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Figure Concept and Method /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Figuring Accompaniment: The Creation of Urban Spaciousness.…”
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Introduction to Sociology
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…The Sociology of the Body: Health and Medicine -- Chapter 20. Population, Urbanization, and the Environment -- Chapter 21. Social Movements and Social Change -- Chapter 22: Social Interaction…”
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America Decades of Change /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…#sosfavelas: Digital Representations of Violence and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro -- 5. Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro During the 'Pink Tide': from politics of citizenship to politics of privilege -- 6. …”
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Sociology Understanding and Changing the Social World
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Sociology and the Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 2: Eye on Society: Doing Sociological Research -- Chapter 3: Culture -- Chapter 4: Socialization -- Chapter 5: Social Structure and Social Interaction -- Chapter 6: Groups and Organizations -- Chapter 7: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control -- Chapter 8: Social Stratification -- Chapter 9: Global Stratification -- Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity -- Chapter 11: Gender and Gender Inequality -- Chapter 12: Aging and the Elderly -- Chapter 13: Work and the Economy -- Chapter 14: Politics and Government -- Chapter 15: The Family -- Chapter 16: Education -- Chapter 17: Religion -- Chapter 18: Health and Medicine -- Chapter 19: Population and Urbanization -- Chapter 20: Social Change and the Environment -- Chapter 21: Collective Behavior and Social Movements -- Chapter 22: Conclusion: Understanding and Changing the Social World…”
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Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa A Developing Country Perspective /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…A baseline assessment of older South Africans' mobile phone usage across rural-urban contexts -- 4. The story of developing ICTs to promote holistic service delivery to older persons: The we-DELIVER project -- 5. …”
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Digital Transformation in Norwegian Enterprises
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…An Introduction to Digital Transformation -- The Case of Norway and Digital Transformation over the Years -- Part I: Private Enterprises -- From Integrated to Remote Operations: Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry as Infrastructuring -- The Norwegian Mobile Telephony and Internet Markets -- Digital Transformation in Renewable Energy: Use Cases and Experiences from a Nordic Power Producer -- From Intention to Use to Active Use of a Mobile Application in Norwegian ETO Manufacturing -- Part II: Public Enterprises -- Digital Transformation in NAV IT 2016-2020: Key Factors for the Journey of Change -- Improving Digitization of Urban Mobility Services with Enterprise Architecture -- Operating Room of the Future (FOR) Digital Healthcare Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -- Part III: Synthesis -- A Framework for Digital Transformation for Research and Practice: Putting Things into Perspective -- The Way Forward: A Practical Guideline for Successful Digital Transformation -- Concluding Remarks and Final Thoughts on Digital Transformation.…”
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Microhistories of Technology Making the World /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Creating "Creole" Cuisine in Latin America: Home Cooks Reinvent Batánes -- Part III Postwar Innovations -- 7. Earning a Living in Urban Africa: Maintaining the "Native Beer" Economy -- 8. …”
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Guidebook to Carbon Neutrality in China Macro and Industry Trends under New Constraints.
