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Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions. This book analyses the evolving nature of EU sui generis GIs by focusing on their key element the origin link and concludes that the history of the product in the broad sense has become a major factor to prove the link between a good and a specific place. For the first time this area of Intellectual Property Law is investigated from three different although interrelated perspectives: the history and comparative assessment of the systems of protection of Indications of Geographical Origin adopted in the European jurisdictions from the beginning of the 20th century; the empirical analysis of the trends emerging from the practice of EUGIs; and the policy debates surrounding them and their importance for the fulfilment of the general goals of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The result is an innovative and rounded analysis of the very nature of the EU Law of GIs that starting from its past investigates the present and the likely future of this Intellectual Property Right. This book provides an interesting and innovative contribution to the field and will be of interest to GI scholars and Intellectual Property students as well as anyone willing to gain a better understanding of this compelling area of law. | The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

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Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

Gentrification Trends in the United States

Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive design and produce maps in a legible clear and coherent manner drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography. This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who are beginning a course of study in geospatial sciences or who wish to begin producing their own maps. While the book assumes no a priori knowledge or experience with geospatial software it may also serve GIS analysts and technicians who wish to explore the principles of cartographic design. The first part of the book explores the key decisions behind every map with the aim of providing the reader with a solid foundation in fundamental cartography concepts. Chapters 1 through 3 review foundational mapping concepts and some of the decisions that are a part of every map. This is followed by a discussion of the guiding principles of cartographic design in Chapter 4—how to start thinking about putting a map together in an effective and legible form. Chapter 5 covers map projections the process of converting the curved earth’s surface into a flat representation appropriate for mapping. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss the use of text and color respectively. Chapter 8 reviews trends in modern cartography to summarize some of the ways the discipline is changing due to new forms of cartographic media that include 3D representations animated cartography and mobile cartography. Chapter 9 provides a literature review of the scholarship in cartography. The final component of the book shifts to applied technical concepts important to cartographic production covering data quality concepts and the acquisition of geospatial data sources (Chapter 10) and an overview of software applications particularly relevant to modern cartography production: GIS and graphics software (Chapter 11). Chapter 12 concludes the book with examples of real-world cartography projects discussing the planning data collection and design process that lead to the final map products. This book aspires to introduce readers to the foundational concepts—both theoretical and applied—they need to start the actual work of making maps. The accompanying website offers hands-on exercises to guide readers through the production of a map—from conception through to the final version—as well as PowerPoint slides that accompany the text. | How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

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Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment such as GIS and mapping climate change and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity create meaning in our lives facilitate community and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging placemaking and displacement mobility and migration intergroup conflict civic engagement social housing and urban redevelopment natural resource management and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams Mindy Fullilove Randy Hester and David Seamon to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory methods and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge identify significant advances and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions. | Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

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Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic zone. However beyond occasional national- or regional-level research there have been no attempts at a historically guided comparative archaeological survey of the Baltic zone as a whole. By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition Viking Silver Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards’ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia. It also examines the extent to which the findings mesh with literary evidence and the nature of the different societies benefiting from the influx of silver in the Viking Age. Crucially the book features a catalogue which provides a thorough overview and update of Baltic-zone hoards. Viking Silver Hoards and Containers is intended for use by students of and specialists in early medieval Viking and Slavic history and archaeology. However it will also be a useful teaching resource for other general courses in archaeology anthropology and material culture numismatics economic history religious studies GIS and statistics. | Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

GBP 39.99
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Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

How does space illuminate educational inequity?Where and how can spatial analysis be used to disrupt educational inequity?Which tools are most appropriate for the spatial analysis of educational equity?This book addresses these questions and explores the use of critical spatial analysis to uncover the dimensions of entrenched and systemic racial inequities in educational settings and identify ways to redress them. The contributors to this book – some of whom are pioneering scholars of critical race spatial analysis theory and methodology – demonstrate the application of the theory and tools applied to specific locales and in doing so illustrate how this spatial and temporal lens enriches traditional approaches to research. The opening macro-theoretical chapter lays the foundation for the book rooting spatial analyses in critical commitments to studying injustice. Among the innovative methodological chapters included in this book is the re-conceptualization of mapping and space beyond the simple exploration of external spaces to considering internal geographies highlighting how the privileged may differ in socio-spatial thinking from oppressed communities and what may be learned from both perspectives; data representations that allow the construction of varied narratives based on differences in positionality and historicity of perspectives; the application of redlining to the analysis of classroom interactions; the use of historical archives to uncover the process of marginalization; and the application of techniques such as the fotonovela and GIS to identify how spaces are defined and can be reimagined. The book demonstrates the analytical and communicative power of mapping and its potential for identifying and dismantling racial injustice in education. The editors conclude by drawing connections across sections and elucidating the tensions and possibilities for future research. ContributorsBenjamin BlaisdellGraham S. GarlickLeigh Anna HidalgoMark C. HogrebeJoshua RadinskyDaniel G. SolórzanoWilliam F. TateVerónica N. VélezFederico R. Waitoller | Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

