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Mitigation Banking: Theory And Practice
by Douglas R. Porter David Salvesen John De Grove Lindell L. MarshUnder the Clean Water Act, development that results in the permanent destruction of wetlands must, in most cases, be mitigated by the creation of a new wetland or the restoration of a degraded one. In recent years, the concept of "mitigation banking" has emerged. Rather than require developers to create and maintain wetlands on their own on a quid pro quo basis, mitigation banking allows them to pay for wetlands that have been created and maintained properly by others to compensate for their damage.The contributors to this volume provide an overview of mitigation banking experience in the United States, examine the key issues and concerns -- from providing assurances to determining the value of credits -- and describe the practice of developing and operating a mitigation bank. Topics include: history and current experience of mitigation banking policies and concerns of local, state, and federal agencies economics of mitigation banking funding, management, and operation of banks starting a mitigation bank
Mitla Pass
by Leon UrisA writer travels to Israel to research a novel, but he ends up drawn into the Suez Crisis How did Gideon Zadok, an American novelist and screenwriter, end up pinned by artillery shells in Mitla Pass? It was never his plan to fight someone else's war. He came to Israel to research a book, but also to escape a crumbling marriage, a dysfunctional family, and the pressures of newfound success in the States. But in fleeing from personal troubles he charged headfirst into one of the great global crises of the twentieth century. Perhaps Leon Uris's most introspective work, Mitla Pass portrays a man caught between his own demons and the epic sweep of Middle Eastern history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Leon Uris including rare photos from the author's estate.
Mitologías fascistas: Historia y política de la irracionalidad en Borges, Freud y Schmitt
by Federico FinchelsteinInterpretación original y lúcida sobre la relación entre fascismo y mito a través de las perspectivas de la literatura de Borges, el psicoanálisis de Freud y la teoría política de Schmitt que comporta un análisis crítico de, y un llamado de atención sobre, los peligros del mito en la política contemporánea. «En nuestro propio presente, en el que el mito y la mentira regresaron al centro de la política, las críticas antifascistas de Borges y Freud vuelven a tomar fuerza». Para el fascismo el mito podía ser más real que la realidad. Las nociones fascistas de líder, nación, poder y violencia, impregnadas de imaginería mítica, tenían inscripta la fantasía de trascender la historia: un pasado primordial mitificado inspiraría el derrocamiento heroico de un presente degradado para lograr un futuro violentamente redimido. Asumiendo que comprender acabadamente lo distintivo de la mitología del fascismo es condición de posibilidad para la explicación de su peligro en el pasado y en el presente, Federico Finchelstein acude a una sorprendente combinación de pensadores para dar cuenta del fascismo como una maquinaria de creación de mitos políticos. Así, muestra cómo la obra literaria y crítica de Borges y la escritura psicoanalítica de Freud sirven para entender las dimensiones míticas e inconscientes de la política fascista, lo mismo que el análisis de variedad de intelectuales latinoamericanos y europeos, con especial énfasis en la teología política de Carl Schmitt. En un momento regresivo en que los asuntos mundiales tienden a ensombrecerse cada vez más, el análisis crítico de los peligros del mito en la política contemporánea que aquí se presenta puede leerse como herramienta para la resistencia.
Mitt Romney in His Own Words
by Phillip HinesRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has articulated his vision for America's future in an election-year tumult of campaign speeches and media interviews; now, this essential collection of Romney's direct quotes, past and present, is an invaluable primer that crystallizes his stance on domestic and social issues; national security; the economy; health care; and much more. Here, too, are his comments on his personal life, family, and faith--key insights into the man himself, in his own words. "I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith." ("Faith in America" speech, 2007) "We're the party of opportunity. We're the party of keeping taxes down. We're the party that want people to have choice in their schools and choice in their health care." (This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 2009) "When I was a little kid, there used to be the ditty that went around: first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Today that idea is foreign to some kids."(The Charlie Rose Show, 2006) "The older I get, the smarter Dad is. I pattern myself like him--his character, his sense of vision, his sense of purpose." (Time, 2007) "America has been a force for good like no other in the world, and for that, we will make no apology." (Values Voter Summit, 2010)
Mitt Romney, Mormonism, And The 2012 Election
by Luke PerryThis book seeks to address the question of how we should understand the impact of Mitt Romney's faith in the 2012 election. As the first Mormon to earn a presidential nomination from a major party, the book provides a comprehensive study of Romney's historic candidacy.
