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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface 1. Trapped? ; 2. The Three Domains ; Pillar I: Standards and Engagement for Smarter Choices ; 3. Energy and Emissions: Technologies and systems ; 4. Why So Wasteful? ; 5. Tried and Tested: Four decades of energy efficiency policy ; Pillar II: Markets and Pricing for Cleaner Production and Products ; 6. Pricing Pollution ; 7. Cap-and-trade and offsets: From idea to practice ; 8. Who's hit? The distributional impacts of carbon pricing and how to handle them ; Pillar III: Strategic Investment for Innovation and Infrastructure ; 9. Pushing Further, Pulling Deeper: Bridging the technology valley of death ; 10. Transforming Systems ; 11. The Dark Matter of Economic Growth ; 12. Conclusions: Changing course

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: PART I: CONFLICT: BARRIERS TO A NEW AGREEMENT ; 1. Observations from the climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa ; 2. Does fairness matter in international environmental governance ; 3. Formation of climate agreements: The role of uncertainty and learning ; 4. Burden sharing in global climate governance ; 5. Negotiating to avoid 'gradual' versus 'dangerous' climate change: An experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas ; 6. U.S. climate policy and the shale gas revolution ; PART 2:RESOLUTION: PATHS TOWARD A NEW AGREEMENT ; 7. The role of inequality in international environmental agreements with endogenous minimum participation requirements ; 8. Climate policy coordination through institutional design: an experimental examination ; 9. Improving the design of international environmental agreements ; 10. Managing dangerous anthropogenic interference: decision rules for climate governance ; 11. Exclusive approaches to climate governance: More effective than the UNFCCC? ; 12. Bottom up or top down ; PART 3:GOVERNANCE: STRUCTURES FOR A NEW AGREEMENT ; 13. Rethinking the legal form and principles of a new climate agreement ; 14. Technology agreements with heterogenous countries ; 15. International guidance for border carbon adjustments to address carbon leakage ; 16. The effect of enforcement in the presence of strong reciprocity: an application of agent-based modeling ; 17. EU emissions trading: achievements, challenges, solutions ; 18. The EU's quest for linked carbon markets: turbulence and headwind

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part 1: Economics and Adaptation ; 1. Introduction to the economics of adaptation to climate change ; 2. State of the Art on Economics of Adaptation ; 3. International Cooperation on Adaptation to Climate Change ; Part 2: Uncertainty, Equity, Valuation and Efficiency ; 4. Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation and the Complexity of REDD+ ; 5. Incorporating climate change into adaptation programmes and project appraisal. Strategies for Uncertainty ; 6. Distributional Impacts: Intra-national, international and inter-temporal aspects of equity in Adaptation ; 7. Discounting ; 8. The Role of Economic Modelling for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies ; 9. Ecosystem-Based Adaptation ; Part 3: Adaptation in Activity Sectors ; 10. Climate Change and the Energy Sector: Impacts and Adaptation ; 11. Water for Agriculture: Some Thoughs on Adaptation to Climate Change from a Policy Perspective ; 12. Adaptation in Agriculture ; 13. Adaptation in Coastal Areas ; 14. Climate Change Adaptation and Human Health ; 15. Multi-sectoral Perspective in Modelling of Climate Impacts and Adaptation ; 16. Flood Risk Management: Assessment for Prevention with Hydro-economic Approaches ; Part 4: Other Dimensions of Adaptation ; 17. Fast Growing Countries and Adaptation ; 18. Economics of Adaptation in Low-income Countries ; 19. Regional and Local Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Developed Countries ; 20. the Role of Technology in Adaptation ; 21. Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Extreme Events: Placing Disaster Risk Management at the heart of National Economic and Fiscal Policy

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction; 1 Social science, religions, and climate change ; PART I The Global South ; 2 A retreating Goddess? Conflicting perceptions of ecological change near the Gangotri-Gaumukh glacier ; 3 Religion, indigenous knowledge and climate change in a mountain region: A case study of Thini village, Mustang, Nepal ; 4 Climate change projects in the land of gross national happiness: Does religion play a role in environmental policy in Bhutan? 5 Pursuing diplomacy overseas, fostering adaptation at home: The Church of Bangladesh's proactive responses to climate change ; 6 From theology to a praxis of ""eco-jihad"": The role of religious civil society organizations in combating climate change in Indonesia ; 7 Churches building resiliency to climate change in Solomon Islands ; 8 Prophecies and climate change in the Mam Altiplano of Guatemala ; 9 Religious perspectives on climate change in the West Ivoirian mountainous region ; 10 Climate change and indigenous African religion: A case study of the transitional ecological zone of Ghana ; PART II The Global North ; 11 Stepping up to the plate: Climate change, faith communities and effective environmental advocacy in Canada ; 12 The U.S. Catholic response to climate change ; 13 ""How many Presbyterians does it take to change a light bulb?"" Confronting global climate change in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. ; 14 Keep Christianity brown! Climate denial on the Christian Right in the United States ; 15 Christian and Muslim climate activists fasting and praying for the planet: Emotional translation of ""dark green"" activism and green-faith identities ; 16 ""Healing the Land"" in the Canadian Arctic: Evangelism, knowledge, and climate change ; PART III The transnational context ; 17 An investigation of perception of climate change risk, environmental values and development programming in a faith-based international development organization ; 18 International advocacy for climate justice; Conclusion ; 19 Climate change and religion as global phenomena: Summing up and directions for further research

Description / Table of Contents: Als Administrator profitieren Sie mit diesem ersten deutschsprachigen Buch zu Samba 4 von den vielen Vorteilen, die Ihnen die aktuelle Version bietet. Von den Protokollen und der Installation über die Einrichtung und Verwaltung einer Domäne oder die erweiterte Administration bis hin zu Migration von Samba 3 oder Windows Servern und dem Netzwerkeinsatz: Dieses Buch führt Sie Schritt für Schritt sicher zu Ihrer Samba 4-Umgebung. Dafür sorgen nicht nur die zahlreichen Praxisbeispiele, sondern auch das vollständige und sofort einsetzbare Praxisszenario.

Description / Table of Contents: Protokolle »SMB« und »NetBIOS«, Vorbereitung und Installation, Benutzerverwaltung, Gruppenrichtlinien (GPO), Verwaltung von Freigaben und Logonskripten, Dateisystem, Verwaltung von Clients und zusätzlichen Servern in der Domäne, Konfiguration von samba4 über die Registry, Einstellungen sichern, gelöschte Objekte wiederherstellen, Migration einer bestehenden Domäne von Samba 3 oder Windows Server, Samba 4 als Printserver, WINS und Samba 4, Einrichtung von ssh, Samba 4 und Firewalls, Schemaerweiterungen für Zarafa-Groupware

Description / Table of Contents: Ausführlicher Einstieg in HTML, CSS und JavaScript * Designs umsetzen und gute GUIs erstellen * Ereignisse behandeln und Funktionen einsetzen * Serverkommunikation, AJAX und Websockets nutzen * Mit oder ohne HTML5 und CSS3 * Karten einbinden und GPS-Daten auswerten * Responsive Webdesign und Touch Events * Webseiten für einfach alles, was einen Bildschirm hat * Video- und Audiomaterial einbinden * Zeichnen mit Canvas

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Contours of the International Climate Movement - Conception and Contents of the Handbook ; Part 1 Theoretical Prospects of the Climate Movement ; 2. Framing Processes in the Climate Movement: from Climate Change to Climate Justice ; 3. Democratizing the Climate Negotiations System through Improved Opportunities for Participation ; 4. Antagonistic Standpoints: The Climate Justice Coalition Viewed in Light of a Theory of Societal Relationships with Nature ; 5. The Climate Justice Movement and the Hegemonic Discourse of Technology ; 6. Climate Justice from the Perspective of Philosophy ; Part 2 Components of the Climate Movement Regional Climate Movements ; 7. The Green Movement in Britain ; 8. The Climate Movement in Germany ; 9. Movements for Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide ; 10. The Australian Climate Movement: A disparate response to climate change and climate politics in a not so 'lucky country' ; 11. The Climate Movement in Brazil - Professionalism and Ideological Differences ; 12. India - The long march to a climate movement ; 13. China's Emerging Climate Change Movement - Finding a Place to Stand ; 14. Climate Justice In, By and For Africa ; 15. Activist Profile Bill McKibben ; 16. Activist Profile Naomi Klein ; 17. Activist Profile James Hansen ; 18. Activist Profile Gore ; Popular Activists 19. Activist Profile Tim DeChristopher ; 20. Activist Profile Anna Rose ; 21. Activist Profiles David Spratt und Phillip Sutton ; International NGOs and Network Organizations 22. Organization Profile Climate Action Network International ; 23. Organization Profile Climate Justice Now! ; 24. Organization Profile La Via Campesina ; 25. Organization Profile Friends of the Earth International ; 26. Organization Profile Climate Alliance ; Climate NGOs from the US 27. Organization Profile 350.org ; 28. Organization Profile Rising Tide ; 29. Organization Profile Energy Action Coalition ; Climate NGOs from Europe 30. Organization Profile Plane Stupid ; 31. Organization Profile Germanwatch ; Part 3 Arenas, Activities and Development of the Climate Movement ; 32. Between Pragmatism and Radicalization. NGOs and Social Movements in International Climate Politics ; 33. Re-Framing Climate Change: The Cochabamba Conference and Global Climate Politics ; 34. Debates and Conflicts in the Climate Movement ; 35. Small Island States and the new Climate Change: the Case of Kiribati ; 36. Ambivalent involvement: Civil-Society Actors in Forest Carbon Offsets. The case of the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standards (CCB) ; 37. In the Periphery of the Climate Movement - Humanitarian Organizations ; 38. Conclusion: Results of the Handbook - State, Influence and Future of the Climate Movement

Description / Table of Contents: 〈P〉The third edition of John Hannigan's classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. 〈I〉Environmental Sociology〈/I〉 offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan's much-cited model of the social construction of environmental problems and controversies with an environmental justice perspective that stresses inequality and toxic threats to local communities.〈/P〉

Description / Table of Contents: "The aim of this book, by providing a set of conceptual tools drawn from critical theory, is to open up questions and new problems and new research agendas for the study of environmental politics"--

Description / Table of Contents: The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not being modelled.  Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based models of collective action extending existing models by providing an embedding into social networks, social influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models into existing theory. 

