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GIScience Teaching and Learning Perspectives (Advances in Geographic Information Science)
by Shivanand Balram James BoxallThis volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of GIScience education, including current trends and future educational needs in GIScience, and will act as a resource to prepare learners for a world that demands more intensive investment in present-day education and technological literacy. Additionally, the indirect benefit of merging the fragmented literature on GIScience literacy will provide a basis to examine common techniques and enable a new wave of research more rooted in learning theories. In ten chapters, the book is designed to attract an audience from geographic information systems science, geomatics, spatial information science, cartography, information technology, and educational technology as focus disciplines.
Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology)
by Nitsan ChorevGive and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development. While foreign aid has been attacked by critics as wasteful, counterproductive, or exploitative, Nitsan Chorev makes a clear case for the effectiveness of what she terms “developmental foreign aid.”Against the backdrop of Africa’s pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, the battle against AIDS and malaria, and bitter negotiations over affordable drugs, Chorev offers an important corrective to popular views on foreign aid and development. She shows that when foreign aid has provided markets, monitoring, and mentoring, it has supported the emergence and upgrading of local production. In instances where donors were willing to procure local drugs, they created new markets that gave local entrepreneurs an incentive to produce new types of drugs. In turn, when donors enforced exacting standards as a condition to access those markets, they gave these producers an incentive to improve quality standards. And where technical know-how was not readily available and donors provided mentoring, local producers received the guidance necessary for improving production processes.Without losing sight of domestic political-economic conditions, historical legacies, and foreign aid’s own internal contradictions, Give and Take presents groundbreaking insights into the conditions under which foreign aid can be effective.
Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology)
by Nitsan ChorevGive and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development. While foreign aid has been attacked by critics as wasteful, counterproductive, or exploitative, Nitsan Chorev makes a clear case for the effectiveness of what she terms “developmental foreign aid.”Against the backdrop of Africa’s pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, the battle against AIDS and malaria, and bitter negotiations over affordable drugs, Chorev offers an important corrective to popular views on foreign aid and development. She shows that when foreign aid has provided markets, monitoring, and mentoring, it has supported the emergence and upgrading of local production. In instances where donors were willing to procure local drugs, they created new markets that gave local entrepreneurs an incentive to produce new types of drugs. In turn, when donors enforced exacting standards as a condition to access those markets, they gave these producers an incentive to improve quality standards. And where technical know-how was not readily available and donors provided mentoring, local producers received the guidance necessary for improving production processes.Without losing sight of domestic political-economic conditions, historical legacies, and foreign aid’s own internal contradictions, Give and Take presents groundbreaking insights into the conditions under which foreign aid can be effective.
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better
by Derek A. BardowellDo you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more radical giving if we want to contribute to a better world. During a period when British society seems more divided than ever, and our decision makers are even more disconnected from the issues that keep us awake at night, Giving Back highlights the people and movements taking on some of the most challenging social issues of our time.A respected figure in philanthropy, Derek A. Bardowell presents a unique insight into what's going on inside the world of giving and where we can best make a difference.From redefining the role of charity itself to reimagining philanthropy through a reparative lens, Bardowell introduces a radical new take on how social problems, from climate change to racial injustice, can be tackled in modern society by all of us.Filled with lively insights and moving stories, Giving Back is here to break down the walls of charitable giving. If you loved Factfulness, Lost Connections, and What White People Can Do Next, this book will challenge some of your truths and change the way you give.What people are saying about Derek A. Bardowell:'Personal, political, powerful.' Bernardine Evaristo'Important and timely... Deeply felt and illuminating... Essential reading for everyone committed to fairness and equality in life.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars'A valuable act of remembrance... While wealth may confer privileges, it doesn't rid you of melanin or exempt you from prejudice.' Colin Grant, Guardian'Bardowell does an excellent and passionate job of refracting the issues.' Financial Times'I absolutely loved it!... Such a good read on so many levels.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars
Giving Future Generations a Voice: Normative Frameworks, Institutions and Practice
This important book focuses on how newly emerging institutions for future generations can contribute to tackling large scale global environmental problems, such as threats to biodiversity and climate change. It is especially timely given the new global impetus for decarbonisation, as well as the huge growth of climate litigation and climate protest movements, often led by young people.Global environmental crises and reactions against short-term thinking have spawned new institutions aimed at giving a voice to future generations in policy-making, such as dedicated commissioners. This book looks at why we need such institutions using approaches from ethics, human rights, sustainable development, intergenerational justice and administrative law. How to design such institutions to maximise their effectiveness, operating principles for such institutions, and case studies from around the world are canvassed. A range of reform proposals are also explored, including mainstreaming future generations’ voices in parliamentary processes, commissioners for future generations, human rights-based bodies and deliberative assemblies.This collection brings together philosophers, political and social scientists, lawyers and practitioners. It provides both an introduction to the field and a scholarly in-depth set of studies. It will appeal to academics, policymakers and civil society.
