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Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This Special Publication is dedicated to heritage stone: those natural stones that have special significance in human culture. Some stones that have had important uses in the past are now neglected because theyare no longer extracted. Others are still commercially important, but their heritage uses have not beenwell documented in widely available sources. The Heritage Stone Task Group of the International Unionof Geological Sciences is working to establish a new formal designation of 'Global Heritage StoneResource' to recognize those stones that have had internationally significant architectural and ornamentaluses. The aim is to spread awareness of the cultural heritage aspects of these stones, to help to encouragecontinued supply for maintenance and repair of important monuments and to preserve historically importantquarries. The aim is neither to promote nor to limit these stones for new construction: in some cases continuingcommercial use might help to ensure future supplies for building conservation purposes.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This volume highlights key challenges for fluid-flow prediction in carbonate reservoirs, the approaches currently employed to address these challenges and developments in fundamental science and technology. The papers span methods and case studies that highlight workflows and emerging technologies in the fields of geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir modelling and computer science. Topics include: detailed pore-scale studies that explore fundamental processes and applications of imaging and flow modelling at the pore scale; case studies of diagenetic processes with complementary perspectives from reactive transport modelling; novel methods for rock typing; petrophysical studies that investigate the impact of diagenesis and fault-rock properties on acoustic signatures; mechanical modelling and seismic imaging of faults in carbonate rocks; modelling geological influences on seismic anisotropy; novel approaches to geological modelling; methods to represent key geological details in reservoir simulations and advances in computer visualization, analytics and interactions for geoscience and engineering.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; Essay by Sunita Narain ; Forests and wildlife ; Urbanisation ; Land and agriculture ; Water and sanitation ; Health ; Air pollution, transport and mobility ; Environmental governance ; Climate change ; Listings

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Section I: The Data 1. Who Receives a Geoscience Degree? 2. We are the 20%: Updated Statistics on Female Faculty in Earth Sciences in the U.S Section II: A Framework to Address the Issue 3. A Sociological Framework to Address Gender Parity. Section III: Successful Strategies to Address the Issue 4. Best Practices to Achieve Gender Parity: Lessons Learned from NSF s ADVANCE and Similar Programs. III. A: Institutional Strategies 5. Strategic Institutional Change to Support Advancement of Women Scientists in the Academy: Initial Lessons from a Study of ADVANCE IT Projects 6. Institutional Transformation: The Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Experience 7. Dual Career, Flexible Faculty 8. Lactation in the Academy: Accommodating

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Geofluids : Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes is the definitive source on paleofluids and the migration of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins-ideal for researchers in oil and gas exploration. There's been a rapid development of new non-destructive analytical methods and interdisciplinary research that makes it difficult to find a single source of content on the subject of geofluids. Geoscience researchers commonly use multiple tools to interpret geologic problems, particularly if the problems involve fluid-rock interaction. This book perfectly combines the techniques of fluid inclusion microthermometry, stable isotope analyses, and various types of spectroscopy, including Raman analysis, to contribute to a thorough approach to research. Through a practical and intuitive step-by-step approach, the authors explain sample preparation, measurements, and the interpretation and analysis of data related to thermodynamics and mineral-fluid equilibria.* Features working examples in each chapter with step-by-step explanations and calculations* Broad range of case studies aid the analytical and experimental data* Includes appendices with equations of state, stable isotope fractionation equations, and Raman identification tables that aid in identification of fluid inclusion minerals* Authored by a team of expert scientists who have more than 60 years of related experience in the field and classroom combined

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: The Running Thread ; 1. Expanding the Public Space ; 2. The Trade-offs ; 3. The Choices ; 4. Beyond Clearances ; 5. The Science Anchor ; 6. The Executive Awakes ; 7. Gross to Green ; 8. The Coal Saga ; 9. Energy Dilemmas ; 10. Repositioning India Globally ; A Final Word

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Executive summary ; PART I: THE MATERIAL BASIS OF THE ECONOMY AND RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY ; Chapter 1. Natural resources: The material basis of the economy ; Chapter 2. An evolving economic context and new environmental challenges ; Chapter 3. Sustainable resource use and resource productivity ; Chapter 4. The material basis of the global economy ; Chapter 5. The material basis of OECD economies ; PART II: KEY MATERIAL RESOURCES FACTSHEETS ; Aluminium factsheet ; Copper factsheet ; Iron and steel factsheet ; Paper factsheet ; Phosphorus factsheet ; Rare earth elements factsheet

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; Chapter 1 Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs ; Chapter 2 Foragers ; Chapter 3 Farmers ; Chapter 4 Fossil Fuels ; Chapter 5 The Evolution of Values: Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come ; Chapter 6 On the Ideology of Imagining That 'Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs' ; Chapter 7 But What Was It Really Like? The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values ; Chapter 8 Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self ; Chapter 9 When the Lights Go Out: Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization ; Chapter 10 My Correct Views on Everything

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Part I: The economics of happiness and its most important results ; 1 The end of materialism? ; 2 Economists' way of thinking: 'More is better than less' ; 3 The Easterlin attack ; 4 If money doesn't make us happy, what then? ; 5 The economic determinants of happiness ; 6 What is to be done if money doesn't make us happy? ; Part II: What is happiness research telling us? ; 7 Are we measuring correctly? ; 8 How much truth is there in the Easterlin paradox? ; 9 Unemployed and happy? ; 10 The importance of relative position ; 11 Conclusion

