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Note: 1. Personal beginningsPart I. The Changing Arctic -- 2. The Arctic Messenger -- Part II. Working Together -- 3. The Arctic Messenger gains a voice : the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme -- Part III. What Is the Present State of Knowledge? -- 4. Radioactivity -- 5. Heroic efforts -- 6. Acidification and Arctic haze -- 7. Stratospheric ozone depletion -- 8. Persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals (including mercury) -- 9. Conducting marine science in the Arctic -- 10. Climate change in the Arctic -- Part IV. What Does This All Mean? -- 11. Thoughts on education, the training of Arctic scientists and Arctic research -- 12. The long and short of it : has the Arctic message been noticed? -- 13. Epilogue: keeping the Rovaniemi flame alive..

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction. - 2 Basic Physical Properties of Soil. - 2.1 Geometry of the Soil Matrix. - 2.2 Soil Structure. - 2.3 Fractal Geometry. - 2.4 Geometry of the Pore Space. - 2.5 Specific Surface Area. - 2.6 Averaging. - 2.7 Bulk Density, Water Content and Porosity. - 2.8 Relationships between Variables. - 2.9 Typical Values of Physical Properties. - 2.10 Volumes and Volumetric Fractions for a Soil Prism. - 2.11 Soil Solid Phase. - 2.12 Soil Texture. - 2.13 Sedimentation Law. - 2.14 Exercises. - 3 Soil Gas Phase and Gas Diffusion. - 3.1 Transport Equations. - 3.2 The Diffiisivity of Gases in Soil. - 3.3 Computing Gas Concentrations. - 3.4 Simulating One-Dimensional Steady-State Oxygen Diffusion in a Soil Profile. - 3.5 Numerical Implementation. - 3.6 Exercises. - 4 Soil Temperature and Heat Flow. - 4.1 Differential Equations for Heat Conduction. - 4.2 Soil Temperature Data. - 4.3 Numerical Solution of the Heat Flow Equation. - 4.4 Soil Thermal Properties. - 4.5 Numerical Implementation. - 4.6 Exercises. - 5 Soil Liquid Phase and Soil-Water Interactions. - 5.1 Properties of Water. - 5.2 Soil Water Potential. - 5.3 Water Potential-Water Content Relations. - 5.4 Liquid- and Vapour-Phase Equilibrium. - 5.5 Exercises. - 6 Steady-State Water Flow and Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.1 Forces on Water in Porous Media. - 6.2 Water Flow in Saturated Soils. - 6.3 Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.4 Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.5 Exercises. - 7 Variation in Soil Properties. - 7.1 Frequency Distributions. - 7.2 Probability Density Functions. - 7.3 Transformations. - 7.4 Spatial Correlation. - 7.5 Approaches to Stochastic Modelling. - 7.6 Numerical Implementation. - 7.7 Exercises. - 8 Transient Water Flow. - 8.1 Mass Conservation Equation. - 8.2 Water Flow. - 8.3 Infiltration. - 8.4 Numerical Simulation of Infiltration. - 8.5 Numerical Implementation. - 8.6 Exercises. - 9 Triangulated Irregular Network. - 9.1 Digital Terrain Model. - 9.2 Triangulated Irregular Network. - 9.3 Numerical Implementation. - 9.4 Main. - 9.5 Triangulation. - 9.6 GIS Functions. - 9.7 Boundary. - 9.8 Geometrical Properties of Triangles. - 9.9 Delaunay Triangulation. - 9.10 Refinement. - 9.11 Utilities. - 9.12 Visualization. - 9.13 Exercise. - 10 Water Flow in Three Dimensions. - 10.1 Governing Equations. - 10.2 Numerical Formulation. - 10.3 Coupling Surface and Subsurface Flow. - 10.4 Numerical Implementation. - 10.5 Simulation. - 10.6 Visualization and Results. - 10.7 Exercises. - 11 Evaporation. - 11.1 General Concepts. - 11.2 Simultaneous Transport of Liquid and Vapour in Isothermal Soil. - 11.3 Modelling evaporation. - 11.4 Numerical Implementation. - 11.5 Exercises. - 12 Modelling Coupled Transport. - 12.1 Transport Equations. - 12.2 Partial Differential Equations. - 12.3 Surface Boundary Conditions. - 12.4 Numerical Implementation. - 12.5 Exercises. - 13 Solute Transport in Soils. - 13.1 Mass Flow. - 13.2 Diffusion. - 13.3 Hydrodynamic Dispersion. - 13.4 Advection-Dispersion Equation. - 13.5 Solute-Soil Interaction. - 13.6 Sources and Sinks of Solutes. - 13.7 Analytical Solutions. - 13.8 Numerical Solution. - 13.9 Numerical Implementation. - 13.10 Exercises. - 14 Transpiration and Plant-Water Relations. - 14.1 Soil Water Content and Soil Water Potential under a Vegetated Surface. - 14.2 General Features of Water Flow in the SPAC. - 14.3 Resistances to Water Flow within the Plant. - 14.4 Effect of Environment on Plant Resistance. - 14.5 Detailed Consideration of Soil and Root Resistances. - 14.6 Numerical Implementation. - 14.7 Exercises. - 15 Atmospheric Boundary Conditions. - 15.1 Radiation Balance at the Exchange Surface. - 15.2 Boundary-Layer Conductance for Heat and Water Vapour. - 15.3 Evapotranspiration and the Penman-Monteith Equation. - 15.4 Partitioning of Evapotranspiration. - 15.5 Exercise. - Appendix A: Basic Concepts and Examples of Python Programming. - A.1 Basic Python. - A.2 Basic Concepts of Computer Programming. - A.3 Data Representation: Variables. - A.4 Comments Rules and Indendation. - A.5 Arithmetic Expression. - A.6 Functions. - A.7 Flow Control. - A.8 File Input and Output. - A.9 Arrays. - A.10 Reading Date Time. - A.11 Object-Oriented Programming in Python. - A.12 Output and Visualization. - A.13 Exercises. - Appendix B: Computational Tools. - B.1 Numerical Differentiation. - B.2 Numerical Integration. - B.3 Linear Algebra. - B.4 Exercises. - List of Symbols. - List of Python Variables. - List of Python Projects. - References. - Index.

Note: Contents: Part I: Introduction to Grounded Theory of Anselm Strauss ; Chapter 1: Inspiration and Background ; Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations ; Chapter 3: Practical Considerations for Getting Started ; Chapter 4: Prelude to Analysis ; Chapter 5: Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis ; Chapter 6: Memos and Diagrams ; Chapter 7: Theoretical Sampling ; Chapter 8: Context ; Chapter 9: Process ; Chapter 10: Techniques for Achieving Theoretical Integration ; Chapter 11: The Use of Computer Programs in Qualitative Data Analysis ; Part II: Research Demonstration Project ; Chapter 12 Open Coding: Identifying Concepts ; Chapter 13: Developing Concepts in Terms of Their Properties and Dimensions ; Chapter 14: Analyzing Data for Context ; Chapter 15: Bringing Process Into the Analysis ; Chapter 16: Integrating Categories ; Part III: Finishing the Research Project ; Chapter 17: Writing Theses, Monographs, and Dissertations, and Giving Talks About Your Research ; Chapter 18: Criteria for Evaluation ; Chapter 19: Student Questions and Answers

Note: Debunking revisionist understandings of environmental cooperative federalism : collective action responses to air pollution / Robert L. Glicksman and Jessica A. Wentz -- Dynamic federalism and the Clean Water Act : completing the task / William L. Andreen -- CERCLA, federalism, and common law claims / Alexandra B. Klass and Emma Fazio -- Fragmented forest federalism / Blake Hudson -- Coordinating the overlapping regulation of biodiversity and ecosystem management / Kalyani Robbins -- Evolving energy federalism : current allocations of authority and the need for inclusive governance / Hanna J. Wiseman -- Climate federalism, regulatory failure and reversal risks, and entrenching innovation incentives / William W. Buzbee -- The enigma of state climate change policy innovations / Kirsten H. Engel -- Cooperative federalism and adaptation / Alice Kaswan -- Reverse preemption in federal water law / Ann E. Carlson -- The cost of federalism : ecology, community, and the pragmatism of land use / Keith H. Hirokawa and Jonathan Rosenbloom -- The Australian experience with environmental federalism : constitutional and political perspectives / Robert Fowler -- German environmental federalism in the multilevel system of the European Union / Nathalie Behnke and Annegret Eppler -- The paradox of environmental federalism in India / Sairam Bhat -- Environmental federalism's tug of war within / Erin Ryan.

