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Note: Contents: Chapter 1. The transport sector today ; Chapter 2. Transport demand and CO2 emissions to 2050 ; Chapter 3. International freight ; Chapter 4. International passenger aviation ; Chapter 5. Mobility in cities ; Statistical annex

Note: Contents: Chapter 1. Water Everywhere and Nowhere ; Chapter 2. Back to Life ; Chapter 3. Put Watersheds to Work ; Chapter 4. Make Room for Floods ; Chapter 5. Bank It for a Dry Day ; Chapter 6. Fill the Earth ; Chapter 7. Conserve in the City ; Chapter 8. Clean It Up ; Chapter 9. Close the Loop ; Chapter 10. Let It Flow ; Chapter 11. Rescue Desert Rivers ; Chapter 12. Share

Note: Contents: Introduction: Entering a New Era of Water Management ; Part I. Abundance ; 1. First Water, Then the World ; 2. Laissez-Faire Metaphysics ; 3. Managing Water for “the People” ; Part II. Scarcity ; 4. America’s Post-colonial Model of Development ; 5. The Space of Scarcity ; Part III. Security ; 6. The Globalization of Normal Water ; 7. Securing the Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus ; Part IV. Rethinking the Anthropocene ; 8. The Anthropocene and the Naturalization of Process ; 9. Thinking Ecologically in an Age of Geology ; Conclusion: Water in the Anthropocene

Note: Contents: 1. The Politics and Political Economy of Forestland Regimes ; SECTION I: The Origins and Divergences of National Forestland Regimes ; 2. Colonialism and the Transformation of Hinterlands ; 3. Politics of 4. Political Mediation of Land Conflicts in the Hinterlands ; SECTION II: Politics of Institutional Change ; 5. Politics of Institutional Change in India's Forestland Regimes ; 6. Politics of Institutional Change in Tanzania and Mexico ; SECTION III: Policy Differences and Key Lessons ; 7. Public Accountability in Policy- making: Forest- Based Climate Change Mitigation in India, Tanzania, and Mexico ; 8. Conclusion: Toward Social Justice and Enduring Nature Conservation ; Appendix I: Number of People Affected by Forestland Conflicts ; Appendix II: A Sample of Specific Events Related to Forestland Conflicts ; Appendix III: Major Socioeconomic and Political Indicators in Case Study Countries ; Appendix IV: Inequality- Adjusted Human Development Index for Selected Regions ; Appendix V: Statistical Analysis of Forestland Claims in Gujarat, India ; References ; Index

Note: Contents: Lists of figures. - List of contributors. - Preface. - 1. Challenges for ice age dynamics: a dynamical systems perspective / Michel Crucifix, Guillaume Lenoir and Takahito Mitsui. - 2. Tipping points in the climate system / Peter Ditlevsen. - 3. Atmospheric teleconnection patterns / Steven B. Feldstein and Christian L. E. Franzke. - 4. Atmospheric regimes: the link between weather and the large scale circulation / David M. Straus, Franco Molteni and Susanna Corti. - 5. Low-frequency regime transitions and predictability of regimes in a barotropic model / Balu T. Nadiga and Terence J. O'Kane. - 6. Complex network techniques for climatological data analysis / Reik V. Donner, Marc Wiedermann and Jonathan F. Donges. - 7. On inference and validation of causality relations in climate teleconnections / Illia Horenko, Susanne Gerber, Terence J. O'Kane, James S. Risbey and Didier P. Monselesan. - 8. Stochastic climate theory / Georg A. Gottwald, Daan T. Crommelin and Christian L. E. Franzke. - 9. Stochastic subgrid modelling for geophysical and three-dimensional turbulence / Jorgen S. Frederiksen, Vassili Kitsios, Terence J. O'Kane and Meelis J. Zidikheri. - 10. Model error in data assimilation / John Harlim. - 11. Long-term memory in climate: detection, extreme events, and significance of trends / Armin Bunde and Josef Ludescher. - 12. Fractional stochastic models for heavy tailed, and long-range dependent, fluctuations in physical systems / Nicholas W. Watkins. - 13. Modelling spatial extremes using Max-Stable Processes / Mathieu Ribatet. - 14. Extreme value analysis in dynamical systems: two case studies / Tamás Bódai. - Index.

