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Examining the existing legal framework for ocean carbon dioxide
removal (CDR), this forward-thinking book highlights potential
legal challenges and opportunities associated with using the ocean
to remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It
describes five commonly discussed ocean CDR techniques, including
rock-based ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), electrochemical OAE,
ocean fertilization, artificial upwelling and downwelling, and
seaweed cultivation, and explores the legal issues that different
techniques could raise. This timely book explores the laws
governing ocean CDR research and deployment at the international
level and domestically in seven countries across Asia, Europe, and
North America. The analysis highlights the complexities and
uncertainties associated with applying existing international and
domestic law to ocean CDR, providing lawyers and policymakers with
invaluable insights into areas where legal reforms are needed to
facilitate in-ocean research and deployment. This book is essential
reading for lawyers, policymakers, and others interested in
advancing innovative climate change solutions. It will also appeal
to academic and private sector scientists who are conducting
research into ocean CDR.
I have always been under the impression that children were only
removed from their families when in severe and life threatening
abusive situations. Never did I think for a moment that the very
people who the public put their trust in are actually guilty of
gross negligence and outrageous behavior far worse than some of the
reasons why children may be removed from their families. To top it
all off there are no penalties for DCF workers who remove children
without cause. My child was kept from me for absolutely no reason,
totally without justification nor my knowledge and tossed in a
system for almost 3 years by the Department of Children and
Families (DCF) that failed to abide by their own statutes, internal
procedures, policies, rules and regulations. During this travesty
of justice my child suffered lifelong visible scars and irreparable
damage. I was totally oblivious to what could and would take place
in my child's life as well as my families and my life. Upon feeling
compelled to write this book I am in hope that my story will
enlighten other parents that maybe, by no fault of their own, are
faced with a similar situation.I am in hope that my story will
somehow inspire changes to be made in a now very broken system, a
system that seems to be totally out of control..
Destructive conflicts have thwarted growth and development in South
Asia for more than half a century. This collection of
multi-disciplinary essays examines the economic causes and
consequences of military conflict in South Asia from a variety of
perspectives embracing fiscal, social, strategic, environmental and
several other dimensions.
This book examines issues of citizenship, citizenship education,
and social change in China, exploring the complexity of
interactions among global forces, the nation-state, local
governments, schools, and individuals - including students - in
selecting and identifying with elements of citizenship and
citizenship education in a multileveled polity. It also provides a
clear, detailed guide to studies on China, discussing the country's
responses to global challenges and social transitions for over a
century - from its military defeats by foreign powers in the 1840s
to its rise as a world power in the early 21st century - on its
path toward reviving the nation and making a modern Chinese
citizenry. Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Global Age is
accessible to readers in the fields of sociology, globalization,
citizenship studies, comparative education, and China's
development.
In this book, first published in 1989, educators, library
administrators, and human resources managers will find helpful
insights into the vital role they can play in attracting pro-active
people to the profession, changing current library structures and
staffing patterns to meet emerging information needs, and
developing existing staff to cope with conflicting demands.
Contributors to this valuable new book also explore the human
resources implications of the changing mission of libraries; the
challenges faced by public services; the need to reallocate,
reclassify, and retain existing staff; and the increasingly
important role that human resources specialists play in libraries
in transition.
A Communication Perspective on the Military brings into focus the
challenge of sense-making in the war state. How do military family
members talk to one another about the stress of deployment on their
lives? How do media - old and new - render the costs of war
meaningful? How is the narrative of war rhetorically constructed?
The dynamics of military family transactions, media-military
relations, and war rhetoric reveal, reinforce, and may even disrupt
U.S. war culture. Offering close analysis and thoughtful critique,
this book reflects upon the ways the meaning of war is communicated
in private lives, social relations, and public affairs. The
collection highlights three broad areas of concern: communication
in the military family; the military in the media; and rhetoric
surrounding the military. Katheryn Maguire, Roger Stahl, and Gordon
Mitchell introduce each section with overarching and integrative
literature reviews that offer directions for the field. Each
section includes six chapters reporting the latest research and
offering suggestions for practical applications. The book is a
must-have reference for military and communication scholars and an
ideal text for graduate seminars and upper division undergraduate
courses focusing on communication and the military.
