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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Note: Beiträge in Deutsch und Englisch

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

Note: Contents: Plant-environment interactions across multiple scales -- Plant biodiversity and population dynamics -- Assembly of plant communities -- Plant pollination and dispersal -- Plant phenotypic expression in variable environments -- Evolutionary ecology of chemically mediated plant-insect interactions -- Plant-microbe interactions -- Patterns and controls of terrestrial primary production in a changing world -- Ecology of tropical rain forests -- Ecology of temperate forests -- Plants in deserts -- Plants in alpine environmnets -- Plants in arctic environments -- Grassland ecology -- Coastal wetland ecology and challenges for environmental management -- Near-coastal seagrass ecosystem -- Ecology of marine phytoplankton -- Plants in changing environmental conditions of the anthropocene -- Plant influences on atmospheric chemistry -- Biofuel development from cellulosic sources -- Plant ecology and sustainability science

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

Note: Analysing qualitative data-but how? -- The building blocks of systematic qualitative text analysis -- Basic concepts and the process of qualitative text analysis -- Three basic methods of qualitative twxt analysis -- Qualitative text analysis using computer assistance -- Quality standards, research report, and documentation -- Concluding remarks

Note: Contents: Introduction and Summary ; What Is a Disaster? An Economic Point of View ; Disaster Risks: Evidence and Theory ; Trends in Hazards and the Role of Climate Change ; Climate Change Impact on Natural Disaster Losses ; Methodologies for Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment ; Decision Making for Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate

Note: Contents: 1. Introduction: The Climate Change Problem and Solutions Part 1: Theory 2. The Basis of an Obligation Towards Future Generations in Justice and Ethics in the Context of Climate Change 3. Content of Justice-based Obligations Towards Future Generations in the Context of Climate Change Part II: International Law and Politics 4. Current International Law, Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change 5. International Human Rights Law, Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change 6. Climate Change Discources and Intergenerational Justice Part III: The Way Forward and Conclusion 7. The Way Forward – Incorporating Intergenerational Justice Principles into International Climate Law 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Note: 1. Introduction : high hopes and down-to-earth realism / Frans Oosterhuis and Patrick ten Brink2. A global survey of potentially environmentally harmful subsidies / Ronald Steenblik -- 3. Hidden subsidies : the invisible part of the EHS iceberg / Sirini Withana ... [et al.] -- 4. Can we recognise an environmentally harmful subsidy if we see one? / Jan Pieters -- 5. Quantifying the impacts of environmentally harmful subsidies / Cees van Beers and Jeroen van den Bergh -- 6. Energy subsidies / Frans Oosterhuis and Katharina Umpfenbach -- 7. Environmentally harmful subsidies in the transport sector / Laurent Franckx and Inge Mayeres -- 8. Agriculture, food and water / Frans Oosterhuis and Kris Bachus -- 9. Environmentally harmful subsidies and biodiversity / Patrick ten Brink ... [et al.] -- 10. Reforming EHS in Europe : success stories, failures and agenda setting / Jacqueline Cottrell -- 11. Phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies worldwide / Anja von Moltke -- 12. Reform of environmentally harmful subsidies : distributional issues / Annegrete Bruvoll and Haakon Vennemo -- 13. The way forward : reforming EHS in the transition to a green economy / Patrick ten Brink, Sirini Withana and Frans Oosterhuis..

Note: Contents: Preface ; Chapter 1: Knowledge Regimes and the National Origins of Policy Ideas ; Part I: The Political Economy of Knowledge Regimes ; Chapter 2: The Paradox of Partisanship in the United States ; Chapter 3: The Decline of Dirigisme in France ; Chapter 4: Coordination and Compromise in Germany ; Chapter 5: The Nature of Negotiation in Denmark ; Reprise: Initial Reflections on the National Cases ; Part II: Issues of Similarity and Impact ; Chapter 6: Limits of Convergence ; Chapter 7: Questions of Influence ; Part III: Conclusions ; Chapter 8: Summing Up and Normative Implications ; Postscript: An Agenda for Future Research ; Appendix: Research Design and Methods

