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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781009261340
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 290 pages)
    DDC: 305.800941
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Politik ; Rassismus ; Politische Beteiligung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Migration ; Integration ; Minorities Political activity ; Race Political aspects ; Political participation Social aspects ; Multiculturalism Political aspects ; Great Britain Race relations ; Political aspects ; Great Britain Ethnic relations ; Political aspects ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration ; Political aspects
    Abstract: The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream political sphere, this study argues that there is a need to explore the role of race more widely. By exploring the mainstream as well as transitional and alternative spheres of political mobilisation the authors stress the need to link the analysis of both local and national processes in order to make sense of the changing contours of racialised politics. The underlying concern of this study is to outline both a theoretical frame for an analysis of racial politics, and detailed empirical accounts of different arenas of political mobilisation. By exploring the unfinished politics of race, this study provides a timely reminder that the position of racial and ethnic minorities in political institutions remains deeply contested.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009042369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 277 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Nature / Effect of human beings on ; Geology, Stratigraphic ; Climatic changes / Effect of human beings on ; Human ecology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection presents what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. 'Right' in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108745970 , 9781108478625
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 204 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 320.513
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    Keywords: Welfare state ; Democracy ; Power (Social sciences) ; Demokratie ; Wohlfahrtsstaat
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781108729260 , 9781108492348
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 439 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human ecology ; Anthropozän ; Gesundheit ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Umweltveränderung ; Umweltveränderung ; Gesundheit ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Anthropozän
    Abstract: We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It shows how people can adapt to those changes that are now unavoidable, through actions that both improve health and safeguard the environment. But humanity must do more than just adapt: we need transformative changes across many sectors - energy, housing, transport, food, and health care. The book discusses specific policies, technologies, and interventions to achieve the change required, and explains how these can be implemented. It presents the evidence, builds hope in our common future, and aims to motivate action by everyone, from the general public to policymakers to health practitioners.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781108792462
    Language: English
    Pages: 77 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Elements in campaigns and elections
    DDC: 303.38
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    Keywords: Umfrage ; Wahl ; Politik ; Demokratie
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite [60]-77
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781108794138 , 9781108840200
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 332 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unsicherheit ; USA
    Note: Literaturangaben , Print on demand edition
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781108844987 , 9781108949347
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 257 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dryzek, John S. Democratizing global justice
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Social justice ; Democracy ; Equality ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Gleichheit
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 226-249. - Index
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108698054
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 439 Seiten)
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human ecology ; Umweltveränderung ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Gesundheit ; Anthropozän ; Umweltveränderung ; Gesundheit ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Anthropozän
    Abstract: We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It shows how people can adapt to those changes that are now unavoidable, through actions that both improve health and safeguard the environment. But humanity must do more than just adapt: we need transformative changes across many sectors - energy, housing, transport, food, and health care. The book discusses specific policies, technologies, and interventions to achieve the change required, and explains how these can be implemented. It presents the evidence, builds hope in our common future, and aims to motivate action by everyone, from the general public to policymakers to health practitioners
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108567213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 378 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Multiculturalism ; Human rights ; Deliberative democracy ; Liberalism ; Demokratie ; Liberalismus ; Menschenrecht ; Gruppenidentität ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Demokratie ; Liberalismus ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Gruppenidentität ; Menschenrecht