Note: Contents: Zur Einführung: Soziologie und Öffentlichkeit im Krisendiskurs ; Teil I: Öffentliche Soziologie: Grundlagen und Kontroversen ; Nach dem schnellen Wachstum: Große Transformation und öffentliche Soziologie ; Digitale Arbeit, Gewerkschaften und öffentliche Soziologie: Überlegungen zu einem inklusiven Forschungsdesign ; Caring for a Better World? Über Care, Kapitalismus und die Soziologie ; Die Zukunft der Soziologie ; Die Grenzen der Soziologie ; Gegenwartsdiagnose: Öffentlich und/oder Soziologie? ; Teil II: Anwendungsfelder öffentlicher Soziologie ; Boundary Negotiations: Grenzverschiebungen in den Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften ; Vom mit und für zum durch: Zum Verhältnis vom Forschen und Beforschtwerden sowie zur Erforschung von Commons ; Die Transformation nicht-nachhaltiger Lebensweisen und die Konturen einer öffentlichen Umweltsoziologie ; Public Sociology in der Bewegungsforschung: Zum Verhältnis von Soziologie, Gesellschaftskritik und sozialen Bewegungen ; Prekarität im Dialog: ArbeitsSoziologie als organische öffentliche Soziologie ; Care-Revolution als Herausforderung für eine öffentliche Soziologie ; Öffentliche Soziologie zu Gruppenbezogener Menschenfeindlichkeit ; Teil III: Internationale Erfahrungen ; Gewalt im Geschlechterverhältnis als Thema von Public Sociology ; Selbstmord als Protest und das Streben nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit: Öffentliche Soziologie für eine bessere Welt ; Partei ergreifen: Verheißungen und Fallstricke einer öffentlichen Soziologie im Apartheid-Südafrika ; Kritisches Engagement auf Feldern der Macht: Zyklen des soziologischen Aktivismus im Post-Apartheid-Südafrika ; Public Sociology oder Politikberatung? Erfahrungen aus Argentinien ; Teil IV: Öffentliche Soziologie, Medien, Politik ; Sprachbarrieren ; Doing Public Sociology: Das Dilemma öffentlicher Soziologie als öffentliche Nicht-Wissenschaft ; Die Public Sociology des Konvivialismus: Strategien und Probleme ; Öffentliche Sozialwissenschaft und Politik: Die Rolle der Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Public Sociology: Eine Chance für politische Interventionen? ; Das Theater als Ort öffentlicher Soziologie

Note: Contents: Chapter 1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth ; Chapter 2 Demographic Growth ; Chapter 3 Land, Labor, and Population ; Chapter 4 Toward Order and Efficiency ; Chapter 5 The Populations of Poor Countries ; Chapter 6 The Future ; Major Scientific Journals for Further Reading

Note: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1 - Political Psychology ; 1 Understanding beliefs ; 2 The drunkyard's search ; Part 2 - Heuristics and Biases ; 3 Representativeness, foreign policy judgements, and theory-driven perceptions ; 4 Prospect theory: the political implication of loss aversion ; Part 3 - Political Psychology and International Relation Theory ; 5 Signaling and perception: projecting images and drawing inferences ; 6 Political psychology research and theory: bridges and barriers ; 7 Why intelligence and policymakers clash ; 8 Identit and the Colt War ; Part 4 - Psychology and National Security ; 9 Deterrence and perception ; 10 Psychology and crisis stability ; 11 Domino beliefs ; 12 Perception, misperception, and the end of the Cold War ; Index

Note: Table of contents Abstract Zusammenfassung Abbreviations and nomenclatureI 1. Introduction 1.1 Scientific background 1.1.1 Permafrost and ground ice 1.1.2 Organic carbon pools and fluxes into the Arctic Ocean 1.1.3 Climate warming and permafrost thaw 1.1.4 Permafrost degradation and coastal erosion 1.1.5 Study area Yukon coast and Qikiqtaruk 1.2 Knowledge gaps 1.3 Aims and objectives 1.4 Thesis structure and author's contribution 2. Eroding permafrost coasts release low amounts of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from ground ice into the nearshore zone of the Arctic Ocean 2.1 Abstract 2.2 Introduction 2.3 Study area 2.4 Methods 2.4.1 Field work 2.4.2 DOC concentration 2.4.3 DOC flux estimation 2.5 Results 2.5.1 Segmentation of the coast - literature synthesis 2.5.2 DOC concentration 2.5.3 DOC stocks and fluxes 2.6 Discussion 2.6.1 DOC concentrations in ground ice 2.6.2 DOC fluxes from the YC 2.6.3 DOC fluxes and the Arctic carbon budget 2.7 Conclusion and Outlook 2.8 Acknowledgements 3.Transformation of terrestrial organic matter along thermokarst-affected permafrost coasts in the Arctic 3.1 Abstract 3.2 Introduction 3.3 Study area 3.3 Methods 3.3.1 Field work 3.3.2 Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and vegetation 3.3.3 Organic matter 3.3.4 Statistics 3.3.5 Transformation of organic matter 3.3.6 Fate of organic matter in the nearshore zone 3.4 Results 3.4.1 Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and vegetation 3.4.2 Organic matter 3.4.3 C/N-ratios and δ13C 3.4.4 Biomarkers 3.5 Discussion 3.5.1 Transformation of organic matter in the disturbed zone 3.5.2 Fate of organic matter in the nearshore zone 3.5.3 Environmental impact of the RTS 3.6 Conclusion 3.7 Acknowledgements 4. Rapid greenhouse gas release from eroding permafrost coasts 4.1 Summary 4.2 Background 4.3 Study site 4.4 Sampling and incubation setup 4.5 Findings and discussion 4.6 Conclusion 4.7 Methods 4.7.1 Incubation conditions 4.7.2 Gas measurements 4.7.3 Geo- and hydrochemical analysis 4.8 Acknowledgements 5. Synthesis 5.1 Mobilization of permafrost OC pools by coastal erosion 5.2 Transformation of permafrost OM on transit from land to sea 5.3 Fate and pathways of permafrost OC in the nearshore zone 5.4 Conclusion and outlook References Appendix I: Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in Arctic ground ice I-1 Abstract I-2 Introduction I-3 Study area and study sites I-4 Material and methods I-4-1 Laboratory analyses I-4-2 Statistical methods I-5 Results I-5-1 DOC and DIC concentrations I-5-2 Correlation matrix I-5-3 Principal components I-5-4 Univariate Tree Model (UTM) I-6 Discussion I-6-1 DOC stocks in ground ice and relevance to carbon cycling I-6-2 Carbon sequestration and origin in relation to inorganic geochemistry I-6-3 DOC mobility and quality upon permafrost degradation I-7 Conclusions and outlook I-8 Acknowledgements Appendix II: Supplementary material for Chapter 2 II-1 Supplementary table - Ground ice and geochemical data II-2 Supplementary table - Coastal segments and DOC flux Appendix III: Supplementary material for Chapter 3 III-1 Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index map III-2 Photograph of a massive ice bed in a RTS III-3 Calculation of biomarker proxies III-4 Supplementary table - Summary of geochemical data III-5 Supplementary table - Summary of statistical analysis AppendixI V: Supplementary material for Chapter 4 IV-1 Design of the incubation experiment IV-2 Photograph of a standard incubation setup IV-3 Conversion of gas amounts into mass IV-4 Total and daily aerobic CH4 production IV-5 Histogram summarizing OC losses and CO2 emissions IV-6 Supplementary table - Summary of TOC, DOC, and pH data IV-7 Supplementary table - Summary of TN, TOC/TN, and δ13C-TOC data IV-8 Supplementary table - Summary of total CO2 and CH4 production data IV-9 Supplementary table - Comparison of incubation setups IV-10 Supplementary table - Summary of daily CO2 production data IV-11 Supplementary table - Summary of daily CH4 production data Acknowledgements-Danksagung