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Green city: Improving urban planning and governance -- Chapter 11. Digital economy to help achieve carbon neutrality -- Chapter 12. …”
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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage Past, Present and Future /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The Case of the Noordwaard -- Heritage in European Coastal Landscapes - Four Reasons for Interregional Knowledge Exchange -- PART V: Port Cities and Waterfronts -- The Impact of Planning Reform on Water-related Heritage Values and on Recalling Collective Maritime Identity of PortCities: The Case of Rotterdam -- From HERITAGE to HERITAJE: How economic path dependencies in the Caribbean cruise destinations are distorting the uses of heritage architecture and urban form -- Using Heritage to Develop Sustainable Port-City Relationships: Lisbon's shift from Object-based to Landscape Approaches -- Towards A Cultural Heritage of Adaptation: A plea to embrace the heritage of a culture of risk, vulnerability and adaptation. .…”
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Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introduction -- Nature-based solutions in flood risk management -- Nature-based solutions & issues of scale -- Part II: small scale property solutions -- Small retention programme in the Polish forests -- Privately funded natural water retention measures in the Czech Republic -- Experimenting with re-parcelling by means of land swop -- Part III: Medium sized infrastructure solutions -- Rivers and their floodplains in city of Plzeň (CZ): System of urban wetlands as nature based flood protection measures -- The "Blue Zone Rhine Valley": a regional planning instrument for future-oriented flood management in a dynamic risk environment -- Part VI: Large scale catchment solutions -- Adaptation of climate impacts via relocation of dykes: Governmental challenges in the biosphere reserve "River Landscape ELBE-Brandenburg" -- West European Climate Corridor / Green Rhine Corridor -- Part V: Conclusion. …”
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Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions Practices of legitimation and accountable governance /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The accountability of target-setting in urban climate and energy policy -- Chapter 7: Governance and legitimation in the transition to Nordic electric mobility -- Chapter 8: Accountability and the regulation of legitimacy: Biodiversity conservation and energy extraction in the American West -- Part III -- Chapter 9: Practices of legitimation and accountability crises in a range of energy transitions -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Legitimation and accountability in energy transitions research -- Appendix I: A workshop, parallel exhibitions and associated events -- Appendix II: Photos from the events in Bergen, May 2019.…”
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Contours of Feminist Political Ecology
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…The territory of our own body: A conversation on urban environments in the Andes. .…”
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Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction: Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes -- Chapter 2: Mapping the policy interventions on marine social-ecological systems: case study of Sekisei Lagoon, southwest Japan -- Chapter 3: How to engage tourists in invasive carp removal: Application of a discrete choice model -- Chapter 4: The Use of Backcasting to Promote Urban Transformation to Sustainability: The Case of Toyama City, Japan -- Chapter 5: Traditional Knowledge, Institutions, and Human Sociality in Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biodiversity of the Sundarbans of Bangladesh -- Chapter 6: Lessons learned from application of the "Indicators of Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)" under the Satoyama Initiative -- Chapter 7: Place-based Solutions for Conservation and Restoration of Social-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes in Asia -- Chapter 8: Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia: Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action -- Chapter 9: Synthesis: Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia.…”
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Green Consensus and High Quality Development CCICED Annual Policy Report 2020.
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Global Climate Governance and China's Role -- Chapter 2 Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation -- Chapter 3 Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization -- Chapter 4 Green BRI and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 5 Green Urbanization Strategy and Pathways towards Regional Integrated Development -- Chapter 6 Ecological Compensation and Green Development Institutional Reform in the Yangtze River Economic Belt -- Chapter 7 Major Green Technology Innovation and Implementation Mechanisms -- Chapter 8 Green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 9 The Global Green Value Chain -- Chapter 10 Green Finance -- Appendix -- Appendix I From Recovery to Green Prosperity: Accelerating the transition toward high-quality green development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period -- Appendix II Progress on Environment and Development Policies in China and Impact of CCICED's Policy Recommendations (2019-2020) -- Appendix III CCICED Phase VIComposition. .…”