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Marginality—An Overview and Implications for Policy --- Part 1 Concepts and Theory --- 2 Marginality—A Framework for Analyzing Causal Complexities of Poverty --- 3 Exclusion and Initiatives to “Include”: Revisiting Basic Economics to Guide Development Practice --- 4 Marginality from a Socio-ecological Perspective --- Part 2 Dimensions and Prevalence of Marginality --- 5 Mapping Marginality Hotspots --- 6 The Poorest: Who and Where They Are --- 7 Targeting the Poorest and Most Vulnerable: Examples from Bangladesh --- 8 Correlates of Extreme Poverty in Rural Ethiopia --- 9 Examining the Circle of Attachment, Trauma, Shame, and Marginalization: the Unheard Voices of Young Kutchi Girls --- Part 3 Environmental Drivers of Marginality --- 10 Poverty, Agriculture and the Environment: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa --- 11 The Marginal Poor and their Dependence on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa --- 12 Land Degradation, Poverty, and Marginality --- Part 4     Experiencing Marginality in Africa and Asia --- 13 Tackling Social Exclusion and Marginality for Poverty Reduction: Indian Experiences --- 14 Consumption Behavior of the Poorest and Policy Implications in Indonesia --- 15 Addressing Extreme Poverty and Marginality: Experiences in Rural China --- 16 Experiences in Targeting the Poorest: a Case Study from Bangladesh --- 17 Rural Poverty and Marginalization in Ethiopia: a Review of Development Interventions --- Part 5 Responses to Marginality at Different Levels: State, Business, and Community --- 18 Macro, Fiscal, and Decentralization Options to Address Marginality and Reach the Extremely Poor --- 19 Social Protection, Marginality, and Extreme Poverty: Just Give Money to the Poor --- 20 Innovative Business Approaches for the Reduction of Extreme Poverty and Marginality --- 21 Business Initiatives that Overcome Rural Poverty and Marginality Through Creating Shared Value --- 22 The Marginalized and Poorest in Different Communities and Settings of Ethiopia

Description / Table of Contents: Das lösungsorientierte und umfassende Buch zum Windows Server 2012 R2 mit zahlreichen fundierten Hintergrundinformationen. Der Autor Ulrich B. Boddenberg greift bei der Beschreibung des Servers auf seine praktischen Erfahrungen in zahlreichen Projekten bei mittleren und großen Kunden zurück. Denn ein modernes Betriebssystem wie Windows Server 2012 R2 bietet weit mehr als nur die Möglichkeit, Programme auszuführen. Er beschreibt alle zentralen Technologien wie die Virtualisierung mit Hyper-V V3, Active Directory, Remotedesktopdienste, den Webserver IIS sowie SharePoint. Neben diesen konkreten Technologien geht es auch um Grundlagen wie Netzwerkprotokolle, Kerberos-Authentifizierung oder die eingesetzte Hardware. Zentrale Aspekte wie Performance, Verfügbarkeit und Sicherheit ziehen sich durch das gesamte Buch.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Marginality—An Overview and Implications for Policy --- Part 1 Concepts and Theory --- 2 Marginality—A Framework for Analyzing Causal Complexities of Poverty --- 3 Exclusion and Initiatives to “Include”: Revisiting Basic Economics to Guide Development Practice --- 4 Marginality from a Socio-ecological Perspective --- Part 2 Dimensions and Prevalence of Marginality --- 5 Mapping Marginality Hotspots --- 6 The Poorest: Who and Where They Are --- 7 Targeting the Poorest and Most Vulnerable: Examples from Bangladesh --- 8 Correlates of Extreme Poverty in Rural Ethiopia --- 9 Examining the Circle of Attachment, Trauma, Shame, and Marginalization: the Unheard Voices of Young Kutchi Girls --- Part 3 Environmental Drivers of Marginality --- 10 Poverty, Agriculture and the Environment: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa --- 11 The Marginal Poor and their Dependence on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa --- 12 Land Degradation, Poverty, and Marginality --- Part 4     Experiencing Marginality in Africa and Asia --- 13 Tackling Social Exclusion and Marginality for Poverty Reduction: Indian Experiences --- 14 Consumption Behavior of the Poorest and Policy Implications in Indonesia --- 15 Addressing Extreme Poverty and Marginality: Experiences in Rural China --- 16 Experiences in Targeting the Poorest: a Case Study from Bangladesh --- 17 Rural Poverty and Marginalization in Ethiopia: a Review of Development Interventions --- Part 5 Responses to Marginality at Different Levels: State, Business, and Community --- 18 Macro, Fiscal, and Decentralization Options to Address Marginality and Reach the Extremely Poor --- 19 Social Protection, Marginality, and Extreme Poverty: Just Give Money to the Poor --- 20 Innovative Business Approaches for the Reduction of Extreme Poverty and Marginality --- 21 Business Initiatives that Overcome Rural Poverty and Marginality Through Creating Shared Value --- 22 The Marginalized and Poorest in Different Communities and Settings of Ethiopia

Description / Table of Contents: Preface.- Data and Methods.- Population Norms for the EQ-5D --- Cross-Country Analysis of EQ-5D Data --- Socio-demographic Indicators based on EQ-5D --- Annex 1 --- Annex 2

Description / Table of Contents: PART I: Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage --- 1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability --- 2. “Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s --- 3. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transition --- PART II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture --- 4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change – a Case from the South West Pacific --- 5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity --- 6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models --- 7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) --- 8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development --- PART III: Population and Gender --- 9. Following Boserup’s Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces --- 10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas --- 11. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa --- 12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development --- 13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters --- 14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria --- 15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development --- 16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume

Description / Table of Contents: Preface.- Data and Methods.- Population Norms for the EQ-5D --- Cross-Country Analysis of EQ-5D Data --- Socio-demographic Indicators based on EQ-5D --- Annex 1 --- Annex 2

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Acknowledgements --- Chapter 1 – Natural Heritage at Risk by Climate Change --- Chapter 2 – Climate Change in Central and Eastern Europe --- Chapter 3 – Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrological Cycle in Central and Eastern Europe --- Chapter 4 – Potential impacts of climate change on protected habitats --- Chapter 5 – Climate Change impact modelling cascade - Benefits and limitations for --- Chapter 6 – Indicators for Monitoring Climate Change-Induced Effects on Habitats – a --- Chapter 7 – Remote Sensing-based Monitoring of Potential Climate-induced Impacts on Habitats --- Chapter 8 – Assessment of Climate-induced Impacts on Habitats --- Chapter 9 – Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation --- Chapter 10 – A Methodical Framework for Climate Change-Adapted Management in Protected Areas --- Chapter 11 – Monitoring concept of climate-induced impacts on peat bog vegetation in Pokljuka plateau in Triglav National Park, Slovenia --- Chapter 12 – Concept for the monitoring of climate induced impacts on rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in Triglav National Park, Slovenia --- Chapter 13 – Suggested management measures for Natura 2000 Habitats in Körös-Maros National Park, Hungary --- Chapter 14 – Climate-induced challenges for wetlands: revealing the background for the adaptive ecosystem management in the Biebrza Valley, Poland --- Chapter 15 – Habitat changes caused by sea level rise, driven by climate change in the Northern Adriatic coastal wetlands, Slovenia --- Chapter 16 – Potential impacts of climate change on forest habitats in the Biosphere Reserve Vessertal-Thuringian Forest in Germany --- Chapter 17 – Potential Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Habitats from Bucegi Natural Park, Romania --- Chapter 18 – Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Habitats and their Effects on Invasive Plant Species in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania --- Chapter 19 - Reproduction biology of an alien invasive plant: a case of drought-tolerant Aster squamatus on the Northern Adriatic seacoast, Slovenia --- Chapter 20 – Conclusions and Recommendations for Adapting Conservation Management in the Face of Climate Change --- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Acknowledgements --- Chapter 1 – Natural Heritage at Risk by Climate Change --- Chapter 2 – Climate Change in Central and Eastern Europe --- Chapter 3 – Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrological Cycle in Central and Eastern Europe --- Chapter 4 – Potential impacts of climate change on protected habitats --- Chapter 5 – Climate Change impact modelling cascade - Benefits and limitations for --- Chapter 6 – Indicators for Monitoring Climate Change-Induced Effects on Habitats – a --- Chapter 7 – Remote Sensing-based Monitoring of Potential Climate-induced Impacts on Habitats --- Chapter 8 – Assessment of Climate-induced Impacts on Habitats --- Chapter 9 – Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation --- Chapter 10 – A Methodical Framework for Climate Change-Adapted Management in Protected Areas --- Chapter 11 – Monitoring concept of climate-induced impacts on peat bog vegetation in Pokljuka plateau in Triglav National Park, Slovenia --- Chapter 12 – Concept for the monitoring of climate induced impacts on rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in Triglav National Park, Slovenia --- Chapter 13 – Suggested management measures for Natura 2000 Habitats in Körös-Maros National Park, Hungary --- Chapter 14 – Climate-induced challenges for wetlands: revealing the background for the adaptive ecosystem management in the Biebrza Valley, Poland --- Chapter 15 – Habitat changes caused by sea level rise, driven by climate change in the Northern Adriatic coastal wetlands, Slovenia --- Chapter 16 – Potential impacts of climate change on forest habitats in the Biosphere Reserve Vessertal-Thuringian Forest in Germany --- Chapter 17 – Potential Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Habitats from Bucegi Natural Park, Romania --- Chapter 18 – Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Habitats and their Effects on Invasive Plant Species in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania --- Chapter 19 - Reproduction biology of an alien invasive plant: a case of drought-tolerant Aster squamatus on the Northern Adriatic seacoast, Slovenia --- Chapter 20 – Conclusions and Recommendations for Adapting Conservation Management in the Face of Climate Change --- Index