Note: Contents: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Why Forecast? -- 1.2 The Informatics Challenge in Forecasting -- 1.3 The Model-Data Loop -- 1.4 Why Bayes? -- 1.5 Models as Scaffolds -- 1.6 Case Studies and Decision Support -- 1.7 Key Concepts -- 1.8 Hands-on Activities -- 2. From Models to Forecasts -- 2.1 The Traditional Modeler's Toolbox -- 2.2 Example: The Logistic Growth Model -- 2.3 Adding Sources of Uncertainty -- 2.4 Thinking Probabilistically -- 2.5 Predictability -- 2.6 Key Concepts -- 2.7 Hands-on Activities -- 3. Data, Large and Small -- 3.1 The Data Cycle and Best Practices -- 3.2 Data Standards and Metadata -- 3.3 Handling Big Data -- 3.4 Key Concepts -- 3.5 Hands-on Activities -- 4. Scientific Workflows and the Informatics of Model-Data Fusion -- 4.1 Transparency, Accountability, and Repeatability -- 4.2 Workflows and Automation -- 4.3 Best Practices for Scientific Computing -- 4.4 Key Concepts -- 4.5 Hands-on Activities -- 5. Introduction to Bayes -- 5.1 Confronting Models with Data -- 5.2 Probability 101 -- 5.3 The Likelihood -- 5.4 Bayes' Theorem -- 5.5 Prior Information -- 5.6 Numerical Methods for Bayes -- 5.7 Evaluating MCMC Output -- 5.8 Key Concepts -- 5.9 Hands-on Activities -- 6. Characterizing Uncertainty -- 6.1 Non-Gaussian Error -- 6.2 Heteroskedasticity -- 6.3 Observation Error -- 6.4 Missing Data and Inverse Modeling -- 6.5 Hierarchical Models and Process Error -- 6.6 Autocorrelation -- 6.7 Key Concepts -- 6.8 Hands-on Activities -- 7. Case Study: Biodiversity, Populations, and Endangered Species -- 7.1 Endangered Species -- 7.2 Biodiversity -- 7.3 Key Concepts -- 7.4 Hands-on Activities -- 8. Latent Variables and State-Space Models -- 8.1 Latent Variables -- 8.2 State Space -- 8.3 Hidden Markov Time-Series Model -- 8.4 Beyond Time -- 8.5 Key Concepts -- 8.6 Hands-on Activities -- 9. Fusing Data Sources -- 9.1 Meta-analysis -- 9.2 Combining Data: Practice, Pitfalls, and Opportunities -- 9.3 Combining Data and Models across Space and Time -- 9.4 Key Concepts -- 9.5 Hands-on Activities -- 10. Case Study: Natural Resources -- 10.1 Fisheries -- 10.2 Case Study: Baltic Salmon -- 10.3 Key Concepts -- 11. Propagating, Analyzing, and Reducing Uncertainty -- 11.1 Sensitivity Analysis -- 11.2 Uncertainty Propagation -- 11.3 Uncertainty Analysis -- 11.4 Tools for Model-Data Feedbacks -- 11.5 Key Concepts -- 11.6 Hands-on Activities -- Appendix A Properties of Means and Variances -- Appendix B Common Variance Approximations -- 12. Case Study: Carbon Cycle -- 12.1 Carbon Cycle Uncertainties -- 12.2 State of the Science -- 12.3 Case Study: Model-Data Feedbacks -- 12.4 Key Concepts -- 12.5 Hands-on Activities -- 13. Data Assimilation 1: Analytical Methods -- 13.1 The Forecast Cycle -- 13.2 Kalman Filter -- 13.3 Extended Kalman Filter -- 13.4 Key Concepts -- 13.5 Hands-on Activities -- 14. Data Assimilation 2: Monte Carlo Methods -- 14.1 Ensemble Filters -- 14.2 Particle Filter -- 14.3 Model Averaging and Reversible Jump MCMC -- 14.4 Generalizing the Forecast Cycle -- 14.5 Key Concepts -- 14.6 Hands-on Activities -- 15. Epidemiology -- 15.1 Theory -- 15.2 Ecological Forecasting -- 15.3 Examples of Epidemiological Forecasting -- 15.4 Case Study: Influenza -- 15.5 Key Concepts -- 16. Assessing Model Performance -- 16.1 Visualization -- 16.2 Basic Model Diagnostics -- 16.3 Model Benchmarks -- 16.4 Data Mining the Residuals -- 16.5 Comparing Model Performance to Simple Statistics -- 16.6 Key Concepts -- 16.7 Hands-on Activities -- 17. Projection and Decision Support -- 17.1 Projections, Predictions, and Forecasting -- 17.2 Decision Support -- 17.3 Key Concepts -- 17.4 Hands-on Activities -- 18. Final Thoughts -- 18.1 Lessons Learned -- 18.2 Future Directions -- References -- Index