Mittelalterliche Königinnen
by Laurel A. Rockefeller Christina LöwMit diesem wunderschönen Buch-Set aus „Kaiserin Wu Zetian“, „Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, die Kriegerprinzessin von Deheubarth“ und „Kaiserin Matilda von England“ wird das Mittelalter zum Leben erweckt. Beginnen Sie Ihre Reise mit einer Erkundung des mittelalterlichen China, als Finanzminister Wu Shihuos ungewollte Tochter Wu Zhao allen Erwartungen zum Trotz die erste und einzige Kaiserin Chinas wird. Reisen Sie von dort ins mittelalterliche Wales, um König Gruffydd ap Cynans heroische Tochter Gwenllian zu treffen, die erste fremdländische Herrscherin, die von den Engländern hingerichtet worden ist. Lernen Sie schließlich Kaiserin Matilda kennen, die erste Frau, die den englischen Thron aus eigener Kraft bestiegen hat. Drei mittelalterliche Königinnen. Ein mitreißendes Buch, das Ihre ganze Familie unterhalten, informieren und inspirieren kann.
Mittelbare Verhaltenssteuerung – Konzept, Wirkungen, Kritik: Perspektiven der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
by Michael W. MüllerJenseits der imperativen Steuerung durch Ge- und Verbot bedient sich der moderne Staat schon lange verschiedenster Formen einer mittelbaren Einflussnahme auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: er steuert durch die Nutzung seiner Finanz- und Informationsmacht ebenso wie durch die Zuweisung von Risikosphären und Haftungsfolgen. Nach der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts darf er dies und genießt bei der Formenwahl regelmäßig große Gestaltungsfreiheit. Neuere Entscheidungen nehmen den Gesetzgeber jedoch verstärkt in die Pflicht, sich der tatsächlichen Wirkungen seiner Steuerungsbemühungen zu vergewissern: Gesetze können das verfassungsrechtliche Untermaßverbot verletzen, wenn Schutzaufträge nicht ausreichend verwirklicht werden. Sie können aber auch gegen das Übermaßverbot verstoßen, wenn sie zu Belastungen führen, denen keine hinreichenden Steuerungswirkungen gegenüberstehen. Durch diese Rechtsprechung erhält die seit langem in Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften geführte Debatte über die staatlichen Steuerungsmöglichkeiten zunehmende praktische Relevanz: Der Gesetzgeber muss sich des Sachverstandes verschiedener Steuerungswissenschaften bedienen und nach Möglichkeiten suchen, intendierte und tatsächliche Wirkungen seiner Steuerungsbemühungen plausibel zu beschreiben und zu analysieren. Ausgehend von aktuellen Problemstellungen führt der Band Perspektiven der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften auf diese Fragen zusammen..
Mittelschicht unter Druck: Dynamiken in der österreichischen Mitte
by Roland Verwiebe Laura WiesböckIn Europa schrumpft die Mittelschicht, was für eine Reihe von EU-Mitgliedsländern bislang kaum untersucht wurde. Dies trifft auch auf Österreich zu, welches sich durch Umbau der Sozialpolitik, Flexibilisierung des Arbeitsmarktes, Zuwanderung und einem Aufstieg rechter politischer Parteien in einem starken Umbruchprozess befindet. Dies ist der Hintergrund für eine in diesem Sammelband erstmalig vorgenommene Analyse des Schrumpfens der österreichischen Mittelschicht. Der Band ist multidisziplinär angelegt (Autor*innen aus Soziologie, Ökonomie, Politikwissenschaft, Zeitgeschichte), und versammelt theoretisch orientierte und empirische Beiträge etablierter Autor*innen wie auch Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen.
Mixed Economies Welfare
by Norman JohnsonThis book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters begins with an introduction to set the scene, followed by an examination of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of the sector under discussion. Chapters analyse the major changes in the sectors, with issue-based conclusions highlighting the policy dilemmas identified in the chapters. The influence of ideology and values is given prominence throughout. Although each of the sectors has its own chapter, the book emphasises the importance of the relationships between the sectors, allowing each sector's place in the production and delivery of welfare to be assessed.
Mixed Emotions: Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict
by Andrew A. G. RossIn recent years, itOCOs become increasingly clear that emotion plays a central role in global politics. For example, people readily care about acts of terrorism and humanitarian crises because they appeal to our compassion for human suffering. These struggles also command attention where social interactions have the power to produce or intensify the emotional responses of those who participate in them. aaaaaaaaaaa From passionate protests to poignant speeches, Andrew A. G. Ross analyzes high-emotion events with an eye to how they shape public sentiment and finds that there is no single answer. The politically powerful play to the publicOCOs emotions to advance their political aims, and such appeals to emotion also often serve to sustain existing values and ainstitutions. But the affective dimension can produce profound change, particularly when a struggle in the present can be shown to line up with emotionally resonant events from the past. Extending his findings to well-studied conflicts, including the War on Terror and the violence in Rwanda and the Balkans, Ross identifies important sites of emotional impact missed by earlier research focused on identities and interests. "
Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia
by Kathryn E. GraberFocusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. Graber demonstrates that language and the production, circulation, and consumption of media are practices by which residents of the region perform and negotiate competing possible identities. What languages should be used in newspapers, magazines, or radio and television broadcasts? Who should produce them? What kinds of publics are and are not possible through media? How exactly do discourses move into, out of, and through the media to affect everyday social practices? Mixed Messages addresses these questions through a rich ethnography of the Russian Federation's Buryat territories, a multilingual and multiethnic region on the Mongolian border with a complex relationship to both Europe and Asia.Mixed Messages shows that belonging in Asian Russia is a dynamic process that one cannot capture analytically by using straightforward categories of ethnolinguistic identity.
