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Description / Table of Contents: As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing their visions for the Arctic. What form of political organization should prevail? Contesting the Arctic provides a map of potential governance optio

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Climatic Adaptation of Boreal and Temperate Tree Species -- 2. Dynamic Modelling of the Annual Cycle -- 3. The Annual Phenological Cycle -- 4. The Annual Cycle of Photosynthesis in Evergreen Conifers -- 5. The Annual Cycle of Frost Hardiness -- 6. Evolutionary Aspects of the Annual Cycle -- 7. Upscaling to Higher Levels of Organisation -- 8. The Annual Cycle Under Changing Climatic Conditions -- 9. Concluding Remarks

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides an overview of how boreal and temperate tree species have adapted their annual development cycle to the seasonally varying climatic conditions. Therefore, the frost hardy dormant phase, and the susceptible growth phase, are synchronized with the seasonality of the climate. The volume discusses the annual cycle, including various attributes such as timing of bud burst and other phenological events, seasonality of photosynthetic capacity or the frost hardiness of the trees. During the last few decades dynamic ecophysiological models have been used increasingly in studies of the annual cycle, particularly when projecting the ecological effects of climate change. The main emphasis of this volume is on combining modelling with experimental studies, and on the importance of the biological realism of the models

Description / Table of Contents: Constitutive Equation -- Micromechanics -- Variational Energy Formulation -- Anisotropy -- Governing Equation -- Analytical Solution -- Fundamental Solution and Integral Equation -- Poroelastodynamics -- Poroviscoelasticity -- Porothermoelasticity -- Porochemoelasticity -- Appendices -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: This book treats the mechanics of porous materials infiltrated with a fluid (poromechanics), focussing on its linear theory (poroelasticity). Porous materials from inanimate bodies such as sand, soil and rock, living bodies such as plant tissue, animal flesh, or man-made materials can look very different due to their different origins, but as readers will see, the underlying physical principles governing their mechanical behaviors can be the same, making this work relevant not only to engineers but also to scientists across other scientific disciplines. Readers will find discussions of physical phenomena including soil consolidation, land subsidence, slope stability, borehole failure, hydraulic fracturing, water wave and seabed interaction, earthquake aftershock, fluid injection induced seismicity and heat induced pore pressure spalling as well as discussions of seismoelectric and seismoelectromagnetic effects. The work also explores the biomechanics of cartilage, bone and blood vessels. Chapters present theory using an intuitive, phenomenological approach at the bulk continuum level, and a thermodynamics-based variational energy approach at the micromechanical level. The physical mechanisms covered extend from the quasi-static theory of poroelasticity to poroelastodynamics, poroviscoelasticity, porothermoelasticity, and porochemoelasticity. Closed form analytical solutions are derived in details. This book provides an excellent introduction to linear poroelasticity and is especially relevant to those involved in civil engineering, petroleum and reservoir engineering, rock mechanics, hydrology, geophysics, and biomechanics

Description / Table of Contents: In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. This book addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Limnology, History and Comparative Legends -- 1: Pavin, the Birthplace of French Limnology (1770-2012), and Its Degassing Controversy (1986-2016) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Analysis of Pavin Actors, History and Perception Through an Interdisciplinary and Intercomparative Approach -- 1.3 Pavin, a Typical Maar-Lake Above any Contamination Source -- 1.3.1 Pavin General Features -- 1.3.2 Pavin Compared to Other Lakes of the Cézallier Lake District -- 1.3.3 Pavin Compared to Other European Maar-Lakes -- 1.3.3.1 Eifel Lakes

Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.3.2 Italian Lakes -- 1.4 Pavin Scientific Exploration (1770-1985) -- 1.4.1 Chevalier's Expedition (1770) -- 1.4.2 Lecoq, the Great Auvergne Naturalist, Normalizes Pavin… with Fishes (1847-1871) -- 1.4.3 The First Golden Age of Science at Pavin: Berthoule, Delebecque, Martel, Bruyant (1880-1914) -- 1.4.3.1 Clermont Botanists and Zoologists Establish the Limnological Station at Besse -- 1.4.3.2 André Delebecque at Pavin (1892) -- 1.4.3.3 Edouard-Alfred Martel at Creux de Soucy (1892) -- 1.4.4 Pavin Meromixis Discovery by Olivier and Pelletier (1950-1960s)

Description / Table of Contents: 1.5 Pavin Acquires a Status of International Field Laboratory (1965-2000) -- 1.5.1 International Projects Select Pavin as a Pristine Lake (1965-1975) -- 1.5.2 Pavin, a Laboratory for Innovative Lake Research (1965-1986) -- 1.6 Maar Lakes Degassing Evidence in Cameroun and Italy -- 1.6.1 Nyos (21 August 1986) and Monoun (15 August 1984) Degassing Events and Their Effects on Populations -- 1.6.2 Ancient Degassing Events in Italian Maar-Lakes, Albano and Monticchio -- 1.6.2.1 The Albano Catastrophic Degassing and Spillover Event in Latium (398 BC)

Description / Table of Contents: 1.6.2.2 Monticchio Lakes (Southern Italy) and Their Pioneer Degassing Studies, 1777-1838 -- 1.7 Sensory Grid of Degassing in Maar-Lakes -- 1.8 Pavin Degassing Controversy (1986-2016) -- 1.9 Conclusions -- References -- 2: Pavin, A Rich but Fragmented History (200 AD-2016) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Finding Pavin Puzzle Pieces -- 2.3 Pavin's History Highlights -- 2.3.1 Antiquity: A Pompeian Millstone Retrieved from Pavin Waters in 1909 -- 2.3.2 Early Antique and Medieval Worship Near Pavin, on the Vassivière Mountain

Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.3 Lacus pavens Terrifies the Whole Region Throughout the Sixteenth Century -- 2.3.3.1 The Terrible Explosion Witnessed at Vassivière by Besse People (28 August 1551 Pavin Event) -- 2.3.3.2 A Hazardous Abyss, Generating Storm, Thunder and Hail, Presented to Charles IX (1566) -- 2.3.3.3 Pavin Painted on the First Realistic Landscape Picture in France (1571-1579) -- 2.3.3.4 Pavin Marvelous Response to a Thrown Stone in Belleforest's Cosmographia Universalis (1575) -- 2.3.3.5 Lacus pavens, the Terrifying Lake, Is the Original Pavin Name (Banc 1605)

Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.4 The Admirable and Terrifying Pavens Gets Famous During the Seventeenth Century

Description / Table of Contents: This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series. After a qualitative introduction and a chapter that explains the key ideas from statistics required to understand the text, the authors then present information theory and transfer entropy in depth. A key feature of the approach is the authors' work to show the relationship between information flow and complexity. The later chapters demonstrate information transfer in canonical systems, and applications, for example in neuroscience and in finance. The book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the areas of computer science, neuroscience, physics, and engineering

Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Governance of offshore oil and gas in the Arctic: between diversity and coexistence -- PART I: Globalization and supra-nationalism in the Arctic -- 2 Framing the problem in Arctic offshore hydrocarbon exploitation -- 3 Sustainable development in Arctic international environmental cooperation and the governance of hydrocarbon-related activities -- 4 The EU's role as a facilitator in the development of maritime environmental law in the Arctic: with focus on offshore hydrocarbon activities -- 5 Indigenous rights in the marine Arctic -- PART II: National perspectives on offshore regulations -- 6 Alaska and offshore hydrocarbon extraction: a legal and socio-economic review -- 7 Governance of offshore hydrocarbon activities in the Arctic and energy policies: a comparative approach between Norway, Canada and Greenland/Denmark -- 8 The Russian offshore oil and gas regime: when tight control means less order -- 9 The Arctic offshore hydrocarbon hiatus of 2015: an opportunity to revisit regulation around the pole -- PART III: State-based approach, sub-states entities and indigenous peoples -- 10 Offshore development and Inuit rights in Inuit Nunangat -- 11 Securing the coastal Sámi culture and livelihood -- 12 Indigenous modes of ownership: reopening the case for communal rights in Greenland -- PART IV: Regulatory instruments and enforcement -- 13 Impact benefit agreements and economic and environmental risk management in the Arctic -- 14 Impact and benefit a greements in Greenland -- 15 The interplay between environmental research and environmental regulation of offshore oil activities in Greenland -- 16 Towards an integrated and participatory governance of the Arctic marine areas -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: This textbook describes various physical, radiative, dynamical and chemical processes involved in the coupling between the Stratosphere and Troposphere. This textbook is intended for graduate students in middle atmosphere stratospheric physics, dynamic and atmospheric science courses and will be useful to all research workers in meteorology, aeronomy, atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry and environmental sciences. Current areas of interest, such as Antarctic ozone hole, global warming effects on stratospheric cooling are also addressed. Stratosphere troposphere exchange, transport processes in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and the role of stratosphere on tropospheric weather systems are presented. The information provided in the textbook will have broad applicability in other branches of atmospheric science, and will be of interest to those studying such areas as climate change, extreme weather events, and potential for the prediction of tropospheric weather systems.

Description / Table of Contents: An Updated Guide to the Visualization of Data for Designers, Users, and ResearchersInteractive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications, Second Edition provides all the theory, details, and tools necessary to build visualizations and systems involving the visualization of data. In color throughout, it explains basic terminology and concepts, algorithmic and software engineering issues, and commonly used techniques and high-level algorithms. Full source code is provided for completing implementations. New to the Second EditionNew related readings, exercises, and programming

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 General Concepts and PSHA Background -- 3 Seismic Source Characterization -- 4 Rock Motion Characterization -- 5 Site Response Characterization -- 6 Seismic Hazard Computation -- 7 Interfaces Between Sub Projects -- 8 Probabilistic Seismic Testing and Updating of Seismic Hazard Results -- 9 Summary and Way Forward -- 10 References -- 11 Annex 1: List of Committee Members -- 12 Annex 2: List of Publications

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents a summary of the important outcomes of the SIGMA project related to all aspects of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment: source characterization, rock motion characterization, site response characterization, and hazard calculations, with for all of them emphasis on the treatment of uncertainties. In recent years, attempts have been made to identify and quantify uncertainties in seismic hazard estimations for regions with moderate seismicity. These uncertainties, for which no estimation standards exist, create major difficulties and can lead to different interpretations and divergent opinions among experts. To address this matter, an international research project was launched in January 2011, by an industrial consortium composed of French and Italian organizations. This program, named SIGMA (Seismic Ground Motion Assessment) lasted for five years and involved a large number of international institutions. This book is intended for instructors running courses on engineering seismology, graduate students in the same field and practicing engineers involved in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses

Description / Table of Contents: This manuscript sets out a process for estimating fatalities in collapsed buildings due to ground shaking in an earthquake. The aim of this research is to supplement current earthquake loss estimation with fatality rates (percentage of occupants killed) for use in models which are based on recent empirical information on deaths from earthquakes. This document specifically explores the lethality potential to occupants of collapsed structures. Whilst earthquake casualty modeling has admittedly suffered from a lack of post-earthquake collection of data and rigour in assessing these data, recent earthquakes such as 2008 Wenchuan (China) and 2011 Christchurch (New Zealand) have brought to light some important findings. Under the auspices of US Geological Survey’s PAGER, empirical fatality data related to collapses of buildings from significant earthquakes in the past 40 years have been thoroughly examined. Through detailed investigations of fatal building collapses and the volume reductions within these buildings, important clues related to the lethality potential of different failure mechanisms of global modern and older construction types were found. The gathered evidence forms the basis of the derivation of a set of fatality rates for use in loss models. The set of judgment-based rates are for 31 global building types. This significant advancement in casualty modeling, the resolutions and quality of available data, the important assumptions made, and the final derivation of fatality rates are discussed here. This document contributes to global efforts to develop a way of estimating probable earthquake fatalities very rapidly after an earthquake has taken place. The fatality rates proposed here can be incorporated directly into earthquake loss estimation models where fatalities are derived from collapses of different types of buildings

Description / Table of Contents: In the late 18th century explorers and scientists started venturing into the Arctic in a heroic and sometimes deadly effort to understand and unveil the secrets of the unforgiving and mysterious polar region of the high north. Despite that the Arctic was already populated mattered less for the first wave of polar researchers and explorations who nevertheless, brought back valuable knowledge. Today the focus in Arctic science and discourse has changed to one which includes the peoples and societies, and their interaction with the world beyond. The image of a static Arctic - heralded first by explorers - prevailed for a long time, but today the eyes of the World see the Arctic very differently. Few, if any, other places on Earth are currently experiencing the kind of dramatic change witnessed in the Arctic. According to model forecasts, these changes are likely to have profound implications on biophysical and human systems, and will accelerate in the decades to come.  “The New Arctic” highlights how, and in what parts, the natural and political system is being transformed. We’re talking about a region where demography, culture, and political and economic systems are increasingly diverse, although many common interests and aspects remain; and with the new Arctic now firmly placed in a global context. Settlements range from small, predominantly indigenous communities, to large industrial cities, and all have a link to the surrounding environment, be it glaciers or vegetation or the ocean itself. “The New Arctic” contributes to our further understanding of the changing Arctic. It offers a range of perspectives, which reflect the deep insight of a variety of scientific scholars across many disciplines bringing a wide range of expertise. The book speaks to a broad audience, including policy-makers, students and scientific colleagues

Description / Table of Contents: This work summarizes the historical progression of the field of lithium (Li) isotope studies and provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview of the research applications toward which they have been directed. In synthesizing the historical and current research, the volume also suggests prospective future directions of study. Not even a full decade has passed since the publication of a broadly inclusive summary of Li isotope research around the globe (Tomascak, 2004). In this short time, the use of this isotope system in the investigation of geo- and cosmochemical questions has increased dramatically, due, in part, to the advent of new analytical technology at the end of the last millennium. Lithium, as a light element that forms low-charge, moderate-sized ions, manifests a number of chemical properties that make its stable isotope system useful in a wide array of geo- and cosmochemical research fields.  

Description / Table of Contents: This proceedings contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the IAG Scientific Assembly, Postdam, Germany, 1-6 September, 2013. The scientific sessions were focussed on the definition, implementation and scientific applications of reference frames; gravity field determination and applications; the observation and assessment of earth hazards. It presents a collection of the contributions on the applications of earth rotations dynamics, on observation systems and services as well as on imaging and positioning techniques and its applications.

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents an analysis of land and water resources in Siberia, initially characterizing the landscapes, their ecosystems, crucial processes, human impacts on soil and water quality, and the status quo of available research. Further chapters deal with modern monitoring and management methods that can lead to a significant knowledge shift and initiate sustainable soil and water resources use. These include soil hydrological laboratory measurement methods; process-based field evaluation methods for land and water quality; remote sensing and GIS technology-based landscape monitoring methods; process and ecosystem modeling approaches; methods of resource and process evaluation and functional soil mapping; and tools for controlling agricultural land use systems. More than 15 of these concrete monitoring and management tools can immediately be incorporated into research and practice. Maintaining the functions of great landscapes for future generations will be the reward for these efforts

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Applications of Seismic Monitoring in Combating Rock Burst Hazard -- 3. Seismic Parameters and their Physical Meaning -- 4. Ranges of Parameters -- 5. Interpretation Methods of Mine Induced Seismicity -- 6. Palabora Seismic History -- 7. Palabora Caving Process as Evidenced by Induced Seismicity -- 8. Caving Process and Seismic Hazard -- 9. Problems Related to Software Versions -- 10. Seismic Preconditioning below Lift 1 Mine and its Influence on the Cavability of Lift 2 Cave -- 11. Palabora Lift 2 Mine Seismic System -- 12. Seismic Hazard Monitoring for Lift 2 -- Appendices -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: This book offers an in-depth analysis and interpretation methods applicable to mine-induced seismicity. It is based on over 40 years of experience in mine and exploration geophysics. Another unique feature of this book is the complete history of the caving process as evidenced by the recorded seismicity at the South African copper mine Palabora Lift 1. Until now, the literature has only presented theory and case studies discussing the interpretation of results, and there has been no discussion of the input-data quality or why a certain interpretation technique was applied. This book fills that gap. This book is a fascinating read, written by one of the world’s leading mine seismologists. It summarises the history and progression of mine seismology. It outlines the practical use of back analysis of data and how it can be used on a daily basis. The book explains how mine seismology can be used as an effective monitoring tool for key events as the mine progresses as well as for future caving operations. Anthony Allman MAusIMM, CP(Min), RPEQ Antcia Consulting Pty Ltd, Director, Mining Engineer The content of the book is really solid and robust and I have no doubt it is going to be considered a great contribution for the mining community. Raul Fuentes, Former Director of Master Program in Geomechanics Applied to Mining, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile This book is long overdue and helps to present some difficult concepts in a way that they can be clearly understood by non-experts in this area. Stefan has personally managed to take mine seismology from being a black-art into a useful tool to help make mines a safer and more controlled environment. Neil Hepworth C. Eng, MIMMM, Geomin Consultorio - Brazil, Consultant Mining and Geotechnics Seismic monitoring is an important tool in cave management. The information from monitoring allows a number of key production factors to be determined including cave advance rates, the approximate location of the cave back, insight into the size of the air gap and allows the tracking of broad changes in stress. These all assist in the day to day management of a safe and successful cave. Dr. Glazer’s book provides guidance on the application of microseismicity to cave management through a review of appropriate theory and more importantly illustrates its use through case histories, particularly from the Palabora block cave. The text will be a good addition for all practitioners in cave engineering and operations. All ...

Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover -- ADDRESSES/INSTITUTIONS -- A Concise Geologic Time Scale -- A Concise Geologic Time Scale -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- 1 - Introduction -- Geologic time scale and this book -- International divisions of geologic time and their global boundaries (GSSPs) -- Biologic, chemical, sea-level, geomagnetic, and other events or zones -- Assigned numerical ages -- Time Scale Creator database and chart-making package -- Geologic Time Scale 2020 -- Selected publications and websites -- 2 - PLANETARY TIME SCALE -- Introduction -- The Moon -- Mars -- Mercury -- Venus

Description / Table of Contents: Other solar system bodies -- Selected publications and websites -- 3 - Precambrian -- Status of international subdivisions -- Summary of Precambrian trends and events, and a potential revised time scale -- Hadean -- Archean -- Proterozoic -- Acknowledgments -- Selected publications and websites -- 4 - Cryogenian and Ediacaran -- Basal definitions and status of international subdivisions -- Cryogenian -- Selected main stratigraphic scales and events -- (1) Stable-isotope stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and selected events -- (2) Biostratigraphy and major trends -- Numerical age model

Description / Table of Contents: GTS2012 age model and potential future enhancements -- Revised ages compared to GTS2012 -- Acknowledgments -- Selected publications and websites -- 5 - CAMBRIAN -- Basal definition and status of international subdivisions -- Terreneuvian series -- Series 2 -- Series 3 -- Furongian series -- Selected main stratigraphic scales and events -- (1) Biostratigraphy and major trends -- (2) Stable-isotope stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and selected events -- Numerical age model -- GTS2012 age model and potential future enhancements -- Revised ages compared to GTS2012

Description / Table of Contents: Estimated uncertainties on assigned ages on stage boundaries -- Acknowledgments -- Selected publications and websites -- 6 - ORDOVICIAN -- Basal definition and international subdivisions -- Selected main stratigraphic scales and events -- (1) Biostratigraphy and major trends -- (2) Stable-isotope stratigraphy and selected events -- Numerical age model -- GTS2012 age model and potential future enhancements -- Estimated uncertainties on assigned ages on stage boundaries -- Acknowledgments -- Selected publications and websites -- 7 - SILURIAN -- Basal definition and international subdivisions

Description / Table of Contents: Selected main stratigraphic scales and events -- (1) Biostratigraphy (marine -- terrestrial) -- (2) Stable-isotope stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and selected events -- Numerical age model -- GTS2012 age model and potential future enhancements -- Estimated uncertainties on assigned ages on stage boundaries -- Acknowledgments -- Selected publications and websites -- 8 - DEVONIAN -- Basal definition and international subdivisions -- Selected main stratigraphic scales and events -- Biostratigraphy (marine -- terrestrial) -- Magnetostratigraphy -- Stable-isotope stratigraphy and selected events

Description / Table of Contents: Numerical age model

Description / Table of Contents: In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more lawyers, more trials; more extraction, more pollution-all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don't count. GDP promotes a form of stupid growth and igno

Description / Table of Contents: This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex Adaptive Systems focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It provides a

Description / Table of Contents: Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money-and why they sometimes don't. Pedersen views markets as neither perfectly efficient nor completely inefficient. Rather, they are inefficient enough that money managers can be compensated for their costs through the profits of their trading strategies and efficient e

Description / Table of Contents: This annual publication provides information on policy developments and related support to agriculture in OECD countries and selected partner economies, measured with the OECD Producer Support Estimate methodology. Countries covered represent about 80% of the global value added in agriculture. The report includes a general discussion on developments in agricultural policies and specific chapters for each country covered

Description / Table of Contents: This annual publication provides information on policy developments and related support to agriculture in OECD countries and selected partner economies, measured with the OECD Producer Support Estimate methodology. Countries covered represent about 80% of the global value added in agriculture. The report includes a general discussion on developments in agricultural policies and specific chapters for each country covered.