Note: Contents: Introduction PART I CONCEPTS AND GLOBAL ISSUES 1. The Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. Human needs and sustainable wellbeing 3. Climate capitalism: emissions, inequality, green growth 4. Sustainable wellbeing, necessary emissions and fair burdens PART II TOWARDS ECO-SOCIAL POLICY IN THE RICH WORLD 5. From welfare states to climate mitigation states? 6. Decarbonising the economy and its social consequences 7. Decarbonising consumption: Needs, necessities and eco-social policies 8. Post-growth, redistribution and wellbeing 9. Conclusion: A three-stage transition

Note: Machine generated contents note: 1. The foundations of EU environmental law: history, aims and context; 2. Actors and instruments; 3. Principles in EU environmental law; 4. Techniques of regulating the environment; 5. Environmental rights in Europe; 6. Public enforcement of EU environmental law; 7. Private enforcement of EU environmental law; 8. Climate change; 9. Air pollution and industrial emissions; 10. EU water law; 11. Impact assessment; 12. Nature and biodiversity protection; 13. Technological risk regulation: chemicals, genetically modified organisms and nanotechnology; 14. Waste

Note: Contents: Einleitung: Energie und die Steinzeit ; 1. Die solare Disruption ; 2. Finanzen und die Disruption des Energiesystems ; 3. Strom 2.0 - Dezentrale, partizipative Energie und die Disruption der Stromversorger ; 4. Die Elektroauto-Disruption ; 5. Die Disruption durch autonome (selbstfahrende) Autos ; 6. Das Ende der Kernkraft ; 7. Das Ende des Erdöls ; 8. Erdgas - Eine Brücke ins Nirgendwo ; 9. Das Ende der Biokraftstoffe ; 10. Das Ende der Kohle

