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At present, much of the research on bilingual cognition focuses on late second language learners of a small number of languages. In this fascinating book, Evangelia Adamou widens the net by integrating advances in the field of bilingualism with the study of endangered languages. Drawing on recent studies from Europe and Latin America, she demonstrates that experimental psycholinguistic methods can be successfully applied outside the lab and, conversely, how data from these understudied populations provide new insights into the adaptive capacities of the bilingual mind. Adamou shows how bilinguals manage competing conceptualizations of time and space, how their grammars and language mixing patterns adapt to cognitive constraints such as the need for simplification, and how language processing concurrently adapts to their complex bilingual experience. Combining statistical analyses with detailed linguistic and ethnographic information, this essential book will appeal to scholars of bilingualism, cognitive sciences, language endangerment, and language contact

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief History of UK Climate Research and Policy on Adaptation -- 3 The Science Plan and its Implementation -- 4 Book Roadmap -- References -- 2 Climate Resilience: Interpretations of the Term and Implications for Practice -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Broad or Narrow -- 3 Operational or Place-based -- 4 Implications for Building Resilience in the UK -- 5 What Next? -- References -- Part I Undertaking Resilience Research -- 3 Towards a Step Change in Co-Production for Climate Resilience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is Co-Production? -- 3 What Works Well -- 3.1 Gathering Community Experience -- 3.2 Sustaining Engagement Throughout -- 3.3 Getting Creative with Storytelling -- 3.4 Balancing Power and Managing Expectations -- 3.5 Experimenting with Upscaling -- 4 Emerging Challenges and Opportunities -- 4.1 Focus on the Process, Not Just Outputs -- 4.2 Revise Funding Structures and Timescales -- 4.3 Promote New Measures of Success -- 4.4 Invest in Multidisciplinary Approaches -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Learning from Organisational Embedding for Climate Resilience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Embedded Researcher Scheme -- 2.1 Funded Projects and Outcomes -- 2.2 A Note on Embedding During a Global Pandemic -- 3 How did researchers and hosts experience the ER scheme? -- 4 What Helped and What Hindered in Achieving Effective Outcomes? -- 4.1 Being 'on the Inside' of the Organisation -- 4.2 Flexibility in the Research Workplan -- 4.3 Openness to Learning on Both Sides -- 4.4 Seniority and Length of Service Are Less Important Than Personality and Outlook -- 4.5 Adequate Commitment from ER and Host -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Managing Climate Risks.

"This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space. Metropolitan cities are facing stark inequalities of green space distribution, hindering goals of sustainable development. But outside of human control, spontaneous nature grows in spaces that are neglected or are unaccounted for. Drawing on existing literature and primary research in a range of towns and cities, including Quito in Ecuador, Bengaluru and Kolkata in India, and Whitby in United Kingdom, the book delves into the morphology, meanings and values of those small-scale assemblages of wild growth which are typically overlooked. Discussing instead how such settings can be integrated in everyday urban life, the book offers a fresh perspective on issues around green infrastructure, heritage conservation and environmental education, enabling cities worldwide to become more nature-positive. A unique examination of an under-researched topic, the book will appeal to students, researchers and professionals across landscape architecture, urban planning, urban ecology and all related fields"--

How much longer can we survive with a broken humanity and cracked civilization? Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and rogue artificial intelligence dangerously demonstrate how urgent our existential threats are, and how divided we are in facing them. This book proposes the first comprehensive definition and defense of the Personalist Social Contract (PSC) as a common moral language and thus practical path forward to bring together our sciences and societies in shared survival. We talk about rights, but often mean different things, while many simply trample over them in the pursuit of power. The PSC bridges classical and modern philosophy (with neuroscience and political economics) to recover a common conception of the human person, dignity, and rights uniting our diverse cultures and belief systems to effectively and equitably respond to our contemporary crises

Die Dürre in afrikanischen Ländern führt jedes Jahr zu Hunderttausenden Toten und viel Leid. Auch Deutschland hat die Trockenheit im Hitzerekord-Sommer 2022 erreicht. Ohne Wasser kein Leben. Immer mehr Menschen leiden unter Wassermangel. Der Klimawandel befeuert die Verteilungskämpfe um Wasser, gewalttätige Auseinandersetzungen um die wertvolle Ressource sind an der Tagesordnung. Ob bei den Protesten im Irak, im Syrienkrieg, am Himalaya, beim Nilkonflikt und an vielen weiteren Orten - Wasser ist schon heute Kriegsgrund und wird als politisches Machtmittel missbraucht. Der Bau von riesigen Staudämmen, das gezielte Schließen von Schleusen, Flussumleitungen, Wasser- und Landgrabbing bringen Kriege um das "blaue Gold" mit sich. Wo lauern heute und morgen Gefahren und wie lassen sich Kriege um das kostbare Nass verhindern? Weltweite Wasserengpässe, bewaffnete Konflikte und zunehmende Trockenheit gefährden in vielen Ländern nicht nur den Frieden, sondern auch unser Klima Das Buch hilft zu verstehen, wie Wasser als politisches Machtmittel funktioniert. Der Klimawandel und die wachsende Weltbevölkerung sorgen für eine Verknappung von Süßwasser. Viele Länder und Gebiete leiden bereits unter akuter Wasserknappheit. Die Verschmutzung der Meere durch Plastikmüll und Naturkatastrophen wie Überschwemmungen und Wüstenbildung sorgen für Krankheit, Leid und immer mehr Umweltflüchtlinge. Dabei stellt Rahmig die Frage: Wie geht es weiter? Machen Meerwasserentsalzungen Sinn? Wie können wir zukünftig eine Ernährungssicherheit und einen besseren Zugang zu sauberem Trinkwasser herstellen?

"A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism-the view that it's permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debates in food ethics in novel and meaningful ways. The book includes six chapters that defend distinct versions of new omnivorism and six critical responses from scholars who are sympathetic to strict veganism. The contributors debate whether it's ethically permissible to eat the following: "freegan" meat, roadkill, cultured meat, genetically disenhanced animals, possibly insentient animals such as insects, and fish. The volume concludes with two chapters that examine strict vegan and new omnivore policy. Presenting readers with clear defenses and criticisms of the various dietary proposals, this book draws attention to the most important ethical challenges facing traditional animal agriculture and alternative systems of food production. New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism will appeal to scholars and students interested in food ethics, animal ethics, and agricultural ethics"--

"Brutalism examines the convergence of the technological, biological, and the planetary through the lens of "brutalism." Achille Mbembe borrows this term from architectural history to describe how reason and power come together in domination over all forms of life. The modern desire to quantify and to classify, Mbembe argues, has unified living beings and artificial machines and has thus produced a "form of power without external limits or outside." In an effort the thwart this problem, Mbembe looks to recent Afro-diasporic thought. He identifies Africa as the continent where the totalizing logic of contemporary capitalism and the work of brutalism are most forcefully called into question. Brutalism was published in French by La Decouverte in 2020"--