Mixed Methods and Cross Disciplinary Research: Towards Cultivating Eco-systemic Living (Contemporary Systems Thinking)
by Norma R. A. Romm Janet McIntyre-MillsThis book uses mixed methods to extend the concept of “wellbeing stocks” to refer to dynamic ways of working with others. It addresses metaphors and praxis for weaving together strands of experience. The aim of the wellbeing stocks concept is to enable people to re-evaluate economics and to become more aware of the way in which we neglect social and environmental aspects of life. The pursuit of profit at the expense of people and the environment is a central problem for democracy and governance. The vulnerability of cities is a symptom of the lack of balance between individual and collective needs. This book explores the potential for cities, specifically in the regions of Indonesia, Africa, and Australia, to become more productive as sites for food and water security through more creative use of technology. It highlights the need for partners that see food and security feasible at the household level if supports are provided at the community, national and international level. The book examines how these regions are affected by demographics, climate change and people movements, but also explores ways to establish an effective cultural ecosystem management.
Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics
by Dirk Berg-SchlosserThis book approaches current controversies concerning qualitative and quantitative procedures in the social sciences and incorporates new methods showing how they can supplement each other. It is based on a comprehensive international research project that readers can apply to their findings through the data set provided on the author's home page.
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context: Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond
by Alexander C. Tan Chi Huang Nathan F. Batto Gary W. CoxReformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the "best of both worlds. " In ibis volume, internationally recognized political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of a mixed-member electoral system affects the configuration of political parties. The contributors examine several political phenomena, including cabinet post allocation, nominations, preelectoral coalitions, split-ticket voting, and the size of party systems and faction systems. Significantly; they also consider various ways in which the constitutional system-especially whether the head of government is elected directly or indirectly-can modify the incentives created by the electoral system. The findings presented here demonstrate that the success of electoral reform depends not only on the specification of new electoral rules per se but also on the political context-and especially the constitutional framework-within which such rules are embedded. Book jacket.
Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry (Essays In Honour Of Hermínio Martins)
by Gary Armstrong James Rosbrook-ThompsonThis ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in local authority stock and neighbourhood gentrification, James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong investigate the changes wrought on the social fabric of the individual estate. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, the authors explore the estate’s social mix and, more specifically, the consequences of owner-occupiers, council tenants and private renters sharing a cramped inner-city neighbourhood. Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry humanizes the academic discussion of class, race, and gender in social housing through the occupants’ tales of getting by, getting along and getting out.
Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media
by Ji-Hyun AhnThis book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal multiculturalism, a South Korean national racial project that re-aligns racial lines under the nation's neoliberal transformation. Specifically, Ji-Hyun Ahn examines four televised racial moments that demonstrate particular aspects of neoliberal multiculturalism by demanding distinct ways of re-imagining what it means to be Korean in the contemporary era of globalization. Taking a critical media/cultural studies approach, Ahn engages with materials from archives, the popular press, policy documents, television commercials, and television programs as an inter-textual network that actively negotiates and formulates a new racialized national identity. In doing so, the book provides a rich analysis of the ongoing struggle over racial reconfiguration in South Korean popular media, advancing an emerging scholarly discussion on race as a leading factor of social change in South Korea.
Mme de Staël and Political Liberalism in France
by Chinatsu TakedaThis book sheds light on the unique aspects of ‘communal liberalism’ in Mme de Staël’s writings and considers her contribution to nineteenth-century French liberal political thought. Focusing notably on the ‘Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française’, it examines the originality of Stael’s liberal philosophy. Rather than contrasting liberalism with either multiculturalism or republicanism, the book argues that Staël’s communal liberalism challenges the conventions of nineteenth-century political thought, notably through her assertion of the need to institutionalize an organic intermediary connecting the two spheres, an idea later advanced by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas. Offering a critical reappraisal of Staël’s multifaceted work, this book assesses the political impact of her work, arguing that the political influence of the ‘Considérations’ permeates the liberal historiography of the French Revolution up to the present day.
Mob Girl: A Woman's Life In the Underworld
by Teresa CarpenterThis biography of Arlyne Brickman and her life involved with organized crime. The biography depicts her in every role: girlfriend, operative, and informant.