Note: Contents: 1. World at a Tipping Point 2. Framing Earth Governance 3. Commons 4. The Global Commons 5. Trusteeship 6. State as Environmental Trustee 7. Trusteeship and the United Nations 8. Institutionalizing Trusteeship for the Global Commons Conclusion: There is Another Way Bibliography Index

Note: Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction and State-of-the-Art ; EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, MIGRATION AND ADAPTATION ; Chapter 2 Environment, Political Economies and Livelihood Change ; Chapter 3 Riverbank Erosion and Migration In Bangladesh's Char Lands ; Chapter 4 No more famines? Food Security and Migration in Times of Climate Change ; Chapter 5 Climate Change, Hunger or Social Inequality - Which one drives Migration? ; Chapter 6 Translocal Livelihoods and Labor Migration Systems in Bangladesh ; Chapter 7 Cyclone-Induced Migration in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh ; Chapter 8 Displacement and Migration from Cyclone-affected Coastal Areas ; Chapter 9 Environmental Migration, Adaptation, and Gender Relations: A study in Dhaka ; Chapter 10 Coping with Flood Risks: Microcredit versus Micro-insurance ; POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, MIGRATION AND ADAPTATION ; Chapter 11 Climate-induced Migration and interdependent Vulnerabilities between Bangladesh and India ; Chapter 12 Local Experts' Perceptions of Climate Change and Migration in Bangladesh ; Chapter 13 Governing Environmentally-Related Migration: Mobility, Rights, and the Causality Problem ; Chapter 14 Civil Society Organizations and Climate Change Policy Formulation in Bangladesh ; Chapter 15 Exploring Legal and Policy Avenues for dealing with Climate-Induced Migration ; Chapter 16 Bangladesh's Role in International Negotiations on Climate Refugees ; Chapter 17 Reflections

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Note: Trading a livable worldPower shift -- Beyond the north-south divide? -- Manufacturing consent -- The politics of adaptation -- The staying power of big fossil -- Society too civil? -- Contesting climate injustice -- Power in a future world -- Linking movements for justice..

Note: Contents: Part I. Getting Started: 1. What is 'Markets and Strategies'? ; 2. Firms, consumers and the market ; Part II. Market Power: 3. Static imperfect competition ; 4. Dynamic aspects of imperfect competition ; Part III. Sources of Market Power: 5. Product differentiation ; 6. Advertising and related market strategies ; 7. Consumer inertia ; Part IV. Pricing Strategies and Market Segmentation: 8. Group pricing and personalized pricing ; 9. Menu pricing ; 10. Intertemporal price discrimination ; 11. Bundling ; Part V. Product Quality and Information: 12. Asymmetric information, price and advertising signals ; 13. Marketing tools for experience goods ; Part VI. Theory of Competition Policy: 14. Cartels and tacit collusion ; 15. Horizontal mergers ; 16. Strategic incumbents and entry ; 17. Vertically related markets ; Part VII. R&D and Intellectual Property: 18. Innovation and R&D ; 19. Intellectual property ; Part VIII. Networks, Standards and Systems: 20. Markets with network goods ; 21. Strategies for network goods ; Part IX. Market Intermediation: 22. Markets with intermediated goods ; 23. Information and reputation in intermediated product markets ; Appendix A. Game theory ; Appendix B. Competition policy

Note: Contents: I Ausgangslage: Besonderheiten des Kontexts Wissenschaft und PersonalauswahlHerausforderungen der Personalauswahl in der Wissenschaft: Berufungsverfahren an deutschen Universitäten -- Geschlecht und Personalauswahl an Hochschulen und außerhochschulischen Forschungseinrichtungen -- Chancengleichheit durch professionelle Personalauswahl in der Wissenschaft -- II Handlungsempfehlungen zur Personalauswahl an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - idealtypischer Prozess -- Anforderungsanalyse für offene Positionen in der Wissenschaft -- Passende Talente ansprechen - Rekrutierung und Gestaltung von Stellenausschreibungen -- Sichtung von Bewerbungsunterlagen -- Arbeitsproben -- Einsatz strukturierter Interviewtechniken bei der Auswahl von Wissenschaftler_innen -- Entscheidungsfindung -- Onboarding und Führung in den ersten 100 Tagen -- III Handlungsempfehlungen zur Personalauswahl an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - Professor_innen -- Professor_innenauswahl in universitären Berufungsverfahren: Idealtypische Gestaltung auf Basis der wissenschaftlichen Personalforschung -- Myths about Meritocracy and Transparency: The Role of Gender in Academic Recruitment -- Die ideale Berufungsverhandlung -- IV Good Practice: Standards und Projekte an Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen im deutschsprachigen Raum -- Die Besten finden, die Besten binden - Effektives Personalmanagement an der RWTH Aachen University -- Professionelles Berufungsmanagement an der TUM -- Wissenschaft und Transfer in einem Job geht nicht? Doch! - Personalauswahl bei Fraunhofer.- Systematische Personalauswahl über differenzierte Anforderungsprofile und strukturierte Interviews -- Aktive Rekrutierung von Wissenschaftlerinnen als Bestandteil eines wertschätzenden Berufungsmanagements an der Universität Konstanz -- Assessment Center in Berufungsverfahren der Universität Bremen -- Eignungsinterview - Drei Werkzeugkästen: das EOG, die TAToo und das DIPA -- Searching for Excellence & Diversity® Workshop: Improving Faculty Diversity by Educating Faculty Search Committees. , Beitr. überw. dt.; teilw. engl.

Note: Prologue: autumn aromaWhat's left? -- Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale -- Interlude: smelling -- After progress : salvage accumulation -- Working the edge "freedom" -- Open ticket, Oregon -- War stories -- What happened to the state? : two kinds of Asian Americans in translation -- Between the dollar and the yen -- From gifts to commodities and back -- Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance -- Interlude: tracking -- Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design -- The life of the forest : coming up among pines -- History -- Resurgence -- Serendipity -- Ruin in gaps and patches -- In science as translation -- Flying spores -- Interlude: dancing -- In the middle of things -- Matsutake crusaders -- Ordinary assets -- Anti-ending : some people I met along the way -- Spore trail: the further adventures of a mushroom -- Notes -- Index..

