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"Pictures of Beach front Business" catches the quintessence of the unpredictable and clamoring universe of ocean ports, furnishing perusers with a striking embroidery of sea exchange and industry. In this investigation, the book digs into the different pictures painted by the beach front ports, each portraying an extraordinary story of trade, network, and worldwide trade. The story of "Pictures of Waterfront Business" unfurls against the background of dynamic seascapes, where gigantic vessels, weighed down with freight from far off shores, explore through the rhythmic movement of worldwide exchange. The book enlightens the meaning of these ports as crucial hubs in the worldwide monetary organization, filling in as conductors for the trading of merchandise, societies, and thoughts. Through careful narrating, the book acquaints perusers with the characters that populate these clamoring beach front centers - the stevedores working enthusiastically on the docks, the skippers arranging the many-sided artful dance of sea traffic, and the traders took part in dealings that rise above borders. Every representation exemplifies the human part of waterfront trade, depicting the versatility, assurance, and kinship that characterize the oceanic local area.The waterfront ports themselves arise as focal characters in the story. "Pictures of Beach front Business" welcomes perusers to investigate the structural wonders of these ports, from transcending cranes dumping transporting holders to broad stockrooms putting away a horde of items anticipating conveyance. The ports, such as living substances, revive the beach front districts, forming the monetary scenes and cultivating a harmonious relationship with the networks they serve. The book's investigation of beach front business stretches out past the actual framework, diving into the mechanical advancements that have changed these ports into centers of effectiveness and maintainability. Perusers witness the coordination of state of the art advancements, for example, computerized holder dealing with and blockchain in strategies, which smooth out tasks and upgrade the general effectiveness of worldwide exchange. "Pictures of Beach front Business" likewise disentangles the natural effect of sea exchange, recognizing the sensitive harmony between financial flourishing and biological obligation. The book reveals insight into drives inside seaside ports pointed toward lessening carbon impressions, taking on environmentally friendly power energy arrangements, and carrying out reasonable practices that line up with the protection of marine biological systems. At last, the story woven in "Pictures of Seaside Business" is one of interconnectedness - a festival of the different countenances and stories that add to the energy of oceanic exchange. The book welcomes perusers on an excursion across the oceans, where the representations of seaside business wake up, displaying the strength, development, and joint effort that characterize these fundamental doors to the world. In its investigation, the book uncovers that behind each holder stacked on a boat and each exchange directed at a port lies a story of human undertaking and a representation of beach front business painted with strokes of globalization and interconnectedness.

This report outlines how the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program could set up a disaster risk transfer facility to help members strengthen risk management.The CAREC region is highly exposed to natural hazards, particularly earthquakes and floods, and the adverse economic impacts of climate change. A regional disaster risk transfer facility could help CAREC countries diversify risk, reduce costs, increase access to international insurance and capital markets, and coordinate risk analysis and modeling. This report draws on lessons from other regions to explore opportunities and options for developing a CAREC Risk Facility. It suggests next steps in establishing a facility and considers the role of stakeholders including the Asian Development Bank.

In an era of mass extinction, climate emergency, and biodiversity collapse, what role do digital media have in securing liveable futures? To what extent are digital media mitigating or intensifying environmental crises? And what theoretical, empirical, and methodological frameworks are needed to make sense of emerging digital ecologies? In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics--for better and for worse---Digital ecologies confronts the political and ethical stakes of these developments. The collection draws together leading social science and humanities scholars, in order to examine the growing entanglement of animals, plants, and ecosystems, with digital media technologies. The book's original empirical chapters explore novel mediated encounters between humans and other animals: from exercise apps where users race wild animals, to livestreams of chickens and lobsters, and digital sound recordings of extinct species. Authors interrogate new forms of governance and surveillance arising with digital media - as satellite-tagged birds monitor the high seas, or digital smart forests and seed data bases reconfigure life in new ways. More broadly, the book explores the political and ethical potentials new assemblages of human, animals, technologies, and environments: as social media creates complex opportunities for environmental activism and new ecologies of software emerge. Beginning with the editors' own agenda-setting introduction, and closing with three chapter-length provocations for the future of research in the field, the book offers both an overview and intervention into the rapidly expanding field of digital ecologies.