Giving Voice to Values-based Leadership: How to Develop Good Organizations Through Work on Values (Giving Voice to Values)
by Gry Espedal Frank ElterThe complexity facing today’s organizations calls for a rethinking of leadership. The world is facing grand challenges for people and the planet. Leaders and employees bear the responsibility of formulating strategies grounded in strong values. These strategies aim to foster the growth of sustainable organizations and promote ethical work practices. This book gives voice to values-based leadership and provides a method for leaders to develop a values-based organizational culture. Values play a role on many levels in how we work as individual leaders, in teams, and in organizations and in how organizations approach societal challenges. Values can be a compass or orientation point, giving direction for decisions and actions. Awareness of values can make organizational responsibilities clearer and give a sense of meaning to work and help leaders to create organizations where corporate, moral, and social values are embedded at every level. This book gives insight into a Scandinavian values-based leadership model built on the institutional leadership tradition. It provides processes and practices that leaders can use to develop organizations where values are continuously nurtured. The book provides practical ideas of how leaders can work on becoming conscious of both the organization’s explicit and implicit values, as well as working on the direction of the organization and its broader organizational culture. This book will be an invaluable resource for both practitioners and graduate students interested in leadership and organizational development.
Giving Voice to Values-based Leadership: How to Develop Good Organizations Through Work on Values (Giving Voice to Values)
by Gry Espedal Frank ElterThe complexity facing today’s organizations calls for a rethinking of leadership. The world is facing grand challenges for people and the planet. Leaders and employees bear the responsibility of formulating strategies grounded in strong values. These strategies aim to foster the growth of sustainable organizations and promote ethical work practices. This book gives voice to values-based leadership and provides a method for leaders to develop a values-based organizational culture. Values play a role on many levels in how we work as individual leaders, in teams, and in organizations and in how organizations approach societal challenges. Values can be a compass or orientation point, giving direction for decisions and actions. Awareness of values can make organizational responsibilities clearer and give a sense of meaning to work and help leaders to create organizations where corporate, moral, and social values are embedded at every level. This book gives insight into a Scandinavian values-based leadership model built on the institutional leadership tradition. It provides processes and practices that leaders can use to develop organizations where values are continuously nurtured. The book provides practical ideas of how leaders can work on becoming conscious of both the organization’s explicit and implicit values, as well as working on the direction of the organization and its broader organizational culture. This book will be an invaluable resource for both practitioners and graduate students interested in leadership and organizational development.
Glacial Deposits- Moraines (large print)
by RnibThis page shows a plan view of a glacier. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. A glacier comes from the top centre of the page towards the centre of the page. A side glacier comes from the top left of the page and joins the other glacier. Both glaciers have lateral moraines along their sides. Where the two glaciers meet the two lateral moraines join to form a medial moraine in the centre left of the larger combined glacier. The glacier used to go to the bottom of the page where there is a terminal moraine. It now only gets halfway down the page as it is retreating, revealing a newly glaciated valley. A retreating glacier does not go backwards; it is still always flowing down the mountain. It is simply melting faster than it is flowing forward, giving the appearance of retreating .
Glacial Deposits- Moraines (UEB contracted)
by RnibThis page shows a plan view of a glacier. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. A glacier comes from the top centre of the page towards the centre of the page. A side glacier comes from the top left of the page and joins the other glacier. Both glaciers have lateral moraines along their sides. Where the two glaciers meet the two lateral moraines join to form a medial moraine in the centre left of the larger combined glacier. The glacier used to go to the bottom of the page where there is a terminal moraine. It now only gets halfway down the page as it is retreating, revealing a newly glaciated valley. A retreating glacier does not go backwards; it is still always flowing down the mountain. It is simply melting faster than it is flowing forward, giving the appearance of retreating.
