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Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Narratives ; 1: An Introductory Example ; 2: Using Domain-Specific Languages ; 3: Implementing DSLs ; 4: Implementing an Internal DSL ; 5: Implementing an External DSL ; 6: Choosing between Internal and External DSLs ; 7: Alternative Computational Models ; 8: Code Generation ; 9: Language Workbenches ; Part II: Common Topics ; 10: A Zoo of DSLs ; 11: Semantic Model ; 12: Symbol Table ; 13: Context Variable ; 14: Construction Builder ; 15: Macro ; 16: Notification ; Part III: External DSL Topics ; 17: Delimiter-Directed Translation ; 18: Syntax-Directed Translation ; 19: BNF ; 20: Regex Table Lexer ; 21: Recursive Descent Parser ; 22: Parser Combinator ; 23: Parser Generator ; 24: Tree Construction ; 25: Embedded Translation ; 26: Embedded Interpretation ; 27: Foreign Code ; 28: Alternative Tokenization ; 29: Nested Operator Expression ; 30: Newline Separators ; 31: External DSL Miscellany ; Part IV: Internal DSL Topics ; 32: Expression Builder ; 33: Function Sequence ; 34: Nested Function ; 35: Method Chaining ; 36: Object Scoping ; 37: Closure ; 38: Nested Closure ; 39: Literal List ; 40: Literal Map ; 41: Dynamic Reception ; 42: Annotation ; 43: Parse Tree Manipulation ; 44: Class Symbol Table ; 45: Textual Polishing ; 46: Literal Extension ; Part V: Alternative Computational Models ; 47: Adaptive Model ; 48: Decision Table ; 49: Dependency Network ; 50: Production Rule System ; 51: State Machine ; Part VI: Code Generation ; 52: Transformer Generation ; 53: Templated Generation ; 54: Embedment Helper ; 55: Model-Aware Generation ; 56: Model Ignorant Generation ; 57: Generation Gap

Description / Table of Contents: This thesis summarizes the results of the WSM project's second phase (1996 - 2008). In particular it presents the major achievements that have been accomplished with the WSM 2008 database release that has been compiled under the guidance of the author. Furthermore, the thesis briefly presents three of the author's numerical models that aim at quantification the temporal changes of the crustal stress field.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. The Internalization of Externalities as Central Theme of Environmental Policy: 1. Foundations ; 2. Implications of making the concept of internalization programmatic in environment policy ; Part II. Strategies for Internalizing Externalities: 3. Negotiations ; 4. Environmental liability law ; 5. Pigovian tax ; Part III. Standard-Oriented Instruments of Environmental Policy: 6. Introduction ; 7. Types of environmental policy instruments ; 8. Assessment of environmental policy instruments ; Part IV. Extensions of the Basic Environmental-Economics Model: 9. Environmental policy with pollutant interactions ; 10. Environmental policy with imperfect competition ; 11. Internalization negotiations with asymmetrical information ; 12. The 'double dividend' of the green tax ; 13. The induction of advances in environmental technology through environment policy ; Part V. International Environmental Problems: 14. Introduction ; 15. International environmental agreements ; 16. Instruments of international environmental policy - the example of the EU's emissions trading ; 17. Epilogue: the vision of a federal US emission trading system ; Part VI. Natural Resources and Sustainable Development: 18. Resource exhaustion - the end of mankind? ; 19. Renewable resources ; 20. Sustainable development ; Epilogue: three types of externality and the increasing difficulty of internalizing them.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction to Energy Economics ; Part I Energy Demand Analysis and Forecasting ; 2 Energy Data and Energy Balance ; 3 Understanding and Analysing Energy Demand ; 4 Energy Demand Analysis at a Disaggregated Level ; 5 Energy Demand Forecasting ; 6 Energy Demand Management ; Part II Economics of Energy Supply ; 7 Economic Analysis of Energy Investments ; 8 Economics of Fossil Fuel Supply ; 9 Economics of Non-Renewable Resource Supply ; 10 Economics of Electricity Supply ; 11 The Economics of Renewable Energy Supply ; Part III Energy Markets ; 12 Energy Markets and Principles of Energy Pricing ; 13 Energy Pricing and Taxation ; 14 International Oil Market ; 15 Markets for Natural Gas ; 16 Developments in the Coal Market ; 17 Integrated Analysis of Energy Systems ; Part IV Issues Facing the Energy Sector ; 18 Overview of Global Energy Challenges ; 19 Impact of High Energy Prices ; 20 Energy Security Issues ; 21 Investment Issues in the Energy Sector ; 22 Energy Access ; Part V Economics of Energy-Environment Interactions ; 23 The Economics of Environment Protection ; 24 Pollution Control from Stationary Sources ; 25 Pollution Control from Mobile Sources ; 26 The Economics of Climate Change ; 27 The Clean Development Mechanism ; Part VI Regulation and Governance of the Energy Sector ; 28 Regulation of Energy Industries ; 29 Reform of the Energy Industry ;

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: I Gedächtnis und Selbstbeobachtung: Die mediale Verewigung des 19. Jahrhunderts ; II Zeit: Wann war das 19. Jahrhundert? ; III Raum: Wo liegt das 19. Jahrhundert? ; IV Sesshafte und Mobile ; V Lebensstandards: Risiken und Sicherheiten materieller Existenz ; VI Städte: Europäische Muster und weltweiter Eigensinn ; VII Frontiers: Unterwerfung des Raumes und Angriff auf nomadisches Leben ; VIII Imperien und Nationalstaaten: Die Beharrungskraft der Reiche ; IX Mächtesysteme, Kriege, Internationalismen: Zwischen zwei Weltkriegen ; X Revolutionen: Von Philadelphia über Nanjing nach St. Petersburg ; XI Staat: «Minimal government», Herrscherpomp und «Hörigkeit der Zukunft» ; XII Energie und Industrie: Wer entfesselte wann und wo Prometheus? ; XIII Arbeit: Die physischen Grundlagen der Kultur ; XIV Netze: Reichweite, Dichte, Löcher ; XV Hierarchien: Vertikalen im sozialen Raum ; XVI Wissen: Vermehrung, Verdichtung, Verteilung ; XVII «Zivilisierung» und Ausgrenzung ; XVIII Religion ; Anhang

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1. Global Nature ; Part I: Food, Health and the Body: Political Ecology of Sustainability ; Chapter 2. Excess Consumption or Over-production: US Farm Policy, Global Warming, and the Bizarre Atribution of Obesity ; Chapter 3. Killing for Profit: Global Livestock Industries and their Socio-Ecological Implications ; Chapter 4. "Modern" Industrial Fisheries and the Crisis of Overfishing ; Chapter 5. When People Come First: AIDS, Technical Fixes, and Social Innovation in the Global Health Market ; Part II: Capital's Margins: The Political Ecology the Slum World ; Chapter 6. Global Garbage: Waste, trash trading and local garbage politics ; Chapter 7. Green evictions: Environmental discourses of a "slum-free" Delhi ; Part III: Risk, Certification and the Audit Economy: Political Ecology of Environmental Governance ; Chapter 8. The Politics of Certification: Consumer Knowledge, Power and Global Governance in Ecolabelling ; Chapter 9. Climate Change and the Risk Industry: The Multiplication of Fear and Value ; Chapter 10. Carbon colonialism? Offsets, Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Sustainable Development ; Part IV: War, Militarism and Insurgency: Political Ecology of Security ; Chapter 11. The Natures of the Beast: On the New Uses of the Honey Bee ; Chapter 12. Taking the Jungle out of the Forest: Counter-insurgency and the Making of National Natures ; Chapter 13. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico ; Part V: Fuelling Capitalism: Energy Scarcity and Abundance ; Chapter 14. Past Peak Oil: Political Economy of Energy Crises ; Chapter 15: Energy, Security, and Discourses of Empire and Terror ; Part VI: Blue Ecology: the Political Ecology of Water ; Chapter 16. Commons versus Commodities: Political ecologies of water privatization ; Chapter 17. The Social Construction of Scarcity: The Case of Water in Western India ; Part VII: Biopolitics and Political Ecology: Genes, Transgenes and Genomics ; Chapter 18. Governing Disorder: Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life ; Chapter 19. Transnational Transgenes: The Political Ecology of Maize in Mexico

