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Accelerating the Socio-Ecological Transition
No full textThis book explores the key principles and challenges of implementing the socio-ecological transition, with a particular focus on Quebec, Canada. It addresses these issues from both research and educational perspectives, offering actionable strategies to accelerate this transition across the province's various economic sectors. The book's structure aligns with the CIRODD (Interdisciplinary Research Center for Operationalization of Sustainable Development) scientific program, organized into two major sections and 11 thematic areas. The objective is to showcase the latest advancements in socio-ecological transition, drawing on a decade of research contributions from CIRODD. This book edition will highlight key innovations, emerging trends, and impactful solutions that have shaped the field, demonstrating CIRODD’s pivotal role in driving sustainable transformation. Section 1 delves into practical interventions and strategies for citizen engagement, exploring transition initiatives, urban planning, and collaborative knowledge-building models. It brings together theoretical, practical, and experiential insights, emphasizing the vital role of research and the arts in facilitating the socio-ecological transition. Section 2 equips readers with the necessary tools to support this transition, offering models and methods for analyzing complex systems. It highlights innovative digital approaches for developing circular and sustainable business models. This is an open access book
Feeling Colour
No full textThe shift back from quasi monochrome to coloured motion picture during the 1950s and 1960s famously provided moviegoers the dazzling opportunity to more fully engage their senses, all the while opening new modes of affective possibilities for filmmakers. Set against the intersection of media studies, emotion theory, biology, and digital humanities, Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture (1950s-1960s) delves into the role colour played in the oft-fraught relationship between cinema and its audiences. This transnational analysis of an extensive range of midcentury cinematography examines the multilayered effects which extend beyond the silver screen, offering a high-level theoretical elaboration and in-depth historical exploration of both experimental and mainstream movies. Lameris takes an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the different ways colour creates—or was believed to create—embodied reactions. From perception theory and 'putting the nerves in motion’, to colour psychology and how to ‘steer’ the spectator, to cross-modal perception (or ‘synaesthesia’), Lameris asks how how colours and feelings in film are entangled in the colour cultures, discourses and beliefs of a particular historical context. With its influential cultural scholarly contribution and accessible writing style, this book will delight both students and specialists in film and media studies. In addition, those interested in the history and use of color in advertising, neuroscience, gender studies, and emotion will find the book engaging and useful
Photofunctional Nanomaterials and Nanostructures
No full textThis Special Issue brings together eleven articles, including one review article and ten research articles. Four of them focused on development of photofunctional metastructures, such as metamirrors, nanotube photonic crystal, topological photonic devices, and metasurface filters
The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality. It formulates distinct questions and problems of causality as they arise across scientific and policy fields. Exploring, in a comparative way, how these questions and problems are addressed in different areas, the Handbook fosters dialogue and exchange. It emphasizes the role of the researchers and the normative considerations that arise in the development of methodological and empirical approaches. The Handbook includes authors from all over the world and with many different disciplinary backgrounds, and its 50 chapters appear in print here for the first time. The chapters are organized into the following seven parts:
Causal Pluralism from Theory to Practice
Causal Theory and the Role of Researchers
Features of Causal Systems
Causal Methods, Experimentation and Observation
Measurement and Data
Causality, Knowledge, and Action
Causal Theory across Disciplinary Borders
Essential reading for scholars interested in an interdisciplinary approach to causality and causal methods, the volume is also a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates as well as for graduate students interested in delving into the rich field of causality
Marine Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons
No full textThe book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration as a methodological approach, critically assessing the interaction between the law of the sea, maritime law, environmental law and human rights law in the field of study. The book analyses the legal framework in a timeline, giving context to the evolution of the different branches of international law with sparkles of history. In this sense, the book also analyses international conventions’ bills on the subject that have not entered into force. The manuscript focuses on the reports from two marine pollution events (Deepwater Horizon and Montara oil spills) to analyse the lessons learnt and the normative and institutional framework needed to ensure environmental safety in the marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. The book critically analyses marine platform accidents’ official reports comprehensively in order to assess existing normative and institutional frameworks and to give a way forward regarding policies. The manuscript contributes to rethinking the governance of the ocean at the time of environmental challenges. In that context, it refers to the concept of normative integration and effectiveness. It takes the existing scholarship further by introducing the notion of “marine platforms” instead of “offshore platforms” to rethink the relationship between land and sea and to develop a functional approach to enhance existing regulations. This is an open access book
Sozialpädagogische Subjekt- und Adressierungspraktiken