A Communication Perspective on the Military brings into focus the
challenge of sense-making in the war state. How do military family
members talk to one another about the stress of deployment on their
lives? How do media - old and new - render the costs of war
meaningful? How is the narrative of war rhetorically constructed?
The dynamics of military family transactions, media-military
relations, and war rhetoric reveal, reinforce, and may even disrupt
U.S. war culture. Offering close analysis and thoughtful critique,
this book reflects upon the ways the meaning of war is communicated
in private lives, social relations, and public affairs. The
collection highlights three broad areas of concern: communication
in the military family; the military in the media; and rhetoric
surrounding the military. Katheryn Maguire, Roger Stahl, and Gordon
Mitchell introduce each section with overarching and integrative
literature reviews that offer directions for the field. Each
section includes six chapters reporting the latest research and
offering suggestions for practical applications. The book is a
must-have reference for military and communication scholars and an
ideal text for graduate seminars and upper division undergraduate
courses focusing on communication and the military.
In this volume, the first book-length work to address effective
family communication during times of crisis, leading researchers
provide in-depth discussions of communication theory vis-a-vis
specific scientific analysis of families in crisis. Three general
types of crises are examined: relational crises (infidelity,
infertility, identity shifts, parental deployment, death of a
child); health crises (mothers with breast cancer, children with
disabilities, pediatric cancer, geriatric health crises); and
economic crises (job loss, divorce, homelessness, post-hurricane
survival). Each chapter ends with practical advice for families on
how to communicate effectively during crisis. Given its
presentation of diverse theories, research methodologies, and
crises, this volume can serve as a useful textbook for graduate
courses in communication and family studies. In addition, the
accessible writing style and engaging topics make it an ideal
supplemental text for upper division undergraduate classes and a
useful resource for practitioners who assist families in crisis.
In this volume, the first book-length work to address effective
family communication during times of crisis, leading researchers
provide in-depth discussions of communication theory vis-a-vis
specific scientific analysis of families in crisis. Three general
types of crises are examined: relational crises (infidelity,
infertility, identity shifts, parental deployment, death of a
child); health crises (mothers with breast cancer, children with
disabilities, pediatric cancer, geriatric health crises); and
economic crises (job loss, divorce, homelessness, post-hurricane
survival). Each chapter ends with practical advice for families on
how to communicate effectively during crisis. Given its
presentation of diverse theories, research methodologies, and
crises, this volume can serve as a useful textbook for graduate
courses in communication and family studies. In addition, the
accessible writing style and engaging topics make it an ideal
supplemental text for upper division undergraduate classes and a
useful resource for practitioners who assist families in crisis.
In this book, first published in 1989, educators, library
administrators, and human resources managers will find helpful
insights into the vital role they can play in attracting pro-active
people to the profession, changing current library structures and
staffing patterns to meet emerging information needs, and
developing existing staff to cope with conflicting demands.
Contributors to this valuable new book also explore the human
resources implications of the changing mission of libraries; the
challenges faced by public services; the need to reallocate,
reclassify, and retain existing staff; and the increasingly
important role that human resources specialists play in libraries
in transition.
Today's gardeners want a bit of everything--vegetables, fruit,
medicinal herbs, flowers for pollinators, and even chickens for
eggs. The dream is to build a diverse landscape that serves
multiple functions, but achieving that goal can be intimidating and
overwhelming. Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for
implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and
gradually adding more features each year. The Seven-Step Homestead
takes readers through the process with a series of doable steps,
beginning with establishing one or two raised beds of the easiest
vegetables to grow, and gradually building up to the addition of
fruit trees and berry bushes on hugelkulture mounds, a coop full of
chickens, and a winter's worth of storage crops. Step-by-step
photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her
hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide
for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food.
