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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: High-resolution Paleoclimatology - R. Bradley What is high-resolution paleoclimatology? What are its major achievements? What opportunities and challenges does it now face? What should dendroclimatology's role be in this? Chapter 2: Dendroclimatology in high-resolution Paleoclimatology - M. K. Hughes, H. F. Diaz and Th. W. Swetnam An overview of the development of dendroclimatology and an introduction to the questions posed in this book. Scientific bases of dendroclimatology Chapter 3: How well understood are the processes that create tree-ring records? - G. Vaganov Starting at the most basic level of the environmental control of tree-ring formation, do we have the necessary biological and ecophysiological understanding of this to support inferences about climate variability from tree rings? What are the weak points of this understanding and how might they be strengthened? Chapter 4: The state of the art of quantitative methods in dendroclimatology - E. Cook How sound are the quantitative techniques commonly used in dendroclimatology, in chronology building, identification and reconstruction of climate variables and the checking of these reconstructions? Are they appropriate to the material being analyzed and to the climatological problems being addressed? How might they be improved? Chapter 5: Detecting low-frequency change using tree rings - K. Briffa What limits the ability of tree-ring records to faithfully record climate variability at low frequencies (multi-centennial to millennial)? How might those limitations be overcome, if at all? What are the advantages and limitations of older and more novel approaches? What are the implications of these limitations? Reconstruction of climate patterns and values relative to today's climate Chapter 6: Dendroclimatology at regional and continental scales - R. Villalba What have been the major contributions of dendroclimatology to climatology so far? In what regions and for which climate problems is exciting progress now being made? What next? Chapter 7: Dendroclimatology at hemispheric and global scales - M. K. Hughes and M. Mann What are the achievements of dendroclimatology as applied at hemispheric and global scales climate patterns, circulation indices and large-scale means? What are the limitations of this approach? How might they be overcome? How might dendroclimatology contribute to the study of central pressing problems such as "How big is climate sensitivity? How has the last century, and especially recent decades, compared with earlier centuries? How faithful a representation of variability in recent centuries does the 20th century instrumental record give? Particular attention will be given to: a) identifying the most robust findings; and b) the most serious limitations. Chapter 8: Dendroclimatology, dendrohydrology and water resources management - C. Woodhouse and D. Meko How may dendroclimatology contribute to the study of water resources? How may it be used to inform modern public and decision-maker expectations of climate variability? Chapter 9: Dendroclimatology and the ecosystem impacts of climate - Th. W. SwetnamHow has dendroclimatology contributed to disturbance ecology? What is the significance of the recent changes in tree-growth-climate relationships observed in some regions, not only for dendroclimatology, but also for the understanding of the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems? Chapter 10: Dendroclimatology and the understanding of the interactions between climate variability and ancient human societies - D. Stahle and J. DeanHow has dendroclimatology contributed to understanding of the relationships between climate variability and societies in ancient times? Chapter 11: Tree rings and climate- sharpening the focus - M. K. Hughes, H. F. Diaz and Th. W. Swetnam What has been learned, using tree rings, about natural climate variability and its environmental and social impacts? What are the most significant strengths and weaknesses of dendroclimatology and the needs of, and opportunities for, future work.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume presents an overview of the current state of dendroclimatology, its contributions over the last 30 years, and its future potential. The material included is useful not only to those who generate tree-ring records of past climate-dendroclimatologists, but also to users of their results - climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists and archeologists.

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: In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths, acclaimed author of Wild, creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion. Spellbinding and luminous, A Love Letter from a Stray Moon is a unique work about passion, grief and transcendence

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Elements of Rock Mechanics Fundamentals. Basics Notions. Geomechanical Characterisation of Rocks in the Laboratory. Modelling Rock Behaviour. Determination of in situ stresses. Geomechanical Modelling Elements. 2. Geomechanics, drilling and Production. Drilling Performance. Borehole Stability during Drilling. Sand Production. Well Stimulation by Hydraulic Fracturing. Induced Thermal Fracturing. 3. Geomechanics and Reservoir. Modelling the Geomechanical and Reservoir coupling. Environmental Aspects. Geomechanical Monitoring of Reservoirs.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1. Computer Arithmetic ; Chapter 2. Interval Arithmetic ; Chapter 3. Interval Analysis ; Chapter 4. Automatic Differentiation ; Chapter 5. Interval Analysis in Action ; Chapter 6. Ordinary Differential Equations ; Appendix A. Mathematical Foundations ; Appendix B. Program Codes

