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China’s Urban Construction Land Development: The State, Market, and Peasantry in Action

Springer, 2019

This book examines the nature and internal dynamics of China’s urban construction land (UCL) development, drawing insights from the recently developed theory of regional political ecology. Based on the author’s original research, it identifies two different types of UCL development in China, namely top-down, formal...

Contemporary Environmental Issues and Challenges in Era of Climate Change

Springer, 2019

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter. At the same time, extraction of natural resources beyond the Earth’s resilience capacity has had a devastating effect on ecosystems and environmental health. Furthermore, climate change is having a significant...

Proceedings of the Tiangong-2 Remote Sensing Application Conference: Technology, Method and Application (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)

Springer, 2018

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Tiangong-2 Data Utilization Conference, which was held in Beijing, China, in December 2018. As the first space laboratory in China, Tiangong-2 carries 3 new types of remote sensing payloads – the Wide-band Imaging Spectrometer (WIS), Three-dimensional Imaging...

David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

With a Foreword by Dan Rebellato, this book offers up a detailed exploration of Scottish playwright David Greig’s work with particular attention to globalization, ethics, and the spectator. It makes the argument that Greig’s theatre works by undoing, cracking, or breaking apart myriad elements to reveal the holed,...

A Natural History of Beer

Yale University Press, 2019

A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture

What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse...

Atmosphere of Collaboration: Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi

Routledge, 2021

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives. Using key debates and interventions on air pollution, it examines the trajectories of environmental politics in the Delhi region, one of the most polluted areas in the world. It highlights the administrative struggles, public...

Spatial Modeling in Forest Resources Management: Rural Livelihood and Sustainable Development (Environmental Science and Engineering)

Springer, 2020

This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of forest resources. It explores state-of-the-art techniques based on open-source software & R statistical programming and modeling specifically, with a focus on the recent trends in data mining/machine learning techniques and robust modeling in forest resources....

The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Thought in the Act)

Duke University Press, 2021

In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics,...

A Field Guide to Cape Cod: Including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island, and Eastern Long Island

Yale University Press, 2018

A richly illustrated full?color guide to the unique plants, wildlife, and environments of Cape Cod and the other nearby “Outer Lands” that face the Atlantic Ocean

This essential guidebook presents the most abundantly illustrated and fascinating account of the natural history of Cape Cod,...

Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society: 6th International Conference, GSES 2018, Handan, China, September 25–26, 2018, Revised Selected ... in Computer and Information Science)

Springer, 2019

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society, GSES 2018, held in Handan, China, in September 2018.

The 46 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions and focus on spatial data...

Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference: With Examples in R, SAS and ADMB

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

This book takes a fresh look at the popular and well-established method of maximum likelihood for statistical estimation and inference. It begins with an intuitive introduction to the concepts and background of likelihood, and moves through to the latest developments in maximum likelihood methodology, including general latent variable...

Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China: The Role of Schools in Saving the Yi Language (Multilingual Education (31))

Springer, 2019

This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist’s perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The book provides an overview on the Yi people since 1949, their history,...

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