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; I. Diagnosis ; 1. Setting the Scene ; 2. Learning from History ; 3. The Economics of Inequality ; A Summing-Up So Far ; II. Proposals for Action ; 4. Technological Change and Countervailing Power ; 5. Employment and Pay in the Future ; 6. Capital Shared ; 7. Progressive Taxation ; 8. Social Security for All ; Proposals to Reduce the Extent of Inequality ; III. Can It Be Done? ; 9. Shrinking the Cake? ; 10. Globalisation Prevents Action? ; 11. Can We Afford It? ; The Way Forward

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Executive summary ; Chapter 1. Taking stock of reform action and identifying priorities in 2015 ; Chapter 2. The effect of pro-growth structural reforms on income inequality ; Chapter 3. Pro-growth structural reforms, the environment and environmental policies ; Chapter 4. Going for Growth ten years after: Taking a longer perspective on reform action ; Chapter 5. Country notes ; Chapter 6. Structural policy indicators

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Content: Intro & Welcome. - Introduction. - Campus Map. - Location & Dinner. - Excursions. - Natural and cultural heritage of Potsdam by bike / Bernhard Diekmann. - Quaternary geology and geomorphology by bus / Olaf Juschus. - Scientific programme. - Schedule - Overview. - Programme - Tuesday. - Programme - Thursday. - Programme - Friday. - Poster Session 1. - Sediment cores from innter Upernavik Isfjord: preliminary results / Amalie E. Cordua et al. - A younger dryas glacier readvance/retreat on Greenland's north coast, and notes on the ice sheet's response to YD cooling/warming / Svend Funder et al. - The Fast Full Stokes solver - an accurate, efficient and flexible tool for palaeo-ice sheet simulations / Josefin Ahlkrona et al. - Model of the late glacial Svalbard Ice Sheet using a coupled approximation of the full Stokes method / Evan James Gowan et al. - Numerically modelling the growth and collapse of the Barents Sea ice sheet / Henry Patton et al. - Late Weichselian and deglacial ice sheet configurations and dynamics inferred from submarine landforms and sediment cores in north-eastern Svalbard / Anne Elina Flink et al. - Ice stream dynamics and its implications on the sedimentary processes on the continental shelf edge and slope north of Nordaustlandes, Svalbard / Oscar Jacob Fransner. - Geomorphological reconstruction of the dynamics of a SW Greenland tidewater glacier through the Holocene / James Lea. - Modeling the response of two neighbouring Svalbard ice streams to similar climate forcing / James Lea et al. - Tentative age model of marine glacial landforms and related glaciations on the East Siberian and Chukchi margins / Frank Niessen et al. - Glacimarine sediment facies and morphology of the Disko Bugt trough Mouth fan, West Greenland / Colm O'Cofaigh et al. - A new quaternary sediment sequence from the eastern Mendeleev Ridge: preliminary stratigraphic subdivision based on IRD and microfossil records / Ekaterina Taldenkova et al. - A number of several warmer spells noted on eastern Svalbard during Younger Dryas - a bidecadal resolution of paleoceanographic record of Atlantic Water variability / Magdalena Lacka et al. - Quantitative micropalaeontological and sedimentary facies analysis of surface samples from the Lomonosov Ridge / Mike Marcell Zwick et al. - Specificities of sea surface evolution across the last two interglacial cycles in the southwestern Nordic Seas - a comparison / Anastasia Zhuravleva et al. - Early Holocene Atlantic Water advection and ice coverage in the Arctic Gateway / Robert F. Spielhagen et al. - Mid to late Holocene palaeoceanographic evolution of the East Greenland Current based on foraminiferal assemblage data / Kerstin Perner et al. - Past environmental variability in the eastern Fram Strait from the early deglaciation to the early Holocene reconstructed from benthic microfossils and IRD records / Yaroslav Ovsepyan. - Present and past flow regime on contourite drifts west of Spitsbergen: preliminary results from Eurofleet 2 PREPARED cruise (June 2014) / Renata G. Lucchi. - Late Quaternary central Arctic Ocean sea-ice variability: First results from biomarker studies of RV Polarstern Cruise PS87 sediment cores / Anne Kremer et al. - Mid to Late Holocene evolution of sea ice distribution and primary production on the East Greenland Shelf and the NW Fram Strait / Henriette Kolling et al. - The western Laptev Sea: High-resolution sea ice distribution and river run-off variability from post-glacial to present / Tanja Hörner et al. - Holocene modulations in the Earth's largest ice and freshwater pathway - the East Greenland Current / Christian Valdemar Dylmer et al. - Late Quaternary sediment supply variability at the Mendeleev Ridge (Arctic Ocean): Insights from grain-size distribution and ice-rafted debris composition / Evgenia Bazhenova et al. - First insights into pre-glacial Pleistocene environments in the Arctic Ocean / Leonid Polyak et al. - Poster Session 2. - Analysis of radiocarbon dates collected from the Holocene raised beach sequences on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land / Michail Anisimov et al. -Reconstruction of postglacial environmental changes at the eastern Laptev Sea continental margin / Nataliya Chistyakova et al. -Late Holocene environmental ice core record from Akademii Nauk ice cap (Severnaya Zemlya) / Diedrich Fritzsche et al. -K Fjord-head delta progradation and permafrost aggradation interpreted from a 60 m frozen sediment core, Adventdalen, Svalbard / Graham Lewis Gilbert et al. -Geochronologic challenges related to spatial and temporal discontinuities of sediments in permafrost environments: the case of Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky, Siberian Arctic / Margret Christine Fuchs et al. -Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-rich permafrost in the Colville River valley, northern Alaska / Guido Grosse et