Note: The present and future of rock testing: highlighting the ISRM suggested methods Laboratory testing Suggested method for determination of the Schmidt Hammer rebound hardness: revised version Suggested methods for determining the dynamic strength parameters and mode-I fracture toughness of rock materials Suggested method for the determination of mode II fracture toughness Suggested method for reporting rock laboratory test data in electronic format Upgraded suggested method for determining sound velocity by ultrasonic pulse transmission technique Suggested method for determining the abrasivity of rock by the Cerchar Abrasivity test Suggested method for determining the mode I static fracture toughness using semi-circular bend specimen Suggested methods for determining the creep characteristics of rock Suggested method for laboratory determination of the shear strength of rock joints: revised version Suggested method for the needle penetration test Field testing Suggested method for rock fractures observations using a borehole digital optical televiewer Suggested method for measuring rock mass displacement using a sliding micrometer Suggested method for step-rate injection method for fracture in-situ properties (SIMFIP): Using a 3-Components Borehole Deformation Sensor Suggested Methods for rock stress estimation—Establishing a model for the in situ stress at a given site Monitoring Suggested method for monitoring rock displacements using the global positioning system (GPS) Suggested methods for rock failure criteria: general introduction Introduction to suggested methods for failure criteria Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion The Hoek–Brown failure criterion Three-dimensional failure criteria based on the Hoek–Brown criterion Drucker-Prager criterion Lade and modified Lade 3D rock strength criteria A failure criterion for rocks based on true triaxial testing A survey of 3D laser scanning techniques for application to rock mechanics and rock engineering

Note: Contents: 1. Introduction and summary, 2. Resource use in an urbanizing world, 3. Agropolis – the city in its local landscape, 4. Living in Petropolis, 5. Cities and entropy, 6. The urban metabolism, 7. From Petropolis to Ecopolis, 8. Case studies

Note: Contents: Introduction / Lisa Early, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Marie Russell, Anna Hamer Adams & Jenny Ombler -- Auckland / Guy Salmon -- Hamilton / Marie Russell, Lisa Early, Jenny Ombler & Anna Hamer-Adams -- Wellington / Marie Russell, Lisa Early, Anna Hamer-Adams & Jenny Ombler -- Christchurch / Guy Salmon -- Dunedin / Marie Russell, Lisa Early, Jenny Ombler & Anna Hamer-Adams -- Survey of sentiments about cities / Philippa Howden-Chapman, Anna Hamer-Adams, Ed Randal, Ralph Chapman, Guy Salmon -- What shapes our cities? / Lisa Early, Marie Russell, Geoff Fougere & Philippa Howden-Chapman.

Note: Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2015 , Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abstract Zusammenfassung List of figures and tables List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1. Preface and thesis organization 1.2. Research motivation and relevance 1.3. Background knowledge 1.3.1. Terrigenous sediments 1.3.2. Hala Lake 1.3.3. The North Pacific 1.3.4. The Bering Sea 1.4. Aims and objectives 1.5. Methodological overview 1.5.1. Fieldwork 1.5.2. Age-depth modeling 1.5.3. Key proxies: grain size and clay minerals 1.5.4. Supplementary methodology: remote sensing, seismic sub-bottom profiling and geochemistry 1.6. Overview and status of the manuscripts 2 Manuscript 1 : Linkages between Quaternary climate change and sedimentary processes in Hala Lake, northern Tibetan Plateau, China Abstract 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Regional setting 2.3. Materials and methods 2.3.1. Remote sensing of the study area 2.3.2. Fieldwork 2.3.3. Radiocarbon dating of recovered sediment cores 2.3.4. Laboratory work 2.3.5. Statistical data treatment 2.4. Results and interpretation 2.4.1. Remote sensing on the spatial heterogeneity of lake ice and length of lake ice-free days 2.4.2. Seismic sub-bottom profiling 2.4.3. Age and sedimentary characteristics of the sediment core record 2.4.4. Grain-size modeling results 2.5. Discussion 2.5.1. Last Glacial Maximum (~24-17 cal. ka BP) 2.5.2. Time-equivalent of Heinrich Event 1 (~17-15.4 cal. ka BP) 2.5.3. Time-equivalent of Bolling-Allerod (~15.4-13 cal. ka BP) 2.5.4. Time-equivalent of Younger Dryas (~12.9-11.6 cal. ka BP) 2.5.5. Holocene (~11.6 cal. ka BP to present) 2.6. Conclusions Acknowledgments 3 Manuscript 2: Modern modes of provenance and dispersal of terrigenous sediments in the North Pacific and the Bering Sea: Implications and perspectives for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions Abstract 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Study area and regional setting 3.3. Material and methods 3.4. Results 3.4.1. Grain size distribution 3.4.2 Bulk mineralogy 3.4.3. Mineralogy of the clay fraction 3.5. Discussion 3.5.1. Sedimentary processes 3.5.2. Sediment provenance 3.5.3 Implications for palaeoenvironmental studies 3.6. Conclusions Acknowledgements 4 Manuscript 3: Provenance and dispersal of terrigenous sediments in the Bering Sea slope: Implications for late glacial land-ocean linkages Abstract 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Regional setting 4.3. Material and methods 4.4. Results and interpretation 4.4.1. Lithology and stratigraphy 4.4.2. Grain size distribution 4.4.3. Clay mineralogy 4.5. Discussion 4.5.1. Processes of terrigenous sediment supply 4.5.2. Detrital sediment sources 4.5.3. Detrital sediment supply and its relation to regionalpalaeoenvironmental changes 4.5.3.1. Time interval 32-15.7 ka BP: Background sedimentation at low sea level 4.5.3.2. Time interval 15.7-14.5 ka BP: Regional Meltwater Pulse 4.5.3.3. Time interval 14.5-12.9 ka BP: First biological bloom event 4.5.3.4. Time interval 12.9-6 ka BP: Cooling episode, rejuvenation of biological productivity and onset ofmodern conditions 4.5.4. Palaeoenvironmental implications 4.6. Conclusions Acknowledgements 5 Synthesis 5.1. The North Hemisphere synchronization of millennial climate oscillations during the last Glacial: teleconnections from Westerlies and thermohaline Circulation 5.2. The regional asynchronization of millennial climate oscillations during the last Glacial: discrepancy and "recording capacity" 5.3. Secondary connections between global climate transmissions: winter cyclone in the North Pacific 5.4. Future perspectives 6 References 7 Appendix Extended results: Core SO202-39-3 from the mid-latitude North Pacific 7.1. Material 7.2. Results 7.3. Oscillation of eolian sediment transport 7.4. Conclusions

Note: Introduction -- Procedures and criteria for the definition of Global Heritage Stone Resources -- The 'Global Heritage Stone Resource' designation: past, present and future -- Global stone heritage: Larvikite, Norway -- The Hallandia gneiss, a Swedish heritage stone resource -- The Kolmården serpentine marble in Sweden: a stone found both in castles and peoples homes -- Global Heritage Stone: Estremoz Marbles, Portugal -- Contribution of Portuguese two-mica granites to stone built heritage: the historical value of Oporto granite -- Piedra Pajarilla: a candidacy as a global heritage stone resource for Martinamor granite -- The Sierra Nevada serpentinites: the serpentinites most used in Spanish heritage buildings -- Villamayor Stone (Golden Stone) as a Global Heritage Stone Resource from Salamanca (NW of Spain) -- Colmenar Limestone, Madrid, Spain: considerations for its nomination as a Global Heritage Stone Resource due to its long term durability -- Carrara Marble: a nomination for Global Heritage Stone Resource from Italy -- Rosa Beta granite (Sardinian Pink Granite): a heritage stone of international significance from Italy -- Pietra Serena: the stone of the Renaissance -- Ornamental stones of the Verbano Cusio Ossola quarry district: characterization of materials, quarrying techniques and history and relevance to local and national heritage -- Stone materials used for monumental buildings in the historical centre of Turin (NW Italy): architectonical survey and petrographic characterization of Via Roma -- Podpec limestone: a heritage stone from Slovenia -- Stone heritage in Southeast Slovenia -- Ornamental stone in the history of St Petersburg architecture -- Natural stone in the built heritage of the interior of Brazil: the use of stone in Minas Gerais -- Piedra Mar del Plata: An Argentine orthoquartzite worthy of being considered as a Global Heritage Stone Resource..