    Abstract: This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions: whether multiculturalism is bad for democracy, whether multiculturalism is bad for women, and whether multiculturalism contributes to terrorism. Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism argues that liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable if a fair balance is struck between individual rights and group rights. Raphael Cohen-Almagor contends that reasonable multiculturalism can be achieved via mechanisms of deliberate democracy, compromise and, when necessary, coercion. Placing necessary checks on groups that discriminate against vulnerable third parties, the approach insists on the protection of basic human rights as well as on exit rights for individuals if and when they wish to leave their cultural groups
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2021) , Just liberal democracy -- Reasonable multiculturalism -- Compromise and deliberative democracy -- Coercion -- Murder and torture for tradition and honour -- Male circumcision -- Discrimination of women and apostates -- Denying education to children -- Multiculturalism v. security considerations : behind French veil of ignorance -- Multiculturalism v. security considerations : Israeli discrimination of its Arab/Palestinian citizens
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108879170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 332 pages)
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    DDC: 339.20973
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unsicherheit ; Income distribution 21st century ; Political culture 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) 21st century ; Equality 21st century ; USA
    Abstract: The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places-and fragment political parties-hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781108835558 , 9781108812894
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 345 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social media and democracy
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Social media Political aspects ; Online social networks Political aspects ; Information society Political aspects ; Information technology Political aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Demokratie ; Social Media ; Desinformation ; Hassrede ; Politische Werbung
    Abstract: Introduction / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker -- Misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda / Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons -- Social media, echo chambers, and political polarization / Pablo Barbera -- Online hate speech / Alexandra A. Siegel -- Bots and CompBots computational propaganda : automation for communication and controlutational propaganda / Samuel C. Woolley -- Online political advertising in the United States / Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N. Ridout -- Democratic creative destruction? : the effect of a changing media landscape on democracy / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard Fletcher -- Misinformation and its correction / Chloe Wittenberg and Adam J. Berinsky -- Comparative media regulation in the US and Europe / Francis Fukuyama and Andrew Grotto -- Facts and where to find them: empirical research on Internet platforms and online speech / Daphne Keller and Paddy Leerssen -- Dealing with disinformation : evaluating the case for CDA 230 amendment / Tim Hwang -- Democratic transparency in the platform society / Robert Gorwa and Timothy Garton Ash -- Conclusion : the challenges and opportunities for social media research / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker.
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108782005
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (68 Seiten)
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Environmental sciences / Philosophy ; Science and the humanities ; Human ecology ; Altertumswissenschaft ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Altertumswissenschaft ; Umweltwissenschaften
    Abstract: What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of related questions, this Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Offering new perspectives to think about what directions the ecological turn could take in classical studies, it revisits old material, including ancient Greek religion and mythology, with central concepts of contemporary environmental theory. It also critically engages with forms of classical reception in current debates, arguing that ancient ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views
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  • 13
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108867450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 212 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human ecology ; Geological time ; Geology, Stratigraphic / Anthropocene ; Ökologie ; Zeitbewusstsein ; Anthropozän ; Anthropozän ; Zeitbewusstsein ; Ökologie
    Abstract: In the face of debates about the Anthropocene - a geological epoch of our own making - and contemporary concerns about ecological crisis and the Sixth Mass Extinction, it is more important than ever to locate the timeframe of human activity within the deep time of planetary history. This path-breaking book is a timely critical review of the anthropology of time, exploring our human relationship with the timescale of geological formation. Richard D. G. Irvine shows how the time-horizons of social life are a matter of crucial concern, and lays bare the ways in which human activity becomes severed from the long-term geological and ecological rhythms on which it depends
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 May 2020) , Introduction -- Time depth -- Time travelling pits and migrant rocks -- Excluding water -- The problem with presentism -- Mapping deep time -- Geology and biography -- Enter catastrophe -- Wasteland
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781108492775 , 9781108734530
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 383 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Women as constitution-makers
    DDC: 342.0082
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    Keywords: Sex discrimination against women Law and legislation ; Constitutional law ; Women's rights ; Constitutions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Demokratie ; Verfassung ; Verfassungsrecht
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  • 15
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108297721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 171 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Montanaro, Laura Who elected Oxfam?
