...In recent years, the Beijing Municipal Government has attached great importance to addressing climate change and has regarded the co-control of carbon emissions and air pollutants as an effective means for promoting the construction of China's ecological civilization, improving air quality...

...Shanghai’s recent master plan includes a varied list of ecological ambitions and promises, all to be realized before 2035. How can Shanghai manage to implement large-scale ecological improvements and adaptation—in the context of high building density, land scarcity, and booming real estate prices...

... programs using a social ecological framework. Given the modest results of established programs, the authors suggest more research is needed to improve and adapt them based on the specific needs of all levels of the social ecological model. The most important areas for future research are discussed...

... community attribute. Too often social scientists in different disciplines neglect these crucial time matters. In community criminology, these oversights have contributed to theoretical confusion. The chapter first describes the Hawley/Bursik approach to understanding ecological change. It then turns...

...This chapter highlights two conceptual roadblocks to systematic comparisons of competing ecological communities and crime models. First, key indicators in several communities and crime models are plagued by semantic ambiguity. In essence, different researchers connect the same indicators...

... of cites to future droughts can be understood based on socio-ecological characteristics, including biophysical, economic, and social factors. I hypothesize that resilience to urban drought can be predicted by the antecedent hydrologic condition, the polycentric aspects of governance, and the capacity...

... identity-based factors, such as race, class, and income, independent of larger macro and cultural expectations, limits full engagement of the issue. This chapter draws on a modified social ecological model in an attempt to explain that it is important to evaluate social variables as embedded factors...

...This chapter argues that environmental law is psychologically distinctive. This distinctiveness flows in large part from the unique emphasis environmental law has on environmental and ecological injury—injury that tends to be diffuse, complex, and nonhuman in character. These characteristics...

...Chapter seven outlines a citizen-centered disaster agenda that empowers and emphasizes the strengths of local residents. Using an ecological approach to disaster intervention, this chapter offers actions that individuals, organizations, communities, and nations can take to address the cracks...

...Chapter one provides a chronological account of the evolution of the project. It began in 2008 as a study comparing Italy’s social welfare approach and with the United States’ free market approach, to explore how social polices affect the ecology of childhood in rich nations. It rapidly became...

...Chapter two discusses the models, methods and value metrics used in this book. It presents the ecological model developed by sociologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, which places the child at the center of overlapping and intersecting microsystems (e.g., family, school, peer group) where children’s daily...

... Goeman Mishuana ways of knowing Dakota Access Pipeline knowledge archives Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Jojola Ted Matunga Hirini colonialism futurity Indigenous ecologies settler ecologies ecologies embodiment relationships qualities of responsibility in ecologies Shawano Lake Wisconsin...

...Chapter 5 considers settler colonialism’s effects on the smellscape as a mode of atmospheric violence that targets a fundamental material contributor to Indigenous health, culture, and ecological relations. The chapter suggests that decolonizing smell requires both attending to Indigenous olfactory...

... ecological models for QTPOC identity oppression privilege Dillon Frank intersectional identity models QTPOC Moradi Bonnie multidimensional identity models QTPOC Renn Kristen A Root Maria Wijeyesinghe Charmaine Worthington Roger Abes Elisa Collins Patricia Hill Intersectional Model of Multiple...

... that seeks to address this issue: the building plan for In Vitro Meat Habitat (2008), a structure composed of pig bladder cells grown in vitro. A project of the Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology), the structure is capable of growing tissue culture. In performing its...

... Avery haunting policies Trump administration policies multispecies ecological democracy violence feminist care theorists social reproduction Marxist concept of death row at San Quentin State Prison humans inhumanities framework San Quentin State Prison death row at solidarity economy...

...This book uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and the US, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant...