Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester...

Social Forces;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago By Harold L. Platt University of Chicago Press, 2005. 628 pages. $49 (cloth) I am certain Harold Platt wishes his book were not so awfully timely. His encyclopedic Shock Cities, a comparative ...

Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester...

Urban History Review;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Platt, Harold. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Alexis de Tocqueville saw it as a monstrosity...

"The Environmental Transformation of the Ruhr"

Environmental History;  July 1, 2005 ;     62 words ...von Petz, Ursula. "The Environmental Transformation of the Ruhr." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh...

GBP400 million for low-carbon Britain - Defra announces 2008/09 budget...

M2 Presswire;  February 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......years. As part of the domestic Environmental Transformation Fund (ETF), the Carbon Trust...establishment of the domestic Environmental Transformation Fund, jointly funded by Defra...the domestic element of the Environmental Transformation Fund from GBP370 million to...

Elvin, Mark: The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of...

History: Review of New Books;  September 22, 2004 ;     395 words ......is among a good group of scholarly studies on the environmental transformation of various parts of the world. The book is divided...water-control engineering works on the long-term environmental transformation of the country is discussed in chapters 5 and 6...

Environmental Transformation Fund.(CORPORATE ROUND UP)(Brief article)

United Kingdom Environment News;  November 1, 2007 ;     73 words ...The Government has announced that a further 170m [pounds sterling] will be invested in the Environmental Transformation Fund. The Fund now contains a total of 1.2bn [pounds sterling] to develop low-carbon technologies both in the UK and overseas...

GBP170 million boost for low-carbon energy technology.

M2 Presswire;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......million for the cross-Government Environmental Transformation Fund (ETF). The new domestic...total investment through the Environmental Transformation Fund to GBP1.2 billion between...Basin. Notes to Editors 1. The Environmental Transformation Fund was first announced in...

Defra Ministers give boost to Biogas.

M2 Presswire;  July 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......GBP10 million available from the Environmental Transformation Fund for developing better use...demonstrator programme. 2. The Environmental Transformation Fund (ETF) is a new initiative...around GBP10 million from the Environmental Transformation Fund to help build a number...

ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......This initiative is part of our continuing USACE Environmental Transformation program. Although we are currently focused on the...Command), this effort is an outgrowth of previous Environmental Transformation work. To ensure we have maximized environmental services...

The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion

Economic Geography;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Arnold attempts to link changing views of nature and environmental transformation to the expansion of Europe overseas. The first two...heath has served as a model for much later work on environmental transformation around the globe. A more fundamental criticism is...

DEFRA:2007 pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review.

M2 Presswire;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......period; * GBP570 million for an Environmental Transformation Fund (which totals over GBP1...the domestic element of the Environmental Transformation Fund, which will be funded jointly...international element of the Environmental Transformation Fund which will be funded jointly...

2007 pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review; Increased...

M2 Presswire;  October 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......period; * GBP570 million for an Environmental Transformation Fund (which totals over GBP1...the domestic element of the Environmental Transformation Fund, which will be funded jointly...international element of the Environmental Transformation Fund which will be funded jointly...

BABBITT WARMS UP TO EARTH DAY

The Boston Globe;  April 24, 2001 ;     192 words ......Interior Department secretary during the Clinton administration. "Climate change is the most dangerous, ominous environmental transformation of our time," he told a Sanders Theatre audience Sunday in his first public speech since leaving office. Introduced...

"Eco-Spirituality, Neo-Paganism and the Hindu...

Resources for Feminist Research;  March 22, 2006 ;     98 words ......Winter 2004/5), pp. 19-22. This article analyzes the difficulties of using conceptions of the sacred to motivate environmental transformation. Specifically, it looks at various religions or religiosity through issues of ecology. Anthropological studies indicate...

Britain slammed for demanding repayment of climate aid

The Hindustan Times;  May 17, 2008 ;     475 words ......from developing country diplomats and NGOs. The UK Environmental Transformation Fund, announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in...Gareth Thomas - as saying: "UK contributions from the environmental transformation fund... will need to be primarily concessional loans...