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I Extremes, Uncertainty, and Reconstruction ; 1. The Statistics of Return Intervals, Maxima, and Centennial Events Under the Influence of Long-Term Correlations ; 2. The Bootstrap in Climate Risk Analysis ; 3. Confidence Intervals for Flood Return Level Estimates Assuming Long-Range Dependence ; 4. Regional Determination of Historical Heavy Rain for Reconstruction of Extreme Flood Events ; 5. Development of Regional Flood Frequency Relationships for Gauged and Ungauged Catchments Using L-Moments ; Part II Extremes, Trends, and Changes ; 6. Intense Precipitation and High Floods - Observations and Projections ; 7. About Trend Detection in River Floods ; 8. Extreme Value Analysis Considering Trends: Applicationto Discharge Data of the Danube River Basin ; 9. Extreme Value and Trend Analysis Based on Statistical Modelling of Precipitation Time Series ; 10. A Review on the Pettitt Test ; Part III Long-Term Phenomena and Nonlinear Properties ; 11. Detrended Fluctuation Studies of Long-Term Persistence and Multifractality of Precipitation and River Runoff Records ; 12. Long-Term Structures in Southern German Runoff Data ; 13. Seasonality Effects on Nonlinear Properties of Hydrometeorological Records ; 14. Spatial Correlations of River Runoffs in a Catchment

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Prefaces ; Part 1 - Introduction: Concepts of Security Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks ; Part 2 - Securitization of Global Environmental Change ; Part 3 - Economic, Social, Environmental Security and Human Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Near East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa and in Asia ; Part 4 - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks for Urban Centres in Hazards and Disasters ; Part 5 - Coping with Global Environmental Change: Climate Change, Soil and Desertification, Water Management, Food and Health ; Part 6 - Coping with Hazards and Strategies for Coping with Social Vulnerability and Resilience Building ; Part 7 - Coping with Global Environmental Change: Scientific, International, Regional and National Political Strategies, Policies and Measures ; Part 8 - A Technical Tool: Remote Sensing, Vulnerability Mapping and Indicators of Environmental Security Challenges and Risks ; Part 9 - Towards an Improved Early Warning of Conflicts and Hazards ; Part 10 - Summary and Conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: Seit Jahren gibt die vorliegende Broschüre einen möglichst vollständigen Überblick über das Angebot an Auslandsstipendien für Deutsche. [...] Die Broschüre umfasst sowohl die klassischen Stipendien für Studierende und Graduierte als auch weitere Förderungsmöglichkeiten für Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen, Hochschullehrer und Hochschullehrerinnen.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Hard truths on global warming: a roadmap to reading this book ; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Introduction and overview ; 2. Why global warming is such a difficult problem to solve ; Part II. The Three Dimensions to Climate Policy Strategy: 3. Regulating emissions part 1: the enthusiastic countries ; 4. Regulating emissions part 2: engaging reluctant developing countries ; 5. Promoting technological innovation ; 6. Preparing for a changing climate: adaptation, geoengineering and triage ; Part III. Putting It All Together: 7. Explaining diplomatic gridlock: what went wrong? ; 8. A new strategy ; 9. Climate change and world order: implications for the UN, government, industry and nature

Description / Table of Contents: The magnetic field of the Earth varies in space and time. Geomagnetism as research area that aims to describe and understand the sources of these variations is supported by two pillars: first, regular high-precision measurements in the global network of magnetic observatories and repeat stations are necessary to register the field and its variations at all. Second, mathematical methods are required in order to extract magnetic field models from this large data set. Methods applied to data offer insights in the mechanisms generating the magnetic field. This thesis covers both subjects. In a first part, following the description of the state of the art in observatory instrumentation, I explain in detail two instruments that have the potential to streamline the classical procedures: The Geomagnetic AUtomated SyStem GAUSS paves the way to automated absolute measurements, up to now only possible manually. The newly developed DI3 technique improves and simplies the standard manual measurements signicantly and thus reduces the requirements placed on observers. The second part deals with the mathematical tools available for geomagnetic field modelling. I focus on harmonic splines that can be derived from the classical approach of spherical harmonics. These base functions are interpolatory and have a localised shape while satisfying Laplaces equation. Hence, they are applicable to fit data regionally or globally. The harmonic splines are used with a data set made of repeat station and observatory measurements from Southern Africa. This region is of special interest because the field intensity is very low and and both spatial and temporal field gradients exist. Subdivided into an analysis of ancient (years 1961-2001) and recent (2005-2009) data, two continuous regional field models SAMS and X-SAMS are derived. From the analysis of the field models, a better understanding of the field behaviour is gained. Finally, the harmonic splines are used in a case study on globally distributed secular variation data. Rotating the data set in a system of coordinates aligned with the dipole axis and modelling it with the harmonic splines reveals the external origin of observed fast variations.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: A "new economic policy" -- Losing control over oil -- The environment moves front and center -- No more nuclear -- The changing face of coal -- Natural gas and the ability to price -- The quest for alternatives -- A crisis of confidence -- The end of an era -- Climate change : a game changer -- Shock to trance : the power of price -- The invisible hand : regulation and the rise of cap and trade -- Government for the people : Congress and the road to reform -- Disaster in the Gulf.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. Analytical framework ; 3. National, regional and state level discourses ; 4. Case study territory Serra da Capivara ; 5. Social inclusion of the Brazilian Biodiesel Program

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Die Lernarbeit: Die Situation ; Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer ; Die Leiterinnen und Leiter ; 2. Die wichtigsten Methoden: Der Lehrvortrag ; Das Lehrgespräch ; Die Murmelgruppe ; Der Vortrag mit Projektor oder Beamer ; Das Rollenspiel ; Die Gruppenarbeit ; 3. Die wichtigsten Medien: Overheadprojektor und Beamer ; Flipchart ; Pinnwand ; Audio-CDs ; Video ; Lernsoftware und Internet ; 4. Den Prozess gestalten: Symbole ; Spiele ; Krisen ; Schluss

