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Front Cover -- DECARBONIZATION STRATEGIES AND DRIVERS TO ACHIEVE CARBON NEUTRALITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY -- DECARBONIZATION STRATEGIES AND DRIVERS TO ACHIEVE CARBON NEUTRALITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the editors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A - Strategies for decarbonization -- One - Bioenergy's role in the path to decarbonization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Carbon cycle balance and the role of bioenergy -- 2.1 Photosynthesis and carbon sequestration -- 2.2 Respiration and decomposition -- 2.3 Bioenergy and the closed-loop concept -- 2.4 Challenges to the balanced carbon cycle -- 2.5 Enhancing the carbon balance -- 2.6 Comparison with fossil fuels -- 3 Replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy -- 3.1 Bioethanol and biodiesel: Alternatives for transportation -- 3.2 Biogas: A substitute for natural gas -- 3.3 Biomass: A renewable answer to coal -- 4 Integrated systems of bioenergy and carbon capture and storage -- 5 Challenges and considerations in bioenergy production -- 5.1 Land use -- 5.2 Water -- 5.3 Lifecycle emissions -- 6 Innovative solutions in the realm of bioenergy -- 7 Policy recommendations -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Two - Nonfossil energy targets for environmental sustainability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Green New Deal and nonfossil energy targets -- 3 Energy transition: Challenges and possibilities -- 3.1 Management models and new technologies -- 3.2 Distribution of renewable sources -- 3.3 Difficulties with raw materials -- 3.4 Tariff policy adjustments -- 4 Final considerations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Three - The role of wind energy to the decarbonization in some Asian countries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The causes of wind energy and characteristics -- 3 The role of wind energy in decarbonization -- 4 The potential wind resources in Asian countries.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the Food Bank -- 2. Food Banking in the United States -- 3. Food Banking in Israel and Southwestern Asia -- 4. Food Banking in Germany and Denmark -- 5. Food Banking in Italy and Hungary -- 6. Food Banks in India and South Africa -- Conclusion: Putting Food Banks in Their Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Essence and Nature of Hospitals and Their Environment -- 1.1 Characteristics of Hospitals -- 1.2 Hospitals' Structure and Management -- 1.3 Medical Profession and Professional Bureaucracy -- 1.4 Past Efforts to Improve Hospital Efficiency -- Chapter 2 Control in Management Sciences -- 2.1 Origins and Definitions of Control in the Literature -- 2.2 Management Control at the Operational and Strategic Levels

"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--

"Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on liberation-a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers-come to such a precipice? In Aid State, Jake Johnston, a researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, reveals how long-standing US and European capitalist goals ensnared and re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it. To the global West, Haiti has always been a place where labor is cheap, politicians are compliant, and profits are to be made. Over the course of nearly 100 years, the US has sought to control Haiti and its people with occupying police, military, and euphemistically-called peacekeeping forces, as well as hand-picked leaders meant to quell uprisings and protect corporate interests. Earthquakes and hurricanes only further devastated a state already decimated by the aid industrial complex. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting in Haiti and interviews with politicians in the US and Haiti, independent aid contractors, UN officials, and Haitians who struggle for their lives, homes, and families, Aid State is a conscience-searing book of witness"--

"Volume I introduces The Cambridge History of International Law series, offering a critical discussion of the development and current state of international law history writing across the world. Steering away from traditional Western historiography, this volume will interest scholars of international law across various disciplines"--

"The book puts under the microscope the fascinating relationship between two central organs of the international legal system: the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission. It uncovers the roots of the relationship and details its development and manifestations, thus revealing both its depth and its unintended impact"--

Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. The interactions of journalists with the technological, social, and cultural features of online and social media environments have shaped new values and competencies--and the combination of these factors influence online work practices. Merging case studies with analysis, the authors show how the tactics of online connection and disconnection interact with the complex realities of working in today s media environments. The result is an insightful portrait of fast-changing journalistic practices and their implications for both audiences and professional identities and norms

The political theory of Richard Vernon has made major contributions to the many complex dimensions of political morality, democratic dialogue, justice, and toleration. Justice, Rights, and Toleration offers critical engagement with the central ideas of his work on the perennial political challenges in liberal democratic societies.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Compliance and Defiance in the Making of White Apartheid Society -- 2. Whites and South African History -- 3. The Delicacy of Teacups -- 4. Insluipers, Geoffrey Cronjé, and Social Policy -- 5. Work and Ideology in the Apartheid Public Service -- 6. Women, the Labor Market, and the Domestic Economy -- 7. Nationalism, Whiteness, and Consumption -- 8. Alcohol and Social Engineering -- 9. The End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.