al. -Biomarker records from the eastern continental margin off Kamchatka Peninsula and Eastern Siberia on deglacial variations in sea surface temperature, air temperature, provenance and terrestrial residence times of terrigenous organic matter in Beringia / Vera Meyer et al. -Validity of the MIS 2 glacial border in the NW Canadian Arctic based on comparing the on- and off-shore clay mineral composition / Georg Schwamborn et al. -Summer and winter proxy data from Ice Complex features in East Siberia dating back to 200 kyr / Sebastian Wetterich et al. -Thermokarst lake history and stable tundra vegetation since the 18th century in a Low Arctic setting, Yukon Territory, Canada / Juliane Wolter et al. -International Permafrost Association / Karina Schollaen et al. -Paleogeographical investigations along the Yukon Coast / Hugues Lantuit et al. - Abstracts & Adresses. - Abstracts. - The fast full stokes solver - an accurate, efficient and flexible tool for palaeo-ice sheet simulations / J. Ahlkrona et al. - Lagoons, beaches and sea-level change on NW Svalbard / H. Alexanderson et al. - Analysis of radiocarbon dates collected from the Holocene raised beach sequences on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land / M. Anisimov et al. - Late Quaternary glaciation of arctic and subarctic Urals / V. Astakhov. - Spatial shifts in North Eurasian ice sheet extent since the Middle Pleistocene / H. A. Bauch et al. - Late Quaternary sediment supply variability at the Mendeleev Ridge (Arctic Ocean): Insights from grain-size distribution and ice-rafted debris composition / E. Bazhenova et al. - Environmental variability in northeastern Siberia inferred from lake sediment records / B. K. Biskaborn et al. - The influence of subglacial hydrology on glacial dynamics during deglaciation of the central Barents Sea / L. R. Bjarnadottir et al. - Reconstruction of postglacial environmental changes at the eastern Laptev Sea continental margin / N. Chistyakova et al. - Sediment cores from inner Upernaviklsfjord: preliminary results / A. E. Cordua et al. - Arctic productivity and orbital climate cycles / T. M. Cronin et al. - Variability of the northward flux of North Atlantic waters though Fram Strait during the Holocene / A. de Vernal et al. - Applications of cavity ring-down spectroscopy to paleoclimate, including high-precision analysis of the triple oxygen isotopes in water and water vapor / K. J. Dennis et al. - Holocene modulations in the earth's largest ice and freshwater pathway - the East Greenland Current / C. Dylmer et al. - Late Weichselian and deglacial ice sheet configurations and dynamics inferred from submarine landforms and sediment cores in north-eastern Svalbard / A. E. Flink et al. - Ice stream dynamics and its implications on the sedimentary processes on the continental shelf edge and slope north of Nordaustlandes, Svalbard / O. Fransner et al. - Ice wedge polygon development on different temporal and spatial scales in the northern Yukon, Canada / M. Fritz et al. - Late Holocene environmental ice core record from Akademii Nauk ice cap (Severnaya Zemlya) / D. Fritzsche et al. - Geochronologic challenges related to spatial and temporal discontinuities of sediments in permafrost environments: the case of Bol'shoy Lyakhosky, Siberian Arctic / M. C. Fuchs et al. - A younger dryas glacier readvance/retreat on Greenland's north coast, and notes on the ice sheet's response to YD cooling/warming / S. Funder et al. - Fjord-head delta progradation and permafrost aggradation interpreted from a 60 m frozen sediment core, Adventdalen, Svalbard / G. L. Gilbert et al. - Model of the late glacial Svalbard Ice Sheet using a coupled approximation of the full Stokes method / E. J. Gowan et al. - Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-rich permafrost in the Colville River valley, northern Alaska / G. Grosse et al. - The Batagay mega thaw slump, Yana Uplands, Yakutia, Russia: permafrost thaw dynamics on decadal time scale / F. Günther et al. - The western Laptev Sea: High-resolution sea ice distribution and river run-off variability from post-glacial to present / T. Hörner et al. - Deglaciation of the last Scandinavian-Barents ice sheet and variations in the Atlantic water inflow into the Barents Sea / E. Ivanova et al. - Onland deglaciation and provenance changes in SW Barents Sea sediments over the Late Glacial-Holocene / E. Kaparulina et al. - Climate controlled variability of an Arctic sea ice fabric / J. Knies et al. - Mid to Late Holocene evolution of sea ice distribution and primary production on the East Greenland Shelf and the NW Fram Strait / H. Kolling et al. - Late Quaternary central Arctic Ocean sea-ice variability: first results from biomarker studies of RV Polarstern Cruise PS87 sediment cores / A. Kremer et al. - Pleistocene-Holocene terrestrial palaeoenvironmental changes at the New Siberian Islands and adjacent areas (Arctic Siberia) / T. V. Kuznetsova et al. - A number of several warmer spells noted on eastern Svalbard during Younger Dryas - a bidecadal resolution of paleoceanographic record of Atlantic Water variability / M. Lacka et al. - Paleogeographical investigations along the Yukon Coast / H. Lantuit et al. - Modelling the response of two neighbouring Svalbard ice streams to similar climate forcing / J. M. Lea et al. - Geomorphological reconstruction of the dynamics of a SW Greenland tidewater glacier through the Holocene / J. M. Lea. - Past landscape and permafrost dynamics in Arctic Alaska based on sedimentary records / J. Lenz et al. - Present and past flow regime on contourite drifts west of Spitzbergen: preliminary results from Eurofleet 2 PREPARED cruise (June 2014) / R. G. Lucchi et al. - Evidence of the deep marine record of the MWP-1a on the NW-Barents Sea continental margin: Support from palaeomagnetic data / R. G. Lucchi. - Ice stream dynamics during deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet / M. Margold et al. - Biomarker records from the