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Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

By: Chiara Brambilla,Jussi Laine,Gianluca Bocchi

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Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

By: Chiara Brambilla,Jussi Laine,Gianluca Bocchi

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ’challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and living borders under contemporary globalization.

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Routledge

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131717304X

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9781317173045

An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology

A Road Map for Wildlife Management and Conservation

By: Corrado Battisti,Gianluca Poeta,Giuliano Fanelli

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An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology

A Road Map for Wildlife Management and Conservation

By: Corrado Battisti,Gianluca Poeta,Giuliano Fanelli

This book represents an introductory review of disturbance ecology and threat analysis, providing schematic concepts and approaches useful for work on sites that are affected by the impact of human actions. It is aimed at conservation and environmental practitioners, who will find tips for choosing methods and approaches when there are conflicts between the natural components and human activity. It is also addressed to students of applied ecology, ecosystem management, land-use planning and environmental impact assessment. It discusses a number of topics covered in the programs of many university courses related to basic ecology and ecology of disturbance, the latter constituting a field of great interest because of its implications and repercussions in applied territorial science. The book is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the theoretical and disciplinary framework of the ecology of disturbance, while the second is devoted to the analysis of anthropogenic threats. This, in particular, discusses the most recent approach, which uses a conventional nomenclature to allow a coarse-grained quantification and objective assessment of threat impact on different environmental components. Such an approach facilitates the comparison of hierarchically different events and, therefore, helps define the priorities for management and conservation strategies.

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187

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Springer

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3319324764

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9783319324760

Internal Combustion Engines

By: Giancarlo Ferrari,Angelo Onorati,Gianluca D'Errico

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Internal Combustion Engines

By: Giancarlo Ferrari,Angelo Onorati,Gianluca D'Errico

Internal combustion engines are among the most fascinating and ingenious machines which, with their invention and continuous development, have positively influenced the industrial and social history during the last century, especially by virtue of the role played as propulsion technology par excellence used in on-road private and commercial transportation. Nowadays, the growing attention towards the de-carbonization opens up new scenarios, but IC engines will continue to have a primary role in multiple sectors: automotive, marine, offroad machinery, mining, oil & gas and rail, power generation, possibly with an increasing use of non-fossil fuels. The book is organized in monothematic chapters, starting with a presentation of the general and functional characteristics of IC engines, and then dwelling on the details of the fluid exchange processes and the definition of the layout of intake and exhaust systems, obviously including the supercharging mechanisms, and continue with the description of the injection and combustion processes, to conclude with the explanation of the formation, control and reduction of pollutant emissions and radiated noise.

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701

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Società Editrice Esculapio

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ISBN 13

9791221375985

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

By: Dr Chiara Brambilla,Dr Jussi Laine,Professor Gianluca Bocchi,Professor James W. Scott

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By: Dr Chiara Brambilla,Dr Jussi Laine,Professor Gianluca Bocchi,Professor James W. Scott

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ‘challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and living borders under contemporary globalization.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472451481

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9781472451484

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

By: Chiara Brambilla,Jussi Laine,Gianluca Bocchi

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By: Chiara Brambilla,Jussi Laine,Gianluca Bocchi

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1317173058

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Book's by Gianluca Bocchi

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology

An Introduction to Disturbance Ecology

Internal Combustion Engines

Internal Combustion Engines

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making

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