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    Perceptions, Actors, Innovations

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    With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book has a unique focus on the political tensions between environmental and socio-economic objectives and advocates for a cooperative shift towards environmentally sound sustainability

    Proceedings of the 10th International congress on architectural technology (ICAT 2024): architectural technology transformation.

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    The profession of architectural technology is influential in the transformation of the built environment regionally, nationally, and internationally. The congress provides a platform for industry, educators, researchers, and the next generation of built environment students and professionals to showcase where their influence is transforming the built environment through novel ideas, businesses, leadership, innovation, digital transformation, research and development, and sustainable forward-thinking technological and construction assembly design

    Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

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    Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the industrial revolution — as well as industrialisation under state-led socialism — the consequences of climate change are especially profound for the countryside and its inhabitants. The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It explores how different people — in relation to class and other co-constituted axes of social difference such as gender, race, ethnicity, age and occupation — are affected by climate change, as well as the climate adaptation and mitigation responses being implemented in rural areas. The book in turn explores how climate change – and the responses to it - affect processes of social differentiation, trajectories of accumulation and in turn agrarian politics. Finally, the book examines what strategies are required to confront climate change, and the underlying political-economic dynamics that cause it, reflecting on what this means for agrarian struggles across the world. The 26 chapters in this volume explore how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world and, in particular, the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change. Through a huge variety of case studies alongside more conceptual chapters, the book makes the often-missing connection between climate change and critical agrarian studies. The book argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial

    Digitalization and Development

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    This book examines the diffusion of digitalization and Industry 4.0 technologies in Malaysia by focusing on the ecosystem critical for its expansion. The chapters examine the digital proliferation in major sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, e-commerce and services, as well as the intermediary organizations essential for the orderly performance of socioeconomic agents. The book incisively reviews policy instruments critical for the effective and orderly development of the embedding organizations, and the regulatory framework needed to quicken the appropriation of socioeconomic synergies from digitalization and Industry 4.0 technologies. It highlights the importance of collaboration between government, academic and industry partners, as well as makes key recommendations on how to encourage adoption of IR4.0 technologies in the short- and long-term. This book bridges the concepts and applications of digitalization and Industry 4.0 and will be a must-read for policy makers seeking to quicken the adoption of its technologies

    2023-2024 Graduate School Catalog

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    You and your peers represent more than 67 countries and your shared scholarship spans 140 programs - from business administration and biomedical engineering to history, horticulture, musical performance, marine science, and more. Your ideas and interests will inform public health, create opportunities for art and innovation, contribute to the greater good, and positively impact economic development in Maine and beyond

    Reshaping the Museum of Zoology in Rome by Visual Storytelling and Interactive Iconography

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    This article summarizes the concept of a new immersive and interactive setting for the Zoology Museum in Rome, Italy. The concept, co-designed with all the museum’s curators, is aimed at enhancing the experiential involvement of the visitors by visual storytelling and interactive iconography. Thanks to immersive and interactive technologies designed by Centro Studi Logos, developed by Logosnet and known as e-REALâ and MirrorMeä, zoological findings and memoirs come to life and interact directly with the visitors in order to deepen their understanding, visualize stories and live experiences, and interact with the founder of the Museum (Mr. Arrigoni degli Oddi) who is now a virtualized avatar, or digital human, able to talk with the visitors. All the interactions are powered through simple hand gestures and, in a few cases, vocal inputs that transform into recognized commands from multimedia systems

    Hydroecological connectivity as a normative framework for aquatic ecosystem regulation: lessons from the USA

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    Very little has been achieved during the first five decades of development and application of what is now known as environmental law, in terms of slowing the global rate of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. A major factor in this lack of effectiveness has been, perhaps, too narrow a focus on individual elements that exist within ecosystems, rather than on the health of the ecosystems themselves. Additionally, very little attention has been paid to maintenance of the integrity of the many types of connections that exist between the different components of ecosystems, notably aquatic ecosystems. These components are connected not only by water, but also by a variety of ecological connections and pathways ¾ here termed 'hydroecological connectivity' (HEC). These connections are not only important in terms of providing abiotic and biota corridors between components, but they also act as conduits which can translocate pollutants from one location, over vast distances, throughout a fluvial ecosystem, consequently impacting virtually all areas of human life and nature. This thesis outlines the science underpinning the first connectivity-based water law regulation, the American Clean Water Rule (CWR) and analyzes a set of legal challenges to this Rule. Barring one instance, no substantive merit was found for any of the disputed claims. Furthermore, this thesis identifies the transferability of the Rule to South Africa. It was possible to empirically substantiate the merit of the single instance that lacked appropriate qualification in the CWR. The importance of HEC is elucidated in this work using the example of headwater streams which, in aggregate, comprise 79 per cent of the aggregate length of the mapped rivers in South Africa. Also provisionally evaluated is a brightline distance, lateral to fluvial watercourses, within which water resource components that are likely to be connected to the mainstem will be found. This provides a guideline for HEC-directed administrative decision making. A connectivity-based approach to water resource governance will require limitations on some land uses on portions of land that is likely to be perceived as terrestrial but which, in fact, forms part of an aquatic ecosystem. This requirement raises obvious implications for property ownership and expropriation. Here the principles of the public trust, already legislatively expressed in South African water law, provide an institutional legal framework that renders 'public' any lands which form part and parcel of the integrity an aquatic ecosystem. The public trust doctrine anchored the reform of the post-apartheid water law of South Africa. It was introduced in a transformative and emancipatory approach to the democratisation of the nation's water resources and the restoration of water equity. This work provides the first historico-legal and comprehensive perspective of the genealogy and intentions for, the public trust in South Africa, and distils out the principles which the trust embodies. An example protocol is developed which shows how the trust principles underpin the formulation of guidance for determinations of beneficial water uses. Recommendations are made regarding the operationalization of the currently moribund South African public trust in water and highlights the role of the public trust as an effective and reformatory tool of water law. In summary this work is a translational and transdisciplinary example of aquatic science into environmental law. The complex and challenging concept of HEC is communicated in plain language and then its perceived weak point ¾ the need to isolate areas of land which form part of the aquatic resource and incorporate these within the trust res ¾ is construed using the principles of the public trust doctrine. Simultaneously the potential of the public trust to offset obstacles to environmental protection, such as the need for reformed guidance for administrative decision making, has been highlighted. On this model the public trust enfolds an ecosystem-directed HEC approach into a transformative and normative governance package which is integrative, adaptive, multi-disciplinary and proactive

    Modern meat: the next generation of meat from cells

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    Modern Meat is the first textbook on cultivated meat, with contributions from over 100 experts within the cultivated meat community. The Sections of Modern Meat comprise 5 broad categories of cultivated meat: Context, Impact, Science, Society, and World. The 19 chapters of Modern Meat, spread across these 5 sections, provide detailed entries on cultivated meat. They extensively tour a range of topics including the impact of cultivated meat on humans and animals, the bioprocess of cultivated meat production, how cultivated meat may become a food option in Space and on Mars, and how cultivated meat may impact the economy, culture, and tradition of Asia
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