eastern continental margin off Kamchatka Peninsula and Eastern Siberia on deglacial variations in sea surface temperature, aire temperature, provenance and terrestrial residence times of terrigenous organic matter in Beringia / V. D. Meyer et al. - Permafrost history and environmental change at the margin of Beringia and the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada / J. Murton. - Postglacial environments of Nettilling Lake basin (Baffin Island, Canada) inferred by the geochemical and biological proxies / B. Narancic et al. - Tentative age model of marine glacial landforms and related glaciations on the East Siberian and Chukchi margins / F. Niessen et al. - Deglaciation of the Svalbard-Barents Sea ice sheet in the northern Barents Sea, East of Svalbard / R. Noormets et al. - The appearance of pollen on the archipelago Franz-Josef Land of the Arctic Ocean / E. Nosevich et al. - Glacimarine sediment facies and morphology of the Disko Bugt trough Mouth Fan, West Greenland / C. O'Cofaigh et al. - Ice-wedge record of Arctic winter temperatures over the past two millennia - long-term and recent warming in the Siberian Laptev Sea region / T. Opel et al. - Past environmental variability in the eastern Fram Strait from the early deglaciation to the early Holocene reconstructed from benthic microfossils and IRD records / Ya. Ovsepyan et al. - Numerically modelling the growth and collapse of the Barents Sea ice sheet / H. Patton et al. - Mid to late Holocene palaeoceanographic evolution of the East Greenland current based on foraminiferal assemblage data / K. Perner et al. - First insights into pre-glacial Pleistocene environments in the Arctic Ocean / L. Polyak et al. - Future priorities for Arctic Research / V. Rachold. - Early thinning and recession of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in southernmost Norway - new chronological constraints from cosmogenic 10Be-dates / A. Romundset et al. - The International Permafrost Association: current initiatives for cryospheric research / K. Schollaen et al. - Validity of the MIS 2 glacial border in the NW Canadian Arctic based on comparing the on- and offshore clay mineral composition / G. Schwamborn et al. - Variability of late Holocene ocean and atmosphere circulation in the Labrador Sea and North Atlantic region - or why that which does not fit, fits extra well! / M.-S. Seidenkrantz et al. - Early Holocene atlantic water advection and ice coverage in the Arctic Gateway / R. F. Spielhagen et al.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The geomorphological and sedimentary record of the Holocene evolution of Jakobshavn Ibrae in Disko Bay, West Greenland / K. Streuff et al. - Catastrophic events shaping Arctic coasts - impact of tsunamis and ice-berg roll waves on coastal evolution in Greenland / M. C. Strzelecki et al. - A new Quaternary sediment sequence from the eastern Mendeleev Ridge: preliminary stratigraphic subdivision based on IRD and microfossil records / E. Taldenkova et al. - Timing and frequency of glacigenic debris flows on the Bear Island Fan - implications for the growth and decay of the Barents ice sheet / E. Pope et al. - The last northern hemispheric deglaciation: missing ice, data / model challenges, and opportunities / T. Tarasov. - Development of northern Nordic Seas deep convection during the Holocene - implications from surface and bottom water foraminiferal [Delta]13C records / M. M. Telesinski et al. - Summer and winter proxy data from ice complex features in East Siberia dating back to 200 kyr / S. Wetterich et al. - Thermokarst lake history and stable tundra vegetation since the 18th century in a low Arctic setting, Yukon territory, Canada / J. Wolter et al. - Specificites of sea surface evolution across the last two interglacial cycles in the southwestern Nordic Seas - a comparison / A. Zhuravleva et al. - Quantitative micropalaeontological and sedimentary facies analysis of surface samples from the Lomonosov Ridge / M. Zwick et al. - Index of authors. - List of participants.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: PAST Gateways (Past Spatial and Temporal Gateways) is an IASC-endorsed network, with the scientific goal to understand and reconstruct Arctic environmental changes during the period preceding instrumental records and across decadal to millennial timescales. The focus of the six-year programme is on the nature and significance of Arctic spatial and temporal gateways, with an emphasis on the transistions between major Late Cenozoic climate events such as interglacial to full glacial and full glacial to deglacial states, as well as more recent Holocene fluctuations.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Section 1 Overview of AgMIP ; The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project: Phase I Activities by a Global Community of Science ; Section 2 Methods of Regional Integrated Assessments ; AgMIP's Transdisciplinary Agricultural Systems Approach to Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation ; AgMIP Climate Data and Scenarios for Integrated Assessment ; Cropping Systems Modeling in AgMIP: A New Protocol-Driven Approach for Regional Integrated Assessments ; Representative Agricultural Pathways and Scenarios for Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation ; Data Interoperability Tools for Regional Integrated Assessments ; Section 3 Global Estimates of Climate Impacts on Agriculture ; The AgMIP GRIDded Crop Modeling Initiative (AgGRID) and the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) ; The AgMIP Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP): Methods and Protocols ; Section 4 Building AgMIP Science ; Uncertainty in Agricultural Impact Assessment ; Uncertainties in Scaling-Up Crop Models for Large-Area Climate Change Impact Assessments ; Statistical Analysis of Large Simulated Yield Datasets for Studying Climate Change Effects ; Crop Diseases and Climate Change in the AgMIP Framework

