
space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little
known in architecture, Husserl's phenomenology of embodied
spatiality established the foundations for the works of later
phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty's well-known
phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his
posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour
examines the depth and scope of Husserl's phenomenology of space.
The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the "lived
body," extending to questions of intersubjective,
intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience, what
DuFour terms the "environmentality" of space. Combining in-depth
architectural philosophical investigations of spatiality with a
rich and intimate ethnography, Husserl and Spatiality speaks to
themes in social and cultural anthropology, from a theoretical
perspective that addresses spatial practice and experience. Drawing
on fieldwork in Brazil, DuFour develops his analyses of Husserl's
phenomenology through spatial accounts of ritual in the
Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble. The result is a
methodological innovation and unique mode of spatial description
that DuFour terms a "phenomenological ethnography of space." The
book's profoundly interdisciplinary approach makes an incisive
contribution relevant to academics and students of architecture and
architectural theory, anthropology and material culture, and
philosophy and environmental aesthetics.
Conditions for global solidarities and social movements have
changed radically since their high point in the 1990s United
Nations conferences. This collection considers how political
solidarities are being understood and constructed in a variety of
cross-border struggles and for what ends under twenty-first century
conditions. In studies grounded in different world regions at a
variety of scales, authors address: how the Cold War divide and its
aftermath have structured contemporary asymmetries in European LGBT
movements and in 'global' feminisms; how 'colonial difference' in
Latin America confronts feminist and social justice movements with
problems of translation across worlds; how travelling concepts
essential to constructing solidarities across distance and
difference traverse linguistic divides and attendant power
imbalances in world cities and transnational networks; how rurality
as a form of colonial difference challenges established categories
of intersectional feminism. Feminist politics of power and
difference, and attention to gendered agency, are at the centre of
this inquiry into the possibility of twenty-first century
solidarities across borders.
From ravenous ants and temperamental gear to debilitating illness
and unpredictable politics, field research can be fraught with
challenges and opportunities for mishap. Disasters in Field
Research is your guide to what can go wrong while conducting
fieldwork-and what you can do to avoid or minimize the impact of
unexpected events. Ice, Dufour, and Stevens address the issues
confronting both students and professional researchers as they
embark on field research. For example, permits may be difficult to
obtain-or even revoked at the last minute. Cultural differences and
misunderstandings can disrupt data collection. Equipment can be
held up by customs-or fail to work as expected. The authors offer
practical advice on preparing for such possibilities, while active
researchers from a wide array of disciplines relate, in brief
first-person narratives, their own encounters with disaster, how
they solved (or failed to solve) the problem, and their
recommendations for avoiding similar issues in the future. Each
thematic chapter concludes with strategies and suggestions for
making the most of your preparations, recovering from missteps, and
coping with calamity. The result is an excellent companion book for
field methods courses in a variety of disciplines-and an excellent
companion to carry with you into the field.
From ravenous ants and temperamental gear to debilitating illness
and unpredictable politics, field research can be fraught with
challenges and opportunities for mishap. Disasters in Field
Research is your guide to what can go wrong while conducting
fieldwork-and what you can do to avoid or minimize the impact of
unexpected events. Ice, Dufour, and Stevens address the issues
confronting both students and professional researchers as they
embark on field research. For example, permits may be difficult to
obtain-or even revoked at the last minute. Cultural differences and
misunderstandings can disrupt data collection. Equipment can be
held up by customs-or fail to work as expected. The authors offer
practical advice on preparing for such possibilities, while active
researchers from a wide array of disciplines relate, in brief
first-person narratives, their own encounters with disaster, how
they solved (or failed to solve) the problem, and their
recommendations for avoiding similar issues in the future. Each
thematic chapter concludes with strategies and suggestions for
making the most of your preparations, recovering from missteps, and
coping with calamity. The result is an excellent companion book for
field methods courses in a variety of disciplines-and an excellent
companion to carry with you into the field.
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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