Description / Table of Contents: PART I: Ester Boserup’s Intellectual Heritage --- 1. Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability --- 2. “Finding Out Is My Life”: Conversations with Ester Boserup in the 1990s --- 3. Boserup’s Theory on Technological Change as a Point of Departure for the Theory of Sociometabolic Regime Transition --- PART II Land Use, Technology and Agriculture --- 4. The Dwindling Role of Population Pressure in Land Use Change – a Case from the South West Pacific --- 5. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches to Mapping and Quantifying Land-Use Intensity --- 6. Malthusian Assumptions, Boserupian Response in Transition to Agriculture Models --- 7. Reconciling Boserup with Malthus: Agrarian Change and Soil Degradation in Olive Orchards in Spain (1750-2000) --- 8. Beyond Boserup: The Role of Working Time in Agricultural Development --- PART III: Population and Gender --- 9. Following Boserup’s Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces --- 10. Daughters of the Hills: Gendered Agricultural Production, Modernisation, and Declining Child Sex Ratios in the Indian Central Himalayas --- 11. Revisiting Boserup’s Hypotheses in the Context of Africa --- 12. An Interpretation of Large-Scale Land Deals Using Boserup’s Theories of Agricultural Intensification, Gender and Rural Development --- 13. Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Asset Shifts in Southeastern Mexico: Two Stories of Farming Wives and Daughters --- 14. Working Time of Farm Women and Small-Scale Sustainable Farming in Austria --- 15. A Human Ecological Approach to Ester Boserup: Steps Towards Engendering Agriculture and Rural Development --- 16. Conclusions: Re-Evaluating Boserup in the Light of the Contributions to this Volume

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Can improving returns to food-water in Africa meet African food needs and the needs of other consumers? ; Part I: The history of land grabs and the contradictions of development ; 1.1 Enclosure revisited: putting the global land rush in historical perspective ; 1.2 Land alienation under colonial and white settler governments in southern Africa: historical land 'grabbing' ; 1.3 Sudan and its agricultural revival: a regional breadbasket at last or another mirage in the desert? ; 1.4 The contradictions of development: primitive accumulation and geopolitics in the two Sudans ; 1.5 The experience of land grab in Liberia ; Part II: Investors-profiles and current investment trends ; 2.1 Chinese engagement in African agriculture: fiction and fact ; 2.2 The global food crisis and the Gulf's quest for Africa's agricultural potential ; 2.3 A global enclosure: the geo-logics of Indian agro-investments in Africa ; 2.4 Private investment in agriculture ; 2.5 The role of domestic investors: the arrival of the 'businessmen' in West Africa ; 2.6 'Land grabs' and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets ; 2.7 Change in trend and new types of large-scale investments in Ethiopia ; 2.8 Tapping into Al-Andaluz resources: opportunities and challenges for investment in Morocco ; 2.9 A blue revolution for Zambia? Large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' ; Part III: The political economy of land and water grabs ; 3.1 Claiming (back) the land: the geopolitics of Egyptian and South African land and water grabs ; 3.2 Investing into the next cycle? Land grabs and the green economy ; 3.3 The political economy of land and water grabs ; 3.4 Will peak oil cause a rush for land in Africa? ; 3.5 How to govern the global rush for land and water? ; 3.6 Keep calm and carry on: what we can learn from the three food price crises of the 1940s, 1970s and 2007-8 ; 3.7 Constructing a new water future? An analysis of Ethiopia's current hydropower development ; 3.8 Inverse globalisation? The global agricultural trade system and Asian investments in African land and water resources ; Part IV: Environment ; 4.1 Green and blue water dimensions of foreign direct investment in biofuel and food production in West Africa: the case of Ghana and Mali ; 4.2 Green and blue water in Africa: how foreign direct investment can support sustainable intensification ; 4.3 Groundwater in Africa: is there sufficient water to support the intensification of agriculture from 'land grabs'? ; 4.4 The water resource implications for and of FDI projects in Africa: a biophysical analysis of opportunity and risk ; 4.5 Analyse to optimise: sustainable intensification of agricultural production through investment in integrated land and water management in Africa ; Part V: Livelihoods ; 5.1 Expectations and implications of the rush for land: understanding the opportunities and risks at stake in Africa ; 5.2 China-Africa agricultural co-operation, African land tenure reform and sustainable farmland investments ; 5.3 Competing narratives of land reform in south Sudan ; 5.4 Struggles and resistance against land dispossession in Africa: an overview

Description / Table of Contents: "In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides an overview of the new global challenges connected with land, food supply and agriculture. It does not simply raise the debate; rather it aspires to move forward the debate that has started with the G20 meetings"--

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Blueprint for a Green Economy in the 21st Century 3. Sustainable Development 4. Progress in Valuing the Environment 5. Accounting for the Environment and Sustainability 6. Progress in Prices and Incentives for Environmental Improvement 7. Towards a Green Global Economy 8. Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 Drinking ten bathtubs of water a day ; 3 Water for bread and pasta ; 4 The meat eater, a big water user ; 5 How our cotton clothes link to a disappearing sea ; 6 Burning water: the water footprint of biofuels ; 7 The overseas water footprint of cut flowers ; 8 The supply-chain water footprint of paper ; 9 Maximum sustainable water footprint per river basin ; 10 Water-use efficiency ; 11 Allocating the world's limited freshwater resources ; 12 Getting trade right ; 13 Product transparency ; 14 Who will be the heroes of change?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Climate Change Finance ; 2. The Landscape of Climate Finance ; 3. Estimates of Incremental Investment for and Cost of Mitigation Measures in Developing Countries ; 4. Development and Climate Change Adaptation Funding: Coordination and Integration ; 5. Estimating Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change ; 6. Raising Climate Finance to Support Developing Country Action: Some Economic Considerations ; 7. Sources of Finance for Climate Action: Principles and Options for Implementation Mechanisms in this Decade ; 8. Mobilizing Climate Finance ; 9. International Climate Finance from Border Carbon Cost Leveling ; 10. Sources of Long-term Climate Change Finance ; 11. Spending Adaptation Money Wisely ; 12. Beyond Climate Finance: From Accountability to Productivity in Addressing the Climate Challenge ; 13. Recent Developments Related to International Climate Change Finance

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: What's Economics Got to Do with It? Part 1: Ecological Sustainability: How Much Nature Do We Need? 2. How Much Nature Do We Have? 3. How Much Nature Do We Need? Can We Sustain Its Use? 4. What Should We Do About It? Part 2: Economic Sustainability: How Much For Nature? 5. What is the Value of Nature? 6.Accounting for Economic Sustainability. 7. What Should We Do About It? 8. Bridging the Gap: Ecologial and Environmental Economics. Part 3: Sustainable Development: What Else Do We Need? 9. A Cure-All Paradigm? 10. What Should We Do About It? 11. Some Conclusions: What's Countable? What Counts? What Should We Do About It?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1. Climate Change - An Urban Problem? Chapter 2. Climate Risk and Vulnerability in the City Chapter 3. Accounting for Urban GHG emissions Chapter 4. Governing Climate Change in the City Chapter 5. Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Cities Chapter 6. Urban Adaptation - Towards Climate Resilient Cities? Chapter 7. Climate Change Experiments and Alternatives in the City Chapter 8. Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Unsere Autoren zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie schnell zur eigenen App kommen. Dabei werden alle wichtigen Themen in der gebotenen Tiefe mit viel Hintergrundwissen beschrieben. Praktische und direkt nachvollziehbare Beispiele helfen beim Verständnis. Natürlich kommt in diesem Buch auch die Programmierung nicht zu kurz. Grundkenntnisse sollten jedoch vorhanden sein. Eine kurze Einführung in Objective-C und Cocoa vermittelt Ihnen alles, was Sie wissen müssen. Inkl. Schnittstellen zum Datenaustausch, Events, Alerts, Datenverwaltung mit Core Data, Sicherheit und die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Netzwerkprogrammierung.

Description / Table of Contents: Sie möchten das Programmieren mit Visual Basic lernen? Dann führt Sie dieses Buch schnell und sicher zum Ziel. Anhand anschaulicher und leicht nachvollziehbarer Beispiele werden alle wichtigen Themen erläutert: Grundlagen zu Variablen, Operatoren, Schleifen und Co., objektorientierte Programmierung, Fehlerbehandlung, Erstellen von Datenbank- und Internetanwendungen. Auch in die Entwicklung von GUIs mit der Windows Presentation Foundation und von Windows Store Apps für Windows 8 werden Sie eingeführt. Ausführliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen und regelmäßige Zusammenfassungen sichern Ihren Lernerfolg. Ihr neu gewonnenes Wissen können Sie an einer Vielzahl von Übungsaufgaben unter Beweis stellen und an Musterlösungen überprüfen. So werden Sie schon bald selbstständig eigene Windows-Programme entwickeln.

