The plugged-in professor : tips and techniques for teaching with social media / edited by Sharmila P. Ferris and Hilary A. Wilder.

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The politics of climate change / Anthony Giddens.

ix, 269 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index.Introduction -- Climate change, risk and danger -- Running out, running down? -- The greens and after -- The track record so far -- A return to planning? -- Technologies and taxes -- The politics of adaptation -- International negotiations, the EU and carbon markets -- The geopolitics of climate change.Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and provides a state-of-the-art discussion of the most formidable challenge humanity faces this century. If climate change goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a back-of-the-mind issue. We recognize its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Political action and intervention on local, national and international levels are going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. However, at the moment, argues Giddens, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics-as-usual won't allow us to deal with the problems we face, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security--Back cover.

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The politics of volunteering / Nina Eliasoph.

 Open Coll Level 1  361.37 ELIASOPH    IN   Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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The Routledge handbook of urban ecology / edited by Ian Douglas ... [ et al.].

xxiv, 664 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1. Context, history and philosophies : 1. Urban ecology : definitions and goals -- 2. The analysis of cities as ecosystems -- 3. Urban ecology and industrial ecology -- 4. Urban areas in the context of human ecology -- 5. In livable cities is preservation of the wild : the politics of providing for nature in cities -- 6. The human relationship with nature : rights of animals and plants in the urban context -- 7. Urban natural histories to urban ecologies : the growth of the study of urban nature -- 8. Planning for nature in towns and cities : a historical perspective -- 9. How much is urban nature worth? And for whom? Thoughts from ecological economics -- Pt. 2. The urban ecological environment : 10. Climate of cities -- 11. Urban heat islands -- 12. Urban effects on precipitation and associated convective processes -- 13. Urban hydrology -- 14. Urban geomorphology -- 15. Urban soils -- 16. The process of natural succession in urban areas -- 17. Recombinant ecology of urban areas : characterisation, context and creativity -- 18. Creative conservation -- Pt. 3. The nature of urban habitats : 19. Walls and paved surfaces : urban complexes with limited water and nutrients -- 20. Urban cliffs -- 21. Suburban mosaic of houses, roads, gardens and mature trees -- 22. Urban wildlife corridors : conduits for movement or linear habitat? -- 23. Landscaped parks and open spaces -- 24. Grassland on reclaimed soil, with streets, car parks and buildings but few or no mature trees -- 25. Urban contaminated land -- 26. Urban woodlands as distinctive and threatened nature-in-city patches -- 27. Wetlands in urban environments -- 28. Urban animal ecology -- 29. Feral animals in the urban environment -- Pt. 4. Ecosystem services and urban ecology : 30. Intrinsic and aesthetic values of urban nature : a journalist's view from London -- 31. Intrinsic and aesthetic values of urban nature : a psychological perspective -- 32. Urban nature and human physical health -- 33. Urban nature : human psychological and community health -- 34. Street trees and the urban environment -- 35. Urban gardens and biodiversity -- Pt. 5. Methodologies : 36. Urban habitat analysis -- 37. Urban habitat type mapping -- 38. Invasive species and their response to climate change -- 39. Urban biogeochemical flux analysis -- 40. Urban metabolism analysis -- Pt. 6. Applications and policy implications : 41. Delivering urban greenspace for people and wildlife -- 42. Urban areas and the biosphere reserve concept -- 43.Urban ecology and sustainable urban drainage -- 44. Green roofs, urban vegetation and urban runoff -- 45. The role of green infrastructure in adapting cities to climate change -- 46. Creative use of therapeutic green spaces -- 47. Peri-urban ecology : green infrastructure in the twenty-first century metro-scape -- 48. Biodiversity as a statutory component of urban planning -- 49. Making urban ecology a key element in urban development and planning -- 50. Towards ecopolis : new technologies, new philosophies and new developments."This handbook provides a state of the art guide to the science, practice and value of urban ecology to help everyone understand and enjoy their urban habitat." --Cover.

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The social pathologies of contemporary civilization / edited by Kieran Keohane, Anders Petersen.

Classical and contemporary social theoryIncludes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Social pathologies: addressing the question. The Notion of Social Pathology: A case study of Narcissus in American society / Alain Ehrenberg -- The social pathologies of contemporary civilization: Meaning-giving experiences and pathological expectations concerning health and suffering / Arpad Szakolczai -- Modernity as spiritual disorder: searching for a vocabulary of social pathologies in the work of Eric Voegelin / Bjørn Thomassen. pt. 2. Social pathologies: contemporary malaises. The value of houses in the libidinal economy: financialization as social pathogenesis / Kieran Keohane -- Depression: resisting ultra-liberalism? / Bert van den Bergh -- The pathologization of morality / Svend Brinkmann -- The multiple self: a social pathology? / Annalisa Porfilio -- Possible Explanations for increasing antidepressant treatment in modem society / Margerethe Nielsen and Gunnar Scott Reinbacher. pt. 3. Socioa pathologies: biopower, subjectification and civilization. Does society still matter? Mental health and illness and the social sciences in the twenty-first century / Pia Ringø -- Evaluations as a process of disenfranchisement / Anders Petersen and Rasmus Willig -- Schismogenesis, liminality and public health / Agnes Horvath.The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social 'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole.

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The sociology of health and illness / by Sarah Nettleton.

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The survey kit / Arlene Fink [editor].

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