Description / Table of Contents: The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo - which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both-biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about -7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth's hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species-constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth. Dr Andrew Glikson is an Earth and Paleo-climate Scientist, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science, the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Planetary Science Institute, and a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute.

Description / Table of Contents: Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific questions or societal problems. However, whether the comprehensive results of interdisciplinary reflection prove to be valid or to be acceptable in trans-disciplinary terms depends upon certain preconditions, which have to be fulfilled for securing scientific quality and social trust in advisory contexts. The present book is written by experts and practitioners of interdisciplinary research and policy advice. It analyses topical and methodological approaches towards interdisciplinarity, starting with the current role of scientific research in society. The volume continues with contributions to the issues of knowledge and acting and to trans-disciplinary deliberation. The final conclusions address the scientific system as substantial actor itself as well as the relevant research and education politics

Description / Table of Contents: This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and sustainability policies were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. They are largely based on investigations of living spaces, and the evolution and differentiation of varied life forms. This perspective is embedded in the practical and theoretical European problem situations of the past and lacks social and cultural differentiation. The transformation of spatial and natural relations as a result of the globalization process is so radical that new theories are needed to solve 21st century ecological problems. Moreover, in view of the lack of an ontologically sound and promising strategy for transdisciplinary problem solving, as well as an acceptable consideration of the power of cultural schemas relating to natural living’s interpretations, there is a strong need to focus on sustainable social practices, habits, and routines, rather than on predominantly living spaces or eco-topes. This book elaborates on the transdisciplinary approach by reflecting on the theoretical heritage and a global perspective of sustainability, by focusing on the primary role of a social approach in sustainability research, and by putting emphasis on cultural dimension of sustainability. It postulates that global sustainability is grounded in a global understanding of our everyday activities

Description / Table of Contents: As markets become more globalized, they have also become governed by an increasingly complex array of public and private regulation. This volume investigates the changing landscape of food governance. In so doing, the contributions to his volume provide insights into broader analytical issues that have concerned regulatory governance scholars. These include the legitimacy and effectiveness of public and private regulation, the interaction of networks of regulation, regulatory responses to crisis and the distribution of power in regulatory arrangements

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Earthworms - The Ecological Engineers of Soil / by Sajal Ray --- 2. Abundance and Diversity of Earthworms in Managed and Non- Managed Fallow Lands of Calakmul Reserve of Campeche, Mexico / by Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Lucero Sánchez-del Cid, Ligia Esparza- Olguín, Eduardo Martinez-Romero, Ben de Jong and Susana Ochoa-Gaona --- 3. Earthworms and Nematodes: The Ecological and Functional Interactions / by Jair Alves Dionísio, Wilian Carlo Demetrio and Arlei Maceda --- 4. Exploration of Earthworms of India through Online Digital Library / by Samrendra Singh Thakur and Shweta Yadav --- 5. Earthworms and Vermicomposting / by Jorge Domínguez --- 6. Environmental Influence of Soil toward Effective Vermicomposting / by Jaswinder Singh, Sharanpreet Singh, Adarsh Pal Vig and Arvinder Kaur

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Volcanoes - From Their Geological and Geophysical Setting to Their Impact on Human Health / by Gemma Aiello --- 2. Correlation between Seismic and Volcanic Activity at a Large Spatial Scale in Italy: Examples from the Neapolitan Volcanic District (Vesuvius Volcano, Southern Italy) / by Pier Luigi Bragato --- 3. Exploring the Base of the Volcano: A Case Study of an Active Stratovolcano, Mt. Zao, NE Japan / by Shin Sato, Masao Ban, Teruki Oikawa, Seiko Yamasaki and Yuki NIshi --- 4. The Emissions of the Tagoro Submarine Volcano (Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean): Effects on the Physical and Chemical Properties of the Seawater / by Juana Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Melchor González-Dávila and Eugenio Fraile-Nuez --- 5. The Characteristics of Volcanic Eruption in Indonesia / by Eko Hariyono and Liliasari S --- 6. Layered Gabbroids of the Pekulney Ridge, Chukotka, Northeastern Russia: Geology, Petrography, Age, and Geodynamics / by Irina L’vovna Zhulanova --- 7. Dynamics of Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Permeable Parts of Seismofocal Zones of the Kamchatka Region and Conjugated Volcanic Arcs / by Yury Perepechko, Victor Sharapov, Konstantin Sorokin and Anna Mikheeva --- 8. Finite Element Models of Elastic Volcano Deformation / by Timothy Masterlark and Sui Tung --- 9. Mechanics of Magma Chamber with the Implication of the Effect of CO2 Fluxing / by Simakin Alexander G. and Ghassemi Ahmad --- 10. Volcanic Scoria as Cement Replacement / by Aref M. al-Swaidani --- 11. Volcanic Glass and its Uses as Adsorbent / by Juan Antonio Cecilia, Miguel Armando Autie-Pérez, Juan Manuel Labadie-Suarez, Enrique Rodríguez Castellón and Antonia Infantes Molina --- 12. Health Impact of Volcanic Emissions / by Martha Patricia Sierra-Vargas, Claudia Vargas-Domínguez, Karen Bobadilla-Lozoya and Octavio Gamaliel Aztatzi-Aguilar

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Challenges in Riverine Ecosystem Management --- Part I Human Impacts, Mitigation and Restoration --- Chapter 2. Historic Milestones of Human River Uses and Ecological Impacts --- Chapter 3. River Morphology, Channelization, and Habitat Restoration --- Chapter 4. River Hydrology, Flow Alteration, and Environmental Flow --- Chapter 5. Hydropeaking Impacts and Mitigation --- Chapter 6. Dams: Ecological Impacts and Management --- Chapter 7. Aquatic Habitat Modeling in Running Waters --- Chapter 8. The Role of Sediment and Sediment Dynamics in the Aquatic Environment --- Chapter 9. River Connectivity, Habitat Fragmentation and Related Restoration Meas --- Chapter 10. Phosphorus and Nitrogen Dynamics in Riverine Systems: Human Impacts and Management Options --- Chapter 11. Climate Change Impacts in Riverine Ecosystems --- Chapter 12. Ecotoxicology --- Chapter 13. Land Use --- Chapter 14. Recreational Fisheries – The Need for Sustainability in Fisheries Management of Alpine Rivers --- Part II Management, Methodologies, Governance --- Chapter 15. Restoration in Integrated River Basin Management --- Chapter 16.Adaptive Management of Riverine Socio-ecological Systems --- Chapter 17. Legislative Framework for River Ecosystem Management on International and European Level --- Chapter 18. Ensuring Long-Term Cooperation Over Transboundary Water Resources Through Joint River Basin Management --- Chapter 19. Biomonitoring and Bioassessment --- Chapter 20. Biodiversity and Freshwater Information Systems --- Chapter 21. Ecosystem Services in River Landscapes --- Chapter 22. Public Participation and Environmental Education --- Chapter 23. NGOs in Freshwater Resource Management --- Part III Case Studies --- Chapter 24. Danube Under Pressure: Hydropower Rules the Fish --- Chapter 25. Danube Floodplain Lobau --- Chapter 26. Danube Sturgeons: Past and Future --- Chapter 27. Healthy Fisheries Sustain Society and Ecology in Burkina Faso --- Chapter 28. The Tisza River: Managing a Lowland River in the Carpathian Basin --- Part IV Summary --- Chapter 29. Landmarks, Advances and Future Challenges in Riverine Ecosystem Management

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Shadow Economy: Challenges to Economic and Social Policy --- Concept of the Survey of Enterprises and Entrepreneurs Operating Informally --- Causes of the Shadow Economy --- What Is the Extent of the Shadow Economy in Serbia? --- Shadow Economy in the Enterprise and Entrepreneur Sector --- Effects of Formalization of Shadow Economy --- Analysis of the Administrative Capacity of Oversight Bodies --- Main Findings and Recommendations for Formalising the Shadow Economy

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia --- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance --- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence --- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan --- Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India --- Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? --- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India --- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India --- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh --- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions --- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach --- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India --- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? --- Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal --- Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines --- Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Embedding Ethics in Science and Technology Policy – A Global Perspective --- Chapter 2 Institutionalizing Ethical Debates in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: A Comparison of Europe, India and China.-Chapter 3 Public Perceptions of Science and Technology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 4 Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology --- Chapter 5 Science and Technology Governance and European Values --- Chapter 6 The Values Demonstrated in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China --- Chapter 7 Science and Technology for Socio-Economic Development and Quest for Inclusive Growth: Emerging Evidence from India --- Chapter 8 A Comparative Framework for Studying Global Ethics in Science and Technology --- Chapter 9 New Food Technologies in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 10 Discourses on Nanotechnology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 11 Discourses on Synthetic Biology in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Incorporating Ethics into Science and Technology Policy

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Needs for New Global Strategies --- Part I. Global Business Strategy --- 2. Management Strategies for Global Businesses --- 3. Changes in the Global Economic Environment --- 4. Comparison of Economic Institutions in China and India --- 5. New Business Model as Response to Competition from Emerging Economies --- 6. India’s Neemrana Industrial Park for Japanese Firms --- Part II. Fundamentals Of Strategic Planning --- 7. Alliance-based Global Strategy --- 8. Hitachi Construction Machinery: Becoming a Wholly Owned Chinese Entity --- 9. Marketing Theory in Global Business Context --- 10. Shiseido Marketing in China --- 11. International R&D Management --- 12. Multinationals’ R&D in China and India --- 13. Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency and Japanese Firms --- 14. Suzuki Motor’s Expansion in India --- 15. Strategy Integration at the Global Level

