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Note: Contents 1 Slow Viscous Flow 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Coordinate Systems and the Material Derivative 1.2.1 Eulerian and Lagrangian Coordinates 1.2.2 The Material Derivative 1.3 Mass Conservation 1.4 The Stress Tensor and Momentum Conservation 1.4.1 The Stress Tensor 1.4.2 Momentum Conservation 1.4.3 Rheology 1.4.4 The Navier-Stokes Equations 1.4.5 Stokes Flow 1.5 Boundary Conditions 1.5.1 The No-Slip Condition and the Sliding Law 1.5.2 Dynamic Boundary Conditions 1.5.3 Kinematic Boundary Conditions 1.6 Temperature and Energy Conservation 1.7 Glacier and Ice Sheet Flow 1.8 Examples 1.8.1 Uniform Flow on a Slope 1.8.2 Spreading Flow at an Ice Divide 1.8.3 Small-Amplitude Perturbations 1.9 The Shallow Ice Approximation 1.10 Conclusions and Outlook 1.11 Appendix: Non-dimensionalisation Exercises 2 Thermal Structure 2.1 Temperature Profiles 2.2 Boundary Conditions 2.2.1 The Thermal Near-Surface Wave 2.3 Models: Simple to Complicated 2.4 Basal Conditions 2.4.1 Polythermal Ice 2.5 Modelling Issues 2.5.1 Non-dimensionalisation 2.5.2 Thermomechanical Coupling 2.5.3 Thermal Runaway Exercises 3 Sliding, Drainage and Subglacial Geomorphology 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Sliding Over Hard Beds 3.2.1 Weertman Sliding 3.2.2 Nye-Kamb Theory 3.2.3 Sub-temperate Sliding 3.2.4 Nonlinear Sliding Laws 3.2.5 Cavitation 3.2.6 Comparison with Experiment 3.3 Subglacial Drainage Theory 3.3.1 Weertman Films 3.3.2 Röthlisberger Channels (or ‘R-Channels’) 3.3.3 Jökulhlaups 3.3.4 Subglacial Lakes 3.3.5 Linked Cavities 3.3.6 Drainage Transitions and Glacier Surges 3.3.7 Ongoing Developments 3.4 Basal Processes and Geomorphology 3.4.1 Soft Glacier Beds 3.4.2 Drainage Over Till 3.4.3 Geomorphological Processes Exercises 4 Tidewater Glaciers 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Calving 4.3 Tidewater Glacier Dynamics 4.3.1 Tidewater Glacier Retreat and Instability 4.3.2 Tidewater Glacier Advance 4.3.3 Flow Variability of Tidewater Glaciers 4.4 The Link to Climate: Triggers for Retreat 4.4.1 Ice Shelf Collapse and Backstress 4.4.2 Grounded Calving Fronts 4.5 Outlook 5 Interaction of Ice Shelves with the Ocean 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Impact of Melting Ice on the Ocean 5.3 Processes at the Ice-Ocean Interface 5.4 Buoyancy-Driven Flow on Geophysical Scales 5.5 Sensitivity to Ocean Temperature 5.6 Impact of Meltwater Outflow at the Grounding Line 5.7 Fundamentals of the Three-Dimensional Ocean Circulation 5.8 Some Properties and Limitations of the Geostrophic Equations 5.9 Effects of Stratification 5.10 Three-Dimensional Circulation in Sub-Ice-Shelf Cavities Exercises 6 Polar Meteorology 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Shortwave and Longwave Radiation 6.3 Radiation Climate at the Top of the Atmosphere 6.4 Large Scale Circulation 6.5 Surface Energy Balance 6.5.1 Shortwave Radiation 6.5.2 Surface Albedo 6.5.3 Longwave Radiation 6.5.4 Turbulent Fluxes 6.6 Temperature Inversion and Katabatic Winds 6.6.1 Surface Temperature Inversion and Deficit 6.6.2 Katabatic Winds 6.7 Precipitation 6.8 Notes and References Exercises 7 Mass Balance 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Definitions 7.3 Methods 7.3.1 In Situ Observations 7.3.2 Satellite/Airborne Altimetry 7.3.3 Satellite Gravimetry 7.3.4 Mass Budget Method 7.4 Valley Glaciers and Ice Caps 7.4.1 In Situ Observations 7.4.2 Modelling 7.4.3 Dynamical Response 7.4.4 Remote Sensing 7.5 Antarctic Ice Sheet 7.5.1 Spatial SSMB Variability 7.5.2 Blue Ice Areas 7.5.3 Temporal SSMB Variability 7.6 Greenland Ice Sheet 7.6.1 Spatial SSMB Variability 7.6.2 Temporal SSMB Variability 7.6.3 Role of the Liquid Water Balance 8 Numerical Modelling of Ice Sheets, Streams, and Shelves 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Ice Flow Equations 8.2.1 The Shallow Ice Approximation 8.2.2 Analogy with the Heat Equation 8.3 Finite Difference Numerics 8.3.1 Explicit Scheme for the Heat Equation 8.3.2 A First Implemented Scheme 8.3.3 Stability Criteria and Adaptive Time Stepping 8.3.4 Implicit Schemes 8.3.5 Numerical Solution of Diffusion Equations 8.4 Numerically