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Prioritizing the Environment in Urban Sustainability Planning

Policies and Practices of Canadian Cities

By: Natasha Tang Kai,Larry Swatuk

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Prioritizing the Environment in Urban Sustainability Planning

Policies and Practices of Canadian Cities

By: Natasha Tang Kai,Larry Swatuk

This book examines the extent to which the environment is addressed in the sustainability plans of Canadian cities. It assesses if and to what extent select leading environmental priorities are addressed in the sustainability plans of sixteen Canadian cities, followed by analysis of efforts towards each priority. It scores and ranks cities against each environmental priority and highlights what makes some cities lead and others lag in environmental sustainability. The book unravels the complexity, similarities, and differences in environmental sustainability planning across major cities in Canada. The project reflects what’s working, who’s leading, and which environmental priorities support the sustainable city model. Climate change has exacerbated the impacts of flood, droughts, wildfire and storms, urban centers must account for sustainability to mitigate and adapt to a changing and uncertain landscape. It begins with robust and integrative sustainability plans that prioritize the environment. This book will make a timely contribution to the on-going debate regarding the ways and means to become a sustainable city. It reflects the on-going sustainable development discourse and deliberations to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. It cut across many SDGs in particular SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities. What makes this study unique is its special attention to environmental priorities within urban sustainability planning. This subject is topical and would appeal to both scholars and practitioners at local, regional, national, and global scales.

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159

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Springer Nature

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3031465229

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9783031465222

Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan

By: Natasha Heller

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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan

By: Natasha Heller

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention with adult readers. Surveying Taiwanese Buddhism from the ground up, Heller explores the changing family dynamics that have made children into a crucial audience for Buddhist education and the home a key site for Buddhist cultivation. By taking picturebooks seriously as part of the Buddhist textual tradition, Heller demonstrates their engagement with canonical sources alongside innovations for modern audiences. Close readings analyzing both text and image trace narrative themes about Buddhist figures, and connect representations of buddhas and bodhisattvas to a visual culture where new values such as cuteness are articulated. Heller shows that picturebooks have become an integral part of a contemporary Buddhist education that equips children with strategies to interpret everyday life in Buddhist ways and provides religious models for action in the modern world. Literature for Little Bodhisattvas is a pathbreaking work revealing how contemporary picturebooks reframe Buddhism and offer fresh perspectives on its teachings and ideals of family for both children and adults.

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272

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University of Hawaii Press

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ISBN 13

9798880700400

Illusory Abiding

The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben

By: Natasha Heller

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Illusory Abiding

The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben

By: Natasha Heller

A groundbreaking monograph on Yuan dynasty Buddhism, Illusory Abiding offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the eminent Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Natasha Heller demonstrates that Mingben, and other monks of his stature, developed a range of cultural competencies through which they navigated social and intellectual relationships. They mastered repertoires internal to their tradition—for example, guidelines for monastic life—as well as those that allowed them to interact with broader elite audiences, such as the ability to compose verses on plum blossoms. These cultural exchanges took place within local, religious, and social networks—and at the same time, they comprised some of the very forces that formed these networks in the first place. This monograph contributes to a more robust account of Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China, and demonstrates the importance of situating monks as actors within broader sociocultural fields of practice and exchange.

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496

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BRILL

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1684175437

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9781684175437

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes

By: Andrea Kendall-Taylor,Natasha Lindstaedt,Erica Frantz

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Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes

By: Andrea Kendall-Taylor,Natasha Lindstaedt,Erica Frantz

The only introduction to cover the full spectrum of political systems, from democracy to dictatorship and the growing number of systems that fall between, equipping readers to think critically about democracy's future trajectory.

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019882081X

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Prioritizing the Environment in Urban Sustainability Planning

Prioritizing the Environment in Urban Sustainability Planning

Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

Illusory Abiding

Illusory Abiding

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes

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