Note: Contents: 1 Nichts bleibt, wie es ist! -- Literatur -- 2 Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft -- 2.1 Vorgeschichte -- 2.2 Motivation zur Sozialen Marktwirtschaft -- 2.3 Die Implementierung -- 2.4 Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft - Eine Erfolgsgeschichte -- 2.5 Die Globalisierung -- Literatur -- 3 Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit -- 3.1 Die Grenzen des Wachstums. Ölkrisen -- 3.2 Die Grüne Bewegung. Weltgipfel -- 3.3 Nachhaltigkeit - Ein schillernder Begriff? -- 3.3.1 Nachhaltigkeit I, II und III -- 3.3.1.1 Nachhaltigkeit I -- 3.3.1.2 Nachhaltigkeit II -- 3.3.1.3 Nachhaltigkeit III -- 3.3.1.4 Die Balance aus Nachhaltigkeit I und Nachhaltigkeit II -- 3.3.2 Starke, ausgewogene und schwache Nachhaltigkeit -- 3.3.2.1 Starke Nachhaltigkeit -- 3.3.2.2 Ausgewogene Nachhaltigkeit -- 3.3.2.3 Schwache Nachhaltigkeit -- 3.3.2.4 Vergleich -- 3.3.3 Nachhaltigkeit im engeren und im weiteren Sinne -- 3.3.4 Schlussbemerkung zum Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit -- Literatur -- 4 Das Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeit -- 4.1 Was Nachhaltigkeit ist … -- 4.1.1 Nachhaltigkeit ist ein Prinzip -- 4.1.2 Was ist ein Prinzip? -- 4.1.3 Nachhaltigkeit - ein Prinzip der zweiten Art -- 4.1.4 Das Nachhaltigkeitsprinzip und der Mensch -- 4.1.5 Zwei aus dem Nachhaltigkeitsprinzip folgende Prinzipien -- 4.1.5.1 Das Endlichkeitsprinzip -- 4.1.5.2 Das Entropieprinzip -- 4.1.6 Maßnahmen zur Problementschärfung -- 4.1.6.1 Der alles treibende Parameter: Die Zahl der Weltbevölkerung -- 4.1.6.2 Geo-Engineering -- 4.1.6.3 Frieden und Entmilitarisierung -- 4.1.6.4 Energiewende -- 4.1.6.5 Auslaufmodell: Atomenergie -- 4.1.6.6 Energie- und Ressourceneinsparung -- 4.1.6.7 Nachhaltiger Konsum -- 4.1.6.8 Bewusstseins- und Verhaltensänderungen -- 4.1.7 Nicht-ideale Kreisläufe -- 4.1.8 Die Messung eines Prinzips -- 4.1.8.1 Das MIT-Modell zu den Grenzen des Wachstums -- 4.1.8.2 Nachhaltigkeitsindikatoren und -rankings -- 4.1.8.3 Der Ökologische Fußabdruck, der Wasserfußabdruck und der Ökologische Rucksack -- 4.1.8.4 Nachhaltigkeitscontrolling -- 4.1.8.5 Nachhaltigkeitsberichtserstattung und -rating -- 4.2 Was Nachhaltigkeit demzufolge nicht ist… -- 4.2.1 Nachhaltige Entwicklung -- 4.2.2 Nachhaltiges Wachstum -- 4.2.3 Entkoppeltes Wachstum -- 4.2.4 Nachhaltigkeit ist keine Strategie und kein Ziel -- 4.2.5 Nachhaltigkeit ist kein Imperativ -- 4.2.6 Verdrängungen und Projektionen -- 4.2.7 Resilienz und Autopoiese -- 4.3 Das Nachhaltigkeitsprinzip und die Wesentlichkeit -- 4.3.1 Wesentlichkeit nach GRI G4-RichtlinieStandards -- 4.3.2 Relevanz und Wesentlichkeit nach IFRS-Rahmenkonzept -- 4.3.3 Fazit zu Relevanz, Art und Wesentlichkeit -- Literatur -- 5 Der Weg zur Nachhaltigen Marktwirtschaft -- 5.1 Marktradikales Denken und Freie Marktwirtschaft -- 5.2 Konzentration auf die Nachhaltigkeit I -- 5.3 Kritik an der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft -- 5.3.1 Eine abgeschwächte Anthropozentrik -- 5.3.2 Gegenwarts- und Zukunftsorientierung -- 5.4 Von der Sozialen zur Nachhaltigen Marktwirtschaft -- 5.4.1 Die Transformation zu einer Nachhaltigen Marktwirtschaft -- 5.4.2 Die Implementierung des Nachhaltigkeitsprinzips in Deutschland -- 5.4.3 Zur EU-Nachhaltigkeitspolitik -- 5.4.4 Nachhaltigkeit im internationalen Rahmen -- 5.4.5 Nachhaltigkeit ist in den Unternehmen angekommen -- 5.4.6 Das Nachhaltigkeitsthema für Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene -- 5.5 Die Nachhaltige Marktwirtschaft -- 5.5.1 Eine erweiterte Programmatik braucht einen neuen Begriff -- 5.5.2 Nachhaltige Marktwirtschaft - Action und Ausblick -- 5.5.3 Nachhaltige Marktwirtschaft auch im Grundgesetz? -- 5.6 Vorteile einer Nachhaltigen Marktwirtschaft -- 5.6.1 Vorteile für unseren endlichen Planeten -- 5.6.2 Vorteile für die Wirtschaft -- 5.6.3 Vorteile für die Gesellschaft -- Literatur -- 6 Zusammenfassung -- Literatur -- Anhang A Vergleich Grundsatzprogramme deutscher Parteien -- Anhang B Vergleich Wahlprogramme Bundestagswahl 2013 -- Anhang C Weltkonferenzen -- Anhang D Nachhaltigkeit - Wichtige Events -- Anhang E Nachhaltigkeit - Institutionen -- Anhang F Nachhaltigkeit - Medien -- Literatur -- Stichwortverzeichnis