Glacial Deposits- Moraines (UEB uncontracted)
by RnibThis page shows a plan view of a glacier. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. A glacier comes from the top centre of the page towards the centre of the page. A side glacier comes from the top left of the page and joins the other glacier. Both glaciers have lateral moraines along their sides. Where the two glaciers meet the two lateral moraines join to form a medial moraine in the centre left of the larger combined glacier. The glacier used to go to the bottom of the page where there is a terminal moraine. It now only gets halfway down the page as it is retreating, revealing a newly glaciated valley. A retreating glacier does not go backwards; it is still always flowing down the mountain. It is simply melting faster than it is flowing forward, giving the appearance of retreating.
Glacial Environments (PDF)
by Michael J. HambreyEnhanced by photographic illustrations of extraordinary quality, this text should provide students with a complete introduction to the scientific study of environments dominated by snow and ice. Emphasizing the range of erosional and depositional landforms, drawing on the older geological record, according due attention to the marine environment, and covering all relevant parts of the world - this book should find a wide readership among students of geography, geology and environmental science.; The author has published many research papers and has also been joint-author, co-author or co-editor of six book-length publications.; This book is intended for undergraduate students of glacial environments geomorphology, glaciology/hydrology in departments of geography, environmental sciences and geology.
Glacial Erosion (large print)
by RnibThis page shows two images. There is a cross section at the top of the page and a plan view at the bottom of the page. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The cross section view shows a corrie. The mountain peak is in the top left with the steep back wall of the corrie coming sharply down and right. The floor of the corrie is the bowl shaped depression in the bottom centre of the image. This is where the snow accumulates and eventually turns to ice. This flows over the lip on the right. It continues flowing to the right as a glacier. The ice is not shown. The image at the bottom of the page shows a mountain peak seen from above in the centre of the image. There is corrie to the left and right, and a corrie at the top and bottom of the image. Each corrie is separated from its neighbour by a high narrow ridge. The corrie on the right has a small lake in it called a tarn.
Glacial Erosion (UEB contracted)
by RnibThis page shows two images. There is a cross section at the top of the page and a plan view at the bottom of the page. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The cross section view shows a corrie. The mountain peak is in the top left with the steep back wall of the corrie coming sharply down and right. The floor of the corrie is the bowl shaped depression in the bottom centre of the image. This is where the snow accumulates and eventually turns to ice. This flows over the lip on the right. It continues flowing to the right as a glacier. The ice is not shown. The image at the bottom of the page shows a mountain peak seen from above in the centre of the image. There is corrie to the left and right, and a corrie at the top and bottom of the image. Each corrie is separated from its neighbour by a high narrow ridge. The corrie on the right has a small lake in it called a tarn.
Glacial Erosion (UEB uncontracted)
by RnibThis page shows two images. There is a cross section at the top of the page and a plan view at the bottom of the page. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The cross section view shows a corrie. The mountain peak is in the top left with the steep back wall of the corrie coming sharply down and right. The floor of the corrie is the bowl shaped depression in the bottom centre of the image. This is where the snow accumulates and eventually turns to ice. This flows over the lip on the right. It continues flowing to the right as a glacier. The ice is not shown. The image at the bottom of the page shows a mountain peak seen from above in the centre of the image. There is corrie to the left and right, and a corrie at the top and bottom of the image. Each corrie is separated from its neighbour by a high narrow ridge. The corrie on the right has a small lake in it called a tarn.
Glacial Features (large print)
by RnibThis page shows four images. There are two at the top of the page and two at the bottom of the page. The two on the left are of a drumlin and the two on the right show the formation of a kettle hole. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The image in the top left shows a side view of a drumlin. It is higher and bigger on the left. The glacier would have flowed from the left to the right. The image at the bottom left of the page shows the drumlin seen from above. It is widest on the left and tapers to the right. Again the glacier would have flowed from the left to the right. The image in the top right of the page is a cross section showing a large block of ice that has broken off a retreating glacier and is buried in the ground. Deposits from the glacier cover it. The cross section image in the bottom right of the page shows that a kettle hole has been made when the block of ice melted.
Glacial Features (UEB contracted)
by RnibThis page shows four images. There are two at the top of the page and two at the bottom of the page. The two on the left are of a drumlin and the two on the right show the formation of a kettle hole. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The image in the top left shows a side view of a drumlin. It is higher and bigger on the left. The glacier would have flowed from the left to the right. The image at the bottom left of the page shows the drumlin seen from above. It is widest on the left and tapers to the right. Again the glacier would have flowed from the left to the right. The image in the top right of the page is a cross section showing a large block of ice that has broken off a retreating glacier and is buried in the ground. Deposits from the glacier cover it. The cross section image in the bottom right of the page shows that a kettle hole has been made when the block of ice melted.