Note: On the Role of Financial Markets and Institutions -- The Challenges of Asset Pricing: A Road Map -- Making Choices in Risky Situations -- Measuring Risk and Risk Aversion -- Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part 1 -- Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part II: Modern Portfolio Theory -- Risk Aversion and Investment Decisions, Part III: Challenges to Implementation -- The Capital Asset Pricing Model -- Arrow{u2013}Debreu Pricing, Part I -- The Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model -- Arrow{u2013}Debreu Pricing, Part II -- The Martingale Measure: Part I -- The Martingale Measure: Part II -- The Arbitrage Pricing Theory -- Portfolio Management in the Long Run -- Financial Structure and Firm Valuation in Incomplete Markets -- Financial Equilibrium with Differential Information.

Note: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; PART I Introduction; 1. Changing regulatory arrangements in food governance; 2. Conceptualizing regulatory arrangements: Complex networks and regulatory roles; PART II Public policy responses to food safety challenges; 3. Regulation of food safety in the EU: Explaining organizational diversity among Member States; 4. Buying biosecurity: UK compensation for animal diseases; 5. Being well fed: Food safety regimes in China. , 6. The political economy of Chinese food safety regulation: Distributing adulterated milk powder in mainland China and TaiwanPART III New forms of private food governance; 7. Authority and legitimacy in governing global food chains; 8. The effectiveness of private food governance in fostering sustainable development; 9. Food quality through networks in the European wine industry; 10. Markets regulating markets: Competitive private regulation by halal certificates; PART IV How public and private regulation meet. , 11. Are we being served? The relationship between public and private food safety regulation12. Between public and private requirements: Challenges and opportunities for the export of tropical fruits from developing countries to the EU; 13. The meta-governance of co-regulation: Safeguarding the quality of Dutch eggs; Index.

Note: Introduction: human-environment dynamics in the high-mountain cryosphere; References; Part I Global drivers; 2 Influence of climate variability and large-scale circulation on the mountain cryosphere; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 European mountains; 2.3 North American Cordillera; 2.4 Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding high-mountain ranges; 2.5 The tropical Andes; 2.6 Mt. Kilimanjaro: a case study from East Africa; 2.7 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References. 3 Temperature, precipitation and related extremes in mountain areas3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Basic characteristics of near surface temperature in mountain topography; 3.2.1 Altitude dependence of 2m temperature; 3.2.2 Altitude dependence of daily temperature anomalies; 3.2.3 The relation between surface air pressure and 2m temperature; 3.3 Temperature extremes; 3.4 Precipitation patterns in mountain areas; 3.4.1 Measuring and monitoring precipitation; 3.5 Precipitation extremes; 3.5.1 Selected gridded data products; 3.5.1.1 Reanalyses; 3.5.1.2 Combined observations. 3.5.1.3 Interpolated rain-gauge station data3.5.2 Comparison and discussion of the gridded data products; 3.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Snow and avalanches; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Snow cover; 4.1.2 Snow avalanche hazard and risk; 4.2 Environmental change; 4.2.1 Climate change and mountain snow cover; 4.2.2 Effects on snow avalanches; 4.3 Socio-economic change; 4.3.1 Drivers of socio-economic change; 4.3.2 Effects on snow avalanche risk; 4.3.2.1 Temporal dynamics of socio-economic changes; 4.3.2.2 Spatial dynamics of socio-economic changes; 4.4 Conclusions; References. 5 The frozen frontier: the extractives super cycle in a time of glacier recession5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The icy edge of climate change; 5.3 The icy edge of the global extractives super cycle; 5.4 New mountains of mines and the frozen north; 5.5 Extending the extractives complex into the cryosphere; 5.6 Liquid relations and stratified societies; 5.7 The frigid fringe: extractive bio-futures and the freezing depths; 5.8 Conclusion; References; 6 Cultural values of glaciers; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Three cases in the Alps, the Andes, and the North Cascades. 6.3 Understanding the cultural values of glaciers6.4 Case study 1: Stilfs, South Tirol, Italian Alps; 6.4.1 The role of glaciers for community, identity, and self-reliance in Stilfs; 6.5 Case study 2: Siete Imperios, Cordillera Blanca, Peru; 6.5.1 The role of glaciers and mountains for community, identity, and self-reliance in Siete Imperios; 6.6 Case study 3: Glacier and Concrete, North Cascades, USA; 6.6.1 The role of glaciers and mountains for community, identity, and self-reliance in Glacier and Concrete; 6.7 Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Part II Processes. 7 Implications for hazard and risk of seismic and volcanic responses to climate change in the high-mountain cryosphere.

Note: The reasoning of the Court -- Procedural aspects -- Civil and political rights -- Economic, social, and cultural rights -- Reparations and provisional measures -- Enforced disappearances and amnesty laws -- Groups in vulnerability -- The Court and national judges and tribunals -- Interaction between the Inter-American Court and other international courts -- Reforming the inter-American system..

Note: Contents Preface Introduction Helgoland - Treasure trove of species Sylt - Changing tidal flats in a world heritage site Polar Regions - key areas for climate processes Plankton à la carte Plankton and the "extra portion" Forwards, but backwards into the past North Sea in the fast lane of change Vibrios like it hot Detective work in the microcosm Melting glaciers and turbid waters Thawing permafrost comes alive Arctic coasts in retreat A stroll through the underwater forest Mathematical evaluation of the tidal flat menu Let's dive in! Research scientists pay a visit Marine research goes on TV Meeting public needs: Advice and support

Note: Introduction : a focus on migrant inclusion and the politics of immigration and asylum in EuropeThe nation-state and NGOo political activity -- Domestic opportunities and constraints -- Cooperation along two dimensions : public visibility and intensity of commitment -- Asymmetries within the movement : the provision and receipt of less publicly visible movement "goods" -- Cooperation within the state : publicly visible campaigns and common projects -- Cooperation beyond the state : transnational activism in the public realm -- NGOs as multilevel actors : toward a more complete understanding..

Note: The argument : how negotiation management alters multilateral cooperation -- The fall and rise of climate negotiations : from copenhagen to Cancún -- Negotiation management during the Danish and Mexican presidencies -- Explanations of climate outcomes beyond negotiation management -- Trade negotiations : the bedevilled launch of the doha development agenda -- Biosafety negotiations : the rocky path to the cartagena protocol -- Conclusion..

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Note: Zugleich: Dissertation, Stockholm University, 2015 , Contents Abstract Zusammenfassung Sammanfattning List of Papers Author’s contribution 1 Introduction 2 Sea ice as part of the global climate system 2.1 The global climate system 2.2 Sea-ice characteristics 3 Methodology 3.1 Atmospheric reanalyses 3.2 Global climate models 4 Changes of the sea-ice cover 4.1 Long-term changes of the sea-ice cover 4.2 Inter-annual sea-ice variability 5 Conclusions and Outlook Acknowledgements References

Note: Introduction: heritage and climate change: the future is not the past , Narratives of change on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site , Heritage and climate change: a fatal affair , Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the weather memory bank , Diverse epistemic traditions in transformative climate change research and adaptation: heritage and legacy , "We now have a name for some of the big changes happening on our bubu [country]": the role of indigenous knowledge for the management of cultural landscapes in a changing climate: a case study of the Kuku Nyungkal people from the Queensland Wet Tropics, Australia , Climate change and the changing nature of conservation , Historical chestnut cultures, climate and rural landscapes in the Apennines , Part II. Creative responses to heritage and climate change relations: processes, policies and possibilities ; Heritage and climate change: organizational conflicts and conundrums , Heritage development and community resilience: insights for the era of climate change , Strategies for coping with the wicked problem of climate change: a natural heritage perspective , Buffer mechanisms for managing diversity and world heritage in the Cape Floral Region (South Africa) , "From dust to dust": earth buildings, process and change , Relationships between climate change and built heritage: the case of dense urban cities in Hong Kong and China , Taking the middle path to the coast: how community collaboration can help save threatened sites , Conclusion: valuing the ever-changing past

Note: IntroductionMethodology of Seismic Tomography -- Subduction Zone Tomography -- Large Earthquakes and Seismotectonics -- Hotspots and Mantle Plumes -- East Asia Structure and Tectonics -- Global Tomography and Deep Earth dynamics -- Seismic Tomography of the Moon..

