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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Es geht nur gemeinsam ; I. Weshalb wir Kommunen brauchen - Erfahrungsräume für den Erwerb sozialer Kompetenzen und die Herausbildung von Gemeinsinn ; II. Was aus unseren Kommunen geworden ist - Aktionismus zwischen Problembewältigung und Besitzstandswahrung ; III. Was aus unseren Kommunen werden könnte - Das Erfolgsmodell individualisierter Gemeinschaften ; IV. Community Education - Ansätze und Strategien zur Herausbildung einer Potenzialentfaltungskultur in Kommunen

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; PART I: FOSSIL FUEL MARKETS ; 1: Oil prices, exhaustible resources and economic growth ; 2: Gas markets: past, present and future ; 3: The likelihood and potential implications of a natural gas cartel ; 4: Global steam coal markets until 2030: perspectives on production, trade and consumption under increasing carbon constraints ; PART II: ELECTRICITY MARKETS ; 5: The future of the (US) electric grid ; 6: Increasing the penetration of intermittent renewable energy: innovation in energy storage and grid management ; 7: Electric vehicles: will consumers purchase them? ; PART III: ENERGY POLICY ; 8: The contribution of energy efficiency towards meeting CO2 targets ; 9: Economic analysis of feed-in tariffs for generating electricity from renewable energy sources ; 10: A renewable energy future? ; 11: Energy policy: a full circle? ; PART IV: CLIMATE AGREEMENTS ; 12: Anthropogenic influences on atmospheric CO2 ; 13: International cooperation on climate change: why is there so little progress? ; 14: Long live the Kyoto Protocol! ; 15: Designing a Bretton Woods institution to address global climate change ; PART V: CARBON MITIGATION POLICIES ; 16: Fiscal instruments for climate finance ; 17: How high should climate change taxes be? ; 18: State-contingent pricing as a response to uncertainty in climate policy ; 19: Climate change, buildings and energy prices ; 20: Using micro data to examine causal effects of climate policy ; 21: Carbon trading: past, present and future ; 22: Moral positions on tradable permit markets ; 23: The European CO2 allowances market: issues in the transition to Phase III ; PART VI: LOW-CARBON BEHAVIOUR AND GOVERNANCE ; 24: The role of behavioural economics in energy and climate policy ; 25: Valuing nature for climate change policy: from discounting the future to truly social deliberation ; 26: Individual consumers and climate change: searching for a new moral compass ; 27: Decentralization of governance in the low-carbon transition ; 28: Is a global crisis required to prevent climate change? A historical-institutional perspective ; PART VII: LOW-CARBON GROWTH ; 29: Prosperity with growth: economic growth, climate change and environmental limits ; 30: Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life? ; 31: At the crossroads: can China grow in a low-carbon way? ; Chapter 32: Low-carbon economy: dark age or golden age?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; PART 1: National and local experiences ; Chapter 1: Bureaucratic rhetoric of climate change in Nigeria: International aspiration versus local realities ; Chapter 2: Combating climate change and biodiversity loss in a 'hot spot' mega-diversity country ; Chapter 3: Does the concept of ecosystem services promote synergies between European strategies for climate change and biodiversity? ; Chapter 4: Impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and population on sustainable development in Ethiopia ; Chapter 5: Climate change, human rights and the Darfur crisis ; PART 2: International and transboundary approaches ; Chapter 6: The clustering of multilateral environmental agreements: Can the clustering of the chemicals-related conventions be applied to the biodiversity and climate change conventions? ; Chapter 7: Retreading negotiations on equity in environmental governance: Case studies contrasting the evolution of ABS and REDD+ ; Chapter 8: Climate change, biodiversity and human rights: Can synergy help? ; Chapter 9: Reducing emissions in the forest sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A new opportunity for biodiversity conservation? ; Chapter 10: Transboundary conservation of mountain biodiversity in a climate change impacted world: Governance perspectives from Central Asia and the Island of Borneo ; PART 3: Land use and agriculture ; Chapter 11: Climate change, the EU Floods Directive and biodiversity protection: Lessons from the Scheldt on land use planning as an adaptive measure ; Chapter 12: Climate change and biodiversity: The vulnerability of the Amazon rainforest in the face of increasing ethanol demand ; Chapter 13: The contribution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy to protecting biodiversity and global climate in Europe ; PART 4: Solutions from science and technology ; Chapter 14: Creating marine protected area networks in Pacific North America for biodiversity conservation: Linking ecology to legislation ; Chapter 15: Preventing and mitigating the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss through biosecurity

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 The Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds ; 3 Rethinking the "Sovereign" in Sovereign Wealth Funds ; 4 The Virtues of Long-Term Commitment: Australia's Future Fund ; 5 The Ethics of Global Investment: Norway's Government Pension Fund ; 6 Insurer of Last Resort: Singapore's Government Investment Corporation ; 7 Legitimacy, Trade, and Global Imbalances: The China Investment Corporation ; 8 Modernity, Imitation, and Performance: The Gulf States' Funds ; 9 Conclusion: Form and Function in the Twenty-First Century

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: I Einführung ; II Das nordostdeutsche Tiefland, naturräumliche Grundlagen ; III Methodische Grundlagen ; IV Soziologische Artengruppen der Waldvegetation ; V Natürliche Waldgesellschaften ; C Wälder auf Armmooren ; D Wälder auf Reichmooren ; E Wälder auf mineralischen Nassstandorten ; F Grundfeuchte Hainbuchenwälder ; G Winterlinden-Hainbuchenwälder ; H Moorbirken-Stieleichenwälder auf bodensauren Mineralböden unter Grundwassereinfluss ; I Winterlinden-Mischwälder ; J Grundwasserferne Eichenwälder auf bodensauren Sandböden ; K Wärmeliebende Eichenwälder (Eichen-Trockenwälder) ; L Hainsimsen-Buchenwälder, Moder-Buchenwälder, Sand-Buchenwälder ; M Waldmeister-Buchenwälder, Braunmull-Buchenwälder, Lehm-Buchenwälder ; N Bingelkraut-Buchenwälder, Mull-Buchenwälder, Kalk-Buchenwälder ; O Buntlaubbaumwälder ; P Natürliche Kiefernwälder auf unvernässten Standorten ; VI Forstgesellschaften ; X Nadelbaum-Forstgesellschaften ; Y Laubbaum-Forstgesellschaften ; VII Vorwälder und Zwischenwälder ; VIII Literatur

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. Environmental change and migration ; Part II. Definitions and concepts ; Part III. Displacement and resettlement ; Part IV. Migration as adaptation ; Part V. Vulnerability and resilience ; Part VI. Economic and social implications ; Part VII. Links with disaster response ; Part VIII. Climate change, migration and conflict ; Part IX. Methodologies ; Part X. Hot spot areas of climate change impact and migration ; Part XI. Policy responses.