This text presents a history of PE in specialist women's colleges. Taking Chelsea College as an extended case study, the book looks back at 100 years of social, political and educational development comparing six women's colleges and tracing their impact on PE teaching. The book also looks at the Heads of colleges, the impact on women's rights with regard to training and professional careers, the development of the PE curriculum, and more the diversification of courses such as sports science and leisure studies. eBook available with sample pages: 020348746X
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers,
artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of
todayâs most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial
justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds
upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing
America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism
by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the
nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change.
FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and
performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and
reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine
issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the
carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral
knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity.
Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color,
FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to
injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of
communities, and innovative strategists for equity. Selected
contributors. Dahlak Brathwaite, adrienne maree brown, Jeff Chang,
Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy
Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana
Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu
Destructive conflicts have thwarted growth and development in South
Asia for more than half a century. This collection of
multi-disciplinary essays examines the economic causes and
consequences of military conflict in South Asia from a variety of
perspectives embracing fiscal, social, strategic, environmental and
several other dimensions.
Harderian glands, first described by Jacob Harder in two species of
deer in 1694, are large, intraorbital glands which, with but few
exceptions, are found in all land vertebrates. Certainly, their
relatively large size, their phylogenetic age, and persistent
conservation in all groups as they emerged from an aqueous to an
air/land environment lend strong support to the logical deduction
that they probably play an important role in the physiological
adaptation to terrestrial life. Yet, few biologists know even what
or where these glands are. For a variety of reasons, the Harderian
glands have not received the attention they deserve and, as a
result, the published works available have been scarce and
scattered throughout the world literature. The current situation is
remarkably similar to that which existed in regard to the pineal
gland prior to the mid-1960s, i. e. , scattered literature, unknown
function, few investigators, and little interest. Yet, following a
few key papers, interest in the pineal gland expanded and soon an
explosive increase in the knowledge and understanding of the pineal
gland took place and continues today. Will history repeat itself?
Originally, a few of us discussed the desirability of an informal
Symposium on the Harderian glands.
It is the first text that in addition to standard convergence
theory treats other necessary ingredients for successful numerical
simulations of physical systems encountered by every practitioner.
The book is aimed at users with interests ranging from application
modeling to numerical analysis and scientific software development.
It is strongly influenced by the authors research in in space
physics, electrical and optical engineering, applied mathematics,
numerical analysis and professional software development. The
material is based on a year-long graduate course taught at the
University of Arizona since 1989. The book covers the first
two-semesters of a three semester series. The second semester is
based on a semester-long project, while the third semester
requirement consists of a particular methods course in specific
disciplines like computational fluid dynamics, finite element
method in mechanical engineering, computational physics, biology,
chemistry, photonics, etc.
The first three chapters focus on basic properties of partial
differential equations, including analysis of the dispersion
relation, symmetries, particular solutions and instabilities of the
PDEs; methods of discretization and convergence theory for initial
value problems. The goal is to progress from observations of simple
numerical artifacts like diffusion, damping, dispersion, and
anisotropies to their analysis and management technique, as it is
not always possible to completely eliminate them.
In the second part of the book we cover topics for which there are
only sporadic theoretical results, while they are an integral part
and often the most important part for successful numerical
simulation. We adopt a more heuristic and practical approach using
numerical methods of investigation and validation. The aim is teach
students subtle key issues in order to separate physics from
numerics. The following topics are addressed: Implementation of
transparent and absorbing boundary conditions; Practical stability
analysis in the presence of the boundaries and interfaces;
Treatment of problems with different temporal/spatial scales either
explicit or implicit; preservation of symmetries and additional
constraints; physical regularization of singularities; resolution
enhancement using adaptive mesh refinement and moving meshes.
Self contained presentation of key issues in successful numerical
simulationAccessible to scientists and engineers with diverse
backgroundProvides analysis of the dispersion relation, symmetries,
particular solutions and instabilities of the partial differential
equations
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