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Based on the ancient Chinese concept of the unity of Heaven and Man ( , 'tian ren he yi'), guided by principles governing the connections and interdependencies between Heaven, Earth, Man, and the media, and in accord with the coexistence of these four elements in balance and in harmony, this monograph outlines the scope of the study, fundamental concepts and theories, and future directions of research in the interdisciplinary field of the geography of media. The author delves deeply into the themes of time, space, place, landscape, and scale to introduce readers to a wide array of intriguing concepts that add new dimensions to this relatively new academic field. In addition, this monograph presents a history of media geography as it has evolved in the West and in China over the past several decades, and introduces principles and values from traditional Chinese culture that shed light on the nature, direction, and significance of media studies and communication research now being conducted around the globe. Intended readership: professional scholars, graduates, and general readers

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the Cramér–Lundberg model, which is the most extensively researched model in ruin theory. It covers the fundamental dynamics of an insurance company's surplus level in great detail, presenting a thorough analysis of the ruin probability and related measures for both the standard model and its variants. Providing a systematic and self-contained approach to evaluate the crucial quantities found in the Cramér–Lundberg model, the book makes use of connections with related queueing models when appropriate, and its emphasis on clean transform-based techniques sets it apart from other works. In addition to consolidating a wealth of existing results, the book also derives several new outcomes using the same methodology. This material is complemented by a thoughtfully chosen collection of exercises. The book's primary target audience is master's and starting PhD students in applied mathematics, operations research, and actuarial science, although it also serves as a useful methodological resource for more advanced researchers. The material is self-contained, requiring only a basic grounding in probability theory and some knowledge of transform techniques.

This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China. Adopting a political ethnographic approach, it assesses whether networked forms of governance are used in provision of care for the elderly and those with learning disabilities in the two countries. It also examines several concepts from network governance theory - including interdependence and resource exchange, trust and reciprocity, and diplomatic skills - in the context of English and Chinese local state engagement with NGOs providing and managing care. Perhaps surprisingly, the book argues that there are more similarities than differences in network governance practices in England and China. It will appeal to all those interested in network governance theory, public administration and comparative politics. Yongmei Li is Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include network governance, urban governance and political ethnography

Die vorliegende Analyse untersucht, welche Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Tarifgeschehen sowie den seit Juni 2020 von der Mindestlohnkommission beschlossenen Anpassungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns bestehen und welchen Einfluss der politische Eingriff in den Anpassungsmechanismus im Jahr 2022 hatte. Zu den untersuchten Branchen gehören die Landwirtschaft, die Fleischwirtschaft, das Bäckerhandwerk, der Einzelhandel, die Floristik, das Gastgewerbe, die Systemgastronomie, die privaten Wach- und Sicherheitsdienste, das Gebäudereiniger- und das Friseurhandwerk, jeweils mit Fokus auf die Tarifgebiete Nordrhein-Westfalen und Berlin-Brandenburg. Die Verbindung quantitativer und qualitativer Methoden zeigt, dass das Tarifgeschehen vor allem durch den Beschluss der Bundesregierung beeinflusst wurde, den Mindestlohn ab Oktober 2022 auf 12 Euro je Stunde zu erhöhen. Viele Tariflohngruppen drohten durch den politischen Beschluss verdrängt zu werden. In den meisten der untersuchten Branchen gelang es, die Tarifstrukturen anzupassen. Auslaufende Tarifverträge wurden zumeist regulär erneuert, teilweise wurden auch Tarifverhandlungen vorgezogen. Mit dem jüngsten Anpassungsbeschluss der Mindestlohnkommission vom Juni 2023 ist die Verlässlichkeit in die Mindestlohnentwicklung zurückgekehrt. Das erleichtert es den Tarifvertragsparteien, mit den Mindestlohnerhöhungen Schritt zu halten und die zum Teil gestauchten Tariflohnstrukturen schrittweise wieder auszudifferenzieren.

Die Nachrichtendienste sind Teil der staatlichen Sicherheitsverwaltung, die auch Radikalisierungsprävention und Extremismusabwehr einschließt: Für politische Entscheidungsträger fungieren sie als Frühwarnsysteme. Im Wirkungsverbund mit Polizeibehörden und Staatsanwaltschaften tragen sie zur Verhinderung und Aufklärung von Straftaten bei. Den deutschen Nachrichtendiensten ist gesetzlich ein wichtiger Teil staatlicher Sicherheitsgewährleistung überantwortet: Für politische Entscheidungsträger fungieren sie als Frühwarnsysteme für innere und äußere Gefährdungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und im Wirkungsverbund mit Polizeibehörden und Staatsanwaltschaften tragen sie zur Verhinderung und Aufklärung von Straftaten bei. "Sicherheit" hat sich hierbei zu einem zentralen gesellschaftlichen Wertebegriff entwickelt, an den Sicherheitsbedürfnisse einzelner Bürgerinnen und Bürger anknüpfen. Zugleich sind die Nachrichtendienste verpflichtet, individuelle Freiheitsverbürgungen des Grundgesetzes nicht zu verletzen. Den Rechtsgrundlagen nachrichtendienstlicher Tätigkeit kommt die Aufgabe zu, den Schutz grundrechtlicher Freiheiten und die Gewährleistung öffentlicher Sicherheit miteinander in Einklang zu bringen.