Description / Table of Contents: Das mobile Web stellt Webdesigner vor völlig neue Herausforderungen: Mit was für einem Device greift ein Nutzer auf eine Website zu? Welche Hardware bringt ein Gerät mit? Welche Bildschirmgröße und -auflösung hat es? All diese Faktoren beeinflussen die Darstellung der Website und machen ein flexibles Design immer wichtiger. Responsive Webdesign setzt genau hier an: Es sorgt dafür, dass sich eine Website an das Gerät anpasst, mit dem sie aufgerufen wird.Dieses hoch gelobte Buch richtet sich an Webdesigner und -entwickler, die Grundkenntnisse in HTML und CSS mitbringen und sich nun mit Responsive Webdesign vertraut machen möchten. Behandelt werden sowohl technische Aspekte als auch konzeptionelle Fragen, die dieser Designansatz mit sich bringt.Was ist Responsive Webdesign?Mit dieser Frage beschäftigen Sie sich zu Beginn des Buchs. Sie erfahren, wie Sie ein Design entwickeln, das Ihre Inhalte auf allen Geräten so übersichtlich und benutzerfreundlich wie möglich darstellt. Zum Einsatz kommt dabei eine Kombination aus Fluid Layouts, Media Queries und Responsive Media.Feilen Sie an der User ExperienceWas ist zu bedenken, wenn eine Website sowohl auf Smartphones als auch auf Desktoprechnern angenehm zu nutzen sein soll? Wie sollten die Bedienelemente der Website beschaffen sein? Welche Interaktionsmöglichkeiten wollen Sie bieten? Und ganz wichtig: Was bedeutet das für die Inhalte Ihrer Website? Fragen wie diese werden eingehend diskutiert und mit Praxisbeispielen illustriert. So entwickeln Sie ein gutes Gespür, worauf Sie bei eigenen Projekten achten sollten.Verbessern Sie die PerformanceBenutzer erwarten heutzutage nicht nur, dass eine Website angenehm zu bedienen ist, sondern auch, dass sie schnell lädt. Sorgen Sie deshalb unbedingt für eine gute Performance Ihrer Website! Lernen Sie verschiedene Möglichkeiten kennen, das Download-Volumen Ihrer Website zu reduzieren und sie so vor allem für mobile Surfer attraktiver zu machen.

Description / Table of Contents: While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development. In this volume, an overview is provided of solutions comprising concepts for sustainable transportation through intelligent management, innovative instruments for integrated transport planning, modelling systems, adaptation strategies in the transport sector and concepts for enhancing public transit. Developed for five cities of the programme by transdisciplinary and international research teams in close collaboration with local stakeholders, they are presented on the background of big challenges ranging from data collection issues, modelling and planning in a fast growing environment to resistance of citizens against big infrastructure projects.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Problemstellung ; 2 Begriffliche Abgrenzungen ; 3 Marktversagenstatbestände bei Projektfinanzierungen ; 4 Risikomanagement bei Projektfinanzierungen ; 5 Moderne Projektfinanzierung: Das magische Dreieck von Rendite, Risiko und Liquidität ; 6 Moderne Projektfinanzierung: Agenten- und Transaktionskosten ; 7 Resümee

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. A Simple Market Model ; 2. Risk-Free Assets ; 3. Portfolio Management ; 4. Forward and Futures Contracts ; 5. Options: General Properties ; 6. Binomial Model ; 7. General Discrete Time Models ; 8. Continuous Time ; 9. Interest Rates ; 10. Appendix ; 11. Solutions

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. The role of the diaspora in development: a literature review ; 3. The African diaspora ; 4. Data description and methodology ; 5. Empirical results ; 6. Concluding remarks and policy implications

Description / Table of Contents: "Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defences, runoff forecasting, and for catchment management tasks such as water allocation and climate impact analysis. This important new book synthesises decades of international research, forming a holistic approach to catchment hydrology and providing a one-stop resource for hydrologists in both developed and developing countries. Topics include data for runoff regionalisation, the prediction of runoff hydrographs, flow duration curves, flow paths and residence times, annual and seasonal runoff, and floods. Illustrated with many case studies and including a final chapter on recommendations for researchers and practitioners, this book is written by expert authors involved in the prestigious IAHS PUB initiative. It is a key resource for academic researchers and professionals in the fields of hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, geography, soil science, and environmental and civil engineering"..

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 Patterns of growth and structure of agro-industrial sector ; 3 International trade of agro-industrial products ; 4 Import of agricultural machinery to Africa ; 5 Summary

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Editors' Introduction: Climate Governance in the Developing World ; Part I Asia ; 2. A Green Revolution: China's Governance of Energy and Climate Change ; 3. The Evolution of Climate Policy in India: Poverty and Global Ambition in Tension ; 4. The Dynamics of Climate Change Governance in Indonesia ; 5. Low Carbon Green Growth and Climate Change Governance in South Korea ; Part II Americas ; 6. Discounting the Future: The Politics of Climate Change in Argentina ; 7. Controlling the Amazon: Brazil's Evolving Response to Climate Change ; 8. Making 'Peace with Nature': Costa Rica's Campaign for Climate Neutrality ; 9. A Climate Leader? The Politics and Practice of Climate Governance in Mexico ; Part III Africa ; 10. Resources and Revenues: The Political Economy of Climate Initiatives in Egypt ; 11. Ethiopia's Path to a Climate-Resilient Green Economy ; 12. Reducing Climate Change Vulnerability in Mozambique: From Policy to Practice ; 13. Reaching the Crossroads: The Development of Climate Governance in South Africa

Description / Table of Contents: Sand, rice, sugar, snow, cement...Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the physics of granular media and recent advances in the field. The book presents the fundamental properties of granular materials: interactions between grains; solid, liquid and gaseous behaviours; coupling with a fluid; and sediment transport and formation of geological structures. Descriptions of the phenomena combine qualitative and formal arguments, coming from areas as diverse as elasticity, plasticity, statistical physics, fluid mechanics and geomorphology. Many examples of the astonishing behaviours of granular media are presented, including avalanches, segregation, dune song and quicksand. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in physics, applied mathematics and engineering.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Interactions at the grain level; 3. The granular solid: statics and elasticity; 4. The granular solid: plasticity; 5. Granular gases; 6. The granular liquid; 7. Immersed granular media; 8. Erosion and sediment transport; 9. Geomorphology; References; Index.

Description / Table of Contents: This state-of-the-art Dictionary defines terms employed in international agreements, national legislation and scholarly legal studies related to comparative and international environmental law and the emerging law of climate change. Each term also includes its pinyin translation in order to facilitate accessing the Mandarin variants of each term. Jointly prepared by scholars in China and the US, the Dictionary will be an essential reference for those interpreting and applying international environmental law, multilateral environmental agreements, and domestic laws that implement these treaties.