Solving the SIA 8.5 Exact Solutions and Verification 8.5.1 Exact Solution of the Heat Equation 8.5.2 Halfar’s Exact Similarity Solution to the SIA 8.5.3 Using Halfar’s Solution 8.5.4 A Test of Robustness 8.6 Applying Our Numerical Ice Sheet Model 8.7 Shelves and Streams 8.7.1 The Shallow Shelf Approximation (SSA) 8.7.2 Numerical Solution of the SSA 8.7.3 Numerics of the Linear Boundary Value Problem 8.7.4 Solving the Stress Balance for an Ice Shelf 8.7.5 Realistic Ice Shelf Modelling 8.8 A Summary of Numerical Ice Flow Modelling 8.9 Notes Exercises 9 Least-Squares Data Inversion in Glaciology 9.1 Preamble 9.2 Introduction 9.3 The Roots of GPS in Glaciology 9.4 Introduction to GPS 9.4.1 History 9.4.2 Coarse Acquisition (C/A) Code 9.5 The Equations of Pseudorange 9.6 Least-Squares Solution of an Overdetermined System of Linear Equations 9.7 Observational Techniques to Improve GPS Accuracy 9.7.1 The Ionosphere-Free Combination 9.7.2 Carrier-Phase Determined Range and Integer Wavelength Ambiguity 9.7.3 Resolving Range Ambiguity by Phase Tracking 9.7.4 Differential GPS Exercises 10 Analytical Models of Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Perfectly-Plastic Ice Sheet Model 10.3 The Height–Mass Balance Feedback 10.4 Ice-Sheet Profile for Plane Shear with Glen’s Law 10.5 Ice Shelves Exercise 11 Firn 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Firn Densification 11.2.1 Mechanisms of Firn Densification 11.2.2 Firn Densification Models 11.2.3 Firn Layering and Microstructure 11.3 Applications of Firn Models 11.3.1 Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance from Altimetry 11.3.2 Delta Age Calculations in Deep Ice Cores 11.4 Summary and Conclusions 12 Ice Cores: Archive of the Climate System 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Dating Ice Cores 12.3 Stable Water Isotopes 12.3.1 Basics and Nomenclature 12.3.2 The Isotope Proxy Thermometer 12.3.3 Examples of Isotope Records 12.3.4 Isotope Diffusion in Firn and Ice 12.3.5 Diffusion Thermometry 12.4 Aerosols in Ice 12.4.1 Introduction and Origin of Aerosols in Ice 12.4.2 Aerosol Sources and Transport 12.4.3 Post-depositional Modification 12.4.4 Seasonal Cycles in Aerosol and Particle Constituents in Ice 12.4.5 The Volcanic Signal in Ice and Its Use for Chronological Control 12.4.6 Marine Biogenic MSA and Sea Salt as Sea-Ice Proxies 12.4.7 The Record of Anthropogenic Pollution 12.4.8 Long Aerosol Records from Greenland and Antarctica 12.4.9 Electrical Properties of Ice and Their Relationship to Chemistry 12.5 Gases Enclosed in Ice 12.5.1 Firn Gas and Gas Occlusion 12.5.2 Trace Gases 12.6 Timing of Climate Events Exercises 13 Satellite Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Ice Sheets 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Optical Sensors and Applications 13.2.1 Sensors and Satellites 13.2.2 Applications 13.3 SAR Methods and Applications 13.3.1 Radar Signal Interaction with Snow and Ice 13.3.2 SAR Sensor and Image Characteristics 13.3.3 InSAR Measurement Principles and Applications 13.4 Satellite Altimetry 13.4.1 Altimetry Missions 13.4.2 Measuring Elevation Change 14 Geophysics 14.1 Geophysical Methods: Overview 14.2 Passive Methods 14.2.1 Gravimetry 14.2.2 Magnetics 14.2.3 Seismology 14.3 Active Methods: Basics 14.3.1 Propagation Properties and Reflection Origin 14.3.2 Seismic System Set-Up 14.3.3 Radar System Set-Up 14.4 Data Acquisition and Processing 14.5 Seismic Applications in Ice 14.5.1 Ice Thickness and Basal Topography 14.5.2 Subglacial Structure and Properties 14.5.3 Rheological and Other Englacial Properties 14.6 Radar Applications in Ice 14.6.1 Internal Layer Architecture and Ice Dynamics 14.6.2 Subglacial Conditions 14.6.3 Englacial Conditions 14.7 Notes and References 14.7.1 Further Reading 14.7.2 Gravimetry 14.7.3 General Wave Equation and Solution 14.7.4 Seismic Waves 14.7.5 Electromagnetic Waves Exercises 15 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Earth Response to Loading 15.2.1 Rheology of the Earth 15.2.2 Building an Earth Model 15.2.3 Earth Models Used in Glaciology and Glacial Isostatic Adjustment 15.3 The Cryosphere and Sea Level 15.3.1 Factors Affecting Sea-Level Change 15.3.2 Eu

