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Antarctic Cities

Author : Juan Francisco Salazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741085280
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Antarctic Cities written by Juan Francisco Salazar and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cities of Cape Town, Christchurch, Hobart, Punta Arenas, and Ushuaia are formally recognized international gateway cities through which flows most travel to the Antarctic region. All significant engagement with the South Polar region is co-ordinated through them. By geographical placement and historical contingency, these cities have a special connection to their bioregions to the south. Today, the Antarctic region faces unprecedented challenges. These Southern Oceanic Rim cities, individually and as a group, are in a position to play an important role in defining how Antarctica is imagined, discursively constructed, and vicariously experienced. This requires elaboration of the more conventional roles they have played as 'gateway cities'. As this research report shows, these five cities are much more than gateways. They are intimately connected to the south in ways-historical, cultural, political, affective-that exceed the logistical and transport function implied in the notion of gateway. With the 'ice continent' taking on a new centrality in global public consciousness in the Anthropocene, these cities' relationship with the region to their south is likely to become an even more valuable part of their urban identity. As the future of the Antarctic hangs in delicate balance, this research project argues that these cities are key to securing the future of this fragile region. Antarctic gateway cities are urban centres that can embody the values associated with Antarctica-international co-operation, scientific innovation, environmental protection-and act as global stewards of the South Polar region. As Antarctic custodial cities these urban centres can strengthen an existing interlinked southern-rim network, to better learn from and benefit each other. The Antarctic Cities project has sought to shift the emphasis on the role and responsibilities of nation-states in Antarctica and pay attention to the roles and responsibilities of these five cities formally recognized as the Antarctic gateway cities. It has sought to summarize this change in conception and function by interchanging 'gateway' with 'custodian'. In this context, it seeks to inform decision-makers and citizens on how their Antarctic gateway cities can best effect a cultural, political, ecological, and economic transition towards becoming Antarctic custodial cities.

The Technocratic Antarctic

Author : Jessica O'Reilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150170835X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Technocratic Antarctic written by Jessica O'Reilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inform each other, and the Antarctic environment—with its striking beauty, dramatic human and animal lives, and specter of global climate change—not only informs science and policy but also lends Antarctic environmentalism a particularly technocratic patina. Jessica O’Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program. O’Reilly also follows the journeys Antarctic scientists and policymakers take to temporarily "Antarctic" places such as science conferences, policy workshops, and the international Antarctic Treaty meetings in Scotland, Australia, and India. Competing claims of nationalism, scientific disciplines, field experiences, and personal relationships among Antarctic environmental managers disrupt the idea of a utopian epistemic community. O’Reilly focuses on what emerges in Antarctica among the complicated and hybrid forms of science, sociality, politics, and national membership found there. The Technocratic Antarctic unfolds the historical, political, and moral contexts that shape experiences of and decisions about the Antarctic environment.

Future Transport in Cities

Author : Brian Richards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135159645
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Future Transport in Cities written by Brian Richards and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic. A significant part of the problem is the enduring popularity of the private car - still an attractive and convenient option to many, who turn a blind eye to the environmental and public health impact. Public transport has always seemed to take second place to the car, and yet alternative ways of moving around cities are possible. Measures to improve public transport, as well as initiatives to encourage walking and cycling, have been introduced in many large cities to decrease car use, or at least persuade people to use their cars in different ways. This book explores many of the measures being tried. It takes the best examples from around the world, and illustrates the work of those architects and urban planners who have produced some of the most significant models of "transport architecture" and city planning. The book examines the ways in which new systems are evolving, and how these are being integrated into the urban environment. It suggests a future where it could be mandatory to provide systems of horizontal movement within large-scale development, using the analogy of the lift, upon which every high-rise building depends. In so doing, future cities could evolve without dependence on the private car.

Antarctic Atlas

Author : Peter Fretwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141995610
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Antarctic Atlas written by Peter Fretwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ESTWA AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey, this new collection of maps and data reveals Antarctica as we have never seen it before. This is not just a book of traditional maps. It measures everything from the thickness of ice beneath our feet to the direction of ice flows. It maps volcanic lakes, mountain ranges the size of the Alps and gorges longer than the Grand Canyon, all hidden beneath the ice. It shows us how air bubbles trapped in ice tell us what the earth's atmosphere was like 750,000 years ago, proving the effects of greenhouse gases. Colonies of emperor penguins abound around the coastline, and the journeys of individual seals around the continent and down to the sea bed in search of food have been intricately tracked and mapped. Twenty-nine nations have research stations in Antarctica and their unique architecture is laid out here, along with the challenges of surviving in Antarctica'sunforgiving environment. Antarctica is also the frontier of our fight against climate change. If its ice melts, it will swamp almost every coastal city in the world. Antarctic Atlas illustrates the harsh beauty and magic of this mysterious continent, and shows how, far from being abstract, it has direct relevance to us all.

Denationalizing Science

Author : Elisabeth T. Crawford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792318552
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Denationalizing Science written by Elisabeth T. Crawford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present trends indicate that in the years to come transnational science, whether basic or applied and involving persons, equipment or funding, will grow considerably. The main purpose of this volume is to try to understand the reasons for this denationalization of science, its historical contexts and its social forms. The Introduction to the volume sets out the socio-political, intellectual, and economic contexts for the nationalization and denationalization of the sciences, processes that have extended over four centuries. The articles examine the specific conditions that have given rise to the growth of transnational science in the 20th century. Among these are: the need for cognitive and technical standardization of scientific knowledge-products, pressure toward cost-sharing of large installations such as CERN, the voluntary and involuntary migration of scientists, and the global market for R&D products that has emerged at the end of the century. The volume raises many new questions for research by historians and sociologists of science and poses problems that are of concern both to scientists and science policy-makers.

