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Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438425849
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Ecosee written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.
Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429678169
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Mediating Nature written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images. Contributors to this dynamic collection focus their efforts on the intersections of digital media and environmental/ecological thinking. Part of the book’s larger argument is that analysis of mediations of nature must develop more critical tools of analysis toward the very mediating technologies that produce such media. That is, to truly understand mediations of nature, one needs to understand the creation and production of those mediations, right down to the algorithms, circuit boards, and power sources that drive mediating technologies. Ultimately, Mediating Nature contends that ecological literacy and environmental politics are inseparable from digital literacies and visual rhetorics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of Ecocriticism, Ecocomposition, Media Ecology, Visual Rehtoric, and Digital Literacy Studies.
Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438425953
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Ecosee written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do supporters of the environmental movement manipulate and promote images of "nature" to achieve support and sympathy? From the Sierra Club's use of Ansel Adams's stark and pristine portraits of the western United States to close-ups of plastic bottles and dead fish floating in Rust Belt waterways, visual depictions of landscapes and the degradation caused by humans have profoundly shaped popular notions of environmentalism and the environment. Despite the rhetorical power of images connected with the environmental movement over the past forty years, scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric. Ecosee offers a deeper and fuller understanding of the communicative strategies and power of the environmental movement by looking closely at the visual rhetorics involved in photographs, paintings, television and filmic images, video games, and other forms of image-based media.
Author : Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005580
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Allegories of the Anthropocene written by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers—including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber—whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.
Author : Peter N. Goggin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135922721
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place written by Peter N. Goggin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some of the complex relationships, collaborations, compromises, and contradictions between human endeavor and situated discourses, identities and landscapes, social justice and natural resources, movement and geographies, unpacking and grappling with the complexities of rhetoric of presence. Making a significant contribution to exploring the complex discursive constructions of environmental rhetorics and place-based rhetorics, this collection considers discourses, actions, and adaptations concerning environmental regulations and development, sustainability, exploitation, and conservation of energy resources. Essays visit arguments on cultural values, social justice, environmental advocacy, and identity as political constructions of rhetorical place and space. Rural and urban case studies contribute to discussions of the ethics and identities of environment, and the rhetorics of environmental cartography and glocalization. Contributors represent a range of specialization across a variety of scholarly research in such fields as communication studies, rhetorical theory, social/cultural geography, technical/professional communication, cartography, anthropology, linguistics, comparative literature/ecocriticism, literacy studies, digital rhetoric/media studies, and discourse analysis. Thus, this book goes beyond the assumption that rhetorics are situated, and challenges us to consider not only how and why they are situated, but what we mean when we theorize notions of situated, place-based rhetorics.
Author : Yunlin Zhang
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038425087
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing written by Yunlin Zhang and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing" that was published in Remote Sensing
Author : Geo Takach
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772122750
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Tar Wars written by Geo Takach and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As place branding assumes paramount importance in an increasingly global, visual, and ecologically conscious society, an international battle unfolds over Alberta’s bituminous sands. This battle pits independent documentary filmmakers against professional communicators employed by government and the oil industry. Tar Wars engages scholars and students in communications, film, environmental studies, social psychology, PR, media and cultural studies, and petrocultures. This book also speaks to decision makers, activists, and citizens exploring intersections of energy, environment, culture, politics, economy, media and power.
Author : Roman A. Polyak
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030687139
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Continuous Optimization written by Roman A. Polyak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This self-contained monograph presents the reader with an authoritative view of Continuous Optimization, an area of mathematical optimization that has experienced major developments during the past 40 years. The book contains results which have not yet been covered in a systematic way as well as a summary of results on NR theory and methods developed over the last several decades. The readership is aimed to graduate students in applied mathematics, computer science, economics, as well as researchers working in optimization and those applying optimization methods for solving real life problems. Sufficient exercises throughout provide graduate students and instructors with practical utility in a two-semester course in Continuous Optimization. The topical coverage includes interior point methods, self-concordance theory and related complexity issues, first and second order methods with accelerated convergence, nonlinear rescaling (NR) theory and exterior point methods, just to mention a few. The book contains a unified approach to both interior and exterior point methods with emphasis of the crucial duality role. One of the main achievements of the book shows what makes the exterior point methods numerically attractive and why. The book is composed in five parts. The first part contains the basics of calculus, convex analysis, elements of unconstrained optimization, as well as classical results of linear and convex optimization. The second part contains the basics of self-concordance theory and interior point methods, including complexity results for LP, QP, and QP with quadratic constraint, semidefinite and conic programming. In the third part, the NR and Lagrangian transformation theories are considered and exterior point methods are described. Three important problems in finding equilibrium are considered in the fourth part. In the fifth and final part of the book, several important applications arising in economics, structural optimization, medicine, statistical learning theory, and more, are detailed. Numerical results, obtained by solving a number of real life and test problems, are also provided.
Author : Sean Morey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Ecosee written by Sean Morey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This thesis presents a theory of ecosee, a theory of how humans see "nature" and environments through images of nature (or nature itself), and how they construct nature based upon that perception. The environmental movement, which has taken various forms since its modern inception in the late 1960s, has sparked wide scholarship on the ways that messages about the environment are communicated. However, most of this debate has been couched in verbal language. If we are to believe, according to Gregory L. Ulmer, that our culture is moving from literacy (print-culture) to electracy (imagetext-culture), then the practice of this debate must include both verbal and visual discourses. However, current studies that look at the ways in which humans communicate nature pay little attention to how humans use images to spread eco-political capital, and how these images might interact with texts and other images.
