“…These trends reflect the persistent neoliberalism within contemporary Australia, as well as the effects of structural dynamics within the global agriculture and resource extractive industries. …”

“…Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar avant-gardism and twenty-first century global urbanism, this interdisciplinary book seeks to create a mirroring effect over the notion of the underground as a driving force in the making of the contemporary European city…”

“…The volume also includes a brief introduction with background information on the recent 'digital revolution' in these countries and two closing commentaries that reflect on the significance of the chapters for our understanding of global capitalism and the contemporary Pacific…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vol. 1: Projects featured: Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (Adjaye Associates) - Active Nature, Saclay, France (Agence Babylone) - Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan (Tadao Ando) - Toku Tokoyo Line Shibuya Station, Tokyo (Tadao Ando) - Papertainer Museum, Seoul Olympic Park, South Korea (Shigeru Ban) - Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway (Barlindhaug Consult AS) - King Abdullah International Gardens, Riyadh (Barton Willmore) - CaixaForum Vertical Garden, Madrid (Patrick Blanc) - Anti-Smog, Paris (Vincent Callebaut Architectures) - Perfumed Jungle, Hong Kong (Vincent Callebaut Architectures) - Westraven office complex, Utrecht, Netherlands (Cepezed) - Phantom House, Southwestern USA (Diller Scofidio + Renfro) - Samir Kassir Square, Beirut (Vladimir Djurovic) - Tree Tower, Los Angeles (Dennis Dollens) - Ecoboulevard of Vallecas, Madrid (Ecosistemo Urbano) - Jinji Lake, Suzhou, China (Edaw) - Shark Alley Retreat, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand (Fearon Hay) - Petronas University of Technology, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia (Foster + Partners) - Little Ajax affordable housing, Aspen, Colorado (Peter Gluck) - Schweiger House, Sistrans, Austria (Monika Gogl) - E.ON Energy Research Department, RWTH Aachen, Germany (Zaha Hadid) - Linsdale Beach House, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand (Herbst Architects) - Handmade School, Rudrapur, Bangladesh (Anna Heringer and Eike Roswang) - 474 Wing House, Santa Monica Mountains, Malibu, California (David Hertz) - Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, British Columbia (Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden) - Vertical Farm, Harlem, New York (Chris Jacobs) - Hedge Building, Rostock, Germany (Kempe Thill) - Sidwell Middle Friends School, Washington DC (KieranTimberlake) - Telefonica District C, Las Tablas, Madrid (Rafael De La-Hoz) - Water+Life Museums Campus, Hemet, California (Michael B Lehrer) - Environmental education centre, Hoorn, Netherlands (MIII Architects) - Wood house, Ville-d'Avray, France (Marchi Architectes) – San Francisco Federal Building (Morphosis) - BIP Computer Office & Shop, Providencia, Santiago de Chile (Alberto Moro) - Putrajaya Precinct 4 waterfront development, Kuala Lumpur (Manfredi Nicoletti) - Helios House, Los Angeles (Office DA) - Macallen Building, Boston, Massachusetts (Office DA) - Zhong-Xiao Boulevard Urban Ecological Corridor, Taipei (Sergio Palleroni) - Renovation and expansion of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (Renzo Piano) - Heifer International World Headquarters, Little Rock, Arkansas (Polk Stanley Rowland Curzon Porter) - Digestible Gulf Stream, 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (Philippe Rahm) - World Wide Fund for Nature, Zeist, Netherlands (RAU) - Hybrid Earthship, Tao, New Mexico (Michael Reynolds) - Westend Grun, Berlin (Roswag & Jankowski) - Christine's House, Mason's Bend, Alabama (Rural Studio) - Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Inujima, Japan (Hiroshi Sambuichi) - Fondazione Pierto Rossini Pavilion, Briosco, Italy (Site) - Streetscape in a new world, Beijing (Site) - Masdar Headquarters, Abu Dhabi (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture) - Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California (Ken Smith Landscape Architect) - H16, Tieringen, Germany (Werner Sobek) - Hotel Remota, Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile (German del Sol) - Salam Center for Cardia Surgery, Soba, Sudan (Studio Tamassociati) - Forest House, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand (Chris Tate) - Vigilius Mountain Resort, Lana, Italy (Matteo Thun) - Mosaic House, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan (TNA) - IBG and Tax Offices, Groningen, Netherlands (UNStudio) - Post Rotterdam, Netherlands (UNStudio) - ASLA Green Roof, Washington DC (Michael van Valkenburgh) - Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle (Weiss/Manfredi) - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan (Why Architecture) - Mewah Oils Headquarters, Pulau Indah Park, Port Klang, Salangor, Malaysia (Ken Yeang) - The New National Library Board Building, Singapore (Ken Yeang) - Rafflesia Zero Energy House, Kuala Lumpur (Zoka Zola) - Solar Tower, Chicago (Zoka Zola)…”

“…Uno de los intervinientes en la cobertura del riesgo de dependencia, que se incardina dentro del sistema de global de protección a la dependencia, lo constituyen los instrumentos privados, tal y como se refleja en la disposición adicional séptima de la Ley 39/2006, de 14 de diciembre, de Promoción de Autonomía Personal y Atención a las Personas en Situación de Dependencia. …”
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“…International researchers and practitioners, particularly young researchers, who are active in adult learning and in local/global communities will be interested in this book. …”

“…Depletion of energy resources, the complexity of their extraction, and transportation are also problems of a global scale. Therefore, it is especially important nowadays to try to take care of nature and think about the resources that are necessary for future generations. …”

“…The authors proposed different MADM and MODM solution models as integrated tools to find a balance between the components of sustainable global development, to find a symmetry axis concerning goals, risks, and constraints to cope with the complicated problems. …”

“…Global crop production must substantially increase to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. …”

“…The European Union considers it vital to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C with respect to pre-industrial levels, as it has been proven that this will result in irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes. …”

“…"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene. …”

“…Il décrit comment émergent et s’organisent ces mobilisations à la fois au niveau local et global, et rend compte également des mutations sociologiques qu’elles induisent. …”

“…Northern Australia stands out as one of the largest natural areas remaining on Earth- alongside such global treasures as the Amazon rainforests, the boreal conifer forests of Alaska and Canada, and the polar wilderness of Antarctica. …”

“…It has benefited substantially from global trade, finance, openness and the rules-based international order. …”

“…Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. …”

“…With more than 25 years of observations, it is also becoming vital to climate research, providing accurate measurements of sea level variations from regional to global scales. Altimetry has also demonstrated a strong potential for geophysical, cryospheric, and hydrological research and is now commonly used for the monitoring of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet topography and of terrestrial surface water levels. …”

“…This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are being played out. …”

“…The presence of this dichotomy derives from the unresolved historical dialogues that the diasporic youths experience between continuity and disruption, essence and positionality, tradition and translation, homogeneity and difference, past and future, 'here' and 'there', 'roots' and 'routes', and local and global Besprochen in: Critical Sociology, 28/3 (2002), Gokce Yurdakul Forum Qualitative Social Research, 4/1 (2003), Wolff Michael Roth…”

“…NTCIR is a series of evaluation forums run by a global team of researchers and hosted by the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. …”