Glacial Features (UEB uncontracted)
by RnibThis page shows four images. There are two at the top of the page and two at the bottom of the page. The two on the left are of a drumlin and the two on the right show the formation of a kettle hole. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The image in the top left shows a side view of a drumlin. It is higher and bigger on the left. The glacier would have flowed from the left to the right. The image at the bottom left of the page shows the drumlin seen from above. It is widest on the left and tapers to the right. Again the glacier would have flowed from the left to the right. The image in the top right of the page is a cross section showing a large block of ice that has broken off a retreating glacier and is buried in the ground. Deposits from the glacier cover it. The cross section image in the bottom right of the page shows that a kettle hole has been made when the block of ice melted.
Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms
by Matthew M. Bennett Neil F. GlasserThe new Second Edition of Glacial Geology provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology and geomorphology. It is has been thoroughly revised and updated from the original First Edition. This book will appeal to all students interested in the landforms and sediments that make up glacial landscapes. The aim of the book is to outline glacial landforms and sediments and to provide the reader with the tools required to interpret glacial landscapes. It describes how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape. The Second Edition is presented in the same clear and concise format as the First Edition, providing detailed explanations that are not cluttered with unnecessary detail. Additions include a new chapter on Glaciations around the Globe, demonstrating the range of glacial environments present on Earth today and a new chapter on Palaeoglaciology, explaining how glacial landforms and sediments are used in ice-sheet reconstructions. Like the original book, text boxes are used throughout to explain key concepts and to introduce students to case study material from the glacial literature. Newly updated sections on Further Reading are also included at the end of each chapter to point the reader towards key references. The book is illustrated throughout with colour photographs and illustrations.
Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms
by Matthew R. Bennett Neil F. GlasserThe new Second Edition of Glacial Geology provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology and geomorphology. It is has been thoroughly revised and updated from the original First Edition. This book will appeal to all students interested in the landforms and sediments that make up glacial landscapes. The aim of the book is to outline glacial landforms and sediments and to provide the reader with the tools required to interpret glacial landscapes. It describes how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape. The Second Edition is presented in the same clear and concise format as the First Edition, providing detailed explanations that are not cluttered with unnecessary detail. Additions include a new chapter on Glaciations around the Globe, demonstrating the range of glacial environments present on Earth today and a new chapter on Palaeoglaciology, explaining how glacial landforms and sediments are used in ice-sheet reconstructions. Like the original book, text boxes are used throughout to explain key concepts and to introduce students to case study material from the glacial literature. Newly updated sections on Further Reading are also included at the end of each chapter to point the reader towards key references. The book is illustrated throughout with colour photographs and illustrations.
Glacial Geomorphology: A proceedings volume of the Fifth Annual Geomorphology Symposia Series, held at Binghamton New York September 26–28, 1974
by Donald R. CoatesThis proceedings volume is the fifth in our continuing publication series that result from the annual geomorphology symposiums conducted in the Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at Binghamton. The First proceedings Environmental Geomorphology spoke to an emerging Geld that is becoming ever more popular and necessary in today's complex world. The Second proceedings, Quantitative Geomorphology, again cross-cut many of the geomorphic subdisciplines and united them with one of the most important methodologies of the science. The Third and Fourth proceedings, Coastal Geomorphology and Fluvial Geomorphology, zeroed in on analysis of the special processes that comprise the fundamental building blocks of geomorphic research. The present volume continues this trend ht showing how the dynamic processes associated with glaciation transform the landscape. There are many different avenues for expression of scientific ideas, but the knowledge and publication explosion creates hardships for those who attempt to keep in tune with their specialties. It is not our purpose to add an unnecessary burden to this verbage increase. Instead we feel there comes a time when reassessment of the vital fabric of geomorphology is necessary and where geomorphologists can gather as a group to share their newest ideas. The more than 300 participants who have been attending these yearly symposia attest that this type of event helps fi11 a communications gap.
Glacial Isostasy, Sea-Level and Mantle Rheology (Nato Science Series C: #334)
by R. Sabadini K. Lambeck E. Boschiby K. Lambeck, R. Sabadini and E. B08Chi Viscosity is one of the important material properties of the Earth, controlling tectonic and dynamic processes such as mantle convection, isostasy, and glacial rebound. Yet it remains a poorly resolved parameter and basic questions such as whether the planet's response to loading is linear or non-linear, or what are its depth and lateral variations remain uncertain. Part of the answer to such questions lies in laboratory observations of the rheology of terrestrial materials. But the extrapolation of such measurements from the laboratory environment to the geological environment is a hazardous and vexing undertaking, for neither the time scales nor the strain rates characterizing the geological processes can be reproduced in the laboratory. General rules for this extrapolation are that if deformation is observed in the laboratory at a particular temperature, deformation in geological environments will occur at a much reduced temperature, and that if at laboratory strain rates a particular deformation mechanism dominates over all others, the relative importance of possible mechanisms may be quite different at the geologically encountered strain rates. Hence experimental results are little more than guidelines as to how the Earth may respond to forces on long time scales.
GLACIAL LANDSYSTEMS
by David Evans Liz GoosterThis book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models the many processes, forms and interactions that can be found in glaciated landscapes throughout the world. Landsystems models allow the glacial geologist and geomorphologist to evaluate these landscapes in relation to the dynamics of glaciation and to climate and geology. Glacial Landsystems brings together the expertise of an international range of specialists to provide an up-to-date summary of landsystems relevant to both modern and ancient glacier systems and also in the reconstruction and interpretation of former glacial environments. The models are applicable at all scales from ice sheets to small valley glaciers.This book is an essential reference for anyone embarking upon research or engineering surveys in glaciated basins and provides a wide-ranging handbook of glacial landsystem types for students of glaciation.
GLACIAL LANDSYSTEMS (A\hodder Arnold Publication)
by David Evans Liz GoosterThis book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models the many processes, forms and interactions that can be found in glaciated landscapes throughout the world. Landsystems models allow the glacial geologist and geomorphologist to evaluate these landscapes in relation to the dynamics of glaciation and to climate and geology. Glacial Landsystems brings together the expertise of an international range of specialists to provide an up-to-date summary of landsystems relevant to both modern and ancient glacier systems and also in the reconstruction and interpretation of former glacial environments. The models are applicable at all scales from ice sheets to small valley glaciers.This book is an essential reference for anyone embarking upon research or engineering surveys in glaciated basins and provides a wide-ranging handbook of glacial landsystem types for students of glaciation.
Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products (International Association Of Sedimentologists Series #23)
by Michael J. Hambrey Poul Christoffersen Neil F. Glasser Bryn HubbardAssociating ice masses with the transport and deposition of sediments has long formed a central theme in glaciology and glacial geomorphology. The reason for this focus is clear, in that ice masses are responsible for much of the physical landscape which characterizes the Earth's glaciated regions. This association also holds at a variety of scales, for example, from the grain-size characteristics of small-scale moraines to the structural architecture of large-scale, glacigenic sedimentary sequences in both surface and subaqueous environments. This volume brings numerous state-of-the-art research contributions together, each relating to a different physical setting, spatial scale, process or investigative technique. The result is a diverse and interesting collection of papers by glaciologists, numerical modellers and glacial geologists, which are all linked by the theme of investigating the relationships between the behaviour of ice masses and their resulting sedimentary sequences.
Glaciated Continental Margins: An Atlas of Acoustic Images
by Thomas A. Davies Trevor Bell Alan K. Cooper Heiner Josenhans Leonid Polyak Anders Solheim Martyn S. Stoker Jay A. StraversLate Cenozoic glaciation directly affected sedimentation on more than half the Earth's continental shelves. Ice continues to be a dominant influence on sedimentation around Greenland and Antarctica, and on the shelves facing the Arctic Ocean. The features of these shelves include true glacimarine features, i.e. those found in a marine environment in proximityto, or strongly under the influence of, ice, such as iceberg scours and pits, ice gouges and incisions, subglacial outwash deposits, and diamictons resulting from ice rafting. Also seen, because large areas of the shelves were exposed during the Pleistocene lowering of sea level, are terrestrial glacial and periglacial features, e.g. fluvial outwash valleys and associated deposits, tunnel valleys, drumlin fields and lodgement till, which have subsequently been submerged and modified by marine influences. Glaciated Continental Margins: An Atlas of Acoustic Images illustrates the complexity of features found in glaciated and formerly glaciated marine environments. The volume was assembled by an international Editorial Committee, led by Thomas A. Davies (University of Texas), from records gathered in the course of recent research and contributed by members of the scientific community from around the world. These include seismic sections, side-scan maps, and 3-D seismic data, supplemented in some cases by bottom photographs and core data, with accompanying text. The work is scientists at 40 institutions in 10 countries is represented. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, Quaternary scientists, glaciologists, marine geologists and geophysicists, geotechnical engineers, and surveyors teachers working in universities, research institutions and government agencies with interests in polar and subpolar regions, as well as those in industries with offshore interests.