Description / Table of Contents: Contents --- Foreword --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview --- Chapter 2: The Three Phases of Global Liquidity --- 2.1: Conceptual and Measurement Issues --- 2.2: First Phase of Global Liquidity --- 2.2.1: Round-trip Bank Flows to the US --- 2.2.2: Banking Sector Flows to the Rest of the World --- 2.2.3: Exchange Rates and Leverage --- 2.3: Second Phase of Global Liquidity --- 2.4: The Case of Emerging Asia --- 2.5: Third Phase and Onward --- 2.6: References --- Chapter 3: Early Warning Indicators for Financial Vulnerabilities --- 3.1: Principles for Selection of Early Warning Indicators --- 3.2: Core and Noncore Liabilities --- 3.3: References --- Chapter 4: Emerging Asia’s Noncore Liabilities and Policy Effectiveness --- 4.1: Bank-led Flows, Noncore Liabilities, and Credit Growth --- 4.2: Reassessing Monetary Policy --- 4.3: Appendix --- 4.4: References --- Chapter 5: Capital Flows and Income Distribution --- 5.1: National Policy Remains Key --- 5.2: How Capital Flows Affect Income Inequality --- 5.3: Prioritization for a Multi-Objective Goal --- 5.4: Appendix --- 5.5: References --- Chapter 6: Policy Implications --- 6.1 Tailoring Policies to Vulnerabilities --- 6.2 Macroprudential Tools --- 6.2.1 Bank Capital-Oriented Tools --- 6.2.1.1 Capital Requirements that Adjust Over the Cycle --- 6.2.1.2 Forward-Looking Provisioning --- 6.2.1.3: Leverage caps --- 6.2.1.4: Loan-To-Value and Debt-Service-To-Income Caps --- 6.2.1.5: Loan-to-Deposit caps --- 6.2.1.6: Levy on Noncore Liabilities --- 6.2.1.7: Unremunerated Reserve Requirements --- 6.2.2: Relative Merits of URR versus Levies/Taxes --- 6.2.3: Relationship with other Stabilization Policies --- 6.3: Financial Integration and Institutional Design --- 6.4: Policy Choices --- 6.5: References

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Lecture on the methylmercury poisoning occurred in Minamata (MPM) --- 3. Assignment to students

Description / Table of Contents: This book is published open access under a CC BY license. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in October 2016. The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The idea of symbiotic systems put forward in this workshop capitalizes on the computers’ ability to implicitly detect the users goals, preferences or/and psycho-physiological states and thereby enhancing human-computer interaction (HCI). The papers present an overview of the symbiotic relationships between humans and computers with emphasis on user-driven research on symbiotic systems, adaptive systems, implicit input data, physiological computing and BCI, but also on understanding the nature of the interdependence and agency between computers and humans more broadly

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction --- Part I Business Operation Support --- 2 Subject-Oriented Business Processes Meet Strategic Management: Two Case Studies from the Manufacturing Industry --- 3 Communication- and Value-Based Organizational Development at the University Clinic for Radiotherapy-Radiation Oncology --- 4 Introducing S-BPM at an IT Service Providers --- 5 A Service Hardware Application Case Fiducia --- 6 Designing an Agile Process Layer for Competitive Differentiation --- Part II Consultancy and Education Support --- 7 Model as You Do: Engaging an S-BPM Vendor on Process Modelling in 3D Virtual Worlds --- 8 A Tangible Modeling Interface for Subject-Oriented Business Process Management --- 9 A Reference Model for Maintenance Processes --- 10 Role and Rights Management --- 11 Embodying Business Rules in S-BPM --- 12 Agents Implementing Subject Behaviour: A Manufacturing Scenario --- Part III Technical Execution Support --- 13 An Abstract State Machine Interpreter for S-BPM --- 14 Structured Communication—Approaching S-BPM with Microsoft Technologies --- 15 ERP Integration in S-BPM Processes

Description / Table of Contents: Making Flow-Based Security Detection Parallel --- A Blockchain-Based Architecture for Collaborative DDoS Mitigation with Smart Contracts --- Achieving Reproducible Network Environments with INSALATA --- Towards a Software-Defined Security Framework for Supporting Distributed Cloud --- Optimal Service Function Chain Composition in Network Functions Virtualization --- An Optimized Resilient Advance Bandwidth Scheduling for Media Delivery Services --- The Evaluation of the V2VUNet Concept to Improve Inter-vehicle Communications --- Towards Internet Scale Quality-of-Experience Measurement with Twitter --- Hunting SIP Authentication Attacks Efficiently --- MoDeNA: Enhancing User Security for Devices in Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks --- Flow-Based Detection of IPv6-specific Network Layer Attacks --- Towards a Hybrid Cloud Platform Using Apache Mesos --- Visual Analytics for Network Security and Critical Infrastructures --- Preserving Relations in Parallel Flow Data Processing --- SmartDEMAP: A Smart Contract Deployment and Management Platform --- Optimizing the Integration of Agent-Based Cloud Orchestrators and Higher-Level Workloads --- Situational Awareness: Detecting Critical Dependencies and Devices in a Network --- A Framework for SFC Integrity in NFV Environments --- Multi-domain DDoS Mitigation based on Blockchains

Description / Table of Contents: Full Research Papers --- Experience Reports --- Empirical Studies Papers --- Doctoral Symposium Papers

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Artistic Contributions --- The Computer Age --- Odes to Ted Nelson --- Part II: Peer Histories --- The Two-eyed Man --- Ted Nelson’s Xanadu—Caution: Four Letter Words Ahead --- Hanging Out with Ted Nelson --- Riffing on Ted Nelson—Hypermind --- Intertwingled Inspiration --- An Advanced Book for Beginners --- Part III: Hypertext and Ted Nelson-Influenced Research --- The Importance of Ted’s Vision --- Data, Metadata and Ted --- Making Links: Everything Really is Deeply Intertwingled --- Ted Nelson --- History Debugged --- We Can and Must Understand Computers NOW --- The Future of Transclusion --- Ted Nelson: A Critical (and Critically Incomplete) Bibliography --- Part IV: The Last Word --- What Box?

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Metamorphic geology: progress and perspectives / Pierre Lanari, Silvio Ferrero, Philippe Goncalves and Eugene G. Grosch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 1-12, 10 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478-2018-186 --- Methods --- A treasure chest full of nanogranitoids: an archive to investigate crustal melting in the Bohemian Massif / Silvio Ferrero, Patrick J. O’Brien, Alessia Borghini, Bernd Wunder, Markus Wälle, Christina Günter and Martin A. Ziemann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 13-38, 17 September 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.19 --- Quantitative compositional mapping of mineral phases by electron probe micro-analyser / Pierre Lanari, Alice Vho, Thomas Bovay, Laura Airaghi and Stephen Centrella / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 39-63, 29 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.4 --- Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modelling using STyx / Nicolas Riel, Pierre Bouilhol, Jeroen van Hunen, Julien Cornet, Valentina Magni, Vili Grigorova and Mirko Velic / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 65-87, 16 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.6 --- Mass-transfer and differential element mobility in metapelites during multistage metamorphism of the Yenisey Ridge, Siberia / I. I. Likhanov / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 89-115, 21 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.11 --- Experimental simulation of contact metamorphism using natural quartzphyllite materials: advantages and pitfalls / Peter Tropper / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 117-135, 16 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.12 --- Size evolution of micropyrite from diagenesis to low-grade metamorphism / Víctor Cárdenes, Raúl Merinero, Aurora López-Mungira, Álvaro Rubio-Ordoñez, Iain K. Pitcairn and Veerle Cnudde / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 137-144, 29 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.2 --- Processes --- Garnet–monazite rare earth element relationships in sub-solidus metapelites: a case study from Bhutan / Clare J. Warren, Lucy V. Greenwood, Tom W. Argles, Nick M. W. Roberts, Randall R. Parrish and Nigel B. W. Harris / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 145-166, 7 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.1 --- Miocene UHT granulites from Seram, eastern Indonesia: a geochronological–REE study of zircon, monazite and garnet / J. M. Pownall, R. A. Armstrong, I. S. Williams, M. F. Thirlwall, C. J. Manning and R. Hall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 167-196, 17 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.8 --- P–T conditions of symplectite formation in the eclogites from the Western Gneiss Region (Norway) / Céline Martin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 197-216, 10 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.18 --- Rehydration of eclogites and garnet-replacement processes during exhumation in the amphibolite facies / Thais Hyppolito, Aitor Cambeses, Samuel Angiboust, Tom Raimondo, Antonio García-Casco and Caetano Juliani / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 217-239, 29 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.3 --- The granulite- to eclogite- and amphibolite-facies transition: a volume and mass transfer study in the Lindås Nappe, Bergen Arcs, west Norway / Stephen Centrella / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 241-264, 21 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.9 --- Metamorphic fluid superimposition of the Changba–Lijiagou Pb–Zn deposit, West Qinling Orogen, central China / Pei Ni, Tian-Gang Wang, Guo-Guang Wang, Wen-Sheng Li and Jun-Yi Pan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 265-286, 21 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.10 --- Shear-zone hosted gold mineralization of the Arabian–Nubian Shield: devolatilization processes across the greenschist–amphibolite-facies transition / Tamer Abu-Alam, Mohamed Abd El Monsef and Eugene Grosch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 287-313, 21 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.13 --- Applications --- Metamorphic processes preserved in early Archean supracrustal rocks of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa / Eugene G. Grosch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 315-334, 22 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.15 --- Structural and thermal evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment shear zone in the Mt Everest region, from the 1933 sample collection of L. R. Wager / David J. Waters, Richard D. Law, Michael P. Searle and Micah J. Jessup / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 335-372, 12 July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.17 --- Three modes of isograd formation in the northern Monashee Complex of the Canadian Cordillera / Félix Gervais / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 373-388, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.7 --- New insights into the building of the Variscan Belt in Eastern Europe (Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria) / Gaëlle Plissart, Hervé Diot, Christophe Monnier and Marcel Mărunţiu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 389-426, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.14 --- High-pressure granulite from Jixian, Eastern Hebei, the North China Craton: implications for Neoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic collision tectonics / Chao Wang, Shuguang Song, Mark B. Allen, Li Su and Chunjing Wei / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 427-448, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.16 --- The relationship between systematic metamorphic patterns and collisional processes along the Qinling–Sulu–Odesan collisional belt between the North and South China Cratons / Chang Whan Oh and Byung Choon Lee / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 478, 449-475, 4 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP478.5