Resisting Olympic evictions examines the mobilisation of space to resist removals in favelas in the run-up to the 2016 Olympic Games. The ethnographic account follows the resistance to evictions in Vila Autódromo focusing particularly on a series of events known as Occupy Vila Autódromo which sought to mobilise the space of the favela as a tool for resistance. In constructing the space as welcoming, friendly and safe, these events challenged the myth of marginality underpinning the attempts to evict the community. Beyond this, the liminal nature of the events crystalised this idea clearly for activists who participated in them, allowing this idea to spread around the world through both social and traditional media in the glare of the Olympic media spotlight. Ultimately, residents constructed an alternative vision of what a favela could be, memorialising this in a museum of evictions to serve as an example in the ongoing struggle for housing rights. In doing so, the book offers a significant contribution to debates around integrating informal communities with formal urban structures in a democratic, participatory way and the conflicts over urban space that this ignites, experienced in cities around the world.

Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London.

Why and how do people affected by mining embrace or resist mining? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are global private standards for social and environmental impacts of mining proliferating so quickly? Have multinational mining corporations fully shifted to participation as a strategy to undermine resistance? This book introduces answers these questions and more by developing an original political economy approach which It places company-community conflict in the context of shifting global crises in the social and environmental governance of mining. The author draws on new evidence from three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight feedback between local social relations, conflict, transnational activism, crises of legitimacy and global governance.Extractive accumulation is the collection of strategies and relationships at local, national and global scales that enable corporations to secure natural resources and profit from their extraction within global capitalist economies. Corporate social responsibility, community development, 'gender-mainstreaming' and environmental monitoring are neither simple outcomes of corporate ethics nor mere greenwashing strategies. Rather, participation is a mechanism to undermine resistance and create social relations amenable to extractive accumulation. Combining the 'modes of participation' approach with social reproduction theory and Gramscian political economy, the book provides a fresh look at the institutions and ideologies shaping corporate management of social and environmental conflicts.

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. This multi-authored monograph examines African urban peripheries through a dual focus on the logics driving the transformation of these spaces, and the experience of living through these changes. As well as exploring the generic dynamics of peripheral change across the continent, it provides rich qualitative insights into the specificity and distinctiveness of a range of peripheral locations. Using substantial comparative empirical data from city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana, in conversation with research in other African contexts, it provides a cogent analysis of spatial transformations and everyday life on the African city periphery. It argues that urban peripheries are formed through five distinct but interconnected logics that capture the complexities of periphery formation and changes therein. However, it illustrates that to fully understand the nature of change in urban peripheries we need to situate these logics in relation to the varied lived experiences of people living there. Developed within a framework of comparative urbanism, the book considers multiple issues, including economic and infrastructural transitions, political practices, social outcomes and differences, and spatial and material changes. In order to bring the realities of 'living the periphery' to life, the book foregrounds the voices of residents throughout, supported by visual images.

An accessible, jargon-free manifesto for how to achieve prosperity without growth

Dieser handliche Weltatlas vereint präzise Kartografie und geografische Informationen über unseren Planeten. Der Kartenteil enthält politische und physische Karten auf der Basis aktuellster Daten in brillanter Darstellung. Alle Kontinente werden im einheitlichen Maßstab 1:14 Millionen dargestellt und sind somit vergleichbar. Europa erscheint im Detailmaßstab 1:4,5 Millionen. Das illustrierte Flaggenlexikon bietet aktuelle Daten und Fakten und zeigt die Nationalflaggen aller Länder der Erde. Ein umfangreiches Register hilft bei der schnellen Orientierung. Das perfekte Nachschlagewerk für Schule, Studium, Beruf und auf Reisen.Maßstäbe:Weltkarten 1:150 MillionenKontinentübersichtskarten 1:45 MillionenKontinentkarten 1:14 MillionenEuropakarten 1:4,5 Millionen

