Clare Ryan

John Marzluff

marina Alberti

Wilfried Endlicher

Eric Shulenberger

Gordon Bradley

Craig ZumBrunnen

Ute Simon

Urban Ecology is a rapidly growing field of academic and practical significance. Urban ecologists have published several conference proceedings and regularly contribute to the ecological, architectural, planning, and geography literature. However, important papers in the field that set the foundation for the discipline and illustrate modern approaches from a variety of perspectives and regions of the world have not been collected in a single, accessible book. Foundations of Urban Ecology does this by reprinting important European and American publications, filling gaps in the published literature with a few, targeted original works, and translating key works originally published in German. This edited volume will provide students and professionals with a rich background in all facets of urban ecology. The editors emphasize the drivers, patterns, processes and effects of human settlement. The papers they synthesize provide readers with a broad understanding of the local and global aspects of settlement through traditional natural and social science lenses. This interdisciplinary vision gives the reader a comprehensive view of the urban ecosystem by introducing drivers, patterns, processes and effects of human settlements and the relationships between humans and other animals, plants, ecosystem processes, and abiotic conditions. The reader learns how human institutions, health, and preferences influence, and are influenced by, the others members of their shared urban ecosystem.

An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature

Urban Ecology

Alec Stone Sweet

In this book, Stone Sweet and Ryan provide an accessible introduction to Kantian constitutional theory and the law and politics of European rights protection. Part I sets out Kant's blueprint for achieving Perpetual Peace and constitutional justice within and beyond the nation state. Part II applies these ideas to explain the gradual constitutionalization of a Cosmopolitan Legal Order: a transnational legal system in which justiciable rights are held by individuals; where public officials bear the obligation to fulfil the fundamental rights of all who come within the scope of their jurisdiction; and where domestic and transnational judges supervise how officials act. Such an order was instantiated in Europe through the combined effects of Protocol no. 11 (1998) to the ECHR and the incorporation of the Convention into national law. The authors then describe and assess the strengthening of the European Court's capacities to meet the challenge of chronic failures of protection at the domestic level; its progressive approach to the "qualified" rights covering privacy and family life, and the freedoms of expression, conscience, and religion; the robust enforcement of the "absolute" rights, including the prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment; and its determined efforts to render justice to all people that come under its jurisdiction, including non-citizens whose rights are violated beyond Europe. Today, the Strasbourg Court is the most active and important rights-protecting court in the world, its jurisprudence a catalyst for the construction of a cosmopolitan constitution in Europe and beyond.

Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order

Running on Fear This story is about fear and its corrosive effects on people who learn to be afraid too young and too well. Steve Holden, the boss of a US Pharmaceutical company in Ireland, has a tried and tested method of overcoming his life-long fear. Pass it on. Make others afraid so he can be strong. It is an illusion that is shattered when he is forced to face the consequences of his behavior just as his dreams for the plant he's brought to the brink of great success is threatened by the failure to pass an audit by the US Food and Drug Administration. His boss Mike Klein arrives in Ireland to deal with a crisis when he'd expected to be doing a victory lap. The management team has been run into the ground, infected by a noxious fear that could be fatal, for them, the plant and its employees and for Mike's own career in ACME Pharma.

Running on Fear

Clare Ryan

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