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: What are blockchains and how are they relevant to governance in the contemporary global political economy? / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn --- Chapter 2: Moneys at the Margins – From Political Experiment to Cashless Societies / Moritz Hütten and Matthias Thiemann --- Chapter 3: The Internal and External Governance of Blockchain-Based Organisations: Evidence from Cryptocurrencies / Ying-Ying Hsieh, JP Vergne, and Sha Wang --- Chapter 4: The Mutual Constitution of Technology and Global Governance: Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the International Anti-Money Laundering Regime / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Marcel Goguen --- Chapter 5: Between Liberalization and Prohibition: Prudent Enthusiasm and the Governance of Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology / Kai Jia and Falin Zhang --- Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies and Digital Payment Rails in Networked Global Governance: Perspectives on Inclusion and Innovation / Daivi Rodima-Taylor and William W. Grimes --- Chapter 7: Governing What Wasn’t Meant To Be Governed:　A Controversy-Based Approach to the Study of Bitcoin Governance / Francesca Musiani, Alexandre Mallard and Cécile Méadel --- Chapter 8: Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A History and Ethnography of "The DAO," a Failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Quinn DuPont --- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Towards A Block Age or Blockages of Global Governance? / Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Ensemble Methods in Environmental Data Mining / by Goksu Tuysuzoglu, Derya Birant and Aysegul Pala --- 2. Estimating Customer Lifetime Value Using Machine Learning Techniques / by Sien Chen --- 3. Determination and Classification of Crew Productivity with Data Mining Methods / by Abdullah Emre Keleş and Mümine Kaya Keleş --- 4. Mining HCI Data for Theory of Mind Induction / by Oksana Arnold and Klaus P. Jantke --- 5. Performance-Aware High-Performance Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data Analytics / by Mustafa Kemal Pektürk and Muhammet Ünal --- 6. Early Prediction of Patient Mortality Based on Routine Laboratory Tests and Predictive Models in Critically Ill Patients / by Sven Van Poucke, Ana Kovacevic and Milan Vukicevic --- 7. Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging / by Vesa Salminen, Päivi Sanerma, Seppo Niittymäki and Patrick Eklund --- 8. Adaptive Neural Network Classifier-Based Analysis of Big Data in Health Care / by Manaswini Pradhan --- 9. Identification of Research Thematic Approaches Based on Keywords Network Analysis in Colombian Social Sciences / by José Hernando Ávila-Toscano, Ivón Catherine Romero-Pérez, Ailed Marenco-Escuderos and Eugenio Saavedra Guajardo --- 10. Data Privacy for Big Data Publishing Using Newly Enhanced PASS Data Mining Mechanism / by Priyank Jain, Manasi Gyanchandani and Nilay Khare

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Advancing Public Deliberation on Climate Change and Other Wicked Problems / Lorelei L. Hanson and David Kahane --- 1. Profiles of Four Citizen Deliberations / Lorelei L. Hanson --- 2. The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy / David Kahane and Gwendolyn Blue --- 3. The Economic and Political Context of Climate Policy in Alberta / Geoff Salomons and John R. Parkins --- 4. Beyond the Usual Suspects: Representation in Deliberative Exercises / Shelley Boulianne --- 5. From Facts to Frames: Dominant and Alternative Meanings of Climate Change / Gwendolyn Blue --- 6. Collaborating on Deliberative Democracy / David Kahane and Lorelei L. Hanson --- 7. On the Ground: Practitioners Reflect on ABCD’s Citizen Deliberations / Mary Pat MacKinnon, Jacquie Dale, and Susanna Haas Lyons --- 8. Climate Change, Social Change, and Systems Change / David Kahane --- Conclusion: The Potential of Deliberation to Tap the Power of Citizens to Address Climate Change and Other Issues of Sustainability / Tom Prugh and Matt Leighninger

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Preface --- Cooperators --- Part 1 Active Faults --- Part 2 Seismic Source Modeling and Seismic Motion --- Part 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment with External Hazards --- Part 4 Nuclear Risk Governance in Society

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I: What are damages in Nuclear Accidents?- Part II: Measurement of Damages --- Part III: Barriers against Transition into Resilience --- Part IV: Research questions for developing knowledge toward transition into resilience --- Epilogue

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction --- Part II: Humanitarian Technologies --- Part III: Medical Technologies --- Part IV: Renewable Energies --- Part V: Sustainable Habitat --- Part VI: Disaster Risk Reduction

Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Chapter 1 The Message in “Vision 2050” --- Chapter 2 Progress on Vision 2050 since 1995 --- Chapter 3 Technologies to Support a Low-Carbon Society (Using Energy) --- Chapter 4 Technology to Support Low-Carbon Society (Utilize Energy) --- Chapter 5 Low-Carbon Society in 2050 --- Chapter 6 Platinum Industry and a New Society --- Interview

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Forward --- 2. Preface --- 3. Introduction --- 4. Part I. Chapter 1 Kriging, Splines, Conditional Simulation, Bayesian In-version and Ensemble Kalman Filtering --- 5. Chapter 2 A Statistical Commentary on Mineral Prospectivity analysis --- 6. Chapter 3 Testing joint conditional independence of categorical random variables with a standard log-likelihood ratio test --- 7. Chapter 4 Modelling Compositional Data. The Sample Space Approach --- 8. Chapter 5 Properties of Sums of Geological Random Variables --- 9. Chapter 6 A Statistical Analysis of the Jacobian in Retrievals of Satellite Data --- 10. Chapter 7 All Realizations All the Time --- 11. Chapter 8 Binary Coefficients Redux --- 12. Chapter 9 Tracking Plurigaussian Simulations --- 13. Chapter 10 Mathematical Geosciences: Local Singularity Analysis of Nonlinear Earth Processes and Extreme Geo-Events --- 14. Chapter 11 Electrofacies in Reservoir Characterization --- 15. Chapter 12 Forecast of Shoreline Variations by Means of Median Sets --- 16. Chapter 13 An Introduction to the Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Sat-ellite Remote Sensing Data for Geostatisticians --- 17. Chapter 14 Flint drinking water crisis: a first attempt to model geo-statistically the space-time distribution of water lead levels --- 18. Chapter 15 Statistical Parametric Mapping for Geoscience Applications --- 19. Chapter 16 Water chemistry: are new challenges possible from CoDA (Compositional Data Analysis) point of view? --- 20. Chapter 17 Analysis of the United States Portion of the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes Project – A Compositional Framework Approach --- 21. Chapter 18 Quantifying the Impacts of Uncertainty --- 22. Chapter 19. Advances in Sensitivity Analysis of Uncertainty due to Sampling Density for Spatially Correlated Attributes --- 23. Chapter 20 Predicting Molybdenum Deposit Growth --- 24. Chapter 21 General Framework of Quantitative Target Selections --- 25. Chapter 22 Solving the Wrong Resource Assessment Problems Precisely --- 26. Chapter 23 two ideas for analysis of multivariate geochemical survey data: proximity regression and principal component residuals --- 27. Chapter 24 Mathematical minerals: A history of petrophysical petrography --- 28. Chapter 25 Geostatistics for Seismic Characterization of Oil Reservoirs --- 29. Chapter 26 Statistical Modeling of Regional and Worldwide Size-Frequency Distributions of Metal Deposits --- 30. Chapter 27 Bayesianism in the Geosciences --- 31.Chapter 28 Geological Objects and Physical Parameter Fields in the Subsurface: A Review --- 32.Chapter 29 Fifty Years of Kriging --- 33. Chapter 30 Multiple Point Statistics: A Review --- 34. Chapter 31 When Should We Use Multiple-Point Geostatistics? --- 35. Chapter 32 The Origins of the Multiple-Point Statistics (MPS) Algorithm --- 36. Chapter 33 Predictive Geometallurgy: An Interdisciplinary Key Challenge for Mathematical Geosciences? --- 37. Chapter 34 Data Science for Geoscience: Leveraging Mathematical Geosciences with Semantics and Open Data --- 38. Chapter 35 Mathematical Morphology in Geosciences and GISci: An Illustrative Review --- 39. Chapter 36 IAMG: Recollections from the Early Years --- 40. Chapter 37 Forward and Inverse Models over 70 Years --- 41. Chapter 38 From individual personal contacts 1962–1968 to my 50 years of service --- 42. Chapter 39 Andrey Borisovich Vistelius --- 43. Chapter 40 Fifty Years’ Experience with Hidden Errors in Applying Classic Mathematical Geology --- 44. Chapter 41 Mathematical Geology by Example: Teaching and Learning Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Section 1: Research Highlights and Framework --- 1. Ecosystem Services, Well-Being and Deltas: Current Knowledge and Understanding; W. Neil Adger et al. --- 2. Ecosystem Services Linked to Livelihoods and Well-Being in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger and Robert J. Nicholls --- 3. An Integrated Approach Providing Scientific and Policy Relevant Insights for South-West Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- 4. Integrative Analysis for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- Section 2: Present Status of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta --- 5. Recent Trends in Ecosystem Services in Coastal Bangladesh; John A Dearing and Sarwar Hossain --- 6. Governance of Ecosystem Services Across Scales in Bangladesh ; Andrew Allan and Michelle Lim --- 7. Health, Livelihood and Well-Being in the Coastal Delta of Bangladesh; Mofizur Rahman and Sate Ahmad --- 8. Floods and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Anisul Haque and Robert J Nicholls --- Section 3: Scenarios for Policy Analysis --- 9. Integrating Science and Policy Using Stakeholder-Engaged Scenarios; Emily J Barbour et al. --- 10. Incorporating Stakeholder Perspectives in Scenario Development; Andrew Allan, Michelle Lim and Emily J Barbour --- 11. Regional Climate Change over South Asia; John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 12. Future Scenarios of Economic Development; Alistair Hunt --- Section 4: Observations and Potential Trends --- 13. Biophysical Modelling of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Catchment; Paul G Whitehead --- 14. Marine Dynamics and Productivity in the Bay of Bengal; Susan Kay, John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 15. A Sustainable Future Supply of Fluvial Sediment for the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta; Stephen E Darby et al. --- 16. Present and Future Fluvial, Tidal and Storm Surge Flooding in Coastal Bangladesh; Anisul Haque, Susan Kay and Robert J Nicholls --- 17. Modelling Tidal River Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Lucy Bricheno and Judtih Wold --- 18. Mechanisms and Drivers of Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Mashfiqus Salehin et al. --- 19. Population Dynamics in the South-West of Bangladesh; Sylvia Szabo, Sate Ahmad and W Neil Adger --- 20. Land Cover and Land Use Analysis in Coastal Bangladesh;Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 21. Social, Economic and Environmental Dimensions and Drivers of Poverty in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Fiifi Amoako Johnson and Craig W Hutton --- 22. Defining Social-Ecological Systems in South-West Bangladesh; Helen Adams et al. --- 23. Characterising Associations Between Poverty and Ecosystem Services; Helen Adams et al. --- Section 5: Present and Future Ecosystem Services --- 24. Prospects for Agriculture under Climate Change and Soil Salinisation; Derek Clarke et al. --- 25. Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries: Trends and Prospect; Manuel Barange et al. --- 26. Dynamics of the Sundarbans Mangroves in Bangladesh Under Climate Change; Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 27. Hypertension and Malnutrition as Health Outcomes Related to Ecosystem Services; Ali Ahmed et al. Section 6: Integration and Dissemination --- 28. Integrative Analysis Spplying the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Attila N. Lázár et al. --- 29. Communicating Integrated Analysis Research Findings; Mashrekur Rahman and Munsur Rahman

