ALBERT

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more lawyers, more trials; more extraction, more pollution-all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don't count. GDP promotes a form of stupid growth and igno

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: provides a summary of Critical Zone research and outcomes from the NSF funded Critical Zone Observatories, providing a process-based description of the Critical Zone in a wide range of environments with a specific focus on the important linkages that exist amongst the processes in each zone.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Georg Forster (1754-1794) war eine der faszinierendsten Gestalten seiner Zeit: glänzender Schriftsteller, Naturforscher, Entdecker, Zeichner, Übersetzer und entschiedener Revolutionär. Auf seiner Weltumsegelung mit James Cook berührte er Eisberge mit den eigenen Händen, lief den Strand von Tahiti entlang, besuchte fremde Völker, lebte unter »Menschenfressern« und überquerte Ozeane und den Äquator. Und er stand im Zentrum des politischen Geschehens, als er - inspiriert von der Französischen Revolution - 1793 die »Mainzer Republik« ausrief, die erste Republik auf deutschem Boden. Anschaulich und fesselnd portraitiert Jürgen Goldstein dieses Ausnahmeleben, in dem sich »Freiheit« und »Naturgewalt« berührten. Niemand ist auf vergleichbare Weise das erfahrungsgetriebene Experiment eingegangen, die Natur mit dem Politischen kurzzuschließen. Die Funken, die Forster aus seinen Leitvorstellungen schlug, erhellten für einen Weltaugenblick die Aussicht, es könne so etwas wie natürliche Revolutionen geben. Jürgen Goldstein, geboren 1962, lehrt als Professor für Philosophie an der Universität Koblenz-Landau. Maßgeblich von Hans Blumenberg inspiriert, widmen sich seine Studien der Genese und dem Profil der Moderne. Seine Bücher befassen sich mit der Herausbildung der neuzeitlichen Subjektivität und Rationalität, der politischen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts und der Geschichte der Naturwahrnehmung.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Wagemutiger Entdeckungsreisender, empfindsamer Naturbetrachter, glühender Revolutionär: Georg Forster befuhr mit James Cook die Weltmeere, verfasste glänzende Reiseerzählungen und stürzte sich mit provokanten Ansichten in die politischen Debatten seiner Zeit. Er war in Mainz Mitbegründer der ersten Republik auf deutschem Boden und starb - gescheitert und vereinsamt - im Pariser Exil. In seiner ebenso fesselnden wie kenntnisreichen Biographie entwirft Jürgen Goldstein mit Eleganz und Tiefenschärfe ein anschauliches Panorama von Forsters rastlosem Leben zwischen Euphorie und Elend - das Leben eines Weltbürgers, der davon überzeugt war, dass sich die Freiheit eines Tages mit Naturgewalt ihren Wag bahnen müsse.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Umfassende Informationen, Normenaktualität, leichte Verständlichkeit und schnelle Nutzbarkeit der Auslegungs- oder Berechnungsgleichungen ermöglichen die sofortige Dimensionierung von Bauteilen. Unter www.roloff-matek.de findet man interaktive Excel-Arbeitsblätter zu ausgesuchten Hauptkapiteln des Lehrbuchs. Unter www.mdesign.de/roloff-matek kann die Software MDESIGN kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. In der vorliegenden 22. Auflage wurde die zurückgezogene DS 952 durch die neue Richtlinie DVS 1612 für Schweißverbindungen im Schienenfahrzeugbau ersetzt und hierbei auch die Berechnung der Schweißnahtspannungen überarbeitet. Bei hochfesten Schraubenverbindungen ist die Berechnung jetzt an die aktuelle VDI 2230 (Ausgabe 12/2014) angepasst. Die Punktschweißverbindungen wurden auch auf den europäischen Standard gemäß EC 3 bzw. EC 9 gebracht. Der Inhalt Konstruktionsgrundlagen - Toleranzen und Passungen - Festigkeitsberechnung - Tribologie - Kleb- und Lötverbindungen - Schweiß-, Niet- und Schraubenverbindungen - Bolzen- und Stiftverbindungen - Elastische Federn - Achsen, Wellen, Zapfen - Wellen/Nabenverbindungen - Kupplungen - Bremsen - Wälz- und Gleitlager - Riemen- und Kettengetriebe - Rohrleitungen - Dichtungen - Zahnräder und Zahnradgetriebe - Außenverzahnte Stirnräder, Kegelräder, Schraubrad- und Schneckengetriebe Die Zielgruppen Studierende, Techniker und Ingenieure des Maschinenbaus, die mit der Auslegung und Berechnung sowie ausgeführten Maschinenelementen in der Konstruktion zu tun haben Die Autoren Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Herbert Wittel, OStR a.D., unterrichtete Konstruktionslehre und Maschinenelemente an der Fachschule Technik in Reutlingen. Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Muhs, OStR a.D. unterrichtete diese Fächer an der Fachschule Technik in Braunschweig. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jannasch lehrt Konstruktion und Maschinenelemente an der Hochschule Augsburg. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Voßiek lehrt Maschinenelemente und Technische Mechanik an der Hochschule Augsburg