Note: Frontmatter -- -- Inhalt -- -- Teil A: Die deutsche Energiewende als sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld -- -- 1. Einleitung -- -- Teil B: Lokale Konflikte um Energiewendeprojekte – Inspektionen -- -- 2. „Das war aber keine Beteiligung.“ -- -- 3. „Das Maß ist voll!“ -- -- 4. „Es gibt auch schon Protesttourismus.“ -- -- Teil C: Beteiligte und Unbeteiligte – Perzeption und Perspektiven -- -- 5. „Eigentlich füllen wir nur ein Verantwortungsvakuum aus.“ -- -- 6. „Weil die Interessen völlig gleich gelagert sind, nur die Mittel und Methoden sind unterschiedliche.“ -- -- 7. „Das Ziel ist Beschleunigung und Akzeptanz.“ -- -- 8. „Also ich trau da überhaupt gar keinem.“ -- -- 10. „Absolut einseitig orientiert“ oder „Echo der Auseinandersetzung“ -- -- 11. „Ich kann einfach nicht mehr vertrauen.“ -- -- 12. Heimat -- -- Teil D: Fazit und Ausblick -- -- 13. Bürgerproteste in Zeiten der Energiewende -- -- Teil E: Anhang -- -- Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis -- -- Dank -- -- Autorinnen und Autoren.

Note: Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Stage ; Chapter 2 The Doha Round: Virtuous Circle or Infinite Loop? ; Chapter 3 Why Is the Doha Development Agenda Failing? And What Can Be Done? A Computable General Equilibrium-Game Theoretical Approach ; Chapter 4 Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success? ; Chapter 5 BRIC Agricultural Policies through a WTO Lens ; Chapter 6 Assessing the Potential Cost of a Failed Doha Round ; Chapter 7 Domestic and Trade Policies Affecting the World Cotton Market ; Chapter 8 Food Security Stocks: Economic and Operational Issues ; Chapter 9 Food Security Stocks and the WTO Legal Framework ; Chapter 10 Agricultural Insurance and the WTO ; Chapter 11 A Quantitative Analysis of Trade Policy Responses to Higher World Agricultural Commodity Prices ; Chapter 12 Food Crisis and Export Taxation: The Cost of Noncooperative Trade Policies ; Chapter 13 Conclusion: Which Policy Space in the International Trade Arena Can Support Development and Food Security?

Note: Contents: Fichte – ja gerne, aber mit Vernunft! ; 1. Grundlagen: Die Fichte (Picea abies): Verwandtschaft, Morphologie und Ökologie ; Aspekte zur Genetik und zum Vermehrungsgut der Fichte ; Die Fichte – aktuelle Vorkommen in Bayern und standörtliche Anbaueignung im Klimawandel ; Die Fichte in der Wald- und Forstgeschichte – eine soziokulturelle Betrachtung ; 2. Waldbau und Waldumbau: Zwischen Leistung und Risiko – die Fichte in der waldbaulichen Beratung ; Die Fichte im Bayerischen Staatswald ; Fichtenwirtschaft aus Sicht eines Betriebsleiters im Privatwald ; Die Fichte im Wald der Stadt Augsburg ; Die Bedeutung der Fichte in und für Thüringen ; 3. Ökologie – Waldschutz – Bergwald: Fichtenwälder in Bayern und ihre Biodiversität ; Waldschutzrisiko der Fichte ; Bayerische Alpen – ein denkbares Rückzugsgebiet für die Fichte im Klimawandel? ; 4. Aus Wissenschaft und Forschung ; Das Holz der Fichte – Eigenschaften und Verwendung ; Das Wurzelwerk der Fichte ; Effekt der Mischung auf die Struktur, die Dichte und das Ertragsniveau von Fichtenbeständen ; Betriebswirtschaftliche Chancen und Risiken der Fichtenwirtschaft im Klimawandel

