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On Capitalism, Cities, and Culture in the Colonial Era -- The Economic Landscape of Cities and Climate Change -- Urban Consumerism and Colonial Structures of Mercantilism -- Crafting and Transforming Colonial Empires and Landscapes -- Redefining Climate Policy and Economic Resilience in the Consuming World -- Climate and Social Justice in the Political Landscape of Urban Resilience and Mercantilism: A Concluding Note.

AbstractThis introduction to a special section brings together three papers first presented at a panel, 'Medical Professions in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Analyses', at the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies, held in Vienna, Austria and online, in July 2021. All three papers deal with aspects of the professionalisation of biomedical doctors in India since its independence in 1947. The authors bring together historical and sociological approaches to illuminate the growth of specialisms, patterns of practitioner–patient interactions and efforts to maintain occupational closure and maintain status in the face of growing challenges. The introduction concludes with a discussion of the relevance of these papers for the sociology of health and illness in India and beyond.

"Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life. From an Indigenous Australian perspective, the Western concept of heritage is intentionally exclusionary and supports social, political, economic and environmental injustice. Aboriginal people engage with landscape every day in entirely different ways, seeing Country as a living 'heritage', but in a unique relationship form that engages the individual with Place, Ancestors, language, and wellbeing. However, Country is most often relegated by heritage proponents to 'intangible heritage' and this results in the concept having little legislative, legal or administrative weight. Drawing on a common understanding of Country as sacred, living and sentient, rather than as objectified property or resource, the contributors to this book explore a diversity of relationships with Country that demonstrate the richness and the practical utility of this relational understanding. Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing foregrounds the voices of Australian Aboriginal people who are involved in 'Caring for Country'. It will be an essential resource for those engaged in the study of Country, heritage, museums, indigenous peoples, landscape architecture, environmental studies, planning and archaeology. It will also be of great interest to heritage practitioners working around the globe"--

AbstractThe U.S. Army manages over 12 million acres of federal training and testing lands contained within military installations throughout the 50 United States. These lands are a critical national asset for defense readiness, dedicated to providing realistic training and testing environments for army units and equipment. The locations and physiographic diversity of the Army's current land inventory is a function of historical precedent, modern‐day land expansions, and requirements for strategic projection of forces. Many Army lands are relatively undeveloped, providing important ecological settings for a variety of flora and fauna, including many threatened and endangered species. As a responsible land steward, the Army is committed to protection and sustainable use of these natural resources, with concurrent benefit to both the army and the public. Army training and testing activities can cause environmental impacts that may be detrimental to the long‐term sustainment of ecological functions. These realities pose significant land management challenges to the Army. The application of established ecologicalframeworks for strategically assessing land‐use impacts and land management approaches is demonstrated for 31 major Army installations, using Bailey's "ecoregion classification system," developed by the U.S. Forest Service. The Ecoregions framework is used to (1) classify and catalog the ecological diversity of Army lands, (2) provide a comparative framework for assessing land resiliencyfrom Army impacts, and (3) extrapolate knowledge of perturbed ecosystem behavior and response from one army installation to others in similar ecoregions.