No full textIn diesem Open-Access-Buch entwickelt Julian Sehmer einen Ansatz, mit dem sich die (Re)Produktion von sozialen Normen und ethisch-normativen Ordnungen und deren Bedeutung in sozialpädagogischen Praxen rekonstruieren lassen. Die Analysen verbinden dabei reflexive Limitierungsanalysen der Forschungspraxis mit einer ethnographischen Untersuchung einer sozialpädagogischen Handlungspraxis im Kinderschutz als Basisfeld für die Entwicklung der des Ansatzes als Forschungsheuristik. Als Ergebnis liegen neben dem entwickelten Ansatz Ergebnisse zu spezifischen Verzerrungen in Forschungszugängen sowie Befunde zu Praktiken, organisationalen Rahmungen und gesellschaftlichen Kontexten für die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Normen im sozialpädagogisch verantworteten Kinderschutz vor
Social Policy and EU Polity-building Through Crises and Beyond
No full textThis volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension during the turbulent decade of 2010–20, when Europe was confronting strong countervailing pressures, including the euro crisis, the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. The study begins by diagnosing a widespread, although slow-burning, crisis across the European Union (EU) resulting from the cumulation of social problems and the systemic tension between EU market integration on the one hand and nationally bounded welfare states and the other. Eight in-depth case studies analyse the political dynamics behind a variety of EU social initiatives aimed at addressing the consequences of free movement of workers, youth unemployment, poverty, eroding wages, environment and climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify the specific drivers of EU social policymaking empirically, the authors have reconstructed the struggles over concrete policy proposals as they unfolded in the European multilevel setting. The volume introduces a novel analytical framework for interpreting the transformation of the EU social dimension in times of crisis, when some degree of social co-ordination becomes crucial to bond deeply different (welfare) states together. This in-depth study offers an invaluable analysis for researchers, academics and professionals interested in the functioning of the European polity. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Large Dams = Vingt-Huitième Congrès International des Grands Barrages
No full textThe International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) held its 28th International Congress in Chengdu, China (16 May – 23 May 2025). The proceedings of the congress focussed on four main questions (Questions108-111): 1. Dams and reservoirs for climate change adaptation; 2. Dams and levees fit for the future; 3. Safety of dams and levees facing extreme hydrological events, and 4. Earthquake performance and safety of dams. The book thoroughly discusses these questions and is indispensable for academics, engineers and professionals involved or interested in engineering, hydraulic engineering, and related disciplines.La Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages (CIGB) a tenu son 28e Congrès International à Chengdu, Chine (16 mai - 23 mai 2025). Les actes du congrès portent sur quatre questions (Questions 108-111) principales : 1. Barrages et réservoirs: adaptation aux changements climatiques; 2. Des barrages et des digues prêts pour l’avenir; 3. Sécurité des barrages et des digues lors des évènements météorologiques extrêmes, et 4. Performance sismique et sécurité des barrages. Le livre traite en profondeur de ces questions et est indispensable pour les universitaires, les ingénieurs et les professionnels impliqués ou intéressés par l'ingénierie, l'ingénierie hydraulique et les disciplines connexes
Chapter The difficulty of writing
No full textLi and his contributors explore how Taiwanese poets conceptualize their identities, employing multiple voices to challenge political hegemony and re-evaluate Taiwan’s colonial legacy and nationalism. Poetry in Taiwan exists at the intersection of Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Japanese languages and traditions. The rise of China has contributed to the shrinking of Taiwan’s international space, leading to Taiwanese cultures often being viewed as tributaries or by-products of China on the global stage. They focus on Taiwanese poetry to highlight a history of local resistance in gender, identity, cultural, and linguistic contexts. They deconstruct the hegemony and homogeneity of “Chineseness,” exploring multiple ways to reposition Taiwan on the map of world literature. Essential reading for scholars of Sinophone literature, as well as those interested in the history and culture of Taiwan
Des droits fondamentaux pour le système Terre
No full textD’abord suggérée par la doctrine, l’idée de droits en faveur de la nature est devenue une réalité de droit positif dans plusieurs pays au cours des 20 dernières années. Bien que bousculant certains concepts fondamentaux des ordres juridiques occidentaux, l’idée semble même gagner en séduction et en audience face à la crise écologique ; en témoigne sa première traduction sur le territoire européen avec la loi espagnole de 2022 reconnaissant la personnalité et les droits de la Mar Menor. Cet exemple médiatisé, comme quelques autres avant lui – constitution équatorienne de 2008, lois bolivienne ou néo-zélandaises, décisions de justice en Colombie ou en Inde –, ne doit cependant pas conduire à occulter l’hétérogénéité du « mouvement » des droits de la nature : cette expression cache la diversité des sources d’inspiration revendiquées (propositions juridiques techniques, écothéologie ou cosmogonies autochtones…) ; des formes de la consécration (constitution, lois, actes locaux, décisions de justice ou proclamations sans caractère contraignant…) ; comme de ses modalités (personnalité et droits en faveur de la nature en général ou d’une entité naturelle en particulier, institution ou pas de gardiens, plus ou moins grande ouverture de l’action en justice…). C’est donc pour éclairer ce phénomène dans toutes ses dimensions qu’une approche plurielle, juridique mais aussi philosophique et anthropologique, a été retenue dans le cadre du présent ouvrage, qui constitue les actes d’une université d’automne organisée par l’Institut Louis Favoreu-GERJC à la fin de l’année 2022. Sans céder à la condamnation de principe ou à la célébration sans nuance, les contributions réunies ici visent à interroger la portée d’un phénomène qui traduit le besoin d’une nouvelle appréhension du vivant et des relations d’interdépendance en son sein entre humains et non-humains