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    Encyclopedia of global environmental governance and politics (2015)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar
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    Call number: PIK N 071-16-89990
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Alphabetical list of entries -- Figures and tables -- Editors and contributors -- Preface -- Part I Concepts and Definitions -- 1 Anthropocene and planetary boundaries -- 2 Consumerism -- 3 Earth system governance -- 4 Environment and nature -- 5 Global environmental governance -- 6 Inclusive development -- 7 Liberal environmentalism and governance norms -- 8 Risk -- 9 Sustainable development -- Part II Theories and Methods -- 10 Constructivism and sociological institutionalism -- 11 Cost-benefit analysis -- 12 Deep ecology -- 13 Deliberative policy analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Feminism -- 15 Governmentality -- 16 Integrated assessment modeling -- 17 Neo-Gramscianism -- 18 Neoliberal institutionalism -- 19 Qualitative comparative analysis -- 20 Quantitative comparative analysis -- 21 Simulations -- 22 Teaching global environmental governance -- 23 World society -- Part III Actors -- 24 Civil society -- 25 European Union -- 26 Individuals -- 27 International bureaucracies -- 28 Media -- 29 Private sector -- 30 Religious movements -- 31 Scientists and experts -- 32 States -- 33 United Nations -- Part IV Institutions -- 34 Clubs -- 35 International organizations
    Description / Table of Contents: 36 Mega-conferences -- 37 Private environmental governance -- 38 Public-private partnerships -- 39 Regimes -- Part V Issue Areas -- 40 Air pollution -- 41 Arctic -- 42 Biological diversity -- 43 Biosafety and genetically modified organisms -- 44 Chemicals -- 45 Climate change -- 46 Desertification -- 47 Fisheries and whaling -- 48 Forestry -- 49 Hazardous waste -- 50 Ocean space -- 51 Ozone depletion -- 52 Phosphorus -- 53 Renewable energy -- 54 Water -- 55 Wetlands -- Part VI Cross-Cutting Questions and Emerging Topics -- 56 Effectiveness -- 57 Environmental policy diffusion
    Description / Table of Contents: 58 Environmental policy integration -- 59 Green economy -- 60 Institutional fragmentation -- 61 Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals -- 62 Orchestration -- Part VII Borders and Interlinkages -- 63 Agriculture -- 64 Food -- 65 Health -- 66 Poverty -- 67 Security -- 68 Trade -- Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the governance and politics of the environment, particularly students, researchers and practitioners. This comprehensive reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains entries on numerous aspects of global environmental governance and politics, including concepts and definitions; theories and methods; actors; institutions; issue-areas; cross-cutt
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    Pages: XXXI, 563 S. , Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781782545781 , 9781782545798 (print) , 1782545786 (print)
    Language: English
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    Handbook on wealth and the super-rich (2016)
    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Call number: PIK B 160-16-90168
    Description / Table of Contents: Front matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1. They've 'never had it so good': the rise and rise of the super-rich and wealth inequality -- 2. Reconsidering the super-rich: variations, structural conditions and urban consequences -- PART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY -- 3. Historical geographies of wealth: opportunities, institutions and accumulation, c. 1800-1930 -- 4. On plutonomy: economy, power and the wealthy few in the second Gilded Age -- 5. Interrogating the legitimacy of extreme wealth: a moral economic perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Billionaire philanthropy: 'decaf capitalism' -- 7. Making money and making a self: the moral career of entrepreneurs -- 8. Taking up Caletrío's challenge: silence and the construction of wealth eliteness in Jamie Johnson's documentary film Born Rich -- 9. 'One time I'ma show you how to get rich!' Rap music, wealth and the rise of the hip-hop mogul -- 10. Biographies of illicit super-wealth -- PART II LIVING WEALTHY -- 11. Capital city? London's housing markets and the 'super-rich' -- 12. The residential spaces of the super-rich
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Reconfiguring places - wealth and the transformation of rural areas -- 14. Performing wealth and status: observing super-yachts and the super-rich in Monaco -- 15. Flights of indulgence (or how the very wealthy fly): the aeromobile patterns and practices of the super-rich -- 16. Looking at luxury: consuming luxury fashion in global cities -- 17. The luxury of nature: the environmental consequences of super-rich lives -- PART III WEALTH AND POWER -- 18. Attracting wealth: crafting immigration policy to attract the rich -- 19. Sovereign wealth and the nation-state