Description / Table of Contents: Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught. "Heavenly Mathematics" traces the rich history of this forgotten art, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used spherical trigonometry to chart the heavens and the Earth. Glen Van Brummelen explores this exquisite branch of mathematics and its role in ancient astronomy, geography, and cartography; Islamic religious rituals; celestial navigation; polyhedra; stereographic projection; and more. He conveys the sheer beauty of spherical trigonometry, providing readers with a new appreciation for its elegant proofs and often surprising conclusions. "Heavenly Mathematics" is illustrated throughout with stunning historical images and informative drawings and diagrams that have been used to teach the subject in the past.This unique compendium also features easy-to-use appendixes as well as exercises at the end of each chapter that originally appeared in textbooks from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1: It's about the Economy ; Chapter 2: The Economic Future of the World ; Chapter 3: The Double Trust Dilemma of Development ; Chapter 4: Make or Take ; Chapter 5: The Property Principle for Innovation ; Chapter 6: Keeping What You Make--Property Law ; Chapter 7: Doing What You Say--Contracts ; Chapter 8: Giving Credit to Credit--Finance and Banking ; Chapter 9: Financing Secrets--Corporations ; Chapter 10: Hold or Fold--Financial Distress ; Chapter 11: Termites in the Foundation--Corruption ; Chapter 12:Poverty Is Dangerous--Accidents and Liability ; Chapter 13: Academic Scribblers and Defunct Economists ; Chapter 14: How the Many Overcome the Few ; Chapter 15: Legalize Freedom--Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: PART I: Background to Beauty ; Chapter I: The Economics of Beauty ; Chapter II: In the Eye of the Beholder ; Part II: Beauty on the Job: What and Why ; Chapter III: Beauty and the Worker ; Chapter IV Beauty in Specific Occupations ; Chapter V: Beauty and the Employer ; Chapter VI: Lookism or Productive Beauty, and Why? ; Part III: Beauty in Love, Loans, and Law ; Chapter VII: Beauty in Markets for Friends, Family, and Funds ; Chapter VIII: Legal Protection for the Ugly ; Part IV: The Future of Looks ; Chapter IX Prospects for the Looks-Challenged

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; One: The Rise of Complexity ; Two: The Abstract Art of Modern Living ; Three: Capitalism with a Human Face ; Four: Class and Consciousness ; Five: Inequality as a Culture Gap ; Six: From Convergence to Polarization ; Seven: Reforming Human Capitalism ; Eight: What Lies Ahead

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: CHAPTER ONE Introduction ; CHAPTER TWO Definitions and Concepts ; PART I Pre-Industrial Economies ; CHAPTER THREE Traditional Sources ; CHAPTER FOUR Constraints and Dynamics ; PART II The First Industrial Revolution ; CHAPTER FIVE A Modern Energy Regime ; CHAPTER SIX The Coal Development Block ; CHAPTER SEVEN Energy and Industrial Growth ; PART III The Second and Third Industrial Revolutions ; CHAPTER EIGHT Energy Transitions in the Twentieth Century ; CHAPTER NINE Major Development Blocks in the Twentieth Century and Their Impacts on Energy ; CHAPTER TEN The Role of Energy in Twentieth-Century Economic Growth ; CHAPTER ELEVEN Summary and Implications for the Future ; APPENDIXES

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Basic principles and theoretical basis ; Measuring vulnerability to promote disaster-resilient societies and to enhance adaptation: Conceptual frameworks and definitions ; Data, indicators and criteria for measuring vulnerability: Theoretical bases and requirements ; Part II: Vulnerability and environmental change ; Environmental components of vulnerability ; Crafting integrated early warning information systems: The case of drought ; Archetypical patterns of vulnerability to environmental change: An approach to bridging scales. Lessons learned from UNEP's Fourth Global Environment Outlook ; Part III: Global, national and sub-national assessment approaches ; Review of global risk index projects: conclusions for sub-national and local approaches ; The Global Risk Analysis for the 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction ; Disaster risk hotspots: A project summary ; The WorldRiskIndex: A concept for the assessment of risk and vulnerability at global/national scales ; System of indicators of disaster risk and risk management for the Americas: Recent updating and application of the IDB-IDEA ; Multi-risk and vulnerability assessment of Europe's regions ; The evolution of the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) ; Disaster vulnerability assessment: The Tanzania experience ; Assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change in mountain environments ; Part IV: Local vulnerability assessment ; Community-based risk index: Pilot implementation in Indonesia ; Mapping vulnerability - Integration of GIScience and participatory approaches at the local and district levels ; Vulnerability assessment: The sector approach ; Self-assessment of coping capacity: Participatory, proactive and qualitative engagement of communities in their own risk management ; Part V: Institutional capacities, public sector vulnerability and dynamics of vulnerability ; Assessing institutionalized capacities and practices to reduce the risks of flood disaster ; Public sector fiscal vulnerability to disasters: The IIASA CATSIM model ; Dynamics of vulnerability: Relocation in the context of natural hazards and disasters ; Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1: The Effects of Taxation ; 1 Distortions and Welfare Losses ; 2 Tax Incidence ; Part 2: Optimal Taxation ; 3 Indirect Taxation ; 4 Direct Taxation ; 5 Mixed Taxation ; 6 Risk and Time ; 7 Corrective Taxes ; 8 Criticisms of Optimal Taxation ; Part 3: Some Current Debates ; 9 Low-Income Support ; 10 Taxation and Global Warming ; Part 4: AppendixesSupport ; The Consumption Tax ; Environmental Taxation ; App. A: Some Basic Microeconomics ; App. B: Optimal Control

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Modern processors ; 2 Basic optimization techniques for serial code ; 3 Data access optimization ; 4 Parallel computers ; 5 Basics of parallelization ; 6 Shared-memory parallel programming with OpenMP ; 7 Efficient OpenMP programming ; 8 Locality optimizations on ccNUMA architectures ; 9 Distributed-memory parallel programming with MPI ; 10 Efficient MPI programming ; 11 Hybrid parallelization with MPI and OpenMP ; A Topology and affinity in multicore environments ; B Solutions to the problems

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Prolog: Eine Reise in die Welt des Wassers ; Die neue Wasserunsicherheit ; Das Zeitalter der Wasserfürsten ; Ein neues Wasserzeitalter ; Epilog: Die Macht des Wassers

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Netze und Infrastruktur ; Erneuerbare Energien ; Energieeffizienz ; Wettbewerb und Marktdesign ; Industrie, Preise und Finanzierung ; Energieträger und Versorgungssicherheit ; Die Energiewende aus der Sicht des Auslands ; Querschnittsthemen und Herausforderungen

