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Growing Urban Economies: Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
by David A. Wolfe Meric S. GertlerEven in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions series is a focused analysis of how developments at the local and regional level affect these three key determinants of future prosperity. Growing Urban Economies summarizes its conclusions in a single volume that presents an overview of the evidence and its implications.A rich and nuanced analysis of the interplay of social, political, and economic factors in thirteen Canadian city-regions, large and small, this collection integrates research focusing on innovation, creativity and talent-retention, and governance in order to understand the distinctive experience of each region. A valuable cross-section of city-region development in a variety of circumstances, Growing Urban Economies offers important insights into the way in which local conditions affect urban economies around the world.
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back To Life
by David R. MontgomeryFinalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “A call to action that underscores a common goal: to change the world from the ground up.”—Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster for the world’s growing population. In Growing a Revolution, geologist David R. Montgomery travels the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health. From Kansas to Ghana, he sees why adopting the three tenets of conservation agriculture—ditching the plow, planting cover crops, and growing a diversity of crops—is the solution. When farmers restore fertility to the land, this helps feed the world, cool the planet, reduce pollution, and return profitability to family farms.
Growing a Sustainable City?: The Question of Urban Agriculture
by Christina D. Rosan Hamil PearsallUrban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework.Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsall’s intriguing and illuminating case study of Philadelphia reveals how growing in the city has become a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and – increasingly – gentrification. Their comprehensive research includes interviews with urban farmers, gardeners, and city officials, and reveals that the transition to “sustainability” is marked by a series of tensions along race, class, and generational lines. The book evaluates the role of urban agriculture in sustainability planning and policy by placing it within the context of a large city struggling to manage competing sustainability objectives. They highlight the challenges and opportunities of institutionalizing urban agriculture into formal city policy. Rosan and Pearsall tell the story of change and growing pains as a city attempts to reinvent itself as sustainable, livable, and economically competitive.
Growing from Seed
by Celeste Lacuna-RichmanSocial Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests. During this time, forests have provided people with countless goods and services, including wood, medicine, food, clean water and recreation. In making use of forest resources, people throughout history have frequently organized themselves and established both formal and informal rules. However, just as the discipline of Forestry had previously limited and concentrated the function of forests to the timber it provides, the popular understanding of Social Forestry has restricted it to a Forestry sub-topic that deals with welfare, without any connection to income-generation, and is practiced only in developing countries. This volume introduces the concepts of Social Forestry to the student, gives examples of its practice around the world and attempts to anticipate developments in its future. It aims to widen the concept of Social Forestry from a sub-practice within Forestry to a practice that will make Forestry relevant in countries where wood production alone is no longer the main reason for keeping land forested, thereby rediscovering and redefining this important topic.
Growing up Green! Baby and Child Care
by Deirdre ImusThe essential, parent-friendly guide to raising a healthy child in our increasingly toxic environment. The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Green This! series, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care is a complete guide to raising healthy kids. Environmental activist and children's advocate Deirdre Imus addresses specific issues faced by children in every age group -- from infants to adolescents and beyond. With a focus on preventing rather than treating childhood illnesses, Imus concentrates on educating and empowering parents with information such as: How to make sure your child is vaccinated safely. Which plastic bottles and toys are least toxic. How to lobby for safer school environments and support children's environmental health studies. Advice from leading "green" pediatricians and nationally recognized doctors such as Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Chock-full of research and advice, Growing Up Green makes it easy for you to introduce your child to the "living green" way of life.
Growing up in Tornado Alley
by Shawn TerminStretching across the Great Plains, Tornado Alley has the perfect weather conditions for forming tornadoes.
Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Cluster Dynamics in the Cities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Leipzig, Lyons, Manchester, Munich, Rotterdam and Vienna (Routledge Revivals)
by Erik Braun Leo van BergThis title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling volume examines the critical success factors that determine the economic development of urban regions.