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs
by Chan Kwok-Bun Chan Wai-WanMobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises. For these executives, business and social life alike are marked by constant interplay of identities, such as individual identity/group membership and ancestral/immigrant identity. Yet as often as this juggling of multiple "selves" can be beneficial in the economic sphere, it can also lead to feelings of rootlessness and alienation. Writing with rare sensitivity, the two authors synthesize insights from economic sociology, psychology, ethnic relations, emotions, and social networks, creating an exploration of social capital and social identity comparable to similar groups of businessmen and -women in other parts of the world.
Mobile Europe
by Ettore RecchiWith a particular focus on their integration paths, political participation and identifications, this book draws on large cross-national surveys of this specific population carried out between 2004 and 2012, as well as in-depth interviews and aggregate statistical data from a plethora of sources.
Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production
by Kevin SansonA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large-scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California—but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they travel around the world in pursuit of work. Drawing on interviews with a global contingent of film and television workers, Kevin Sanson weaves an analysis of the sheer scale and complexity of mobile production into a compelling account of the impact that mobility has had on job functions, working conditions, and personal lives. Mobile Hollywood captures how an expanded geography of production not only intensifies the often invisible pressures that production workers now face but also stretches the parameters of screen-media labor far beyond craftwork and creativity.
Mobile Learning Communities: Creating New Educational Futures
by Geoff Danaher Patrick Alan Danaher Beverley MoriartyMobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace learning, globalization, multiliteracies, and emerging technologies which impinge on the ways mobile groups make sense of themselves as learning communities. International in focus, this book deals with an issue of increasing global significance and shows the complexities of the lives and learning experiences of such mobile cultures and their strategies for earning, learning, and living, thus challenging simplistic and stereotypical images of traveling groups still found in mainstream media and popular culture. Mobile Learning Communities brings together for the first time mobilities and learning communities into a single and comprehensive focus. It provides a detailed analysis of how mobile groups position themselves and how they are positioned by others. This text will appeal to scholars in the field of distance education and educational technology and to researchers in education, cultural studies, and sociology. It will also be of interest to educational instructors, policy-makers, and administrators, as well as teacher educators and pre-service teachers. It paints a vivid picture of the experience of mobility through the words of the mobile learners themselves, but also critiques existing notions of learning and suggests ways of creating new educational futures for all learners and educators.
Mobile Media Methods
by Larissa Hjorth Gerard GogginMobile media such as smartphones, apps, and social media are an integral part of everyday life, used by billions of people around the world. For students and researchers, mobile media also offer a treasure trove of new concepts, methods, and techniques to do research – representing a new phase in digital methods. Across disciplines, researchers rely upon mobile media for quantitative and qualitative projects, to gather data and document sound and images, engage with participants, and disseminate findings. This is the first textbook devoted to explaining these innovative and groundbreaking mobile media methods. Exploring the opportunities and limitations mobile media offer for methods, the book covers a range of topics from mobilities and placemaking to virtual reality and AI, as well as new kinds of mobility such as e-scooters and connected cars. Student-friendly features such as practical guidance on how to gather and analyse data alongside exercises are also included. Underscoring the book throughout is the definition of methods as not just a series of tools and techniques, but as an invitation to rethink how to conceptualize, practice, study and theorize the relationship between research, data and the field. Drawing from the best of mobile and digital communication research, Mobile Media Methods offers a clear, accessible, and practical guide to mobile media methods. It is essential reading and a useful resource for students and scholars of digital technology and research methods.
Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. (Social Transformations in American Anthropology #3)
by Ulla D. BergAn explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders.In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants’ lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States, this book makes a major contribution to understanding technology’s role in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. It focuses on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, adding to important anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today’s mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts. A key resource for understanding the experiences of racialized and indigenous migrant populations, Mobile Selves demonstrates the critical role that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary migration studies and exemplifies what comparative migration studies stand to gain from anthropological analysis and ethnographic methodologies.
Mobile Technologies for Conflict Management
by Marta PobletMobile phones are the most ubiquitous communications technology in the world. Besides transforming the way in which we communicate, they can also be used as a powerful tool for conflict prevention and management. This book presents innovative uses of mobile technologies in the areas of early warning, disaster and humanitarian relief, governance, citizens' participation, etc. and cuts across different regions. The book brings together experts and practitioners from different fields--mobile technologies, information systems, computer sciences, online dispute resolution, law, etc.--to reflect on present experiences and to explore new areas for research on conflict management and online dispute resolution (ODR). It also reflects on the transition from present ODR to future mobile Dispute Resolution and discusses key privacy issues. The book is addressed to anyone involved in conflict prevention and dispute management aiming to learn how mobile technologies can play a disruptive role in the way we deal with conflict.