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Examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. This book analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States.

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An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power.

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(Paperback)

On September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in. This title offers a landmark of American history.

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This book follows environmental changesincluding those caused by human actions, as well as those resulting from natural circumstancesand provides a process to manage their impact on the future.

Whenever environmental damages are caused by natural or human-made events, there are long-term effects for people.

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An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on the ground through residents voices and narratives.

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How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.

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This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their local communities despite recurrent expressions of

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A consideration of the locking effect of urban land use policies on African Americans. Arguing that the locking effect leads to the disenfranchisement of African Americans, the author shows how wealth is channelled to the dominant group and African Americans' life choices are denuded.

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Also identified among the research needs are methods for improving the technology of waste disposal, waste reduction, and waste recycling.

Institutional changes necessary are the commitment to long-term, pro-active, prevention-oriented objectives;

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Also identified among the research needs are methods for improving the technology of waste disposal, waste reduction, and waste recycling.

Institutional changes necessary are the commitment to long-term, pro-active, prevention-oriented objectives;

(Paperback)

Introducing students to the key skills they will need in a planning career, this book draws on case studies and the advice of professionals from around the world to show students how to develop their skills for success in the workplace.

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Introducing students to the key skills they will need in a planning career, this book draws on case studies and the advice of professionals from around the world to show students how to develop their skills for success in the workplace.

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Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks must be taken by local stakeholders, and that climate adaptation efforts require collective rather than individua

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.S. communities do not plan for how best to limit or manage rapid growth;

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.S. communities do not plan for how best to limit or manage rapid growth;

(Hardback)

Managing Coral Reefs compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.

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Environmental quality management is seen as a competitive strategy that could help a firm improve its bottom line. A great deal of attention is focused on how this could be achieved by adopting tools from total quality management, establishing environmental quality award programs, and conducting environmental quality assessment.

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This collection of essays thoroughly discusses the controversies surrounding public land management. The articles convey the varied interests and experiences of the authors in the field of land management; This sweeping examination will interest land resource managers, academics in environmental engineering, and government policy makers.

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In April 2000, a $108 million clean-up of the former British A-bomb test site in South Australia was declared a success and the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal people were told it was safe to move back onto their lands. But leaked documents and key insiders say otherwise.

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