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: Now in its 4th edition, this book remains the ultimate reference for all questions regarding solvents and solvent effects in organic chemistry. Retaining its proven concept, there is no other book which covers the subject in so much depth, the handbook is completely updated and contains 15% more content, including new chapters on "Solvents and Green chemistry", "Classification of Solvents by their Environmental Impact", and "Ionic Liquids".An essential part of every organic chemist's library.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: The eradication of infectious diseases : understanding the lessons and advancing experience -- Lessons from the late stages of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative -- Measles and rubella eradication in the Americas : seasoned strategies for sustained success -- Onchocerciasis : from control to possible eradication -- Political and social determinants of disease eradication -- The role of research -- Group report : assessing the feasibility of an eradication initiative -- The ethical case for eradication -- Economic evaluation of the benefits and costs of disease elimination and eradication initiatives -- Group report : developing an eradication investment case -- Guidelines for preparing an eradication investment case -- Governance models for eradication initiatives -- Managing neglected tropical disease partnerships -- Group report: elements of good governance in disease eradication initiatives -- Integration of eradication initiatives and health systems -- How can elimination and eradication initiatives best contribute to health system strengthening? -- The impacts of measles elimination activities on immunization services and health systems in six countries -- Disease eradication as a springboard for broader public health communication -- Group report : designing elimination or eradication initiatives that interface -- Effectively with health systems

Description / Table of Contents: "An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics provides an introduction to the theory and practice of applied geophysics. The book covers a range of applications including mineral and hydrocarbon exploration but the greatest emphasis is on the use of geophysics in civil engineering, and in environmental and groundwater investigations. Since the publication of the 1st edition of An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics the field of applied and environmental geophysics has grown with significant developments in the subject. The new edition will build on the success of the 1st edition and will include the following key developments: Greater discussion of survey design and standards in geophysical investigations Inclusion of more marine geophysical and geotechical case histories e.g. cable/pip laying Inclusion of examples of integrated case histories Inclusion of new sections dealing with thermal imaging of landfills and radioactivity investigations More information of physio-chemical properties of geological, engineering and environmental materials Greater discussion of borehole techniques especially topography"--

Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt: Vorwort. - Polare Ökosysteme im Klimawandel. - Eisrandblüten - wandernde Oasen in den Polarmeeren. - Antarktis: Krill besitzt Anpassungsstrategien an extreme Umweltbedingungen. - Leben bei -20°C: Warum Algen im Meereis nicht einfrieren. - Antarktis: Ozeanversauerung und Eisenmangel beeinflussen phytoplanktische Lebensgemeinschaften. - Das Meer wird sauer: Seespinne und Eisfisch spüren die Folgen des Klimawandels. - Schmelzende Gletscher - in der Westantarktis verändern sich die Ökosysteme an den Küsten. - Im Dienst der Wissenschaft: See-Elefanten erforschen das Südpolarmeer. - Ozeanische Akkustik - PALAOA sendet live aus dem Südpolarmeer. - Wenn dickes Eis kracht - Lebensvielfalt am antarktischen Meeresgrund. - Mit der 'Polarstern' in der Antarktis - Beobachtungen im Eis. - Tiefsee-Observatorium in der Antarktis: Klimawandel beeinflusst das Leben am Meeresgrund. - Plankton-Regen im Gebiet des arktischen HAUSGARTEN: was absinkende Partikel verraten. - Pelagische Arktisforschung stellt sich neuen Herausforderungen. - FRAM-Observatorium - Live-Schaltung indie arktische Tiefsee geplant. - DOM - das molekulare Gedächtnis der Ozeane. - Sibirische Wälder auf dem Weg nach Norden - Auswirkungen auf das Klima und die Biodiversität. - Nachwuchsförderung: Schüler lernen im AWI gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftlern. - Traumberuf Polarforscher - wie eine Studentin auf eisigem Weg ihr Ziel erreichte. - Marine Biowissenschaften im wissenschaftlich-gesellschaftlichen Spannungsfeld des 21. Jahrhunderts. - Ansprechpartner. - Geographische Positionen zu den Forschungsberichten dieser Broschüre.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung ; Teil I - Handlungstheorie: Der Rational-Choice-Ansatz - Anomalien, Erweiterungen, Alternativen ; 1. Die Theorie der Frame-Selektion als Überwindung der Theorie der rationalen Wahl ; 2. Praxistheorie - die rationale Wahl? ; 3. Altruismus, Egoismus, Reziprozität ; 4. Rationalität und Emotion ; Teil II - Ordnungstheorie: Die Pluralität von Modellen sozialer Ordnung und das Koordinationsproblem ; 5. Kollektives Wissen und epistemisches Vertrauen: der Ansatz der Sozialen Erkenntnistheorie ; 6. Signaling und die Theorie sozialer Normen ; 7. Koordination und Ordnungsbildung in der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie ; 8. Funktionale Differenzierung der Gesellschaft: Soziale Ordnung ohne Koordinationseinrichtungen? ; 9. Koordination durch Übersetzung ; Teil III - Kulturtheorie: Kritik und Verteidigung des subjektivistischen Kulturbegriffs ; 10. Die Emergenz von Kultur ; 11. Kultur als soziale Tatsache? ; 12. Kultur als Kompromiss ; 13. Brauchen wir den Systembegriff? Zur (un-)Vereinbarkeit von Akteurs- und Systemtheorie ; 14. Objektivitätsansprüche Kritischer Theorie heute ; Teil IV - Methodologie, Methoden, Ontologie: Übergreifende Problemperspektiven