Description / Table of Contents: Few subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards. The first decade of this new millennium provides a litany of tragic examples of various hazards that turned into disasters affecting millions of individuals around the globe. The human losses (some 225,000 people) associated with the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the economic costs (approximately 200 billion USD) of the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake, tsunami and reactor event, and the collective social impacts of human tragedies experienced during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 all provide repetitive reminders that we humans are temporary guests occupying a very active and angry planet. Any examples may have been cited here to stress the point that natural events on Earth may, and often do, lead to disasters and catastrophes when humans place themselves into situations of high risk. Few subjects share the true interdisciplinary dependency that characterizes the field of natural hazards. From geology and geophysics to engineering and emergency response to social psychology and economics, the study of natural hazards draws input from an impressive suite of unique and previously independent specializations. Natural hazards provide a common platform to reduce disciplinary boundaries and facilitate a beneficial synergy in the provision of timely and useful information and action on this critical subject matter. As social norms change regarding the concept of acceptable risk and human migration leads to an explosion in the number of megacities, coastal over-crowding and unmanaged habitation in precarious environments such as mountainous slopes, the vulnerability of people and their susceptibility to natural hazards increases dramatically. Coupled with the concerns of changing climates, escalating recovery costs, a growing divergence between more developed and less developed countries, the subject of natural hazards remains on the forefront of issues that affect all people, nations, and environments all the time. This treatise provides a compendium of critical, timely and very detailed information and essential facts regarding the basic attributes of natural hazards and concomitant disasters. The Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards effectively captures and integrates contributions from an international portfolio of almost 300 specialists whose range of expertise addresses over 330 topics pertinent to the field of natural hazards. Disciplinary barriers are overcome in this comprehensive treatment of the subject matter. Clear illustrations and numerous color images enhance the primary aim to communicate and educate. The inclusion of a series of unique “classic case study” events interspersed throughout the volume provides tangible examples linking concepts, issues, outcomes and solutions. These case studies illustrate different but notable recent, historic and prehistoric events that have shaped the world as we now know it. They provide excellent focal points linking the remaining terms in the volume to the primary field of study. This Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards will remain a standard reference of choice for many years.

Description / Table of Contents: Dieses Standardwerk hat sich seit vielen Jahren in Ausbildung und Studium bewährt. Gut strukturiert und in gut lesbaren Lerneinheiten vermittelt es Ihnen einen Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet der Fachinformatik, wie es die Prüfungsordnung der IHK für eine zwei- oder dreijährige Berufsausbildung vorschreibt. Sascha Kersken bietet Ihnen einen leichten Zugang zu allen Themen und Grundlagen der modernen Informationstechnik, wie sie Fachinformatiker in Ihrer Ausbildung benötigen: Aufbau der Computerhardware, Betriebssysteme, Netzwerktechnik, -protokolle und -anwendungen sowie Grundlagen der Programmierung werden ebenso wie das Thema Datenbanken und Multimedia berücksichtigt. Die neue Auflage wurde um viele aktuelle Themen und Trends erweitert. HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Cloud Computing oder Scrum wurden dabei ebenso behandelt wie die aktuellen Versionen der Betriebssysteme Windows, Mac OS X und Linux.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. A global outlook on urbanization --- 2. History of urbanization and the missing ecology --- 3. Urbanization and global trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 4. Regional assessment of Asia.- 5. Sub-regional assessment of China: Urbanization in biodiversity hotspots --- 6. Sub-regional assessment of India --- 7. Local assessment of Bangalore.- 8. Local assessment of Tokyo --- 9. Local assessment of Shanghai --- 10. Patterns and trends in urban biodiversity and landscape design --- 11. Urban ecosystem services.- 12. Shrinking cities, biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 13. Regional assessments of Europe --- 14. Regional assessment of North America --- 15. Regional assessment of Oceania --- 16. Local assessment of Istanbul: Biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 17. Local assessment of Stockholm --- 18. Local assessment of Chicago --- 19. Local assessment of New York City.-20. Local assessment of Melbourne --- 21. A synthesis of global urbanization projections --- 22. Urbanization forecasts, effects on land use, biodiversity, and ecosystem services --- 23. Regional assessment of Africa --- 24. Local assessment of Cape Town.- 25. Climate change and urban biodiversity vulnerability --- 26. Feeding cities --- 27. Urban governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 28. Regional assessment of Latin America --- 29. Local assessment of Rio de Janeiro.- 30. Urban landscapes as learning arenas for biodiversity and ecosystem services management --- 31. Restoration ecology in an urbanizing world --- 32. Indicators for management of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 33. Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era

Description / Table of Contents: Wenn Sie ein Buch suchen, dass Ihnen bei allen Fragen der C#-Entwicklung zuverlässig mit Rat und Tat zur Seite steht, dann ist unser bewährtes Kompendium genau das Richtige für Sie. Mittlerweile in der 6. Auflage dient es ambitionierten Ein- und Umsteigern durch seine strukturierte Vorgehensweise und die zahlreichen Anwendungsbeispiele als praxisorientierte Einführung; Fortgeschrittene und Profis unterstützt es als Nachschlagewerk optimal bei ihrer täglichen Arbeit. In den ersten Kapiteln werden zunächst die Grundlagen von C#, .NET und der objektorientierten Programmierung vermittelt. Es folgen Kapitel zur effizienten Entwicklung mit Visual Studio 2012, zur Fehlerbehandlung sowie zu fortgeschrittenen C#-Themen wie LINQ, Multithreading, Serialisierung u. v. m. Den größten Themenblock bildet die Entwicklung von grafischen Benutzeroberflächen. Neben einer fundierten Einführung in die WPF und XAML erfahren Sie hier alles Notwendige, um auch komplexe Anwendungen zu gestalten. Anschließend wird die Datenbankprogrammierung mit ADO.NET ausführlich behandelt und zu guter Letzt die Weitergabe von .NET-Anwendungen thematisiert. So sind Sie für Ihren Arbeitsalltag bestens gerüstet!

Description / Table of Contents: 1. A global outlook on urbanization --- 2. History of urbanization and the missing ecology --- 3. Urbanization and global trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 4. Regional assessment of Asia.- 5. Sub-regional assessment of China: Urbanization in biodiversity hotspots --- 6. Sub-regional assessment of India --- 7. Local assessment of Bangalore.- 8. Local assessment of Tokyo --- 9. Local assessment of Shanghai --- 10. Patterns and trends in urban biodiversity and landscape design --- 11. Urban ecosystem services.- 12. Shrinking cities, biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 13. Regional assessments of Europe --- 14. Regional assessment of North America --- 15. Regional assessment of Oceania --- 16. Local assessment of Istanbul: Biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 17. Local assessment of Stockholm --- 18. Local assessment of Chicago --- 19. Local assessment of New York City.-20. Local assessment of Melbourne --- 21. A synthesis of global urbanization projections --- 22. Urbanization forecasts, effects on land use, biodiversity, and ecosystem services --- 23. Regional assessment of Africa --- 24. Local assessment of Cape Town.- 25. Climate change and urban biodiversity vulnerability --- 26. Feeding cities --- 27. Urban governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 28. Regional assessment of Latin America --- 29. Local assessment of Rio de Janeiro.- 30. Urban landscapes as learning arenas for biodiversity and ecosystem services management --- 31. Restoration ecology in an urbanizing world --- 32. Indicators for management of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services --- 33. Stewardship of the Biosphere in the Urban Era

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part 1: Setting the Scene on Climate Change 1. An Invisible Truth? Perceptions and Misperceptions of Climate Change 2. Limited Vision: Understanding Perceptual Problems with Climate Change 3. A New Climate Change Lens: Principles for Shifting Perceptions of Climate Change 4. Learning to See: Reframing Community Perceptions of Carbon and Climate Change Part 2: Knowing, Seeing, and Acting on Community Carbon & Climate Change 5. Right Before Our Eyes: Seeing Carbon 6. Hot in My Backyard: Seeing the Impacts of Climate Change 7. Cutting the Carbon: Seeing Mitigation Solutions to Climate Change 8. Being Prepared: Seeing Adaptation Solutions to Climate Change 9. Seeing the Big Picture on Community Carbon and Climate Change Part 3: Switching Lenses: Changing Minds with Visual Learning Tools 10. Landscape Messaging: Making Climate Change More Visible In the Community 11. Visual Media: Knowing Climate Change When You See it in Pictures 12. The Modern Crystal Ball: Visualizing the Future with Climate Change 13. Local Climate Change Visioning: Enhanced Processes for Planning Community Futures Part 4: With New Eyes to See: What the Future Looks Like With Climate Change 14. Realizing Future Community Visions: Getting to Low-carbon, Attractive, Resilient Communities Appendix: Code of Ethics for Landscape Visualization.

Description / Table of Contents: The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organized into five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixty-five contributions from leading scholars. Section one situates hazards and disasters in their broad political, cultural, economic, and environmental context. Section two contains treatments of potentially damaging natural events/phenomena organized by major earth system. Section three critically reviews progress in responding to disasters including warning, relief and recovery. Section four addresses mitigation of potential loss and prevention of disasters under two sub-headings: governance, advocacy and self-help, and communication and participation. Section five ends with a concluding chapter by the editors.The engaging international contributions reflect upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practice applied hazard research and disaster risk reduction. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners interested in Geography, Environment Studies and Development Studies.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface ; 1. The Clean Development Mechanism Gold Rush ; 2. Development Co-operation and Climate Change: Political-Economic Determinants of Adaptation Aid ; 3. How Brazil and China have Financed Industry Development and Energy Security Initiatives that Support Mitigation Objectives ; 4. The Adaptation Fund: Towards Resilient Economies in the Developing World ; 5. Fast-Start Finance - Scattered Governance, Information and Programmes ; 6. New Market Mechanisms for Mitigation - Getting the Incentives Right ; 7. Mobilising Mitigation Policies in the South through a Financing Mix ; 8. Market Mechanisms for Adaptation - an Aberration or a Key Source of Finance? ; 9. Harnessing the Financial Markets to Leverage Low Carbon Technology Diffusion ; 10. Climate Finance and Backstop Technologies ; 11. Manouvering Climate Finance Around the Pitfalls - Finding the Right Policy Mix

Description / Table of Contents: The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. The volume addresses the following major topics: research results in observing aspects of the Arctic climate system and its processes across a range of time and space scales; representation of cryospheric, atmospheric, and oceanic processes in models, including simulation of their interaction with coupled models; our understanding of the role of the arctic in the global climate system, its response to large-scale climate variations, and the processes involved.