Author : Emily Eliza Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961315
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Critical Landscapes written by Emily Eliza Scott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space. Their work pivots around a set of evolving questions: In what ways is land, formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? Editors Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson bring together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, Critical Landscapes skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena. This cross-disciplinary collection is destined to be an essential reference not only within the fields of art and art history, but also across those of cultural geography, architecture and urban planning, environmental history, and landscape studies.
Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961498
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Eco-Sonic Media written by Jacob Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, Jacob Smith seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media. Delving into the history of pre-electronic media like hand-cranked gramophones, comparatively eco-friendly media artifacts such as the shellac discs that preceded the use of petroleum-based vinyl, early forms of portable technology like divining rods, and even the use of songbirds as domestic music machines, Smith builds a scaffolding of historical case studies to demonstrate how "green media archaeology" can make sound studies vibrate at an ecological frequency while opening the ears of eco-criticism. Throughout this eye-opening and timely book he makes readers more aware of the costs and consequences of their personal media consumption by prompting comparisons with non-digital, non-electronic technologies and by offering different ways in which sound media can become eco-sonic media. In the process, he forges interdisciplinary connections, opens new avenues of research, and poses fresh theoretical questions for scholars and students of media, sound studies, and contemporary environmental history.
Author : Mara R. Wade
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042016866
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Foreign encounters written by Mara R. Wade and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Baillie
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0081008007
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Green Composites written by Caroline Baillie and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Composites: Waste-based Materials for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition presents exciting new developments on waste-based composites. New, additional, or replacement chapters focus on these elements, reflecting on developments over the past ten years. Authors of existing chapters have brought these themes into their work wherever possible, and case study chapters that connect materials engineering to the topic's social context are included in this revised edition. Professor Baillie believes that the new ‘green’ is the "what and who" composites are being designed for, "what" material needs we have, and "what" access different groups have to the technical knowledge required, etc. Industry is now showing concerns for corporate social responsibility and social impact. Recent conversations with prestigious materials institutions have indicated a growing interest in moving into areas of research that relate their work to beneficial social impacts. The book's example of Waste for Life demonstrates the genre proposed for the case study chapters. Waste for Life adopts scientific knowledge and low-threshold/high-impact technologies. Provides insights into the changes in the Industry, including a greater understanding of noticing that the bottom line is influenced by poor social relations and negative social impact Presents tactics any industry should consider to make engineering part of the solution instead of the problem Includes case study chapters that connect materials engineering in a social context Covers waste green composites, fueling a new direction of research for many Universities
Author : Louis Liebenberg
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775848728
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Pocket Guide Tracks & Tracking in Southern Africa written by Louis Liebenberg and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy guide provides simple tools to help interpret the tracks and signs of some 105 southern African mammals, reptiles, frogs and birds. Photographs and diagnostic spoor illustrations are given for each animal, along with information on behaviour, habits and habitat, and up-to-date distribution maps show where the animals occur. Special features on insects and scat supplement the text and a detailed introduction offers basic guidelines for learning how to become a tracker. Sales points: Clear illustrations of more than 125 animal tracks. 175 full-colour photographs. Special features on insects and scat. Author expertise well recognised in this field.
Author : Mukesh Khare
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040115969
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Air Pollution: Science, Engineering and Management Fundamentals written by Mukesh Khare and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and up-to-date textbook discusses fundamental aspects of air pollution with the help of solved and case examples within the chapter and review questions at the end of each chapter. The textbook discusses in depth the entire domain of air pollution, from the fundamentals, sources, types, effects, associated risks, ecology, meteorology, climatology, sampling, monitoring and instrumentation, laboratory quality control, data analysis and interpretation, modelling, control technologies and indoor air pollution, to the latest principles of air quality management and legislation, regulations and standards. This book: Covers fundamentals of air pollution, the atmosphere, air pollution meteorology, effects and control of air pollution Discusses engineering aspects of air quality management and includes concepts of ecology, growth, and sustainable development in the context of air pollution Explains air pollution mitigation philosophies, legislation, regulations, and standards Comprehensively discusses topics including air quality monitoring, sampling, air quality modelling and air quality data analysis Includes case examples for better understanding of the topics and solution manual for the benefit of instructors The text will be useful for senior undergraduate and post-graduate students in the fields of science and engineering. Pedagogical features including solution manual will be uploaded on the website.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136482423
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media written by Sidney I. Dobrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a legitimate or important form of writing research, but as paramount to the future of writing studies and writing theory. Complex ecologies, writing studies, and new-media/post-media converge to highlight network theories, systems theories, and posthumanist theories as central in the shaping of writing theory, and this study embraces work in these areas as essential to the development of ecological theories of writing. Contributors address ecological theories of writing by way of diverse and promising avenues, united by the underlying commitment to better understand how ecological methodologies might help better inform our understanding of writing and might provoke new theories of writing. Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media fuels future theoretical conversations about ecology and writing and will be of interest to those who are interested in theories of writing and the function of writing.