Description / Table of Contents: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition, offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated third edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning will teach you everything you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining. Thorough updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including new material on Data Transformations, Ensemble Learning, Massive Data Sets, Multi-instance Learning, plus a new version of the popular Weka machine learning software developed by the authors. Witten, Frank, and Hall include both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. The book is targeted at information systems practitioners, programmers, consultants, developers, information technology managers, specification writers, data analysts, data modelers, database R&D professionals, data warehouse engineers, data mining professionals. The book will also be useful for professors and students of upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level data mining and machine learning courses who want to incorporate data mining as part of their data management knowledge base and expertise.

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: 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: 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: Forest damage, forest decline, forest dieback - not related to biotic agents - is occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. In Europe and Eastern North America this serious problem is considered to be, at least to some part, related to industrial air pollutants and their atmospheric conversion products, such as acid rain or ozone. Forest declines in the Pacific region have been attributed largely to natural causes involving forest dynamics, since air pollution and other negative anthropogenic influences are practically absent. Presented here are typical decline phenomena in the Pacific and Atlantic region, potential causes, effects and mitigation strategies, and the question whether there are any similarities on a functional or structural basis is addressed.

Description / Table of Contents: Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks presents a large number of diagrams showing the stability relations among minerals and groups of minerals found in metamorphic rocks. The diagrams help to determine the pressure and temperature conditions under which a given set of metamorphic rocks may have formed. Other parameters that control metamorphic mineral assemblages are also discussed and pitfalls resulting from simplifications and generalizations are highlighted. The book discusses the most common metamorphic rock types, their nomenclature, structure and graphical representation of their mineral assemblages. Part I defines basic principles of metamorphism, introduces metamorphic processes, geologic thermometry and barometry and defines metamorphic grade. Part II presents in a systematic way mineralogical changes and assemblages found in the most common types of metamorphic rocks. The computation of diagrams is based on recent advances in quantitative petrology and geochemistry. An extensive bibliography, including the key contributions and classic papers in the field, make it an invaluable source book for graduate students and professional geologists.

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: 1 Motivation and Organization of the Book ; 2 A Tale of Five Challenges ; 3 Technologies for Mitigating Climate Change ; 4 Technologies for Geo-Engineering and Adaptation ; 5 Barriers to Effective Climate and Energy Policies ; 6 Overcoming Barriers to Effective Climate and Energy Policies ; 7 The Case for Polycentric Implementation ; 8 Case Studies ; 9 Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction and summary ; The energy innovation system: an historical perspective ; Agricultural innovation ; Implications for energy innovation from the chemical industry ; Finding the endless frontier: lessons from the life sciences innovation system for energy R&D ; Federal policy and the development of semiconductors, computer hardware, and computer software: a policy model for climate-change R&D? ; Nurturing the accumulation of innovations: lessons from the internet ; Venture capital and innovation in energy

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 The Japanese Asset Price Bubble: A Heterogeneous Approach ; 3 Time of Troubles: The Yen and Japan's Economy, 1985-2008 ; 4 The Japan-US Exchange Rate, Productivity, and the Competitiveness of Japanese Industries ; 5 International Financial Integration and Japanese EconomicPerformance ; 6 Consumption, Land Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Japan ; 7 The Japanese Employment System after the Bubble Burst: New Evidence ; 8 Labor Immobility in Japan: Its Causes and Consequences ; 9 The Changing Role of Main Banks in Aiding Distressed Firms in Japan ; 10 Corporate Restructuring in Japan during the Lost Decade ; 11 An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Is anybody out there? ; 2 Life: freak side-show or cosmic imperative ; 3 A shadow biosphere ; 4 How much intelligence is out there? ; 5 New SETI: widening the search ; 6 Evidence for a galactic diaspora ; 7 Alien magic ; 8 Post-biological intelligence ; 9 First contact ; 10 Who speaks for earth?