Note: 1 Introducing loss and damage 1 Meinhard Doelle and Sara L Seck PART I FRAMEWORKS 2 Equity considerations in loss and damage 18 Nathalie J. Chalifour 3 The sacrifice zones of carbon capitalism: race, expendability, and loss and damage 43 Carmen G. Gonzalez 4 Measuring the immeasurable: loss and damage from climate change in international law 60 Usha Natarajan PART II PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW 5 Loss and damage under the Convention 75 Linda Siegele 6 Loss and damage under the Paris Agreement 100 Linda Siegele 7 Arrested development: the late and inequitable integration of loss and damage finance into the UNFCCC 127 Patricia Galvão Ferreira 8 Against the headwind: innovative sources of loss and damage finance 149 Patricia Galvão Ferreira 9 State responsibility for damages associated with climate change 166 Christina Voigt 10 Valuation of climate change loss and damage 184 Cymie R Payne 11 A rights-based approach to loss and damage due to climate change 201 Katherine Lofts, Sébastien Jodoin and Larissa Parker 12 Indigenous peoples, climate change loss and damage, and the responsibilities of states 223 Kyle Powys Whyte 13 Loss and damage, climate displacement and international law: addressing the protection gap 244 Sumudu Atapattu 14 Loss and damage, disaster law, and climate change 266 Anastasia Telesetsky 15 Solar radiation modification and loss & damage: mapping interactions between climate responses 286 Neil Craik PART III DOMESTIC, TRANSNATIONAL AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 16 Atmospheric recovery litigation around the world: gaining natural resource damages against carbon majors to fund a sky cleanup for climate restoration 303 Mary Christina Wood 17 Loss and damage in European litigation 331 Roda Verheyen and Johannes Franke 18 Towards a civil liability regime for climate-related loss and damage 349 Sharon Mascher 19 Think globally, sue locally: challenges and opportunities in international climate litigation in domestic courts 368 Andrew Gage 20 Carbon major companies and liability for loss and damage 390 Lisa Benjamin 21 Class actions and climate change loss and damage litigation 409 C. Cameron and R. Weyman PART IV CONCLUSIONS 22 Pathways and prospects for loss & damage and climate justice 433 Sara L Seck and Meinhard Doelle Index

