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Front Cover -- Inside Cover -- Advisory Board -- ISBN -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Citizen Action for Environmental Protection -- Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice - Hoetzer -- The Community's Right to Know about Toxic Spills in American Legislation - Motta -- The Role of Citizenship Responsibility for Environment within Individualized Society - Kala -- Agent Orange and Its Victims: A Neglected Warning - Thao Chi -- PART II Eduction and Environmental Transformation -- Environmental Justice and Education: Transformative Perspectives - Pierosara -- Exploring the Impact of Higher Education Experiences on Students' Ecological Worldviews - Shephard -- Social Learning: Towards Sustainable Waste Management in Tongatapu - Šrot -- A Study of Sustainable Social Progress int he Kingdom of Tonga - Taylor -- Achieving Environmental Literacy through Educational Outreach in an Undergraduate Environmental Science Program - Paladino -- PART III Environmental Justice and the Law -- Hunting Laws and the Animals - Tsaitouridis -- Inequality, Exclusion and Discrimination: The Mexican Biosafety Law - Cano & Ibarra -- Rural Landholders in Queensland Australia: Legislation, Litigation and Litigants - Kehoe -- The Rural Community in Queensland Australia: Political Systems and the Politicisation of Environmental Law - Kehoe -- The Cultural Impacts of Climate Change - Techera -- PART IV Governing the Environment: State and Non-State Actors -- NGOs' Involvement in Developing the Aauhus Convention: A Case of a UNECE Conference - Stech -- Eracdicating the Water and Sanitation Crises via Unification - Thompson -- A Role for Corporate Sustainability Strategy in the Garden City - Palframan, Jenkins & Zhang -- PART V Engaging with Technology.

Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Development Debate: Listening to People First -- 2. Development: The Nemesis of the Poor and the Weak -- 3. Welfare Economy and Land Acquisition: Theoretical Underpinnings -- 4. Development, Displacement and Impoverishment Centrality of Land Acquisition Law and Policy: The Enterchanged Colonial Legacy -- 5. Social Impact Assessment (and Social Inclusion): A Critique of National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy (NRRP) - 2007 -- 6. Uprooting the Earthworms - Resisting the Land-grabs -- 7. Assessing Institutionalized Capacities for Reducing the Impact of Development-Induced Displacement in India -- 8. Neo-Liberal Development, Displacement, and Exclusion: Tribal Resistance to Vedanta -- 9. Dispossession for Development: Some Recent Experiences in Uttar Pradesh -- 10. Displacement of Tribal People in the Name of Development: A Case Study of Indira Sagar Project in Andhra Pradesh -- 11. R and R and Environmental Compliance in Sardar Sarovar Project -- 12. Development at What Cost? A Study of Migration, Loss of Livelihood Security and Development-Induced Displacement in Himachal Pradesh -- 13. Emergence of Megacity: Impact on Poor - An Analysis Based on the Field Study in the Peri-Urban Areas of Hyderabad -- List of Contributors.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- One. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity -- Two. Cecil Rhodes and the Making of a Sociotechnical Imaginary for South Africa -- Three. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Reimagining the Problem of Knowledge in Cold War America -- Four. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnological Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State -- Five. Keeping Technologies Out: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Formation of Austria's Technopolitical Identity -- Six. Remembering the Future: Science, Law, and the Legacy of Asilomar -- Seven. Social Movements and Contested Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea -- Eight. Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia -- Nine. Guerilla Engineers: The Internet and the Politics of Freedom in Indonesia -- Ten. Consuming Biotechnology: Genetically Modified Rice in China -- Eleven. Imaginaries of Science and Society: Framing Nanotechnology Governance in Germany and the United States -- Twelve. Corporate Imaginaries of Biotechnology and Global Governance: Syngenta, Golden Rice, and Corporate Social Responsibility -- Thirteen. Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Political Imagination -- Fourteen. Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary -- Fifteen. Imagined and Invented Worlds -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Index

Acknowledgments -- The social significance of disasters -- Disaster research in historical context : early insights and recent trends -- Sociological research on disasters : key contributions from other disciplines -- Theoretical approaches and perspectives in the study of hazards and disasters -- Confronting disaster research challenges -- Disaster vulnerability -- Disaster resilience : concepts, measures, and critiques -- What the future holds : greater risks and impacts or greater coping capacity? -- Notes -- References -- Index

Introduction: understanding celebrity society -- The foundations: individualism, media and the public sphere, theatre, court society -- Celebrity's secret: the economy of attention -- Celebrity as a social form: status, charisma and power -- Imagined community, self-formation, and long-distance intimacy -- Celebrity politics: performance, populism, and philanthropy -- CEO, firm and worker celebrity -- Celebrity in cyberspace: micro-celebrity and globalization -- Conclusion: the elusive rationality of celebrity

1. Making sense of local ownership in peacebuilding contexts -- 2. The liberal peace and the ownership question -- 3. Elite ownership : elections and beyond -- 4. Civil society and societal ownership -- 5. Bosnia : ownership through imposition? -- 6. Afghanistan : peacebuilding, political culture, and the limits of social engineering -- 7. Haiti : ownership and the political economy of peacebuilding -- 8. Conclusion : towards peacebuilding as consensus-building.

The report is dedicated to theoretical and methodological aspects of molding the positive image of the President in conditions of the sociopolitical crisis. The President'simage structure is offered for the first time. Its special feature consists of political, social and international nature of the country leader`s activity. A number of methodologically important aspects on molding the image of the country leader are analyzed as well as conclusions on connections and infl uence of this phenomenon on the state image, domestic political processes and international relations are given in the report.

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societies Rapid technological change--likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic--is reshaping economies and how they grow. But change also causes disruption, creates winners and losers, and produces social stress. This book examines the challenges of digital transformation and suggests how creative policies can make it more productive and inclusive.

Two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical experience in Ireland inform Helen Phelan's investigation of the singing voice in ritual performance. She examines diverse ritual practices including community-based festivals, children's carnivals, women's choirs, university-based ritual laboratories, rituals of the established Irish Catholic churches, as well as those of new religious communities against the backdrop of economic, social, religious, and cultural changes in twenty-first century Ireland.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Game Genre, Case and Empirical Material -- 3 Media Narratives and Public Concerns -- 4 Addiction and Randomness -- 5 Game Structure and Loyalty Programmes -- 6 Pathological Gaming and Social Context -- 7 Theorycrafting: Between Collective Intelligence and Intrinsic Satisfaction -- 8 Life Phase and Meaningful Play -- Appendices -- References -- Index.