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"The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way that builds trust, educates, creates consensus, and leads to implementation. Although focused at the local level, this book discusses climate basics like Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement of 2015, worldwide energy generation forecasts, and other items of global concern in order to familiarize urban planners and citizen planners with key concepts they'll need to know in order to host climate conversations on the local level. The case studies from around the United States show how communities encountered pushback and bridged the implementation gap, the gap between plan and reality thanks to a commitment to substantive public engagement. The book is written for urban planners, local activists, journalists, elected or appointed representatives, and the average citizen worried about climate breakdown and working to reshape the built environment"--

This article examines deprivedmale migrants' conceptions and performative expressions of hegemonic masculinity in Ireland.It explores their widespread propensity to develop hypermasculine self-images based on ideals of cultural loyalty and economic prosperity that are, in fact, compensatory for their sense of emasculation, marginalization and social failure as a result of economic difficulties within their host societies.The first section surveys perceptions and preconceptions about migrant men and young male immigrants in a variety of Irish media, political and social discourses. The second section considers recent research and the development of theoretical perspectives about migrant masculinity in Ireland. In the third section, it is argued that these broad discourses and preconceptions are accentuated and encapsulated in a corpus of Irish theatre and film productions, such as Jimmy Murphy's play about Irish emigrants in London,The Kings of the Kilburn High Road (2001), which was subsequently adapted by Tom Collins in the Irish language film Kings (2007). Bisi Adigun's Arambe Productions has appropriated and complicated the Kings of the Kilburn High Road storyline in turn. Adigun reenacted the play withWest African immigrants rather than Irish emigrants in London (2006). He subsequently adapted its storyline to a contemporary London setting in Home, Sweet Home (performed in Lagos, 2010), and then he reset the play in Dublin with an African-Irish immigrant cast in The Paddies of Parnell Street (2013). In these different versions of the Kings plotline, ideals of migrant masculinity, the image of the "alien" and the meaning of the play/film perceptibly shift depending on whether it is performed by an English-speaking Irish cast, a cast of Irish-language speakers, or an African immigrant cast in Arambe's productions. Yet, together, these works suggest that immigrants to Ireland and returning Irish emigrants, as well as marginalized Gaelic speakers, face similar gender specific constraints in achieving recognition and gaining acceptance in modern Irish society. Each version is based on competing conceptions and performances of hegemonic masculinity that come into conflict at the culmination of the plot's development. Both on stage and on screen, they give expression to migrant masculine ideals in Ireland that are defined by wider political and social tensions which they seek to resolve in their respective performances.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Interculturalism and Performance Now -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: New Directions? -- What's in a Name? -- The Need for New Models of Interculturalism -- New Interculturalism's Performative Becoming -- New Interculturalism, Social Policy, and Racial/Ethnic Difference -- Chapter Breakdown -- Can Interculturalism Ever Really Be New? -- Works Cited -- Part I: New Interculturalism as Methodology -- Chapter 2: From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico -- Cast of Characters: Mexico City, Martín Cortés, Alonso de Avila, and the Encomenderos -- Replacing the Viceroy's Body -- Remapping Mexico City -- Networking the Scenario -- Objects and People: Masks, Flowers, Feathers, and Mugs -- Toward a Prepositional Analysis of Intercultural Scenarios -- Work Cited -- Chapter 3: Routes and Routers of Interculturalism: Islands, Theatres and Shakespeares -- Introduction: Globe to Globe, Island to Island -- Past Routes and Routers of Intercultural Shakespeare in Colonial Asia -- Shakespeare's Cargo: Tracing Movement -- Routers 2.0 -- Conclusion: A Global Interculturalism? -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Rethinking Interculturalism Using Digital Tools -- What Products Do Australian Festivals Import? -- Interculturalism Twenty Years On -- Gender -- Cultural Diplomacy and Exports -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part II: Redirecting Intercultural Traffic -- Chapter 5: Colonial Restitution and Indigenous Vessels of Intercultural Performance: The Stalled Repatriation of the Akwiten Grandfather Canoe -- Intercultural Memory and Rituals of Restitution -- "Indisputably Maliseet" Canoes -- "Their Wretched Condition" -- Archival Traces -- Embodiments of Indigenous Knowledge -- Vessel of Ancestry.

"Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community, however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses. How do we achieve more equitable outcomes? The Equity Planner provides a toolkit of practical solutions for planners and all those involved in placemaking to promote thoughtful, inclusive planning. Each chapter of The Equity Planner examines one particular aspect of inequity in the urban planning sphere, covering issues such as identity retention, affordability, and the protection and enhancement of local assets. While each chapter offers practicable solutions to these issues, the 'Notes from the Field' sections describe how these same tools have been used (either successfully or unsuccessfully) in projects the author has been involved in, with a particular focus on the local resistance each project encountered. These real-world case studies are used to suggest methods to overcome such resistance, which the reader can then apply to their present initiatives. This book is written for urban planners, local activists, social scientists, policy makers, and anyone with an interest in equity planning. This book will be of use to both practicing and training urban planners and architects who seek to add equity planning to their professional repertoire"--

Two decades ago, McKenzie's meta-analysis of literature provided six fundamental elements of adventure education programme design still used to guide research and practice today. While the value of McKenzie's early work should not be underestimated, adventure education has undergone considerable changes. Adventurous activities are now available in urban and indoor contexts and used to facilitate a growing health and wellbeing agenda. The use of risk as part of adventure education programming has also been critiqued. This paper reflects on contemporary notions of adventure, risk and the emergent narratives emphasising the associated psychological benefits. The Ecological Dynamics framework, along with representative design delivery, are presented as a viable way of building on McKenzie's work. Both consider how effective outcomes in adventure education programmes are achieved through designs that focus on the unique relationship between the individual and their environment. While McKenzie's six elements recognise the importance of human relationships, Ecological Dynamics forefronts relational elements, not just between participants but, importantly, the task and the environment. Individual participant needs in relation to their everyday life therefore become the focus of adventure education expanding beyond the traditional long-standing narratives of risk and danger. Through these two important concepts, this paper advocates an approach to the design of adventure representative of a participant's everyday environment. In this way, adventure education outcomes translate beyond the adventure-specific context and align more holistically with the needs of individual participants while also assuring emphasis on individual health and wellbeing.