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction ; I Continuous predictors ; 2 Continuous predictors: Linear ; 3 Continuous predictors: Polynomials ; 4 Continuous predictors: Piecewise models ; 5 Continuous by continuous interactions ; 6 Continuous by continuous by continuous interactions ; II Categorical predictors ; 7 Categorical predictors ; 8 Categorical by categorical interactions ; 9 Categorical by categorical by categorical interactions ; III Continuous and categorical predictors ; 10 Linear by categorical interactions ; 11 Polynomial by categorical interactions ; 12 Piecewise by categorical interactions ; 13 Continuous by continuous by categorical interactions ; 14 Continuous by categorical by categorical interactions ; IV Beyond ordinary linear regression ; 15 Multilevel models ; 16 Time as a continuous predictor ; 17 Time as a categorical predictor ; 18 Nonlinear models ; 19 Complex survey data ; V Appendices ; A Customizing output from estimation commands ; B The margins command ; C The marginsplot command ; D The contrast command ; E The pwcompare command ; References

Note: Contents: I. Revolution:Es geschieht jetzt ; Die digitalisierte Gesellschaft ; Vernetzte Nachhaltigkei toder nicht - nachhaltige Vernetzung? ; Digitalisierung und Ressourcengerechtigkeit ; Von der Nische in den Mainstream ; II. Disruption: Alles wird anders. Und besser? ; Digitalisierung als „gamechanger"? ; Digitale Havarien ; Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit ; Digital in den Stau? ; Auswirkungen des digitalen Wandels auf Umwelt und Klimaschutz ; Smart Farming ; Sekundärrohstoffe für die Digitalisierung ; Metalle ; Digitalisierung: Fluch oder Segen für die Umweltbewegungen? ; III. Vision: Vom Nutzen und Steuern der Digitalisierung ; Digitale Kultur des Teilens ; Modellkonzepte einer reflexiven Ökologie ; Software und Nachhaltigkeit ; Die Mitfahrtafel ; Ökologische Siedlungsentwicklung ; Digitalisierung: Körpererweiterung oder Amputation? ; Die zweite kopernikanische Revolution ; IV. Fazit ; Die Ökologie der digitalen Gesellschaft

Note: Contents: 1. How this book came about, what it is, and what it is not ; 2. Defining the challenge ; 3. Science and society ; 4. Transdisciplinary pro and contra ; 5. The importance of a long-term perspective ; 6. Looking forward into the future ; 7. The complex (adaptive) systems approach ; 8. Human socio-environmental coevolution ; 9. Social systems as dissipative flow structures ; 10. Solutions always cause problems ; 11. Transitions in the organization of societies ; 12. Novelty, invention, change ; 13. The invention process and its implications for societal information processing ; 14. Modeling socio-environmental transitions ; 15. Rise of the West as a global flow structure ; 16. Are we reaching a global societal tipping point? ; 17. Not an ordinary tipping point ; 18. Our fragmenting world ; 19. Is there a way out? ; 20. Green growth ; 21. Conclusion.

Note: The calm before the storm -- Things come apart -- Deaths of despair -- The lives and deaths of the more (and less) educated -- Black and white deaths -- The condition of the living -- The misery and mystery of pain -- Suicide, drugs, and alcohol -- Opioids -- False trails : poverty, income, and the Great Recession -- Growing apart at work -- Widening gaps at home -- How American healthcare is undermining lives -- Capitalism, immigrants, robots, and China -- Firms, consumers, and workers -- What to do?

Note: Contents: Part 1 - Introduction ; 1 The argument in brief ; Part 2 - The origins of behavioral contagion ; 2 How context shapes perception ; 3 The impulse to conform ; Part 3 -Cases ; 4 It was, until it wasn't: The dynamics of behavioral contagion ; 5 The sexual revolution revisited ; 6 Trust ; 7 Smoking, eating, and drinking ; 8 Expenditure cascades ; 9 The climate crisis ; Part 4 - Policy ; 10 Should regulators ignore behavioral contagion? ; 11 Creating more supportive environments ; 12 The mother of all cognitive illusions ; 13 Ask, don't tell ; Epilogue