Growth Management in the US: Between Theory and Practice (Urban Planning And Environment Ser.)
by Karina PallagstUrban sprawl is one of the key planning issues facing many US cities, leading to the creation and adoption of a variety of approaches to control growth. However, many growth management ideas do not align well with the growth-promoting planning traditions of the US, which historically have been dominated by the concerns of the market, the landowner and the developer. Illustrated by a study of the San Francisco Bay Area, this book puts forward an innovative theoretical approach to growth management, analyzing it as a tool for controlling land use expansion in the US. This region makes a particularly useful study as it has encountered long term growth pressures, complex land use demands and the application of a wide variety of growth management approaches over the past few decades. Using empirical, qualitative analysis, the book examines which growth management activities have actually been put into practice and which have proved successful and questions how such a planning approach functions in today‘s complex and multi-faceted planning paradigms. It concludes by stressing the different notions of interdependence in growth management: regional interdependence, interdependence between stakeholders and interdependence in planning theory.
Growth and Change in Post-socialist Cities of Central Europe (Routledge Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Growth, Innovation and Change)
by Cudny Waldemar Kunc JosefThis book presents multidimensional socio-economic transformations taking place in the post-socialist cities located in selected countries of the Central European region. The analysis includes case studies from the Eastern part of Germany (Chemnitz, Leipzig), Poland (Łódź, Kielce, Katowice conurbation, and peripheral urban centres from Eastern Poland), Slovakia (Bratislava, Nitra), the Czech Republic (Olomouc, Brno), and from Hungary (Pécs). The analysed urban areas have undergone far-reaching political and socio-economic changes in the last 30 years. These changes began with the collapse of communism and the centrally planned economy system in the region of Central Europe. The beginning of this period, often referred to as post-socialist transformation, dates back to 1989. The consequence of the aforementioned political processes was the multifaceted socio-economic and demographic changes that significantly affected urban areas in Central Europe. This book presents an attempt to summarize the main long-term processes of changes taking place in these urban areas and to identify contemporary and future trends in their socio-economic development. The book will be valuable to undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, urban studies, economy, and city marketing, especially with an interest in Central Europe.
Growth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning
by Peter J. VineGrowth and Decay of Coral Reefs: Fifty Years of Learning describes how coral reefs have alternately flourished and declined over the last 50 years and the dynamics of these changes. The study is based on recordings at 30 different locations along the Sudanese coast, visited by the author between 1971 and 1973. Beyond the Red Sea's desert shores lie some of the richest and most diverse coral reefs on our planet. Over a thousand species of reef fishes, matched by a similar abundance of living corals, creating habitats scientists were only just beginning to understand. The complexity of the inter-relations was truly mesmerizing. A single intervention, such as removal of a key species, could cause the whole community to collapse. Healthy corals were transformed into green weed-smothered reefs, accompanied by the loss of both corals and fish. Based on the author’s observations of how knowledge and perspectives have changed over the last 50 years, this book highlights lessons learned from historical records that may help maintain and reestablish coral reefs in the years to come. Topics covered include: CORAL REEF FISH Fish surveys CORAL REEF PROFILES Coral growth rates Coral distribution Corals on 'Cousteau garage' CORAL THREATS Climate change Coral bleaching Coral diseases Coral sponges Terpios hoshinota Coral predators Coral urchins CORAL – ALGAE CORAL RESEARCH and more . . .
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach (Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization)
by Lance Taylor José Antonio Ocampo Codrina RadaEconomic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength and stability, the authors identify the problems that have long frustrated growth in many parts of the developing world while suggesting new strategies and policies to help improve standards of living.After a survey of structuralist methods and post-World War II trends of global economic growth, the authors discuss the role that patterns in productivity, production structures, and capital accumulation play in the growth dynamics of developing countries. Next, it outlines the evolution of trade patterns and the effect of the terms of trade on economic performance, especially for countries that depend on commodity exports. The authors acknowledge the structural limits of macroeconomic policy, highlighting the negative effects of financial volatility and certain financial structures while recommending policies to better manage external shocks. These policies are then further developed through a discussion of growth and structural improvements, and are evaluated according to which policy options-macro, industrial, or commercial-best fit within different kinds of developing economies.
