Introduction -- Chapter 1: Artists, artistic activities and urban transformations -- Chapter 2: Artistic quarters and dilemmas of urban change -- Chapter 3: Artists, artistic interventions and urban development -- Conclusions -- Index. .This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development. It focuses on the multidimensionality of pot…
1. Introduction: Pentecostal Witchcraft: Governance and Universalism in Comparison -- 2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness -- 3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Sociality in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.- 4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere -- 5. Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnograp…
An Overview of Our Research -- Transfer of Radiocesium to Rice in Contaminated Paddy Fields -- Cesium Translocation in Rice -- Absorption of radioceasium in soybean -- An observational study of pigs exposed to radiation -- A Composting System to Decompose Radiocesium Contaminated Baled Grass Silage -- Weathered Biotite: A Key Material of Radioactive Contamination in Fukushima -- Radiocesium acc…
Terraced Agro-systems in west Anti-Atlas (Morocco): incidence of climate change and prospects for sustainable development -- Increasing pulse consumption to improve human health and food security and to mitigate climate change: a case study on the consumption of pulses in a food service setting -- Ecosystem services and incentive mechanisms for environmental preservation in Brazil -- Are we mis…
1. Introduction -- 2. Climate smart crops. 2a. Drought resistant crops 2b. Flood resistant crops 2c. Salt tolerant crops 2d. Heat resistant crops 2e. Fortified crops -- 3. Food beyond crops 3a. Livestock 3b. Fishery and aquaculture 3c. Agro-forestry -- 4. Agriculture: The new paradigms 4a. Urban agriculture 4b. Vertical agriculture and Cost effective hydroponics/aquaponics, artificial lights (L…
Introduction -- Wild cereal cultivation in Israel – Global warming: An Important Link -- Climate-Evolution: The Interrelationship -- The adaptation range of wild crop species to fluctuations in climate change -- Importance of Crop Wild Relatives -- Crop-wise comparison of domestic gene pool with wild relatives on Ecogeographic Diversity -- Relevance of wild relatives in other crops in plant b…
INTRODUCTION. Still Paying Homage to Barcelona -- PART 1. IN THEORY -- Chapter 1. The Subject of Culture -- PART 2. TAMING THE POLITICAL CITIZEN -- Chapter 2. Culture is to the Social Materialization of Democracy as the Critical Subject is to Democratic Citizenship -- Chapter 3. Building Participatory Measures -- PART 3. THE OLYMPIC FRAMEWORK -- Chapter 4. Working for the City Image -- Chapter …
1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of Migrancy and Media -- 3. Memory -- 4. Race -- 5. Green Movement -- 6. Conclusion.This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are …
Part I: Situating Urbanization and Urban Governance -- Introduction -- Urbanization and Urban Governance in Developing Countries -- Part II: A Case Study of Mid-sized City of Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia -- An Introduction to Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia -- Types, Processes and Outputs of Formal Urban Governance in Jayapura -- Who Gains and Benefits from the Outcomes of Formal Urban Governance on B…
1. Competing religious worldviews of the post-renovation Vietnam -- 2. Modernity and religious reconfiguration: a Vietnamese perspective -- 3. Encountering the uninvited the state, the established religions and attempts to shape NRMS -- 4. Revitalising the legacy of a local sage: the school of teaching goodness -- 5. A “spiritual revolution” for national salvation: the way of the jade Buddh…