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

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

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 Theories of Migration ; 3 How Migration Transforms Societies ; 4 International Migration before 1945 ; 5 Migration in Europe since 1945 ; 6 Migration in the Americas ; 7 Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region ; 8 Migration in Africa and the Middle East ;9 Migration, Security and the Debate on Climate Change ; 10 The State and International Migration: The Quest for Control ; 11 Migrants and Minorities in the Labour Force ; 12 New Ethnic Minorities and Society ; 13 Immigrants and Politics ; 14 Conclusion: Migration in the Twenty-First Century

Note: Contents: 1. Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung - Ein Überblick ; Teil 1 Grundlagen der empirischen Sozialforschung ; 2. Empirische Sozialforschung und soziologische Theorie ; 3. Forschungsethik ; 4. Informationelle Selbstbestimmung ; 5. Informationsquellen und Informationsaustausch ; 6. Forschungsdesigns für die qualitative Sozialforschung ; 7. Forschungsdesigns für die quantitative Sozialforschung ; 8. Mixed Methods ; 9. Evaluationsforschung ; 10. Marktforschung ; 11. Experiment ; 12. Simulation ; 13. Qualitative Daten für die Sekundäranalyse ; 14. Quantitative Daten für die Sekundäranalyse ; 15. Ergebnispräsentation in der qualitativen Forschung ; 16. Ergebnispräsentation in der quantitativen Forschung ; Teil 2 Stichproben, Datenaufbereitung und Güte ; 17. Stichprobenziehung in der qualitativen Sozialforschung ; 18. Stichprobenziehung in der quantitativen Sozialforschung ; 19. Pretest ; 20. Einstellungen zu Befragungen ; 21. Interviewereffekte ; 22. Fälschungen von Interviews ; 23. Unit- und Item-Nonresponse ; 24. Gewichtung ; 25. Paradaten ; 26. Data Fusion, Record Linkage und Data Mining ; 27. Datenaufbereitung und Datenbereinigung in der qualitativen Sozialforschung ; 28. Datenaufbereitung und Datenbereinigung in der quantitativen Sozialforschung ; 29. Gütekriterien qualitativer Sozialforschung ; 30. Gütekriterien quantitativer Sozialforschung ; 31. Total Survey Error ; Teil 3 Forschungsparadigmen in der qualitativen Sozialforschung ; 32. Grounded Theory und Theoretical Sampling ; 33. Sozialwissenschaftliche Hermeneutik und hermeneutische Wissenssoziologie ; 34. Diskursanalyse ; 35. Biographieforschung ; 36. Ethnographie ; 37. Einzelfallanalyse ; 38. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse ; Teil 4 Offene Befragung ; 39. Leitfaden- und Experteninterviews ; 40. Narratives Interview ; 41. Gruppendiskussion ; 42. DELPHI-Befragung ; 43. Journalistisches Interview ; Teil 5 Standardisierte Befragung ; 44. Grundlagen der standardisierten Befragung ; 45. Persönlich-mündliche Befragung ; 46. Telefonische Befragung ; 47. Schriftlich-postalische Befragung ; 48. Online-Befragung ; 49. Gesamtgestaltung des Fragebogens ; 50. Frageformulierung ; 51. Antwortskalen in standardisierten Befragungen ; 52. Offene Fragen ; 53. Vignetten ; 54. Soziodemographische Standards ; 55. Skalen und Indizes ; 56. Interkulturell vergleichende Umfragen ; 57. Mitarbeiterbefragungen ; 58. Befragungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen ; 59. Befragungen von älteren und alten Menschen ; 60. Befragung von Migranten ; 61. Befragung von speziellen Populationen ; Teil 6 Weitere Datentypen ; 62. Natürliche Daten: Dokumente ; 63. Literarische Quellen und persönliche Dokumente ; 64. Zeitungsartikel ; 65. Web Server Logs und Logfiles ; 66. Beobachtung ; 67. Unbewegte Bilder: Fotografien und Kunstgegenstände ; 68. Videographie ; 69. Filme ; 70. Gebrauchsgegenstände und technische Artefakte ; 71. Verwaltungsdaten und Daten der amtlichen Statistik ; 72. Aggregatdaten ; 73. Paneldaten für die Sozialforschung ; 74. Netzwerkdaten ; 75. Organisationsdaten ; 76. Räumliche Daten ; 77. Geodaten ; 78. Neurowissenschaftliche Daten ; Teil 7 Datenauswertung in der quantitativen Sozialforschung ; 79. Multivariate Datenanalyse ; 80. Kausalität ; 81. Indikatoren ; 82. Messung von sozialer Ungleichheit ; 83. Skalierungsverfahren ; 84. Zeitreihenanalyse ; 85. Längsschnittanalyse ; 86. Verlaufsdatenanalyse ; 87. Mehrebenenanalyse ; 88. Meta-Analyse