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
by Alessio TerziFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It’s the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this even lead to a better society, especially in rich nations, helping us break free from a pointless obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these legitimate questions as a starting point for a riveting journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural origins of our need for growth. It’s an imperative, he argues, that we abandon at our own risk. Terzi ranges across centuries and diverse civilizations to show that focus on economic expansion is deeply interwoven with the human quest for happiness, well-being, and self-determination. Growth, he argues, is underpinned by core principles and dynamics behind the West’s rise to affluence. These include the positivism of the Enlightenment, the acceleration of science and technology and, ultimately, progress itself. Today growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the peaceful conduct of international relations, and the very way our society is organized through capitalism. Abandoning growth would not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating conflict within and among societies. This does not mean we have to choose between chaos and environmental destruction. Growth for Good presents a credible agenda to enroll capitalism in the fight against climate catastrophe. With the right policies and the help of engaged citizens, pioneering nations can set in motion a global decarbonization wave and in parallel create good jobs and a better, greener, healthier world.
Growth of the Southern Andes
by Matías C. Ghiglione Andrés Folguera Maximiliano Naipauer Lucía Sagripanti Darío L. Orts Laura GiambiagiThis book presents recent findings on the structure and evolution of the Southern Andes. Through a detailed description of a series of orogenic segments reviewed by the different groups that have worked with structural and geophysical tools in each area over the last several years, it illustrates the diversity of mechanisms that have impacted strong orogenic gradients and consequently mountain morphology, from the southern Pampean flat subduction zone to the southern tip of the continent (33-56º S). The book also revises our conventional understanding of the source of the different Mesozoic to Cenozoic sections exhumed in the orogenic wedge, with the objective of discussing basin mechanisms through time. A final chapter discusses probable orogenic controls that have acted together in order to explain structure, the different deformational stages and intra-orogenic extensional collapses that affected the fold and thrust belt over time.
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
by Anna Lappe Bryant TerryIn the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health-related issues around organic eating, independent farming, and food production. Combining a straight-to-the-point exposé about organic foods (organic doesn't mean fresh, natural, or independently produced) and the how-to's of creating an affordable, easy-touse organic kitchen, Grub brings organics home to urban dwellers. It gives the reader compelling arguments for buying organic food, revealing the pesticide industry's influence on government regulation and the extent of its pollution in our waterways and bodies. With an inviting recipe section, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. Grub's recipes, twenty-four meals oriented around the seasons, appeal to eighteen- to forty-year-olds who are looking for fun and simple meals. In addition, the book features resource lists (including music playlists to cook by), unusual and illuminating graphics, and every variety of do-it yourself tip sheets, charts, and checklists.
Grundkurs Theoretische Physik 1: Klassische Mechanik (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Wolfgang NoltingDer Grundkurs Theoretische Physik deckt in sieben Bänden alle für Diplom- und Bachelor/Master-Studiengänge maßgeblichen Gebiete ab. Jeder Band vermittelt das im jeweiligen Semester nötige theoretisch-physikalische Rüstzeug. Übungsaufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen dienen der Vertiefung des Stoffs. Band 1 behandelt die klassische Mechanik. Vorausgesetzt wird nur die übliche Schulmathematik, andere mathematische Hilfsmittel werden zu Beginn ausführlich erläutert. Die zweifarbig gestaltete Neuauflage wurde grundlegend überarbeitet und ergänzt.
Grundlagen der Geologie
by Christoph Breitkreuz Heinrich BahlburgFür Studenten der Geologie ein Muss! Im System Erde wirken geologische, geophysikalische, mineralogische, chemische und astronomische Vorgänge und Kräfte zusammen. Für die vierte Auflage haben Heinrich Bahlburg und Christoph Breitkreuz den Inhalt an vielen Stellen überarbeitet und erweitert, v.a. die Abschnitte über Sedimentation und über den Menschen im System Erde - hier sind neue oder erweiterte Abschnitte über Tsunamis und Hurrikane hervorzuheben.
Grundlagen der Geotechnik: Verstehen – Analysieren – Bauen
by Hans-Henning Schmidt Carola Vogt-Breyer Roland Fritz BuchmaierMit der Überarbeitung für die vorliegende 6. Auflage wurden, neben umfangreichen Anpassungen an das derzeit geltende Regelwerk, klassische Themen in ihrer Verständlichkeit verbessert sowie neue und ergänzte Inhalte hinzugefügt, wie z.B. grabenloser Leitungsbau, aktuelle Bauweisen für Stützbauwerke oder Verfahren der Bodenbehandlung. Das Buch ist somit auf dem aktuellsten Stand von Forschung und technischem Fortschritt. Neben dem Lehrstoff für Bachelor-Studiengänge sowie vertiefender Masterstudiengänge vermittelt es weitergehende und ausführliche Betrachtungen zu Aufgabenstellungen der Geotechnik, so dass es auch für in der Praxis Tätige einen wertvollen, hilfreichen Begleiter darstellt.
