Advances in Environmental Sustainability: Proceedings of 2022 8th International Conference on Advances in Environment Research
In: Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences Series
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In: Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences Series
In: Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chapter 1. The Bark as a Bioindicator of Atmospheric Contamination by Heavy Metals According to Vehicular Traffic Intensity in El Tambo, Huancayo, Peru -- Chapter 2. Nipa Sap (Nypa Fruitican) as Supplementary Feedstock for Bioethanol Production in the Philippines: The Pamplona Experience -- Chapter 3. Optimization of Fuel Cell Power Systems using Biogas from Palm Oil Mill Plant -- Chapter 4. Identification of Community-Level Sustainability Indicators: A Climate Change and Risk Management Perspective -- Chapter 5. Study of extreme precipitations in corn culture in Chupaca, Junín - Perú 2009 – 2019 -- Chapter 6. Spatiotemporal Mapping of Agroforestry Degradation of Five Districts of Uttarakhand, India with Spectral Indices -- Chapter 7. Wood as a Catalyst for Construction and Architecture that facilitates the creation of sustainable and resilient communities. The case of the Palafitos de Chiloé, Chile -- Chapter 8. Identifying the most significant factors affecting urban housing sustainability and their scales/sectors of influence: a systematic review of the recent literature -- Chapter 9. Academic Study of Tourists' Pro-Environmental Behaviour: A Literature Review -- Chapter 10. Green Building Design as a mechanism to strengthen resilient and sustainable communities. The case of the churches and the palafitos, Chiloé Chile -- Chapter 11. Analysis of the Vicugna pacos (alpaca) wool fiber in the properties of concrete -- Chapter 12. Assessment of Bridge Damage Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Chapter 13. Hill-Patch system as a strategic management model to activate and conserve urban axes: The case of the San Bernardo Green Corridor, Santiago, Chile.
Front Cover -- Front Flip -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Internal-or Infernal?-Improvements: A New Nation Confronts Infrastructure -- 2. Good Roads-or Here Come the Wheelmen! -- 3. Ike's Autobahn: The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways -- 4. We're Not Going to Take It Anymore: Americans Revolt against the Freeway -- 5. Crumbling Infrastructure or Focus-Group Buzzwords? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Flip -- Back Cover.
"The Congressional Budget Office has laid out seven infrastructure categories: highways, public transit, wastewater treatment, water resources, air traffic control, airports, and municipal water supply. This book focuses on a broadened version of the first and, in many ways, most visible and historically significant category: roads and bridges, as well as their aquatic kin, the nineteenth-century canal. Also examined is US transportation policy from the Constitutional Convention through the presidency of Donald Trump-that is, from "internal improvements" in antebellum America to the current trope of "crumbling infrastructure.""--
In: Studies in public choice volume 41
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Introduction -- Don't Give the Public What It Wants; Give the Public What it Needs -- Radio Is Good for You! The Rise of Educational Radio -- Carnegie's Lemon? The Birth of NPR -- Washington Verus The Sticks -- Left, Right, or Always Establishment? The Bias Issue, -- Newt [Gingrich] Cometh -- Conclusion: What Is To Be Done?.
Introduction: Early Warnings -- Part 1: Wall -- 1. Protests: Solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen -- 2. Over the Wall: China's First Email and the Rise of the Online Censor -- 3. Nailing the Jello: Chinese Democracy and the Great Firewall -- 4. Enemy at the Gates: How Fear of Falun Gong Boosted the Firewall -- 5. Searching for an Opening: Google, Yahoo, and Silicon Valley's Moral Failing in China -- Part 2: Shield -- 6. Along Came a Spider: Lu Wei Reigns in the Chinese Internet -- 7. Peak Traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama Online -- 8. Filtered: The Firewall Catches up with Da Cankao -- 9. Jumping the Wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's Fight Against the Censors -- 10. Called to Account: Silicon Valley's Reckoning on Capitol Hill -- Part 3: Sword -- 11. Uyghurs Online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur Internet -- 12. Shutdown: How to Take Twenty Million People Offline -- 13. Ghosts in the Machine: Chinese Hackers Expand the Firewall's Reach -- 14. NoGuGe: The Ignominious End of Google China -- 15. The Social Network: Weibo and the Last Free Speech Platform -- 16. Gorillas in the Mist: Exposing China's Hackers to the World -- Part 4: War -- 17. Caught : The Death of the Uyghur Internet -- 18. Key Opinion Leader: How Chinese Trolls Go After Dissidents Overseas -- 19. Root and Stem: The Internet is More Vulnerable than You Think -- 20. The Censor at the UN: China's Undermining of Global Internet Freedoms -- 21. Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping Came for the Internet -- 22. Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall Goes West -- 23. Plane Crash: China Helps Russia Bring Telegram to Heel -- 24. One App to Rule Them All: How WeChat Opened Up New Frontiers of Surveillance -- 25. Buttocks: Uganda's Internet Blackouts and Censorship Follow Beijing's Lead -- Epilogue: Silicon Valley Won't Save You