- Alle Regionen Tadschikistans auf 456 Seiten- Fundierte landeskundliche Informationen- 21 Stadtpläne, Übersichts- und Regionalkarten- Ausführliche praktische Reisetipps- Mehr als 250 Fotos und Abbildungen- Viele Tipps für IndividualreisendeTadschikistan wird auch gerne die ¿Schweiz Zentralasiens¿ genannt. Vor allem die Hochgebirgsregionen des Landes mit Gipfeln über 7000 Metern locken mit vielfältigen Reiseerlebnissen: Eine Fahrt auf dem Pamir Highway über das Dach der Welt, ein Bad in heißen Quellen, die Beobachtung seltener Wildtiere, eine Kameltour entlang der alten Seidenstraße oder eine Wanderung vorbei an türkisfarbenen Seen und Berggiganten - das sind nur einige der Möglichkeiten.Auch kulturell hat das kleine Land viel zu bieten. So kann man auf den Spuren vorchristlicher Kulturen, des Buddhismus und des Islam reisen. Überall wird der Reisende auf herzliche Gastfreundschaft und ein kleines Abenteuer treffen.Dieser Reiseführer gibt zahlreiche Hinweise zur Vorbereitung einer unvergesslichen Reise. Detaillierte Tipps zu Unterkünften, Routen und Reisemöglichkeiten im Land ermöglichen einen besonderen und individuellen Aufenthalt, ausführliche Informationen zu Geschichte und Lebensweise geben einen tiefen Einblick in die tadschikische Kultur.SCHNEELEOPARDEN, STEINBÖCKE UND MARCO-POLO-SCHAFEWildtiere in Tadschikistan > Seite 34DIE GRÜNE HAUPTSTADTDuschanbe > Seite 104ZU GAST BEI DEN PAMIRIDer kleine Pamir-Knigge > Seite 171HOHE GIPFEL, SCHROFFE SCHLUCHTEN UND REIßENDE FLÜSSEReisen über den Großen Pamir > Seite 190PARADIES FÜR BERGSTEIGERDer Pamirknoten > Seite 262ABENTEUERLICHE FLUSSQUERUNGENTrekking im Bartang-Tal > Seite 271DIE GRÖßTE HISTORISCHE MARKTHALLE ZENTRALASIENSDer Panjshanbe-Markt in Khujand > Seite 311DAS POMPEJI ZENTRALASIENSPanjakent und Sarazm > Seite 348ATEMBERAUBENDE GIPFEL UND UNBERÜHRTE NATURWanderungen in den Fan-Bergen > Seite 351>>> Detaillierte Informationen zu diesem Trescher-Reiseführer finden Sie auf www.trescher-verlag.de

Eine schier unerschöpfliche Schatzkiste liegt an den Stränden von Nord- und Ostsee. Zwischen Millionen unterschiedlicher Kiesel verstecken sich längst ausgestorbene Lebewesen wie Donnerkeile, Seeigel, Schwämme, Kopffüßer, Moostierchen, Armfüßer und sogar die ältesten Fossilien Deutschlands. Wer sich Zeit für die kleinen Dinge am Strand nimmt, wird mit spannenden Kleinfossilien belohnt. Dem Leser offenbart sich in diesem Buch eine völlig neue Welt zwischen den Steinen am Strand, aber auch am Wegesrand, im Spülsaum oder in der Kiesgrube finden sich kleine Kostbarkeiten.Der Bestsellerautor Frank Rudolph weckt bei neugierigen Strandwanderern, Urlaubern, Familien und Fossilien-Fans die Lust auf Expeditionen an der Nord- und Ostsee und erfüllt die versteinerten Zeugen der Urzeit mit neuem Leben. Kompakte Texte, deutliche Fotos und Hinweise auf Vorkommen, Alter und Verwechslungsmöglichkeiten ermöglichen das einfache Bestimmen eigener Funde.