Note: Contents: Preface: Asset Management ; Part I: The Asset Owner ; Chapter 1: Asset Owners ; Chapter 2: Preferences ; Chapter 3: Mean-Variance Investing ; Chapter 4: Investing for the Long Run ; Chapter 5: Investing Over the Life Cycle ; Part II: Factor Risk Premiums ; Chapter 6: Factor Theory ; Chapter 7: Factors ; Chapter 8: Equities ; Chapter 9: Bonds ; Chapter 10: Alpha (and the Low Risk Anomaly) ; Chapter 11: "Real " Assets ; Chapter 12: Tax-Efficient Investing ; Chapter 13: Illiquid Assets ; Chapter 14: Factor Investing ; Part III: Delegated Portfolio Management ; Chapter 15: Delegated Investing ; Chapter 16: Mutual Funds and Other 40-Act Funds ; Chapter 17: Hedge Funds ; Chapter 18: Private Equity ; Afterword: Factor Management ; Appendix: Returns ; Acknowledgements ; Bibliography ; Index

Note: Contents: 1 The Chinese population at a historic turning point ; 2 Socioeconomic development as a determinant of demographic transitions ; 3 Socioeconomic impacts of demographic transition ; 4 A steady approach to adjusting the family planning policy ; 5 Investing in health ; 6 Improving education ; 7 Child development in rural areas ; 8 An overall planning approach to the issue of population mobility in the future development of urban and rural areas ; 9 Promoting gender equality ; 10 Stimulating development potential in an aging society ; 11 Capacity building for family development ; Policy proposals

Note: IntroductionTheorising Norms -- Theorising Crime -- Agent-based Modelling -- The Environment and Social Norms -- Punishment and Social Norms -- Imitation and Social Norms -- Socially Situated Social Norms -- Internalisation and Social Norms -- Modelling Norms -- Delinquent Networks -- Social Construction of Knowledge -- Morality -- We-Intentionality -- Conclusion -- Index..

Note: Problemanalyse und ÜberblickNeue Institutionen: Zukunftsräte -- Neue Institutionen: Ombudspersonen -- Ergänzungen und Alternativen: Ein Weltgerichtshof; Mehr Bürgerbeteiligung; Hoffnung auf die Dynamik der Verhandlungsrealitäten -- Ombudspersonen in Unternehmen?..

Note: Contents: Linear Control Systems ; The Dynamic Programming Approach ; Ellipsoidal Techniques: Reachability and Control Synthesis ; Solution Examples on Ellipsoidal Methods: Computation in High Dimensions ; The Comparison Principle: Nonlinearity and Nonconvexity ; Impulse Controls and Double Constraints ; Dynamics and Control Under State Constraints ; Trajectory Tubes State-Constrained Feedback Control ; Guaranteed State Estimation ; Uncertain Systems: Output Feedback Control ; Verification: Hybrid Systems

Note: PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Too Many Levels or Just About Right? Multilevel Governance and Environmental Performance ; PART II: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF WATER RESOURCES ; 3. Subsidiarity as a ‘Scaling Device’ in Environmental Governance: The Case of the European Union ; 4. Multilevel Governance and the Politics of Environmental Water Recoveries ; 5. Playing a Zero Sum Game: Sharing Water between Jurisdictions in Federations ; PART III: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION ; 6. Climate Governance in the European Union Multi-level System: The Role of the Cities ; 7. Bottom-up versus Top-down: The Evolving American Climate Policy Odyssey ; 8. Institutional Strength, Intergovernmental Relations, and National Climate Policy Coordination: Australia and Canada Compared ; 9. Allocating Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Amongst Sectors and Jurisdictions in Federated Systems: The European Union, Germany and Canada ; PART IV: FINDINGS ON EFFECTIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE PATTERNS ; 10. Ensuring the Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Law: From Supranational Lawmaking to Multilevel Enforcement ; 11. What is Multilevel Environmental Governance? When Does It Work?