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introducing Life Cycle Management --- Introduction: Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize Sustainability Within Organizations --- How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business? --- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level —Different Approaches --- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach --- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice --- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business --- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner --- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships --- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management --- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies --- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action --- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain --- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation --- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management --- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting --- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management --- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil --- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.-Communication and Collaboration as Essential Elements for Mainstreaming Life Cycle Management.-Part V: Implementation and Case Studies of Life Cycle Management in Different Business and Industry Sector --- Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Management in the Electricity Sector --- Life Cycle Management Applied to Urban Fabric Planning --- Implementing Life Cycle Engineering in Automotive Development as a Helpful Management Tool to Support Design for Environment --- Managing Life cycle Sustainability Aspects in the Automotive Industry --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize the Creating Shared Value Concept in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Bill McGuire --- Volcano Crisis Communication: Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century --- Volcanic Gases: Silent Killers --- The Communication and Risk Management of Volcanic Ballistic Hazards --- Part One Summary: Adapting Warnings for Volcanic Hazards --- Part II: Gill Jolly --- Volcanic Unrest and Hazard Communication in Long Valley Volcanic Region, California --- Organisational Response to the 2007 Ruapehu Crater Lake Dam-Break Lahar in New Zealand: Use of Communication in Creating an Effective Response --- Social Representation of Human Resettlement Associated with Risk from Volcán de Colima, Mexico --- Part Two Summary: Observing Volcanic Crises --- Part III: Deanne Bird and Kat Haynes --- Communicating Information on Eruptions and Their Impacts from the Earliest Times Until the Late Twentieth Century --- “There’s no Plastic in Our Volcano”: A Story About Losing and Finding a Path to Participatory Volcanic Risk Management in Colombia --- Challenges of Volcanic Crises on Small Islands States --- Living with an Active Volcano: Informal and Community Learning for Preparedness in South of Japan --- Part Three Summary: Communicating into the Future. Volcanic Crisis Communication: Where Do We Go from Here?

Description / Table of Contents: Paleozoic plays of NW Europe: an introduction / A. A. Monaghan, J. R. Underhill, J. E. A. Marshall and A. J. Hewett / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 1-15, 20 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.13 --- North Sea --- Exploration and development in the Carboniferous of the Southern North Sea: a 30-year retrospective / Bernard Besly / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 17-64, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.10 --- Structural development of the Devono-Carboniferous plays of the UK North Sea / Stavros Arsenikos, Martyn Quinn, Geoff Kimbell, Paul Williamson, Tim Pharaoh, Graham Leslie and Alison Monaghan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 65-90, 20 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.3 --- Revised stratigraphic framework of pre-Westphalian Carboniferous petroleum system elements from the Outer Moray Firth to the Silverpit Basin, North Sea, UK / T. I. Kearsey, D. Millward, R. Ellen, K. Whitbread and A. A. Monaghan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 91-113, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.11 --- Structural development of the northern Dutch offshore: Paleozoic to present / M. M. ter Borgh, B. Jaarsma and E. A. Rosendaal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 115-131, 20 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.4 --- Hydrocarbon potential of the Visean and Namurian in the northern Dutch offshore / M. M. ter Borgh, W. Eikelenboom and B. Jaarsma / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 133-153, 20 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.5 --- The role of palaeorelief in the control of Permian facies distribution over the Mid North Sea High, UK Continental Shelf / Philip Mulholland, Paolo Esestime, Karyna Rodriguez and Phillip John Hargreaves / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 155-175, 3 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.8 --- Polyphase tectonic inversion and its role in controlling hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Greater East Shetland Platform and Mid North Sea High, UK / Stefano Patruno, William Reid, Christian Berndt and Laurent Feuilleaubois / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 177-235, 4 May 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.9 --- The Old Red Group (Devonian) – Rotliegend Group (Permian) Unconformity in the Inner Moray Firth / J. E. A. Marshall, K. W. Glennie, T. R. Astin and A. J. Hewett / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 237-252, 22 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.12 --- Onshore and Irish Sea --- The Paleozoic petroleum system in the north of Scotland – outcrop analogues / John Flett Brown, Tim R. Astin and John E. A. Marshall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 253-280, 19 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.14 --- An overlooked play? Structure, stratigraphy and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Carboniferous in the East Irish Sea–North Channel basin complex / T. C. Pharaoh, C. M. A. Gent, S. D. Hannis, K. L. Kirk, A. A. Monaghan, M. F. Quinn, N. J. P. Smith, C. H. Vane, O. Wakefield and C. N. Waters / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 281-316, 22 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.7 --- Seismostratigraphic analysis of Paleozoic sequences of the Midlands Microcraton / Malcolm Butler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 317-332, 30 April 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.6 --- Paleozoic gas potential in the Weald Basin of southern England / Christopher P. Pullan and Malcolm Butler / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 333-363, 22 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.1 --- A Paleozoic-sourced oil play in the Jura Mountains of France and Switzerland / C. P. Pullan and M. Berry / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 471, 365-387, 20 March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP471.2

Description / Table of Contents: Improving Agile Processes --- Reflection in Agile Retrospectives --- What influences the speed of prototyping? An empirical investigation of twenty software startups --- Key Challenges in Agile Requirements Engineering --- A Multiple Case Study on Selecting a Technique for User-Interaction Data Collecting --- Comparing Requirements Decomposition within the Scrum, Scrum with Kanban, XP, and Banana Development Processes --- Effects of Technical Debt Awareness: A classroom study --- Agile in Organizations --- Don’t Forget to Breathe: A Controlled Trial of Mindfulness Practices in Agile Project Teams --- Enhancing Agile Team Collaboration through the use of Large Digital Multi-touch Cardwalls --- Knowledge Sharing in a Large Agile Organisation: A Survey Study --- Teaching Agile Methods to Software Engineering Professionals: 10 Years, 1000 Release Plans --- Are Software Startups Applying Agile? the State of the Practice from a Large Survey --- Adopting Test Automation on Agile Development Projects: A Grounded Theory Study of Indian Software Organizations --- Safety Critical Software --- How is security testing done in agile teams? A cross-case analysis of four software teams --- An assessment of avionics software development practice: justifications for an agile development process --- Short Research Papers --- Inoculating an Agile Company with User-Centred Design: an Empirical Study --- On the Usage and Benefits of Agile Methods & Practices --- Checklists to Support Test Charter Design in Exploratory Testing --- Discovering Software Process Deviations Using Visualizations --- Exploring Workflow Mechanisms and Task Allocation Strategies in Agile Software Teams --- Are daily stand-up meetings valuable? A survey of developers in software teams --- Doctoral Symposium Papers --- Knowledge Management and Reflective Practice in Daily Stand-up and Retrospective Meetings --- Self-Assignment: Task Allocation Practice in Agile Software Development --- Software Development Practices Patterns.

Description / Table of Contents: Shifting Identities in Computing: From a Useful Tool to a New Method and Theory of Science --- On the Big Impact of “Big Computer Science” --- On Informatics, Diamonds and T --- Leadership and Balance in Research --- Rational ethics --- Ethics for the digital age: where are the moral specs? --- Digital Sovereignty and IT-Security for a Prosperous Society --- Women in Computing and the contingency of informatics cultures --- Ada - poet of computing

Description / Table of Contents: Common challenges with software --- The map --- A holistic view to change --- The compass --- The journeys --- Co-develop in a community --- Charing is caring --- A thriving Open Source culture behind the wall --- Keeping the doors open.- Building ecosystems --- Pushing the boundaries --- Add supplementary services --- Adding Internet to things --- Boosting product sales by services --- Deliver 24/7 --- Pruning a bush --- Ensuring prima deliveries --- Pump up the volume --- Global R&D goes agile with SAFe --- Multi-site development --- Agile and disciplined --- Scaling Agile in Automotive --- Scaling Agile in Life sciences --- Outside the box --- Efficient communication --- Outsourcing Strategy at Sony Mobile --- Not so shore anymore --- Play it again, Sam, backwards --- First things first --- Robotic growing pains --- Softhouse reflects on architecture changes --- From mobile to Platform --- Your journey

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: The Big Data Opportunity --- The Big Data Value Opportunity --- Introduction to the BIG Project --- Part II: The Big Data Value Chain: Enabling and Value Creating Technologies --- The Big Data Value Chain: Definitions, Concepts, and Theoretical Approaches --- Big Data Acquisition --- Big Data Analysis --- Big Data Curation --- Big Data Storage --- Big Data Usage --- Part III: Usage and Exploitation of Big Data --- Big Data Driven Innovation in Industrial Sectors --- Big Data in the Health Sector --- Big Data in the Public Sector --- Big Data in the Finance and Insurance Sectors --- Big Data in the Energy and Transport Sectors --- Big Data in the Media and Entertainment Sectors --- Part IV: A Roadmap for Big Data Research --- Cross-Sectorial Requirements Analysis for Big Data Research --- New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy: Roadmaps and Action Plans for Technology, Businesses, Policy, and Society.                        