Le transport des métaux à l'état de traces de la terre vers l'océan emprunte différentes voies et présente différentes efficacités. Les éléments toxiques qui pénètrent dans les rivières pour être débouchés dans la mer par les estuaires proviennent soit de l'altération naturelle des sols et des roches, soit de l'introduction anthropique de sources ponctuelles ou diffuses, sous forme labile ou particulaire. Cependant, des études récentes indiquent que le transport des éléments traces vers le milieu aquatique est beaucoup plus complexe que ce que l'on pensait. La chimie et l'écologie d'un système estuarien sont entièrement différentes du système fluvial et du système marin. L'environnement estuarien est caractérisé par un mélange d'eau salée et d'eau douce qui change constamment. Dans la présente zone d'étude, l'estuaire de Manakudy est situé à environ 8 kilomètres au nord-ouest de Kanyakumari (Latitude N 08° 05' 21.8''et Longitude E 077° 29' 03.7''). Afin de mieux comprendre le comportement géochimique des paramètres physico-chimiques et des éléments traces dans l'estuaire et d'examiner les variations des ¿ux chimiques associés, 20 échantillons d'eau ont été collectés dans tout l'estuaire de Manakudy, une rivière mineure du sud-ouest de l'Inde.

El transporte de metales traza desde la tierra hasta el océano tiene una serie de rutas y eficiencias diferentes. Las fuentes de elementos tóxicos que llegan a los ríos para desaguar en el mar a través de los estuarios son, o bien la erosión natural de los suelos y las rocas, o bien la introducción antropogénica a partir de fuentes puntuales o no puntuales, en forma lábil o en forma de partículas. Sin embargo, estudios recientes indican que el transporte de oligoelementos al medio acuático es mucho más complejo de lo que se pensaba. La química y la ecología de un sistema estuarino son totalmente diferentes del sistema fluvial y del marino. El medio ambiente estuarino se caracteriza por una mezcla constantemente cambiante de agua salada y dulce. En la presente zona de estudio, el estuario de Manakudy está situado a unos 8 kilómetros al noroeste de Kanyakumari (Latitud N 08° 05' 21,8''y Longitud E 077° 29' 03,7''). Para comprender mejor el comportamiento geoquímico de los parámetros fisicoquímicos y los oligoelementos en el estuario y examinar las variaciones de los ¿uxes químicos asociados, se recogieron 20 muestras de agua en todo el estuario de Manakudy, un río menor del suroeste de la India.

Renate Hoffmann, die Feuilletonistin, legt hier ihren achtzehnten Band mit aktuellen Texten vor. Wie immer fein illustriert von Peter Hoffmann. Mit wachem Blick und Bildung im Rucksack machten sich beide mal wieder auf, die Welt auf ihre Weise zu entdecken. Und darüber berichten sie. Auch auf die nur ihnen eigene Weise.Von Ribbeck bis Hiddensee wächst vieles am Wegesrand, was Aufmerksamkeit erheischt. Und es gibt Ausstellungen und Konzerte zu besuchen und Bücher zu lesen, die den Mitmenschen mit kundiger Überzeugung empfohlen werden. Das alles geschieht unterhaltsam und vergnüglich. Texte und Zeichnungen zeigen: Die Welt besteht, gottlob, nicht nur aus Krisen und Katastrophen.