Description / Table of Contents: Visualization and analysis tools, techniques, and algorithms have undergone a rapid evolution in recent decades to accommodate explosive growth in data size and complexity and to exploit emerging multi- and many-core computational platforms. High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme-Scale Scientific Insight focuses on the subset of scientific visualization concerned with algorithm design, implementation, and optimization for use on todays largest computational platforms.The book collects some of the most seminal work in the field, including algorithms and implementations running at the highest levels of concurrency and used by scientific researchers worldwide. After introducing the fundamental concepts of parallel visualization, the book explores approaches to accelerate visualization and analysis operations on high performance computing platforms. Looking to the future and anticipating changes to computational platforms in the transition from the petascale to exascale regime, it presents the main research challenges and describes several contemporary, high performance visualization implementations.Reflecting major concepts in high performance visualization, this book unifies a large and diverse body of computer science research, development, and practical applications. It describes the state of the art at the intersection of scientific visualization, large data, and high performance computing trends, giving readers the foundation to apply the concepts and carry out future research in this area.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Climate variability ; 2. Deterministic dynamical systems ; 3. Introduction to stochastic calculus ; 4. Stochastic dynamical systems ; 5. Analysing data from stochastic dynamical systems ; 6. The climate modeling hierarchy ; 7. The North Atlantic Oscillation ; 8. El Niño variability ; 9. Multidecadal variability ; 10. Dansgaard-Oeschger events ; 11. The Pleistocene ice ages ; 12. Predictability

Description / Table of Contents: Etwa 80 bis 90 Prozent aller in Deutschland eingereichten Patentanmeldungen beruhen auf Erfindungen von Arbeitnehmern. Dem Gesetz über Arbeitnehmererfindungen kommt damit eine große Bedeutung zu. In diesem Kommentar werden die komplexen Regelungen dieses Gesetzes umfassend und für die Praxis gut verständlich erläutert.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Overall socio-economic status of LDCs ; 3. State of manufacturing production in LDCs ; 4. State of manufactured exports in LDCs ; 5. Discussion and conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: This book provides data on CO2 emission from fuel combustions from 1971 to 2010 for more than 140 countries and regions by sector and by fuel. Emissions were calculated using IEA energy databases and the default methods and emission factors from the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Descriptive Statistics ; 2 Essentials of Probability and Estimation Procedures ; 3 Interval Estimates and the Central Limit Theorem ; 4 Estimation Procedures, Estimates, and Hypothesis Testing ; 5 Ordinary Least Squares Estimation Procedure - The Mechanics ; 6 Ordinary Least Squares Estimation Procedure - The Properties ; 7 Estimating the Variance of an Estimate's Probability Distribution ; 8 Interval Estimates and Hypothesis Testing ; 9 One-Tailed Tests, Two-Tailed Tests, and Logarithms ; 10 Multiple Regression Analysis - Introduction ; 11 Hypothesis Testing and the Wald Test ; 12 Model Specification and Development ; 13 Dummy and Interaction Variables ; 14 Omitted Explanatory Variables, Multicollinearity, and Irrelevant Explanatory Variables ; 15 Other Regression Statistics and Pitfalls ; 16 Heteroskedasticity ; 17 Autocorrelation (Serial Correlation) ; 18 Explanatory Variable/Error Term Independence Premise, Consistency, and Instrumental Variables ; 19 Measurement Error and the Instrumental Variables Estimation Procedure ; 20 Omitted Variables and the Instrumental Variable Estimation Procedure ; 21 Panel Data and Omitted Variables ; 22 Simultaneous Equations Models - Introduction ; 23 Simultaneous Equations Models - Identification ; 24 Binary and Truncated Dependent Variables ; 25 Binary and Truncated Dependent Variables - A Closer Look ; 26 Estimating the Mean of a Population

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Overview ; 2 Methodology ; 3 Benin ; 4 Burkina Faso ; 5 Cote d'lvoire ; 6 Ghana ; 7 Guinea ; 8 Liberia ; 9 Niger ; 10 Nigeria ; 11 Senegal ; 12 Sierra Leone ; 13 Togo ; 14 Summary and Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction. ; 1 Telling Stories with Data. ; 2 Handling Data. ; 3 Choosing Tools to Visualize Data. ; 4 Visualizing Patterns over Time. ; 5 Visualizing Proportions. ; 6 Visualizing Relationships. ; 7 Spotting Differences. ; 8 Visualizing Spatial Relationships. ; 9 Designing with a Purpose.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction and Overview. 2. System Modeling and Stability Problems. 3. Lyapunov Stability and Stability Regions of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. 4. Quasi-Stability Regions: Analysis and Characterization. 5. Energy Function Theory and Direct Methods. 6. Constructing Analytical Energy Functions for Transient Stability Models. 7. Construction of Numerical Energy Functions for Lossy Transient Stability Models. 8. Direct Methods for Stability Analysis: An Introduction. 9. Foundation of the Closest UEP Method. 10. Foundations of the Potential Energy Boundary Surface Method. 11. Controlling UEP Method: Theory. 12. Controlling UEP Method: Computations. 13. Foundations of Controlling UEP Methods for Network-Preserving Transient Stability Models. 14. Network-Reduction BCU Method and Its Theoretical Foundation. 15. Numerical Network-Reduction BCU Method. 16. Network-Preserving BCU Method and Its Theoretical Foundation. 17. Numerical Network-Preserving BCU Method. 18. Numerical Studies of BCU Methods from Stability Boundary Perspectives. 19. Study of the Transversality Conditions of the BCU Method. 20. The BCU-Exit Point Method. 21. Group Properties of Contingencies in Power Systems. 22. Group-Based BCU-Exit Method. 23. Group-Based BCU-CUEP Methods. 24. Group-Based BCU Method. 25. Perspectives and Future Directions. Appendix

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface. - The importance of marine fish. - The role of fish in the ecosystem. - Diversity at risk. - Conclusion: the "big picture" in the ocean. - Of fish and folk. - Fish - a prized commodity. - The goodness in fish. - Conclusion: Source of nutrition and income for millions. - Plenty more fish in the sea?. - The global hunt for fish. - The deep sea - remote and endangered. - Illegal fishing. - Conclusion: Slow but steady improvement. - A bright future for fish farming. - Aquaculture - protein provider for the world. - Towards more eco-friendly aquaculture. - Conclusion: The future of farmed fish. - Getting stock management right. - Fishing at its limit. - Towards better fisheries management. - Turning the tide in fisheries policy?. - Conclusion: Learning from bitter experience?. - Overall conclusion. - Glossary. - Abbreviations. - Contributors. - Bibliography. - Table of figures. - Index. - Partners and Acknowlegments. - Publication details.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 SOC and Complex Networks ; 3 Foundation of SOC in Power Systems ; 4 Power Grid Growth and Evolution ; 5 Complex Small-World Power Grids ; 6 Decomposition and Coordination of Static Power Grids ; 7 Vulnerability Assessment of Static Power Grids ; 8 Simplification, Equivalence, and Synchronization Controlof Dynamic Power Grids ; 9 Blackout Model Based on DC Power Flow ; 10 Blackout Model Based on AC Power Flow ; 11 Blackout Model Considering Reactive Power/Voltage Characteristics ; 12 Blackout Model Based on the OTS ; 13 Applications to Generation Expansion Planning and Power Network Planning ; 14 Applications in Electric Power Emergency Management Platform

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Maximizing chances of publication -- Essential steps before writing a paper -- Drafting papers -- Complex studies -- Linguistic points -- Covering letters and referees' objections -- Other kinds of written scientific communication -- Summary

