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As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitudes of a public that has become more urbanized, and the political pressures of narrow special interest groups. In the face of such rapid environmental and cultural changes, Science, Conservation, and National Parks gathers a group of renowned scholars including Edward O. Wilson, Jane Lubchenco, Thomas Dietz, and Monica Turner, among many others who seek to address these problems and, in so doing, to secure a future for protected areas that will push forward the frontiers of biological, physical, and social science in and for parks. Examining the major challenges of parks and protected areas throughout the world, contributors provide answers to a number of key conservation questions, such as: How should stewardship address climate change, urban encroachment and pollution, and invasive species? How can society, especially youth, become more engaged with nature and parks, and are there models to guide interactions between parks and their neighbors? What are appropriate conservation objectives for parks in the Anthropocene? Charting a course for the parks of the next century, this book is certain not only to catalyze the continued evolution of US park conservation policy, but also to be an inspiration for parks, conservation, and management worldwide

Project management lessons learned on the Big Dig, America's biggest megaproject, by a core member responsible for its daily operations In Megaproject Management, a central member of the Big Dig team reveals the numerous risks, challenges, and accomplishments of the most complex urban infrastructure project in the history of the United States. Drawing on personal experience and interviews with project engineers, executive oversight commission officials, and core managers, the author, a former deputy counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig, develops new insights as she describes the realities of day, to, day management of the project from a project manager's perspective. The book incorporates both theory and practice and is therefore highly recommended to policymakers, academics, and project management practitioners. Focusing on lessons learned, this insightful coursebook presents the Big Dig as a massive case study in the management of risk, cost, and schedule, particularly the interrelation of technical, legal, political, and social factors. It provides an analysis of the difficulties in managing megaprojects during each phase and over the life span of the project, while delivering useful lessons on why projects go wrong and what can be done to prevent project failure. It also offers new ideas to enhance project management performance and innovation in our global society. This unique guide: -Defines megaproject characteristics and frameworks -Reviews the Big Dig's history, stakeholders, and governance -Examines the project's management scope, scheduling, and cost management'including project delays and cost overruns -Analyzes the Big Dig's risk management and quality management -Reveals how to build a sustainable project through integration and change introduction.

Development of China's environmental legislation / Qin Tianbao, Zhang Meng -- China's local environmental politics / Genia Kostka -- Evolving tactics of China's green movement / Judith Shapiro -- Advocacy coalitions for green economy and their influence on government policies / Huang Haifeng, Sheng Chunhong, Julian Barg -- Red lines and China's water resources policy in the twenty-first century / James Nickum, Jia Shaofeng, Scott Moore -- Air pollution : how will China win its self-declared war against it? / Mette Halskov Hansen, Anna L. Ahlersy -- Climate change and carbon policymaking and governance / Gørild Heggelund, Rebecca Nadin -- Environmental policy and agriculture in China : from regulation through model emulation to regulatory pluralism / Bettina Blümling -- Conserving China's biological diversity : national plans, transnational projects, local and regional challenges / Chris Coggins -- Land use strategies in northern China : soil conservation, afforestation, water resource management / Susanne Stein, Heike Hartmann -- Balancing environment, health and development : evolving policy interactions / Jennifer Holdaway -- Environmental accidents and disaster risk reduction / Yu Fang, Cao Guozhi, Zhu Wenying, Yang Weishan -- Pollution law enforcement in China : understanding national and regional variation / Benjamin van Rooij, Zhu Qiaoqiao, Li Na, Wang Qiliang, Zhang Xuehua -- China's policies on greening financial institutions : assessments and outlook / Arthur Mol -- Orchestrated environmental migration in western China / Jarmila Ptackova -- Public participation in environmental impact assessment in China : weaknesses, strengths and lessons learnt / Mariachiara Alberton -- Access to environmental information : transparency, participation and the role of media / Sam Geall -- Environment and energy policy : background and main challenges / Andreas Oberheitmann, Paul Suding -- Green energy innovation in china / Joanna I. Lewis -- Low carbon urban development in China : policies and practices / Wang Can, Wenling Liu -- Municipal solid waste management / Thomas Johnson -- Dealing with discarded e-devices / Yvan Schulz, Benjamin Steuer -- Environment and trade / Hu Tao, Song Peng -- China's policy frameworks for sustainable consumption and production / Patrick Schröder -- China-EU relations and patterns of interactions on emission trading / Olivia Gippner.

