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Focusing on climate change policy after the first Kyoto commitment
period ending in 2012, this special issue examines long-term
strategy and the implications for stakeholders and the environment.
International experts offer detailed policy analysis and review the
links between policy and economics, sustainable development,
technology and adaptation. An invaluable and insightful source of
information on long-term thinking on climate change, this special
issue of Climate Policy addresses the following key questions: What
long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and
mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance
sustainability on a global level? What are the implications of
long-term European climate strategy for the design of a global
post-2012 climate regime? What are the key concerns of different
stakeholders and how will these concerns impact on long-term
climate policy?These questions were discussed during two workshops,
commissioned by the European Forum on Integrated Environmental
Assessment (EFIEA) and jointly organized by the National Institute
of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands and
the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Resear publication in this
special issue. The special issue also includes introductory and
concluding remarks from the guest editors, highlighting key points
and offering an expert synthesis of the workshop
discussions.Climate Policy Options Post-2012 offers a synthesis of
expert thinking on long-term climate policy, addressing points such
as: EU institutional and coalition development on climate change
strategy, the importance of setting a diverse range of targets and
commitments, retaining other features such as the flexible
mechanisms, assessing costs and competitiveness, dealing with
policy dilemmas and creating coherence in policy issues, and the
need to strengthen strategic research, boost technological change,
pay more attention to impacts and adaptation to enhance support for
mitigation, develop a long-term vision and link this to short term
action and managing of change.
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Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report (Paperback)
Amo, Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wageningen University, …
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The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or
the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the
front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and
ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are
playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded,
mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these sites are
changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem
Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations
underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas.Countryside, A
Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by
global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness:
a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain
Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse
city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of
today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central
Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation;
refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and
intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain
gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the
American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are
coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages
transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and
fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the
Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The
exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect
and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two
city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture
(1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It's designed by Irma Boom,
who drew inspiration for the book's pocket-sized concept, as well
as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the
Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by
AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen
University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi.
Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad
Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova,
Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo
Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann,
and Anne M. Schneider.
Eurocode 2 is the key document for future structural design in
concrete throughout Europe. To use the code effectively, structural
engineers need a range of aids in the form of flow charts, design
charts and simplified procedures. This book provides all these.
This book should be of interest to structural engineers throughout
Europe, working for consulting engineering firms, contractors,
local and government authorities, researchers and teachers of
concrete structures civil engineering and concrete structures.
This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses the
following key questions: * What long-term range of policies for
climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to
adequately enhance sustainability on a global level? * What are the
implications of long-term European climate strategy for the design
of a global post-2012 climate regime? * What are the key concerns
of different stakeholders and how will these concerns impact on
long-term climate policy? These questions were discussed during two
workshops, commissioned by the European Forum on Integrated
Environmental Assessment (EFIEA) and jointly organized by the
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The
Netherlands and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK.
Selected papers from these workshops were adapted and peer-reviewed
for publication. International experts offer detailed policy
analysis and review the links between policy and economics,
sustainable development, technology and adaptation. Also included
are introductory and concluding remarks from the guest editors,
highlighting key points and offering an expert synthesis of the
workshop discussions. This will be invaluable reading for
professionals, researchers and academics interested in climate
change and climate policy, policy makers, policy analysts, energy
consultants, and representatives from industry planning their own
long-term energy strategies.
This book is the translation of a Dutch report on a study on
concrete block revetments on dike slopes, published in 1984 in
Dutch. It is primarily for technical staff involved in design and
management, water boards, provincial public works departments and
The Netherlands Public Works Department.
The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid
crisis. Â In the past two decades, media images of the
surprisingly white “new face†of the US opioid crisis abounded.
But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing
overdoses were “deaths of despair†signaling deeper
socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the
counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of
white racial privilege as well as despair. Â Anchored by
interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three
leading experts—an addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and
a drug historian—Whiteout reveals how a century of structural
racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries
led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially
segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction
scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to
white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial
capitalism is toxic for all Americans.
Our understandings of addiction are rapidly changing. New
technologies and biomedical treatments are reconfiguring addiction
as a brain disease, and the concept of "addiction" is expanding to
cover an ever widening array of substances and behaviours, from
food to shopping. This volume looks critically at how addiction has
been framed historically, how it is characterized and understood
through contemporary cultural representations, how new treatments
and technologies are reconfiguring addiction, and how "addiction"
is being expanded beyond illicit drugs and alcohol to explain
phenomena such as "excessive" eating and gambling and the
exponential rise in prescription narcotic use. It also examines how
medical, behavioural and punitive frameworks come together to shape
and control "addicts." Featuring the work of several up-and-coming
scholars working to deepen theoretical perspectives on addiction
and its relationship to social control and deviance, this volume
fills a gap in addiction studies by offering critical perspectives
that interrogate and challenge traditional and/or mainstream
understandings of addiction.
