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The worsening of Ecuador's socioeconomic conditions and the rapid inflow of Venezuelan migrants demand a rapid government response. Representative information on the migration and host communities is vital for evidence-based policy design. This study presents an innovative methodology based on the use of big data for sampling design of a representative survey of migrants and host communities' populations. This approach tackles the difficulties posed by the lack of information on the total number of Venezuelan migrants—regular and irregular—and their geographical location in the country. The total estimated population represents about 3 percent of the total Ecuadoran population. Venezuelans settled across urban areas, mainly in Quito, Guayaquil, and Manta (Portoviejo). The strategy implemented may be useful in designing similar exercises in countries with limited information (that is, lack of a recent census or migratory registry) and scarce resources for rapidly gathering socioeconomic data on migrants and host communities for policy design.

This paper reviews the sector of waste-to-energy looking at the main processes and feedstock involved. Within this, incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion and hydrothermal liquefaction are named and discussed. Through the discussions and scrutiny, manure is highlighted as a significant source of ammonia, methane, and nitrogen oxides emission, estimated to be 40%, 22.5% and 28% respectively of the total UK's anthropogenic emissions. Manure, and indeed the pollution it poses, are shown to remain largely ignored. In waste to energy processing, manure is capable of providing biogas for a number of pathways including electricity generation. Anaerobic digestion is highlighted as a suitable process with the crucial capability of drastically reducing the pollution potential of manure and slurry compared to no processing, with up to 90% reduction in methane and 50% reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions. If the majority of the 90 million tonnes of manure and slurry in the UK were to be processed through biogas harvesting, this could have the potential of producing more than 1.615 TWh of electricity. As such, the economics and legislation surrounding the implementation of anaerobic digestion for manure and slurry are discussed. In the end, restraining factors that limit the implementation of anaerobic digesters on farms in the UK are discussed. These are found to be mainly capital costs, lack of grants, insufficiently high tariff systems, rather than low gas yields from manure and slurry.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Men in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- I. READING MEN, READING RACE -- Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity -- Fiedler and Sons -- II. WHITE LIKE WHO? -- "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment -- Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues -- Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification -- The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture -- All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity -- III. VISUALIZING RACE AND THE SUBJECT OF MASCULINITIES -- The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II -- "The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy -- The White Man's Muscles -- Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema -- Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston -- IV. COMING AFTER -- Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- Works Cited -- Index -- Contributors