GBP 32.99
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The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design

Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

Visual Criminology From History and Methods to Critique and Policy Translation

Visual Criminology From History and Methods to Critique and Policy Translation

This edited collection captures the expertise of scholars from the US the UK Australia and Canada to catalog the rise in visual approaches in criminology. It presents examples of visual methods uses and approaches in criminology; assesses the potential for new graphic approaches to collect analyze and present data; and provides some analysis of the use of images in teaching to spur social critique and guide policy translation. The collection visually connects theory and practice by highlighting the work of criminologists who have embraced the visual turn. Contributors explore the use of cognitive maps concept and mind maps life history calendars CCTV life plots GIS and hot spot research policy graphs visual abstracts and research summaries and other visual tools in the context of criminology. Approaches building on visual sociology are also featured including a discussion of developments in documentary photography and film visual ethnography and sensory phenomenology. The book is organized thematically with each chapter following logically upon the last introducing readers to a variety of visual approaches and their application in criminology. The goals of this collected volume are three-fold. The first is to highlight how the visual has been used in criminology historically to present data contest meaning and complicate social control and make more transparent the research process. The second is to work toward some sort of definitional consistency. While a worthy endeavor this remains elusive given the assortment of uses and varying traditions from which visual criminology has emerged. The third is to try to think clearly about the role of humility. This means a willingness to acknowledge an epistemological framework and note the variety of limitations associated with trying to understand in deep and meaningful ways. For visual criminology specifically it involves the recognition that part of the power of images (whatever their construction) comes from whether we think they are beautiful or whether and/or to what extent they disrupt our understanding in one way or another. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to criminologists sociologists visual ethnographers historians and those engaged with media studies. It is a valuable supplementary text for courses in introductory criminology and criminal justice criminological theory research methods and other upper-level and senior capstone courses. | Visual Criminology From History and Methods to Critique and Policy Translation

GBP 39.99
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Rethinking Parking Planning and Urban Design Perspectives

Rethinking Parking Planning and Urban Design Perspectives

For much of the past century we have viewed the issue of parking from the driver’s seat. It follows that key narratives about parking reaffirm the immediate needs of the driver. A consequence of this approach is a failure to understand the significant damage that parking causes to the destination. That damage is amplified by ‘cheap easy’ parking at the expense of place and access outcomes. Viewing parking from an urban planning and design perspective highlights different issues and opportunities. Five perspectives are offered: Place – If we gave drivers all the parking they wanted the destination would not be worth visiting. Politics – Parking is intensely territorial emotional and prone to populism and this is a barrier to strategic and sustainable parking reform. Policy – Parking tends to be focused on the ‘me here and now’ needs of the driver at the expense of bigger picture and longer term policy objectives. Price – Subsidized parking exists behind opaque pricing mechanisms. In contrast a transparent accounting of costs is a vehicle for strategic parking reform. Professional practice – Parking is a significant land-use issue located at the juncture of transport and urban planning and design. Improving urban parking outcomes requires an integrated and collaborative planning process. An alternative view of parking is timely as new technologies and economies fundamentally change everything we understand about parking. A potential paradigm shift is in the making. Rethinking Parking provides a pathway to a better parking/place balance and access to destinations worth visiting. It is valuable reading for students and professionals engaged in transport planning urban access and design. | Rethinking Parking Planning and Urban Design Perspectives

GBP 31.99
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Essential Personal Finance A Practical Guide for Employees