Brand Antarctica

Author : Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221214
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Brand Antarctica written by Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand Antarctica analyses advertisements and related cultural products to identify common framings that have emerged in representations of Antarctica from the late nineteenth century to the present.

They Would Be Gods

Author : Anthony K. Forwood
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257373625
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book They Would Be Gods written by Anthony K. Forwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica

Author : Klaus Dodds
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784717681
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica written by Klaus Dodds and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Four thematic sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.

Encyclopedia of the Antarctic

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415970245
Total Pages : 1274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Antarctic written by Beau Riffenburgh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions

Author : Dorothea Wehrmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351048066
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions written by Dorothea Wehrmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on both Polar Regions, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic, where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible. Environmental changes in the Arctic and the Antarctic are increasingly seen as barometers of the global impact of human activities, while newly arising economic opportunities in both Polar Regions prompt predictions that they will be the site of future conflicts. This book maps and analyses the different actors involved in the politics of the Polar Regions to explain why similar patterns of interpretation of such major issues have become dominant in practical, popular and formal geopolitical discourses. Disentangling the politics, the author illustrates how the ordering principles have evolved, explains recent dynamics in political processes and provides the groundwork needed to better forecast future trends. By focusing on the Americas, the only continent that borders both Polar Regions, the author shows how geographic proximity inspires interaction and cooperation among state and non-state actors in very different ways. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, political geography, international relations, global governance and cultural studies. It will have an international appeal particularly in the Americas, and other countries with growing interests in the Polar Regions.

The Road to Madness

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 030780769X
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Madness written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes: IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS--Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS--An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland. Plus, for the first time in any Del Rey edition: HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR--Mad experiments yield hideous results in this, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator. COOL AIR--An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock. THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN--The intruders seek a fortune but find only death! AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES

Escape to the 25Th Century & Doctor 12

Author : John C Robles
Publisher : Palibrio
ISBN 13 : 1506500412
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Escape to the 25Th Century & Doctor 12 written by John C Robles and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See towns of android slaves cloned in the year 7000 and struggles and wars of our future society. See the black witch and the universe in extinction, fighting our future agents. See how technology will protect us from the climate with shield space time and how everything is possible scientifically soon. See future android slave rebels and dimensional time, Eta Carinae point A1 to point 64. See how the dimensions are defined in our time, Eta Carinae point A1, point B2, and to point C64. See and admire the most incredible and amazing images of the future never seen before. See the incredible super-light materials anchored in space times. See the sky platform partially anchored in time spaces to create the structure of the future, a mile high where all new cities will take place. See how the new future buildings are weatherproof and any attack by using space timing. See those incredible materials and the incredible orbit bases from earth and other planets.

Antarctica and the Humanities

Author : Roberts Peder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137545755
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica and the Humanities written by Roberts Peder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.

Antarctic Journal of the United States

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Antarctic Journal of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Antarctic Dive Guide

Author : Lisa Eareckson Kelley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691163448
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Antarctic Dive Guide written by Lisa Eareckson Kelley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antarctic Dive Guide is the first and only dive guide to the seventh continent, until recently the exclusive realm of scientific and military divers. Today, however, the icy waters of Antarctica have become the extreme destination for recreational divers wishing to explore beyond the conventional and observe the strange marine life that abounds below the surface. This book is packed with information about the history of diving in Antarctica and its wildlife, and features stunning underwater photography. The Antarctic Dive Guide covers 31 key dive sites on the Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia and includes maps and detailed guidance on how best to explore each site. Essential information is also provided on how to choose and prepare for travel to this remote region, and diving techniques for subzero waters. This book is an indispensable resource for anyone considering diving in Antarctica, and an exciting read for anyone interested in this little-explored underwater world. This fully revised and updated third edition: Covers 4 new dive sites Features revised and updated information for the other 27 sites covered Includes new sections on the Sea Leopard Project and natural product chemistry from Antarctic marine organisms

Lost Worlds Short Stories

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787552438
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Lost Worlds Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Authors and collections. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title is packed with dark valleys, high mountain passes, dinosaurs and endless dark creations. Contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Rachel Verkade, Thomas Canfield, Kevin M. Folliard, David Sklar, David Tallerman, Sara M. Harvey, Sarah L. Byrne, John Walters, Ronald D. Ferguson, Michael Penncavage, James C. Simpson, Rebecca Schwarz, K.G. McAbee, and Mike Adamson. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. Rider Haggard, Jonathan Swift and Jules Verne.

At The Mountains Of Madness

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book At The Mountains Of Madness written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a chilling expedition to the icy heart of Antarctica with "At The Mountains Of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. In this classic tale of cosmic horror, Lovecraft transports readers to the desolate and unforgiving landscape of the Antarctic continent, where an ill-fated scientific expedition uncovers ancient and otherworldly secrets. Are you ready to journey into the unknown and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in the frozen depths? In "At The Mountains Of Madness," Lovecraft weaves a tale of terror and suspense as the expedition team ventures deeper into the icy wilderness, encountering inexplicable phenomena and encountering creatures beyond human comprehension. As the mysteries of Antarctica unravel, the characters grapple with their own sanity and the implications of their discoveries. But here's the real question: Will you dare to follow in the footsteps of the doomed expedition and uncover the truth hidden beneath the Antarctic ice? Are you prepared to confront the cosmic horrors that lie dormant in the depths of the Earth? Experience the spine-tingling thrills of Lovecraftian horror. Lose yourself in the eerie atmosphere and mind-bending terror of "At The Mountains Of Madness." Don't miss your chance to delve into one of H.P. Lovecraft's most iconic works. Purchase your copy of "At The Mountains Of Madness" today and prepare to be haunted by the chilling visions of the Antarctic wasteland.