Author: L. Talani
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113734315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization.
Dirty Cities
Author: L. Talani
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113734315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113734315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization.
Cities and Spaces
Author: Petra Y. Kuppinger
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478651075
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Global cities like New York City and Tokyo, national capitals like Cairo and Dakar, and regional centers like Bangalore and Barcelona are powerful economic, political, and cultural hubs. Cities and Spaces surveys the development, transformation, and role of cities in a globalized world while exploring the history, methods, classic texts, and current discussions in urban anthropology. Chapters examine urban dwellers’ lives, work, culture, and experiences in different yet closely linked cities worldwide. This concise introductory treatment illustrates how anthropologists address a wide range of questions like: What does it mean to work in an informal market in Lomé? How does gentrification affect a Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago? How do people experience urban environmental degradation and injustice? How do race and ethnicity shape the experiences of urbanites? How do immigrants create new urban religious communities?
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478651075
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Global cities like New York City and Tokyo, national capitals like Cairo and Dakar, and regional centers like Bangalore and Barcelona are powerful economic, political, and cultural hubs. Cities and Spaces surveys the development, transformation, and role of cities in a globalized world while exploring the history, methods, classic texts, and current discussions in urban anthropology. Chapters examine urban dwellers’ lives, work, culture, and experiences in different yet closely linked cities worldwide. This concise introductory treatment illustrates how anthropologists address a wide range of questions like: What does it mean to work in an informal market in Lomé? How does gentrification affect a Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago? How do people experience urban environmental degradation and injustice? How do race and ethnicity shape the experiences of urbanites? How do immigrants create new urban religious communities?
Dear, Dirty Dublin
Author: Joseph V. O'Brien
Publisher: Joseph Valentine O'Brien
ISBN: 0520039653
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: Joseph Valentine O'Brien
ISBN: 0520039653
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Dirty Energy Dilemma
Author: Benjamin K. Sovacool
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031335541X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The American electric utility system is quietly falling apart. Once taken for granted, the industry has become increasingly unstable, fragmented, unreliable, insecure, inefficient, expensive, and harmful to our environment and public health. According to Sovacool, the fix for this ugly array of problems lies not in nuclear power or clean coal, but in renewable energy systems that produce few harmful byproducts, relieve congestion on the transmission grid, require less maintenance, are not subject to price volatility, and enhance the security of the national energy system from natural catastrophe, terrorist attack, and dependence on supply from hostile and unstable regions of the world. Here arises The Dirty Energy Dilemma: If renewable energy systems deliver such impressive benefits, why are they languishing at the margins of the American energy portfolio? And why does the United States lag so far behind Europe, where conversion to renewable energy systems has already taken off in a big way? Corporate media parrot industry PR that renewable technologies just aren't ready for prime time. But Sovacool marshals extensive field research to show that the only barrier blocking the conversion of a significant proportion of the U.S. energy portfolio to renewables is not technological—the technology is there—but institutional. Public utility commissioners, utility managers, system operators, business owners, and ordinary consumers are hobbled by organizational conservatism, technical incompatibility, legal inertia, weak and inconsistent political incentives, ill-founded prejudices, and apathy. The author argues that significant conversion to technologically proven clean energy systems can happen only if we adopt and implement a whole new set of policies that will target and dismantle the insidious social barriers that are presently blocking decisions that would so obviously benefit society.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031335541X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The American electric utility system is quietly falling apart. Once taken for granted, the industry has become increasingly unstable, fragmented, unreliable, insecure, inefficient, expensive, and harmful to our environment and public health. According to Sovacool, the fix for this ugly array of problems lies not in nuclear power or clean coal, but in renewable energy systems that produce few harmful byproducts, relieve congestion on the transmission grid, require less maintenance, are not subject to price volatility, and enhance the security of the national energy system from natural catastrophe, terrorist attack, and dependence on supply from hostile and unstable regions of the world. Here arises The Dirty Energy Dilemma: If renewable energy systems deliver such impressive benefits, why are they languishing at the margins of the American energy portfolio? And why does the United States lag so far behind Europe, where conversion to renewable energy systems has already taken off in a big way? Corporate media parrot industry PR that renewable technologies just aren't ready for prime time. But Sovacool marshals extensive field research to show that the only barrier blocking the conversion of a significant proportion of the U.S. energy portfolio to renewables is not technological—the technology is there—but institutional. Public utility commissioners, utility managers, system operators, business owners, and ordinary consumers are hobbled by organizational conservatism, technical incompatibility, legal inertia, weak and inconsistent political incentives, ill-founded prejudices, and apathy. The author argues that significant conversion to technologically proven clean energy systems can happen only if we adopt and implement a whole new set of policies that will target and dismantle the insidious social barriers that are presently blocking decisions that would so obviously benefit society.
Unity
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Housing Betterment
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
From 1921-27 (v. 10-16) third member of each volume includes "Recent books and reports on housing and town-planning."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
From 1921-27 (v. 10-16) third member of each volume includes "Recent books and reports on housing and town-planning."
Dirty Cities
Author: L. Talani
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113734315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113734315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of globalization.
Our Boston
The Conservator
The Americanization of Edward Bok
Author: Edward William Bok
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutch Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutch Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description