Description / Table of Contents: Die Fortsetzung des Java-Kultbuchs für Entwickler! Hier bekommen Sie umfassendes und kompetentes Praxiswissen zu den vielen Bibliotheken und Technologien in einem Band. Am Beispiel konkreter Java-Projekte zeigt Christian Ullenboom, was man wissen muss über Swing, Netzwerk- und Grafikprogrammierung, RMI und Web-Services, JavaServer Pages und Servlets, Applets, JDBC, Reflection und Annotationen, Logging und Monitoring, Java Native Interface (JNI) und vieles mehr. Dieses Buch ist Ihr unersetzlicher Begleiter bei der täglichen Arbeit!

Description / Table of Contents: Klaus M. Rodewig und Clemens Wagner geben Ihnen einen Einblick in die Architektur des iPhone und des iPad und eine Anleitung zum Programmieren eigener Applikationen. Dabei werden alle wichtigen Themen in der gebotenen Tiefe mit Hintergrundwissen beschrieben. Praktische Beispiele unterstützen Sie von Anfang an, so dass Sie direkt loslegen können. Erste Ergebnisse können Sie im iPhone Simulator direkt testen. Sie erhalten einen Überblick über die verschiedenen iPhone- und iPod Touch-Modelle, erfahren, wie Sie in der Apple Developer Connection Mitglied werden können und Applikationen für das iPhone im Appstore anbieten können. Natürlich kommt in diesem Buch auch der Hintergrund nicht zu kurz. Eine kurze Einführung in Objective-C und Cocoa vermittelt Ihnen alles, was Sie wissen müssen. Inkl. Schnittstellen zum Datenaustausch, Events, Alerts, Datenverwaltung mit Core Data und die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Netzwerkprogrammierung. Profis werden von den Tipps und Tricks zur Konfiguration und Verwendung von Xcode, Debugging und der Arbeit mit einem Versionierungssystem profitieren.

Description / Table of Contents: Dieses umfassende Handbuch bietet Ihnen nahezu vollständiges Linux-Wissen. Es erklärt, wie man Linux als leistungsstarke Workstation nutzen kann und widmet sich ausführlich professionelleren Themen wie Administration des Systems, Shell, Netzwerkkonfiguration und Sicherheit. Das Buch ist geeignet für Nutzer aller gängigen Linux-Distributionen. Die beiliegenden Multiboot-DVDs enthalten eine große Auswahl an Linux-Systemen. Das Buch ist konsequent praxisnah geschrieben, immer verständlich und sehr gründlich in der Behandlung aller Themen. Diese 5. Auflage wurde umfassend aktualisiert und verbessert. Sowohl Einsteiger als auch Profis werden von diesem kompetenten Handbuch profitieren.

Description / Table of Contents: Umfassender geht es nicht! Hier erfahren Sie alles, was Sie mit der Version 11.04 »Natty Narwhal« (dt. »Schicker Zahnwal«) der beliebtesten Linux-Distribution Ubuntu anstellen können. Von der Installation, der Paketverwaltung über Optimierung, Programmierung, Migration und Kernelkompilierung bis hin zur Virtualisierung und Netzwerktechnik finden Sie alle wichtigen Fragen zu Ubuntu Linux in diesem Buch beantwortet. Darüber hinaus profitieren Sie von mehr als 300 eigens gekennzeichneten Tipps und Tricks sowie von zahlreichen Praxisworkshops. Werden Sie mit diesem Buch ganz einfach zum Ubuntu-Profi! Übrigens: Auch eingefleischte Ubuntu-Nutzer werden in dieser Ausgabe zur aktuellen Version viel Neues entdecken - denn Ubuntu setzt seit »Natty Narwhal« mit der Unity-Oberfläche auf einen neuen Look.

Description / Table of Contents: The interplay between Geology and Biology has shaped the Earth from the early Precambrian, 4 billion years ago. Moving beyond the borders of the classical core disciplines, Geobiology strives to identify cause-and-effect chains and synergisms between the geo- and the biospheres that have been driving evolution of life in modern and ancient environments. Combining modern methods, geobiological information can be extracted not only from visible remains of organisms, but also from organic molecules, rock fabrics, minerals, isotopes and other tracers. Exploring these processes and their signatures also creates enormous applied potentials with respect to issues of environment protection, public health, energy and resource management. The Encyclopedia of Geobiology is designed as a key reference for students, researchers, teachers, and the informed public to provide basic, but comprehensible knowledge on this rapidly expanding discipline at the interface between modern geo- and biosciences.

Description / Table of Contents: Acetogens.-Acid Rock Drainage.- Acidophiles.-Acritarchs.- Aerobic Metabolism.-Algae (Eukaryotic) .-Alkalinity.-Amber.-Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane with Sulfate.-Anaerobic Transformation Processes, Microbiology.-Anammox.-Animal Biocalcification, Evolution.-Animal Skeletons, Advent.-Archaea.-Arsenic.-Asteroid and Comet Impacts.-Astrobiology.-Bacteria.-Bacterioplankton.-Banded Iron Formations.-Basalt (Glass, Endoliths) .-Beggiatoa.-Biodeterioration (of Stone).-Bioerosion.-Biofilms.-Biofilms and Fossilization.- Biogeochemical Cycless.- Biological Control on Diagenesis: Influence of Bacteria and Relevance to Ocean Acidification.-Biological Volcanic Rock Weathering.-Biomarkers (Molecular Fossils). -Biomarkers (Organic, Compound-Specific Isotopes).- Biomining (Mineral Bioleaching, Mineral Biooxidation).-Bioprotection.- Biosignatures in Rocks.- Biosilicification.- Black Shales.- Breakup of Rodinia.- Calcareous Algae.- Calcification.-Calcified Cyanobacteria.-Calcite Precipitation, Microbially Induced.-Calcium Biogeochemistry.-Cap Carbonates.-Carbon (Organic, Cycling) .-Carbon (Organic, Degradation) .-Carbon Cycle.-Carbon Isotopes.-Carbonate Environments.-Carbonates.-Cathodoluminescence Microscopy.-Chemolithotrophy.-Cherts.-Chondrites.-Chroococcidiopsis.-Clay Authigenesis, Bacterial.-Coccolithophores.-Cold Seeps.-Comets.-Commensalism.-Community.-Copper.-Cosmic Molecular Clouds.-Critical Intervals in Earth History.-Cryobiosphere.-Cyanobacteria.-Deep Biosphere of Salt Deposits.-Deep Biosphere of Sediments.-Deep Biosphere of the Oceanic Deep Sea.-Deep Fluids.-Degradation (of Organic Matter) .-Denitrification.-Desert Varnish.-Detachment.-Diatoms.-Dinoflagellates.-Divalent Earth Alkaline Cations in Seawater.-Diversity.-Dolomite, Microbial.-Early Earth.-Early Precambrian Eukaryotes.-Ecological Niche.-Ediacaran Biota.-Endoliths.-Endosymbiosis.-Evaporites.-Exoenzymes.-Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) .-Extreme Environments.-Fe(II)-Oxidizing Prokaryotes.-Fe(III)-Reducing Prokaryotes.-Fermentation.-Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) .-Foraminifera.-Frutexites.-Fungi and Lichens.-Gallionella.-Geobacter.-Geochronology.-Geomycology.-Geyserite.-Glass.-Glaucophytes.-Gold.-Gondwanaland, Formation.-Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) .-Green Algae.-Guild.-Habitat.-Halobacteria Halophiles.-Haptophytes.-Heavy Metals.-Histology.-Hot Springs and Geysers.-Hydrogen.-Hydrothermal Environments, Fossil.-Hydrothermal Environments, Marine.-Hydrothermal Environments, Terrestrial.-Hypersaline Environments.-Ichnology.-Immunolocalization.-Iron Isotopes.-Iron Sulfide Formation.-Isotope Fractionation (Metal) .-Isotopes (Methods) .-Isotopes and Geobiology.-Isotopes, Radiogenic.-Karst Ecosystems.-Lateral Gene Transfer.-Leptothrix.-Magnetotactic Bacteria.-Manganese (Sedimentary Carbonates and Sulfides) .-Mass Extinctions, Phanerozoic.-Mat-Related Sedimentary Structures.-Metagenomics.-Metalloenzymes.-Metallogenium.-Metals, Acquisition by Marine Bacteria.-Meteoritics.-Methane Oxidation (Aerobic) .-Methane, Origin.-Methanogens.-Microbial Biomineralization.-Microbial Communities, Structure, and Function.-Microbial Degradation.-Microbial Ecology of Submarine Caves.-Microbial Mats.-Microbial Silicification Bacteria (or Passive) .-Microbial Surface Reactivity.-Microbialites, Modern.-Microbialites, Stromatolites, and Thrombolites.-Microbial-Metal Binding.-Microbiocorrosion.-Microsensors for Sediments, Microbial Mats, and Biofilms.-Molar-tooth Structure.-Moonmilk.-Mud Mounds.-Mutualism.-Mycorrhizae.-Nan(n)obacteria.-Nanocrystals, Microbially Induced.-Nickel, Biology.-Nitrification.-Nitrogen.-Nitrogen Fixation.-Ores, Microbial Precipitation and Oxidation.-Organic Carbon.-Organomineralization.-Origin of Life.-Origins of the Metazoa.-Parasitism.-Pedogenic Carbonates.-Permafrost Microbiology.-Phosphorus, Phosphorites.-Photosynthesis.-Piezophilic Bacteria.-Pore Waters.-Protozoa (Heterotroph, Eukaryotic) .-Pyrite Oxidation.-Radioactivity (Natural) .-Radiolaria.-Raman Microscopy (Confocal) .-Reduction Spheroids.-Reefs.-Remineralization (of Organic Matter) .-Rhodophyta.-RNA-World.-Saline Lakes.-Salinity History of the Earths Ocean.-Scanning Probe Microscopy (Includes Atomic Force Microscopy) .-Sediment Diagenesis Biologically Controlled.-Selenium.-Shales.-Shewanella.-Siderite.-Siderophores.-Silica Biomineralization, Sponges.-Silicoflagellates.-Sinter.-Skeleton.-Small Shelly Fossils.-Snowball Earth.-Soda Lakes.-Soda Ocean Hypothesis.-Soils.-Species (Microbial) .-Speleothems.-Sponges (Porifera) and Sponge Microbes.-Stromatactis.-Stromatolites.-Subsurface Filamentous Fabrics.-Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria.-Sulfide Mineral Oxidation.-Sulfur Cycle.-Sulfur Isotopes.-Symbiosis.-Syntrophy.-Terrestrial Deep Biosphere.-Thioester World.-Thiomargarita.-Thiotrophic Bacteria.-Thrombolites.-Tidal Flats.-TOF-SIMS.-Trace Fossils: Neoproterozoic.-Tufa, Freshwater.-Waulsortian Mud Mounds.-Whale and Wood Falls.-Zinc.