Climate change has far-reaching consequences beyond its environmental impact. It also significantly affects human social and mental well-being, both at individual and community levels. Addressing the social and mental well-being impacts of climate change requires a multi-faceted approach that includes both mitigation and adaptation strategies. This involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions, supporting sustainable development, building climate-resilient communities, enhancing social support systems, and investing in mental health services to address the specific challenges of climate change. In this groundbreaking exploration, Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Well-Being transcends the traditional discourse on climate change by delving into its repercussions on the social and mental fabric of our communities. From the foundational examination of the connections between climate change, social stability, food security, and mental health to the nuanced exploration of eco-anxiety, ethical dilemmas, economic instability, and climate-induced migration, this work leaves no stone unturned in its quest for knowledge. The book not only identifies the problems but also offers solutions. By emphasizing a multi-faceted approach, it advocates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development, climate-resilient communities, and robust mental health services. It empowers readers-academics, professionals, policymakers, and the general informed public-to take actionable steps toward a sustainable and mentally resilient future. The interdisciplinary nature of this work makes it a valuable resource for graduate and postgraduate students, professionals in various fields, educators, and policymakers.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is the first volume in the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, regions that were designated as reaping maximum benefit from preservation efforts. This series is our humble attempt to document these hotspots as a conservation and preservation measure.This first volume in the series focuses on the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, construed as forming a community of species because of their shared biogeographical history. The volume explores the diversity and conservation efforts of the extraordinarily rich species found here, including plants, many of which are found nowhere else in the world; forests, which face tremendous population pressure and have been dramatically impacted by demands for timber and agricultural land; as well as the hotspot's diverse mammals, birds, insects, and amphibian species, and more. The volumes in this series will be essential resources for researchers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, ecology, and evolution.

The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial.

Advances in Measurement Technology and Disaster Prevention focuses on research of and the development of disaster prevention and mitigation.

This book offers an understanding of the various aspects of the Bihar government¿s ¿development-with-justice¿ model, and the effects of its implementation on lives and quality of living conditions of the state¿s underprivileged population.

This book offers an understanding of the various aspects of the Bihar government's "development-with-justice" model, and the effects of its implementation on lives and quality of living conditions of the state's underprivileged population.

Bringing together a unique range of perspectives from around the world and from different theoretical approaches, this textbook introduces both the overarching questions and doctrines of public international law, and the specialized sub-fields.

This book examines the increasingly widespread movement to recognise the environment as a legal person.

A richly illustrated atlas of the world's deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and environments Deserts and drylands account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet. Characterized by a lack of water and extreme temperatures, they are the result of atmospheric stability, large landmass characteristics, rain shadows, and cold ocean currents. They appear harsh and hostile, but deserts and drylands are also exceptionally beautiful environments. Desert ecosystems often teem with diverse forms of life that exhibit astonishing ingenuity in the face of such forbidding conditions. The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands takes readers on a guided tour of some of the most awe-inspiring desert environments on Earth, explaining their environmental and ecological dynamics and describing the techniques used to categorize and map them. From the ever-expanding Gobi of Mongolia and China to the ancient Namib of coastal Africa, this is the ultimate reference book for deserts.Features a wealth of color photos, maps, and infographicsDescribes the resilient and complex biodiversity of the world's desert and dryland terrainsCovers subtropical deserts, continental deserts, rain shadow deserts, and ocean margin desertsAddresses the challenges posed by global warming and human activity, and discusses solutions and opportunitiesWritten by a team of leading experts

This book reveals how subjective and objective data gathered by innovative methods of measurement give us the ability to quantify stress, health, performance and wellbeing outcomes in different built environments.

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future.Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries.Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.

Comprehensive, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, this is an essential and timely guide to the world's key plant and fungus species.Written by specialist experts, Plants and Fungi is a botanical exploration of the world's most fascinating species, many of which are also highly valued for their ecological, economic, and cultural importance.Covering all of the main groups - from the fleeting wildflowers that bring life to deserts to the towering giant trees of tropical rainforest giants, and from the lichens of the Arctic to the cultivated seaweeds of South East Asia - the book reveals the spectacular diversity of plants and fungi, the ecosystems they support, their symbiotic relationships with animals, and each other, and their use in everything from food to clothing and medicine.The book explores how plants and fungi grow and reproduce, and the ways they have evolved to adapt to every continent on Earth - even in the harshest of conditions - while celebrating their beauty and diversity, and telling the story of the world's more unusual and intriguing species.