Description / Table of Contents: Fold-and-thrust belts occur worldwide, have formed in all eras of geological time, and are widely recognized as the most common mode in which the crust accommodates shortening. Much current research on the structure of fold-and-thrust belts is focused on structural studies of regions or individual structures and on the geometry and evolution of these regions employing kinematic, mechanical and experimental modelling. In keeping with the main trends of current research, this title is devoted to the kinematic evolution and structural styles of a number of fold-and-thrust belts formed from Palaeozoic to Recent times. The papers included in this book cover a broad range of different topics, from modelling approaches to predict internal deformation of single structures, 3D reconstructions to decipher the structural evolution of groups of structures, palaeomagnetic studies of portions of fold-and-thrust belts, geometrical and kinematical aspects of Coulomb thrust wedges and structural analyses of fold-and-thrust belts to unravel their sequence of deformations.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: scarcity and frontiers ; 2. The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC) ; 3. The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD) ; 4. The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500) ; 5. Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914) ; 6. The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860) ; 7. The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914) ; 8. The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950) ; 9. The contemporary era (from 1950 to present) ; 10. Epilogue: the age of ecological scarcity?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part III - Peer and Neighborhood Effects ; 18. Identification of social interactions ; 19. Econometric models for the analysis of assignment problems in the presence of complementarity and social spillovers ; 20. Peer effects in education: a survey of the theory and evidence ; 21. The importance of segregation, discrimination, peer dynamics, and identity in explaining trends in the racial achievement gap ; 22. Labor markets and referrals ; 23. Labor and credit networks in developing economies ; 24. Risk sharing between households ; 25. Neighborhood effects and housing

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Einleitung ; 2. Kontext: Die Elektrizitätserzeugung konventioneller thermischer Kraftwerke und Flusstemperaturen ; 3. Stand der Forschung ; 4. Datengrundlage, Datenaufbereitung und Methodik ; 5. Ergebnisse ; 6. Diskussion ; 7. Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Deutschland wird zum Anschlagsraum ; 2. Der Angriff auf unseren Wohlstand ; 3. Der teuflische Plan ; 4. Bin Ladens Vermächtnis ; 5. Warum wir so verletzlich sind ; 6. Das Jahrzehnt der Furcht ; 7. Al-Kaida und die Weltwirtschaftskrise ; 8. Der Krieg gegen den Terror und die Schulden ; 9. Der Staat rüstet auf, die Wirtschaft erschlafft ; 10. Öl als Waffe ; 11. Die neuen Wirtschaftskriege ; 12. Wohlstand sichern: Wie wir den Terror besiegen

Description / Table of Contents: This is the first textbook to address all the components of the Earth's cryosphere - all forms of snow and ice, both terrestrial and marine. It provides a concise but comprehensive summary of snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, lake and river ice, permafrost, sea ice and icebergs - their past history and projected future state. It is designed for courses at upper undergraduate and graduate level in environmental science, geography, geology, glaciology, hydrology, water resource engineering and ocean sciences. It also provides a superb up-to-date summary for researchers of the cryosphere. The book includes an extensive bibliography, numerous figures and color plates, thematic boxes on selected topics and a glossary. The book builds on courses taught by the authors for many decades at the University of Colorado and the University of Alberta. Whilst there are many existing texts on individual components of the cryosphere, no other textbook covers the whole cryosphere.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I - The economics of separation ; 1. The gift world ; 2. The illusion of scarcity ; 3. Money and the mind ; 4. The trouble with property ; 5. The corpse of the commons ; 6. The economics of usury ; 7. The crisis of civilization ; 8. The turning of the age ; Part II - The economics of reunion ; 9. The story of value ; 10. The law of return ; 11. Currencies of the commons ; 12. Negative-interest economics ; 13. Steady-state and degrowth economics ; 14. The social dividend ; 15. Local and complementary currency ; 16. Transition to gift economy ; 17. Summary and roadmap ; Part III - Living the new economy ; 18. Relearning gift culture ; 19. Nonaccumulation ; 20. Right livelihood and sacred investing ; 21. Working in the gift ; 22. Community and the unquantifiable ; 23. A new materialism ; Conclusion: The more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Game theory and literature: an overview ; 2. The bible: sacrifice and unrequited love ; 3. Theology: is it rational to believe in god? ; 4. Philosophy: paradoxes of fair division ; 5. Political philosophy: how democracy resolves conflict in difficult games ; 6. Law: supreme court challenges and jury selection ; 7. Plays: modeling frustration and anger ; 8. History: magnanimity after wars ; 9. Incomplete information in literature and history ; 10. Catch-22s in literature and history ; 11. Summary and conclusions

