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Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

AIDS (Disease) --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- 20th century. --- aids epidemic. --- anthropologists. --- chinese culture. --- chinese government. --- chinese society. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural politics. --- ethnic discrimination. --- ethnic dynamics. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- han. --- history of prejudice. --- hiv aids. --- infectious diseases. --- minority experience. --- post reform era. --- public health crisis. --- public health policies. --- sex workers. --- social historians. --- social stigmas. --- southwest china. --- thailand. --- yunnan province.

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This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, the complicated topography, human activities and regional climate changes. This study also analyzes the response of glaciers to climate change so that on the one hand it clearly reflects the relationship between glacier morphologic changes and climate change; on the other, it reveals the mechanism of action of climate warming as a balance between energy and matter. The achievements of this study reflect a significant contribution to the body of research on the response of climate in cold regions, glaciers and human activities to a global change against the background of the typical monsoon climate, and have provided scientific basis for predictions, countermeasures against disasters from extreme weather, utilization of water and the establishment of counterplans to slow and adapt to climate change. Zongxing Li works at the Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Environment. --- Climate Change. --- Climatology. --- Meteorology. --- Environmental sciences. --- Climatic changes. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Climat --- Changements --- Climate -- China. --- Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- China, Southwest. --- Glaciers -- China, Southwest. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- China, Southwest. --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Southwest China --- Climate change. --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Global environmental change

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The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important “export” product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.

Finance --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- History. --- China, Southwest --- Southwest China --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Commerce --- S03/0612 --- S03/0624 --- S03/0625 --- S10/0210 --- S10/0220 --- S10/0300 --- S10/0610 --- S10/0620 --- History --- China: Geography, description and travel--Sichuan --- China: Geography, description and travel--Guizhou --- China: Geography, description and travel--Yunnan --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: 1840 - 1911 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Money and banking: general and before 1911 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Foreign trade and economic relations: before 1842 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Foreign trade and economic relations: 1842 - 1949 --- E-books

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Globally, fire regimes are being altered by changing climatic conditions and land use changes. This has the potential to drive species extinctions and cause ecosystem state changes, with a range of consequences for ecosystem services. Accurate prediction of the risk of forest fires over short timescales (weeks or months) is required for land managers to target suppression resources in order to protect people, property, and infrastructure, as well as fire-sensitive ecosystems. Over longer timescales, prediction of changes in forest fire regimes is required to model the effect of wildfires on the terrestrial carbon cycle and subsequent feedbacks into the climate system.This was the motivation to publish this book, which is focused on quantifying and modelling the risk factors of forest fires. More specifically, the chapters in this book address four topics: (i) the use of fire danger metrics and other approaches to understand variation in wildfire activity; (ii) understanding changes in the flammability of live fuel; (iii) modeling dead fuel moisture content; and (iv) estimations of emission factors.The book will be of broad relevance to scientists and managers working with fire in different forest ecosystems globally.

fire danger rating --- fire management --- fire regime --- fire size --- fire weather --- Portugal --- critical LFMC threshold --- forest/grassland fire --- radiative transfer model --- remote sensing --- southwest China --- acid rain --- aerosol --- biomass burning --- forest fire --- PM2.5 --- direct estimation --- meteorological factor regression --- moisture content --- time lag --- forest fire driving factors --- forest fire occurrence --- random forest --- forest fire management --- China --- Cupressus sempervirens --- fire risk --- fuels --- fuel moisture content --- mass loss calorimeter --- Seiridium cardinale --- vulnerability to wildfires --- disease --- alien pathogen --- allochthonous species --- introduced fungus --- drying tests --- humidity diffusion coefficients --- wildfire --- prescribed burning --- modeling --- drought --- flammability --- fuel moisture --- leaf water potential --- plant traits --- climate change --- MNI --- fire season --- fire behavior --- crown fire --- fire modeling --- senescence --- foliar moisture content --- canopy bulk density --- fire danger --- fire weather patterns --- RCP --- FWI system --- SSR --- occurrence of forest fire --- machine learning --- variable importance --- prediction accuracy --- epicormic resprouter --- eucalyptus --- fire severity --- flammability feedbacks --- temperate forest --- n/a

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The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia. Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso

Vulnerable Populations --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- Social Medicine. --- Politics. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Colonialism. --- Anthropology --- Subjectivity. --- Globalization --- Colonization --- Diseases --- Medical anthropology. --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Colonisation --- Imperialism --- Land settlement --- Colonies --- Decolonization --- Emigration and immigration --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Dissent and Disputes --- Medicine, Social --- Public Health --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- psychology. --- methods. --- Social aspects. --- Anthropological aspects --- aids. --- alterity. --- anthropology. --- asylum. --- balkan territory. --- burma. --- colonialism. --- conspiracy. --- constitution of the subject. --- emasculation. --- gender studies. --- haiti. --- history. --- human rights abuses. --- indonesia. --- infant death. --- infectious disease. --- interpretive politics. --- intervention. --- ireland. --- israel and palestine. --- lombok. --- madness. --- marginality. --- medical anthropology. --- medical. --- migrants. --- political. --- postcolonialism. --- psychiatry. --- republic of congo. --- southwest china. --- spain. --- subjection. --- subjectivity. --- vietnam. --- vietnamese refugees. --- violence.