    Description / Table of Contents: 20. Super-rich capitalism: managing and preserving private wealth management in the offshore world -- 21. Troubling tax havens: multi-jurisdictional arbitrage and corporate tax footprint reduction -- 22. No change there! Wealth and oil -- Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Fewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a unique examination of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution. Drawing on a multiplicity of international examples, leading experts from across the social sciences offer a landmark multidisciplinary contribution to emerging analyses of the global super-rich and their astonishing wealth. The book's 22 accessible and coherently organised chapters cover a ran
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    Pages: XI, 482 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    ISBN: 1783474041 (print) , 9781783474042 (print) , 9781783474035 (print)
    Language: English
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    Python data science handbook : essential tools for working with data (2016)
    Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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    Call number: PIK M 032 21-94663
    Description / Table of Contents: Array Indexing: Accessing Single ElementsArray Slicing: Accessing Subarrays; Reshaping of Arrays; Array Concatenation and Splitting; Computation on NumPy Arrays: Universal Functions; The Slowness of Loops; Introducing UFuncs; Exploring NumPy's UFuncs; Advanced Ufunc Features; Ufuncs: Learning More; Aggregations: Min, Max, and Everything in Between; Summing the Values in an Array; Minimum and Maximum; Example: What Is the Average Height of US Presidents?; Computation on Arrays: Broadcasting; Introducing Broadcasting; Rules of Broadcasting; Broadcasting in Practice
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    Pages: 529 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9781491912133
    Language: English
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    FinanzArchiv : public finance analysis (1884-)
    Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck ; 1.1884 - 48.1931; N.F. 1.1932/33 - 10.1943/44(1945),3; 11.1948/49(1949) -
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    Call number: ZS 22.95039
    Type of Medium: Journal available for loan
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    ISSN: 1614-0974 , 0015-2218 , 0015-2218
    URL: https://www.jstor.org/journal/finaarch
    URL: http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2143985
    URL: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/zeitschrift/finanzarchiv-fa
    URL: https://www.jstor.org/journal/finaarch
    Language: German , English
    Note: N.F. entfällt ab 57.2000. - Volltext auch als Teil einer Datenbank verfügbar , Ersch. ab 2000 in engl. Sprache mit dt. Hauptsacht.
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    Efficiently inefficient : how smart money invests and market prices are determined (2015)
    Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton University Press
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    Call number: PIK B 130-15-0139
    Description / Table of Contents: Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money-and why they sometimes don't. Pedersen views markets as neither perfectly efficient nor completely inefficient. Rather, they are inefficient enough that money managers can be compensated for their costs through the profits of their trading strategies and efficient e
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    Pages: XIV,348 S. , graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 9780691166193
    URL: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780691166193.pdf
    Language: English
    Note: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Main Themes in Three Simple Tables; Preface; Who Should Read the Book?; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; i. Efficiently Inefficient Markets; ii. Global Trading Strategies: Overview of the Book; iii. Investment Styles and Factor Investing; Part I Active Investment; Chapter 1 Understanding Hedge Funds and Other Smart Money; Chapter 2 Evaluating Trading Strategies: Performance Measures; Chapter 3 Finding and Backtesting Strategies: Profiting in Efficiently Inefficient Markets; Chapter 4 Portfolio Construction and Risk Management. , Chapter 5 Trading and Financing a Strategy: Market andPart II Equity Strategies; Chapter 6 Introduction to Equity Valuation and Investing; Chapter 7 Discretionary Equity Investing; Interview with Lee S. Ainslie III of Maverick Capital; Chapter 8 Dedicated Short Bias; Interview with James Chanos of Kynikos Associates; Chapter 9 Quantitative Equity Investing; Interview with Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management; Part III Asset Allocation and Macro Strategies; Chapter 10 Introduction to Asset Allocation: The Returns to the Major Asset Classes; Chapter 11 Global Macro Investing. , Interview with George Soros of Soros Fund ManagementChapter 12 Managed Futures: Trend-Following Investing; Interview with David Harding of Winton Capital Management; Part IV Arbitrage Strategies; Chapter 13 Introduction to Arbitrage Pricing and Trading; Chapter 14 Fixed-Income Arbitrage; Interview with Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes; Chapter 15 Convertible Bond Arbitrage; Interview with Ken Griffin of Citadel; Chapter 16 Event-Driven Investments; Interview with John A. Paulson of Paulson & Co.; References; Index.