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: TThis book presents interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for MWEPs and applies the criteria to the Lower Jordan Valley (Middle East) and the Fergana Valley (Central Asia). Both cases are characterized by transboundary conflicts, challenges caused by demographic and climate change, and by political and societal pressures. Based on the findings, the book provides recommendations for science and political decisions makers as well as for international financing institutions. It also outlines research gaps from an interdisciplinary perspective. In the past, major water engineering projects (MWEPs) have been used as an instrument to cope with the demands of growing populations and for enhancing development progress. Experiences with MWEPs have shown that a purely technical approach has not always brought about the desired results. In many cases, MWEPs even had negative implications for society and environment. Therefore, improved management strategies and enhanced technologies for a sustainable water resource management system are needed in order to meet present and future challenges. Furthermore, the continuous evaluation and optimization of these measures is essential. This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Description / Table of Contents: Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn't happen because banks are too big to fail--our addiction to private debt is to blame. Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not needed for economic growth--but it drives real estate booms and busts and leads to financial crisis and depression. Turner explains why public policy needs to manage the growth and allocation of credit creation, and why debt needs to be taxed as a form of economic pollution. Banks need far more capital, real estate lending must be restricted, and we need to tackle inequality and mitigate the relentless rise of real estate prices. Turner also debunks the big myth about fiat money--the erroneous notion that printing money will lead to harmful inflation. To escape the mess created by past policy errors, we sometimes need to monetize government debt and finance fiscal deficits with central-bank money. Between Debt and the Devil shows why we need to reject the assumption that private credit is essential to growth and fiat money is inevitably dangerous. Each has its advantages, and each creates risks that public policy must consciously balance.

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

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

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

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

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

Description / Table of Contents: Lawfulness and climate change litigation

Description / Table of Contents: "Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food, water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world. Written by leading experts, Pursuing Sustainability shows how more inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives can help you achieve your sustainability objectives. It stresses the need for understanding how capital assets are linked to sustainability goals through the complex adaptive dynamics of social-environmental systems, how committed people can use governance processes to alter those dynamics, and how successful interventions can be shaped through collaborations among researchers and practitioners on the ground. The ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable resource for anyone working in this fast-growing field, Pursuing Sustainability also features case studies, a glossary, and suggestions for further reading. Provides a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action Draws on the latest cutting-edge science and practices. Serves as the ideal companion text to more narrowly focused courses. Utilizes interdisciplinary approaches and systems perspectives. Illustrates concepts with a core set of case studies used throughout the book. Written by world authorities on sustainability. An online illustration package is available to professors."