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Manual of Digital Earth
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Understanding Digital Earth -- Part I Digital Earth Technologies -- Digital Earth Platforms -- Remote Sensing -- Satellites for Digital Earth -- Satellite Navigation for Digital Earth -- Geospatial Information Infrastructures -- Geospatial Information Processing Technologies -- Geospatial Information Visualization and Extended Reality Displays -- Transformation in Scale for Continuous Zooming -- Big Data and Cloud Computing -- Artificial Intelligence -- Internet of Things -- Social Media and Social Awareness -- Part II Digital Earth for Multi-domain Applications -- Digital Earth for Sustainable Development Goals -- Digital Earth for Climate Change Research -- Digital Earth for Disaster Mitigation Research -- Digital City: An Urban Perspective on Digital Earth -- Digital Heritage -- Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth -- The Economic Value of Digital Earth -- Part III Digital Earth Regional & National Development -- Digital Earth in Europe -- Digital Earth in Australia -- Digital Earth in China -- Digital Earth in Russia -- Part IV Digital Earth Education and Ethics -- Digital Earth Education -- Digital Earth Ethics.…”
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Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation Function, Implementation and Governance /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Concept and synthesis -- Chapter 2: Concept and application of hybrid infrastructure -- Chapter 3: An Economic Analysis of Optimal Hybrid Infrastructure: A Theoretical Approach in a Hydro-Economic Model -- Chapter 4: Flood Management Policy in Shiga Prefecture, Japan: Implementation Approach of a Risk-Based Flood Management System at Catchment Scale -- Chapter 5: Toward social infrastructure: typological idea for evaluating implementation potential of green infrastructure -- Part 2 : Forest ecosystem -- Chapter 6: Riparian Forests and Climate Change: Interactive Zone of Green and Blue Infrastructure -- Chapter 7: Improvement of the flood-reduction function of forests based on their interception evaporation and surface storage capacities -- Chapter 8: Forests for water: A step-by-step guide for payment schemes -- Part 3: River and floodplain ecosystem (including paddy field and other farmlands) -- Chapter 9: Wetland Paddy Fields as Green Infrastructure against Flood -- Chapter 10: Change in Floodwater Retention Function of a Paddy Field due to Cultivation Abandonment in a Depopulating Rural Region in Japan -- Chapter 11: Paddy field as a green inflastructure: their ecosystem services and threatening drivers -- Part 4: Wetland ecosystem (including flood-control pond) -- Chapter 12: Flood-control basins as green infrastructures: flood-risk reduction, biodiversity conservation and sustainable management in Japan -- Chapter 13: Natural Succession of Wetland Vegetation in a Flood-control Pond Constructed on Abandoned Farmland -- Chapter 14: Biodiversity Conservation through Various Citizen Activities in a Flood Control Basin -- Part 5: Urban and city ecosystem -- Chapter 15: Toward holistic Urban Green Infrastructure Implementation -- Chapter 16: Changes in the Use of Green Spaces by Citizens before and during the First COVID-19 Pandemic: A Big data analysis usingmobile-tracking GPS data in Kanazawa, Japan -- Chapter 17: Land Use Planning as a Green Infrastructure in a Rural Japanese Depopulated Town -- Chapter 16: Towards an Equitable Distribution of Urban Green Spaces for People and Landscapes; An opportunity for Portland's Green Grid -- Part 6: Coast and estuary ecosystem -- Chapter 19: "Effectiveness and Sustainability of Coastal Hybrid Infrastructures for Low-Frequency Large-Scale Disasters -- A Case Study of Coastal Disaster Assessment for a Complex Disaster" -- Chapter 20: Challenging a Hybrid between Green and Gray Infrastructure - Coastal Sand-covered Embankments -- Chapter 21: Green Infrastructures in Megacity Jakarta: Current Status and Possibilities of Mangroves for Flood Damage Mitigation -- Chapter 22: Implementation of Japanese Blue Carbon Offset Crediting Projects -- Part 7: Economic evaluation -- Chapter 23: Understanding Preference Differences among Individuals for the Reduction in Flood Risk by Green Infrastructure -- Chapter 24: Assessing Public Preference for Construction of Giant Seawalls Using the Best-Worst Scaling Approach -- Chapter 25: "Coastal communities' preferences of grey, green and hybrid infrastructure against unexpected catastrophes: A case study of Japan" -- Chapter 26: Carbon storage and substitution benefits of harvested wood products -- Part 8: Governance -- Chapter 27: Social System in Collaborative Activities for Conserving Coastal Pine Forest in Karatsu City, Kyusyu, Japan -- Chapter 28: Governance for realizing multifunctional floodplain; flood control, agriculture, and biodiversity in Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, California, USA -- Chapter 29: Analysis of the description of the multifunctionality of farmland in the administrative plans of local municipalities.…”
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