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and sustainability policies were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. They are largely based on investigations of living spaces, and the evolution and differentiation of varied life forms. This perspective is embedded in the practical and theoretical European problem situations of the past and lacks social and cultural differentiation. The transformation of spatial and natural relations as a result of the globalization process is so radical that new theories are needed to solve 21st century ecological problems. Moreover, in view of the lack of an ontologically sound and promising strategy for transdisciplinary problem solving, as well as an acceptable consideration of the power of cultural schemas relating to natural living’s interpretations, there is a strong need to focus on sustainable social practices, habits, and routines, rather than on predominantly living spaces or eco-topes. This book elaborates on the transdisciplinary approach by reflecting on the theoretical heritage and a global perspective of sustainability, by focusing on the primary role of a social approach in sustainability research, and by putting emphasis on cultural dimension of sustainability. It postulates that global sustainability is grounded in a global understanding of our everyday activities

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: An account of the results of the 2 March 1987 earthquake in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the aftermath's effects on the people and places on the Rangitaiki Plains

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo - which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both-biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about -7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth's hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species-constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth. Dr Andrew Glikson is an Earth and Paleo-climate Scientist, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Research School of Earth Science, the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Planetary Science Institute, and a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book offers a broad perspective on important topics in earthquake geotechnical engineering and gives specialists and those that are involved with research and application a more comprehensive understanding about the various topics. Consisting of eighteen chapters written by authors from the most seismic active regions of the world, such as USA, Japan, Canada, Chile, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Taiwan, and Turkey, the book reflects different views concerning how to assess and minimize earthquake damage. The authors, a prominent group of specialists in the field of earthquake geotechnical engineering, are the invited lecturers of the International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering from Case History to Practice in the honour of Professor Kenji Ishihara held in Istanbul, Turkey during 17-19 June 2013