"To what extent did the American Revolution involve ordinary people? Historians as notable as Carl Becker and Edmund Morgan famously have asked this question or versions of it, but here Roney approaches it afresh by examining local governance and civic associations in Philadelphia, the largest colonial American city. How did popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks prepare people to adopt radical ideas and take to the streets protesting against tyranny in the 1760s and 70s? Roney's GOVERNED BY A SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION will both be an important addition to the current literature on public life in early America, and also to the wider literature on urban governance in the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. She sheds light on the powerful roles played by men acting in the political and constitutional circumstances of early Philadelphia leading up to the Revolution"--

This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia. The volume explores the obstacles and opportunities for governance that is capable of management, adaptation, and transformation in these regional social-ecological systems as they respond to accelerating environmental change. With the onset of the Anthropocene, global and regional changes in biophysical inputs to these systems will challenge their capacity to respond while maintaining functions of water supply, flood control, hydropower production, water quality, and biodiversity. Governance lies at the heart of the capacity of these systems to meet these challenges. Assessment of water basins in the United States and Australia indicates that state-centric governance of these complex and dynamic social-environmental systems is evolving to a more complex, diverse, and complex array public and private arrangements. In this process, three challenges emerge for water governance to become adaptive to environmental change. First, is the need for legal reform to remove barriers to adaptive governance by authorizing government agencies to prepare for windows of opportunity through adaptive planning, and to institutionalize the results of innovative solutions that arise once a window opens. Second, is the need for legal reform to give government agencies the authority to facilitate and participate in adaptive management and governance. This must be accompanied by parallel legal reform to assure that engagement of private and economic actors and the increase in governmental flexibility does not destabilize basin economies or come at the expense of legitimacy, accountability, equity, and justice. Third, development of means to continually assess thresholds and resilience of social-ecological systems and the adaptive capacity of their current governance to structure actions at multiple scales. The massive investment in water infrastructure on the river basins studied has improved the agricultural, urban and economic sectors, largely at the cost of other social and environmental values. Today the infrastructure is aging and in need of substantial investment for those benefits to continue and adapt to ongoing environmental changes. The renewal of institutions and heavily engineered water systems also presents the opportunity to modernize these systems to address inequity and align with the values and objectives of the 21st century. Creative approaches are needed to transform and modernize water governance that increases the capacity of these water-based social-ecological systems to innovate, adapt, and learn, will provide the tools needed to navigate an uncertain future.

"The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri"--

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans

This book opens the often narrow discourse on the future of Europe and criticises the false dichotomy between nationalism on the one hand and a neoliberal version of Europe on the other. Existing emancipatory projects from across the continent are presented together with reflections on strategies to achieve a democratic Europe beyond the nation state: from the municipal level to the level of transnational media, from technology and counter-surveillance to the systemic change provided by the commons movement and more.The shift towards a new way of thinking and doing politics is possible!With contributions by Etienne Balibar, Ulrike Guérot, Gesine Schwan, Renata Avila, Barbara Spinelli, Andreas Karitzis, Lorenzo Marsili, Jonas Staal, among others, and interviews with city governors from Madrid to Naples."Anyone interested in survival in today's Europe, should read this book." – Srecko Horvat, Philosopher, DIEM25

"The vast majority of funding for public transportation comes from local and national governments. With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism, which involves the identification and capture of a public infrastructure-led increase in property value"--Provided by publisher