    DDC: 321.8
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    Keywords: Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Protest movements ; Representative government and representation ; Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations ; Political aspects ; Democracy ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation
    Abstract: Non-elected actors, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, present themselves as representatives of others to audiences of decision-makers, such as state leaders, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization. These actors are increasingly included in the deliberation and decision-making processes of such institutions. To take one well-known example, the non-governmental organization, Oxfam, presses decision-makers and governments for fair trade rules on behalf of the world's poor. What entitles such 'self-appointed representatives' to speak and act for the poor? As The Economist asked, 'Who elected Oxfam?'. Montanaro claims that such actors can, and should, be conceptualized as representatives, and that they can - though do not always - represent others in a manner that we can recognize as democratic. However, in order to do so, we must stretch our imaginations beyond the standard normative framework of elections
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  • 16
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108355087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 149 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Multiculturalism ; Democracy ; Social movements ; Soziale Bewegung ; Demokratie ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Demokratie ; Soziale Bewegung
    Abstract: At a time when the legitimacy of democracies is in question, calls to improve the quality of public debate and deliberative democracy are sweeping the social sciences. Yet, real deliberation lies far from the deliberative ideal. Theorists have argued that linguistic and cultural differences foster inequality and impede democratic deliberation. In this empirical study, the author presents the collective practices of political translation, which help multilingual and culturally diverse groups work together more democratically than homogeneous groups. Political translation, distinct from linguistic translation, is a set of disruptive and communicative practices developed by activists and grassroots community organizers in order to address inequities hindering democratic deliberation and to entreat powerful groups to work together more inclusively with disempowered groups. Based on ten years of fieldwork, Political Translation provides the first systematic comparative study of deliberation under conditions of linguistic difference and cultural misunderstandings
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Feb 2018)
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781316649060 , 9781107199903
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 587 Seiten
    Series Statement: Global law series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Thornhill, Christopher J., 1966 - The sociology of law and the global transformation of democracy
    DDC: 340/.115
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    Keywords: Sociological jurisprudence ; Law Political aspects ; Democracy Social aspects ; Sociological jurisprudence ; Law Political aspects ; Democracy Social aspects ; Democracy ; Law ; Sociological jurisprudence ; Demokratie ; Internationales Recht ; Rechtssoziologie ; Demokratie ; Internationales Recht ; Rechtssoziologie
    Abstract: The paradox of democracy and the sociology of law -- National democracy and global law -- Before the law? -- Politics becomes the law -- The reconstruction of democratic agency -- Conclusion
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781108419369
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 171 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Montanaro, Laura Who elected Oxfam?
    Dissertation note: Dissertation
    DDC: 321.8
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    Keywords: Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation
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  • 19
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316779484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxv, 512 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Environmentalism ; Natural resources / Management ; Human ecology ; Sustainability ; Ökologischer Fußabdruck ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltschaden ; Rohstoff ; Humanökologie ; Rohstoffverbrauch ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Umweltökonomie ; Erschöpfbare Ressourcen ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltethik ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltethik ; Umweltschaden ; Ökologischer Fußabdruck ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Rohstoff ; Rohstoffverbrauch ; Umweltökonomie ; Umweltschutz ; Erschöpfbare Ressourcen ; Umweltschutz ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: In the past few decades, sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues that surround them have become increasingly topical. This multidisciplinary book discusses the complex relationships between society, natural resources and the environment. Major resources including water, agriculture, energy, minerals and forests are considered, as well as different facets of the environment including climate, landforms and biodiversity. Each resource is discussed in the context of both environmental and socio-economic factors affecting their present and future distribution and demand. Presenting a balanced, comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding natural resources and sustainability, this accessible volume will be of interest to policy makers, resource managers, graduate students and researchers in the natural and social sciences
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316424032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 368 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Canto classics
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human geography ; Biogeography ; Europeans Migrations ; Human ecology ; Human ecology ; Europeans ; Migrations ; Human geography ; Biogeography
    Abstract: People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. European organisms had certain decisive advantages over their New World and Australian counterparts. The spread of European disease, flora and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations. Consequently, these imperialists became proprietors of the most important agricultural lands in the world. In the second edition, Crosby revisits his now classic work and again evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion
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  • 21
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511973529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 328 pages)
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Social movements / History ; Collective behavior / History ; Social change / History ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Demokratie ; Bürgerinitiative ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Bürgerinitiative
    Abstract: Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication and transnational diffusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Contentious politics and social movements; Part I. The birth of the modern social movement; 2. Modular collective action; 3. Print and association; 4. States, capitalism, and contention; Part II. Powers in Movement: 5. Acting contentiously; 6. Networks and organizations; 7. Making meanings; 8. Threats, opportunities, and regimes; Part III. Dynamics of Contention: 9. Mechanisms and processes of contention; 10. Cycles of contention; 11. Struggling to reform; 12. Transnational contention; Conclusion: the future of social movements
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511261489 , 0511810997 , 9780511261480 , 9780511810992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 256 pages)
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Communication, society, and politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baker, C. Edwin Media concentration and democracy