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The cryosphere, that region of the world where water is temporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on our planet. Recent developments in remote sensing techniques, and the acquisition of new data sets, have resulted in significant advances in our understanding of all components of the cryosphere and its processes. This book, based on contributions from 40 leading experts, offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the methods, techniques and recent advances in applications of remote sensing of the cryosphere. Examples of the topics covered include: snow extent, depth, grain size and impurities; surface and subsurface melting; glaciers; accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets; ice thickness and velocities; gravimetric measurements from space; sea, lake and river ice; frozen ground and permafrost; fieldwork activities; recent and future cryosphere-oriented missions and experiments.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction and of the historical changes in climate during the past three million years. This thoroughly updated and revised text systematically examines each type of proxy and elucidates the major attributes and the limitations of each. This essential text provides a complete overview of the methods used in paleoclimatology. Paleoclimatology, Third Edition provides necessary context for those interested in understanding climate changes at present, and how present trends in climate compare with changes that have occurred in the past. The text is richly illustrated and includes an extensive bibliography for further research.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This volume provides a synopsis of current research on volcanic processes, as gained through the use ofpalaeomagnetic and rock magnetic techniques. Thermoremanent magnetization information provides apowerful means of deciphering thermal processes in volcanic deposits, including estimating the emplacementtemperature of pyroclastic deposits, which allows us to understand better the rates of coolingduring eruption and transport. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and anisotropy of remanence areused primarily to investigate rock fabrics and to quantify flow dynamics in dykes, lava flows, and pyroclasticdeposits, as well as identify vent locations. Rock-magnetic characteristics allow correlation of volcanicdeposits, but also provide means to date volcanic deposits and to understand better their cooling history.Because lava flows are typically good recorders of past magnetic fields, data from them allow understandingof changes in geomagnetic field directions and intensity, providing clues on the origin of Earth's magneticfield.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Using Natural Archives to Track Sources and Long-Term Trends of Pollution: An Introduction / Jules M. Blais, Michael R. Rosen and John P. Smol. - The Influence of Hydrology on Lacustrine Sediment Contaminant Records / Michael R. Rosen. - The Stability of Metal Profiles in Freshwater and Marine Sediments / P. M. Outridge and F. Wang. - Calculating Rates and Dates and Interpreting Contaminant Profiles in Biomixed Sediments / Zou Zou A. Kuzyk, Robie W. Macdonald and Sophia C. Johannessen. - Contaminants in Marine Sedimentary Deposits from Coal Fly Ash During the Latest Permian Extinction / Hamed Sanei, Stephen E. Grasby and Benoit Beauchamp. - Lake Sediment Records of Preindustrial Metal Pollution / Colin A. Cooke and Richard Bindler. - Lacustrine Archives of Metals from Mining and Other Industrial Activities - A Geochemical Approach / John Boyle, Richard Chiverrell and Dan Schillereff. - Organic Pollutants in Sediment Core Archives / Jennifer B. Korosi, Wenhan Cheng and Jules M. Blais. - Environmental Archives of Contaminant Particles / Neil L. Rose and Meri Ruppel. - Tracking Long-range Atmospheric Transport of Contaminants in Arctic Regions Using Lake Sediments / Jane Kirk and Amber Gleason. - Tracking Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Trace Metals, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, and Organohalogen Compounds Using Lake Sediments of Mountain Regions / Jordi Catalan. - Using Peat Records as Natural Archives of Past Atmospheric Metal Deposition / Sophia V. Hansson, Richard Bindler and François De Vleeschouwer. - Historical Contaminant Records from Sclerochronological Archives / Jessica Carilli, Branwen Williams, Bernd R. Schöne, Richard A. Krause and Stewart J. Fallon. - Contaminant Records in Ice Cores / Paolo Gabrielli and Paul Vallelonga. - Use of Catalogued Long-term Biological Collections and Samples for Determining Changes in Contaminant Exposure to Organisms / Linda M. Campbell and Paul E. Drevnick. - Tracking Contaminant Transport From Biovectors / Roland Kallenborn and Jules M. Blais. - Using Natural Archives to Track Sources and Long-Term Trends of Pollution: Some Final Thoughts and Suggestions for Future Directions / Jules M. Blais, Michael R. Rosen and John P. Smol. - Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The human footprint on the global environment now touches every corner of the world. This book explores the myriad ways that environmental archives can be used to study the distribution and long-term trajectories of chemical contaminants. The volume first focuses on reviews that examine the integrity of the historic record, including factors related to hydrology, post-depositional diffusion, and mixing processes. This is followed by a series of chapters dealing with the diverse archives and methodologies available for long-term studies of environmental pollution, such as the use of sediments, ice cores, sclerochronology, and museum specimens.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Variability of the Deepwater Horizon Surface Oil Spill Extent and Its Relationship to Varying Ocean Currents and Extreme Weather Conditions ; A Strategy for Bioremediation of Marine Shorelines by Using Several Nutrient Release Points ; Prediction of the Formation of Water-in-Oil Emulsions ; Equilibrium Theory of Bidensity Particle-Laden Flows on an Incline ; Operational Oil Spill Modelling: From Science to Engineering Applications in the Presence of Uncertainty ; Application of a Numerical Statistical Model to Estimate Potential Oil Spill Risk ; Structural Analysis of Oil-Spill Booms

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Part 1: Conceptions and Context of Climate Governance in China ; 1. Governing Climate Mitigation in Chinese Cities ; 2. Climate Governance through Collaborative Municipal Networks ; 3. Climate Networks in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong ; Part 2: Dynamics of Climate Collaborative Municipal Networks ; 4. Intragovernmental Coordination - the First Step ; 5. Networking for Green Buildings - Why is it so Attractive? ; 6. Legitimating of Electric Vehicles - Where are the Problems? ; 7. Institutionalising Climate Experiments in Collaborative Municipal Networks - What are they Leading to? ; Part 3: Challenges of Climate Governance in China ; 8. Beyond Coordination and Collaboration: A Carbon Reduction Implementation Strategy ; 9. Conclusions