Description / Table of Contents: The first volume principally treats families of the Early Angiosperms, Eudicots, Core Eudicots and Rosids, while the second concentrates on the Asterids. Presented in Volume 1 are microsections of the xylem and phloem of herbs, shrubs and trees of 1200 species and 85 families of various life forms of the temperate zone along altitudinal gradients from the lowland at the Mediterranean coast to the alpine zone in Western Europe. The global perspective of the findings is underlined by the analysis of 500 species from the Caucasus, the Rocky Mountains and Andes, the subtropical zone on the Canary Islands, the arid zones in the Sahara, in Eurasia, Arabia and Southwest North America, and the boreal and arctic zones in Eurasia and Canada.The presence of annual rings in all life forms demonstrates that herbs and dwarf shrubs are an excellent tool for the reconstruction of annual biomass production and the interannual dynamic of plant associations. The common principle of the anatomical expression of secondary growth is a key factor in understanding evolution and adaptation processes in all life forms, from the 2 cm tall whitlow grass (Draba arctica) in the arctic to the 40 m tall beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Central European managed forests. The study opens vast fields of research for dendrochronology, wood anatomy, taxonomy and ecology.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Ablation Depression.-Ablatometer.-Acidity of Glacier Ice.-Active Ice Wedge.-Adfreeze.-Aerial Photogrammetry for Glacial Monitoring.-Alaskan Glaciers.-Albedo.-Alps.-Altai-Sayan Glaciers.-Anabatic Winds: In Relation with Snow/Glacier Basin.-Anchor Ice.-Andean Glaciers.-Anisotropic Ice Flow.-Antarctica.-Anti-Icing.-Anti-Syngenetic Ice Wedge.-Appalachian Glacier Complex in Maritime Canada.-Arctic Hydroclimatology.-Artificial Ground Freezing.-Artificial Production of Snow.-Atmosphere-Snow/Ice Interactions.-Atmospheric Circulation and Glaciochemical Records.-Automated Glacier Mapping.-Basal Sediment Evacuation by Subglacial Drainage Systems.-Base Flow/Groundwater Flow.-Bed (Bottom) Topography.-Bed Forms (Fluvial).-Bed Roughness.-Bed Strength.-Benchmark Glacier.-Biogeochemistry of Sea Ice.-Blue Ice.-Bottom Melting or Undermelt (Ice Shelf).-Brash Ice.-Calving Glaciers.-Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains of Canada.-Cascade Mountains, USA.-Cascade System.-Catastrophic Flooding.-Catastrophic Rock Slope Failures and Mountain Glaciers.-Catchment Glacier.-Caucasus Mountains.-Characteristics of Snow and Glacier Fed Rivers in Mountainous Regions with Special Reference to Himalayan Basins.-Chemical Composition of Snow, Ice, and Glaciers.-Chemical and Microbe Records in Snow and Ice.-Chemical Processes in Snow and Ice.-Circulation and Mixing in Ice-Covered Lakes.-Cirque Glaciers.-Temperature and Precipitation.-Cloudburst.-Cohesion.-Cold-Based Glaciers.-Condensation Nuclei.-Confluence of Rivers.-Congelation Ice.-Crack.-Creep.-Crevasses.-Critical Temperature.-Crush.-Crust.-Cryoconite.-Cryodessication.-Cryofront.-Cryogenesis.-Cryogenic Aquiclude.-Cryogenic Fabric.-Cryolithology.-Cryopeg.-Cryosol.-Cryostatic Pressure.-Cryostructure.-Cryoturbation.-Dating Glacial Landforms.-Dead Ice.-Debris.-Debris Thermal Properties and Impact on Ice Ablation.-Debris-Covered Glaciers.-Deglaciation.-Degree-Days.-Depletion of Snow Cover.-Deposition from Debris-Rich Ice.-Digital Elevation Model Generation over Glacierized Region.-Digital Image Information Extraction Techniques for Snow Cover Mapping from Remote Sensing Data.-Direct Surface Runoff.-Discharge/Streamflow.-Distributary Channels.-Diurnal Cycle of Runoff.-Diverging Ice Flow.-Drift Glacier/Ice/Snow.-Dry and Wet Snow Line/Zone.-Dry Snow.-Dye Tracer Investigations of Glacier Hydrology.-Dynamics of Glaciers.-Elongation Ratio.-Englacial Conduit.-Englacial Processes.-.Environmental Isotopes.-Epigenetic Ice.-Epiglacial Morphology.-Equilibrium-Line Altitude (ELA).-Erosion of Hard Rock Bed.-Erosion Rate.-Estimation of Glacier Volume and Volume Change by Scaling Methods.-Estuary Ice Cover.-Fast Ice.-Finger Rafting.-Firn.-Fjords.-Foliation.-Forbes Band.-Formation and Deformation of Basal Ice.-Frazil.-Freezing Bottom (Ice Shelf).-Freezing Meltwater.-Freezing and Thawing Index.-Frequency Analysis of Snow Storms.-Fresh Water Storage.-Frictional Melting.-Frost.-Frozen Soil Hydrology.-Frozen Toe (Outer Zone of Glacier Snout).-Gelisols.-Geochemistry of Snow and Ice.-Geocryology.-GIS in Glaciology.-Glacial Drainage Characteristics.-Glacial Ecosystems.-Glacial Erosion.-Glacial Erratic.-Glacial Geomorphology and Landforms Evolution.-Glacial Grooves.-Glacial Overdeepening.-Glacial Striations.-Glacial Trough.-Glacial/Interglacial Cycles.-Glaciation During Times of Enhanced/Reduced Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.-Glaciations and Groundwater Flow Systems.-Glacier.-Glacier Bird of the Andes.-Glacier Cave.-Glacier Field Studies: Important Things to Notice.-Glacier Hydrology.-Glacier Lake Outburst Floods.-Glacier Mass Balance.-Glacier Motion/Ice Velocity.-Glacier Pothole.-Glacier Sliding.-Glacier Surging.-Glacier System.-Glacier Toe.-Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya.-Glacieret.-Glacierization.-Glacioeustasy.-Glaciofluvial.-Glaciogenic Deposits.-Glaciohydraulic Supercooling.-Glacioisostasy.-Glaciolacustrine.-Glaciology.-Glaciomarine.-Glaciostatic Pressure/Stress.-Glaciotectonic Structures, Landforms, and Processes.-Global Climate Modeling in Cryospheric Assessment.-Global Outlook of Snowcover, Sea Ice, and Glaciers.-Global Warming and its Effect on Snow/Ice/Glaciers.-GPS in Glaciology, Applications.-GRACE in Glaciology.-Granulometry.-Gravel Sheet.-Gravitational Mass Movement Deposits.-Gravity Flow (Mass Flow).-Gray-White Ice.-Greenland Glaciers Outside the Ice Sheet.-Greenland Ice Sheet.-Ground Ice.-Ground Penetrating Radar Measurements over Glaciers.-Heat and Mass Transfer in Sea Ice.-High Elevation Glacio-Climatology.-Himalaya.-Himalayan Glaciers in 2010 and 2035.-Hindu Kush.-Holocene Glacier Fluctuations.-Horizontal Component of Ablation.-Horizontal Component of Velocity.-Hummocks (Peat).-Hydrochemical Characteristics of Snow, Ice, and Glaciers.-Hydrogen Isotopes.-Hydrographs.-Hydrologic Cycle and Snow.-Hydrological Response in Glacierized Basins.-Hydrology of Jökulhlaups.-Hydropower: Hydroelectric Power Generation from Alpine Glacier Melt.-Hypsometry.-Hysteresis.-Ice.-Ice Age.-Ice Age Cycles: Data, Models, and Uncertainties.-Ice Age Development Theory.-Ice Apron.-Ice Caps.-Ice Caves.-Ice Core.-Ice Covered Lakes.-Ice Dams.-Ice Sheet.-Ice Sheet Mass Balance.-Ice Shelf.-Ice-Cored Moraines.-Ice-Dammed Lakes.-Ice-Marginal Deposition.-Ice-Marginal Processes.-Ice-Volcano Interactions.-Icefall.-Iceland Glaciers.-ICESat Data in Glaciological Studies.-Icicle.-Icing.-Impacts of Snow and Glaciers on Runoff.-Interception of Snow.-Interflow.-International Polar Year 20072008.-Interstitial Ice.-Intrusive Ice.-Inventory of Glaciers.-Inverse Methods in Glaciology.-Inversion Layers.-Inverted Cup Depth Hoar Crystals.-Irreducible Water.-Isotope Analysis.-Isotopic Characteristics of Ice, Snow, and Glaciers.-Isotopic Fractionation of Freezing Water.-Isotopic Signatures.-Kame and Kettle Topography.-Katabatic Wind: In Relation with Snow and Glaciers.-Kilimanjaro.-Kunlun Mountains.-Lake Ellsworth.-Lake Ice.-Lake Vostok.-Laminated Sediments.-Landforms of Glacial Deposition.-Landforms of Glacial Erosion.-Landforms of Glacial Transportation.-Landscapes of Glacial Erosion.-Last Glacial Maximum Glaciation (LGM/LGP) in High Asia (Tibet and Surrounding Mountains).-Latent Heat of Condensation.-Latent Heat of Fusion/Freezing.-Latent Heat of Sublimation.-Latent Heat of Vaporization/Condensation.-Lateroglacial.-Lateroglacial Landform Systems.-Laurentide Ice Sheet.-Layering of Snow.-LIDAR in Glaciology.-Little Ice Age.-Lobe.-Mapping of Internal Glacial Layers.-Marginal Channel (Lateral Meltwater Channel).-Marginal Ice Zones.-Marine Glaciers.-Marine Ice Sheet.-Mechanical Weathering.-Median Elevation of Glaciers.-Mediterranean Glaciers and Glaciation.-Melt Runoff Modeling.-Melting Processes.-Meltwater Channels.-Meltwater Conduit.-Meltwater Erosion.-Meltwater Pressure.-Meltwater Storage.-Microorganisms Associated with Glaciers.-Monitoring and Warning Systems.-Monsoonal Records Observed from Snow/Ice/Glacier.-Moraine.-Moulins.-Mount Everest.-Mount Kenya.-Mountain Geomorphology.-Natural Hazards Associated with Glaciers and Permafrost.-Negative Temperature Gradient (in Ice).-Neoglaciation.-Network of Stakes.-New Zealand Glaciers.-Niche Glacier.-Normalized-Difference Snow Index (NDSI).-Nye (N) Channels.-Ogives.-Optical Remote Sensing of Alpine Glaciers.-Orographic Precipitation.-Outlet Glacier.-Overburden Pressure.-Oxygen Isotopes.-Palaeo Glaciofluvial Sediment Systems.-Palaeo-Channel.-Palaeo-Ice Stream.-Palaeoclimate and Past Glaciations.-Palaeohydrology.-Pamirs.-Pancake Ice.-Papua.-Paraglacial Landscape Transformations.-Patagonia.-Paternoster Lakes.-Peak Flood Glacier Discharge.-Percolation Zone.-Perennially Frozen Ground.-Periglacial.-Permacrete.-Permafrost.-Permafrost on Asteroids.-Permafrost and Climate Interactions.-Permafrost Modeling.-Permanent/Perpetual Snow Line.-Physical Properties of Snow.-Piedmont Glaciers.-Pingo.-Plastic Deformation.-Plastic Flow.-Pleistocene Epoch.-Plucking.-Polythermal Glaciers.-Precipitation.-Proglacial Lakes.-Quaternary Glaciation.-Radar Application in Snow, Ice, and Glaciers.-Radiative Transfer Modeling.-Radioactive Fallout.-Radioactive Isotopes.-Radioactivity.-Rain-Induced Snowmelt.-Ram Resistance.-Rating Curve.-Recession Coefficient.-Recession of Discharge.-Reconstruction of the Last Glaciations in the Whole of Asia.-Recrystallization of Ice.-Refreezing of Meltwater.-Regelation.-Remobilization (of Debris).-Resedimentation.-Retreat/Advance of Glaciers.-Rime Ice.-River Ice Hydrology.-Roche Moutonnees.-Rock Glaciers.-Rocky Mountains.-Röthlisberger (R)-Channels.-Runoff Coefficient.-Runoff Generation.-Runoff Observations.-Runout Distance.-Salinity.-Saltation.-Scandinavian Glaciers.-Sea Ice.-Sea-Level.-Seasonal Frost.-Seasonal Snow Cover.-Sediment Budgets.-Sediment Core and Glacial Environment Reconstruction.-Sediment Entrainment, Transport, and Deposition.-Sediment Flux Source-To-Sink.-Sediment Gravity Flow.-Sediment Routing.-Sediment Transfer Modeling.-Sediment Yield.-SEM Analysis of Glacial Sediments.-Septa of Englacial Debris.-Serac.-Siberia.-Slush and Sleet of Snow.-Snow.-Snow Bed/Snow Bed Vegetation.-Snow Course.-Snow Cover and Snowmelt in Forest Regions.-Snow Cover Changes in the Alps.-Snow Crystal Structure.-Snow Deformation.-Snow Density.-Snow Depth.-Snow Drift.-Snow Gauge.-Snow Grains.-Snow Hydrology.-Snow Layer.-Snow Load.-Snow Metamorphism.-Snow Microstructure.-Snow Pellet.-Snow Pillow.-Snow Pit.-Snow Ripening.-Snow Skating.-Snow Skiing.-Snow Storm.-Snow and Vegetation Interaction.-Snow Water Equivalent.-Snowboard.-Solifluction.-Solute in Glacial Meltwaters.-Solutes in Glacier Ice.-Specific Melt Rate.-Stable Isotopes.-Stage-Discharge Relationship.-Stationary Glacier.-Stratigraphy of Snowpacks.-Streamflow Trends in Mountainous Regions.-Structural Glaciology.-Subglacial Borehole Instrumentation.-Subglacial Drainage System.-Subglacial Lakes, Antarctic.-Subglacial Processes.-Subglacial Volcanism.-Subglacial Weathering.-Sublimation from Snow and Ice.-Summer Accumulation Type Glaciers.-Super Cooling Clouds.-Supercooled Water.-Supra-Glacial Debris Entrainments.-Surface Energy Balance.-Surface Temperature of Snow and Ice.-Suspended Sediment Concentration.-Suspended Sediment Dynamics.-Suspended Sediment Load.-Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry for Glacier Movement Studies.-Talik.-Tarn.-Temperate Glaciers.-Temperature Lapse Rates in Glacierized Basins.-Temperature Profile of Snowpack.-Terminus.-Terraces.-Thaw Weakening.-Thermal Infrared Sensors.-Thermal Regime of Ice-Covered Lakes.-Thermokarst.-Thinning of Arctic Sea Ice.-Thinning of Glaciers.-Tibetan Plateau.-Tidewater Glaciers.-Tien Shan Glaciers.-Till.-Topographic Normalization of Multispectral Satellite Imagery.-Transformations of Snow at the Earths Surface and its Climatic and Environmental Consequences.-Transient Snowline.-Tree-Ring Indicators of Glacier Fluctuations.-Tributary Glaciers.-Urban Snow.-U-Shape Valley.-Vein Ice.-V-Shaped Valley.-Water Balance in the Glacierized Region.-Westerlies and their Effects on Maritime Ice Caps and Glaciers.-WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service).-Winter Accumulation Glacier.-Year-Round Ablation Pattern.-Younger Dryas