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Zum Verhältnis von Natur und Gesellschaft: Was heißt Anpassung an den Klimawandel? ; 2 Szenarios: Der Blick in eine mögliche Zukunft ; 3 Das Klima in Deutschland um 2040: Was verändert sich? ; 4 Folgen des Klimawandels für den Wasserhaushalt und den Wald in Deutschland ; 5 Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Gesellschaft ; 6 Stadt und Land(wirtschaft) im Klimawandel ; 7 Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Deutschland ; 8 Deutschland 2040: Zwei Varianten der Zukunft

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction -- Traditions of urban green -- Ecology's natures -- The emergence of a policy: ecologists and the species protection program -- Building communities, forging alliances -- Places in the making: from wastelands to nature parks -- From conservation to mitigation: managing urban encroachments into nature -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Vorwort. - Inhaltsverzeichnis. - Abkürzungsverzeichnis. - 1 Was Sie als erfolgreicher Patentrechercheur über Patente wissen sollten. - 1.1 Wozu braucht man Patente?. - 1.2 Wie bekommt man ein Patent?. - 1.3 Welche Anmeldemöglichkeiten gibt es?. - 1.3.1 Der nationale Weg zum Patent - Anmelden beim Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA). - 1.3.2 Der europäische Weg zum Patent - Anmelden beim Europäischen Patentamt. - 1.3.3 Der internationale Weg zum Patent - Anmelden über die Verträge nach Kapitel I und II PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty). - 1.4 Was bedeutet "Priorität"?. - 1.5 Was kann man gegen bestehende Patente und Anmeldungen anderer tun?. - 1.5.1 Einwendungen Dritter - Stellen des Prüfungsantrags. - 1.5.2 Einspruch. - 1.5.3 Das Nichtigkeitsverfahren. - 1.5.4 Gerichtliche Zuständigkeit für einheitliche Patente. - 1.6 Wie sind Anmelde- bzw. Patentnummern aufgebaut? Was bedeuten die Abkürzungen und Codes, die man im Patentwesen häufig antrifft?. - 1.6.1 Spezielle Abkürzungen und Codes: Aktenzeichen, Anmelde-, Offenlegungs-, Veröffentlichungs- oder Publikations- und Patentnummern. - 1.6.2 Spezielle Abkürzungen und Codes - Referenznummern von Patentpublikationen. - 1.6.3 Spezielle Abkürzungen und Codes - Buchstabencodes von Recherchenberichten. - 2 Was Sie als Patentexperte über die Patentrecherche wissen sollten. - 2.1 Wie wird heute recherchiert?. - 2.2 Was ist eine Datenbank, wie ist sie aufgebaut?. - 2.3 Welche Arten von Patentdatenbanken gibt es?. - 2.3.1 Bibliografische Datenbanken. - 2.3.2 Zusammenfassungsdatenbanken (Abstractdatenbanken). - 2.3.3 Volltextdatenbanken. - 2.3.4 Faksimiledatenbanken. - 2.4 Welche Sprache versteht meine Datenbank?. - 2.5 Was sind Operatoren? - ein wenig Algebra muss sein. - 3 Recherchenwerkzeuge für das Internet. - 3.1 Stichwortrecherche (Keywords). - 3.2 Klassifikation - was ist das?. - 3.2.1 Internationale Patentklassifikation (IPK, IPC). - 3.3 Was versteht man unter "reference-hunting" ("citing & cited documents")?. - 4 Wie sucht man nach patentrelevanten Informationen im Internet. - 4.1 Patentdatenbanken. - 4.1.1 Wonach kann in einer Patentdatenbank gesucht werden?. - 4.1.2 Klassifikationssysteme. - 4.1.2.1 Internationale Patentklassifikation. - 4.1.2.1.1 Aktualisierung der IPC. - 4.1.2.1.2 Wo finde ich weitere Informationen über die IPC?. - 4.1.2.2 Gemeinsame Patentklassifikation (CPC). - 4.1.2.2.1 Die Vorläufer ECLA und UCLA. - 4.1.2.2.2 Wo finde ich weitere Informationen zur CPC?. - 4.1.2.3 Japanische Patentklassifikation. - 4.1.2.3.1 FI-Terms. - 4.1.2.3.2 F-Terms. - 4.1.2.3.3 Weitere Informationen zu F-/FI-Terms. - 4.1.2.4 Wie finde ich die richtige Patentklassifikation?. - 4.1.2.5 Common Citation Document (CCD). - 4.1.2.6 Weitere Codes. - 4.2 Kommerzielle Anbieter. - 4.3 Suche nach Nicht-Patent Literatur. - 4.3.1 Internet-Suchmaschinen. - 4.3.1.1 Google. - 4.3.1.2 Google Patents. - 4.3.1.3 Meta - Suchmaschinen. - 4.3.2 Suche nach chemischen Verbindungen. - 4.3.2.1 Wie suche ich nach dem Namen einer chemischen Verbindung?. - 4.3.2.2 Wie sucht man nach der Summenformel einer chemischen Verbindung?. - 4.3.2.3 Wie sucht man nach Codes?. - 4.3.2.4 Wie sucht man nach Strukturformeln?. - 4.3.2.5 Wie sucht man nach physikalischen Parametern?. - 4.3.2.6 Wie sucht man nach DNA/RNA und Proteinen?. - 4.4 Publikationsdatum. - 4.4.1 Die Wayback Machine. - 5 Patentrecherche im Internet - die wichtigsten Datenbanken für eine erfolgreiche Suche. - 5.1 Die wichtigsten Datenbanken - die Top Adressen. - 5.1.1 Espacenet. - 5.1.2 USPTO Datenbank (Homepage des Patent- und Markenamts der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika). - 5.1.3 Japanische Patentdatenbank. - 5.1.4 Internationale Patentanmeldungen. - 5.1.5 DEPATISnet. - 5.1.6 Chinesisches Patentamt. - 5.1.7 Koreanisches Patentamt. - 5.1.8 Übersicht über die Suchfelder einiger wichtiger Datenbanken. - 5.2 Datenbanken weiterer Patentämter. - 5.2.1 Australisches Patentamt. - 5.2.2 Eidgenössisches Institut für geistiges Eigentum. - 5.2.3 Indisches Patentamt. - 5.2.4 Kanadisches