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Front Cover -- Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environments -- Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environments: New Threats and Challenges -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 - Meso- and microplastics: Introduction and current scenario -- 1 - Meso- and microplastics in marine environments: An overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Worldwide plastic pollution -- 3. Plastic pollution in ecosystems -- 3.1 Land-based sources of plastic pollution -- 3.2 Ocean-based sources of plastic pollution -- 4. Importance of studying meso- and microplastics in marine ecosystems -- 5. Distribution and transport of meso- and microplastics in marine environments -- 6. Ecological impact - ingestion, bioaccumulation, indirect effects -- 7. Monitoring and detection methods -- 8. Mitigation and solutions for meso- and microplastics in marine ecosystems -- 9. Legislative measures and regulations -- 10. Development of alternative materials -- 11. Public awareness and education campaigns -- 12. Global initiatives and collaborations in combating plastic pollution -- 13. United Nations sustainable development goals -- 14. Basel convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal -- 15. Future research and emerging technologies -- 16. Recap of key takeaways and urgency of addressing the issue -- References -- 2 - Microplastics in the Arabian/Persian Gulf marine environment: Abundance, characterization, ecotoxicological eff ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods of microplastic analysis -- 3. Distribution, types, and polymer characterization of microplastics in various environmental matrices -- 4. Surface morphology and weathering pattern of microplastics -- 5. Interaction between microplastics and persistent organic pollutants/trace metals.

Front Cover -- Waste Management for Sustainable and Restored Agricultural Soil -- Waste Management for Sustainable and Restored Agricultural Soil -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the editors -- 1 - Status and challenges of global soil health management -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chronology of soil health -- 3. Importance of soil health -- 4. Management of soil health -- 5. Drivers of soil health -- 5.1 Conservation agriculture (CA): a win-win strategy to achieve healthy soil -- 5.2 Key driver for getting healthy soil: soil organic carbon -- 6. Challenges -- 7. Monitoring and assessment tools -- 8. Future perspectives -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- 2 - Waste management for healthy agricultural production system -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Waste management for healthy agricultural production system (case studies) -- 2.1 Safe use of industrial wastewater for agriculture -- 2.2 Fly ash amended farming -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- 3 - Impact of municipal solid waste on the environment, soil, and human health -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Current status of municipal solid waste generation in India -- 3. Classification and composition of municipal solid waste -- 4. Management options of municipal solid waste -- 4.1 Biochemical conversion -- 4.1.1 Composting and vermicomposting -- 4.1.2 Anaerobic digestion -- 4.2 Thermal conversion -- 4.2.1 Incineration -- 4.2.2 Gasification -- 4.2.3 Pyrolysis -- 4.3 Refuse-derived fuel -- 4.4 Material recovery facility -- 4.5 Sanitary landfilling -- 5. Environmental and health impacts of municipal solid waste -- 6. Impact of municipal solid waste on human health -- 7. Impact of municipal solid waste on soil health -- 8. Conclusion -- Disclosure statement -- References -- 4 - Long-term integrated plant nutrition system to achieve soil sustainability and nutritional security.

In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK. Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from the ancient customs of the stone age through to the modern form it takes today. In this eminently readable and relatable study, Lennon also explores themes such as the pressure to marry, the politics surrounding proposals, the spectacle of marriage, the business behind it, and the politics tied to consummation as well as issues such as taking a man's name, the nuances of marriage vows and obedience, 'having it all' and trying to keep up the fight to have an enduring marriage. Having married her wife just a few years after the legalisation of same sex marriage in the United Kingdom, Lennon interweaves her own personal experiences of marriage with stories and anecdotes from throughout history to explore how marriage has transformed over the years. In shaking off patriarchal expectations, Rachael examines marriage's troubling past and celebrates a more joyful present, celebrating the feminist activists who have fought to make marriage a pure and equitable celebration of love, open to everyone regardless of gender or sexuality. She also asks what compels us to keep making this choice? Can we let go of the gendered baggage that we have inherited? Can we hold true to feminist values as we commit to our partners? And what does that look like? How can we build on the past to continue to redefine marriage for the future?

The book examines the problems of reforming local self-government in Ukraine during the martial law period. It discusses the process of decentralization in which political institutions, state administration and public initiatives were involved. It examines the systemic changes in Ukraine under the conditions of Russian aggression and martial law.

Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the English Language Edition -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Ukraine - The Mianowski Family - Uman' -- Chapter 2 Lithuania - Vilnius - University of Vilnius - The Medical-Surgical Academy - The Konarski Affair -- Chapter 3 Russia - Petersburg -- Chapter 4 Polish Kingdom - Warsaw -- Chapter 5 Italy - Senigallia -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Annexes -- Index of Names -- List of Figures -- Figures -- Back Cover.

"Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design for future resilience. Design has a key role to play in not only creating products to ensure safety from the pandemic, but also in the creation of complex systems, new technologies and physical environments that enable us to carry out our lives and protect populations in the future. Design and Covid-19 identifies four key phases of the pandemic to examine how designers developed systems, services, communications and products as part of our response to the crisis, whether at an international, national or community level. Contributors report from a range of international contexts, including countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia, detailing how countries responded to the pandemic, introduced social distancing and lockdowns, developed test, track and trace systems, implemented new laws and how design and designers responded to the urgent new challenges that the pandemic created. They explore the adaptation of designs as communities searched for new ways of connecting and working through restrictions and social distancing measures, establishing local mutual aid groups and using social media to support each other through the pandemic, and go on to focus on recovery and resilience, analysing the deeper, systemic design response as industries emerge from lockdown. They explore the need to reflect on and investigate key issues in order to understand what we can learn personally, socially, economically and globally from this unprecedented crisis. Drawing upon the expertise of scholars from across the globe, Design and Covid-19 explores a wide range of design disciplines to address the complex societal and global issues highlighted throughout the pandemic, and to inform new ways of building human and planetary wellbeing"--

"Phenomenology has primarily been concerned with conceptual questions about knowledge and ontology. However, in recent years the rise of interest and research in applied phenomenology has seen the study of political phenomenology move to a central place in the study of phenomenology generally. The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology is the first major collection on this important topic. Comprising 35 chapters by an international team of expert contributors, the Handbook is organised into six clear parts, each with its own Introduction by the editors: Founders of Phenomenology Existentialist Phenomenology Phenomenology of the Social and Political World Phenomenology of Alterity Phenomenology in Debate Contemporary Developments. Full attention is given to central figures in the phenomenological movement, including Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas as well as those whose contribution to political phenomenology is more distinctive, such as Arendt, De Beauvoir and Fanon. Also included are chapters on gender, race and intersectionality, disability, and technology. Ideal for those studying phenomenology, continental philosophy and political theory, The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology bridges an important gap between a major philosophical movement and contemporary political issues and concepts"--

Der Band Beiträge zur Phänomenologie des Rechts versammelt Beiträge, die Zugänge zu grundlegenden Themen und Gebieten des Lebenswerks von Jan Schapp eröffnen. Die Autor:innen greifen rechtswissenschaftliche, rechtsphilosophische, geschichtenphilosophische und phänomenologische Perspektiven auf, die im Denken Jan Schapps untrennbar miteinander verbunden sind. Auf diese Weise werden im Blick auf das innovative Denken des Rechtsphilosophen Impulse für den konstruktiven Diskurs gesetzt.Mit Beiträgen vonProf. Dr. Horst Hammen | Prof. Dr. Karen Joisten | Prof. Dr. Jan Schapp | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schur | Dr. Nicole Thiemer

Der Band ist den existenziellen Turbulenzen gewidmet, die dem Menschen nicht als katastrophales Ereignis widerfahren, sondern ihn als unentrinnbarer Alltag formen. Egal ob Verschiebungen im universitären Selbstverständnis (Vinken), Umgang mit geschlechtlicher Abweichung (Ungelenk, Hordych), Kampf gegen Abholzung (Nixon), technische Totalüberwachung im Alltag, narratologische Erkundungen von Zeit oder Gattung (Pierstorff; Reisener), stets erweist sich scheinbar banaler Alltag als erstaunlich produktiver Ausgangspunkt für gesellschaftliche, künstlerische und denkerische Prozesse. Das Gewöhnliche des Alltags ist nicht länger bloß statische Folie für Veränderung – es ist selbst als generatives Werden nobilitiert, das nun aber doppelbödige Wertung annimmt: Alltag verliert das Verlässliche, wird bedrohlich; zugleich ist diese neue Unruhe des Alltags, sein trouble , aber auch Chance für Veränderung und kritische oder künstlerische Intervention