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  • Colonized Classrooms, 2nd Edition

    Racism, Trauma, and Resistance in Post-secondary Education

    by Sheila Cote-Meek ...
    In the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Sheila Cote-Meek examines how post-secondary institutions have responded to demands for reconciliation, Indigenization, and systemic change. Drawing on the voices of Indigenous students and professors, the second edition explores both the progress that has been made since the TRC and the enduring challenges that continue to shape ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Amphibious Concepts at the Edge of the Sea

    Edited by Joerg Baumeister, Ioana C. Giurgiu, Daniela A. Ottmann ...
    Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
    This book explores interfaces between land and sea and their geostrategic, ecological, urban, productive, indigenous, legal, historical, and artistic dimensions. The oceans, comprising two-thirds of the earth's surface, were initially utilised mainly for transportation and fishing. Today they serve diverse purposes such as supplying energy, freshwater, mineral resources, supporting leisure ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • AI and the Disruption of Welfare

    Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice

    Edited by Goetz Ottmann, Carolyn Noble ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book with 22 chapters from eminent scholars focuses on the role of AI-enabled technology in surveillance and coercive ‘welfare’, bringing into view how advanced technology is used to shift the boundaries between welfare, penal, and carceral state and its very real impact on social work education and practice.It focuses on the way emerging digital technologies, often combined under the heading ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • AI and the Disruption of the Social

    Challenges for Social Work Education and Practice

    Edited by Goetz Ottmann, Carolyn Noble ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    AI and the Disruption of the Social analyses digital automation and the disruption of both the social and social work, in response to rapid advances in digital technology, automated decision-making, and artificial intelligence (AI) within systems of governance, work, education, and everyday life.Establishing that we’re now entering a ‘fourth industrial revolution’ driven by late capitalism, this ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work

    Re-imagining the New Normal

    Edited by Goetz Ottmann, Carolyn Noble ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens’ economic, health and wellbeing, and safety, especially for its most vulnerable populations. It demonstrated that the crisis preparedness that is crucial for an effective protection of its citizens, the ultimate purpose of the welfare state, unquestionably exceeds ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • SeaCities

    Aquatic Urbanism

    Edited by Joerg Baumeister, Ioana C. Giurgiu, Despina Linaraki, Daniela A. Ottmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.It reflects on topics which are relevant for a future aquatic urbanism like the evolution of a taxonomy for aquatic urbanism, island and ecological wetland development, the planning ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Challenge of Right-wing Nationalist Populism for Social Work

    A Human Rights Approach

    Edited by Carolyn Noble, Goetz Ottmann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Right-wing nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state and its universal services, impacting on the roles of social work. This book demonstrates how right-wing nationalist populism can and must be countered.Using case studies from around the world, this book shows how a revitalised radical social work ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Ecological Building Materials for Deserts and Drylands

    by Daniela A. Ottmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines prospective climate adaptive building materials in desert and drylands in the context of climate change, desertification, urbanisation demands, and the consequent sustainable urban development challenges.This preliminary collection of ecological materials covers the characterisation of biotic and abiotic resources for materials, their specifications and benefits for adequate bio ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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    Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes

    Edited by Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the ... Read more

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  • Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

    The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Bela H. Buck, Richard Langan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and finfish, with offshore structures, primarily those associated with energy production, such as wind turbines and oil-drilling platforms. The volume offers a comprehensive overview and includes chapters on policy, science, ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

    Confronting Tradeoffs

    by Jason Link ...
    Responsible fisheries management is of increasing interest to the scientific community, resource managers, policy makers, stakeholders and the general public. Focusing solely on managing one species of fish stock at a time has become less of a viable option in addressing the problem. Incorporating more holistic considerations into fisheries management by addressing the trade-offs among the range ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries

    An Evolving Perspective

    Edited by Andrea Belgrano, Charles W. Fowler ...
    Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores not only the current practice of the 'ecosystem approach' to fisheries management but also its critical importance to even larger perspectives. The first section gives a valuable overview of how more ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD