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"Biogenetic paradoxes of the nation is an ethnography of the patterns and paradoxes developing around the 1992 global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) treaty, which allowed the 196 signing countries to claim sovereignty over nonhuman life. Under this treaty, biodiversity is defined through the politics of nationhood and codified into commodifiable genetic resources. Focusing on the ethical dilemmas and legal aporias of this political and economic framework, Tamminen shows how the CBD's policies serve biodiversity conservation only in name, contributing more to the global neoliberal practice of ecological imperialism than to preservation. Through exploring how more-than-human worlds have formed an important part of the Finnish national imaginary prior to the signing of the CBD, and how the treaty has affected these relationships, Tamminen shows that in order to transform the "nation," we must change our understanding not only of what it means to be human, but also what it means to be in relationship with these more-than-human worlds."--Provided by publisher.

Biodiversity conservation --- Nature and nurture. --- Life sciences --- Government policy --- Social aspects

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Development. --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Urban, Rural and Regional Development. --- Ecology. --- Euthenics. --- Nature and nurture. --- Environment --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Eugenics --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological fitness --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Ecology --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Environmental effects on human beings --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental

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Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Intercultural communication --- Emotions --- History. --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural. --- Dynamics of Transcultural Encounters. --- Global History. --- History of Emotions. --- Nurture and Nature.

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"Natural resources, and the materials derived from them, represent the physical basis for the economic system. Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in demand for these resources, which has triggered interest from policy makers in transitioning to a more resource efficient and circular economy. This report presents a typology of five circular business models that could support the transition to a more resource efficient and circular economy: circular supply, resource recovery, product life extension, sharing, and product service system models. It reviews the current market penetration and assesses the potential scalability of each business model. Environmental potential is also discussed, as well as risks and unintended consequences that could result from a more widespread adoption of these business models. The report provides a broad set of policy approaches that could help alleviate some of the barriers that currently hinder the widespread adoption of circular business models."--Page 4 of cover.

Adaptation (Biology) --- Finance and Investment. --- Force and energy. --- Ecology. --- Euthenics. --- Nature and nurture. --- Power (Mechanics) --- Power resources. --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Mechanics --- Environment --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Eugenics --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Self-organizing systems --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological fitness --- Conservation of energy --- Correlation of forces --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Ecology --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Environmental effects on human beings --- Environmental adaptation --- Adaptation, Environmental --- Finance. --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question

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"How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to the complexity of Earth systems in their vast scales of time and space. The book is organized into three sections-terrarium, aquarium, planetarium, each of which revisits such devices of wonder that assemble publics around representations of the Earth. The series of architectural projects becomes a medium to synthesize different forms and scales of knowledge on technological externalities, such as oil extraction, deep-sea mining, ocean acidification, water shortage, air pollution, trash, space debris, and a host of other social-ecological issues. Through design research, Geostories brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with such legacy technologies on the planet."--

Architecture --- Architecture and climate. --- Human beings --- Human geography. --- Architecture et climat --- Homme --- Géographie humaine --- Environmental aspects. --- Effect of environment on. --- Effect of climate on. --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Influence de l'environnement --- Influence du climat --- Architecture and climate --- Human geography --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Climatology --- Acclimatization --- Medical climatology --- Environmental effects on human beings --- Nature and nurture --- Climate and architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of climate on --- Climatic factors --- Influence of climate --- 72.504 --- 72.504 Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- 72:574 --- Architectuur ; omgevingsfactoren ; menselijke factoren --- Architectuur en klimatologie ; klimaat --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Environnement --- Utopie urbaine --- Architecture climatique --- Protection de l'environnement