Note: Geotechnical damage in the downstream reaches of the Tone river in the 2011 East Japan EarthquakeAmplification Effects of Thin Soft Surface Layers: A Study for NBCC 2015 -- New design spectra in Eurocode 8 and preliminary application to the seismic risk of Thessaloniki, Greece -- Incorporating Site Response into Seismic Hazard Assessments for Critical Facilities: A Probabilistic Approach -- Stress Scaling Factors For Seismic Soil Liquefaction Engineering Problems: A Performance-Based Approach -- Site amplification formula using Average Vs in equivalent surface layer based on vertical array strong motion records -- Observations from Istanbul vertical arrays and site specific response analysis -- Combined failure mechanism of a breakwater subject to Tsunami during 2011 East Japan Earthquake -- Lessons Learned From Dams Behavior Under Recent Earthquakes -- Nonlinear dynamic analyses of liquefaction effects on dams -- The Effects of Liquefaction on Earthquake Ground Motions -- Shaking model tests on liquefaction mitigation of embedded lifeline -- Effect of Long Duration of the Main Shock and a Big Aftershock on the Liquefaction-Induced Damage During the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake -- Liquefaction Observed During the 2010 Chile Earthquake -- A Case Study of Silty Sand Liquefaction- 2010 Hsin Hwa Liquefaction in Taiwan -- Post-earthquake analysis for a seismic retrofitting: the case history of a piled foundation in Augusta (Italy) -- Pile design in laterally spreading soil: Feedback from numerical predictions and model test results -- Integrating use of Swedish weight sounding tests for earthquake reconnaissance investigations..

Note: Part I. Causality and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences: 1. Introduction ; Part II. Counterfactuals, Potential Outcomes, and Causal Graphs: 2. Counterfactuals and the potential-outcome model ; 3. Causal graphs ; Part III. Estimating Causal Effects by Conditioning on Observed Variables to Block Backdoor Paths: 4. Models of causal exposure and identification criteria for conditioning estimators ; 5. Matching estimators of causal effects ; 6. Regression estimators of causal effects ; 7. Weighted regression estimators of causal effects ; Part IV. Estimating Causal Effects When Backdoor Conditioning Is Ineffective: 8. Self-selection, heterogeneity, and causal graphs ; 9. Instrumental-variable estimators of causal effects ; 10. Mechanisms and causal explanation ; 11. Repeated observations and the estimation of causal effects ; Part V. Estimation When Causal Effects Are Not Point Identified by Observables: 12. Distributional assumptions, set identification, and sensitivity analysis ; Part VI. Conclusions: 13. Counterfactuals and the future of empirical research in observational social science.

Note: Geodynamic models of Cordilleran orogens : gravitational instability of magmatic arc roots / Heather M. McPherson, Jonathan R. Pratt, Sharon Bywater-Reyes, and Estelle MortimerImaging the Nazca slab and surrounding mantle to 700 km depths beneath the central Andes (18°S to 28°S) / Alissa Scire, C. Berki Biryol, George Zandt, and Susan Beck -- Multiple styles and scales of lithospheric foundering beneath the Puna Plateau, central Andes / Susan L. Beck, George Zandt, Kevin M. Ward, and Alissa Scire -- Along-strike variation in crustal seismicity and modern lithospheric structure of the central Andes forearc / Kathryn Metcalf and Paul Kapp -- Along-strike variation in structural styles and hydrocarbon occurrences, Subandean fold-and-thrust belt and inner foreland, Colombia to Argentina / Michael F. McGroder, Richard O. Lease, and David M. Pearson -- U-Pb zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic sandstones and Paleozoic plutonic rocks in the central Andes (21°S-26°S) / Jesse C. Einhorn, George E. Gehrels, Antoine Vernon, and Peter G. DeCelles -- The origin and petrologic evolution of the Ordovician Famatinian-Puna arc / M.N. Ducea, J.E. Otamendi, G.W. Bergantz, D. Jianu, and L. Petrescu -- Foundering-driven lithospheric melting : the source of central Andean mafic lavas on the Puna Plateau (22°S-27°S) / Kendra E. Murray, Mihai N. Ducea, and Lindsay Schoenbohm -- Miocene-Pliocene shortening, extension, and mafic magmatism support small-scale lithospheric foundering in the central Andes, NW Argentina / Lindsay M. Schoenbohm and Barbara Carrapa -- Exhumation of the Precordillera and northern Sierras Pampeanas and along-strike correlation of the Andean orogenic front, northwestern Argentina / Roxana Safipour, Barbara Carrapa, Peter G. DeCelles, and Stuart N. Thomson -- Regional exhumation and kinematic history of the central Andes in response to cyclical orogenic processes / Barbara Carrapa and Peter G. Decelles -- Low-temperature thermochronologic trends across the central Andes, 21°S-28°S / P.W. Reiners, S.N. Thomson, A. Vernon, S.D. Willett, M. Zattin, J. Einhorn, G. Gehrels, J. Quade, D. Pearson, K.E. Murray, and W. Cavazza -- Climate and tectonics along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina : origin of the late cenozoic Punaschotter conglomerates / Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, Barbara Carrapa, Heather M. McPherson, Jonathan R. Pratt, Sharon Bywater-Reyes, and Estelle Mortimer -- Testing the analytical protocols and calibration of volcanic glass for the reconstruction of hydrogen isotopes in paleoprecipitation / Matthew P. Dettinger and Jay Quade -- The growth of the central Andes, 22°S-26°S / J. Quade, M.P. Dettinger, B. Carrapa, P. DeCelles, K.E. Murray, K.W. Huntington, A. Cartwright. R.R. Canavan, G. Gehrels, and M. Clementz -- Lake formation, characteristics, and evolution in retroarc deposystems : a synthesis of the modern Andean orogen and its associated basins / Andrew Cohen, Michael M. McGlue, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Hiran Zani, Peter W. Swarzenski, Mario L. Assine, and Aguinaldo Silva -- Simulating foreland basin response to mountain belt kinematics and climate change in the Eastern Cordillera and Subandes : an analysis of the Chaco foreland basin in southern Bolivia / Todd M. Engelder and Jon D. Pelletier -- The Miocene Arizaro Basin, central Andean hinterland : response to partial lithosphere removal? / P.G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, B.K. Horton, J. McNabb, G.E. Gehrels, and J. Boyd -- Hinterland basin formation and gravitational instabilities in the central Andes : constraints from gravity data and geodynamic models / Huilin Wang, Claire A. Currie, and Peter G. DeCelles -- Temporal growth of the Puna Plateau and its bearing on the post-Salta Rift system subsidence of the Andean foreland basin at 25°30°S / Thomas P. Becker, G. Gray, and D. Awwiller -- Cyclical orogenic processes in the Cenozoic central Andes / P.G. DeCelles, G. Zandt, S.L. Beck, C.A. Currie, M.N. Ducea, P. Knapp, G.E. Gehrels, B. Carrapa, J. Quade, and L.M. Schoenbohm..