Grundlagen der angewandten Geophysik - Seismik, Gravimetrie
by Christoph ClauserDieses Buch vermittelt einen Einstieg in die geophysikalischen Erkundungsmethoden Seismik und Gravimetrie. Es erklärt, wie elastische Wellen und Unterschiede der Gesteinsdichte zur Sichtbarmachung von Strukturen im Untergrund genutzt werden können. Das Kapitel Seismik erläutert zunächst die Elastizität von Gesteinen und die verschiedenen Typen elastischer Wellen und deren Ausbreitung. Es folgt eine Einführung in die digitale Verarbeitung seismischer Signale, in der die Konzepte der Fourier-, Z-, Radon- und Wavelet-Transformationen erläutert werden ebenso wie die Anwendung von Methoden der Konvolution, Dekonvolution, Kreuz- und Autokorrelation auf seismische Daten. Aufbauend auf diesen theoretischen Grundlagen erfahren Sie, wie mittels Durchschallung mit seismischen Wellen Strukturen des Untergrunds tomografisch sichtbar gemacht werden können. Hierauf folgt eine Einführung in die Techniken der Reflexions- und Refraktionsseismik die erläutert, wie die jeweiligen Datensätze bearbeitet, interpretiert und veranschaulicht werden. Das Kapitel Gravimetrie fasst zunächst zusammen, wie man Schwerebeschleunigungen aus Schwerepotenzialen berechnet und wie das optimal an das Schwerefeld der Erde angepasste Rotationsellipsoid definiert ist. Abweichungen hiervon sind die gesuchten Schwereanomalien, die Rückschlüsse auf Strukturen im Untergrund erlauben. Ihre Identifizierung erfordert eine Reihe von Korrekturen und Reduktionen, die ausführlich erläutert werden. Abschließend erfahren Sie, wie Schweredaten interpretiert werden können - vom Vergleich mit der Schwerewirkung einfacher Modellkörper über Fourier- und Wavelet-Analyse bis hin zu dreidimensionalen Modell- und Inversionsrechnungen. Dieses Buch eignet sich hervorragend als Lehrbuch für Bachelor-Studierende der Geophysik und der Geowissenschaften im Allgemeinen, sowohl zur Begleitung einer Vorlesung als auch zum Selbststudium. Aufgaben mit durchgerechneten Antworten helfen zur Überprüfung des erlangten Verständnisses.
Grundlagen der elektromagnetischen Feldtheorie: Maxwellgleichungen, Lösungsmethoden und Anwendungen
by Harald KlingbeilDie Konzeption und Stoffauswahl dieser Einführung in die mathematischen Grundlagen der elektromagnetischen Feldtheorie stellt die Verbindung zwischen Elektrotechnik, Mathematik und Physik her. Umfassend, mathematisch präzise und dennoch leicht verständlich gelingt dem Leser mit Hilfe dieses Buchs der behutsame Einstieg in die Tensoranalysis und die Grundlagen der speziellen Relativitätstheorie sowie in die invariante Darstellung der Maxwellgleichungen.
Grundlagen der elektromagnetischen Feldtheorie: Maxwellgleichungen, Lösungsmethoden und Anwendungen
by Harald KlingbeilDie Konzeption und Stoffauswahl dieser Einführung in die mathematischen Grundlagen der elektromagnetischen Feldtheorie stellt die Verbindung zwischen Elektrotechnik, Mathematik und Physik her. Umfassend, mathematisch präzise und dennoch leicht verständlich gelingt dem Leser mit Hilfe dieses Buchs der behutsame Einstieg in die Tensoranalysis und die Grundlagen der speziellen Relativitätstheorie sowie in die invariante Darstellung der Maxwellgleichungen.
