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Interdisciplinary essays on the relationship between practice and theory in new media.Arguing that "first encounters" have already applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, the contributors to this book call for "second encounters," or a revisiting. Digital media are not only objects of analysis but also instruments for the development of innovative perspectives on both media and culture. Drawing on insights from literary theory, semiotics, philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, media studies, sociology, and education, the contributors construct new positions from which to observe digital media in fresh and meaningful ways. Throughout they explore to what extent interpretation of and experimentation with digital media can inform theory. It also asks how our understanding of digital media can contribute to our understanding of social and cultural change.The book is organized in four sections: Education and Interdisciplinarity, Design and Aesthetics, Rhetoric and Interpretation, and Social Theory and Ethics. The topics include the effects on reading of the multimodal and multisensory aspects of the digital environment, the impact of practice on the medium of theory, how digital media are dissolving the boundaries between leisure and work, and the impact of cyberspace on established ethical principles.

Using a scientific debate format of a key scholarly essay followed by two commentaries and a rebuttal, this series presents theoretical work, significant empirical studies, methodological developments, analytical techniques, and philosophical treatments to advance the field of multi-level studies, regardless of disciplinary perspective. Similar to Volume 1 (Yammarino & Dansereau, 2002), Volume 2 contains five major essays that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of organizational behavior and strategy. In particular, the five critical essays offer extensive literature reviews, new model developments, methodological advancements, and some empirical data for the study of emotions, construct validation, firm performance, interfirm networks, and strategic change. While each of the major essays, as well as the commentaries and rebuttals, is unique in orientation, they share a common bond in raising and addressing multi-level issues, or discussing problems and solutions that involve multiple levels of analysis

Incorporating Behavioural, Social, and Organizational Phenomena in the Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Options -- Cultural Discourses in the Global Climate Change Debate -- Consumption, Motivation and Choice Across Scale: Consequences for Selected Target Groups -- The Legacy of Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: we know more about Individual Behaviour but next to Nothing about Demand -- Group Identity, Personal Ethics and Sustainable Development Suggesting New Directions For Social Marketing Research -- European Narratives about Human Nature, Society and the Good Life -- Gender-Specific Patterns of Poverty and (Over-)Consumption in Developing and Developed Countries -- Climate Change and Relative Consumption -- Social interactions and conditions for change in energy-related decision-making in SMCs — an empirical socio-economic analysis -- Motivation and decision criteria for energy efficiency in private households, companies and administrations in Russia.

What Is Policy Analysis, and What Is Its Role in the Policy Process? -- Scoping the Policy Analysis -- Decision Criteria and Decision Methods for Policy Analysis -- Steps in Conducting an Environmental Policy Analysis -- Modeling -- Statistical Analysis Using Regression -- Principles of Benefit-Cost Analysis -- Discounting Benefits and Costs Over Time -- Valuation of Environmental Resources and Quality -- Regional Economic Analysis, Input-Output Models and Multipliers -- Optimization and Linear Programming -- Risk Analysis -- Examples of Policy Analyses -- Concluding Guidance.

Security concerns, the AIDS epidemic, environmental degradation, and financial contagion are salient features of today's landscape of threats to global stability. A characteristic of these challenges is that they cannot be solved by individual nations acting alone. Enlightened cooperation is needed. This book focuses on actions in the international arena to complement domestic efforts in addressing a set of policy challenges that has become more prominent in the age of globalization. It focuses on the strategic and practical challenges of fostering solutions that have the character of international public goods, paying particular attention to the financing of these goods

I Introduction to Primary Energy — Nonrenewable Sources -- 1 Introduction to World Energy -- 2 Historical Perspective of Energy -- 3 World Primary Energy Overview -- 4 World Coal Resources -- 5 Nuclear Energy -- 6 Hydroelectric Power -- 7 Meeting Future Demands for Energy Resources -- II Renewable Energy Sources and Alternative Energy Technologies -- 8 Geothermal Energy -- 9 Solar Energy -- 10 Wind Energy -- 11 Advanced Alternative Energy Sources -- 12 Nonrenewable Alternative Energy Resources and Technologies -- 13 Environmental Issues and Concerns in Energy -- 14 History of World Energy Program Policies -- III United States — Energy Forecasts and Modeling -- 15 Energy Modeling Approach and Assumptions -- 16 U.S. Energy Forecasts and Modeling -- 17 USA Energy Demand and World Markets -- 18 USA Electricity Demand and Markets -- 19 USA Oil and Natural Gas Consumption Forecasts -- 20 Coal Market Forecasts and Analysis -- IV World Regional Energy Overview -- 21 Regional Overview — North America and Latin America -- 22 The Middle East -- 23 Antarctica and Canada -- 24 Latin America -- 25 Europe and Central Eurasia -- 26 Africa -- 27 Asia and Pacific -- References -- Appendix I. Conversion Table of Energy Units -- Author Index.