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The characterisation of fluid transport properties of rocks is one of the most important, yet difficult, challenges of reservoir geophysics, but is essential for optimal development of hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs. This book provides a quantitative introduction to the underlying physics, application, interpretation, and hazard aspects of fluid-induced seismicity with a particular focus on its spatio-temporal dynamics. It presents many real data examples of microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing at hydrocarbon fields and of stimulations of enhanced geothermal systems. The author also covers introductory aspects of linear elasticity and poroelasticity theory, as well as elements of seismic rock physics and mechanics of earthquakes, enabling readers to develop a comprehensive understanding of the field. Fluid-Induced Seismicity is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students working in the fields of geophysics, geology, geomechanics and petrophysics, and a practical guide for petroleum geoscientists and engineers working in the energy industry.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Das Handbuch Seismische Exploration für tiefe Geothermie erläutert die Grundlagen bzw. Methoden der seismischen Exploration bei der Suche nach Reservoiren für die hydrothermale Nutzung in Deutschland. Ziele der hydrothermalen Exploration in Deutschland sind tief liegende Sedimentsysteme, für deren Erkundung die Seismik die geeignetste geophysikalische Methode darstellt. Durch die zunehmende Anwendung dreidimensionaler Messungen ist heute eine sehr detaillierte Erfassung des Untergrundes möglich. Um das erforderliche Verständnis für die seismische Exploration und deren Ergebnisse zu erleichtern, werden die wichtigsten Grundlagen dargelegt. Planung und Durchführung von seismischen Messungen sind komplex; sie werden in Grundzügen in diesem Buch aufgezeigt. Der Weg von den Messdaten zu einem geologischen Modell erfordert zahlreiche Annahmen, Datenbearbeitungsschritte und Interpretationstechniken. In sieben Kapiteln werden diese Themen übersichtlich vorgestellt. Das erste Kapitel des Handbuches charakterisiert die geologisch geeigneten Gebiete für eine hydrothermale Nutzung in Deutschland. Die Kapitel 2 und 3 befassen sich mit den seismischen Grundlagen und Messsystemen. Es folgen zwei Kapitel über den Aufbau von seismischen Messungen und die seismische Datenbearbeitung. Kapitel 6 gibt einen Überblick über seismische Interpretationsmethoden und geht auf die Unterschiede in den einzelnen Regionen ein. Den Abschluss bildet ein Überblick über die Kosten von seismischen Messungen samt Darlegung von Einsparpotenzialen unter Beibehaltung der aufgeführten Qualitätsmerkmale.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Executive summary ; Introduction ; 1. Investment policy ; 2. Investment promotion and facilitation ; 3. Competition policy ; 4. Financial market policy ; 5. Public governance ; 6. Other policies and cross-cutting issues ; Annex A: The Policy Framework for Investment ; Annex B: The Green Investment Policy Framework

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The superposition of stratified rocks is an unmistakable manifestation of the history of sedimentary processes through deep time. However, the relationship between the preserved strata of the rock record and the passage of geological time, indisputable in principle, is unknowable in detail; incompleteness is an essential property of the record. That gaps exist at all scales in sedimentary successions is easily demonstrated from consideration of sediment accumulation rates, and expectations of continuity and completeness at any scale are correspondingly inadvisable. Locating and quantifying the gaps in the record is, however, very much less straightforward. Predictive modelling of strata - essential for their practical exploitation - requires such geohistorical understanding, yet over-simplified assumptions about how time is represented in rock can still lead to inadequate or even false conclusions. The contributions to this volume describe a range of practical studies, theoretical investigations, and numerical experiments in which the nature of the strata-time relationship is explored. Content: Strata and time: probing the gaps in our understanding -- Updating uniformitarianism: stratigraphy as just a set of 'frozen accidents' -- GSSPs, global stratigraphy and correlation -- Scaling laws for aggradation, denudation and progradation rates: the case for time-scale invariance at sediment sources and sinks -- The power-law attributes of stratigraphic layering and their possible significance -- The importance of doing nothing: stasis in sedimentation systems and its stratigraphic effects -- Investigating the occurrence of hierarchies of cyclicity in platform carbonates -- Cyclostratigraphy: data filtering as a source of spurious spectral peaks -- Stratigraphic continuity and fragmentary sedimentation: the success of cyclostratigraphy as part of integrated stratigraphy -- Synthesis of time-stratigraphic relationships and their impact on hydrocarbon reservoir distribution and performance, Bridport Sand Formation, Wessex Basin, UK -- 4D Wheeler diagrams: concept and applications -- Using the voids to fill tthe gaps: caves, time, and stratigraphy -- More gaps than shale: erosion of mud and its effect on preserved geochemical and palaeobiological signals -- More gap than record? Qualitative and quantitative assessment of stratigraphic gaps in a field based study, with examples from the Lower Silurian Pentamerus Beds of Shropshire, England and the Lower Ordovician Ribband Gp of County Wexford, Ireland -- British Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) coal-bearing sequences: where is the time? -- Use of carbon accumulation rates to estimate the duration of coal seams and the influence of atmospheric dust deposition on coal composition.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; 1. Expert Judgment Elicitation Protocols ; 2. The Future Prospect of PV and CSP Solar Technologies ; 3. The Power of Biomass: Experts Disclose the Potential for Success of Bioenergy Technologies ; 4. Expert Judgments about RD&D and the Future of Nuclear Energy ; 5. Advanced Biofuels: Future Perspectives from an Expert Elicitation Survey ; 6. Going Electric: Expert Survey on the Future of Battery Technologies for Electric Vehicles ; Annexes

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: 1. Einleitung ; 2. Stand der Forschung ; 3. Analytischer Rahmen ; 4. Hintergründe des Gegenstandes ; 5. Methode ; 6. Ergebnisse ; 7. Reflexion der Ergebnisse ; 8. Fazit und Ausblick

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This document presents the Policy-maker's Summary of the 2015 AMAP Assessments of Short-lived Climate Pollutants (Methane, Black carbon and Ozone).