Die am 1. Mai 2004 vollzogene Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union wird als Meilenstein im Prozess der Überwindung der Spaltung Europas und als bedeutsamer Schritt auf dem Weg der politisch-institutionellen und wirtschaftlichen Integration der Länder Europas betrachtet. Für die Raumentwicklung in Ostdeutschland bringt die EU-Osterweiterung damit sowohl neue Herausforderungen auf verschiedenen fachpolitischen Ebenen in grenzüberschreitenden Zusammenhängen als auch neue Entwicklungsbedingungen für die Regionen an den Grenzen der "alten" EU und der neuen EU-Mitgliedsländer, ebenso wie für Regionen im "Inneren" der alten und neuen Mitgliedsstaaten. Mit Bezug auf die regionale Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland, die außerhalb der wenigen Wachstumsinseln von Strukturschwäche, Arbeitsmarktkrise und Bevölkerungsabwanderung geprägt ist, wurde die EU-Osterweiterung in den letzten Jahren vor allem als ein zusätzlicher Risikofaktor der Entwicklung betrachtet, während die Chancen für die regionale Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland meist vernachlässigt worden sind. Diese neuen Entwicklungschancen stehen dagegen bei diesem Band im Mittelpunkt der Analyse. Der Fokus der Arbeiten liegt auf den Bereichen der Wirtschaft und des Arbeitsmarktes, der Agrarstrukturen und des ländlichen Raums, der Zusammenarbeit in der raumbezogenen Planung und im Verkehr. Zwar konzentriert sich die Analyse auf die neuen Entwicklungsbedingungen an den Grenzen der "alten" EU und der neuen EU-Mitgliedsländer, d.h. insbesondere auf die grenznahen Regionen Ostdeutschlands, aber auch große urbane Zentren wie Berlin und Dresden werden in die Betrachtung mit einbezogen.

Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that these connective, relational systems significantly shape both local and planetary futures in ways that we need to understand more clearly. Offering a rich set of empirically detailed and conceptually sophisticated studies of infrastructural systems and experiments, present and past, contributors to this volume address both the transformative potential of infrastructural systems and their stasis. Covering infrastructural figures; their ontologies, epistemologies, classifications and politics, and spanning development, urban, energy, environmental and information infrastructures, the chapters explore both the promises and failures of infrastructure. Tracing the experimental histories of a wide range of infrastructures and documenting their variable outcomes, the volume offers a unique set of analytical perspectives on contemporary infrastructural complications. These studies bring a systematic empirical and analytical attention to human worlds as they intersect with more-than-human worlds, whether technological or biological

"The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. These sites, typically frequented by immigrant Latin American men--mostly taken to be 'undocumented' immigrants--constitute an important source of unskilled manual labor that sustains building, landscaping, and moving activities in the country. Despite their ubiquitous presence in urban areas, however, much of the research on immigration overlooks day laborers' very existence. While standing in plain view, these men live and work in a precarious environment: As they try to make enough money to send home, they are at the mercy of unscrupulous employers, doing dangerous and underpaid work, and, ultimately, experiencing great threats to their identities and social roles as men. Born and raised in Colombia by an American mother and Colombian father, Juan Thomas Ordóñez spent two years on an informal labor site in the Bay Area, documenting the harsh lives led by some of these men during the worst economic crisis the country has seen in decades. Another Latin American among mainly Mexican and Central American day laborers, he gained a vantage on the immigrant experience based on close relationships with a cohort of men whose lives unravel in a setting of competition, stress, loneliness, and resilience. Both eye-opening and heart-breaking, this account offers a unique perspective on how the informal economy of undocumented labor truly functions in American society"--Provided by publisher.

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration. Chapters describe the myriad ways community-driven actors work to foster food systems that are socially just, embed food in local economies, regenerate the environment and actively engage citizens. Drawing on case studies, interviews and Participatory Action Research projects, the editors share the stories behind community-driven efforts to develop sustainable food systems, and present a critical assessment of both the tensions and the achievements of these initiatives. The volume is unique in its focus on approaches and methodologies that both support and recognize the value of community-based practices. Throughout the book the editors identify success stories, challenges and opportunities that link practitioner experience to critical debates in food studies, practice and policy. By making current practices visible to scholars, the volume speaks to people engaged in the co-creation of knowledge, and documents a crucial point in the evolution of a rapidly expanding and dynamic sustainable food systems movement. Entrenched food insecurity, climate change induced crop failures, rural-urban migration, escalating rates of malnutrition related diseases, and aging farm populations are increasingly common obstacles for communities around the world. Merging private, public and civil society spheres, the book gives voice to actors from across the sustainable food system movement including small businesses, not-for-profits, eaters, farmers and government. Insights into the potential for market restructuring, knowledge sharing, planning and bridging civic-political divides come from across Canada, the United States and Mexico, making this a key resource for policy-makers, students, citizens, and practitioners.

Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project networked universities and researchers internationally through a system of 'observatories'. This book collects the work of contributors networked through the North American, Asia-Pacific, and Australia-Pacific observatories. Humanities for the Environment showcases how humanists are working to 'integrate knowledges' from diverse cultures and ontologies and pilot new 'constellations of practice' that are moving beyond traditional contemplative or reflective outcomes (the book, the essay)towards solutions to the greatest social and environmental challenges of our time. With the still controversial concept of the 'Anthropocene' as a starting point for a widening conversation, contributors range acrossgeographies, ecosystems, climates and weather regimes; moving from icy, melting Arctic landscapes to the bleaching Australian Great Barrier Reef, and from an urban pedagogical 'laboratory' in Phoenix, Arizona to Vatican City in Rome. Chapters explore the ways in which humanists, in collaboration with communities and disciplines across academia, are responding to warming oceans, disappearing islands, collapsing fisheries, evaporating reservoirs of water, exploding bushfires, and spreading radioactive contamination. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences interested in interdisciplinary questions of environment and culture.

Theme I: Culture and Policy -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Tunisia Music Culture Policy: Perspective/Challenges of a State's Project -- Chapter 3 Community Museum for National Integration in Nigeria, 1960-2000 -- Chapter 4 La réhabilitation de la performance rituelle Melan pour une reconstruction de la spiritualité originelle du peuple Ekang -- Chapter 5 Pan Africanism and Cultural Policy Management: A Formative Evaluation of Nigeria and Ghana Cultural Policies -- Chapter 6 Ife Art School as a Centre of Decolonization and Decolonial Thinking in Nigerian Visual Art Practice -- Chapter 7 Body Tattoo and Social Communicative Value in Nigeria: A Study of Ogallala Studio of Arts and Tattooing -- Chapter 8 Cultural Policy and Creative Practice in Africa: Impact and Challenges -- Chapter 9 Dutch-Moroccan cultural cooperation? A discourse on network of cultural policy -- Theme II: Creative Practice, Soft power and Diplomacy -- Chapter 10 Rewriting Africa's Single-Story Narrative: Lessons from Darmasiswa -- Chapter 11 Something of Value: The Neo-colonial Impulse of Basketball in Africa in the Performance of Modernity -- Chapter 12 Orange Economy, Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power: Prospects and Problems in Africa (2) -- Chapter 13 Structural Violence in Post-colonial Kenya bing represented through the Film Nairobi Half Life (2012) -- Chapter 14 Nigeria's Orange Economy and the Appropriation of Soft Power -- Chapter 15 Psychosocial Aesthetics of Contemporary Inflight Entertainment -- Chapter 16 Hunters, Fighters, and Blue- Blood: A Post-modern Reading of African Folktales and the Soft Will to Africanise -- Chapter 17 Beyond Entertainment: Power and Performance in two Urban Festivals in Nigér -- Chapter 18 The National Troupe of Nigeria Post-Ogunde: A Cultural Diplomacy Fad or Farce? -- Theme III: Cultural Performance and Sustainability -- Chapter 19 Tumaini Festival: Deconstructing Colonial Borders at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi -- Chapter 20 To Own, Benefit and Sustain: Rethinking Museum Concept and Practice in Africa -- Chapter 21 Tapping into Africa's Environmental and cultural Heritage: Roles and responsibilities of the Citizens -- Chapter 22 Bɔbɔɔbɔ Music Festivals: Agency and Sustenance of Cultural Performance in Ghana -- Chapter 23 Problematic Leisure: The Consequences of the Engagement of Chess as Educational Aid within African/ Black School Curriculum -- Chapter 24 Bemoaning Extinct Cultural Practices: A Study of Olobonbori Performance -- Chapter 25 The role of Art Administration and Cultural entrepreneurship: an explorative analysis of the cap weaving industry of Maiduguri, Borno state-Nigeria -- Chapter 26 Conclusion.