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Klimaschutz und Energiewende - Die großen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts ; 2. Die Einsparpotenziale an Energie und CO2 in Deutschland ; 3. Best-Practice-Beispiele ; 4. Bisherige Barrieren - Warum Energieeffizienz in Unternehmen noch nicht umfassend umgesetzt wird ; 5. Der Zukunftsfonds und das Zukunftsprogramm ; 6. Anhang

Description / Table of Contents: A unique interdisciplinary study of the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society from 20,000 years ago to the present day within the Jordan Valley. It describes how state-of-the-art models can simulate the past, present and future climates of the Near East, reviews and provides new evidence for environmental change from geological deposits, builds hydrological models for the River Jordan and associated wadis and explains how present day urban and rural communities manage their water supply. The volume provides a new approach and new methods that can be applied for exploring the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society in arid and semi-arid regions throughout the world. It is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students concerned with the impacts of climate change and hydrology on human society, especially in the Near East.

Description / Table of Contents: The latest Mars missions are returning data of unprecedented fidelity in their representation of the martiansurface. New data include images with spatial resolution better than 30 cm per pixel, stereo imaging-derivedterrain models with one meter postings, high-resolution imaging spectroscopy, and RADAR data that revealsubsurface structure. This book reveals how this information is being used to understand the evolution ofmartian landscapes, and includes topics such as fluvial flooding, permafrost and periglacial landforms,debris flows, deposition and erosion of sedimentary material, and the origin of lineaments on Phobos, thelarger martian moon. Contemporary remote sensing data of Mars, on a par with those of Earth, reveallandscapes strikingly similar to regions of our own planet, so this book will be of interest to Earth scientistsand planetary scientists alike. An overview chapter summarising Mars' climate, geology and exploration isincluded for the benefit of those new to Mars.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung ; 1. Der Klimawandel - Fakten und Bewertungen ; 2. Der »State of the Art« der Klimaethik ; 3. Gerechtigkeit auf dem Prüfstand ; 4. Eine utilitaristische Position zum Klimaproblem ; 5. Politische Maßnahmen ; Schluss

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Teil I - Ökonomische Rationalität ; I.1 Was ist ökonomische Rationalität ; I.2 Optimierung ; I.3 Grenzen der Optimierung ; I.4 Jenseits der Optimierung ; I.5 Kommunikation in der ökonomischen Praxis ; I.6 Regeln ; I.7 Kooperation und ökonomische Rationalität ; I.8 Regeln und Optimierung ; I.9 Kooperation und Konkurrenz ; I.10 Eine kohärentistische Konzeption ökonomischer Rationalität ; Teil II - Ethik ; II.1 Verlässlichkeit ; II.2 Urteilskraft ; II.3 Entscheidungsstärke ; II.4 Besonnenheit ; II.5 Autarkie und Empathie ; II.6 Loyalität und Respekt ; II.7 Gerechtigkeit und Charakter ; II.8 Kardinaltugenden - modernisiert ; II.9 Achtsamkeit ; II.10 Persönliche Integrität ; Teil III - Praktische Vernunft ; III.1 Präferenzen und Entscheidungen ; III.2 Gründe für Handlungen ; III.3 Jenseits des Egoismus ; III.4 Begrenzung der Wünsche ; III.5 Freiheit und Gleichheit ; III.6 Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz ; III.7 Nachhaltigkeit und Ökologie ; III.8 Die Rolle des Staates ; III.9 Die Rolle der Zivilgesellschaft ; III.10 Resümee: Eine humane Ökonomie

