Suchergebnisse

Front Cover; About the author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures, tables and box; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The privatization of the land; 2 Reclaiming the common good2; 3 The ends of the Earth; 4 Shifting conceptual landscapes; 5 A landscape at our service; 6 The great food challenge; 7 Valuing land and landscapes; 8 Living landscapes; 9 Lessons for tomorrow's world; 10 The people's land; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Amsterdam's North-South Metro Line (NZL) megaproject has had a long eventful history. From the initial proposal in the 1990s, through construction in the 2000s to 2010s, to its opening in 2018, the NZL overcame many challenges. Several geotechnical incidents in the Vijzelgracht neighbourhood in 2008 cost the City of Amsterdam and the Dutch government millions of Euros. These incidents required complex recovery management actions, and there was a complete re-evaluation of the project, resulting in extensive reformulation of the project's communications and impact management strategies, and in more-transparent public participation. Despite NZL's significance, it never underwent any formal Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), thus it provides an interesting case to consider how social impacts are addressed when there is no formal ESIA. Drawing on document review, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group, we considered the experiences of key decision-makers and project team members to learn how social impacts were assessed and managed over time in the absence of ESIA. We conclude that, when combined with appropriate urban governance frameworks, applying ESIA in urban and transport planning would improve the assessment and management of the social impacts of future megaproject infrastructure developments.

Shoddy rags and relief blankets : perceptions of textile recycling in north India / Lucy Norris -- Death, the phoenix, and Pandora : transforming things and values in Bangladesh / Mike Crang ... (et al.) -- One cycle to bind them all? : geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycle / Romain Garcier -- The shadow of the global network : e-waste flows to China / Xin Tong and Jici Wang -- Devaluing the dirty work : gendered trash work in participatory Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks -- Stitching curtains, grinding plastic : social and material transformation in Buenos Aires / Karen Ann Faulk -- Trash ties : urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janerio's garbage dump / Kathleen M. Millar -- Sympathy and its boundaries : necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river / Laura Bear -- 'No junk for Jesus' : redemptive economies and value conversions in Lutheran medical aid / Britt Halvorson -- Evident excess : material deposits and narcotics surveillance in the USA / Joshua Reno -- Remont : work in progress / Catherine Alexander.

"Untersuchungen der Verteilung materieller und immaterieller Güter auf soziale Klassen und Schichten, von rechtlicher und faktischer Chancengleichheit und Segregation haben in der Soziologie eine feste Tradition. Paradoxerweise war diese Thematik in der Umweltsoziologie lange ein 'blinder Fleck' - wenn nicht sogar theoretisch postuliert wurde, dass Umweltbelastungen eben alle betreffen, ungeachtet von Klasse und Schicht. Die wenigen empirischen Untersuchungen im deutschsprachigen Raum stammen vorwiegend von Sozialmedizinern und Epidemiologen, z.B. anhand des Datenmaterials von Schuleingangsuntersuchungen. In dem Vortrag werden empirische Befunde aus deutschen und Schweizer Untersuchungen berichtet. Dabei zeigen sich deutliche Abweichungen zwischen der physikalischen Messung 'objektiver' Umweltbelastungen und der subjektiven Betroffenheit. Hinweise zur subjektiven Wahrnehmung von Umweltlasten erhalten wir aus Analysen der Daten des Schweizer Umweltsurveys und des Eurobarometers. Abschließend wird ein Forschungsprogramm vorgestellt, in dessen Rahmen Befragungsdaten mit objektiven (GIS-referenzierten) Daten der Umweltbelastung verknüpft werden." (Autorenreferat)

Physical and demographic study of Uttarakhand -- The recovery of biodiversity in commercially logged rain forests in Sri Lanka -- An overview of the threats to faunal diversity of Rajasthan -- The social mass pedagogy of Tamil cinema: With illustration of selected films of the most popular and productive screenwriter -- Socio economic factors affecting child malnutrition in Uttar Pradesh, India.

AbstractEnvironmental issues have been well-documented in recent years, paying particular attention to the anthropogenic climate change impact. To date, research addressing the relationship between environmental issues, environmental justice and sustainability within social work education has been scarce. The importance of these topics in education, especially in social work programmes must be well understood and research being generated on these subjects must increase. The primary goal of this article is to help increase the conversation and debates about environmental issues, environmental justice and sustainability within the social work academic community. Social work scholars must analyse and discuss opportunities and difficulties that are presented by the necessity to make the subjects mentioned, key concepts of the core curriculum and base for social work education. The secondary goal is to describe practical ways that environmental issues, environmental justice and sustainability content can be integrated into social work education to better equip professionals with the tools to assist in the continuously growing global environmental issues.