Patentamt. - 5.2.5 Neuseeländisches Amt für gewerbliches Eigentum. - 5.2.6 Österreichisches Patent-und Markenamt. - 5.2.7 Russische Föderation. - 5.2.8 Thailändisches Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz. - 5.2.9 In englischer Sprache recherchierbare Datenbanken nationaler Patentämter. - 5.2.9.1 Ägyptisches Patentamt. - 5.2.9.2 Eurasische Patentorganisation. - 5.2.9.3 Georgisches Patentamt. - 5.2.9.4 Hongkong, Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz. - 5.2.9.5 Malaysia, Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtschutz. - 5.2.9.6 Philippinen, Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtschutz. - 5.2.9.7 Moldavien, Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtschutz. - 5.2.9.8 Patentamt des Konzils Arabischer Golfstaaten. - 5.2.9.9 Singapur, Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtschutz. - 5.2.9.10 Taiwan, Amt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz. - 5.2.9.11 Liste weiterer Patentämter. - 5.3 Nicht - Patentdatenbanken. - 5.3.1 Patentgesetze. - 5.3.1.1 Amtsblatt des EPA. - 5.3.1.2 Deutsches Patentgesetz. - 5.3.1.3 Entscheidungen der Beschwerdekammern des EPA. - 5.3.1.4 Europäisches Patentübereinkommen 2000 (EPÜ 2000). - 5.3.1.5 Europäisches Patentübereinkommen 1973 (EPÜ 1973). - 5.3.2 Klassifikationen. - 5.3.2.1 Gemeinsame Patentklassifikation (CPC). - 5.3.2.2 Internationale Patentklassifikation. - 5.3.2.3 IPC-CPC-ECLA Konkordanztabelle. - 5.3.3 Technische Datenbanken. - 5.3.3.1 Biotechnologiedatenbanken. - 5.3.3.2 Brenda Enzymdatenbank. - 5.3.3.3 ChemBioFinder. - 5.3.3.4 ChemIDplus. - 5.3.3.5 Chemie.de. - 5.3.3.6 Chemsynthesis. - 5.3.3.7 CiteSeerX. - 5.3.3.8 Common Chemistry. - 5.3.3.9 Electronic Orange Book. - 5.3.3.10 Globalspec. - 5.3.3.11 Google Scholar. - 5.3.3.12 MatWeb. - 5.3.3.13 MEDLINE und medizinische Datenbanken. - 5.3.3.14 NIST. - 5.3.3.15 NIST Chemistry Webbook. - 5.3.3.16 Physik.de. - 5.3.3.17 Pubchem. - 5.3.3.18 Scirus. - 6 Strategien zur erfolgreichen Patentrecherche. - 6.1 Die Planung einer Patentrecherche. - 6.2 Die Grundstrategien. - 6.2.1 Was versteht man unter "brief search"?. - 6.2.2 Was versteht man unter Blockbildung ("block building")?. - 6.2.3 Was versteht man unter "successive-fractions"?. - 6.3 Von den Grundstrategien zur kompletten Patentrecherche. - 6.4 Wie lange soll man recherchieren?. - 6.5 Beispiele zur erfolgreichen Patentrecherche im Internet. - 7 Spezialrecherchen: erteilte Patente, Rechtsstand, Familienmitglieder und Akteneinsicht. - 7.1 Die Recherche nach erteilten Patenten. - 7.2 Ermittlung des Schutzrechtsportfolios von Mitbewerbern. - 7.3 Patentüberwachung. - 7.4 Recherche nach Familienmitgliedern. - 7.5 Akteneinsicht und Rechtsstandsabfragen. - 7.5.1 Rechtsstandsrecherche. - 7.5.1.1 INPADOC / Europäisches Patentamt. - 7.5.1.2 Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum. - 7.5.1.3 Österreichisches Patent-und Markenamt . - 7.5.1.4 DPMAregister. - 7.5.2 Akteneinsicht. - 7.5.2.1 Europäisches Patentamt (EPA). - 7.5.2.2 United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). - 7.5.2.3 Japanese Patent Office (JPO). - 7.5.2.4 Internationale (PCT) Anmeldungen. - 7-5.2.5 Chinesisches Patentamt (SIPO). - 7.5.2.6 Eidenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum. - 7.5.2.7 Österreichisches Patent-und Markenamt. - 7.5.2.8 Deutsches Patent-und Markenamt (DPMA). - 8 Anhang. - 8.1 Datenbankabdeckung. - 8.1.1 Espacenet - weltweit. - 8.1.2 Datenbank des USPTO. - 8.1.3 Japanische Patentdatenbank. - 8.1.4 Internationale Patentanmeldungen. - 8.1.5 DEPATISnet. - 8.1.6 Koreanisches Patentamt. - 8.1.7 Chinesisches Patentamt. - 8.1.8 Australisches Patentamt. - 8.1.9 Eidgenössisches Institut für geistiges Eigentum. - 8.1.10 Indisches Patentamt. - 8.1.11 Kanadisches Patentamt. - 8.1.12 Russisches Patentamt. - 8.1.13 Thailändisches Patentamt. - 8.2 Stoppwortlisten. - 8.2.1 Espacenet. - 8.2.2 Datenbank des USPTO. - 8.2.3 Japanische Patentdatenbank. - 8.2.4 DEPATISnet. - 8.2.5 Australisches Patentamt. - 8.3 Glossar. - 8.4 Linkliste. - 8.5 Arbeitsblätter. - 8.5.1 Espacenet (Datenbank des Europäisches Patentamts). - 8.5.2 USPTO (Datenbank des US Patent- und Markenamts). - 8.5.3 PAJ (Datenbank des Japanischen Patentamts). - 8.5.4 Patentscope (Datenbank der WIPO). - 8.5.5 DEPATISnet (Datenbank des Deutschen Patent- und Markenamts). - 8.5.6 SIPO (Datenbank des Chinesischen Amts für Geistiges Eigentum). - 8.5.7 KIPO (Datenbank des Koreanischen Amts für Geistiges Eigentum). - Stichwortverzeichnis.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part One: Dam Engineering ; 1. Elements of Dam Engineering ; 2. Embankment Dam Engineering ; 3. Concrete Dam Engineering ; 4. Dam Outlet Works ; 5. Energy Dissipation ; 6. Gates and Valves ; 7. Dam Safety ; Part Two: Other Hydraulic Structures ; 8. River Engineering ; 9. Diversion Works ; 10. Cross-Drainage and Drop Structures ; 11. Inland Waterways ; 12. Hydroelectric Power Development ; 13. Pumping Stations ; 14. Waves and Offshore Engineering ; 15. Coastal Engineering ; 16. Models in Hydraulic Engineering

