"Respected researcher Katherine Meese has teamed up with Quint Studer, a well-known author and practitioner with more than 40 years of experience in helping healthcare organizations improve performance and become better workplaces. The result is a science-backed leadership book that integrates the latest workplace research with tactics to create high-performance environments where people can flourish. The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust interprets new research on what today's healthcare workforce really wants and finds that trust in leadership is at the heart of everything"--
Sponsored by the Brazil-U.S.Colloquium on Communication Studies of the Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication and the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Creating Culture Through Media and Communication. The volume is a vibrant collaboration of global voices addressing the media and communications challenges of our time. Contributors ask us to reconsider the ethical implications of media and technology from historical, contemporary, and future perspectives. In addition, case studies show the diverse ways that cultural media production has ripple effects throughout larger society. Authors ask important questions about how digitalization is shaping our everyday lives, as well as how the ethics of tech is needed now more than ever with the sea change occasioned by AI.
Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Trends in Urbanization -- 1.1 Myths of the City -- 1.2 Lost Garden Cities: Pre-Columbian Life in the Amazon -- 1.3 Gigalopolises: Urban Land Area May Triple by 2030 -- 1.4 Decoding Mexico's City of Gods -- 1.5 A Tale of Two City-States -- 1.6 The Rise of Homo verticalis -- 1.7 Cities Are Surprisingly Fragile -- Section 2: The Science of Cities -- 2.1 Bigger Cities Do More with Less -- 2.2 Grid Unlocked: How Street Networks Evolve as Cities Grow -- 2.3 Jane Jacobs: Is There Good Science behind Urban Planning? -- 2.4 How Traffic Jams Decentralize Cities -- 2.5 Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World -- Section 3: Urban Inequality -- 3.1 Why Building Green Can Keep People Out of Jail -- 3.2 Share the Wealth: New Urban Poverty Atlases Now Provide Data to Slum Dwellers -- 3.3 Street Markets and Shantytowns Forge the World's Urban Future -- 3.4 Race Colors New Residents' Views of Local Businesses -- 3.5 Photos Tagged as Art Linked to Rising Property Prices -- 3.6 Who Benefits from Public Green Space? -- Section 4: Imagining the Future City -- 4.1 Revolutionary Rail: High-Speed Rail Plan Will Bring Fast Trains to the U.S. -- 4.2 Auto Immune: Cities Convert Streets into Pedestrian, Cyclist and Mass Transit Thoroughfares -- 4.3 Can Suburbs Be Designed to Do Away with the Car? -- 4.4 Can a Sustainable City Rise in the Middle Eastern Desert? -- 4.5 The Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities -- 4.6 What's Holding Smart Cities Back? -- Section 5: Designing the Green City -- 5.1 The Fishy Business of Waste -- 5.2 How Green Is My City -- 5.3 How Businesses Use Data to Outsmart Nature's Wrath -- 5.4 "Positive Cities" Can Improve Earth as Well as People's Lives -- 5.5 Sustainable Cities Put Waste to Work.
Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Problems Facing Food Systems -- 1.1 Our Food Systems Are in Crisis -- 1.2 The Effects of COVID-19 Will Ripple through Food Systems -- 1.3 How to Make the Food System More Energy Efficient -- 1.4 Feeding a Hot, Hungry Planet -- 1.5 Long Live Microbiomes! -- Section 2: Innovations in Food Systems -- 2.1 Growing Skyscrapers: The Rise of Vertical Farms -- 2.2 The Future of Farming -- 2.3 Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger -- 2.4 Test-Tube Burger: Lab-Cultured Meat Passes Taste Test (Sort of) -- 2.5 Tweaking Vegetables' Genes Could Make Them Tastier-And You'll Get to Try Them Soon -- 2.6 Faux Fish Might Help Aquaculture Keep Feeding the World -- 2.7 Spray-On, Rinse-Off Food 'Wrapper' Can Cut Plastic Packaging -- 2.8 Advanced Food Tracking and Packaging Will Save Lives and Cut Waste -- Section 3: Controversy Surrounding Food Systems -- 3.1 Organically Speaking: The Marketing Language of Organic Food -- 3.2 Does the World Need GM Foods? -- 3.3 The Truth about Genetically Modified Food -- 3.4 Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research? -- 3.5 How Biotech Crops Can Crash-and Still Never Fail -- 3.6 Designer Crops of the Future Must Be Better Tailored for Women in Agriculture -- 3.7 Should the Concept of a Food Desert Be Deserted? -- 3.8 Bill Gates Should Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need -- Section 4: Food Systems and the Environment -- 4.1 Can We Feed the World and Sustain the Planet? -- 4.2 Here's How Much Food Contributes to Climate Change -- 4.3 These Plants Can Replace Meat-but Will Doing So Help the Environment? -- 4.4 The Blue Food Revolution: Making Aquaculture a Sustainable Food Source -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Citations -- Index.
Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: The Age of Cyberwar -- 1.1 AI-Influenced Weapons Need Better Regulation -- 1.2 Are We Ready for the Future of Warfare? -- 1.3 Fully Autonomous Weapons Pose Unique Dangers to Humankind -- 1.4 Here's How to End the Fog of Cyber War -- 1.5 Here's What a Cyber Warfare Arsenal Might Look Like -- Section 2: Infrastructure Under Attack -- 2.1 Hacker Attack on Essential Pipeline Shows Infrastructure Weaknesses -- 2.2 How Hackers Tried to Add Dangerous Lye into a City's Water Supply -- 2.3 Is the Power Grid Getting More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks? -- 2.4 The Most Vulnerable Ransomware Targets Are the Institutions We Rely On Most -- 2.5 U.S. Hospitals Not Immune to Crippling Cyber Attacks -- 2.6 Urban Bungle: Atlanta Cyber Attack Puts Other Cities on Notice -- 2.7 What Do Hurricanes and Cybersecurity Have in Common? -- Section 3: Big Data In the Wrong Hands -- 3.1 Blockchain Enhances Privacy, Security and Conveyance of Data -- 3.2 Data Thieves Find Easy Pickings in the Health Care System -- 3.3 Data Vu: Why Breaches Involve the Same Stories Again and Again -- 3.4 Giant U.S. Computer Security Breach Exploited Very Common Software -- 3.5 The Equifax Hack-Bad for Them, Worse for Us -- Section 4: Are Our Elections Vulnerable? -- 4.1 Are Blockchains the Answer for Secure Elections? Probably Not -- 4.2 How to Defraud Democracy -- 4.3 The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines -- Section 5: White Hats vs. Black Hats -- 5.1 CSI: Cyber-Attack Scene Investigation: a Malware Whodunit -- 5.2 FBI Takes Down Hive Criminal Ransomware Group -- 5.3 Hacking the Ransomware Problem -- 5.4 The Imperfect Crime: How the WannaCry Hackers Could Get Nabbed -- 5.5 Women in Cybersecurity: Where We Are and Where We're Going -- Section 6: Protecting Your Privacy.
"For the past 50 years, the US approach to managing environmental health emergencies has been mostly reactionary and curative, rather than precautionary and preventive. This book proposes "emergency health" as a new paradigm-a more equitable and effective application of public health practice as applied to disasters"--
"This book examines the microaggressions that LGBTQ people face on a daily basis, highlights their impact on mental health, and discusses ways mental health providers can help clients process and address microaggressions. In contrast to outright assaults and hate crimes, microaggressions are typically more covert or innocuous in nature-sometimes intentional or unintentional-communicating hostile, insulting, or negative messages about people of oppressed groups. Since the first edition of this book (That's So Gay!: Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community) was published, there has been a cultural shift towards the acceptance of LGBTQ people in some parts of the United States. Yet many state governments have also passed laws that attack and discriminate against LGBTQ people, while institutional and interpersonal discrimination continues to occur in the lives of LGBTQ people throughout the country. This book includes a comprehensive overview of empirical work on microaggressions against LGBTQ people. Mental health practitioners can use the book to understand how microaggressions negatively affect their clients' lives, enabling them to build stronger therapeutic relationships and develop appropriate treatment plans. Educators can use this book to instruct their students, trainees, and colleagues about heterosexism, genderism, and microaggressions. It is a helpful resource for insight into workplace dynamics, and it can also be useful for lay readers of all backgrounds"--
"The Impact and Remediation of Microplastics Pollution. Microplastic contamination is an increasing societal and environmental concern worldwide, with microplastic particles found in various terrestrial ecosystems, landfills, and even agricultural soil, infiltrating the food chain and causing risks to living organisms. This book summarizes the emergence of microplastics (MPs) as pollutants in soil ecosystems and provides a fundamental introduction to MPs in general (the origin, makeup and features). It also describes emerging bioremediation techniques and potential future directions, particularly for consideration within developing nations. Global experts present the information in an accessible way, allowing readers from diverse backgrounds to develop a solid foundation for understanding remediation options and future prevention of this challenging problem."--
"Museum Diplomacy makes the case for the significance of museums' activities in the global sphere by bringing together contributions from leading practitioners and scholars who critically assess the sector's global engagement, providing insights into the import and nature of current practices of museum diplomacy"--