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This book combines the disciplines of art, science and philosophy to picture and interpret the planet's current state of 'metabolic distress'. Humankind's search for more powerful sources of energy to sustain an urbanizing existence has created an energy transition that, while hugely beneficial to human existence, is now being identified as a source of harm. Just as metabolic disease refers to energy-sourced medical problems, so too the planet, the authors propose, is showing increasing signs of metabolic distress. Through large-scale photographs and a combination of long and short essays The Metabolic Landscape is an engaging exploration of the unfolding relationship between energy and the landscape, and our interpretation of it --

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the effects of intermittent noise on target detection performance. Specifically, the present study was designed to test whether the effects of noise presented at a 70% on-off, "neutral" ratio are independent of the noise intensity level. Four levels of noise were used: no noise, and 80, 90, and 100 db. The results revealed that detection time was not significantly affected by the noise level. The total number of errors recorded for each noise condition showed that, in general, as intensity level increased, the total number of errors decreased. These findings are related to the concept of "flexibility of attention."

In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research from earth system science and sustainability science. It provides a framework for understanding human impact on the environment for anyone interested in our current predicaments and what we can do about them

Abstract:-Trafficking in human being is one of the worst forms of human behavior. It is a problem witnessed both in the developed and underdeveloped world. At the international arena various covenants are signed and instruments have been adopted to undermine the problem of trafficking. India being the signatory of international treaties enacted various legislations in the light of fundamental right and Directive Principles of State Policy of the Indian Constitution. It has mobilized resources for assistance and rehabilitations of victims. It has also developed certain schemes and adopted them in different spheres. Judiciary has gone to the root of the problem and directed state to take appropriate action to stop trafficking of human being. There is no comprehensive and accurate date available on human trafficking. But there are cases of different forms of human trafficking, some are reported and many remain unreported. In this article an attempt is made to narrate the concept of trafficking, International agenda, constitutional mandate, legal framework in India, Judicial activism and protective action required to solve the problem.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Restraint or Innovation? -- Outline of the Argument -- Innovation and Ecomodernism -- Rethinking Social Democracy for the Anthropocene -- 1: The Thirty Years' Crisis -- A Temperature Check -- The Thirty Years' Crisis: the Era of Knowing Climate Inaction -- An Era of Human Flourishing -- The Failure of Environmental Politics -- Conclusion -- 2: Ecomodernism and its Critics -- Defining Ecomodernism -- Progressive Environmental Prometheans … an Unfamiliar Constellation -- The prohibition on intervention in complex systems -- Harmonizing with Nature -- Conclusion -- 3: Assessing the Technological Challenge -- Alternative Visions -- Sources of greenhouse gas emissions and the need for technological innovation -- The need for technological innovation -- Electricity and innovation -- Is a tiny elite to blame? -- Degrowth and unequal consumption -- Assessing the cost of ambitious mitigation -- Why warming of 2°C is now all but inevitable -- Conclusion -- 4: The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation -- Mariana Mazzucato, Fred Block and 'Mission-Oriented' Innovation -- Neoliberal and Populist Progressive Opposition -- How Should the Climate Movement Think about Technology and the State? -- What Determines National Innovation Rates? -- Conclusion -- 5: Human Flourishing amid Climate Harms -- 'Third Worldism' and the 'New International Economic Order' -- Conditionality -- Contemporary Conditionality - Biotechnology and Energy -- Genetically modified food -- Energy -- Conditionality and state-led development -- Conclusion -- 6: Global Social Democracy and Geoengineering Justice -- Solar Geoengineering, Risk and Relative Vulnerability -- Towards Global Social Democracy -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Ecomodernism, Innovation and Heresy.