Tag: Toward

Balancing Petroleum Policy Toward Value, Sustainability, and Security


Free Download Alexander Huurdeman, "Balancing Petroleum Policy: Toward Value, Sustainability, and Security"
English | ISBN: 1464813841 | 2019 | 296 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Petroleum discovery in a country presents its policy makers with a challenging and complex task: formulating and agreeing on policies that will shape the country’s petroleum sector and guide the translation of the newly discovered resources into equitable and sustainable economic and social growth for the nation over the long term. Balancing Petroleum Policy provides policy makers and other stakeholders with the basic sector-related knowledge they need to embark on this task. It introduces a number of topics: the petroleum value chain and pivotal factors affecting value creation, a consultative process for developing a nation’s common vision on key petroleum development objectives, design of a legislative and contractual framework, petroleum fiscal regimes and their administration, prudent fiscal management, transparency and governance, environmental and social safeguards, and economic diversification through industrial linkages. Although much of the material is relevant to designing policies for the development of the petroleum sector in general, the book gives special focus to developing countries, countries in a federal or devolved setting, and countries that have experienced or are still experiencing civil conflict. With this focus in mind, the book examines three questions―ownership, management, and revenue sharing of petroleum resources―that are central to petroleum policy in any federal or devolved state. It also offers important perspectives on how to prevent violent conflicts related to such resources. Petroleum policies tend to vary significantly from country to country, as do the objectives that such policies aim to achieve in the specific context of each particular country. Although there is no one-size-fits-all policy and there are no clear-cut answers to the many potential policy dilemmas associated with the discovery of petroleum resources, this publication may help policy makers find the right balance among the chosen objectives―and the right policy choices to achieve these objectives.

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Managing High-Stakes Risk Toward a New Economics for Survival


Free Download M. Jablonowski, "Managing High-Stakes Risk: Toward a New Economics for Survival"
English | ISBN: 0230238270 | 2009 | 171 pages | EPUB | 429 KB
The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher. These challenges include environmental pollution, fragile financial systems and the threat of widespread geopolitical violence. This book suggests that a return to natural risk levels – those in accordance with naturally occurring background levels – is both desirable and achievable.

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Bad and Boujee Toward a Trap Feminist Theology


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English | ISBN: 1666712760 | 2022 | 142 pages | EPUB | 257 KB
This book engages with the overlap of black experience, hip-hop music, ethics, and feminism to focus on a subsection known as "trap feminism" and construct a Trap Feminist Theology. Interacting with concepts of moral agency, resistance, and imagination, Trap Feminist Theology seeks to build an intersectional theology emphasizing women’s agency in their bodies and sexuality while also remaining faithful to the "trap" context from which they are socially located. Such a project will redefine the "trap" context from one of marginalization to one of joy and flourishing within black feminist theology. This theology overlaps with black ethics in subversive empowerment that forms a new normative ethic and family system within a subsect of the black community. Trap feminism emerges out of trap culture, where the black woman is creating a space outside of the barriers of poverty harnessing autonomy, employment, and agency to allow for a reinvention of self-identity while remaining faithful to social location.

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Psychedelic Revival Toward a New Paradigm of Healing [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D361W8LW | 2024 | 15 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 429 MB
Author: Sean Lawlor
Narrator: Justin Price

For psychotherapists and inner explorers, an expansive, multidimensional odyssey into the history, practice, and potential of psychedelic healing. Now that the stigmas against psychedelic medicine are finally lifting, there’s a lot of curiosity-and confusion-about these powerful compounds. How can psychedelics be used safely? What are the risks? Can they truly help heal the wide variety of conditions that has garnered such international attention? In Psychedelic Revival, Sean Lawlor invites you on a deep dive into the science, spirituality, and practice of psychedelic healing-a revival of both the first wave of pre-1960s research and ancient healing traditions with plant medicines. Join this respected author and researcher to gain a full-spectrum understanding of the possibilities and limits of psychedelics.

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Psychedelic Justice Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture [Audiobook]


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English | March 17, 2022 | ASIN: B09SQ9X3P8 | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 20m | 407 MB
Authors: Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Monnica Williams, Diana Negrin, Belina Eriacho, NiCole Buchanan, Erik Davis, Celina de Leon | Narrators: Anthony Cloyd, Keyonni James
Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and visions for an inclusive and equitable future.
As psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapies explode into the popular consciousness, what does it mean to cultivate and embody a psychedelic renaissance that learns from the past and prepares for the future?

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Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History


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English | ISBN: 9004537929 | 2024 | 165 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book argues for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of classical historical materialism to the musicological project. It begins by interrogating the history of encounters between music studies and Marxism before offering a framework for understanding style history in terms of changes in the forces and relations of musical production.

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