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This document presents the Policy-makers Summary of the 2015 AMAP Assessments of Pollution Issues (POPs Trends; Radioactivity in the Arctic; Human Health in the Arctic).

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Section 1 Sub-Saharan Africa ; Perspectives on Climate Effects on Agriculture: The International Efforts of AgMIP in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Climate Change Impacts on West African Agriculture: An Integrated Regional Assessment (CIWARA) ; Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agricultural Systems in East Africa ; Projected Impacts of Climate Change Scenarios on the Production of Maize in Southern Africa: An Integrated Assessment Case Study of the Bethlehem District, Central Free State, South Africa ; Crop-Livestock Intensification in the Face of Climate Change: Exploring Opportunities to Reduce Risk and Increase Resilience in Southern Africa by Using an Integrated Multi-modeling Approach ; Section 2 South Asia ; Integrated Assessments of the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: An Overview of AgMIP Regional Research in South Asia ; Impact of Climate Change on the Rice-Wheat Cropping System of Pakistan ; Integrated Climate Change Assessment through Linking Crop Simulation with Economic Modeling - Results from the Indo-Gangetic Basin ; Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Maize Farms and Farm Household Incomes in South India: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu ; Climate Change Impacts on Rice Farming Systems in Northwestern Sri Lanka ; Section 3 Other AgMIP Regions ; AgMIP Regional Activities in a Global Framework: The Brazil Experience ; AgMIP Regional Activities in a Global Framework: The China Experience ; Section 4 Capacity Building and Outreach ; AgMIP Training in Multiple Crop Models and Tools ; Conclusion: Major Findings and Future Activities

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: 1. Introduction, fundamental definitions and motivation; 2. Concepts and elementary theory; 3. Reference systems and frames 4. Observational techniques: ephemerides; 5. Rigid Earth precession and nutation; 6. Deformable Earth and Love numbers; 7. Nutations of a non-rigid Earth; 8. Anelasticity; 9. Ocean and atmospheric corrections; 10. Refinements of nonrigid nutation; 11. Comparison observation-theory; 12. Conventions; 13. Mars nutations; Appendix A. Rotation representation; Appendix B. Clairaut theory; Appendix C. Definitions of equinoxes; Bibliography; Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Covering both astronomical and geophysical perspectives, this book describes changes in the Earth's orientation, specifically precession and nutation, and how they are observed and computed in terms of tidal forcing and models of the Earth's interior. Following an introduction to key concepts and elementary geodetic theory, the book describes how precise measurements of the Earth's orientation are made using observations of extra-galactic radio-sources by Very Long Baseline Interferometry techniques. It demonstrates how models are used to accurately pinpoint the location and orientation of the Earth with reference to the stars and how to determine variations in its rotation speed. A theoretical framework is also presented that describes the role played by the structure and properties of the Earth's deep interior. Incorporating suggestions for future developments in nutation theory for the next generation models, this book is ideal for advanced-level students and researchers in solid Earth geophysics, planetary science and astronomy.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Sie möchten das Organisationsmanagement in SAP ERP HCM einrichten und nutzen? Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie es geht. Lernen Sie die Arbeit mit Objekten, Infotypen und Pflegeoberflächen detailliert kennen. Erfahren Sie auch, wie Sie Auswertungen vornehmen, mit strukturellen Berechtigungen arbeiten und OM mit anderen HCM-Komponenten zusammenspielen lassen. Eine verlässliche Hilfe für Ihre Projekte und die tägliche Arbeit!

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Aus dem Inhalt: Grundlagen und Customizing, Datenmodell im Organisationsmanagement, Infotypen, Objekttypen und Objektverknüpfungen, E-Recruiting* Aufbauorganisation bearbeiten, SAP-Hierarchie-Framework, Planungsmöglichkeiten, Standardreports, Reporting-Werkzeuge, Berechtigungs- und Rollenkonzept, Integration mit anderen HCM-Komponenten

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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