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Description / Table of Contents: Multiple roles of clays in radioactive waste confinement – introduction / Simon Norris / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 1-9, 10 May 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482-2019-4 --- Identification of log units in clay rock formations based on local and spatial statistics of well-log properties: application to the Opalinus claystone in the Benken borehole / Alain Rabaute, Michel H. Garcia and Jens Becker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 11-24, 1 February 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482-2018-22 --- Automatic interpretation of geophysical well logs / Andrés Alcolea Rodríguez, Paul Marschall, Christophe Nussbaum and Jens Karl Becker / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 25-38, 21 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.9 --- A prediction–evaluation approach to the full-scale emplacement experiment (FE) in Mont Terri / A. Papafotiou, R. Senger, C. Li, A. Singh, B. Garitte, H. Müller and P. Marschall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 39-73, 8 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.10 --- New results of Boda Claystone research: Genesis, mineralogy, geochemistry, petrophysics / Ferenc Fedor, Zoltán Máthé, Péter Ács and Péter Koroncz / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 75-92, 7 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.13 --- Site screening of clay formations in NW China as host rocks for a high-level radioactive waste disposal repository / Xiaodong Liu, Pinghui Liu, Chaocheng Dai, Shuai Liu, Juzhi Deng, Weimin Zhang and Zheng Yu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 93-99, 24 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.17 --- Multiphase flow and underpressured shale at the Bruce nuclear site, Ontario, Canada / Michael R. Plampin and C. E. Neuzil / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 101-114, 7 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.5 --- Development of a mathematical model for gas migration (two-phase flow) in natural and engineered barriers for radioactive waste disposal / E. E. Dagher, T. S. Nguyen and J. A. Infante Sedano / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 115-148, 29 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.14 --- A workflow for parametric sensitivity analysis of heat and gas release from a deep geological repository for SF/HLW / Alexandros Papafotiou, Argha Namhata, Abhishek Singh, Mark Williams, Marius Jigmond and Paul Marschall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 149-173, 7 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.2 --- A study of methods to prevent piping and erosion in buffer materials intended for a vertical deposition hole at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory / Mayumi Jo, Makoto Ono, Masashi Nakayama, Hidekazu Asano and Tomoko Ishii / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 175-190, 21 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.7 --- Preliminary results for natural groundwater colloids in sedimentary rocks of the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan / Hiroshi Sasamoto and Shingo Onda / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 191-203, 7 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.1 --- A resistivity-based approach to determining the rates of groundwater seepage into buffer materials / T. Ishii, M. Kawakubo, H. Asano, I. Kobayashi, P. Sellin, D. Luterkort and P. Eriksson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 205-212, 24 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.16 --- Self-sealing of claystone under X-ray nanotomography / Richard Giot, Christophe Auvray and Jean Talandier / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 213-223, 7 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.4 --- Kinetics of selenite interactions with Boom Clay: adsorption–reduction interplay / Alwina L. Hoving, Melanie A. Münch, Christophe Bruggeman, Dipanjan Banerjee and Thilo Behrends / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 225-239, 12 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482-2018-60 --- Modelling the Prototype Repository / V. Tsitsopoulos, S. Baxter, D. Holton, J. Dodd, S. Williams and S. Thompson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 241-260, 7 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.15 --- Conceptual uncertainties in modelling the interaction between engineered and natural barriers of nuclear waste repositories in crystalline rocks / S. Finsterle, B. Lanyon, M. Åkesson, S. Baxter, M. Bergström, N. Bockgård, W. Dershowitz, B. Dessirier, A. Frampton, Å. Fransson, A. Gens, B. Gylling, I. Hančilová, D. Holton, J. Jarsjö, J.-S. Kim, K.-P. Kröhn, D. Malmberg, V. M. Pulkkanen, A. Sawada, A. Sjöland, U. Svensson, P. Vidstrand and H. Viswanathan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 261-283, 7 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.12 --- Predictions of the wetting of bentonite emplaced in a crystalline rock based on generic site characterization data / S. Baxter, D. Holton, S. Williams and S. Thompson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 285-300, 7 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.8 --- Analysis of corrosion mechanisms of carbon steel in contact with FEBEX bentonite / Masao Uyama, Takashi Hitomi, Sayaka Hayagane, Naoe Kadota, Hiroyuki Saito, Sho Okamoto, Kazuki Aoshima and Motoaki Osawa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 301-312, 12 March 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482-2018-6 --- Safety concept, FEP catalogue and scenario development as fundamentals of a long-term safety demonstration for high-level waste repositories in German clay formations / A. Lommerzheim, M. Jobmann, A. Meleshyn, S. Mrugalla, A. Rübel and L. Stark / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 313-329, 21 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.6 --- Preliminary non-intrusive geophysical electrical resistivity tomography surveys of a mock-up scale monitoring of an engineered barrier system at URL Tournemire / Bruna de Carvalho Faria Lima Lopes, Cédric Sachet, Philippe Sentenac, Vojtěch Beneš, Pierre Dick, Johan Bertrand and Alessandro Tarantino / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 331-345, 21 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.11 --- The Enhanced Sealing Project (ESP): 2009–17 monitoring of a full-scale shaft seal installed in granitic rock / D. Dixon, D. Priyanto, J. Hansen, R. Farhoud and A. ŽivkoviĆ / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 482, 347-359, 7 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP482.3

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Climate Crisis and the Cultural Imagination / pp. 1–22 --- Chapter 1. Collapse / pp. 23–48 --- Chapter 2. Pastoral / pp. 49–78 --- Chapter 3. Urban / pp. 79–104 --- Chapter 4. Polar / pp. 105–132 --- Conclusion / pp. 133–145

Description / Table of Contents: Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life. Applying this approach to works by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh, Literature as Cultural Ecology is an essential contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.

Description / Table of Contents: Naples and the porous landscapes of ecomafia and volcanic eruptions; death in Venice as a literary trope and a petrochemical curse; earthquakes and political moves that shake territories, people, and ideas cross-country; the slow pace of wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont: these are some of the texts that this book narrates and analyses. Here stories of justice, cultural visions, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, ecosystems and body cells, pollution and redemption. Ecocriticism and Italy reads Italy as a text - a compound text made of matter and imagination - always keeping in mind the link between the horizon of this country and the world’s larger ecology of ideas and matter. Challenging stereotypes and ambivalent clichés, this book uses ecocriticism as a way to give voice to the forces, wounds, and messages of creativity dispersed on Italy’s body, arguing that a literature, an art, and a criticism that are able to transform these unexpressed voices into stories - into our stories - are not only ways to resist. They are a practice of liberation. | Table of Contents: Introduction, pp. 1–12 --- Chapter 1. Bodies of Naples : A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity, pp. 13–46 --- Chapter 2. Cognitive Justice and the Truth of Biology : Death (and Life) in Venice, pp. 47–82 --- Chapter 3. Three Earthquakes : Wounds, Signs, and Resisting Arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L’Aquila, pp. 83–124 --- Chapter 4. Slow : Stories of Landscapes, Resistance, and Liberation, pp. 125–156

Description / Table of Contents: Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Available technology and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and ecological destruction. Business as usual is not an option. There is an urgent need to find a new development paradigm that ensures environmental sustainability while managing to provide, now and in the future, a decent livelihood for all of humankind. In Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, experts in the area provide a variety of insights about the technical transformation needed for sustainable development. It spells out the behavioural and policy changes that would need to accompany the next technological transformation, taking into account the complexity of inducing technological change in the energy and agricultural sectors. The assessment suggests that this will require major, but doable improvements in national innovation systems and major, but affordable shifts in investment patterns and related macroeconomic adjustments.