Grundlagen der nachhaltigen Entwicklung: SWOT-Analyse und Lösungsstrategien
by Niko RoordaDieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung der nachhaltigen Entwicklung auf der Grundlage eines Gleichgewichts zwischen People - Planet - Profit. Eine Vielzahl von Themen wird behandelt, nicht als getrennte Themen, sondern immer in ihrer Kohärenz. Das Buch bietet eine Kombination aus Theorie und Praxis, die es Studierenden aller Disziplinen ermöglicht, Nachhaltigkeit zu verankern und anzuwenden. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
Grüne Wahrheiten: Das Buch zur Ressourcenwende
by Friedrich Schmidt-BleekEs ist das brandaktuelle Buch für die zentrale, globale Herausforderung unserer Zeit. In seinem Vermächtnis, zeigt sich Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek erneut als richtunggebender Vordenker, als Visionär, Umweltforscher und Gestalter einer zukunftsfähigen Umweltpolitik. Ein erfolgreiches Ökologiekonzept muss alle die Klimakrise auslösenden und Umwelt zerstörenden Bereiche in ihren ineinandergreifenden Wirkungszusammenhängen ganzheitlich betrachten. Darauf kann eine verantwortungsbewusste Politik mit klaren Zielen, mit richtungssicheren sozialen, ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Indikatoren aufbauen. Der zentrale Hebel zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise und Beendigung der Umweltzerstörung besteht für den Autor in der qualitativen Veränderung der Ressourcenabhängigkeit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen durch eine wesentliche Minimierung des Ressourcenverbrauchs. Mit dem seit 1990 entwickelten MIPS Konzept (Material-Input pro Serviceeinheit) ist ein Parameter entstanden, der den Ressourcenverbrauch im Lebenszyklus von Produkten und Dienstleistungen berechenbar und damit veränderbar macht. Damit ist der Weg zu zukunftsfähigen, nachhaltigen Produkten gangbar geworden. Anschaulich und allgemeinverständlich geschrieben legt Schmidt-Bleek hier sein über Jahrzehnte verfeinertes, und vorsorgendes Ökologiekonzept dar, dass eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Transformation und Ressourcenwende ermöglicht und uns allen Wege aufzeigt, aktiv daran teilzuhaben zu können.
Guanacos and People in Patagonia: A Social-Ecological Approach to a Relationship of Conflicts and Opportunities (Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia)
by Gabriela Lichtenstein Pablo CarmanchahiThis book relates one of the most representative species of Patagonian wildlife, the guanaco, to human societies across time, and explores how that relationship has changed over time due to different land uses and productive interests. The book provides information to understand these interactions, and contextualizes the current situation of this species. In some cases, it proposes possible solutions to conflicts, and also shows ongoing activities aimed at sustainable use and conservation. The audience for this book includes researchers, graduate students, policy makers and conservation and rural development professionals. In addition, it will serve as a tool for application authorities and field technicians on the use and conservation of wildlife, to define management actions for this species.
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
by Gregory T. CushmanFor centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia, and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and the world's relationship to the region. Marrying traditional methods of historical analysis with a broad interdisciplinary approach, Gregory T. Cushman casts this once little-known commodity as an engine of Western industrialization, offering new insight into uniquely modern developments such as environmental consciousness and conservation movements; the ascendance of science, technology, and expertise; international relations; and world war.
Guanxi and Local Green Development in China: The Role of Entrepreneurs and Local Leaders (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy)
by Chunhong ShengThis book examines the factors which contribute to local green development in China and employs political ecology to analyze the relationship between power and the environment. Specifically, it looks at which actors control access to resources and are therefore able to promote environmental progress. Following the reform and opening-up of China in the 1970s, entrepreneurs and local officials profited economically and politically and formed close relationships, known as guanxi in China. As a result, they have also been criticized as those responsible for the associated ecological damage. This book does not contest this association, but instead argues that the current literature places too much emphasis on their negative influence and the positive influence of their environmental work has been neglected. Building on three case studies where local green development is being pursued, Shanghai Pudong New Area, Baoding, and Wuning, this book shows how local officials and entrepreneurs can also be the crusaders of a greener environment at the local level in China. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, with a particular interest in environmental policy and politics, business and society, as well as those interested in sustainable development more broadly.