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    Global sustainability : cultural perspectives and challenges for transdisciplinary integrated research (2015)
    Cham [u.a.] : Springer
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    Call number: PIK N 071-15-89205
    Description / Table of Contents: This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and sustainability policies were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. They are largely based on investigations of living spaces, and the evolution and differentiation of varied life forms. This perspective is embedded in the practical and theoretical European problem situations of the past and lacks social and cultural differentiation. The transformation of spatial and natural relations as a result of the globalization process is so radical that new theories are needed to solve 21st century ecological problems. Moreover, in view of the lack of an ontologically sound and promising strategy for transdisciplinary problem solving, as well as an acceptable consideration of the power of cultural schemas relating to natural living’s interpretations, there is a strong need to focus on sustainable social practices, habits, and routines, rather than on predominantly living spaces or eco-topes. This book elaborates on the transdisciplinary approach by reflecting on the theoretical heritage and a global perspective of sustainability, by focusing on the primary role of a social approach in sustainability research, and by putting emphasis on cultural dimension of sustainability. It postulates that global sustainability is grounded in a global understanding of our everyday activities
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    Pages: XV, 300 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 9783319164779 , 9783319164762
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16477-9
    Language: English
    Note: Introduction; Benno WerlenPreface: Speech at TIERS Conference in Jena on 8 June 2012; Matthias Machnig -- PART I: INTEGRATED TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH -- Chapter 1: Sustainability and Territory: An Approach from the Perspective of the Imaginary in Shaping Development; Enrique Aliste -- Chapter 2: Challenges for Transdisciplinary Research; Joske Bunders -- Chapter 3: Narratives for a Sustainable Future. Vision and Motivation for Collective Action; Ilan Chabay -- PART II: KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 4: Carving a Niche for the Social Sciences in Trans-disciplinary Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Agriculture in Southern Africa; Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya -- Chapter 5: From Co-Production of Knowledge to Transdisciplinary Research. Lessons from the Quest for Producing Socially Robust Knowledge; Juergen Weichselgartner and Bernhard Truffer -- PART III: INTERFACES SOCIETY NATURE -- Chapter 6: Terrestrial Ecosystems Dynamic in the Senegalese Agro-silvopastoral Center-east in the Second Half of the XXe Century; Aliou Dijouf and Matthew G. Hatvany -- Chapter 7: Integrated Global Change Research in West Africa: Flood Vulnerability Studies; Ibidun Adelekan -- Chapter 8: Integrated Approach in Environment Management: Context Bangladesh; Raquib Ahmed -- Chapter 9: Awareness of and Responses to the 2011 Flood Warnings among Vulnerable Communities in Lagos, Nigeria; Olokesusi, F., Olorunfemi, F.B., Onwuemele A. and Oke, M.O -- PART IV: INTERFACES SCIENCE POLICY -- Chapter 10: Solution-Based Spatial Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change in Taiwan; Yu-Fang Lin -- Chapter 11: Institutions and Planning: A Reflection from the Disaster Management Planning in Indonesia; Hendricus A Simarmata and Raka W Suryandaru -- Chapter 12: Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce the Socio-ecological Conflict? The Mining Industry in Chile and its Impact at the Local and Regional Level; Fernando Campos-Medina -- Chapter 13: Institutions and Planning: A Reflection from Disaster Management Planning in Indonesia; Hendricus A. Simarmata and Raka W. Suryandaru -- Chapter 14: Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce the Socio-ecological Conflict? The Mining Industry in Chile and its Impact at the Local and Regional Level; Fernando Campos-Medina -- Chapter 15: Political decision-making and Scientific Insights. A comment form the Political Arena; Matthias Machnig..