Note: Complexity of life and its dependence on the environment , Biological extinction and climate change , Sustaining life : human health-planetary health linkages , How do our actions undermine nature? , Climate change, air pollution and health : common sources, similar impacts and common solutions , Air pollution : adverse effects and disease burden , Air pollution, oxidative stress and public health in the anthropocene , Cllimate change, air pollution and the environment : the health argument , Reducing air pollution : avoidable health burden , Vulnerable populations and regions : Middle East as a case study , Climate change risks for agriculture, health and nutrition , Sustaining water resources , Health, air pollution and forest fires in the Amazon , Psychological impacts of climate change and recommendations , Air pollution and cardiovascular disease : a proven causality , Healthy people, healthy planet : holistic thinking , Climate change, public health, social peace , Climate justice and public health : practical ethics in urgent times , Health of the people, health of the planet, health of the migrants , Faith in god and the health of people , Caring for creation – the evangelical’s guide , Call to action from faith leaders , Public health co-benefits of greenhouse gas emissions reduction , Good health in the anthropocene epoch : potentials for transformative solutions , Well under 2 degrees celsius : ten solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability , Defeating energy poverty : invest In scalable solutions for the poor , Sensor-enabled climate financing for clean cooking , Research is vital to tackling climate change, but it cannot succeed alone , Governor of California , United States congressman , Challenges and opportunities for a sustainable planet , Sustainable development goals and health : call for cultural revolution , A call to action by health care professionals

Note: Beiträge in Deutsch und Englisch

Note: Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. When New Policies Fail to Create a New Politics ; Chapter 3. An Institutional History of Electricity Politics and Climate Inaction ; Chapter 4. Policy Feedback: Networked and Influential Advocates Use the Public to Drive Clean Energy Leadership in Texas ; Chapter 5. A Direct Line to Legislators and Regulators: Fossil Fuel Corporations and the Limitations of Texas's Renewable Energy Laws ; Chapter 6. Retrenchment by a Thousand Cuts: Fossil Fuel Opponents Drive Polarization on Clean Energy in Kansas ; Chapter 7. Regulatory Capture: Electric Utilities Retrench Arizona's Net Metering Laws ; Chapter 8. When the Fog of Enactment Lifts: Late Action brings Rapid Retrenchment of Ohio's Renewable Energy Laws ; Chapter 9. Conclusion ; References ; Appendix:List of Interviews

Note: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Data ; 3. Methods ; 4. Floods and droughts ; 5. Heatwaves and cold spells ; 6. Hurricanes and other storms ; Appendix A. Climate measurements ; Appendix B. Natural climate archives ; Appendix C. Physical climate models ; Appendix D. Statistical inference ; Appendix E. Numerical techniques ; Appendix F. Data and software ; Appendix G. List of symbols and abbreviations

Note: Contents: 1. Introducing transnational climate change governance ; 2. Mapping the world of transnational climate change governance 3. Theoretical perspectives on transnational governance ; 4. Origins, agency and the forms of transnational climate change governance ; 5. Constructing transnational climate change governance issues and producing governance spaces ; 6. The uneven geography of transnational climate change governance ; 7. Understanding authority and legitimacy in transnational climate change governance ; 8. Making a difference? Tracing the effects and effectiveness of transnational climate change governance ; 9. Conclusions - looking beyond transnational climate governance

Note: Contents: Getting Started ; Git Basics ; Git Branching ; Git on the Server ; Distributed Git ; Github ; Git Tools ; Customizing Git ; Git and Other Systems ; Git Internals ; Git in Other Environments ; Embedded Git in Your Applications ; Git Commands

Note: Teilw. zugl.: Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Univ., Diss., 2008 , Contents: Introduction -- Criteria-based definitions of scientific terms -- Comparisons between generations -- Objections to theories of generational justice -- What to sustain? : capital or well being as an axiological goal -- How much to sustain? : the demands of justice in the intergenerational context -- Conclusion

Note: Contents: Einführung ; 1 Strategisches Management von Bildungseinrichtungen?! ; 2 Grundlagen strategischen Managements ; 3 Anwendungen ; 4 Zum (strategischen) Management von Bildungseinrichtungen ; 5 Zu den Möglichkeiten strategischen Managements von Bildungseinrichtungen