Essential Personal Finance A Practical Guide for Employees

There is increasing pressure for all of us to take responsibility for our own financial security and wellbeing but we often overlook how the benefits that come with a job can help us do that. Essential Personal Finance: A Practical Guide for Employees focuses on these valuable work benefits and shows how you can build on this important foundation to achieve financial security and your life goals. This unique book explores how making effective and practical use of these work benefits (such as pension scheme life cover sick pay cheap loans savings schemes and even financial coaching) means facing up to the behavioural biases we are all plagued with. Given that these can get in the way of even the best intentions Essential Personal Finance tackles these biases head-on with practical ideas and tips for overcoming or harnessing them for good and will help you to develop a positive and fruitful relationship with your money. With financial stress being a major cause of absenteeism and sick leave low morale and lost productivity the advice in this book also offers employers enormous benefits. By empowering employees through financial education and financial awareness progressive employers will help them feel more in control of their lives and experience less stress resulting in higher morale and productivity. Offering a distinctive approach which combines academic insight with practical financial wisdom and tools this is a must-have book for all employees. It will help you make the most of everything your job has to offer so you can worry less about money and live life to the full. | Essential Personal Finance A Practical Guide for Employees

GBP 31.99
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True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases and one which has significant environmental impacts is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn rice and water to incentives for soil health the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative more equitable farming practices in and food system structures including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics in policy and in practice by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems human systems agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system as well as students and scholars working on food policy food systems and sustainability. | True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

GBP 31.99
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The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies A Comparative History of their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization

The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies A Comparative History of their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization

This is a compelling analysis of the corporate economies of China and India which are having a huge impact not just on the international economy but also in the geopolitical and international strategy sphere as a result of an accelerated globalisation by these two countries which is unleashing powerful economic challenges to corporate structures economic institutions and law worldwide. The big question is how after centuries of underdevelopment China and now India are emerging powerfully and pulling ahead of Western European economies. Analysing the role of the state and the adroit use of law and their impact on the corporate evolution of both China and India provides greater clarity and insight into why China has evolved as a manufacturing nation utilizing cheap abundant labour while India has not exploited such advantages but instead focused on IT and higher value industries even abroad as Tata has demonstrated in the motor industry in Europe. Again while Chinese corporations have expanded abroad as an arm of the state into Asia Middle East Africa Europe Latin America and parts of the southern states of the USA India has pushed principally into Europe through the efforts of powerful minority capitalists of Parsi and Gujerati background overcoming technological gaps and differences through acquisitions and absorptions of existing corporations in particular industries especially in steel automobiles and textiles. In China state owned corporations have been dominant. In India though state owned enterprises have been powerful since 1951 it has been private capitalists with an established stronghold since the colonial period and even under the Socialist period from 1951-1991 who have been the more productive main actors both in India and abroad. | The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies A Comparative History of their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization

GBP 42.99
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Quiet Genocide Guatemala 1981-1983

Quiet Genocide Guatemala 1981-1983

Quiet Genocide reviews the legal and historical case that genocide occurred in Guatemala in 1981-1983. It includes the full text of the genocide section of a United Nations sponsored Commission on Historical Clarification in Guatemala (CEH) brokered by the UN. In its final report the CEH's rigorously reviewed abuses throughout the whole country. However the memory of the Guatemalan dirty war which predated the genocide and continued for over a decade of the heightened killing has rapidly faded from international awareness. The book renders a historical picture of the 1948 Genocide Convention and its unique status in international law. It reminds readers of the difficulty of preventing and punishing genocide as illustrated by the ongoing tragedy of Darfur; anddiscusses the evolution of international and hybrid tribunals to prosecute genocide along with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Then it sketches a brief history of Guatemala with a focus on genocide It explores how internal and global politics were an expression of structural violence designed to ensure cheap abundant and quiescent Indian labor for coffee planters. a The volume provides the commission's general considerations legal definitions methodology period of analysis and victim groups and finds that genocide had been perpetrated against five indigenous Guatemalan groups. By translating the genocide argument of the CEH into English and framing it in a lively accessible way this volume recovers the past sets the record straight and promotes accountability. This exploratory effort provides insight into the world of transitional justice and truth commissions and valuable insights about how to engage with the question of genocide in the future. These findings shed light on a crucial and dark chapter of trans-American Cold War history and will thus be of interest not only to scholars focused on Guatemala but also on Central America and even more broadly on the Cold War. | Quiet Genocide Guatemala 1981-1983

GBP 42.99
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