Description / Table of Contents: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's (1906-94) most original contribution is his bioeconomic theory. Based on a profound rethinking of the foundations of neoclassical economics, bioeconomics represents a completely new paradigm compared to both the standard and the Marxist approach. Opening economics to natural sciences led Georgescu-Roegen to point out the bio-physical limits to growth. In the last years of his life, he also criticised the sustainable development paradigm, but his criticism disappeared together with him, only to re-emerge recently, thanks to the research on his archiveand to the interest for his viewpoints within the framework of 'degrowth'. In his last years Georgescu-Roegen intended to publish a text entitled Bioeconomics, as an initial systematic arrangement of this doctrine. This book aims to pick up that project in two ways: first, collecting Goergescu-Roegen's main contributions to bioeconomic theory, some still unpublished, and tackling the principal nubs of the discipline particularly the criticism of sustainable development. Second, recuperating that full multidisciplinarity that represents the profoundest characteristic of the bioeconomic theory.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1. Global Nature ; Part I: Food, Health and the Body: Political Ecology of Sustainability ; Chapter 2. Excess Consumption or Over-production: US Farm Policy, Global Warming, and the Bizarre Atribution of Obesity ; Chapter 3. Killing for Profit: Global Livestock Industries and their Socio-Ecological Implications ; Chapter 4. "Modern" Industrial Fisheries and the Crisis of Overfishing ; Chapter 5. When People Come First: AIDS, Technical Fixes, and Social Innovation in the Global Health Market ; Part II: Capital's Margins: The Political Ecology the Slum World ; Chapter 6. Global Garbage: Waste, trash trading and local garbage politics ; Chapter 7. Green evictions: Environmental discourses of a "slum-free" Delhi ; Part III: Risk, Certification and the Audit Economy: Political Ecology of Environmental Governance ; Chapter 8. The Politics of Certification: Consumer Knowledge, Power and Global Governance in Ecolabelling ; Chapter 9. Climate Change and the Risk Industry: The Multiplication of Fear and Value ; Chapter 10. Carbon colonialism? Offsets, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Sustainable Development ; Part IV: War, Militarism and Insurgency: Political Ecology of Security ; Chapter 11. The Natures of the Beast: On the New Uses of the Honey Bee ; Chapter 12. Taking the Jungle out of the Forest: Counter-insurgency and the Making of National Natures ; Chapter 13. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico ; Part V: Fuelling Capitalism: Energy Scarcity and Abundance ; Chapter 14. Past Peak Oil: Political Economy of Energy Crises ; Chapter 15: Energy, Security, and Discourses of Empire and Terror ; Part VI: Blue Ecology: the Political Ecology of Water ; Chapter 16. Commons versus Commodities: Political ecologies of water privatization ; Chapter 17. The Social Construction of Scarcity: The Case of Water in Western India ; Part VII: Biopolitics and Political Ecology: Genes, Transgenes and Genomics ; Chapter 18. Governing Disorder: Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life ; Chapter 19. Transnational Transgenes: The Political Ecology of Maize in Mexico

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Einführung ; 2. Mathematische und technische Grundlagen ; 3. Hardware ; 4. Netzwerkgrundlagen ; 5. Betriebssystemgrundlagen ; 6. Windows ; 7. Linux ; 8. Mac OS X ; 9. Grundlagen der Programmierung ; 10. Konzepte der Programmierung ; 11. Software-Engineering ; 12. Datenbanken ; 13. Server für Webanwendungen ; 14. Weitere Internet-Serverdienste ; 15. XML ; 16. Weitere Datei- und Datenformate ; 17. Webseitenerstellung mit (X)HTML und CSS ; 18. Webserveranwendungen ; 19. JavaScript und Ajax ; 20. Computer- und Netzwerksicherheit