    DDC: 302.230973
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    Keywords: Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer ; Mass media Ownership ; Freedom of the press ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Mass media ; Ownership ; United States ; Freedom of the press ; United States ; Freedom of the press ; Mass media ; Ownership ; Demokratie ; Massenmedien ; Unternehmenskonzentration ; Eigentümer ; Pressefreiheit ; Mediekoncentration ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Objections to concentrated ownership of the mass media are widespread. Often, however, critics merely point to the fact of huge and growing media conglomerates without explaining precisely why this is bad. This book fills the gap in the critique of concentration. Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the "bottom line." The middle chapters answer those, including the current Federal Communications Commission, who favor "deregulation" and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers."--Jacket
    Abstract: Democracy at the crossroads: why ownership matters -- Not a real problem: many owners, many sources -- Not a real problem: the market or the internet will provide -- The First Amendment guarantee of a free press: an objection to regulation? -- Solutions and responses -- Postscript: policy opportunism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511614774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 497 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Conservation biology 9
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    DDC: 304.27
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    Keywords: Human ecology ; Human-animal relationships ; Animals and civilization ; Animal attacks ; Wildlife conservation ; Wildtiere ; Mensch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mensch ; Wildtiere
    Abstract: Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people encroach into natural habitats, and as conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they may have been absent for generations, contact between people and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the beautiful and endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds left unattended. Historically, people have responded to these threats by killing wildlife wherever possible, and this has led to the endangerment of many species that are difficult neighbours. The urgent need to conserve such species, however, demands coexistence of people and endangered wildlife. This book presents a variety of solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming practices, offsetting the costs of wildlife damage through hunting and tourism, and the development of local and national policies
    Description / Table of Contents: The impact of human-wildlife conflict on natural systems / Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood and Alan Rabinowitz -- The impact of human-wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods / Simon Thirgood, Rosie Woodroffe and Alan Rabinowitz -- Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans / Howard Quigley and Stephen Herrero -- Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation / Urs Breitenmoser [and others] -- Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa / Ferrel V. Osborn and Catherine M. Hill -- Evaluating lethal control in the management of human-wildlife conflict / Adrian Treves and Lisa Naughton-Treves -- Bearing the costs of human-wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes / Philip J. Nyhus [and others] -- Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use?: deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics / Matthew J. Walpole and Chris R. Thouless -- Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife? / Nigel Leader-Williams and Jon M. Hutton -- Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality / John D.C. Linnell [and others] -- From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland / David Cope, Juliet Vickery and Marcus Rowcliffe -- Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict / Simon Thirgood and Steve Redpath -- Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge / Richard P. Reading [and others]
    Description / Table of Contents: People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya / Timothy J. Knickerbocker and John Waithaka -- Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa / Dale Lewis and John Jackson -- Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa / Lisa Naughton-Treves and Adrian Treves -- Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat / Alan Rabinowitz -- People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya / Laurence G. Frank, Rosie Woodroffe and Mordecai O. Ogada -- Searching for the coexistence recipe: a case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East / Dale Miquelle [and others] -- A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway / Jon E. Swenson and Henrick Andrén -- Managing wolf-human conflict in the northwestern United States / Edward E. Bangs [and others] -- Policies for reducing human-wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study / David Western and John Waithaka -- An ecology-based policy framework for human-tiger coexistence in India / K. Ullas Karanth and Rajesh Gopal -- The future of coexistence: resolving human-wildlife conflicts in a changing world / Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood and Alan Rabinowitz
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography 3
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    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Demographic anthropology ; Human ecology ; Human behavior ; Mate selection ; Social ecology ; Demographie ; Humanökologie ; Humanökologie ; Demographie
    Abstract: Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in determining population parameters, while the second posits that demographic rates reflect adaptive behaviors that are the products of natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation. Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from African pastoralists through North American post-industrial societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians
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    ISBN: 0511214332 , 0511216122 , 0511790864 , 9780511214332 , 9780511216121 , 9780511790867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 342 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Communication, society, and politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hallin, Daniel C Comparing media systems
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Mass media Political aspects ; Communication in politics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Communication in politics ; Mass media ; Political aspects ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Politieke communicatie ; Massamedia ; Overheidsbeleid ; Modellen ; Vergelijkend onderzoek ; Electronic books ; Europa ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables that have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development, the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist, and Liberal models; to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems; and to explore the force of change that are currently transforming them. It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of comparative analysis in political communication, and a clear overview of the variety of media institutions that have developed in the West, understood within their political and historical context."--Jacket
    Abstract: Concepts and models -- Comparing media systems -- The political context of media systems -- Media and political systems, and the question of differentiation -- The three models -- The Mediterranean or polarized pluralist model -- The North/Central European or democratic corporatist model -- The North Atlantic or liberal model -- The future of the three models -- The forces and limits of homogenization.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | New Delhi : Foundation Books
    ISBN: 9788175961081 , 8175961082
    Language: English
    Pages: 330 Seiten
    Edition: 1. South Asian ed.