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Bürger in Bewegung - Zur Einführung ; Wie erforscht man Protest? Forschungsdesign und Methodik ; «Wir lassen nicht mehr alles mit uns machen!» Bürgerproteste an und um den öffentlichen Raum, Infrastruktur und Stadtentwicklung ; «Wenn man was für die Natur machen will, stellt man da keine Masten hin» Bürgerproteste gegen Bauprojekte im Zuge der Energiewende ; «Und jetzt versuchen sie durchzusetzen, was sie sich schon achtundsechzig vorgenommen haben» Proteste im Bereich der Bildungspolitik ; «Ohne Organisation geht's nicht» Die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung ; «Wir hatten es irgendwann nicht mehr im Griff» Occupy und andere systemkritische Proteste ; «Jeder hat Angst, seinen Besitzstatus zu verlieren» Die Anti-Euro-Proteste ; «Es gibt ja bloß das Hier und Jetzt» Satirische Protestgruppen am Beispiel von Die PARTEI und «Front deutscher Äpfel» ; «Vernetzt euch - das ist die einzige Waffe, die man hat» Internetproteste ; Bürgerlichkeit und Protest in der Misstrauensgesellsdiaft - Konklusion und Ausblick

Description / Table of Contents: Electroacoustic Transduction.- Transducers as Projectors.- Transducers as Hydrophones.- Projector Arrays.- Hydrophone Arrays.- Transducer Models.- Transducer Characteristics.- Nonlinear Mechanisms and Their Effects.- Acoustic Radiation from Transducers.- Advanced Acoustic Radiation Calculations.- Transducer Evaluation and Measurement.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Climate disinformation ; 2. Think tanks, foundations, and other campaign allies ; 3. Prominent climate myths and what science says about them ; End notes ; Appendix

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction: Australia's Choice ; Part 1 ; 1 A World Tramsformed ; 2 The Reform Era ; 3 The Great Australian Complacency ; 4 The Hair of the Dog ; Part2 ; 5 Reform for Full Employment and Stability ; 6 Reform to Raise Productivity ; 7 Population, Participation and Equity ; 8 The Public Sector and the Federation ; 9 Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change ; Part 3; 10 A Changed Political Culture ; 11 Public versus Private Interests ; Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; Part I: Future Issues of Asia ; Chapter 1: Agriculture, structural change and socially responsible development in China and Vietnam ; Chapter 2: Population, poverty and responsible social protection issues of Asia ; Chapter 3: Resource constraints and Asia's growth: regional cooperation for enhancing energy security ; Part II: Responsible Policy Matters ; Chapter 4: Taxing for the future: an intergenerational perspective ; Chapter 5: Indian agriculture in the era of global warming ; Chapter 6: China's changing public health paradox and the new generation of health NGOs ; Chapter 7: Towards universal sanitation: the Cambodian case ; Chapter 8: Decentralization and poverty reduction in Indonesia: the case of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) ; Chapter 9: Migration of Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia: emerging lessons of economic and social costs and benefits at the migrant, migrant household and community levels ; Part III: Realizing the Asian Century: The Challenges ; Chapter 10: Sustainable resource development in Asia: challenges and opportunities ; Chapter 11: Business's challenge: relating corporate sustainability, strategy and leadership ; Chapter 12: The Asian century is the Chinese century and the century of turbulence

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

Description / Table of Contents: Table des matières. - Sommaire. - Introduction generale. - Premiere partie : La geomorphologie paraglaciaire : approche epistemologique. - Introduction de la premiere partie. - Chapitre 1 Le concept de paraglaciaire, evolution semantique. - Introduction du chapitre 1. - 1 Le "paraglaciaire" : naissance d'un concept. - 1.1. Les articles de June M. Ryder de 1971. - 1.2. La conceptualisation du "paraglaciaire" par M. Church et J. M. Ryder en 1972. - 1.2.1. Les processus paraglaciaires. - 1.2.2. La sequence paraglaciaire. - 2. Le "paraglaciaire" avant Ia naissance du concept. - 2.1. Les "Messieurs Jourdain" du paraglaciaire. - 2.2. Les premieres utilisations du terme "paraglaciaire" avant J. M. Ryder (1971). - 2.2.1. Les tentatives de substirution du terme "periglaciaire" par celui de "paraglaciaire". - 2.2.2. L'utilisation du terme "paraglaciaire" sans definition du concept. - Conclusion du premier chapitre. - Chapitre 2 Le "geosysteme paraglaciaire" : concept integrateur?. - Introduction du deuxieme chapitre. - 1. La determination de Ia duree de Ia sequence paraglaciaire. - 1.1. Le modele de calibration du destockage sedimentaire paraglaciaire selon Ballamyne. - 1.2. Le modele sedimentaire paraglaciaire selon Church et Slaymaker. - 1.3. Les perturbations externes au modele de destockage paraglaciaire. - 2. Definition du concept de "geosysteme paraglaciaire". - 2.1. Le concept de "geosysreme". - 2.2. Le concept de "geosysteme paraglaciaire". - 3. Les sous-systemes face aux sequences paraglaciaires. - 3.1. Le sous-systeme gravitaire au cours d'une sequence paraglaciaire. - 3.2. Le sous-systeme fluvial au cours d'une sequence paraglaciaire. - 3.3. Le sous-systeme lacustre au cours d'une sequence paraglaciaire. - 3.4. Le sous-systeme eolien au cours d'une sequence paraglaciaire. - 3.5. Le sous-systeme littoral au cours d'une sequence paraglaciaire. - 3.6. Le sous-systeme marin au cours d'une sequence paraglaciaire. - 3. 7. Le sous-systeme socio-spatial face aux aleas paraglaciaires. - Conclusion du deuxieme chapitre. - Conclusion de la premiere partie. - Deuxieme partie : La geomorphologie paraglaciaire : approche spatio-temporelle. - Introduction de la deuxieme partie. - Chapitre 3 Les changements climatiques a l'origine des crises paraglaciaires. - Introduction du troisieme chapitre. - 1. L'origine des changements climatiques. - 1.1. L'origine tectonique. - 1.2. L'origine astronomique. - 1.3. Les gaz a effet de serre. - 2. Les echelles spatio-temporelles des changements climatiques. - 2.1. Les changements climatiques majeurs dans le passe. - 2.1.1. Les glaciations anterieures au Pleistocene. - 2.1.2. Les archives climatiques pleistocenes des forages glaciaires. - 2.2. La variabilite du clirnat. - 2.2.1. Les interstades de Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO). - 2.2.2. Les evenements de Heinrich. - 2.2.3. L'oscillation Nord Atlantique (NAO). - 2.2.4. L'oscillation arctique (AO). - 2.3. Les changements actuels et futurs du climat. - 2.3.1. Le rechauffement du bassin arctique. - 2.3.2. L'albedo : cle de comprehension du systeme climatique arctique. - 2.3.3. Les boucles de retroaction du systeme climatique arctique. - 2.3.4. Les nuances regionales et locales au sein du monde polaire. - 2.3.5. Changements climatiques et couvertures vegetales. - Conclusion du troisieme chapitre. - Chapitre 4 Les crises geomorphologiques paraglaciaires. - Introduction du quatrieme chapitre. - 1. Definition d'une crise geomorphologique paraglaciaire. - 1.1. La notion de seuil et son application au paraglaciaire. - 1.2. Le concept "d'equilibre dynarnique" applique au paraglaciaire. - 1.3. Le conccpt de "sensibilite". - 1.4. Application du modele de destockage sedimentaire paraglaciaire de Ballantyne. - 2. Les echelles temporelles des crises geomorphologiques paraglaciaires. - 2.1. Crises paraglaciaires instantanees. - 2.1.1. Les jökulhlaups sur les piemonts islandais. - 2.1.2. Les enseignements de la marge de glacier Baron au Spitsberg. - 2.2. Crises paraglaciaires d'echelle decennale. - 2.2.1. Les enseignements du sous-systeme gravitaire du Colletthogda (Spitsberg). - 2.2.2. Les enseignements du sous-systeme fluvial : l'evolution des sandurs islandais en contexte paraglaciaire. - 2.2.3. Les enseignements du sous-systeme littoral : Ia progradation des littoraux meubles au Spitsberg. - 2.3. Crises paraglaciaires d'echelle centennale : les enseignements des metamorphoses fluviales alpines. - 2.4. Crises paraglaciaires d'echelle millennale. - 2.4.1. Decohesion postglaciaire des parois. - 2.4.2. L'encaissement du reseau hydrographique. - 2.4.3. Le "volcanisme paraglaciaire". - Conclusion du quatrieme chapitre. - Conclusion de Ia deuxieme partie : Les limites spatio-temporelles du paraglaciaire. - Les limites du paraglaciaire actif. - Les limites du paleo-paraglaciaire. - Les limites du paraglaciaire potentiel. - Troisieme partie : La geomorphologie paraglaciaire : pour une relecture des formes des milieux froids. - Introduction de Ia troisieme partie. - Chapitre 5 Les formes paraglaciaires sricto sensu. - Introduction du cinquieme chapitre. - 1 Les formes paraglaciaires sur les versants. - 1.1. Les formes associees a Ia decohesion des parois. - 1.2. Les formes liees a l'ajustement paraglaciaire des depots de pente. - 2 Les formes paraglaciaires sur les surfaces. - 3 Les formes littorales paraglaciaires. - 4 Les formes liees aux accumulations offshore paraglaciaires. - 5 Le nano-paraglaciaire : approche microscopique. - Conclusion du cinquieme chapitre. - Chapitre 6 Le röle de Ia sequence paraglaciaire dans l'elaboration des formes glaciaires et periglaciaires. - Introduction du sixieme chapitre. - 1. Les formes majeures d'evidement : glaciaires ou paraglaciaires?. - 1.1. Les cirques. - 1.2. Les vallees en auge. - 1.3. Les fjords. - 2. Les formes d'echelle moyenne d'accumulation sur les surfaces : glaciaires ou paraglaciaires?. - 2.1. Les hummocky moraines moraines et les kettles. - 2.2. Les drumlins. - 2.3. Les eskers. - 2.4. Les kames. - 3. Les formes d'echelle moyenne d'accumulation au pied des versants : periglaciaires ou paraglaciaires?. - 3.1. Les glaciers rocheux : glaciaires, periglaciaires ou paraglaciaires?. - 3.2. Les tabliers et les cones d'eboulis : periglaciaires ou paraglaciaires?. - 4. Le concept de "paraperiglaciaire". - 4.1. Les premieres utilisations du terme de "paraperiglaciaire". - 4.2. Les processus et les formes paraperiglaciaires. - 4.3. Les limites spatio-temporelles du paraperiglaciaire. - Conclusion du sixieme chapitre. - Conclusion de la troisieme partie. - Conclusion generale. - 1 Le concept de paraglaciaire peut-il tout expliquer?. - 2 L'apport du concept de paraglaciaire a la comprehension des formes des milieux froids. - 3 Les crises paraglaciaires. - 4 - Les pistes de recherche a explorer. - Bibliographie. - Table des illusttations. - Table des matieres.