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Executive Summary ; 1 Demand ; 2 Supply ; 3 Crude Trade ; 4 Refining and Product Supply ; 5 Sea Change in Bunker Fuels ; 6 Tables

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction: Globalization and Inequality ; Chapter 1 Global Inequality ; Appendix to Chapter 1 Detailed Evidence on the Recent Changes in Global Inequality ; Chapter 2 Are Countries Becoming More Unequal? ; Chapter 3 Globalization and the Forces behind the Rise in Inequality ; Chapter 4 Toward a Fair Globalization: Prospects and Principles ; Chapter 5 Which Policies for a Fairer Globalization? ; Conclusion Globalizing Equality?

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction -- A vision of a science of economics -- Empirical relevance -- Qualitative response models -- A cross-section analysis of an economic theory -- Theory-data confrontations with time-series data -- An analysis of positively valued economic time-series -- Non-linear cointegration in foreign exchange -- Scientific explanation in economics and econometrics -- Bridge principles and theory in applied econometrics

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: 1 The Rights of Migrant Workers: Reframing the Debate ; 2 The Human Rights of Migrant Workers: Why Do So Few Countries Care? ; 3 Nation-States, Labor Immigration, and Migrant Rights: What Can We Expect? ; 4 An Empirical Analysis of Labor Immigration Programs in Forty-Six Countries ; 5 Regulating the Admission and Rights of Migrant Workers: Policy Rationales in High-Income Countries ; 6 Labor Emigration and Rights Abroad: The Perspectives of Migrants and Their Countries of Origin ; 7 The Ethics of Labor Immigration Policy ; 8 The Price of Rights: What Next for Human Rights-Based Approaches to International Labor Migration?

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1 - Setting the Scene ; 1 The global outlook ; 2 Tracking clean energy progress ; Part 2 - Mobilising Innovation to Accelerate Climate Action ; 3 Innovation to transform energy systems ; 4 Mainstreaming variable renewables in power markets ; 5 CCS: building on early opportunities ; 6 Global innovation for more sustainable industry ; 7 Low-carbon innovation in emerging economies ; 8 Energy technology innovation in China ; Annexes

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: PART I: MEDIATION ANALYSIS ; Chapter 1. Explanation and Mechanism ; Chapter 2. Mediation: Introduction and Regression-Based Approaches ; Chapter 3. Sensitivity Analysis for Mediation ; Chapter 4. Mediation Analysis with Survival Data ; Chapter 5. Multiple Mediators ; Chapter 6. Mediation Analysis with Time-Varying Exposures and Mediators ; Chapter 7. Selected Topics in Mediation Analysis ; Chapter 8. Other Topics Related to Intermediates ; PART II: INTERACTION ANALYSIS ; Chapter 9. An Introduction to Interaction Analysis ; Chapter 10. Mechanistic Interaction ; Chapter 11. Bias Analysis for Interactions ; Chapter 12. Interaction in Genetics: Independence and Boosting Power ; Chapter 13. Power and Sample-Size Calculations for Interaction Analysis ; PART III: SYNTHESIS AND SPILLOVER EFFECTS ; Chapter 14. A Unification of Mediation and Interaction ; Chapter 15. Social Interactions and Spillover Effects ; Chapter 16. Mediation and Interaction: Future and Context ; Appendix. Technical Details and Proofs ; References