Born in bloodshed: the origins of democracy -- Voices in the wilderness: democracies in North America -- Democracy deferred: the English Civil War -- Coup d-Etat: 1688 in England and America -- Sympathy, will, and democracy in the enlightenments of Europe -- Faith, enlightenment, and resistance in America -- Democracy and American independence -- Constituting American democracy -- Ratification and reciprocity -- Delusions of unity and collisions with tradition in the French revolution -- Virtue and violence in the French revolution -- Democracy in the wake of terror -- Diagnosing democratic cultures in America and Europe -- The tragic irony of democracy.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Urbanization, Migration, and the Status of Women -- Part 1. OVERVIEW AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2. The Migration of Women to Cities: A Comparative Perspective -- 3. Female Migration: A Conceptual Framework -- 4. Women in Rural-Urban Circulation Networks: Implications for Social Structural Change -- Part 2. TRENDS, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- 5. Rural-to-Urban Migration of Women in India: Patterns and Implications -- 6. The Female Migrant in Pakistan -- 7. Female Rural-to-Urban Migration in Peninsular Malaysia -- 8. Female Migration in Thailand -- 9. The Migration of Women in the Philippines -- 10. Urban Migrant Women in the Republic of Korea -- Part 3. WOMEN MIGRANTS IN ASIAN CITIES: CASE STUDIES -- 11. Migration of Women Workers in Peninsular Malaysia: Impact and Implications -- 12. Female Migrants in Bangkok Metropolis -- 13. The Migration of Rural Women to Taipei -- 14. New Models and Traditional Networks: Migrant Women in Tehran -- Part 4. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND ADJUSTMENT OF FEMALE MIGRANTS: ANALYTIC MODELS -- 15. Migrant Women at Work in Asia -- 16. Female Asian Immigrants in Honolulu: Adaptation and Success -- 17. Philippine Urbanism and the Status of Women -- 18. Adaptation of Polynesian Female Migrants in New Zealand -- CONCLUSION -- 19. Women in Asian Cities: Policies, Public Services, and Research.
"The Senate of Canada is the upper house of its parliamentary system. It is an appointed legislative chamber that has been frequently derided for its apparent lack of effective activity, its failure to represent Canada{u2019}s federal system, and the perceived lack of accountability among its members. Reform of the Senate persists as one of the most contentious issues in the country. Typical reform proposals begin with the assumption that it must become an elected body that primarily represents Canada{u2019}s provinces and can serve as an effective check on the federal government and the House of Commons. This book challenges those assumptions through a thorough analysis that places the Senate within the context of other parliamentary upper houses. It presents a hypothetical constitutional amendment and a proposal for non-constitutional reform that are based upon alternative models derived from that broader context. The book ultimately recommends a Senate that remains unelected but with a more expansive appointment process that more appropriately reflects the optimal role of a parliamentary upper house as well as the diversity, regional aspirations, and political principles of Canadian democracy"--Provided by publisher
chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Decrepit Old Men Asking Only for Th eir Due: Th e Origins of the Veterans Lobby -- chapter 2 Shark-Infested Waters: Th e Scramble for Pensions after the Civil War -- chapter 3 Th e War to End All Wars Does Not End All Wars but Does Give Birth to the Boners and Revives the Veterans of Foreign Wars -- chapter 4 Th e 1944 GI Bill: Hype Exemplifi ed -- chapter 5 An Endless Parade of GI Bills? Korea, Vietnam, and Post-9/11 -- chapter 6 Th e Best Medicine? Th e Growth of the Veterans Medical Complex and a Culture of Entitlement.
chapter 1 Introduction: The Mandate Temptation -- chapter 2 From Federalism to Coercion: A Brief History of Mandates -- part I I Roads, Rum, and Restraints -- chapter 3 Drinking, Driving, and Dole: How Washington Mandated a 21-Year-Old Drinking Age to the States -- chapter 4 "I Can't Drive 55"? Oh Yes You Can! -- chapter 5 Motorcycle Helmets and Seat Belts: The Mandates That Weren't -- part II II ABCs, IDs, and Voting: Mandates for the Twenty-First Century -- chapter 6 No Child Left Behind: When George W. Bush Decided to Teach Your Children Well (or Otherwise) -- chapter 7 The Help America Vote Act: Good-bye, Lever Machines; Hello, Coercion -- chapter 8 REAL ID: The States Fight Back -- chapter 9 Will Mandates Never Cease?.