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    Boreal and temperate trees in a changing climate : modelling the ecophysiology of seasonality (2016)
    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    Call number: PIK N 531-16-89932
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Climatic Adaptation of Boreal and Temperate Tree Species -- 2. Dynamic Modelling of the Annual Cycle -- 3. The Annual Phenological Cycle -- 4. The Annual Cycle of Photosynthesis in Evergreen Conifers -- 5. The Annual Cycle of Frost Hardiness -- 6. Evolutionary Aspects of the Annual Cycle -- 7. Upscaling to Higher Levels of Organisation -- 8. The Annual Cycle Under Changing Climatic Conditions -- 9. Concluding Remarks
    Description / Table of Contents: This book provides an overview of how boreal and temperate tree species have adapted their annual development cycle to the seasonally varying climatic conditions. Therefore, the frost hardy dormant phase, and the susceptible growth phase, are synchronized with the seasonality of the climate. The volume discusses the annual cycle, including various attributes such as timing of bud burst and other phenological events, seasonality of photosynthetic capacity or the frost hardiness of the trees. During the last few decades dynamic ecophysiological models have been used increasingly in studies of the annual cycle, particularly when projecting the ecological effects of climate change. The main emphasis of this volume is on combining modelling with experimental studies, and on the importance of the biological realism of the models
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    Pages: XIV, 342 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9789401775496 , 9789401775472
    Series Statement: Biometeorology
    Language: English
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    An Introduction to Transfer Entropy : Information Flow in Complex Systems (2016)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing
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    Call number: PIK M 039-17-90409
    Description / Table of Contents: This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series. After a qualitative introduction and a chapter that explains the key ideas from statistics required to understand the text, the authors then present information theory and transfer entropy in depth. A key feature of the approach is the authors' work to show the relationship between information flow and complexity. The later chapters demonstrate information transfer in canonical systems, and applications, for example in neuroscience and in finance. The book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the areas of computer science, neuroscience, physics, and engineering
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    Pages: XXIX, 190 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9783319432212 (print)
    Language: English
    Note: Introduction -- Statistical Preliminaries -- Information Theory -- Transfer Entropy -- Information Transfer in Canonical Systems -- Information Transfer in Financial Markets -- Miscellaneous Applications of Transfer Entropy -- Concluding Remarks
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    The Economic Consequences of Climate Change (2015)
    Paris : OECD
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    Call number: 9789264235410 (e-book)
    Description / Table of Contents: This report provides a new detailed quantitative assessment of the consequences of climate change on economic growth through to 2060 and beyond. It focuses on how climate change affects different drivers of growth, including labour productivity and capital supply, in different sectors across the world. The sectoral and regional analysis shows that while the impacts of climate change spread across all sectors and all regions, the largest negative consequences are projected to be found in the health and agricultural sectors, with damages especially strong in Africa and Asia.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 Seiten)
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    ISBN: 926423540X , 9789264235410
    URL: http://bib.gfz-potsdam.de/intern/pubint/tecocc.pdf
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: Executive summary ; Chapter 1. Modelling the economic consequences of climate change ; Chapter 2. The damages from selected climate change impacts to 2060 ; Chapter 3. The bigger picture of climate change ; Chapter 4. The benefits of policy action ; Annex I. Description of the modelling tools
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    World energy outlook 2020 : Elektronische Ressource (2019)
    Paris : International Energy Agency
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    Call number: 20-94078
    Type of Medium: 12
    Pages: 464 pages , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    URL: https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2020
    URL: https://www.iea.org/weo
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    Agricultural policy monitoring and evaluation 2015 (2015)
    Paris : OECD
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    Call number: PIK W 101-16-89599
    Description / Table of Contents: This annual publication provides information on policy developments and related support to agriculture in OECD countries and selected partner economies, measured with the OECD Producer Support Estimate methodology. Countries covered represent about 80% of the global value added in agriculture. The report includes a general discussion on developments in agricultural policies and specific chapters for each country covered
    Description / Table of Contents: This annual publication provides information on policy developments and related support to agriculture in OECD countries and selected partner economies, measured with the OECD Producer Support Estimate methodology. Countries covered represent about 80% of the global value added in agriculture. The report includes a general discussion on developments in agricultural policies and specific chapters for each country covered.