Description / Table of Contents: Robots and their Applications --- Sensors --- Reactive Behavior --- Finite State Machines --- Robotic Motion and Odometry --- Control --- Local Navigation: Obstacle Avoidance --- Localization --- Mapping --- Mapping-based Navigation --- Fuzzy Logic Control --- Image Processing --- Neural Networks --- Machine Learning --- Swarm Robotics --- Kinematics of a Robotic Manipulator --- Appenix A:Units of Measurement --- Appendix B:Mathematical Derivations and Tutorials --- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- The Jordan Valley --- Projections And Objectives --- Meeting The Strategic Planning Objectives --- The Year 2050 --- Final Conclusions And Recommendations --- Colophon.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I The Urban Heat Island – Evidence, Measures and Tools --- Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change --- Assessment Indication and Gold Standard --- Methodologies for UHI Analysis --- Decision Support Systems for Urban Planning --- Part II Pilot Actions in European Cities --- Counteracting Urban Heat Islands: Solutions for European Cities.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Problem of Residue Management due to Rice Wheat Crop Rotation in Punjab --- Chapter 2: The Extent and Management of Crop Stubble --- Chapter 3: Valuation of the Health Impact --- Chapter 4: Alternative Uses of Crop Stubble --- Chapter 5: Environment Legislation in India as a Whole and in the State of Punjab --- Chapter 6: Policies for Restricting the Agriculture Residue Burning in Punjab --- Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks and Policy Implications --- References --- Annexure

Description / Table of Contents: From the Contents: Overview concepts, approaches and challenges of integrated groundwater management --- Disentangling the complexity of a groundwater dependent socio-ecological system --- The scale of the groundwater issue internationally --- Groundwater law --- Groundwater regulation and integrated water planning

Description / Table of Contents: 1.Habitats And Biota Of The Gulf Of Mexico: An Overview --- 2.Water Quality Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 3.Sediments Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 4.Sediment Contaminants Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 5.Oil And Gas Seeps In The Gulf Of Mexico.- 6.Coastal Habitats Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 7.Offshore Plankton And Benthos Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 8.Shellfish Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- Appendix A:List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols --- Appendix B: Unit Conversion Table.-  Index

Description / Table of Contents: Cities in Time and Space --- Working --- Housing --- Conclusion Remarks: Urbanization --- the Future

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Context and Objective --- Introduction: A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects and the Need for Interdisciplinary Approaches --- Water Ethics – Orientation for Water Conflicts as Part of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Deliberation --- Part II: Major Water Engineering Projects – Challenges, Problems, Opportunities.- Major Water Engineering Projects: Definitions, Framework Conditions, Systemic Effects --- A Global View on Future Major Water Engineering Projects --- Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts and Economic Valuation --- Water Governance: A Systemic Approach --- Research in two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley --- Part III: The Fergana Valley – Uzbekistan’s Hydro-Agricultural System between Inertia and Change --- Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies --- From Upscaling to Rescaling – Transforming the Fergana from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan --- Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today: Ecological Implications –Economic Necessities --- Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of the Water Users Associations --- Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan between Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles --- Part IV: The Lower Jordan Valley – The Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project and its Complex History --- Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley – The Situation Today and the Path that has led there --- Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action --- Jordan’s Shadow State and Water Management: Prospects for Water Security will depend on Politics and Regional Cooperation --- Technologies, Incentives and Cost Recovery: Is there an Israeli Role Model? --- Part V: Outlook and Options for Action --- Lessons Learnt, Open Research Questions and Recommendations

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the Assessment --- Past and Current Climate Change --- Past and Current Changes in the North Sea (and interface regions) --- Climate Change Projections --- Impacts of Current and Future Climate Change in Ecosystems --- Climate Impacts on Socio-economy

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Preface --- Cooperators --- Part 1 Radioactivity in the Terrestrial Environment --- Part 2 Decontamination and Radioactive Waste --- Part 3 Environmental Radiation and External Exposure --- Part 4 Radioactivity in Foods and Internal Exposure

Description / Table of Contents: In an increasingly globalized world, an understanding of the role of international trade is central to the study of agricultural economics and agribusiness. This text interweaves these two elements, explaining the theories and practices relevant to agricultural trade. Using real-life examples to explain theories and models, the text prepares readers to critically examine agricultural trade issues. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, each chapter features chapter overviews and summaries, key concepts, questions for review, and suggested readings.Explains the theories and practices releva

Description / Table of Contents: This book offers a broad perspective on important topics in earthquake geotechnical engineering and gives specialists and those that are involved with research and application a more comprehensive understanding about the various topics. Consisting of eighteen chapters written by authors from the most seismic active regions of the world, such as USA, Japan, Canada, Chile, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Taiwan, and Turkey, the book reflects different views concerning how to assess and minimize earthquake damage. The authors, a prominent group of specialists in the field of earthquake geotechnical engineering, are the invited lecturers of the International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering from Case History to Practice in the honour of Professor Kenji Ishihara held in Istanbul, Turkey during 17-19 June 2013

Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Alphabetical list of entries -- Figures and tables -- Editors and contributors -- Preface -- Part I Concepts and Definitions -- 1 Anthropocene and planetary boundaries -- 2 Consumerism -- 3 Earth system governance -- 4 Environment and nature -- 5 Global environmental governance -- 6 Inclusive development -- 7 Liberal environmentalism and governance norms -- 8 Risk -- 9 Sustainable development -- Part II Theories and Methods -- 10 Constructivism and sociological institutionalism -- 11 Cost-benefit analysis -- 12 Deep ecology -- 13 Deliberative policy analysis

Description / Table of Contents: 14 Feminism -- 15 Governmentality -- 16 Integrated assessment modeling -- 17 Neo-Gramscianism -- 18 Neoliberal institutionalism -- 19 Qualitative comparative analysis -- 20 Quantitative comparative analysis -- 21 Simulations -- 22 Teaching global environmental governance -- 23 World society -- Part III Actors -- 24 Civil society -- 25 European Union -- 26 Individuals -- 27 International bureaucracies -- 28 Media -- 29 Private sector -- 30 Religious movements -- 31 Scientists and experts -- 32 States -- 33 United Nations -- Part IV Institutions -- 34 Clubs -- 35 International organizations

Description / Table of Contents: 36 Mega-conferences -- 37 Private environmental governance -- 38 Public-private partnerships -- 39 Regimes -- Part V Issue Areas -- 40 Air pollution -- 41 Arctic -- 42 Biological diversity -- 43 Biosafety and genetically modified organisms -- 44 Chemicals -- 45 Climate change -- 46 Desertification -- 47 Fisheries and whaling -- 48 Forestry -- 49 Hazardous waste -- 50 Ocean space -- 51 Ozone depletion -- 52 Phosphorus -- 53 Renewable energy -- 54 Water -- 55 Wetlands -- Part VI Cross-Cutting Questions and Emerging Topics -- 56 Effectiveness -- 57 Environmental policy diffusion

Description / Table of Contents: 58 Environmental policy integration -- 59 Green economy -- 60 Institutional fragmentation -- 61 Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals -- 62 Orchestration -- Part VII Borders and Interlinkages -- 63 Agriculture -- 64 Food -- 65 Health -- 66 Poverty -- 67 Security -- 68 Trade -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the governance and politics of the environment, particularly students, researchers and practitioners. This comprehensive reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains entries on numerous aspects of global environmental governance and politics, including concepts and definitions; theories and methods; actors; institutions; issue-areas; cross-cutt

Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I THE ROLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT -- 1 Green infrastructure and health -- 2 The impacts of green infrastructure on air quality and temperature -- 3 Green infrastructure and urban water management -- 4 Putting economic values on green infrastructure improvements -- 5 Green infrastructure and biodiversity in the city: principles and design -- PART II STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE -- 6 Green infrastructure planning: policy and objectives

Description / Table of Contents: 7 Planning green infrastructure at a strategic level: experience from The Mersey Forest -- 8 Delivering green infrastructure through strategic development: some reflections from Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, USA -- 9 Planning green infrastructure from a landscape perspective -- 10 Planning for urban green infrastructure in metropolitan landscapes -- 11 Ensuring green infrastructure for all -- PART III DESIGNING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL -- 12 Multifunctional green infrastructure: a typology -- 13 Towards inclusive green infrastructure

Description / Table of Contents: 14 The influences of neighbourhood design and quality on residents' use of public open space -- 15 Green grounds for play and learning: an intergenerational model for joint design and use of school and park systems -- 16 The contribution of green infrastructure to a sense of place in historic urban environments -- 17 Landscape, beyond green and grey infrastructure -- PART IV IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE -- 18 The governance and management of public green spaces -- 19 Community involvement in green infrastructure

Description / Table of Contents: 20 Implementing green infrastructure through residential development in the UK -- 21 Green infrastructure and regeneration of brownfield land -- 22 Monitoring and evaluation of green infrastructure: a logic model and ecosystem services approach -- PART V LOOKING FORWARD -- 23 The future of green infrastructure -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This Handbook sets the context for green infrastructure as a means to make urban environments more resilient, sustainable, liveable and equitable. It then provides a comprehensive and authoritative account for those seeking to achieve sustainable green infrastructure in urban environments of how to plan, design and implement green infrastructure at different spatial scales

Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Climates of history, cultures of climate -- Epistemic climates -- Time, representation, agency -- Enduring bad faith -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Climates of history -- Chapter 1: Voices of endurance: climate and the power of oral history -- Valuing oral history -- Endurance -- Drought 'makes who we are' -- Weathering loss -- Dwelling in uncertainty -- Listening for change -- Living with future drought -- Notes -- References

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: Rethinking seasons: changing climate, changing time -- Indigenous seasons -- Western seasons: the weather, climate, calendar nexus -- The idea vs history -- Climate change and the seasons -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The terrestrial envelope: Joseph Fourier's geological speculation -- Introduction: poiesis of other worlds -- Science studies and imagination -- Fourier's demonstration -- The scene of imagination -- Infinite cold -- Geological speculation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Melancholy and the continent of fire -- Forest Gallery, Melbourne

Description / Table of Contents: Emerging environmental histories -- Moving through time -- Climatic seasonal encounters -- Melancholic environmental memorial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The Anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550-1750 -- Early modern poetic and philosophical critique -- The seventeenth century age of crisis -- The Columbian Exchange -- The Anthropocene -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Climates of writing -- Chapter 6: Change beyond belief: fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson's 'climate change suite' -- Enlightenment atmospheres of belief -- Notes -- References

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Fuels and humans, bíos and zoe -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: The 'foreign grave' motif in Victorian medicine and literature -- The medical debate -- Exchanges between literature and medicine -- The literary life of the foreign grave motif -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Climate change and literary history -- What does climate mean? -- Climate, climat, 'climate' -- Wittgenstein's atmospheres -- Climate, clima, clinamen -- Writing climatic culture -- Climate, race, milieu and moment -- For a literary history of climate change -- Notes -- References

Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Climates of politics -- Chapter 10: Climate change: politics, excess, sovereignty -- Politics -- Excess -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 11: Para-religions of climate change: humanity, eco-nihilism, apocalypse -- The Anthropocene as object of (dis)belief -- Is not/il y a -- Gaia revisited -- The last man's party -- Dark temples, sordid churches: 'new religious movements' -- Moral panic, apocalypse and other bourgeois pastimes -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: Litigation, activism, and the paradox of lawfulness in an age of climate change

Description / Table of Contents: Lawfulness and climate change litigation

Description / Table of Contents: This handbook brings together a great deal of new data on the static and dynamic elastic properties of granular and other composite material. The authors are at the very center of today's research and present new and imported theoretical tools that have enabled our current understanding of the complex behavior of rocks.There are three central themes running throughout the presentation: ? Rocks as the prototypical material for defining a class of materials? The PM space model as a useful theoretical construct for developing a phenomenology? A sequence of refined analysis methods. This suite of

Description / Table of Contents: Provocative and spiced with humor, this book uses a cultural studies approach to examine the fraught relationship in German history between material reality and ideology

Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I FROM CUNEIFORM TO CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION -- 1 Finance and Writing -- 2 Finance and Urbanism -- 3 Financial Architecture -- 4 Mesopotamian Twilight -- 5 Athenian Finance -- 6 Monetary Revolution -- 7 Roman Finance -- PART II THE FINANCIAL LEGACY OF CHINA -- 8 China's First Financial World -- 9 Unity and Bureaucracy -- 10 Financial Divergence -- PART III THE EUROPEAN CRUCIBLE -- 11 The Temple and Finance -- 12 Venice -- 13 Fibonacci and Finance -- 14 Immortal Bonds

Description / Table of Contents: 15 The Discovery of Chance -- 16 Efficient Markets -- 17 Europe, Inc. -- 18 Corporations and Exploration -- 19 A Projecting Age -- 20 A Bubble in France -- 21 According to Hoyle -- 22 Securitization and Debt -- PART IV THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL MARKETS -- 23 Marx and Markets -- 24 China's Financiers -- 25 The Russian Bear -- 26 Keynes to the Rescue -- 27 The New Financial World -- 28 Re-Engineering the Future -- 29 Post-War Theory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Fiber optic sensors based on nano-films -- Lossy Mode Resonances based sensors -- Surface Plasmon Resonances based fiber optic sensors -- Plastic optical fiber biosensors -- Vapor based deposition techniques for optical fiber sensing -- Fiber optic sensors in biomedical applications -- Optical hyperspectral sensors -- Fiber optic sensors for radiation dosimetry -- Fiber optic gas sensors -- Structural health monitoring fiber optic sensors -- Distributed temperature sensors -- Respiratory diseases fiber optic based sensors -- Optical sensing based on photonic crystal structures -- Long Period grating based sensors -- Magnetic field fiber optic sensors -- Sensing at THz frecuencies -- Multimode Interference Fiber Sensors -- Fiber optics sensors based on multicore structures

Description / Table of Contents: This book describes important recent developments in fiber optic sensor technology and examines established and emerging applications in a broad range of fields and markets, including power engineering, chemical engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, and environmental monitoring. Particular attention is devoted to niche applications where fiber optic sensors are or soon will be able to compete with conventional approaches. Beyond novel methods for the sensing of traditional parameters such as strain, temperature, and pressure, a variety of new ideas and concepts are proposed and explored. The significance of the advent of extended infrared sensors is discussed, and individual chapters focus on sensing at THz frequencies and optical sensing based on photonic crystal structures. Another important topic is the resonances generated when using thin films in conjunction with optical fibers, and the enormous potential of sensors based on lossy mode resonances, surface plasmon resonances, and long-range surface exciton polaritons. Detailed attention is also paid to fiber Bragg grating sensors and multimode interference sensors. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in the subject under discussion

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. China’s Arctic Policy -- Chapter 3. Japan’s Arctic Policy -- Chapter 4. Arctic Policy of South Korea (Republic of Korea) -- Chapter 5. Singapore’s Arctic Policy -- Chapter 6. India’s Arctic Policy -- Chapter 7. Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: This book examines the growing interest by Asian states, which are normally considered as ‘outsiders’ in the Arctic governance system. Whilst existing research asserts that Asian states are mostly interested in the economic aspect of the changing Arctic, including its mineral and fossil sources and the opening up of new sea routes, the book argues that the relation between Asian states and the Arctic is much more complex and dynamic, grounded in their unique perspective on national security and the role of economic development in securing their national interests. Aki Tonami is Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She received her Ph.D from Kyoto University, Japan, and has worked as Research Advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. She has written extensively on East Asian environmental foreign policy, and her research interests include environmental governance, economic diplomacy, and the Polar Regions

Description / Table of Contents: In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food. The international reaction was swift. In a bid for leadership, the 123 member countries of the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security (CFS) adopted a series of reforms with the aim of becoming the foremost international, inclusive and intergovernmental platform for food security. Central to the reform was the inclusion of participants (including civil society and the private sector) across all activities of the Committee. Drawing on data collect

Description / Table of Contents: Front matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1. They've 'never had it so good': the rise and rise of the super-rich and wealth inequality -- 2. Reconsidering the super-rich: variations, structural conditions and urban consequences -- PART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY -- 3. Historical geographies of wealth: opportunities, institutions and accumulation, c. 1800-1930 -- 4. On plutonomy: economy, power and the wealthy few in the second Gilded Age -- 5. Interrogating the legitimacy of extreme wealth: a moral economic perspective

Description / Table of Contents: 6. Billionaire philanthropy: 'decaf capitalism' -- 7. Making money and making a self: the moral career of entrepreneurs -- 8. Taking up Caletrío's challenge: silence and the construction of wealth eliteness in Jamie Johnson's documentary film Born Rich -- 9. 'One time I'ma show you how to get rich!' Rap music, wealth and the rise of the hip-hop mogul -- 10. Biographies of illicit super-wealth -- PART II LIVING WEALTHY -- 11. Capital city? London's housing markets and the 'super-rich' -- 12. The residential spaces of the super-rich

Description / Table of Contents: 13. Reconfiguring places - wealth and the transformation of rural areas -- 14. Performing wealth and status: observing super-yachts and the super-rich in Monaco -- 15. Flights of indulgence (or how the very wealthy fly): the aeromobile patterns and practices of the super-rich -- 16. Looking at luxury: consuming luxury fashion in global cities -- 17. The luxury of nature: the environmental consequences of super-rich lives -- PART III WEALTH AND POWER -- 18. Attracting wealth: crafting immigration policy to attract the rich -- 19. Sovereign wealth and the nation-state

Description / Table of Contents: 20. Super-rich capitalism: managing and preserving private wealth management in the offshore world -- 21. Troubling tax havens: multi-jurisdictional arbitrage and corporate tax footprint reduction -- 22. No change there! Wealth and oil -- Index

Description / Table of Contents: Fewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a unique examination of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution. Drawing on a multiplicity of international examples, leading experts from across the social sciences offer a landmark multidisciplinary contribution to emerging analyses of the global super-rich and their astonishing wealth. The book's 22 accessible and coherently organised chapters cover a ran

Description / Table of Contents: This Handbook presents a complete and rigorous overview of the fundamentals, methods and applications of the multidisciplinary field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), providing an exhaustive, one-stop reference work and a state-of-the-art description of GNSS as a key technology for science and society at large. All global and regional satellite navigation systems, both those currently in operation and those under development (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS, IRNSS/NAVIC, SBAS), are examined in detail. The functional principles of receivers and antennas, as well as the advanced algorithms and models for GNSS parameter estimation, are rigorously discussed. The book covers the broad and diverse range of land, marine, air and space applications, from everyday GNSS to high-precision scientific applications and provides detailed descriptions of the most widely used GNSS format standards, covering receiver formats as well as IGS product and meta-data formats. The full coverage of the field of GNSS is presented in seven parts, from its fundamentals, through the treatment of global and regional navigation satellite systems, of receivers and antennas, and of algorithms and models, up to the broad and diverse range of applications in the areas of positioning and navigation, surveying, geodesy and geodynamics, and remote sensing and timing. Each chapter is written by international experts and amply illustrated with figures and photographs, making the book an invaluable resource for scientists, engineers, students and institutions alike.

Description / Table of Contents: This report provides a new detailed quantitative assessment of the consequences of climate change on economic growth through to 2060 and beyond. It focuses on how climate change affects different drivers of growth, including labour productivity and capital supply, in different sectors across the world. The sectoral and regional analysis shows that while the impacts of climate change spread across all sectors and all regions, the largest negative consequences are projected to be found in the health and agricultural sectors, with damages especially strong in Africa and Asia.

Description / Table of Contents: This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from a social and developmental perspective, raising questions concerning the interaction between indigenous peoples, governments and oil and gas companies

Description / Table of Contents: This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field. Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind. Without the geomagnetic field, for example, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible. And results from recent space missions to Mars and Venus strongly indicate that planetary magnetic fields play a vital role in preventing atmospheric erosion by the solar wind. However, very little is known about the underlying interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetic field. The book takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis, computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations

Description / Table of Contents: This book is a collection of ISRM suggested methods for testing or measuring properties of rocks and rock masses both in the laboratory and in situ, as well as for monitoring the performance of rock engineering structures. The first collection (Yellow Book) has been published in 1981. In order to provide access to all the Suggested Methods in one volume, the ISRM Blue Book was published in 2007 (by the ISRM via the Turkish National Group) and contains the complete set of Suggested Methods from 1974 to 2006 inclusive. The papers in this most recent volume have been published during the last seven years in international journals, mainly in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. They offer guidance for rock characterization procedures and laboratory and field testing and monitoring in rock engineering. These methods provide a definitive procedure for the identification, measurement and evaluation of one or more qualities, characteristics or properties of rocks or rock systems that produces a test result.

Description / Table of Contents: The Himalayas are a region that is most dependent, but also frequently prone to hazards from changing meltwater resources. This mountain belt hosts the highest mountain peaks on earth, has the largest reserve of ice outside the polar regions, and is home to a rapidly growing population in recent decades. One source of hazard has attracted scientific research in particular in the past two decades: glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) occurred rarely, but mostly with fatal and catastrophic consequences for downstream communities and infrastructure. Such GLOFs can suddenly release several million cubic meters of water from naturally impounded meltwater lakes. Glacial lakes have grown in number and size by ongoing glacial mass losses in the Himalayas. Theory holds that enhanced meltwater production may increase GLOF frequency, but has never been tested so far. The key challenge to test this notion are the high altitudes of 〉4000 m, at which lakes occur, making field work impractical. Moreover, flood waves can attenuate rapidly in mountain channels downstream, so that many GLOFs have likely gone unnoticed in past decades. Our knowledge on GLOFs is hence likely biased towards larger, destructive cases, which challenges a detailed quantification of their frequency and their response to atmospheric warming. Robustly quantifying the magnitude and frequency of GLOFs is essential for risk assessment and management along mountain rivers, not least to implement their return periods in building design codes. [...]

Description / Table of Contents: Precipitation as the central meteorological feature for agriculture, water security, and human well-being amongst others, has gained special attention ever since. Lack of precipitation may have devastating effects such as crop failure and water scarcity. Abundance of precipitation, on the other hand, may as well result in hazardous events such as flooding and again crop failure. Thus, great effort has been spent on tracking changes in precipitation and relating them to underlying processes. Particularly in the face of global warming and given the link between temperature and atmospheric water holding capacity, research is needed to understand the effect of climate change on precipitation. The present work aims at understanding past changes in precipitation and other meteorological variables. Trends were detected for various time periods and related to associated changes in large-scale atmospheric circulation. The results derived in this thesis may be used as the foundation for attributing changes in floods to climate change.…