Note: SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING FOR WETLAND MAPPING: Wetlands: An Overview / Ralph W. Tiner --- Classification of Wetland Types for Mapping and Large-Scale Inventories / Ralph W. Tiner --- Introduction to Wetland Mapping and Its Challenges / Ralph W. Tiner --- Early Applications of Remote Sensing for Mapping Wetlands / Ralph W. Tiner --- Advances in Remotely Sensed Data and Techniques for Wetland Mapping and Monitoring / Megan W. Lang, Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Ralph W. Tiner, and Victor V. Klemas --- SECTION 2 - SUMMARIES OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATION FOR MAPPING WETLANDS: Mapping and Monitoring Surface Water and Wetlands with Synthetic Aperture Radar / Brian Brisco --- Wetland InSAR: A Review of the Technique and Applications / Shimon Wdowinski and Sang-Hoon Hong --- Radar and Optical Image Fusion and Mapping of Wetland Resources / Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala --- Theory and Applications of Object-Based Image Analysis and Emerging Methods in Wetland Mapping / Joseph F. Knight, Jennifer M. Corcoran, Lian P. Rampi, and Keith C. Pelletier --- Unmanned Aerial Systems and Structure from Motion Revolutionize Wetlands Mapping / Marguerite Madden, Thomas Jordan, Sergio Bernardes, David L. Cotten, Nancy O’Hare, and Alessandro Pasqua --- SECTION 3 - APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING FOR MAPPING SPECIFIC WETLAND HABITATS: Remote Sensing of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and Coral Reefs / Sam Purkis and Chris Roelfsema --- Remote Sensing of Mangroves / Victor V. Klemas --- Tidal Marsh Classification Approaches and Future Marsh Migration Mapping Methods for Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York / Mark Hoover and Adam Walton Whelchel --- Using Moderate-Resolution Satellite Sensors for Monitoring the Biophysical Parameters and Phenology of Tidal Marshes / Deepak R. Mishra and Shuvankar Ghosh --- Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Mapping / Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Zachary M. Laubach, Anthony J. Landon, Elizabeth C. Banda, Michael J. Battaglia, Sarah L. Endres, Mary Ellen Miller, Robb D. Macleod, and Colin N. Brooks --- Mapping Wetlands and Surface Water in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America / Jennifer Rover and David M. Mushet --- Mapping the State and Dynamics of Boreal Wetlands Using Synthetic Aperture Radar / Daniel Clewley, Jane Whitcomb, Mahta Moghaddam, and Kyle McDonald --- Fusion of Multispectral Imagery and LiDAR Digital Terrain Derivatives for Ecosystem Mapping and Morphological Characterization of a Northern Peatland Complex / Antonio Difebo, Murray Richardson, and Jonathan Price --- Airborne LiDAR-Based Wetland and Permafrost-Feature Mapping on an Arctic Coastal Plain, North Slope, Alaska / Jeffrey G. Paine, John R. Andrews, Kutalmis Saylam, and Thomas A. Tremblay --- Hybrid Mapping of Pantropical Wetlands from Optical Satellite Images, Hydrology, and Geomorphology / Thomas Gumbricht --- Capturing the Dynamics of Amazonian Wetlands Using Synthetic Aperture Radar: Lessons Learned and Future Directions / Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, John Melack, Annia Susin Streher, Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira, and Luiz Felipe de Almeida Furtado --- Mapping China’s Wetlands and Recent Changes with Remotely Sensed Data / Zhenguo Niu --- Mapping Invasive Wetland Plants / Carol A. Johnston --- Multisatellite Remote Sensing of Global Wetland Extent and Dynamics / Catherine Prigent and Fabrice Papa --- SECTION 4 - PROMISING DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES: Promising Developments and Future Challenges for Remote Sensing of Wetlands / Megan W. Lang, Sam Purkis, Victor V. Klemas, and Ralph W. Tiner

Note: IntroductionScience in Society -- Knowing and Acting -- Trans-disciplinary Deliberation -- Conclusions/Recommandations..

Note: Pt. 1. Geopolitics and strategic resources -- pt. 2. Law of the sea -- pt. 3. Arctic institutions and specific fields of cooperation -- pt. 4. National approaches to the Arctic.

Note: Introduction / Guri Bang -- To be or not to be : a low-carbon economy : a decade of climate politics in Brazil / Solveig Aamodt -- China : every day is a winding road / Iselin Stensdal -- EU climate and energy policy : demanded or supplied? / Jon Birger Skjærseth -- Climate politics, emission scenarios and negotiation stances in India / Sunil Tankha and Trude Rauken -- Japan's climate policy : post-Fukushima and beyond / Masahiko Iguchi -- Russia's climate policy / Anna Korppoo -- The United States : Obama's push for climate policy change / Guri Bang -- Comparative analysis and conclusions / Guri Bang..

Note: PrefaceAcknowledgments -- Introduction the political economy of currency choice -- A theory of currency policy preferences -- The United States : from greenbacks to gold, 1862-79 -- The United States : silver threats among the gold, 1880-96 -- European monetary integration : from bretton woods to the euro and beyond -- Latin American currency policy, 1970-2010 -- The political economy of Latin American currency crises -- The politics of exchange rates : implications and extensions -- Conclusions -- References -- Index..

Note: Contents: 1. The resurrection of the city -- 2. Land underneath the city -- 3. The dynamics of the Dutch system of cities -- 4. The production city -- 5. The consumer city -- 6. Land prices and governmental policy -- 7. Agglomeration benefits and spatial planning policy -- 8. Social cost-benefit analysis of an inner city transformation project -- 9. Agenda for the future

Note: Contents: List of figures. - List of tables. - Foreword by Clive Hamilton. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Climate change and corporate capitalism. - 2. Creative self-destruction and the incorporation of critique. - 3. Climate change and the corporate construction of risk. - 4. Corporate political activity and climate coalitions. - 5. Justification, compromise, and corruption. - 6. Climate change, managerial identity and narrating the self. - 7. Emotions, corporate environmentalism and climate change. - 8. Political myths and pathways forward. - 9. Imagining alternatives. - Appendix. - References. - Index.

Note: Contents: (Dis)ability and (Dis)aster -- Disability and disaster : an overview -- Inclusive emergency management for people with disabilities facing disaster -- One (mis-)step from (personal) disaster : being blind -- One should remain calm -- Failure and hope : living or not with disability after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake -- Resilience : just for the resilient? -- Educating first responders about Asperger's syndrome -- Fighting to restart -- No matter what happened, I have survived -- Migraines and atmospheric conditions -- Don't let me burn! -- If you people would just prepare! -- Inclusive risk management -- Terrorism and displacement in Kenya -- Maintaining social contact for disaster preparedness -- Disasters for people with disabilities in the Cook Islands -- A disaster-free life - a lot of luck and happiness -- Lightness or darkness? -- The water is rushing in -- Of bodybuilders and wheelchairs -- My sister -- Wheels on the ground : lessons learned and lessons to learn -- Help us to get it right -- Exploring and exchanging (dis)ability and (Dis)aster

Note: Machine generated contents note:1. A Critical Geopolitics of 'Climate Fear/Terror': Roots, Routes and Rhetoric 2. Climate 'Science': Categories, Cultures and Contestations 3. Terrorizing Climate Territories and Marginalized Geographies of the Post-Political 4. The Violence of Climate 'Markets': Insuring 'Our Way of Living' 5. 'Climate Borders' in the Anthropocene: Securitising Displacements, Migration and Refugees 6. Climate Security and Militarization: Geo-Economics and Geo-Securities of Climate Change 7. Climate Justice: An Attempt at an Emancipatory Politics of Climate Change 8. Making 'Climate Futures': Power, Knowledge and Technologies..