Description / Table of Contents: Cet ouvrage présente les avancées récentes dans la connaissance de la mobilité des surfaces terrestres : nouvelles méthodes, reconstitution des paléoenvironnements, fonctionnement et modélisation des dynamiques. Les dynamiques actuelles qui façonnent la surface terrestre sont dépendantes des climats et du changement global qui est en train de les modifier. Il ne doit pas pour autant faire négliger l’importance considérable des paléodynamiques. Les modèles de fonctionnement actuels sont souvent pris en défaut s’ils ne prennent pas suffisamment en considération ce temps long.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Climate Change Governance: The Challenge for Politics and Public Administration, Enterprises and Civil Society ; PART I Theoretical and Conceptual Framing of Climate Change Governance ; Conceptualising Climate Change Governance ; Governance of Wicked Climate Adaptation Problems ; Normative Principles for Adaptation to Climate Change Policy Design and Governance ; Multi-Level Climate Governance: Strategic Selectivities in International Politics ; Cities and Governance: Coming to Terms with Climate Challenges ; Local Climate Governance and the Role of Cooperatives ; Forecasting the Adoption of Emerging Energy Technologies: Managing Climate Change, Governance and Evolving Social Values ; PART II Case Studies I: Policy-Related and Governmental Approaches ; Climate Change Issues and Malaysian Initiatives ; Climate Change and the Role of Spatial Planning in England ; The Need for Adaptive Water Governance: Lessons from Canada and Chile ; Climate Change Adaptation: Institutional Approaches for Developing Countries ; Climate Adaptive Planning for Preventing Heat-Related Health Impacts in New York City ; Governance Tools for Local Energy Autonomy ; Climate Change, Sustainability and Urban Policy: Examining the Validity and Function of Best Practices ; PART III Case Studies II: Business-Related and Technical Approaches ; A Decision Support Approach Fostering Technology Transfer Towards Sustainable Energy Development in Kenya ; Climate Change Governance and the Triple Bottom Line Model of Reporting: Delivering Accountability ; Climate Change Strategies of Selected Greek Businesses: An Empirical Investigation ; Facilitators and Inhibitors of Technologies to Tackle Climate Change: Opinions of Government and Private Actors

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Research purpose ; 3. Input-output tables: Tools for determining economic linkages ; 4. The databases: WIOD and UNIDO INDSTAT ; 5. Analytical results ; 6. Conclusion and research extension

Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt: Vorwort. - Die Bedeutung der Meeresfische. - Die Rolle des Fischs im Ökosystem. - Bedrohte Vielfalt. - Conclusio: Das große Ganze im Meer. - Von Fischen und Menschen. - Fisch - ein geschätztes Gut. - Das Gute im Fisch. - Conclusio: Nahrungs- und Einkommensquelle für Millionen. - Wie es um den Fisch steht. - Die weltweite Jagd nach Fisch. - Fern und gefährdet - die Tiefsee. - Die illegale Fischerei. - Conclusio: Nach der Einsicht langsame Besserung. - Die große Zukunft der Fischzucht. - Aquakultur - Proteinlieferant für die Welt. - Wege zur schonenden Aquakultur. - Conclusio: Die Zukunft des Zuchtfischs. - Fischbestände richtig managen. - Fischen am Limit. - Wege zu einem besseren Fischereimanagement. - Kehrtwende in der Fischreipolitik?. - Conclusio: Lernen aus leidvoller Erfahrung?. - Gesamt-Conclusio. - Glossar. - Abkürzungen. - Mitwirkende. - Quellenverzeichnis. - Abbildungsverzeichnis. - Index. - Partner und Danksagung. - Impressum.