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project's decade-long operation, readers also gain insight into state-of-the-art techniques and most recent achievements in China's scientific drilling industry. Specifically, this work introduces the drilling engineering design, well site construction, and equipment and construction situation. It also provides a minute description on the new techniques that were developed for tackling the technical difficulties, expounds in detail the core drilling techniques for hard rock deep well, and treats diamond core drill bits, reaming drilling techniques in hard crystalline rocks, well-deviation control techniques for strong dipping strata, and much more. In summary, this book offers a valuable resource for engineers and technicians who engage in scientific drilling and a variety of resource drilling engineering; teachers and students who are interested in this field will also gain plentiful information. Prof. Da Wang, the former deputy director of China Geological Survey, was the director of the Engineering Centre, chief engineer and drill-site general director of China Continental Scientific Drilling Project.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: 1 Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: A Perspective on Capability and Application in the Environmental Sciences / R. Guy Rothwell and Ian W. Croudace. - PART 1 MARINE STUDIES. - 2 Twenty Years of XRF Core Scanning Marine Sediments: What Do Geochemical Proxies Tell Us? / R. Guy Rothwell and Ian W. Croudace. - 3 Optimization of Itrax Core Scanner Measurement Conditions for Sediments from Submarine Mud Volcanoes / Isabel Rodríguez-Germade, Belén Rubio, Daniel Rey, Federico Vilas, Carmen F. López-Rodríguez, Maria Carmen Comasand Francisca Martínez-Ruiz. - 4 Use of Calibrated ITRAX XRF Data in DeterminingTurbidite Geochemistry and Provenance in Agadir Basin, Northwest African Passive Margin / James E. Hunt, Ian W. Croudace and Suzanne E. MacLachlan. - 5 Identification, Correlation and Origin of Multistage Landslide Events in Volcaniclastic Turbidites in the Moroccan Turbidite System / James E. Hunt, Russell B. Wynn and Ian W. Croudace. - 6 An Empirical Assessment of Variable Water Content and Grain-Size on X-Ray Fluorescence Core-Scanning Measurements of Deep Sea Sediments / Suzanne E. MacLachlan, James E. Hunt and Ian W. Croudace. - PART 2 LAKE AND RIVER STUDIES. - 7 Micro-XRF Core Scanning in Palaeolimnology: Recent Developments / Sarah J. Davies, Henry F. Lamb and Stephen J. Roberts. - 8 Micro-XRF Applications in Fluvial Sedimentary Environments of Britain and Ireland: Progress and Prospects / Jonathan N. Turner, Anna F. Jones, Paul A. Brewer, Mark G. Macklin and Sara M. Rassner. - 9 Estimation of Biogenic Silica Concentrations Using Scanning XRF: Insights from Studies of Lake Malawi Sediments / Erik T. Brown. - 10 Optimization of Itrax Core Scanner Protocols for the Micro X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Finely Laminated Sediment: A Case Study of Lacustrine Varved Sediment from the High Arctic / Stéphanie Cuven, Pierre Francus, Jean François Crémerand Francis Bérubé. - 11 Investigating the Use of Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence to Locate Cryptotephra in Minerogenic Lacustrine Sediment: Experimental Results / Nicholas L. Balascio, Pierre Francus, Raymond S. Bradley, Benjamin B. Schupack, Gifford H. Miller, Bjørn C. Kvisvik, Jostein Bakke and Thorvaldur Thordarson. - 12 Combined [My]-XRF and Microfacies Techniques for Lake Sediment Analyses / Peter Dulski, Achim Brauer and Clara Mangili. - 13 Experiences with XRF-Scanning of Long Sediment Records / Christian Ohlendorf, Volker Wennrich and Dirk Enters. - 14 Approaches to Water Content Correction and Calibration for [My]XRF Core Scanning: Comparing X-ray Scattering with Simple Regression of Elemental Concentrations / John F. Boyle, Richard C. Chiverrell and Dan Schillereff. - PART 3 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND FORENSIC APPLICATIONS. - 15 X-Ray Core Scanners as an Environmental Forensics Tool: A Case Study of Polluted Harbour Sediment (Augusta Bay, Sicily) / Ian W. Croudace, Elena Romano, Antonella Ausili, Luisa Bergamin and R. Guy Rothwell. - 16 Modern Pollution Signals in Sediments from Windermere, NW England, Determined by Micro-XRF and Lead Isotope Analysis / Helen Miller, Ian W. Croudace, Jonathan M. Bull, Carol J. Cotterill, Justin K. Dix and Rex N. Taylor. - 17 ITRAX Core Scanner Capabilities Combined with Other Geochemical and Radiochemical Techniques to Evaluate Environmental Changes in a Local Catchment, South Sydney, NSW, Australia / P. Gadd, H. Heijnis, C. Chagué-Goff, A. Zawadzki, D. Fierro, P. Atahan, Ian W. Croudace and J. Goralewski. - PART 4 TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS. - 18 A Geochemical Approach to Improve Radiocarbon-Based Age-Depth Models in Non-laminated Sediment Series / Fabien Arnaud and Sidonie Révillon. - 19 Limited Influence of Sediment Grain Size on Elemental XRFCore Scanner Measurements / Sébastien Bertrand, Konrad Hughen and Liviu Giosan. - 20 Standardization and Calibration of X-Radiographs Acquired with the ITRAX Core Scanner / Pierre Francus, Kinuyo Kanamaru and David Fortin. - 21 Prediction of Geochemical Composition from XRF Core Scanner Data: A New Multivariate Approach Including Automatic Selection of Calibration Samples and Quantification of Uncertainties / G. J. Weltje, M. R. Bloemsma, R. Tjallingii, D. Heslop, U. Röhl and Ian W. Croudace. - 22 Parameter Optimisation for the ITRAX Core Scanner / Stuart Jarvis, Ian W. Croudace and R. Guy Rothwell. - 23 UV-Spectral Luminescence Scanning: Technical Updates and Calibration Developments / Craig A. Grove, Alberto Rodriguez-Ramirez, Gila Merschel, Rik Tjallingii, Jens Zinke, Adriano Macia and Geert-Jan A. Brummer. - 24 An Inter-comparison of [My]XRF Scanning Analytical Methods for Lake Sediments / Daniel N. Schillereff, Richard C. Chiverrell, Ian W. Croudace and John F. Boyle. - 25 Analysis of Coal Cores Using Micro-XRF Scanning Techniques / Sarah J. Kelloway, Colin R. Ward, Christopher E. Marjo, Irene E. Wainwright and David R. Cohen. - 26 ItraxPlot: An Intuitive Flexible Program for Rapidly Visualising Itrax Data / Ian W. Croudace and R. Guy Rothwell. - PART 5 THE FUTURE OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE CORE SCANNING. - 27 Future Developments and Innovations in High-ResolutionCore Scanning / Ian W. Croudace and R. Guy Rothwell. - Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This volume presents papers on the use of micro-XRF core scanners in palaeoenvironmental research. It contains a broad ranging view of instrument capability and points to future developments that will help contribute to higher precision elemental data and faster core analysis. Readers will find a diverse range of research by leading experts that have used micro-XRF core scanners in a wide range of scientific applications. The book includes specific application papers reporting on the use of XRF core scanners in a variety of marine, lacustrine, and pollution studies. In addition, coverage also examines practical aspects of core scanner usage, data optimisation, and data calibration and interpretation. In a little over a decade, micro-XRF sediment core scanners have made a substantive contribution to palaeoenvironmental research. Their impact is based on their ability to rapidly, non-destructively, and automatically scan sediment cores. Not only do they rapidly provide important proxy data without damaging samples, but they can obtain environmental data at decadal, annual, and even sub-annual scales. This volume will help both experienced and new users of these non-destructive core scanners take full advantage of one of the most powerful geochemical screening tools in the environmental scientist's toolbox