Note: Contents Part I Introduction 1 Cardiac Development and Animal Models of Congenital Heart Defects / Robert G. Kelly 2 Normal Cardiac Anatomy and Clinical Evaluation / David J. Driscoll Part II Development of the Heart and Its Vessels 3 First and Second Heart Field / Margaret Buckingham 4 Neural Crest / Bijoy Thattaliyath and Mary Hutson 5 Inflow Tract Development / Andy Wessels 6 Epicardium and Coronary Arteries / José C. Martín-Robles and José M. Pérez-Pomares 7 Establishment of Cardiac Laterality / George C. Gabriel and Cecilia W. Lo 8 Cardiac Conduction System / Rajiv Mohan and Vincent M. Christoffels 9 Hemodynamics During Development and Postnatal Life / David Sedmera 10 Evolutionary Aspects of Cardiac Development / Bjarke Jensen and Antoon F.M. Moorman Part III Central Molecular Pathways 11 Inter- and Intracellular Signaling Pathways / Jörg Heineke 12 Cardiac Transcription Factors and Regulatory Networks / Marcel Grunert, Cornelia Dorn, and Silke Rickert-Sperling 13 Post-transcriptional Regulation by Proteins and Non-coding RNAs / Amelia E. Aranega and Diego Franco 14 Post-translational Modification / Jun Wang and Robert J. Schwartz 15 Epigenetics / Rajan Jain, Mudit Gupta, and Jonathan A. Epstein 16 Environmental Signals / George A. Porter Jr. 17 The Contractile Apparatus of the Heart / Ingo Morano 18 Technologies to Study Genetics and Molecular Pathways / Cornelia Dorn, Marcel Grunert, Ana Dopazo, Fátima Sánchez-Cabo, Alberto Gatto, Jésus Vázquez, Silke Rickert-Sperling, and Enrique Lara-Pezzi Part IV Atrial Septal Defect 19 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Atrial Septal Defect / David J. Driscoll 20 Human Genetics of Atrial Septal Defect / Rabia Khan and Patrick Y. Jay 21 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Atrial Septal Defect / Patrick Y. Jay, Karl R. Degenhardt, and Robert H. Anderson Part V Ventricular Septal Defect 22 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Ventricular Septal Defect / David J. Driscoll 23 Human Genetics of Ventricular Septal Defect / Katherina Bellmann, Andreas Perrot, and Silke Rickert-Sperling 24 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Ventricular Septal Defect / Lucile Houyel Part VI Atrioventricular Septal Defect 25 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Atrioventricular Septal Defect / David J. Driscoll 26 Human Genetics of Atrioventricular Septal Defect / Cheryl L. Maslen 27 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Atrioventricular Septal Defect / Andy Wessels Part VII Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return 28 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / David J. Driscoll 29 Human Genetics of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / Robert E. Poelmann, Monique R.M. Jongbloed, Marco C. DeRuiter, and Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot 30 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / Robert E. Poelmann, Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot, Monique R.M. Jongbloed, and Marco C. DeRuiter Part VIII Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle 31 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle / David J. Driscoll 32 Human Genetics of Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle / Cornelia Dorn, Andreas Perrot, and Silke Rickert-Sperling 33 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Tetralogy of Fallot and Double Outlet Right Ventricle / Robert G. Kelly Part IX d-Transposition of the Great Arteries 34 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries / David J. Driscoll 35 Human Genetics of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries / Patrice Bouvagnet and Anne Moreau de Bellaing 36 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries / Amy-Leigh Johnson and Simon D. Bamforth Part X Defects of Situs 37 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Defects of Situs / David J. Driscoll 38 Human Genetics of Defects of Situs / Andreas Perrot and Silke Rickert-Sperling 39 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Defects of Situs / Nikolai T. Klena, George C. Gabriel, and Cecilia W. Lo Part XI Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies 40 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies / David J. Driscoll 41 Human Genetics of Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies / Matina Prapa and Siew Yen Ho 42 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Semilunar Valve and Aortic Arch Anomalies / Amy-Leigh Johnson and Simon D. Bamforth Part XII Coronary Artery Anomalies 43 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Coronary Artery Anomalies / David J. Driscoll 44 Human Genetics of Coronary Artery Anomalies / Beatriz Picazo and José M. Pérez-Pomares 45 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Coronary Artery Anomalies / Juan A. Guadix and José M. Pérez-Pomares Part XIII Truncus Arteriosus 46 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Truncus Arteriosus / David J. Driscoll 47 Human Genetics of Truncus Arteriosus / Hiroyuki Yamagishi 48 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Truncus Arteriosus / Amy-Leigh Johnson and Simon D. Bamforth Part XIV Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart 49 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart / David J. Driscoll 50 Human Genetics of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart / Abdul-Karim Sleiman, Liane Sadder, and George Nemer 51 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart / Kamel Shibbani and George Nemer Part XV Ebstein Anomaly 52 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Ebstein Anomaly / David J. Driscoll 53 Human Genetics of Ebstein Anomaly / Gregor U. Andelfinger 54 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Ebstein Anomaly / Gregor U. Andelfinger Part XVI Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 55 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / David J. Driscoll 56 Human Genetics of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Woodrow D. Benson 57 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Florian Wünnemann and Gregor U. Andelfinger Part XVII Cardiomyopathies 58 Clinical Presentation and Therapy of Cardiomyopathies / David J. Driscoll 59 Human Genetics of Cardiomyopathies / Alexa M.C. Vermeer, Arthur A.M. Wilde, and Imke Christiaans 60 Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Cardiomyopathies / Enkhsaikhan Purevjav

Note: Contents: Part I. Introduction: 1. The Asia-centric coal era Mark C. Thurber and Richard K. Morse ; Part II. Case Studies of Key Coal Countries: 2. The evolution of China's coal institutions Wuyuan Peng ; 3. Developing large coal-power bases in China Huaichuan Rui, Richard K. Morse and Gang He ; 4. The causes and implications of India's coal production shortfall Jeremy Carl ; 5. Market, investment, and policy challenges for South African coal Anton Eberhard ; 6. Australia's black coal industry: past achievements and future challenges Bart Lucarelli ; 7. Government as creator and destroyer: Indonesia's rapid rise and possible decline as steam coal supplier to Asia Bart Lucarelli ; Part III. Understanding the International Coal Trade: 8. US coal to Asia: examining the role of transportation constraints in energy markets Mark C. Thurber ; 9. The world's greatest coal arbitrage: China's coal import behavior Richard K. Morse and Gang He ; 10. The COALMOD-World model: coal markets until 2030 Franziska Holz, Clemens Haftendorn, Roman Mendelevitch and Christian Von Hirschhausen ; Part IV. The Potential of Technology to Reconcile Coal and Climate: 11. New technologies to the rescue? A review of three game changing coal technologies and their implications for Australia's black coal industry Bart Lucarelli ; 12. The real drivers of carbon capture and storage in China Richard K. Morse, Varun Rai and Gang He ; Part V. Conclusions and Implications: 13. Major factors affecting the production, trade, and environmental impact of coal Mark C. Thurber and Richard K. Morse ; Part VI. Detailed Information on the Coal Value Chain in China: Appendix. A statistical review of coal supply, demand, and transport in China Kevin Jianjun Tu ; Index.