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Forstwirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen ; 2 Der Beitrag der Forstwissenschaft zur Mechanisierung ; 3 Entwicklung und Produktion der Forsttechnik ; 4 Mechanisierung in den forstlichen Produktionsbereichen ; 4.1 Saatgutgewinnung ; 4.2 Forstpflanzenanzucht ; 4.3 Walderneuerung ; 4.4 Holzernte und Holztransport ; 4.5 Forstliche Nebenproduktion ;

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Regulating discrimination - the paradox of a weak state ; 2. Washington outlaws discrimination with a broad brush ; 3. The end of Jim Crow - the personnel arsenal put to new purposes ; 4. Washington means business ; 5. Fighting bias with bureaucracy ; 6. The Reagan revolution and the rise of diversity management ; 7. The feminization of HR and Work-Family programs ; 8. Sexual harassment as employment discrimination ; 9. How personnel defined equal opportunity

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I - Social Preferences ; 1. Nature and nurture effects on children's outcomes: What have we learned from studies of twins and adoptees ; 1. Social norms and preferences ; 3. Preferences for status: evidence and economic implications ; 4. Preferences for redistribution ; 5. Theories of statistical discrimination and affirmative action: a survey ; 6. Social construction of preferences ; 7. The evolutionary foundations of preferences ; 8. Social norms ; 9. The economics of cultural transmission and socialization ; 10. Civic capital as the missing link ; 11. Does culture matter? ; Part II - Social Actions ; 12. An overview of social networks and economic applications ; 13. Local interactions ; 14. Diffusion, strategic interaction, and social structure ; 15. Learning in networks ; 16. Formation of networks and coalitions ; 17. Matching, allocation, and exchange of discrete resources

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: PART I. Foundations ; 1: The Nature of Theory ; 2: The Logic of Inference ; PART II. Macroecology ; 3: Scaling Metrics and Macroecology ; 4: Overview of Macroecological Models and Theories ; PART III. The Maximum Entropy Principle ; 5: Entropy, Information, and the Concept of Maximum Entropy ; 6: MaxEnt at work ; PART IV. Macroecology and MaxEnt ; 7: The Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology (METE) ; 8: Testing METE ; PART V. A Wider Perspective ; 9: Applications to Conservation ; 10: Connections to other theories ; 11: Future Directions ; Epilogue: Is a Comprehensive Unified Theory of Ecology possible? What might it look like? ; Appendix A. Access to plant census data from a serpentine grassland ; Appendix B. A fractal model ; Appendix C. Predicting the SAR: An alternative approach

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Vorwort: Wie Kastanien, die vom Himmel fallen ; Einführung: Gemeingüter sind nicht, sie werden gemacht ; Gemeingüter fordern uns heraus ; Gemeingüter pflegen - lokal und global ; Wenn's funktionieren soll: Gestaltungsprinzipien für Gemeingüter

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The role of a climate policy mix; 3. Implementing a carbon price, the example of cap and trade; 4. Shifting investment to low-carbon choices; 5. Co-operation among developed countries - a role for carbon markets?; 6. A world of different carbon prices; 7. International support for low-carbon growth in developing countries; 8. Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface: The Death and Rebirth of Economics 1. Needs, Capabilities, and Quality of Life: Refocusing Sustainable Development 2. The Overshadowing of Needs 3. Sustainability as a Challenge to the Capability Approach 4. From Individual Well-Being to Sustainable Development: A Path Where Psychologists and Economist Meet 5. The Life-Chances Concept: A Sociological Perspective on Equity and Sustainable Development 6. Human Needs Frameworks and Their Contribution as Analytical Instruments in Sustainable Development Policy-Making 7. A Plea for the Self-Aware Sustainability Researcher: Learning from Business Transformation Processes for Transitions to Sustainable Development 8. Transition Towards Sustainable Development: Which Tensions Emerge? How To Deal With Them?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Basic Concepts. 1.1 Systems and Experiments. 1.2 The Model Concept. 1.3 Simulation. 1.4 Building Models. 1.5 Analyzing Models. 1.6 Kinds of Mathematical Models. 1.7 Using Modeling and Simulation in Product Design. 1.8 Examples of System Models. 1.9 Summary. 1.10 Literature. 2. A Quick Tour of Modelica. 2.1 Getting Started with Modelica. 2.2 Object-Oriented Mathematical Modeling. 2.3 Classes and Instances. 2.4 Inheritance. 2.5 Generic Classes. 2.6 Equations. 2.7 Acausal Physical Modeling. 2.8 The Modelica Software Component Model. 2.9 Partial Classes. 2.10 Component Library Design and Use. 2.11 Example: Electrical Component Library. 2.12 The Simple Circuit Model. 2.13 Arrays. 2.14 Algorithmic Constructs. 2.15 Discrete Event and Hybrid Modeling. 2.16 Packages. 2.17 Annotations. 2.18 Naming Conventions. 2.19 Modelica Standard Libraries. 2.20 Implementation and Execution of Modelica. 2.21 History. 2.22 Summary. 2.23 Literature. 2.24 Exercises. 3. Classes and Inheritance. 3.1 Contract Between Class Designer and User. 3.2 A Class Example. 3.3 Variables. 3.4 Behavior as Equations. 3.5 Access Control. 3.6 Simulating the Moon Landing Example. 3.7 Inheritance. 3.8 Summary. 3.9 Literature. 4. System Modeling Methodology. 4.1 Building System Models. 4.2 Modeling a Tank System. 4.3 Top-Down Modeling if a DC-Motor from Predefined Components. 4.4 Designing Interfaces-Connector Classes. 4.5 Summary. 4.6 Literature. 5. The Modelica Standard Library. 5.1 Summary. 5.2 Literature. Appendix A. Glossary. Appendix B. OpenModelica and OMNotebook Commands. Appendix C. Textual Modeling with OMNotesbook and DrModelica. Appendix D. Graphical Modeling Exercises.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Historical Background of Climate Change Issues 3. Climate Policy Changes in Japan from 1987 to 2005 4. Climate Policy Changes in Germany from 1987 to 2005 5. Beliefs of Actors in Japan and Germany 6. The Introduction of the Cap and Trading Scheme in Germany -- Factors to Determine the Major Policy Change in Germany 7. A Comparative Analysis of Climate Policy Change in Germany and Japan: A Path to Paradigmatic Policy Change. Annex I: List of Interviewees. Annex II: Questionnaire Concerning Actors' Beliefs.

Description / Table of Contents: This work, published in two volumes, contains descriptions of the wood and bark anatomies of 3000 dicotyledonous plants of 120 families, highlighting the anatomical and phylogenetic diversity of dicotyledonous plants of the Northern Hemisphere.

