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Who Rules the Earth?

How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives

By: Paul F. Steinberg

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Who Rules the Earth?

How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives

By: Paul F. Steinberg

Worldwide, half a million people die from air pollution each year-more than perish in all wars combined. One in every five mammal species on the planet is threatened with extinction. Our climate is warming, our forests are in decline, and every day we hear news of the latest ecological crisis. What will it really take to move society onto a more sustainable path? Many of us are already doing the "little things" to help the earth, like recycling or buying organic produce. These are important steps-but they're not enough. In Who Rules the Earth?, Paul Steinberg, a leading scholar of environmental politics, shows that the shift toward a sustainable world requires modifying the very rules that guide human behavior and shape the ways we interact with the earth. We know these rules by familiar names like city codes, product design standards, business contracts, public policies, cultural norms, and national constitutions. Though these rules are largely invisible, their impact across the planet has been dramatic. By changing the rules, Ontario, Canada has cut the levels of pesticides in its waterways in half. The city of Copenhagen has adopted new planning codes that will reduce its carbon footprint to zero by 2025. In the United States, a handful of industry mavericks designed new rules to promote greener buildings, and transformed the world's largest industry into a more sustainable enterprise. Steinberg takes the reader on a series of journeys, from a familiar walk on the beach to a remote village deep in the jungles of Peru, helping the reader to "see" the social rules that pattern our physical reality and showing why these are the big levers that will ultimately determine the health of our planet. By unveiling the influence of social rules at all levels of society-from private property to government policy, and from the rules governing our oceans to the dynamics of innovation and change within corporations and communities-Who Rules the Earth? is essential reading for anyone who understands that sustainability is not just a personal choice, but a political struggle.

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Oxford University Press

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0199896623

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9780199896622

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia

By: Paul F. Steinberg

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Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia

By: Paul F. Steinberg

The first in-depth study of the politics of environmental policy reform in developing countries, with emphasis on Costa Rica and Bolivia.

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MIT Press

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026269266X

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9780262692663

Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimation

Volume II: Regression

By: Paul P. Eggermont,Vincent N. LaRiccia

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Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimation

Volume II: Regression

By: Paul P. Eggermont,Vincent N. LaRiccia

Unique blend of asymptotic theory and small sample practice through simulation experiments and data analysis. Novel reproducing kernel Hilbert space methods for the analysis of smoothing splines and local polynomials. Leading to uniform error bounds and honest confidence bands for the mean function using smoothing splines Exhaustive exposition of algorithms, including the Kalman filter, for the computation of smoothing splines of arbitrary order.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387689028

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9780387689029

The Road to Martyrs' Square

A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber

By: Anne Marie Oliver,Paul F. Steinberg

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The Road to Martyrs' Square

A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber

By: Anne Marie Oliver,Paul F. Steinberg

Don't expect to find here the usual clichés about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refugee family in Gaza at the beginning of the intifada, and offer a gritty, poetic portrait of the time. They also provide an unrivalled documentary of the underground media they collected during the course of six years in the area. Although they could not have surmised as much at the beginning, they soon found themselves led through these media into the world of the suicide bomber. Their early study, notably, anticipated the spread of suicide missions years in advance. Dispensing with the platitudes and dogma that typify discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the authors show that the suicide bomber is a complex, contradictory construction, and can be explained neither in terms of cold efficacy nor sheer evil. Theirs is the only book on the subject to illustrate the ecstatic, intoxicating aspects of suicide missions, and provide extensive access to materials that have remained largely unseen in the West despite the fact that they have served as indispensable tools in the construction and propagation of the suicide bomber. The book contains 86 illustrations drawn from the authors' archive as well as numerous conversations with leaders and followers of Hamas, including a rare interview with a suicide bomber whose bomb failed to explode on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem. Here is an important and timely work that will challenge the way we think about the intifada, suicide bombers, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Oxford University Press

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0198027567

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Mental Health of Refugees

Etiology and Treatment

By: Paul M.G. Emmelkamp

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Mental Health of Refugees

Etiology and Treatment

By: Paul M.G. Emmelkamp

The book provides a comprehensive review of mental health in refugees by discussing its multiple dimensions, and analyzing epidemiology, etiology, and culturally adapted assessment and treatment. Key topics include why certain refugees cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, and the biological, psychological, and social processes underlying posttraumatic stress disorder, common mental disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders. The text examines topics such as complexities of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery for refugees. Furthermore, the roles of culture, social support, and mental health workers in the process of overcoming mental health problems in refugees are discussed. Together, the chapters provide an in-depth examination of the current understood causes, and impacts of mental health problems and treatment of refugees to inform future work in the field. The book gives its readers a solid basis for understanding mental health problems of refugees and sets out to present practitioners with a state-of-the-art summary of all the latest developments and practical guidance. Furthermore, this book provides the practitioner with instructions on how culturally adapted treatments can be used not only with adults, but also with children and young people to help the practitioner to prepare for working with this difficult client group. Drawing from a range of different fields of study, this text will appeal to readers across psychological, mental health, medical, and academic disciplines.

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Springer Nature

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3031340787

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Who Rules the Earth?

How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives

By: Paul F. Steinberg

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Who Rules the Earth?

How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives

By: Paul F. Steinberg

Climate change and its attendant environmental catastrophes--droughts, wildfires, floods, heat waves, and so on--are no longer a looming threat; they're here, now. In this age of well-warranted environmental panic, every trip to the grocery store or purchase from Amazon must become a full-scale research project. Are these tomatoes local? Is this water bottle BPA-free? Did I remember to bring a canvas tote, or will I have to risk contributing to landfills by accepting a plastic bag? The ethos that one person's choices can make a difference is admirable, but ultimately misguided. In Who Rules the Earth?, Paul F. Steinberg, one of America's leading scholars on the politics of environmentalism, draws from the latest social science research to explain why there is room for hope. Green consumer choices and changes in personal lifestyles are important, but they are not nearly enough. Lasting social change requires modifying the very rules that guide human behavior and shape the ways we interact with the Earth. We know these rules by familiar names like city ordinances, product design standards, purchasing agreements, public policies, cultural norms, or national constitutions. Though these rules are largely invisible to us, their impact across the world has been dramatic. By changing the rules, the Canadian province of Ontario cut the levels of pesticides in its waterways in half. The city of Copenhagen has adopted new planning codes that will reduce its carbon footprint to zero by 2025. In the United States, a handful of industry mavericks designed new rules to promote greener buildings, and transformed the world's largest industry into a more sustainable enterprise. Steinberg takes the reader on a series of journeys, from a familiar walk on the beach to a remote village deep in the jungles of Peru, helping the reader to "see" the social rules that pattern our physical reality and showing why these are the big levers that will ultimately determine the health of our planet. Unveiling the influence of social rules at all levels of society-from private property to government policy, and from the rules governing our oceans to the dynamics of innovation and change within corporations and communities-Who Rules the Earth? is essential reading for anyone interested in bringing about real environmental change"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199896615

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Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia

By: Paul F. Steinberg

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Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia

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The first in-depth study of the politics of environmental policy reform in developing countries, with emphasis on Costa Rica and Bolivia.

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Who Rules the Earth?

Who Rules the Earth?

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimation

Maximum Penalized Likelihood Estimation

The Road to Martyrs' Square

The Road to Martyrs' Square

Mental Health of Refugees

Mental Health of Refugees

Who Rules the Earth?

Who Rules the Earth?

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries

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