Note: Contents: Preface ; PART I HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL SURVEY ; 1. Objectives and scope of the book ; 2. Representing games ; 3. A brief interpretive history of game theory ; 4. Nash equilibrium and public policy ; 5. Correlated equilibrium ; 6. Noncooperative games in extensive form and public policy ; 7. Social mechanism design ; 8. Superadditive games in coalition function form ; 9. Recall, rationality and political economy ; PART II MIXED COOPERATIVE AND NONCOOPERATIVE DECISIONS: EXTENSIONS ; 10. Biform games and considerable solutions ; 11. The firm as a coalition ; 12. What coalitions will be formed? ; 13. Monopoly and monopsony revisited ; 14. Bargaining and the determination of wages ; 15. Bargaining power and majority rule ; References ; Index

Note: 1. Social capital in sociological research : conceptual rigour and empirical application / Yaojun Li2. Social stratification, social capital and cultural practice in the UK / Yaojun Li, Mike Savage and Alan Warde -- 3. The flow of soul : a sociological study of generosity in England and Wales (2001-2011) / Yaojun Li -- 4. The roots of trust / Eric M. Uslaner -- 5. Social connectedness and generalized trust : a longitudinal perspective / Patrick Sturgis ... [et al.] -- 6. Social capital and ethnic tolerance : the opposing effects of diversity and competition / Rochelle R. Côté, Robert Andersen and Bernie H. Erickson -- 7. Diversity and social capital in the US and UK : the role of bridging friendships / David Cutts and Edward Fieldhouse -- 8. Informal, associational bonding and associational bridging : which ties matter most for minority involvement and integration? / Neli Demireva and Anthony Heath -- 9. The efficacy of neighbourhood attitudes as measures of social capital : returning to norms and values and the centrality of networks / James Laurence -- 10. The position generator approach to social capital research : measurements and results / Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe and Yaojun Li -- 11. Formal and informal social connections in the UK / Yaojun Li, Anthony Heath and Fiona Devine -- 12. Social capital and the social relations of occupational structure / Dave Griffiths and Paul S. Lambert -- 13. Social capital and life satisfaction in Australia / Xianbi Huang and Mark Western -- 14. Social capital, ethnic density and mental health among ethnic minority people in England : a mixed-methods study / Laia Bécares and James Nazroo -- 15. An intervention approach to building social capital : effects on grade retention / Jeremy Fiel, Megan Shoji, and Adam Gamoran -- 16. Social ties, agency, and change : education and social capital in adult life / John Field -- 17. Social capital in inter-organisational partnership research / Jaswinder K Dhillon. , 18. Social capital, social cohesion and cognitive attainment / Jorge Rodríguez Menés and Luisa Donato19. Institution-spanning social capital and its income returns in China / Yanjie Bian ... [et al.] -- 20. Social capital and marketization in the Chinese labour market / Wenhong Zhang and Li Zhang -- 21. Social capital in ethnic enclaves : Indians in Lloret de Mar, and Pakistanis in Barcelona / José Luis Molina ... [et al.].

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Note: Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION ; 1. Political Ecology: Handbook Topics and Themes ; 2. Reflecting on Political Ecology ; PART II ISSUES AND APPROACHES ; 3. Doing Political Ecology Inside and Outside the Academy ; 4. Encountering Political Ecology: Epistemology and Emancipation ; 5. Connecting Political Ecology and French Geography: On Tropicality and Radical Thought ; 6. Roots, Rhizomes, Networks and Territories: Reimagining Pattern and Power in Political Ecologies ; 7. A Time for Gramsci ; 8. Integrating Science and Politics in Political Ecology ; 9. Postcoloniality and the North-South Binary Revisited: The Case of India’s Climate Politics ; 10. Depoliticized Environments and the Promises of the Anthropocene ; PART III GOVERNANCE AND POWER ; 11. Mining in Latin America: Coloniality and Degradation ; 12. Political Forests ; 13. Resources, Wars and Violence ; 14. Benefit Sharing in Environmental Governance: Beyond Hydropower in the Mekong River Basin ; 15. Gender, Group Behaviour and Community Forestry in South Asia ; 16. Political Ecologies of Religious Pilgrimage ; 17. Governing People in De-Populated Areas ; 18. Political Participation and Environmental Movements in China ; 19. Understanding Fukushima: Nuclear Impacts, Risk Perceptions and Organic Farming in Feminist Political Ecology Perspective ; 20. Mind the Gap: Global Truths, Local Complexities in Emergent Green Initiatives ; PART IV KNOWLEDGE AND DISCOURSE ; 21. Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia ; 22. Contesting Hunger Discourses ; 23. Green Governmentality ; 24. Whose Good Living? Post Neo-Liberalism, The Green State and Subverted Alternatives to Development in Ecuador ; 25. Assessing South Korea’s Green Growth Strategy ; 26. Naturetm Inc.: Nature as Neoliberal Capitalist Imaginary ; 27. The Cultural Politics of Waterscapes ; 28. Greening The Job: Trade Unions, Climate Change and the Political Ecology of Labour ; 29. Eco-Cities and the Promise of Socio-Environmental Justice ; PART V METHOD AND SCALE ; 30. Useful Outsiders: Building Environmental Policy Reform Dossiers ; 31. Neoliberalism, Scientism and Earth Systems Governance ; 32. From 'Participation' to 'Negotiation': Suppressing Dissent in Environmental Conflict Resolution in Brazil ; 33. The Political Ecology of Colonias on the US-Mexico Border: Ethnography for Hidden and Hard-to-reach Communities ; 34. Political Ecology of Scale ; 35. The Political Ecology of Weeds: A Scalar Approach to Landscape Transformations ; 36. Bordering and Scalar Thickening in Nature Conservation ; 37. The Best of Many Worlds: Methodological Pluralism in Political Ecology ; 38. Integrating Politics and Ecology through Mixed Methods ; PART VI CONNECTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS ; 39. Globalising French Écologie Politique: A Political Necessity ; 40. Jahát Jatítotòdom: Toward an Indigenous Political Ecology ; 41. From Ecological Modernization to Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth: Lessons from Ecological Economics ; 42. Urban Political Ecology ‘Beyond the West’: Engaging with South Asian Urban Studies ; 43. Towards a Lusophone Political Ecology: Assessing ‘Para Inglês Ver’ Environments ; 44. Political Ecology in and of China ; 45. Emotional Political Ecology ; 46. Thermodynamics Revisited: The Political Ecology of Energy Systems in Historical Perspective ; 47. Political Ecology of the Body: A Visceral Approach ; Index

Note: ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Conventions""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1. Introduction""; ""PART I The Early Years""; ""2. Early attempts at monetary union and the Hague Summit""; ""3. The Werner Report and the collapse of Bretton Woods""; ""4. The 'snake in the tunnel' reappears""; ""5. Monetarism arrives amidst currency turmoil""; ""6. The Delors Report""; ""7. Onward to Maastricht""; ""8. The Maastricht Treaty""; ""9. Converging to crisis and austerity""; ""10. The ideological straitjacket""; ""11. The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)"". , ""12. The convergence farce: smokescreens and denial""""PART II The Path to Crisis""; ""13. The first few years: smug self-congratulation and mass delusion""; ""14. The 2003 fiscal crisis""; ""15. The German 'jobwunder'""; ""16. European Groupthink: denial on a grand scale""; ""PART III The Options for Europe""; ""17. A monetary framework for fiscal policy activism""; ""18. Framing the debate: two alternative visions of the economy""; ""19. The basic principles of functional finance""; ""20. The federal solution""; ""21. Overt Monetary Financing""; ""22. Abandoning the euro"". , ""23. Employment guarantees""""References""; ""Index"".

Note: Contents: 1. Why climate change litigation matters; 2. Model for understanding litigation's regulatory impact; 3. Litigation as a mitigation tool; 4. Litigation as an adaptation tool; 5. Corporate responses to litigation; 6. Litigation's role in shaping social norms; 7. Barriers to progress; 8. The future of climate change litigation..