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Civil society ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Demokratie ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511613227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Marketing ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Democracy ; Freedom of the press ; Demokratie ; Massenmedien ; Presse ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Demokratie ; Presse
    Abstract: Government interventions in media markets are often criticized for preventing audiences from getting the media products they want. A free press is often asserted to be essential for democracy. The first point is incorrect and the second is inadequate as a policy guide. Part I of this book shows that unique aspects of media products prevent markets from providing for audience desires. Part II shows that four prominent, but different, theories of democracy lead to different conceptions of good journalistic practice, media policy, and proper constitutional principles. Part II makes clear that the choice among democratic theories is crucial for understanding what should be meant by free press. Part III explores international free trade in media products. Contrary to the dominant American position, it shows that Parts I and II's economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade in media products
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139164887
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 303 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 320/.0285/4678
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    Keywords: Internet Social aspects ; Political participation Computer network resources ; Internet Political aspects ; Digital divide ; Internet ; Informationstechnik ; Kommunikationstechnik ; Medienkonsum ; Information ; Zugang ; Zivilgesellschaft ; E-Government ; Demokratie ; Politische Beteiligung ; Digital divide ; Internet ; Political aspects ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Political participation ; Computer network resources ; Internet ; Demokratie ; Bürgerbeteiligung
    Abstract: There is widespread concern that the growth of the Internet is exacerbating inequalities between the information rich and poor. Digital Divide examines access and use of the Internet in 179 nations world-wide. A global divide is evident between industrialized and developing societies. A social divide is apparent between rich and poor within each nation. Within the online community, evidence for a democratic divide is emerging between those who do and do not use Internet resources to engage and participate in public life. Part I outlines the theoretical debate between cyber-optimists who see the Internet as the great leveler. Part II examines the virtual political system and the way that representative institutions have responded to new opportunities on the Internet. Part III analyzes how the public has responded to these opportunities in Europe and the United States and develops the civic engagement model to explain patterns of participation via the Internet.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511155710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (393 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, Society and Politics
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Marktwirtschaft ; Demokratie ; Pressefreiheit
    Abstract: Economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade in media products.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511623462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 290 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Psychoneuroendocrinology ; Physical anthropology ; Clinical health psychology ; Human ecology ; Verhaltensmedizin ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Verhaltensmedizin
    Abstract: As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of other challenges to health have emerged, particularly in lifestyle related, behaviourally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease. Hormones, Health and Behavior looks at the relationship of human biology and human society at the intersection of behavior, hormones and health. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socio-ecological view of function and well-being has become more apparent. This book documents an emerging understanding of how hormones create linkage between behavior or social life and health. It will inform graduate students and researchers interested in human sciences, human development, anthropology, epidemiology, public environmental and reproductive health
    Description / Table of Contents: Contributions of biological anthropology to the study of hormones, health, and behavior / C. Panter-Brick, C.M. Worthman -- Hormonal correlates of personality and social contexts : from non-human to human primates / R.M. Sapotsky -- Epidemiology of human development / C.M. Worthman -- Family environment, stress, and health during childhood / M.V. Flinn -- Work and hormonal variation in subsistence and industrial contexts / C. Panter-Brick, T.M. Pollard -- Reproductive ecology and reproductive cancers / P.T. Ellison -- Diet, hormones, and health : an evolutionary -- ecological perspective / P.L. Whitten -- Modernization, psychosocial factors, insulin, and cardiovascular health / S.T. McGarvey
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511813245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    DDC: 303.48/4/09
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Social movements / History ; Collective behavior / History ; Social change / History ; Bürgerinitiative ; Demokratie ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Bürgerinitiative
    Abstract: Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure
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