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Vorwort. - Inhaltsverzeichnis. - Zusammenfassung. - Summary. - 1. Einführung. - 2. Problemstellung. - 3. Arbeitsgebiete. - 3.1. Norwegische Finnmark (Finnmarksküste und Finnmarksvidda). - 3.1.1. Karlebotn - Varangerbotn. - 3.1.2. Bugöyfjord - Neiden. - 3.1.3. Skallelv - Komagelv. - 3.1.4. Lakselv -Kistrand. - 3.1.5. Börselv. - 3.1.6. Sennaland. - 3.1.7. Gargia - Grönåsen. - 3.1.8. Corgosjokka. - 3.1.9. Bidjovagge - Stuorajavri. - 3.1.10. Vuoddasjåkka - Cuovdatmåkki. - 3.2. Schwedisches Hochgebirge (Skanden und östliches Vorland). - 3.2.1. Abisko - Björkliden. - 3.2.2. Staloluokta (Padjelanta). - 3.2.3. Råstojaure - Kilpisjärvi. - 3.2.4. Tavvavuoma-Pulsujärvi. - 4. Permafrosthügel-Morphodynamik. - 4.1. Palsas (Segregationseishügel). - 4.1.1. Verbreitung. - 4.1.2. Bauplan. - 4.1.3. Aggradation und Degradation. - 4.1.4. Entwicklungsverlauf. - 4.2. Pingoähnliche Hügel (Injektionseishügel). - 4.2.1. Verbreitung. - 4.2.2. Bauplan. - 4.2.3. Aggradation und Degradation. - 4.2.4. Entwicklungsverlauf. - 4.3. Mehrjährige Frostblister (Injektionseishügel). - 4.3.1. Verbreitung. - 4.3.2. Bauplan. - 4.3.3. Aggradation und Degradation. - 4.3.4. Entwicklungsverlauf. - 5. Kontrollfaktoren der Permafrosthügel-Verbreitung. - 5.1. Klima. - 5.2. Substrat. - 5.3. Relief und Gewässer. - 5.4. Vegetation. - 6. Altersstellung der Permafrosthügel. - 7. Permafrosthügel-Klassifikation und -Terminologie. - 8. Permafrosthügel als Klimaindikatoren. - 9. Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick. - 10. Literaturverzeichnis. - 11. Kartenverzeichnis. - 11.1. Quartärgeologische Karten. - 11.2. Topographische Karten. - 12. Luftbild- und Satellitenbild-Verzeichnis. - 12.1. Luftbilder von Finnmark (NORSK LUFTFOTO OG FJERNMÅLING). - 12.2. Luftbilder von Norrbotten. - 12.3. Satellitenbilder von Finnmark und Norrbotten. - Anhang (CD) 1. Klimakurven 2. Klimatabellen & Vegetationstabellen (Stetigkeitstabellen)