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    Pages: 293 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    ISBN: 9789264234529
    Language: English
    Note: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Reader's guide; Definition of OECD indicators of agricultural support; Nominal indicators used in this report; Ratio indicators and percentage indicators; Box 1. Definitions of categories in the PSE classification; Decomposition indicators; Definition of GSSE categories; Sources and definitions of contextual indicators; Table X.1. Contextual indicators; Box 2. Definitions of categories in the GSSE classification; Figure X.2. Main macroeconomic indicators; Figure X.3. Agro-food trade; OECD indicators of support; Currencies. , List of acronyms and abbreviationsExecutive summary; Recommendations; Chapter 1. Developments in agricultural policy and support; Key economic and market developments; Table 1.1. Key economic indicators; Figure 1.1. Commodity world price indices, 2007 to 2014; Main features of agricultural policies; Box 1.1. Agriculture and COP21; Box 1.2. Developments post the 2013 Bali WTO Ministerial; Developments in agricultural support; Countries' importance in global agriculture has changed since the mid-1990s - and so has their role in supporting agriculture. , Figure 1.2. Country shares in total agricultural GDP and in total TSE, 1995-97 and 2012-14Total monetary transfers to the agricultural sector were stable in some countries, but increased significantly in others; Figure 1.3. Evolution of Total Support Estimate, 1995-97 to 2012-14; However the relative cost of agricultural support for the economies has decreased significantly over time in most of the countries; Figure 1.4. Total Support Estimate by country, 1995-97 and 2012-14. , The total agricultural support is dominated by support to agricultural producers, while expenditures on key general services to the sector are relatively smallFigure 1.5. Composition of Total Support Estimate by country, 2012-14; Average support to agricultural producers in OECD countries and emerging economies is converging; Figure 1.6. Evolution of Producer Support Estimate, 1995 to 2014; However short- and long-term changes across individual countries remain very uneven; Figure 1.7. Producer Support Estimate by country, 2013 and 2014. , Box 1.3. What drove changes in the monetary value of producer support in 2014?Figure 1.8. Contribution of various factors to the change in the Producer Support Estimate in 2014; Box 1.3. What drove changes in the monetary value of producer support in 2014? (cont.); Figure 1.9. Evolution of producer support at different stages of economic development, 1986 to 2013; Figure 1.10. Producer Support Estimate by country, 1995-97 and 2012-14; Differences in policy approaches are also reflected in policy instruments; Figure 1.11. Composition of Producer Support Estimate by country, 2012-14. , Figure 1.12. Composition of payments based on area, animal numbers, receipts and income by country, 1995-97 and 2012-14.
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    Health policy : choice, equality and cost (2016)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Call number: PIK O 040-16-90328
    Description / Table of Contents: This lucid and comprehensive book explores the ways in which the State, the market and the citizen can collaborate to satisfy people's health care needs. It argues that health care is not a commodity like any other. It asks if its unique properties mean that there is a role for social regulation and political management. Apples and oranges can be left to the buyers and the sellers. Health care may require an input from the consensus, the experts, the insurers, the politicians and the bureaucrats as well. David Reisman makes a fresh contribution to the debate. He argues that the three policy is
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    Pages: viii, 371 Seiten
    ISBN: 9781785365201 (print) , 1785365215 (print) , 9781785365218 (print)
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Good health -- 3. The invisible mind -- 4. Inputs and outcomes -- 5. The individual -- 6. The practitioner -- 7. The public -- 8. The logic of insurance -- 9. Insurance: private and public -- 10. Equity and equality -- 11. The right to health -- 12. Inequality and health -- 13. Narrowing the gap -- 14. Equalising medical care -- 15. The cost of care -- 16. Cost containment -- 17. State, market and cost -- 18. Conclusion -- References -- Index
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    Handbook on green infrastructure : planning, design and implementation (2015)
    Cheltenham [u.a.] : Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Call number: PIK N 074-16-89998
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I THE ROLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT -- 1 Green infrastructure and health -- 2 The impacts of green infrastructure on air quality and temperature -- 3 Green infrastructure and urban water management -- 4 Putting economic values on green infrastructure improvements -- 5 Green infrastructure and biodiversity in the city: principles and design -- PART II STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE -- 6 Green infrastructure planning: policy and objectives