Description / Table of Contents: Recent climate model simulations indicated that sulfate (SO4) formed from ship emissions may be one of the major contributors to the negative anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing. Due to increasingly stringent regulations on the maximum sulfur content of ship fuels this contribution is expected to decrease strongly in the future. Possibly, nitrate (NO3) formation will compensate for part of the reduction, but measurements indicate that it may be crucial to include coarse mode particle interactions with condensable trace gases in order to quantify this effect. However, none of the aerosol (sub)models previously used for such assessments accounted for the coarse mode particle effects. This provided the motivation to extend one of those submodels, namely MADE, in the present work. The new submodel, MADE3, is based on the second generation of MADE, called MADE-in. It includes nine lognormal modes to represent three size ranges with three types of aerosol particles each. The associated increase in complexity w.r.t. to MADE and MADE-in required a complete revision of the code and careful reexamination of the underlying physical assumptions, as only the fine modes had been considered in the gas–particle interactions in the predecessor submodels. The main new features of MADE3 are the ability of coarse mode particles to take up condensing vapors and to coagulate with fine mode particles, and the gas–particle partitioning of chlorine, which is mainly contained in sea spray (SS) particles. In order to test the algorithms used in the new submodel it was run in a box model setup and the results were compared to those obtained in an analogous setup with the much more detailed, particle-resolved aerosol model PartMC-MOSAIC. The comparison was performed for an idealized marine boundary layer test case and showed improved performance of MADE3 over MADE in the representation of coarse mode particles and total aerosol composition. Subsequently, MADE3 was implemented into the atmospheric chemistry general circulation model EMAC. Due to the new mode structure this required extensive adaptations to other submodels, specifically to the one used for cloud and precipitation processing of aerosol particles. EMAC does not track interstitial aerosol particles separately from those immersed in cloud droplets, ice crystals, or precipitation. Hence, a sophisticated scheme was devised and implemented for the assignment of the in-cloud or in-precipitation aerosol to one of four possible modes, instead of just one possible mode in the MADE case. The coupled model, EMAC with MADE3, was thoroughly evaluated by comparison of simulation output to station network measurements of near-surface aerosol component mass concentrations, to airborne measurements of vertical aerosol mass mixing ratio and number concentration profiles, to ground-based and airborne measurements of particle size distributions, and to station network and satellite measurements of aerosol optical depth. Satisfactory agreement with the observations was obtained and it was thus shown that MADE3 is ready for application within EMAC. The results from an identically designed simulation with the predecessor submodel MADE led to the conclusion that a fraction of the secondary aerosol species partitions to the coarse modes in MADE3 and is thus removed more quickly from the atmosphere. Furthermore, a new evaluation method was developed, which allows for comparison of model output to size-resolved electron microscopy measurements of particle composition. Both submodels, MADE3 and MADE, were finally used in EMAC simulations of the effect of ship emissions on the atmospheric aerosol. As in previous studies for year 2000 conditions, SO4 was found to be the dominant species in the fine modes in this context. In contrast to SO4, the major fraction of ship emissions-induced near-surface NO3 was found to partition to the coarse modes in the MADE3 simulations. A similar amount of fine mode NO3 as in the present and former MADE simulations was also formed. Hence, fine mode particle growth due to ship emissions was also similar, and was reduced in idealized simulations of a future low-sulfur fuel scenario. Particle volume concentration decreased by about 1 % due to ship emissions in the MADE3 simulations, but not in the MADE simulations. This finding was independent of the fuel sulfur content. In summary, the inclusion of coarse mode particle interactions and the gas–particle partitioning of chlorine could alter prior conclusions on the climate effect of ship emissions-induced aerosol perturbations, mainly due to the differences in NO3 formation. This climate effect will be re-quantified in a follow-up study by coupling the MADE3 aerosol to a two-moment cloud microphysics scheme. Further planned applications of the new submodel include the quantification of climate effects of aerosol perturbations via their influence on ice clouds as well as simulations with boundary conditions specific to measurement campaigns. Results from the latter may lead to further model improvements and can also provide guidance for the interpretation of measurement results.

Description / Table of Contents: Drawing on the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice INGOs, this work tests ideas on 'how change happens' and sets out the latest thinking on how citizens and others can drive progressive change.

Description / Table of Contents: Seit der ersten Auflage 1964 hat sich dieses Werk als Standardwerk etabliert und liegt nun in vollständig neu bearbeiteter und aktualisierter 5. Auflage vor. Diese berücksichtigt die umfangreichen Forschungsergebnisse seit Erscheinen der 4. Aufl. (1991) und fasst den aktuellen geologischen Kenntnisstand in einem einzigen Band zusammen. Auf die einleitende Darstellung der mehr als zwei Jahrhunderte umfassenden Erforschungsgeschichte folgt eine Übersicht der Naturräume, des allgemeinen geologischen Aufbaus und der erdgeschichtlichen Entwicklung Baden-Württembergs. Den Hauptteil des Buches bildet — wie in den vorherigen Auflagen — die detaillierte Darstellung der Gesteinsfolge des Landes und ihrer regionalen Faziesentwicklungen. Dem Grundgebirge, dem nicht-metamorphen Paläozoikum sowie dem Tertiär und der landschaftsgeschichtlichen Entwicklung wird breiterer Raum gegeben als in früheren Auflagen. Erstmals wird dabei die aktuell gültige, in den vergangenen Jahren länderübergreifend abgestimmte stratigraphische Nomenklatur verwendet. Sedimentations- und Klimageschichte sowie die tektonische Entwicklung des Landesgebietes werden ebenfalls ausführlicher erläutert. Dabei werden die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Geologie Baden-Württembergs und benachbarter Regionen berücksichtigt. Abschließend sind den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen menschlicher Tätigkeit und ihren geologischen Voraussetzungen eigene Kapitel gewidmet.