This book is intended for introductory courses in SIA within
sociology, social policy, human geography and political science at
postgraduate level. Specialist postgraduate and professional
courses in policy- orientated social research and in social and
general impact assessment.
Eurocode 2 is the key document for future structural design in
concrete throughout Europe. To use the Code effectively, structural
engineers need a range of aids in the form of flow charts, design
charts and simplified procedures. This book provides all of these,
and is written with the authority of collaborative work by members
of the Concrete Societies of the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.
The preparation of the book has been funded under the SPRINT
European Community programme for innovation and technology
transfer.
Challenging Neighbours provides wide coverage of the German and
Dutch economies, from an institutional point of view. Pensions,
competition policy, labour relations, corporate governance, and
health care are among the topics for which the institutional
setting and performance of Germany and the Netherlands are
compared. The difficulties and successes the countries have in
facing pressures from aging population, developments in technology,
and global competition are traced back to their institutional
roots, and lead to mutual lessons for institutional reform for
German and Dutch policy makers.
Excerpt from Henry Hudson in Holland: An Inquiry Into the Origin
and Objects of the Voyage Which Led to the Discovery of the Hudson
River; With Biographical Notes Other points of interest connected
with the sending out of this expedition will attract especial
attention. The most important of them is the explicit statement of
hudson in regard to the amelioration of the climate at the extreme
Northern latitude attained by him in his previous explorations, and
its remarkable concom itant, an open navigation towards the pole.
It was this relation which satisfied the minds of the directors of
the Company as to the expediency of making a new search for a
passage to China in those comparatively mild and possibly habitable
regions. We know how often this observation of hudson has since
been con firmed by later voyagers at different points of the arctic
circle and yet our knowledge, after the lapse of two hundred and
fifty years in regard to this strange phenomenon has hardly
advanced one step and we are in the same state both of doubt and
hopeful effort on the subject, as the merchants of Amsterdam were
on the occasion of the narration of our navigator. Science too then
as now stepped in to substantiate the fact when otherwise it would
have been incredible and to encourage the under taking. In
prosecuting this task we have sought the most authentic sources of
information; and with that viewhave examined the records of the
East India Company, comprising the registers or books of
resolutions of the general council of the Company, styled the
Council of Seventeen, and of the chambers of Amsterdam and Zeeland
respectively, with some other documents of a miscellaneous
character, among the Archives of the Kingdom at the Hague; where
all the books and papers of the Company, which were until lately
dispersed among the different cities where the operations of the
different chambers were conducted, have been brought together and
arranged. A copy of the contract between hudson and the Chamber of
Amsterdam was found appended to a history of the Company never
published, but prepared at its request by Mr. P. Van dam who held
the position of Counsel of the Company for the extra ordinary
period of fifty four years, that is, from 1652 until his death in
1706. The original instrument is not to be found. That would have
been a precious relic to see, but for all the purposes of history
the copy thus accidentally preserved will answer its place. About
the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of
rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This
book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten
Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the
work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections
present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the
original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in
our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of
imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are
intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Death and Dying - A Reader (Paperback)
Thomas A. Shannon; Contributions by Paul B Bascom, David DeGrazia, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Kathleen Foley, …
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Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in
response to the increased control over the design of living
organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology.
Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an
academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is
covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around
the globe. In response to the increasing need for information about
medical genetics and biotechnology as well as the ethical issues
these fields raise, Sheed & Ward proudly presents the Readings
in Bioethics Series. Edited by Thomas A. Shannon, the series
provides anthologies of critical essays and reflections by leading
ethicists in four pivotal areas: reproductive technologies, genetic
technologies, death and dying, and health care policy. The goal of
this series is twofold: first, to provide a set of readers on
thematic topics for introductory or survey courses in bioethics or
for courses with a particular theme or time limitation. Second,
each of the readers in this series is designed to help students
focus more thoroughly and effectively on specific topics that flesh
out the ethical issues at the core of bioethics. The series is also
highly accessible to general readers interested in bioethics. This
volume collects critical essays by leading scholars on the
definition of death, consciousness, quality of life, tube feeding,
pallative care, physician-assisted suicide and the debate on
euthanasia. Included in this volume are works by Paul B. Bascom,
David DeGrazia, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Kathleen Foley, Herbert Hendin,
Michael Panicola, Stephen G. Post, Thomas A. Shannon, Charles F.
von Gunten, Susan W. Tolle.
Marc Albrecht conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in
this 2012 production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera. Svetlana
Ignatovich stars as Fevroniya, a young peasant who prays that the
city of Kitezh will become invisible so that it will be saved from
the invading Tatars. Though her wish is granted, Svetlana is taken
by the enemy. The rest of the cast includes John Daszak, Vladimir
Vaneev and Maxim Aksenov.
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Hendrik Herman Juynboll; Created by Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
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Hendrik Herman Juynboll; Created by Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
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