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Planning green infrastructure at a strategic level: experience from The Mersey Forest -- 8 Delivering green infrastructure through strategic development: some reflections from Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, USA -- 9 Planning green infrastructure from a landscape perspective -- 10 Planning for urban green infrastructure in metropolitan landscapes -- 11 Ensuring green infrastructure for all -- PART III DESIGNING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL -- 12 Multifunctional green infrastructure: a typology -- 13 Towards inclusive green infrastructure
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 The influences of neighbourhood design and quality on residents' use of public open space -- 15 Green grounds for play and learning: an intergenerational model for joint design and use of school and park systems -- 16 The contribution of green infrastructure to a sense of place in historic urban environments -- 17 Landscape, beyond green and grey infrastructure -- PART IV IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE -- 18 The governance and management of public green spaces -- 19 Community involvement in green infrastructure
    Description / Table of Contents: 20 Implementing green infrastructure through residential development in the UK -- 21 Green infrastructure and regeneration of brownfield land -- 22 Monitoring and evaluation of green infrastructure: a logic model and ecosystem services approach -- PART V LOOKING FORWARD -- 23 The future of green infrastructure -- Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This Handbook sets the context for green infrastructure as a means to make urban environments more resilient, sustainable, liveable and equitable. It then provides a comprehensive and authoritative account for those seeking to achieve sustainable green infrastructure in urban environments of how to plan, design and implement green infrastructure at different spatial scales
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    Pages: XVII, 474 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 1783474009 (print) , 9781783474004 (print) , 9781783473991 (print)
    Parallel Title: Print version Handbook on Green Infrastructure : Planning, Design and Implementation
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    Climate, fire and human evolution : the deep time dimensions of the Anthropocene (2015)
    Cham [u.a.] : Springer
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    Call number: PIK N 076-16-89604
    Description / Table of Contents: The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo - which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both-biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about -7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth's hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species-constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth. Dr Andrew Glikson is an Earth and Paleo-climate Scientist, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science, the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Planetary Science Institute, and a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute.
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    Pages: XVII, 227 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 9783319225111
    Series Statement: Modern approaches in solid earth sciences 10
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    Language: English
    Note: Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Early Earth Systems; 1.1 Archaean and Proterozoic Atmospheres; 1.2 Early Biospheres; 1.3 Greenhouse States and Glaciations; Chapter 2: Phanerozoic Life and Mass Extinctions of Species; 2.1 Acraman Impact and Acritarchs Radiation; 2.2 Cambrian and Late Ordovician Mass Extinction; 2.3 Late and End-Devonian Mass Extinctions; 2.4 Late Permian and Permian-Triassic Mass Extinctions; 2.5 End-Triassic Mass Extinction; 2.6 Jurassic-Cretaceous Extinction; 2.7 K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary) Mass Extinction; 2.8 Paleocene-Eocene Extinction. , 2.9 The End-Eocene FreezeChapter 3: Cenozoic Biological Evolution (by Colin Groves); 3.1 The Evolution of Mammals; 3.2 From Primates to Humans; 3.3 From Genetic Evolution to Cultural Evolution; Chapter 4: Fire and the Biosphere; 4.1 An Incendiary Biosphere; 4.2 The Deep-Time History of Fire; 4.3 Fire and Pre-historic Human Evolution; 4.4 Neolithic Burning and Early Civilizations; Chapter 5: The Anthropocene; 5.1 The Modern Atmosphere; 5.2 Neolithic Burning and Early Global Warming; 5.3 The Great Carbon Oxidation Event; 5.4 The Sixth Mass Extinction of Species; 5.5 The Faustian Bargain. , 5.6 The Post-anthropocene WorldChapter 6: Rare Earth; Chapter 7: Prometheus: An Epilogue; References; About the Book and the Authors; Index.