Intro -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBAL POLITICS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACRONYMS -- IMPORTANT TERMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CHANGING SCOPE OF GLOBAL POWER AND GOVERNANCE by J. P. SINGH -- 2. GLOBAL NETWORKS AND THEIR IMPACT by JONATHAN ARONSON -- PART I: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER -- 3. PUBLIC EYES: SATELLITE IMAGERY, THE GLOBALIZATION OF TRANSPARENCY, AND NEW NETWORKS OF SURVEILLANCE by KAREN T. LITFIN -- 4. INFORMATIONAL META-TECHNOLOGIES, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GENETIC POWER: THE CASE OF BIOTECHNOLOGIES by SANDRA BRAMAN -- PART II: THE CHANGING SCOPE OF POWER AND GOVERNANCE -- 5. CIRCUITS OF POWER: SECURITY IN THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT by RONALD J. DEIBERT -- 6. THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WINTELISM: A NEW MODE OF POWER AND GOVERNANCE IN THE GLOBAL COMPUTER INDUSTRY by SANGBAE KIM AND JEFFREY A. HART -- 7. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CONSUMPTION: CONTRADICTIONS IN THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER by EDWARD COMOR -- PART III: GOVERNANCE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 8. CAPITALISM, TECHNOLOGY, AND LIBERALIZATION: THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGIME, 1865-1998 by MARK W. ZACHER -- 9. UNDERSTANDING SHIFTS IN THE FORM AND SCOPE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS GOVERNANCE: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by STEPHEN D. MCDOWELL -- 10. NEGOTIATING REGIME CHANGE: THE WEAK, THE STRONG AND THE WTO TELECOM ACCORD by J. P. SINGH -- CONCLUSION -- 11. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE SKILLS, NETWORKS, AND STRUCTURES THAT SUSTAIN WORLD AFFAIRS by JAMES N. ROSENAU -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- SUNY series in Global Politics.

"This is a comparative analysis of the dominant ideologies and modes of legitimization in communist and post-Communist Serbia and Croatia. The aim of the book is to identify and explain dominant normative and operative ideologies and principal modes of legitimization in these three case studies. The book is based on the content analysis of manifestos of the ruling parties in post World War II Yugoslavia (League of Communists), post-Cold War Serbia (Socialist Party of Serbia) and Croatia (Croatian Democratic Union), as well as on the content analysis of the school textbooks and editorial of government-controlled newspapers published in the same period

The global loss of biodiversity has led to a renewed interest in the underlying mechanisms that explain spatial differences and temporal change of diversity. This book synthesises recent advances in our understanding of interactions that enhance or diminish coexistence among competing species. It features an innovative, spatial view of competition and coexistence. The chapters are logically grouped and stitched together by the central organising principle of spatial distribution and mobility of competing species and their resources. The text also covers ecological modelling and experimental evidence in the search for general principles across ecosystems, from lake plankton and rocky shore benthos to grasslands and insects

Tree Islands of the Everglades brings together for the first time experts in anthropology, ecology, geology, paleontology, wildlife, and landscape modelling to review the state of our understanding of the small, forested islands that are a feature of most large wetlands. Although tree islands can be found in wetlands around the world, only in the Florida Everglades have their unique and complex origins, structure, and functions been investigated. Although these biodiversity hotspots are important to the survival of many plants and animals in the Everglades, most of them have been lost since the 1940s as a result of poor water management. Consequently, the restoration of tree islands will be a key performance measure for the success of the ongoing Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. Tree Islands of the Everglades reviews the geologic origin of different kinds of tree islands and presents competing hypotheses about their subsequent development. It also describes their vegetation and factors controlling the composition of their vegetation, their fauna, their unique geochemistry, and their use by Native Americans. Throughout, the importance of recurring wet years (intensive flooding) and dry years (frequent fires) are emphasized for understanding changes in tree island flora and fauna. Although they have received very little attention tree islands in The Everglades and other comparable wetlands around the world are a key feature of these wetlands and understanding the status or health of tree islands is central to understanding their overall condition

2.5.4 Gas chromatography2.5.5 Supercritical fluid chromatography; 2.5.6 Planar chromatography; 2.6 Selective chemical extraction; 2.6.1 Sub-division of element content of soils and sediments on the basis of chemical reactivity; 2.6.2 Speciation schemes for soils and sediments; 2.6.3 Speciation strategies; 2.6.4 'Labile metal' determinations; 2.7 Electro-analytical speciation techniques; 2.7.1 Role of electro-analytical techniques; 2.7.2 Potentiometry using ion-selective electrodes; 2.7.3 Polarography; 2.7.4 Stripping voltammetry; 2.7.4.1 Anodic stripping voltammetry.