Note: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; PART I. THE COMPLEXITY FRAME FOR POLICY; Chapter 1. Twin Peaks; Chapter 2. Government With, Not Versus, the Market; Chapter 3. I Pencil Revisited: Beyond Market Fundamentalism; Chapter 4. The Complexity Policy Frame; PART II. EXPLORING THE FOUNDATIONS; Chapter 5. How Economics Lost the Complexity Vision; Chapter 6. How Macroeconomics Lost the Complexity Vision; Chapter 7. Complexity: A New Kind of Science?; Chapter 8: A New Kind of Complexity Economics?; Chapter 9. Nudging toward a Complexity Policy Frame. , PART III. LAISSEZ-FAIRE ACTIVISM IN PRACTICEChapter 10. The Economics of Influence; Chapter 11. Implementing Influence Policy; Chapter 12. Laissez-Faire Activism; Chapter 13. Getting the Ecostructure of Government Right; PART IV. THE LOST AGENDA; Chapter 14. Getting the Ecostructure of Social Science Education Right; Chapter 15. The Lost Agenda; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Note: A theory of private authorityAgents of the state : a century of delegation in international environmental lawGovernors of the market : the evolution of entrepreneurial authorityAtmospheric police : delegated authority in the clean development mechanismAtmospheric accountants : entrepreneurial authority and the greenhouse gas protocol..

Note: Vorwort zur zweiten Auflage; Vorwort; Inhalt; Abkürzungen; Einführung; Teil I; Eine kurze Geschichte der Energiewende; Fukushima und Ausstieg (2011); Fundamente der Energiewende (1980 - 1998); EnWG und EEG (1998 - 2003); Emissionshandel und Energiepreise (2003 - 2008); Netzregulierung und EEG (2004 - 2008); Krise in Europa (2009 - 2012); Teil II; Die Zukunft der Energiewende; Standortbestimmung (2013); 2050: Energiewende; Fossile Primärenergien; Die Regenerativen; Energiesystem der Zukunft; Politik für die Energiewende; 1 Braunkohle und Erdgas; 2 Auslaufbetrieb der Kernenergie ; 3 Energieeffizienz ; 4 Emissionshandel ; 5 EEG Reform ; 6 Regulierung der Stromnetze ; 7 Strommarktgestaltung ; 8 Koordinierung der Energiewende ; Zusammenfassung.

Note: Contents: Contents: Foreword by Ed Glaeser ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Urban Economic Performance ; 3. Residential Segregation and People Sorting Within Cities ; 4. Planning for a Housing Crisis: Or the Alchemy by Which We Turn Houses into Gold ; 5. Planning and Economic Performance ; 6. Planning: Reforms that Might Work and Ones that Won’t ; 7. Devolution, City Governance and Economic Performance ; 8. Urban Policies ; 9. Conclusions ; Index

Note: Techn. Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: Scheel, Katrin: Der Briefwechsel von Richard Dedekind mit Heinrich Weber--Braunschweig, 2015 , Frontmatter -- Grußwort Geleitwort Vorwort des Herausgebers Danksagung Editionskriterien Abkürzungsverzeichnis Inhalt: 1. Einleitung 2. Richard Dedekind 3. Heinrich Weber 4. Briefwechsel Dedekind - Weber 5. Elise Riemann 6. Verlag B. G. Teubner 7. Karl Hattendorff 8. Hermann Amandus Schwarz 9. Friedrich Wöhler A. Verlagsverträge B.G.Teubner-Verlag B. Chronologisches Dokumentenverzeichnis C. Verzeichnis der Fundstellen D. Literaturverzeichnis zum Briefwechsel E. Kurzbiographien Literatur Personenindex..