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    ITF Transport Outlook 2017 (2017)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Call number: 9789282108000 (e-book)
    Type of Medium: 12
    Pages: 1 online resource (220 pages)
    ISBN: 9789282108000 , 9789282107997
    URL: http://bib.gfz-potsdam.de/intern/pubint/itf_to2017.pdf
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: Chapter 1. The transport sector today ; Chapter 2. Transport demand and CO2 emissions to 2050 ; Chapter 3. International freight ; Chapter 4. International passenger aviation ; Chapter 5. Mobility in cities ; Statistical annex
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    Novel methods for monitoring and managing land and water resources in Siberia (2016)
    Cham [u.a.] : Springer
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    Call number: PIK N 454-16-89861
    Description / Table of Contents: This book presents an analysis of land and water resources in Siberia, initially characterizing the landscapes, their ecosystems, crucial processes, human impacts on soil and water quality, and the status quo of available research. Further chapters deal with modern monitoring and management methods that can lead to a significant knowledge shift and initiate sustainable soil and water resources use. These include soil hydrological laboratory measurement methods; process-based field evaluation methods for land and water quality; remote sensing and GIS technology-based landscape monitoring methods; process and ecosystem modeling approaches; methods of resource and process evaluation and functional soil mapping; and tools for controlling agricultural land use systems. More than 15 of these concrete monitoring and management tools can immediately be incorporated into research and practice. Maintaining the functions of great landscapes for future generations will be the reward for these efforts
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: XXIII, 760 Seiten , Ill., graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 9783319244099 , 9783319244075
    Series Statement: Springer water
    Language: English
    Note: Land and Water Resources of Siberia, their Functioning and Ecological StateStatus Report about Understanding, Monitoring and Controlling Landscape Processes in Siberia -- Methods for Monitoring the Chemical Composition of Lake Baikal Water -- Microbiological Monitoring of Lake Baikal -- Developing the Regional Indicator Indexes of Zooplankton for Water Quality Class Determination of Water Bodies in Siberia -- Measuring and Estimating Fluxes of Carbon, Major and Trace Elements to the Arctic Ocean -- Measuring Snowmelt in Siberia: Causes, Process and Consequences -- Estimation of Biomass and Net Primary Production (NPP) in West Siberian Boreal Ecosystems: In-Situ and Remote Sensing Methods -- GIS and Remote Sensing Data Based Methods for Monitoring Water and Soil Objects in the Steppe Biome of Western Siberia -- Significant Siberian Vegetation Change is Inevitably Brought on by the Changing Climate..
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    The little big number : how GDP came to rule the world and what to do about it (2015)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press
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    Call number: PIK B 120-15-0145
    Description / Table of Contents: In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more lawyers, more trials; more extraction, more pollution-all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don't count. GDP promotes a form of stupid growth and igno
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    Pages: IX, 398 S. : graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 9780691166520
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Language: English
    Note: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: We Become What We Measure; Casting a Spell; Exploring a Path; 1. More, Better, Faster: The Beginnings ; Productivity, Growth, and Success; Goals and Measures; Values and Measures; 2. The Origins of Bling: The Spirit of Economic Growth ; The World of Growth: Refining the Measure; Business Accounting Goes National; 3. The Crucible of Crisis: The Great Depression and the Need for Economic Indicators ; 4. Born from Disaster: The Making of a Key Measure ; The Challenge; The Players; The Method; The Findings. , The Big Conundrum: Translating Findings into Action5. Forged in War; 6. Global Domination: The Age of GDP ; For Richer or Poorer; A Stunted Priesthood; Stopgap Consensus; Going Global; New Rules; GDP Junkies; Shackled in Fool's Gold; 7. Today's ABC of GDP ; It's an Emperor, but Does It Have Clothes?; Why It Matters; 8. More Is Not Enough ; The Little Big Number: Our Report Card for Success; Emerging Dissent; 9. "The People of Plenty Are a People of Waste"; Breaking the Spell; 10. From Alchemy to Reason: What If? A Thought Experiment; Mental Cobwebs; One More Time: Simon Kuznets. , Clearing a Path11. Looking Forward; A Daring Vision; A Moment of Possibility; Appendix A. The Measure as Guide; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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