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Ablation Depression.-Ablatometer.-Acidity of Glacier Ice.-Active Ice Wedge.-Adfreeze.-Aerial Photogrammetry for Glacial Monitoring.-Alaskan Glaciers.-Albedo.-Alps.-Altai-Sayan Glaciers.-Anabatic Winds: In Relation with Snow/Glacier Basin.-Anchor Ice.-Andean Glaciers.-Anisotropic Ice Flow.-Antarctica.-Anti-Icing.-Anti-Syngenetic Ice Wedge.-Appalachian Glacier Complex in Maritime Canada.-Arctic Hydroclimatology.-Artificial Ground Freezing.-Artificial Production of Snow.-Atmosphere-Snow/Ice Interactions.-Atmospheric Circulation and Glaciochemical Records.-Automated Glacier Mapping.-Basal Sediment Evacuation by Subglacial Drainage Systems.-Base Flow/Groundwater Flow.-Bed (Bottom) Topography.-Bed Forms (Fluvial).-Bed Roughness.-Bed Strength.-Benchmark Glacier.-Biogeochemistry of Sea Ice.-Blue Ice.-Bottom Melting or Undermelt (Ice Shelf).-Brash Ice.-Calving Glaciers.-Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains of Canada.-Cascade Mountains, USA.-Cascade System.-Catastrophic Flooding.-Catastrophic Rock Slope Failures and Mountain Glaciers.-Catchment Glacier.-Caucasus Mountains.-Characteristics of Snow and Glacier Fed Rivers in Mountainous Regions with Special Reference to Himalayan Basins.-Chemical Composition of Snow, Ice, and Glaciers.-Chemical and Microbe Records in Snow and Ice.-Chemical Processes in Snow and Ice.-Circulation and Mixing in Ice-Covered Lakes.-Cirque Glaciers.-Temperature and Precipitation.-Cloudburst.-Cohesion.-Cold-Based Glaciers.-Condensation Nuclei.-Confluence of Rivers.-Congelation Ice.-Crack.-Creep.-Crevasses.-Critical Temperature.-Crush.-Crust.-Cryoconite.-Cryodessication.-Cryofront.-Cryogenesis.-Cryogenic Aquiclude.-Cryogenic Fabric.-Cryolithology.-Cryopeg.-Cryosol.-Cryostatic Pressure.-Cryostructure.-Cryoturbation.-Dating Glacial Landforms.-Dead Ice.-Debris.-Debris Thermal Properties and Impact on Ice Ablation.-Debris-Covered Glaciers.-Deglaciation.-Degree-Days.-Depletion of Snow Cover.-Deposition from Debris-Rich Ice.-Digital Elevation Model Generation over Glacierized Region.-Digital Image Information Extraction Techniques for Snow Cover Mapping from Remote Sensing Data.-Direct Surface Runoff.-Discharge/Streamflow.-Distributary Channels.-Diurnal Cycle of Runoff.-Diverging Ice Flow.-Drift Glacier/Ice/Snow.-Dry and Wet Snow Line/Zone.-Dry Snow.-Dye Tracer Investigations of Glacier Hydrology.-Dynamics of Glaciers.-Elongation Ratio.-Englacial Conduit.-Englacial Processes.-.Environmental Isotopes.-Epigenetic Ice.-Epiglacial Morphology.-Equilibrium-Line Altitude (ELA).-Erosion of Hard Rock Bed.-Erosion Rate.-Estimation of Glacier Volume and Volume Change by Scaling Methods.-Estuary Ice Cover.-Fast Ice.-Finger Rafting.-Firn.-Fjords.-Foliation.-Forbes Band.-Formation and Deformation of Basal Ice.-Frazil.-Freezing Bottom (Ice Shelf).-Freezing Meltwater.-Freezing and Thawing Index.-Frequency Analysis of Snow Storms.-Fresh Water Storage.-Frictional Melting.-Frost.-Frozen Soil Hydrology.-Frozen Toe (Outer Zone of Glacier Snout).-Gelisols.-Geochemistry of Snow and Ice.-Geocryology.-GIS in Glaciology.-Glacial Drainage Characteristics.-Glacial Ecosystems.-Glacial Erosion.-Glacial Erratic.-Glacial Geomorphology and Landforms Evolution.-Glacial Grooves.-Glacial Overdeepening.-Glacial Striations.-Glacial Trough.-Glacial/Interglacial Cycles.-Glaciation During Times of Enhanced/Reduced Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.-Glaciations and Groundwater Flow Systems.-Glacier.-Glacier Bird of the Andes.-Glacier Cave.-Glacier Field Studies: Important Things to Notice.-Glacier Hydrology.-Glacier Lake Outburst Floods.-Glacier Mass Balance.-Glacier Motion/Ice Velocity.-Glacier Pothole.-Glacier Sliding.-Glacier Surging.-Glacier System.-Glacier Toe.-Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya.-Glacieret.-Glacierization.-Glacioeustasy.-Glaciofluvial.-Glaciogenic Deposits.-Glaciohydraulic Supercooling.-Glacioisostasy.-Glaciolacustrine.-Glaciology.-Glaciomarine.-Glaciostatic Pressure/Stress.-Glaciotectonic Structures, Landforms, and Processes.-Global Climate Modeling in Cryospheric Assessment.-Global Outlook of Snowcover, Sea Ice, and Glaciers.-Global Warming and its Effect on Snow/Ice/Glaciers.-GPS in Glaciology, Applications.-GRACE in Glaciology.-Granulometry.-Gravel Sheet.-Gravitational Mass Movement Deposits.-Gravity Flow (Mass Flow).-Gray-White Ice.-Greenland Glaciers Outside the Ice Sheet.-Greenland Ice Sheet.-Ground Ice.-Ground Penetrating Radar Measurements over Glaciers.-Heat and Mass Transfer in Sea Ice.-High Elevation Glacio-Climatology.-Himalaya.-Himalayan Glaciers in 2010 and 2035.-Hindu Kush.-Holocene Glacier Fluctuations.-Horizontal Component of Ablation.-Horizontal Component of Velocity.-Hummocks (Peat).-Hydrochemical Characteristics of Snow, Ice, and Glaciers.-Hydrogen Isotopes.-Hydrographs.-Hydrologic Cycle and Snow.-Hydrological Response in Glacierized Basins.-Hydrology of Jökulhlaups.-Hydropower: Hydroelectric Power Generation from Alpine Glacier Melt.-Hypsometry.-Hysteresis.-Ice.-Ice Age.-Ice Age Cycles: Data, Models, and Uncertainties.-Ice Age Development Theory.-Ice Apron.-Ice Caps.-Ice Caves.-Ice Core.-Ice Covered Lakes.-Ice Dams.-Ice Sheet.-Ice Sheet Mass Balance.-Ice Shelf.-Ice-Cored Moraines.-Ice-Dammed Lakes.-Ice-Marginal Deposition.-Ice-Marginal Processes.-Ice-Volcano Interactions.-Icefall.-Iceland Glaciers.-ICESat Data in Glaciological Studies.-Icicle.-Icing.-Impacts of Snow and Glaciers on Runoff.-Interception of Snow.-Interflow.-International Polar Year 20072008.-Interstitial Ice.-Intrusive Ice.-Inventory of Glaciers.-Inverse Methods in Glaciology.-Inversion Layers.-Inverted Cup Depth Hoar Crystals.-Irreducible Water.-Isotope Analysis.-Isotopic Characteristics of Ice, Snow, and Glaciers.-Isotopic Fractionation of Freezing Water.-Isotopic Signatures.-Kame and Kettle Topography.-Katabatic Wind: In Relation with Snow and Glaciers.-Kilimanjaro.-Kunlun Mountains.-Lake Ellsworth.-Lake Ice.-Lake Vostok.-Laminated Sediments.-Landforms of Glacial Deposition.-Landforms of Glacial Erosion.-Landforms of Glacial Transportation.-Landscapes of Glacial Erosion.-Last Glacial Maximum Glaciation (LGM/LGP) in High Asia (Tibet and Surrounding Mountains).-Latent Heat of Condensation.-Latent Heat of Fusion/Freezing.-Latent Heat of Sublimation.-Latent Heat of Vaporization/Condensation.-Lateroglacial.-Lateroglacial Landform Systems.-Laurentide Ice Sheet.-Layering of Snow.-LIDAR in Glaciology.-Little Ice Age.-Lobe.-Mapping of Internal Glacial Layers.-Marginal Channel (Lateral Meltwater Channel).-Marginal Ice Zones.-Marine Glaciers.-Marine Ice Sheet.-Mechanical Weathering.-Median Elevation of Glaciers.-Mediterranean Glaciers and Glaciation.-Melt Runoff Modeling.-Melting Processes.-Meltwater Channels.-Meltwater Conduit.-Meltwater Erosion.-Meltwater Pressure.-Meltwater Storage.-Microorganisms Associated with Glaciers.-Monitoring and Warning Systems.-Monsoonal Records Observed from Snow/Ice/Glacier.-Moraine.-Moulins.-Mount Everest.-Mount Kenya.-Mountain Geomorphology.-Natural Hazards Associated with Glaciers and Permafrost.-Negative Temperature Gradient (in Ice).-Neoglaciation.-Network of Stakes.-New Zealand Glaciers.-Niche Glacier.-Normalized-Difference Snow Index (NDSI).-Nye (N) Channels.-Ogives.-Optical Remote Sensing of Alpine Glaciers.-Orographic Precipitation.-Outlet Glacier.-Overburden Pressure.-Oxygen Isotopes.-Palaeo Glaciofluvial Sediment Systems.-Palaeo-Channel.-Palaeo-Ice Stream.-Palaeoclimate and Past Glaciations.-Palaeohydrology.-Pamirs.-Pancake Ice.-Papua.-Paraglacial Landscape Transformations.-Patagonia.-Paternoster Lakes.-Peak Flood Glacier Discharge.-Percolation Zone.-Perennially Frozen Ground.-Periglacial.-Permacrete.-Permafrost.-Permafrost on Asteroids.-Permafrost and Climate Interactions.-Permafrost Modeling.-Permanent/Perpetual Snow Line.-Physical Properties of Snow.-Piedmont Glaciers.-Pingo.-Plastic Deformation.-Plastic Flow.-Pleistocene Epoch.-Plucking.-Polythermal Glaciers.-Precipitation.-Proglacial Lakes.-Quaternary Glaciation.-Radar Application in Snow, Ice, and Glaciers.-Radiative Transfer Modeling.-Radioactive Fallout.-Radioactive Isotopes.-Radioactivity.-Rain-Induced Snowmelt.-Ram Resistance.-Rating Curve.-Recession Coefficient.-Recession of Discharge.-Reconstruction of the Last Glaciations in the Whole of Asia.-Recrystallization of Ice.-Refreezing of Meltwater.-Regelation.-Remobilization (of Debris).-Resedimentation.-Retreat/Advance of Glaciers.-Rime Ice.-River Ice Hydrology.-Roche Moutonnees.-Rock Glaciers.-Rocky Mountains.-Röthlisberger (R)-Channels.-Runoff Coefficient.-Runoff Generation.-Runoff Observations.-Runout Distance.-Salinity.-Saltation.-Scandinavian Glaciers.-Sea Ice.-Sea-Level.-Seasonal Frost.-Seasonal Snow Cover.-Sediment Budgets.-Sediment Core and Glacial Environment Reconstruction.-Sediment Entrainment, Transport, and Deposition.-Sediment Flux Source-To-Sink.-Sediment Gravity Flow.-Sediment Routing.-Sediment Transfer Modeling.-Sediment Yield.-SEM Analysis of Glacial Sediments.-Septa of Englacial Debris.-Serac.-Siberia.-Slush and Sleet of Snow.-Snow.-Snow Bed/Snow Bed Vegetation.-Snow Course.-Snow Cover and Snowmelt in Forest Regions.-Snow Cover Changes in the Alps.-Snow Crystal Structure.-Snow Deformation.-Snow Density.-Snow Depth.-Snow Drift.-Snow Gauge.-Snow Grains.-Snow Hydrology.-Snow Layer.-Snow Load.-Snow Metamorphism.-Snow Microstructure.-Snow Pellet.-Snow Pillow.-Snow Pit.-Snow Ripening.-Snow Skating.-Snow Skiing.-Snow Storm.-Snow and Vegetation Interaction.-Snow Water Equivalent.-Snowboard.-Solifluction.-Solute in Glacial Meltwaters.-Solutes in Glacier Ice.-Specific Melt Rate.-Stable Isotopes.-Stage-Discharge Relationship.-Stationary Glacier.-Stratigraphy of Snowpacks.-Streamflow Trends in Mountainous Regions.-Structural Glaciology.-Subglacial Borehole Instrumentation.-Subglacial Drainage System.-Subglacial Lakes, Antarctic.-Subglacial Processes.-Subglacial Volcanism.-Subglacial Weathering.-Sublimation from Snow and Ice.-Summer Accumulation Type Glaciers.-Super Cooling Clouds.-Supercooled Water.-Supra-Glacial Debris Entrainments.-Surface Energy Balance.-Surface Temperature of Snow and Ice.-Suspended Sediment Concentration.-Suspended Sediment Dynamics.-Suspended Sediment Load.-Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry for Glacier Movement Studies.-Talik.-Tarn.-Temperate Glaciers.-Temperature Lapse Rates in Glacierized Basins.-Temperature Profile of Snowpack.-Terminus.-Terraces.-Thaw Weakening.-Thermal Infrared Sensors.-Thermal Regime of Ice-Covered Lakes.-Thermokarst.-Thinning of Arctic Sea Ice.-Thinning of Glaciers.-Tibetan Plateau.-Tidewater Glaciers.-Tien Shan Glaciers.-Till.-Topographic Normalization of Multispectral Satellite Imagery.-Transformations of Snow at the Earths Surface and its Climatic and Environmental Consequences.-Transient Snowline.-Tree-Ring Indicators of Glacier Fluctuations.-Tributary Glaciers.-Urban Snow.-U-Shape Valley.-Vein Ice.-V-Shaped Valley.-Water Balance in the Glacierized Region.-Westerlies and their Effects on Maritime Ice Caps and Glaciers.-WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service).-Winter Accumulation Glacier.-Year-Round Ablation Pattern.-Younger Dryas

Description / Table of Contents: This volume provides systematic, up-to-date coverage of important aspects of Solid Earth Geophysics, including reviews and articles by leading experts. The book is organized to present terms, topics and phrases alphabetically in an easily referenced manner