Description / Table of Contents: Wenn Beschleunigung das Problem ist, dann ist Resonanz vielleicht die Lösung. Dies ist, auf die kürzestmögliche Formel gebracht, die Kernthese des neuen Buches von Hartmut Rosa, das als Gründungsdokument einer Soziologie des guten Lebens gelesen werden kann. An seinem Anfang steht die Behauptung, dass sich die Qualität eines menschlichen Lebens nicht in der Währung von Ressourcen, Optionen und Glücksmomenten angeben lässt. Stattdessen müssen wir unseren Blick auf die Beziehung zur Welt richten, die dieses Leben prägt und die dann, wenn sie intakt ist, Ausdruck stabiler Resonanzverhältnisse ist. Um dies zu begründen, präsentiert Rosa zunächst das ganze Spektrum der Formen, in denen wir eine Beziehung zur Welt herstellen, vom Atmen bis hin zu kulturell ausdifferenzierten Weltbildern. Dann wendet er sich den konkreten Erfahrungs- und Handlungssphären zu – etwa Familie und Politik, Arbeit und Sport, Religion und Kunst –, in denen wir spätmodernen Subjekte Resonanz zwar suchen, aber immer seltener finden. Das hat maßgeblich mit der Steigerungslogik der Moderne zu tun, die sowohl Ursache als auch Folge einer gestörten Weltbeziehung ist, und zwar auf individueller wie kollektiver Ebene. Denn auch die großen Krisentendenzen der Gegenwartsgesellschaft – Ökokrise, Demokratiekrise, Psychokrise – lassen sich resonanztheoretisch analysieren, wie Rosa in seiner Soziologie der Weltbeziehung zeigt. Als eine umfassende Rekonstruktion der Moderne in Begriffen ihrer historisch realisierten Resonanzverhältnisse wagt sie den Versuch, den Rahmen für eine erneuerte Kritische Theorie abzustecken. „Warum haben wir immer zu wenig Zeit? Der Beschleunigungskritiker Hartmut Rosa wurde bekannt, weil er wissenschaftlich beschreibt, was viele fühlen. Jetzt hat der Soziologe ein Gegenprogramm zum gehetzten Leben entwickelt“ (Spiegel). Platz 2 der SZ/NDR-Sachbücher des Monats April 2016

Description / Table of Contents: Die sozialwissenschaftliche Dissertation nimmt den derzeitigen DIY-Trend, konkret den Handarbeitstrend, in den Fokus. Welche individuellen Gründe und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen bewegen die Menschen, wieder gemeinsam und/oder allein zu nähen und zu stricken, alte Dinge aufzuwerten oder anders zu nutzen bzw. einfach kreativ zu sein? Ist es der Wunsch nach dem Besonderen, die Abgrenzung von Anderen, der wiedererwachte Sinn für Gemeinschaft oder die Freude an der praktischen Arbeit? Und nicht zuletzt, gibt es eine Verbindung von Handarbeit zu einer nachhaltig orientierten Lebensweise? Ist Handarbeit eine soziale Innovation? Die Untersuchung basiert auf dem bereichsspezifischen Lebensstilkonzept, welches verschiedene gesellschaftliche Ebenen, die individuelle, gemeinschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Ebene, einschließt. Nach einer historischen Betrachtung der Handarbeit und einer ebenen-spezifischen Literaturschau einschließlich der Auswertung von Experteninterviews zum Thema Handarbeit erfolgt im empirischen Teil die Inhaltsanalyse von zwölf leitfadengestützten problemzentrierten Interviews mit Personen, die in ihrer Freizeit handarbeiten. Die Untersuchung bestätigt die forschungsleitenden Annahmen. Es wird deutlich, dass bei der Herausbildung der Affinität zur Handarbeit alle drei gesellschaftlichen Ebenen relevant sind: Individuelle Vorerfahrungen und Motivationen spielen ebenso eine Rolle wie die Gemeinschaft und Vernetzung mit Anderen.Gesellschaftlich betrachtet zeigt die Arbeit, dass die historischen Brüche in der Bedeutung der Handarbeit für deren heutigen Stellenwert relevant sind. Handarbeit - und im weiteren Sinne DIY - wird als soziale Innovation wahrgenommen und kann bewusstseinsbildend hinsichtlich nachhaltig orientierter Lebensweisen wirken.

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

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

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