Description / Table of Contents: This report presents biogeochemical data obtained by the 51st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in the austral summer of 2009 - 2010. The data include measurements of the temperature, salinity, and inorganic nutrient concentrations of seawater shallower than 500 m in the Southern Ocean.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Cretaceous and Tertiary climate change and the past distribution of megathermal rainforests ; 2 Andean montane forests and climate change ; 3 Climate and vegetation change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin ; 4 The Quaternary history of Far Eastern rainforests ; 5 Rainforest responses to past climatic changes in tropical Africa ; 6 Prehistoric human occupation and impacts on neotropical forest landscapes during the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene ; 7 The past, present, and future importance of fire in tropical rainforests ; 8 Ultraviolet insolation and the tropical rainforest: Altitudinal variations, Quaternary and recent change, extinctions, and the evolution of biodiversity ; 9 Climate change in the Amazon Basin: Tipping points, changes in extremes, and impacts on natural and human systems ; 10 Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests ; 11 Biogeochemical cycling in tropical forests ; 12 The response of South American tropical forests to recent atmospheric changes ; 13 Ecophysiological response of lowland tropical plants to Pleistocene climate ; 14 Tropical environmental dynamics: A modeling perspective ; 15 Modeling future effects of climate change on tropical forests ; 16 Conservation, climate change, and tropical forests ; Taxonomic index

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung ; I. DIE GESELLSCHAFT UND IHR GARTEN: ZEITDIAGNOSTISCHE BEOBACHTUNGEN ; Urban Gardening. Grüne Signaturen neuer urbaner Zivilisation ; Eigensinnige Beheimatungen. Gemeinschaftsgärten als Orte des Widerstands gegen die neoliberale Ordnung ; Gärtner(n) ohne Grenzen: Eine neue Politik des »Sowohl-als-auch« urbaner Gärten? ; Perspektiven einer Postwachstumsökonomie: Fremdversorgung oder urbane Subsistenz? ; Koop Stadt? Was ist von der »kreativen Stadt« zukünftig zu erwarten? ; Das Paradies vor der Haustür: Die Ursprünge einer Sehnsucht aus der Perspektive soziokultureller Trendforschung ; Urbane Gärten und bäuerliche Landwirtschaft: Welche Städter braucht das Land? ; II. VERORTUNGEN: GÄRTEN UND URBANITÄT ; Agrarfluren und Stadtentwicklung ; Produktive Stadtlandschaft. Über ungewöhnliche Verbindungen von Stadt und Ernährung ; Gärten gehören zur Stadt! Zur städtebaulichen Relevanz der urbanen Landwirtschaft ; Urbane Landwirtschaft und Stadtteilentwicklung. Die Nachbarschaftsgärten in Leipzig ; Schrumpfende Städte - wachsende Freiräume? Die Vision vom »Urbanen Gartenreich«. Zur Erfindungneuer Urbanitäten in Zeiten sinkender Bevölkerung: der Fall Dessau ; Leberecht Migges Konzepte nachhaltiger urbaner Landwirtschaft ; Urbane Gärten als Orte spiritueller Erfahrung ; III. DIE LEBENDIGKEIT DES GARTENS: EIN LEBENSWISSENSCHAFTLICHES PLÄDOYER ; Der Garten als Lebenshaltung oder warum Natur in der Stadt wichtig ist ; IV. EINE ANDERE WELT PFLANZEN: GÄRTEN ALS RÄUME VON SUBSISTENZ UND POLITIK ; Ökonomie des Gebens. Wohlstand durch Subsistenz ; Guerilla Gardening und andere politische Gartenbewegungen. Eine globale Perspektive ; Urbane Landwirtschaft als postfossile Strategie. Agricultura Urbana in Kuba ; Peak Oil und die Krise der Böden - urbane Nutzgärten und ihr Beitrag zu einer postfossilen Gesellschaft ; Leben von Gärten. Warum urbane Gärten wichtig sind für Ernährungssouveränität, Eigenmacht und Sortenvielfalt ; Von Pflanzerkolonien zum nomadisierenden Junggemüse. Zur Geschichte des Community Gardening in Berlin ; Vorratskammer. Die Künstlerinneninitiative myvillages.org bewirtet ein Festival mit lokalen Lebensmitteln

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction ; 2. The Structure of Interaction ; 3. Fish Markets: An Example of the Emergence of Aggregate Coordination ; 4. Financial Markets: Bubbles, Herds and Crashes ; 5. Public Goods: A coordination problem ; 6. Segregation: Schelling's Model ; 7. Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction : the global environmental tragedy -- A perfect moral storm -- The consumption tragedy -- Somebody else's problem? -- A shadowy and evolving tragedy -- The tyranny of the contemporary -- An intergenerational arms race? -- A global test for contemporary political institutions and theories -- Cost-benefit paralysis -- Jane Austen vs. climate economics -- Geoengineering in an atmosphere of evil -- Some initial ethics of the transition -- The immediate future -- Appendix 1 : the population tragedy -- Appendix 2 : epistemic corruption and scientific uncertainty in Michael Crichton's State of fear.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I. Problem and Theory: 1. The politics of when ; 2. Theorizing intertemporal policy choice ; Part II. Programmatic Origins: Intertemporal Choice in Pension Design: 3. Investing in the state: the origins of German pensions, 1889 ; 4. The politics of mistrust: the origins of British pensions, 1925 ; 5. Investments as political constraint: the origins of US pensions, 1935 ; 6. Investing for the short term: the origins of Canadian pensions, 1965 ; Part III. Programmatic Change: Intertemporal Choice in Pension Reform: 7. Investment as last resort: reforming US pensions, 1977 and 1983 ; 8. Shifting the long-run burden: reforming British pensions, 1986 ; 9. Committing to investment: reforming Canadian pensions, 1998 ; 10. Constrained by uncertainty: reforming German pensions, 1989 and 2001 ; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Understanding the politics of the long term.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Teil I : Internes Lehrstuhlmanagement ; 1 Die Basis schaffen ; 2. Persönliche Arbeitsmethodik ; 3. Sitzungen ; 4. Team-Klausur ; 5. Social Events eines Teams ; Teil II : Präsentieren und Moderieren ; 6. Basiswerkzeug 'Kommunikation' ; 7. Präsentations- und Vortragsgestaltung ; 8. Medientechnik ; 9. Moderationsmethoden ; 10. Umgang mit schwierigen Präsentationssituationen ; Teil III : Lehre ; 11. Den Lehrbetrieb gestalten ; 12. Anleitungen für Studierende und ihre zu erbringenden Leistungen ; 13. Studentische Leistung bewerten ; 14. Leistungsbewertung rückmelden ; 15. Die eigene Lehre bewerten lassen - Lehrevaluationen ; Teil IV: Forschung ; 16. Voraussetzungen erfolgreicher Forschung ; 17. Forschungsplanung und Forschungsprofil ; 18. Management von Forschungsarbeiten ; 19. Verwendung und Verwertung von Forschungsergebnissen ; 20. Kreativitätsmethoden ; Teil V: Schnittstellen nach außen ; 21. Die Außendarstellung eines Lehrstuhls ; 22. Wissenschaftliche und universitätsinterne Veranstaltungen ; 23. (Akademische) Schriftwechsel ; 24. Kleiner Lehrstuhl-Knigge ; Teil VI: Anhang

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Grundlagen.- Modellierungssprachen.- UML und Dialekte.- SoaML.- BPMN.- Modellierungswerkzeuge.- MID Innovator.- AndroMDA.- Eclipse.- Generatoren.- oAW.- JAVA.- .NET.- Plattform.- SOPERA.- MDA & MDSD.- Methodik.- Modellierungs-Methodik M(3).- Das Beispiel - Übersicht über alle Phasen.- Initiation: Geschäftsprozessmodellierung mit BPMN.- Evaluation: Analyse und BPEL.- Architecture Projection: Komponenten für SOA und EJB.- SoaML: Servicemodellierung.- JEE: Komponenten, die Services implementieren.- Construction und Deployment: Generierung und Plattformen.- Automatisierung: M2M-Transformationen.- Dokumentation generieren.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Prosperity lost ; The age of irresponsiblity ; Redefining prosperity ; The dilemma of growth ; The myth of decoupling ; Confronting structure ; Keynesianism and the 'green new deal' ; Macro-economics for sustainability ; Flourishing - within limits ; Governance for prosperity ; The transition to a sustainable economy ; A lasting prosperity.