Note: 1. Establishing geographies of the super-rich : axes for analysis of abundance / Iain Hay2. Economic wealth and political power in the second Gilded Age / John Rennie Short -- 3. Overseeing the fortunes of the global super-rich : the nature of private wealth management in London's financial district / Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Sarah J.E. Hall and Thomas Wainwright -- 4. 'The world needs a second Switzerland' : onshoring Singapore as the liveable city for the super-rich / Choon-Piew Pow -- 5. 'Super-rich' Irish property developers and the Celtic Tiger economy / Laurence Murphy and Pauline McGuirk -- 6. The homes of the super-rich : multiple residences, hyper-mobility and decoupling of prime residential housing in global cities / Chris Paris -- 7. A study of the dominance of the super-wealthy in London's West End during the nineteenth century / Kathryn Wilkins -- 8. The elite countryside : shifting rural geographies of the transnational super-rich / Michael Woods -- 9. The super-rich, horses and the transformation of the rural landscape in Kentucky / Susan M. Roberts and Richard H. Schein -- 10. The sport of kings, queens, sheikhs and the super-rich : thoroughbred breeding and racing as leisure for the super-rich / Phil McManus -- 11. Making art history -- wealthy private collectors and contemporary visual art / Melanie Fasche -- 12. Islanders, immigrants and millionaires : the dynamics of upper-class segregation in St. Barts, French West Indies / Bruno Cousin and Sébastien Chauvin..

Note: Contents: 1 The Computing Sciences ; 2 The Relational Approach ; 3 Implementation ; 4 Interaction ; 5 Relational Macrostructures and Analyses ; 6 Computing as a Great Scientific Domain ; 7 Conclusion

Note: Contents: Part I. Why Civil Resistance Works ; 1. The Success of Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns ; 2. The Primacy of Particpation in Nonviolent Resistance ; 3. Exploring Alternative Explanations for the Success of Civil Resistance ; Part II. Case Studies Introduction to the Case Studies ; 4. The Iranian Revolution, 1977–1979 ; 5. The First Palestinian Intifada, 1987–1992 ; 6. The Philippine People Power Movement, 1983–1986 ; 7. Why Civil Resistance Sometimes Fails: The Burmese Uprising, 1988–1990 ; Case Study Summary ; Part III. The Implications of Civil Resistance ; 8. After the Campaign: The Consequences of Violent and Nonviolent Resistance ; 9. Conclusion ; Epilogue

Note: On the surface: symptoms of death and rebirthStructure: systemic disconnects -- Transforming thought: the matrix of economic evolution -- Source: connecting to intention and awareness -- Leading the personal inversion: from me to we -- Leading the relational inversion: from ego to eco -- Leading the institutional inversion: toward eco-system economies -- Leading from the emerging future: now..

Note: Contents: Preface ; 1. Introduction: It is the Only One We Have ; 2. Planet Accounts ; Part I: Short-term Fluctuations and Demand Management ; 3. Earth’s Business Cycle ; 4. Why I = S and What That Means: The Building Blocks of Macroeconomic Analysis ; 5. Investment, the IS Curve, and Product Market Equilibrium ; 6. What About Government? ; 7. Money Matters! The LM Curve and Money Market Equilibrium ; 8. Eartheconomic Demand and Supply ; 9. Puzzling Disagreements ; Part II: Long Run ; 10. Long-Run Growth ; 11. Development and Change , 12. Limits to Growth? ; Part III: Earth Governance and Global Public Goods ; 13. Global Public Goods ; 14. Global Peers: An Agenda ; References ; Index

Note: Contents: Introduction -- Python programming for physicists -- Graphics and visualization -- Accuracy and speed -- Integrals and derivatives -- Solution of linear and nonlinear equations -- Fourier transforms -- Ordinary differential equations -- Partial differential equations -- Random processes and Monte Carlo methods -- Using what you have learned -- Appendices -- Index..

Note: Contents: 1 Einführung ; 2 Einige spieltheoretische Grundlagen der Analyse ; 3 Theorie externer Effekte ; 4 Auflagen ; 5 Steuern und Abgaben (Preislösungen) ; 6 Zertifikate ; 7 Verhandlungslösungen ; 8 Umwelthaftung ; 9 Umwelttechnischer Fortschritt (dynamische Anreizwirkungen) ; 10 Internationale Aspekte des Umweltproblems ; 11 Umweltpolitik bei asymmetrischer Informationsverteilung ; 12 Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse ; 13 Ressourcenökonomie