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Mapping Environments and Exposures of the WorldMapping Earthquake Risk of the World -- Mapping Volcano Risk of the World -- Mapping Landslide Risk of the World -- Mapping Flood Risk of the World -- Mapping Storm Surge Risk of the World -- Mapping Sand-dust Storm Risk of the World -- Mapping Tropical Cyclone Wind Risk of the World -- Mapping Heat Wave Risk of the World -- Mapping Cold Wave Risk of the World -- Mapping Drought Risk (Maize) of the World -- Mapping Drought Risk (Wheat) of the World -- Mapping Drought Risk (Rice) of the World -- Mapping Forest Wildfire Risk of the World -- Mapping Grassland Wildfire Risk of the World -- Mapping Multi-hazard Risk of the World.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 natural disasters, i.e. earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, storm surge, sand-dust storm, tropical cyclone, heat wave, cold wave, drought and wildfire, and risk mapping for multi-hazard disaster in the world. The above 11 hazards are assessed and mapped at grid unit, comparable-geographic unit and national unit, and the multi-hazard is assessed and mapped at grid unit and national unit. The expected annual mortality and/or affected population risks and expected annual economic loss and/or affected property risk of 11 hazards and multi-hazard of the world at national level are unprecedentedly derived and ranked. The atlas can be a good reference for researchers and students in the field of natural disaster risk management and risk governance, and enterpriser and risk manager as well to understand the global natural disaster risk. Prof. Peijun Shi works at Beijing Normal University, China; Prof. Roger Kasperson works at Clark University, USA.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Seismic Wave Analysis for Near Surface Applications presents the foundational tools necessary to properly analyze surface waves acquired according to both active and passive techniques. Applications range from seismic hazard studies, geotechnical surveys and the exploration of extra-terrestrial bodies. Surface waves have become critical to near-surface geophysics both for geotechnical goals and seismic-hazard studies. Included in this book are the related theories, approaches and applications which the lead editor has assembled from a range of authored contributions carefully selected from the latest developments in research. A unique blend of theory and practice, the book's concepts are based on exhaustive field research conducted over the past decade from the world's leading seismologists and geophysicists. * Edited by a geophysicist with nearly 20 years of experience in research, consulting, and geoscience software development.*Nearly 100 figures, photographs, and examples aid in the understanding of fundamental concepts and techniques* Presents the latest research in seismic wave characteristics and analysis, the fundamentals of signal processing, wave data acquisition and inversion, and the latest developments in horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR).* Each chapter features a real-world case study-13 in all-to bring the book's key principles to life.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Executive summary ; Part I. Ensuring effective adaptation to climate change ; Chapter 1. Assessing national climate change adaptation ; Chapter 2. Effective monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation ; Chapter 3. National tools for monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation ; Part II. Emerging country indicators to monitor and evaluate adaptation ; Chapter 4. Proposed indicators for Kenya's Climate Change Action Plan ; Chapter 5. Goals and outcomes in the Philippines' Climate Change Action Plan ; Chapter 6. Indicators used to evaluate adaptation in the United Kingdom ; Chapter 7. Proposed indicators for monitoring the German adaptation strategy ; Chapter 8. Australia's proposed Climate Adaptation Assessment Framework ; Chapter 9. Measures and actions in France's national adaptation plan

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; 1 Randomized Trials ; 1.1 In Sickness and in Health (Insurance) ; 1.2 The Oregon Trail ; 2 Regression ; 2.1 A Tale of Two Colleges ; 2.2 Make Me a Match, Run Me a Regression ; 2.3 Ceteris Paribus? ; 3 Instrumental Variables ; 3.1 The Charter Conundrum ; 3.2 Abuse Busters ; 3.3 The Population Bomb ; 4 Regression Discontinuity Designs ; 4.1 Birthdays and Funerals ; 4.2 The Elite Illusion ; 5 Differences-in-Differences ; 5.1 A Mississippi Experiment ; 5.2 Drink, Drank, . . . ; 6 The Wages of Schooling ; 6.1 Schooling, Experience, and Earnings ; 6.2 Twins Double the Fun ; 6.3 Econometricians Are Known by Their . . . Instruments ; 6.4 Rustling Sheepskin in the Lone Star State ; Appendix: Bias from Measurement Error

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; 1 Eating People Is Wrong: Famine's Darkest Secret? ; 2 "Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency": Revisiting the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 ; 3 Markets and Famines: Pre-industrial Europe and Beyond ; 4 Great Leap into Great Famine ; 5 Famine Is Not the Problem - For Now

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book aims to give an overview on the present state of volcanic lake research, covering topics such as volcano monitoring, the chemistry, dynamics and degassing of acidic crater lakes, mass-energy-chemical-isotopic balance approaches, limnology and degassing of Nyos-type lakes, the impact on the human and natural environment, the eruption products and impact of crater lake breaching eruptions, numerical modeling of gas clouds and lake eruptions, thermo-hydro-mechanical and deformation modeling, CO2 fluxes from lakes, volcanic lakes observed from space, biological activity, continuous monitoring techniques, and some aspects more. We hope to offer an updated manual on volcanic lake research, providing classic research methods, and point towards a more high-tech approach of future volcanic lake research and continuous monitoring.