Häusliche Gewalt wird im Umgangs- und Sorgerecht nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt – mit gefährlichen Konsequenzen für gewaltbetroffene Frauen und Kinder. Um den Schutz vor häuslicher Gewalt vollständig zu gewährleisten, sind rechtliche Reformen nötig. Die Analyse fasst die Reformvorschläge zusammen und gibt konkrete Empfehlungen vor dem Hintergrund der menschenrechtlichen Anforderungen, insbesondere aus der Istanbul-Konvention und der UN-Kinderrechtskonvention.

This volume examines works of the early Frankfurt School that are concerned with gender identities, institutions, and ideologies, as well as the ongoing relevance of early Frankfurt School ideas for contemporary feminist analyses of gender, sex, and sexuality.

Front Cover -- RESILIENCE AND RIVERINE LANDSCAPES -- RESILIENCE AND RIVERINE LANDSCAPES -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Resilience and riverine landscapes: An introduction -- Introduction -- Riverine landscapes and their ecosystems -- The resilience of riverine landscapes -- Applications and advancement of this edited volume -- A process of realisation and acknowledgements -- References -- 1 - Riverine landscapes and resilience -- Introduction -- Riverine landscapes through a different lens -- Resilience perspectives -- Applying resilience to riverine landscapes -- Absorbing capacity of riverine landscapes -- Adaptive capacity of riverine landscapes -- Transformative capacity of riverine landscapes -- Conclusions -- References -- Further reading -- 2 - The resilience of riverine ecological communities -- Introduction -- What is resilience in an ecological context? -- Are ecological communities in rivers resilient? -- Floods - pulse disturbances -- Droughts - ramp disturbances -- Anthropogenic pressures - press disturbances -- How are anthropogenic changes likely to impact ecological resilience? -- How can we retain ecological resilience? -- Prospective -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 - Resilient floodplains in the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- Characteristics of resilient floodplains -- Floodplain structure -- Functional responses -- Floodplain complexity leads to resilience -- Human alterations to floodplain resilience -- Floodplains as social-ecological systems -- Case studies -- Mountain streams of the Colorado Front Range: large wood and carbon -- Boreal rivers in northern Sweden: floodplain carbon storage and riparian plant communities -- Floodplains of the northern Murray Darling Basin, Australia -- The Atchafalaya Basin: a case study in human modification and resilience -- Understanding and managing resilient floodplains.

Intro -- Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Appendices -- General Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Desistance from Crime and Social and Community (Re)Integration Processes -- 2 Methods -- 3 Desistance from Crime and Narrative Changes: Perspectives of Justice-Involved Youth -- 4 How Do Informal Social Networks Contribute to Desistance from Crime and Social and Community (Re)integration among Justice-Involved Youth? -- 5 Informal Assisted Desistance among Justice-Involved Young Substance Abusers -- 6 Positive Impact of Addiction Services and Counsellors on the Recovery of Justice-Involved Youth and their Desistance from Crime -- 7 Victimization Experienced by Justice-Involved Youth: Perceived Influences on their Trajectories -- 8 Make It or Break It: Interactions with Counsellors at the Heart of Substitute Care Experiences among Youth -- 9 Formal and Informal Interventions: What Facilitates and Prevents the Process of Desistance from Crime among Justice-Involved Adolescent Girls? -- 10 Perspectives of Justice-Involved Young Adults on Interventions in Québec's Correctional Institutions -- 11 Access to Services and their Continuity: Perceptions of Justice-Involved Youth -- 12 Recidivism, Assisted Desistance, and Social (Re)Integration: What Have We Learned So Far? -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index.

Front Cover -- Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the editors -- Foreword by Jack D. Ives -- Preface by Xiaomeng Shen -- References -- Further reading -- Preface by Martin F. Price -- References -- Preface by Roland Psenner -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- The importance of mountains and why applied mountain research is critical? -- The purpose and timing of publishing this book -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 Existing efforts in mountain social-ecological systems -- 2 Mountain biodiversity under change -- Mountain biodiversity under global change -- Mountain biodiversity and human well-being -- Mitigation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Land degradation and drought in mountains -- The context -- The challenges related to land degradation and drought in mountains -- A framework for integrated action -- References -- 4 Global change, related impact on natural hazard processes, and potential consequences in social-ecological mountain systems -- Introduction -- Drivers of mountain hazards -- Direct drivers of mountain hazards: relief -- Direct drivers of mountain hazards: hydroclimate -- Direct drivers of mountain hazards: human activities -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Mountain hazards and permafrost degradation -- Introduction -- Different types of natural hazards associated with permafrost degradation -- Future development and scenarios -- Scientific challenges and research needs -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Impacts of permafrost thaw in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska -- Permafrost -- Climate -- Engineering-to-landscape-scale impacts from permafrost thaw -- References -- 7 Sendai Framework and disaster risk in mountain regions -- Challenges in mountain systems -- Recommended priorities for action.

The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed. The themes of this work center on the multifaceted reality of loss, recovery, resilience and resistance embedded in the desire of African/African descended people to experience family life despite their enslavement. These themes look back to the critical loss that Africans, both those taken and those who remained, endured, as the enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley honors in the line-"What sorrows labour in my parents' breast?," and look forward to the generations of slaves born through the Civil War era who struggled to realize their humanity in the recreation of family ties that tied them, through blood and emotion, to a reality beyond their legal bondage to masters and mistresses. Stevenson pays particular attention to the ways in which gender, generation, location, slave labor, the economic status of slaveholders and slave societies' laws affected the black family in slavery