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This book is a distillation of the First Annual International Technical Workshop on Climate Risk held in 2016 in Wells, Maine, USA. It is organized into three major themes, namely: environmental, health and societal impacts; the special case of Africa; and advances in education.The volume's premise is that, long before the 2015 Paris Agreement, many professionals from diverse fields were working to solve the problems of human-caused climate change. The 1987 Montreal Protocol is now in support of a key emission reduction goal of the Agreement. It was time for the seasoned leaders who implement the Protocol, the world's most successful treaty for atmospheric protection, to share their knowledge and wisdom with the next generation before that expertise was lost. The purpose of bringing these communities of practice together is to leverage the many successes to date to inspire future innovations through 'lessons learned'; ensure that new or updated regulations are timely communicated and economically executed; and identify opportunities for related sustainable development.

Cover -- Inhalt -- 1. Einführung -- 2. Wirtschaften mit Knappheit und Überfluss als (kultur-)wissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld -- 2.1 Wirtschaft und Konsum im (kultur-)wissenschaftlichen Diskurs -- 2.2 Dinge und Waren in der Kulturanalyse -- 2.3 Theorien sozialer Praxis: Lebensstil - Agency - communities of practice -- 3. Die Forschungsfelder: Stand der Forschung -- 3.1 Secondhand-Kleidung -- 3.2 Reparieren - Flicken - Umnutzen -- 3.3 Das Mülltauchen -- 4. Zum Forschungsdesign -- 4.1 Zugang, Quellen, Methoden -- 4.2 Auswertung der Daten -- 4.3 Potentiale und Grenzen komparativer Forschung -- 5. Das Kleidertauschen: Tauschobjekte - Konsum - Raum -- 5.1 Kleidung als Tauschobjekt -- 5.2 Tauschen als Gegenkonsum -- 5.3 Tauschpartys als Events -- 6. Repair Cafés: Infrastruktur - Raum - Akteure -- 6.1 Das Handbuch als Materialisierung von Infrastruktur -- 6.2 Reparieren als Protestpraxis -- 6.3 Repair Cafés als soziale Orte -- 6.4 Repair Café als ökologische Praxis -- 7. Das Lebensmittelretten: Netzwerke - Protest - Raum -- 7.1 Mülltauchen als soziale Praxis -- 7.2 Mülltauchen als Protestpraxis -- 7.3 Lebensmittel und die Materialisierung von Überfluss -- 8. Der vergleichende Blick - Infrastrukturen der Nachhaltigkeit -- 9. Fazit -- 10. Literatur -- 11. Quellenverzeichnis -- 12. Danksagung

This volume explores the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 for business; it analyses its challenges and implications, and establishes required actions by the private sector in order to address climate change. We include contributions from diverse locations and disciplines on the challenges this poses for businesses across the globe.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Overview -- This Book in Brief -- Yet Again? -- Management? or management? -- A Few Cautions -- Part I: Myths -- 1. Myth #1 We have a system of health care -- 2. Myth #2 The system of health care is failing -- Suffering from Success -- More for Less? -- 3. Myth #3 Health care institutions, not to mention the whole system, can be fixed with more heroic leadership -- The Position of Heroic Leadership -- The Person as Heroic Leader -- The Quest for a Regular Leader -- 4. Myth #4 The health care system can be fixed with more administrative engineering -- Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness -- Re-engineering the Health Care Factory -- When in Doubt, Reorganize -- Use Pretend Markets When You Can't Get Away with Real Ones -- Merge Like Mad -- The Myth of Scale -- Keeping the Baby -- 5. Myth #5 The health care system can be fixed with more categorizing and commodifying to facilitate more calculating -- Categorization for Commodification for Calculation -- Beyond, Across, and Beneath the Categories -- Some Myths of Measurement -- Analyst, Analyze Thyself -- 6. Myth #6 The health care system can be fixed with increased competition -- Is American Competition the Model? -- Porter and Teisberg on the "Right Kind" of Competition -- Does Competition Necessarily Foster Innovation? -- Is This Really About Competition? -- The Cost of Competition -- Cooperation, Not Individualization -- 7. Myth #7 Health care organizations can be fixed by managing them more like businesses -- Herzlinger on this Business of Health Care -- When Being a Business Is Bad for our Health Care -- When Acting Like a Business is hardly Better -- Health Care as a Calling -- Summing Up the Fixes -- 8. Myths #8 AND #9 Overall, health care is rightly left to the private sector, for the sake of efficiency and choice

Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Das globale Kaufhaus -- 1.1 Im Zeichen der Anfänge -- 1.2 Vom Online-Shop zum Smartphone -- 1.3 Weltweite Beschaffung - Basis für die große Auswahl -- 1.4 Wie die Waren in den Laden kommen -- 1.5 Fernsehprogramm und Wetter beeinflussen unser Kaufverhalten -- 1.6 Per Knopfdruck und Sprachbefehl -- 1.7 Der Fluch der Bequemlichkeit -- 1.8 Zustellung am gleichen Tag - und dann? -- 1.9 City-Logistik -- 1.9.1 Unterirdisch: CargoCap und Underground Container Mover -- 1.9.2 Nachtstunden für Distribution nutzen -- 1.9.3 Nahverkehrsnetze für die Fabrikversorgung: Cargotram Dresden -- 1.9.4 Roboter - die Lösung für die letzte Meile? -- 1.10 Die Versorgung der ländlichen Regionen -- 1.11 Ausverkauft -- 1.12 Globaler Handel - über Jahrhunderte gewachsen -- 1.13 Die neuen Champions -- 1.14 Vom Wohl und Wehe der weiten Welt -- 1.15 Was die Warenströme wandelt -- 1.16 Informationstechnologie als Motor des Fortschritts -- 2 Digitale Welt - Abwege und Auswege -- 2.1 Die Intelligenz der Dinge -- 2.2 In der Zukunft angekommen -- 2.3 Digitalisierung bis ins Kinderzimmer -- 2.4 Die Filterblase: Der gläserne Mensch ist schon lange nicht mehr das Problem -- 2.5 Die alte Geschichte mit dem selbst einkaufenden Kühlschrank -- 2.6 Von Menschenrechten und Vulkanen -- 2.7 Heute leider geschlossen -- 2.8 Terroristen im Haus -- 2.9 Wunderwaffe Logistik -- 2.10 E-Commerce: Ein Geschäft mit Zukunft -- 3 Von Verantwortung und guten Perspektiven -- 3.1 Die Kreislaufwirtschaft -- 3.2 Regierungen als Systemgestalter -- 3.3 Wir brauchen die Innovationskraft der Unternehmen -- 3.4 Internationale Standards - Solidargemeinschaften sind gefordert -- 3.5 Die Schlüsselrolle der Bürger -- 3.6 Gute Aussichten -- Der Autor -- Weiterführende Literatur -- Stichwortverzeichnis

Contouring the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others

This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building and sites, the twenty contributions seek to raise perceptions and understanding of heritage-based peace-building practices. Responding to the emphasis placed on conflict, war and memorialization, they reflect exploratory yet significant steps towards reclaiming the history, theory, and practice of peacebuilding as serious issues for heritage in contemporary society. The geographical scope of the book includes contributions from Europe, notably the Balkans and Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and Kenya. Diana Walters is an International Heritage Consultant and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter; Daniel Laven is Associate Professor of Human Geography, Department of Tourism Studies and Geography/European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University; Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology, Newcastle University. Contributors: Tatjana Cvjeticanin, Peter Davis, Jonathan Eaton, David Fleming, Seth Frankel, Timothy Gachanga, Alon Gelbman, Felicity Gibling, Will Glendinning, Elaine Heumann Gurian, Lejla Hadzic, Feras Hammami, Lotte Hughes, Bosse Lagerqvist, Daniel Laven, Bernadette Lynch, Elena Monicelli, Yongtanit Pimonsathean, Saleem H. Ali, Sultan Somjee, Peter Stone, Michèle Taylor, Peter van den Dungen, Alda Vezic, Jasper Visser, Diana Walters

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Global Energy Justice -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Global Energy System -- 1.2.1 Global Energy Production -- 1.2.2 Global Energy Consumption -- 1.3 The Global Energy Trilemma: Energy Security, Fuel Poverty and Climate Change -- 1.3.1 Availability -- 1.3.2 Accessibility -- 1.3.3 Sustainability -- 1.4 Constructing Energy Justice -- 1.4.1 The Emergence of Energy Justice -- 1.4.2 Which Justice? -- 1.5 Developing an Energy Justice Critique -- 1.5.1 Distribution -- 1.5.2 Recognition -- 1.5.3 Procedures -- 1.6 Towards an Energy Justice Framework for Assessing High- and Low-Carbon Energy -- 1.7 Summary -- References -- Chapter 2 Fossil Fuels and Energy Justice -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Availability: Reserves, Production and Security -- 2.3 Accessibility: Consumption, Trade Flows and Price -- 2.4 Sustainability: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Long-Term Trends -- 2.5 Distributional Justice and Fossil Fuels: Where Produces, Consumes and Emits Carbon? -- 2.5.1 Where Are the Resources Located? -- 2.5.2 Where Does Consumption Take Place? -- 2.5.3 Where Emits Carbon Dioxide Emissions? -- 2.6 Recognition Justice and Fossil Fuels: Who Does Not Benefit, Have Access or Emit Carbon? -- 2.6.1 Who Does Not Benefit from the Resources? -- 2.6.2 Who Cannot Access? -- 2.6.3 Who Does not Emit? -- 2.7 Procedural Justice and Fossil Fuels: How We Make Production or Consumption Decisions -- 2.7.1 How Are Production Decisions Made? -- 2.7.2 How Are Consumption Decisions Made? -- 2.7.3 How Long Term Are the Policy Structures? -- 2.8 Summary-The Dominance of Suppliers and Associated Logics of Injustice -- References -- Chapter 3 Alternative Energy Sources and Energy Justice

This textbook examines the relationships between soccer, politics, and international relations. It uses soccer players and other individuals connected to the game in order to teach political science concepts-such as geopolitics, ideology, and sovereignty-and IR theories-including realism, postcolonialism, and feminism.

In today's image-conscious world it is important that we help children and youngsters feel better about their bodies. No Body's Perfect is designed to do just that. Written for teachers, counsellors, parents, and carers it promotes positive body image and good mental health using easy to implement evidence-based strategies