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. The Structure of Interaction ; 3. Fish Markets: An Example of the Emergence of Aggregate Coordination ; 4. Financial Markets: Bubbles, Herds and Crashes ; 5. Public Goods: A coordination problem ; 6. Segregation: Schelling's Model ; 7. Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction 1. Problematizing Labour 2. Problematizing Information 3. Labour Productivity 4. From Machines to the Universal Machine 5. Information and Communication 6. Political economy: Value and Labour 7. The Probabilistic Approach to the Law of Value 8. Value in a Capitalist Economy 9. Farjoun and Machover's theory of price 10. A probabilistic model of the social relations of capitalism 11. Money and the form of value 12. Credit and Capital 13. Understanding profit 14. Hayek on Information and Knowledge 15. The Big Picture, economic trajectories in Britain and China ; Appendix A: Proofs ; Appendix B: Experimental details ; Appendix C: Commodity Amplitude Space ; Appendix D: A simple planning program ; Appendix E: Profits in the SA model

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: art I - Introduction:Policy Design and the Modern State 1. Understanding Contemporary Policy Mixes Part II - Systematically Studying Policy Design 2. Key Definitions and Concepts in the Study of Policy Design 3. Policy Design as Policy Formulation 4. Policy Design and Implementation Tool Choices Part III - The Elements of Policy Design 5. Organizational Implementation Tools 6. Authoritative Implementation tools 7. Financial Implementation Tools 8. Information-Based Implementation Tools Part IV - Policy Designs and Governance Modes Re-Visited 9. Contemporary Policy Designs 10. Conclusion: Towards a New Generation of Policy Design Studies

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface: The Death and Rebirth of Economics 1. Needs, Capabilities, and Quality of Life: Refocusing Sustainable Development 2. The Overshadowing of Needs 3. Sustainability as a Challenge to the Capability Approach 4. From Individual Well-Being to Sustainable Development: A Path Where Psychologists and Economist Meet 5. The Life-Chances Concept: A Sociological Perspective on Equity and Sustainable Development 6. Human Needs Frameworks and Their Contribution as Analytical Instruments in Sustainable Development Policy-Making 7. A Plea for the Self-Aware Sustainability Researcher: Learning from Business Transformation Processes for Transitions to Sustainable Development 8. Transition Towards Sustainable Development: Which Tensions Emerge? How To Deal With Them?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Historical Background of Climate Change Issues 3. Climate Policy Changes in Japan from 1987 to 2005 4. Climate Policy Changes in Germany from 1987 to 2005 5. Beliefs of Actors in Japan and Germany 6. The Introduction of the Cap and Trading Scheme in Germany -- Factors to Determine the Major Policy Change in Germany 7. A Comparative Analysis of Climate Policy Change in Germany and Japan: A Path to Paradigmatic Policy Change. Annex I: List of Interviewees. Annex II: Questionnaire Concerning Actors' Beliefs.

Description / Table of Contents: The earth’s cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and frozen ground, contains about 75% of the earth’s fresh water. It exists at almost all latitudes, from the tropics to the poles, and plays a vital role in controlling the global climate system. It also provides direct visible evidence of the effect of climate change, and, therefore, requires proper understanding of the complex dynamics. This encyclopedia mainly focuses on the various aspects of snow, ice and glaciers, but also covers other cryospheric branches, and provides an up-to-date information and basic concepts on relevant topics. It includes alphabetically arranged and professionally written, comprehensive and authoritative academic articles by well-known international experts in individual fields. The encyclopedia contains a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from the atmospheric processes responsible for snow formation; transformation of snow to ice and changes in their properties; classification of ice and glaciers and their worldwide distribution; glaciation and ice ages; glacier dynamics; glacier surface and subsurface characteristics; geomorphic processes and landscape formation; hydrology and sedimentary systems; permafrost degradation; hazards caused by cryospheric changes; and trends of glacier retreat on the global scale along with the impact of climate change. This book can serve as a source of reference at the undergraduate and graduate level and help better understand snow, ice and glaciers. This will also be an indispensable tool containing specialized literature for geologists, geographers, climatologists, hydrologists, and water resources engineers; as well as to those who are engaged in the practice of agricultural and civil engineering, earth sciences, environmental sciences and engineering, ecosystem management, and other relevant subjects.

Description / Table of Contents: The past few decades have witnessed the growth of the Earth Sciences in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the planet that we live on. This development addresses the challenging endeavor to enrich human lives with the bounties of Nature as well as to preserve the planet for the generations to come. Solid Earth Geophysics aspires to define and quantify the internal structure and processes of the Earth in terms of the principles of physics and forms the intrinsic framework, which other allied disciplines utilize for more specific investigations. The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics was published in 1989 by Van Nostrand Reinhold publishing company. More than two decades later, this new volume, edited by Prof. Harsh K. Gupta, represents a thoroughly revised and expanded reference work. It brings together more than 200 articles covering established and new concepts of Geophysics across the various sub-disciplines such as Gravity, Geodesy, Geomagnetism, Seismology, Seismics, Deep Earth Processes, Plate Tectonics, Thermal Domains, Computational Methods, etc. in a systematic and consistent format and standard. It is an authoritative and current reference source with extraordinary width of scope. It draws its unique strength from the expert contributions of editors and authors across the globe. It is designed to serve as a valuable and cherished source of information for current and future generations of professionals.

Description / Table of Contents: The interplay between Geology and Biology has shaped the Earth from the early Precambrian, 4 billion years ago. Moving beyond the borders of the classical core disciplines, Geobiology strives to identify cause-and-effect chains and synergisms between the geo- and the biospheres that have been driving evolution of life in modern and ancient environments. Combining modern methods, geobiological information can be extracted not only from visible remains of organisms, but also from organic molecules, rock fabrics, minerals, isotopes and other tracers. Exploring these processes and their signatures also creates enormous applied potentials with respect to issues of environment protection, public health, energy and resource management. The Encyclopedia of Geobiology is designed as a key reference for students, researchers, teachers, and the informed public to provide basic, but comprehensible knowledge on this rapidly expanding discipline at the interface between modern geo- and biosciences.

Description / Table of Contents: This book about rock stress is suitable for students in geosciences and rock engineering, who need to broaden their horizons about the Stress Field of the Earth's Crust. The book covers the topic so that geosciences students will be able to grasp the Cauchy Stress Principle without fear of matrix transformations in an exercise. Students interested in mathematics, physics and engineering will learn how strain gauges are used to obtain in-situ stress by the overcoring method. Leading edge technology in determining rock stress like quadruple packer and the Kaiser effect are presented together with classical methods like hydraulic fracturing. Borehole techniques (breakouts) and core-based methods (anelastic strain recovery) are illustrated. With respect to stress data, we choose to present the scientific ultra-deep drilling project KTB (Germany), the excavation for nuclear waste disposal at Olkiluoto (Finland) and the drilling into a seismic active fault zone at SAFOD (USA). Stress compilations viewed by the World Stress Map project are presented and interpreted in terms of plate tectonics.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. The Climate Change War 2. A Brief History of Climate Change and Conflict 3. Climate Change and Conflict Trends 4. Scenarios of Climate Change and Conflict 5. Politics and Choices

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I - Belonging to the world-class city ; 1. The city fantastic ; 2. The enclaved gaze: living abroad in India ; 3. "Insulate!" The celebration of new gated habitats ; 4. Taming the public city and other colonial hangovers ; 5. Ordering the city and its citizens ; Part II - A spiritual mega-experience: the Akshardham Cultural Complex ; 6. Who is who at the ACC ; 7. A question of authenticity ; 8. A hierarchy of ritual performances ; 9. Theme park antecedents and indigenous concepts fo leisure religion ; 10. Code-switching and code-clashing ; 11. Critics and sceptics ; Part III - "Masti! Masti!" Managing love, romance and beauty ; 12. "For whom the bell rings": arranging marriage ; 13. "All you need is wellness" and a good body ; Conclusion: "Indianising" modernity

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 GENERAL INFORMATION; 1.2 VISCOSITY UNITS AND CONVERSION; 1.3 FLUID FLOW AND VISCOSITY; 2. VISCOMETERS; 2.1 CAPILLARY VISCOMETER; 2.2 ORIFICE VISCOMETERS; 2.3 HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH SHEAR RATE VISCOMETERS; 2.4 ROTATIONAL VISCOMETERS; 2.5 FALLING BALL VISCOMETERS; 2.6 VIBRATIONAL VISCOMETERS; 2.7 ULTRASONIC VISCOMETERS; 2.8 SUMMARY; 3. THEORIES OF VISCOSITY; 3.1 THEORIES OF GAS VISCOSITY; 3.2 THEORIES OF DENSE-GAS VISCOSITY; 3.3 GAS AND LIQUID VISCOSITY THEORIES; 3.4 PURE-LIQUID VISCOSITY THEORIES; 3.5 SUMMARY; 4. CORRELATIONS AND ESTIMATION OF PURE LIQUID VISCOSITY; 4.1 EFFECT OF PRESSURE ON VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; 4.2 VISCOSITY AT SELECTED REFERENCE POINTS; 4.3 EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; 4.4 COMPARISON OF SELECTED PREDICTION METHODS; 4.5 SUMMARY; 5. VISCOSITIES OF SOLUTIONS AND MIXTURES; 5.1 VISCOSITIES OF SOLUTIONS; 5.2 VISCOSITIES OF FLUID MIXTURES; 5.3 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NET APPROACH FOR POLAR LIQUID MIXTURES; 5.4 LIQUID MIXTURE VISCOSITIES BY EMPIRICAL METHODS; 5.5 VISCOSITIES OF HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES (COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS, SUSPENSIONS, EMULSIONS); 5.6 VISCOSITIES OF EMULSIONS FORMED BY IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; 5.7 SUMMARY; 6. EXPERIMENTAL DATA; 6.1 EXPERIMENTAL DATA FOR ABSOLUTE VISCOSITY; 6.2 KINEMATIC VISCOSITY DATA TABLES

Description / Table of Contents: This book covers a round-up of environmental changes in Siberia with a focus on the terrestrial biosphere but also discussing climate and atmosphere and the hydrolofical cycle. It concludes with a discussion of information system approaches that are being developed to safeguard and make accessible spatial and temporal data for environmental studies.