Description / Table of Contents: Content: Vorwort von Ranga Yogeshwar 7Vorwort von Klaus Töpfer 11 1.GAU!Wie Katastrophen uns verändern 13 2. Wir sind gefangenWarum Alternativlosigkeit so gefährlich ist 39 3. Ja bitte! Nein danke!Auf der Suche nach Orientierung 65 4. Nach dem AusstiegKann die Energiewende gelingen? 91 5. Konsum! Konsum! Konsum!Wo bleibt das Glück in den Bilanzen? 115 6. Andere WeltenWas wir von Indien und Kenia lernen können 145 7. KonkretEs lässt sich vieles ändern 175 8. Zusammen freiEin Schritt in die Zukunft 207Danksagung 231Personenregister 233Bibliografische Informationen

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung ; Die sozialstaatliche Gründung der Bundesrepublik ; 1. Integration der Gesellschaft: Gründungskrise und Sozialpolitik in der frühen Bundesrepublik ; 2. Das Gewicht der Tradition: Die deutsche Nachkriegssozialpolitik und der Beveridge-Plan ; 3. Wie die Rente steigen lernte: Die Rentenreform 1957 ; 4. Wiedergutmachung in Deutschland 1945-2000 ; Die Entfaltung des westdeutschen Sozialstaats ; 5. Metamorphosen des Wohlfahrtsstaats ; 6. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil parlamentarischer Parteienkonkurrenz: Die Rentenreform 1972 ; 7. Im Zenit der staatlichen Wohlfahrtsproduktion: Die Reformära 1966-1974 ; Die DDR als gescheiterte Alternative ; 8. Drei Wege deutscher Sozialstaatlichkeit ; 9. Grundlinien und soziale Folgen der Sozialpolitik in der DDR ; 10. Soziale Errungenschaften? Zum sozialpolitischen Legitimitätsanspruch der zweiten deutschen Diktatur ; 11. West und Ost. Ein Vergleich der Sozialpolitik in den beiden deutschen Staaten ; Die Gefährdung des Sozialstaats nach dem Boom ; 12. Soziale Ungleichheit im Sozialstaat ; 13. Abschied von der Dynamischen Rente. Über den Einzug der Demographie und der Finanzindustrie in die Politik der Alterssicherung ; 14. Vom Problemlöser zum Problemerzeuger? Der Sozialstaat im 20. Jahrhundert

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Ecological scarcity as an economic problem ; 2. Ecosystem services and ecological landscapes ; 3. The basic natural asset model ; 4. Spatial variation in ecosystems ; 5. The open economy ; 6. Ecological collapse ; 7. The way ahead ; 8. Policies in the age of ecological scarcity

Description / Table of Contents: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global economic benefits of biodiversity, to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, the benefits of investing in natural capital, and to draw together expertise from the fields of science, economics and policy to enable practical actions. Drawing on a team of more than one hundred authors and reviewers, this book demonstrates the value of ecosystems and biodiversity to the economy, society and individuals. It underlines the urgency of strategic policy making and action at national and international levels, and presents a rich evidence base of policies and instruments in use around the world and a wide range of innovative solutions. It highlights the need for new public policy to reflect the appreciation that public goods and social benefits are often overlooked and that we need a transition to decision making which integrates the many values of nature across policy sectors. It explores the range of instruments to reward those offering ecosystem service benefits, such as water provision and climate regulation.It looks at fiscal and regulatory instruments to reduce the incentives of those running down our natural capital, and at reforming subsidies such that they respond to current and future priorities. The authors also consider two major areas of investment in natural capital - protected areas and investment in restoration. Overall the book underlines the needs and ways to transform our approach to natural capital, and demonstrates how we can practically take into account the value of ecosystems and biodiversity in policy decisions - at national and international levels - to promote the protection of our environment and contribute to a sustainable economy and to the wellbeing of societies.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Predicting the 'unpredictable' ; 2. No more Mr. Nice guy ; Part 1: Foundations: The logical flaws in the key concepts of conventional economics ; 3. The calculations of hedonism ; 4. Size does matter ; 5. The price of everything ; 6. To each according to his contribution ; Part 2: Complexities: Issues that should form part of an education in economics, but which are omitted from standard courses 7. The holy war over capital ; 8. There is madness in their method ; 9. Let's do the Time Warp again ; 10. Why they didn't see it coming ; 11. The price is not right ; 12. Misunderstanding the Great Depression and the Great Recession ; Part 3: Alternatives: Different ways to think about economics ; 13. Why I did see 'It' coming ; 14. A Monetary Model of Capitalism ; 15. Why stock markets crash ; 16. Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano ; 17. Nothing to lose but their minds ; 18. There are alternatives

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung: Über die Geschichte zur ökologischen Geistesgegenwart ; I. Spurensuche im Öko-Dschungel - Umweltschutz denken ; II. Umweltbewegungen vor der Umweltbewegung ; III. Die "ökologische Revolution" um 1970 ; IV. Die großen Dramen der Umweltbewegung ; 1. Das ewige Wechselspiel zwischen vernetztem Denken und praktischer Priorität ; 2. Charismatiker und Ökokraten ; 3. Freund-Feind- oder Win-Win-Szenario? ; 4. Die Zeitenwende um 1990 - Von der sozialen zur Generationen-Gerechtigkeit? ; 5. Umweltpolitik zwischen Globalisierung und Antiglobalisierungsbewegung ; Schluss: Die Dialektik der grünen Aufklärung ; Postskript: Ökologische Kommunikation konkret

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: APPLYING NEW TOOLS OF COMPLEXITY SCIENCE TO SOLVE OLD PROBLEMS OF POLICY ; HOW TO STRUCTURE SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS: CREATE RELIABLE TREATIES, AND IMPROVE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ; CHOOSING A MILITARY POLICY - THE HARD WAY ; WHEN GOOD EFFORTS CAUSE POOR RESULTS: HOW TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMATIC ECONOMIC POLICIES BEFORE THEY FAIL ; THE FUTURE OF POLICY

Description / Table of Contents: Die Vereinfachung des Zugangs zu Informationen im Internet als Grundlagen für die Entwicklung neuer Dienstleistungen ist wesentliches Ziel des vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie initiierten Forschungsprogramms THESEUS, welches von 2007 bis 2012 geplant ist. Am 14. September 2010 brachte acatech Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften im Rahmen des Symposiums "Internet der Dienste" Experten aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zusammen, die gemeinsam die Zwischenergebnisse des Forschungsprogramms sowie deren mögliche Umsetzung in innovative Anwendungen für den Standort Deutschland diskutierten. acatech möchte mit diesem Symposium deutlich machen, dass das Internet der Dienste und Dienstleistungen eine der zentralen Bestandteile des zukünftigen Internets sein wird.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Das Werden der Krise ; Finanzlogiken ; Der Profit wird Rente ; Eine Krise globaler Governance ; Geomonetäre Szenarien ; Nachwort