Note: Der richtige Standort - ein Grußwort / Gotthilf Hempel. - Vorwort / Karin Lochte, Bernhard Diekmann. - Die Entwicklung der Forschungsstelle Potsdam / Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, Klaus Dethloff, Bernhard Diekmann, Diedrich Fritzsche. - Die Entwicklung der Atmosphärenforschung / Klaus Dethloff, Markus Rex, Roland Neuber, Annette Rinke, Dörthe Handorf, Marion Maturilli, Christoph Ritter, Peter von der Gathen, Ralph Lehmann, Wolfgang Dorn, Ingo Wohltmann. - Die Entwicklung der Periglazialforschung: Rückblick und Ausblick / Guido Grosse, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten. - Die AWIPEV-Station auf Spitzbergen / Roland Neuber, Marion Maturilli, Christoph Ritter. - Permafrost-Langzeit-Observatorien in Sibirien und auf Spitzbergen / Julia Boike, Anne Morgenstern, Guido Grosse. - Küstenforschung im Nordwesten Kanadas / Michael Fritz, Hugues Lantuit. - Das Atmosphärenobservatorium Palau - Polarforschung in den Tropen / Markus Rex, Katrin Müller. - Zum Nordpol auf einer Eisscholle - Teilnahme an der Driftstation NP-35 / Marion Maturilli, Jürgen Gräser. - Polarer Ozonverlust im Klimawandel / Markus Rex, Peter von der Gathen, Ralph Lehmann, Ingo Wohltmann. - Vom grünen Laserstrahl zur Mikrophysik des Aerosols / Christoph Ritter, Marion Maturilli, Roland Neuber. - Wie können arktische Klimaänderungen das Wetter und Klima in Mitteleuropa beeinflussen? / Dörthe Handorf, Klaus Dethloff, Annette Rinke, Ralf Jaiser, Wolfgang Dorn, Heidrun Matthes. - Permafrost im Wandel - Regionaler Fokus, globale Bedeutung / Jens Strauss, Josefine Lenz, Thomas Schneider von Deimling, Frank Günther, Lutz Schirrmeister. - Arktischer Klimawandel und terrestrische Ökosysteme / Ulrike Herzschuh, Thomas Laepple, Hanno Meyer, Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring, Heike Zimmermann, Laura Epp, Stefan Kruse, Boris Biskaborn, Diedrich Fritzsche, Birgit Heim, Bernhard Diekmann. - Das EU-Projekt PAGE21 / Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, Julia Boike, Hugues Lantuit, Leen Kaisa Viitanen. - ICOP 2016 / Karina Schollän, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten. - Nationale und internationale Sekretariate. - Potsdamer Nachwuchs. - Impressum.

Note: Contents: Part I. Economics and the Environment: 1. Environmental economics and the theory of externalities ; 2. Environmental problems and policy issues ; 3. Introduction to the theory of environmental policy ; Part II. The Design of Environmental Policy: 4. Imperfect information ; 5. Competitive output markets ; 6. Non-competitive output markets ; 7. Environmental policy with pre-existing distortions ; 8. Institutional topics in cap and trade programs ; 9. Ambient pollution control ; 10. Liability ; 11. Innovation and adoption of new technology ; 12. International environmental problems ; 13. Accumulating pollutants ; Part III. Valuing the Environment: 14. Theory of applied welfare analysis ; 15. Revealed preference models ; 16. Discrete choice models ; 17. Recreation ; 18. Property value models ; 19. Stated preference methods ; 20. Health valuation ; Part IV. The Practice of Environmental Economics: 21. Cost-benefit analysis: modeling ; 22. Cost-benefit analysis: empirical ; 23. Final thoughts.

Note: Text auf Englisch, Vorwort auf Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch, Zusammenfassung auf Englisch.

Note: 1. Einführung 2. Grundlagen der Röntgenspektroskopie 2.1 Analytische Leistungsfähigkeit 2.2 Röntgenstrahlung und deren Wechselwirkung 2.2.1 Anteile eines Röntgenspektrums 2.2.2 Intensität der charakteristischen Strahlung 2.2.3 Nomenklatur der Röntgenlinien 2.2.4 Wechselwirkung der Röntgenstrahlung mit Materie 2.2.5 Erfassung der Röntgenspektren 2.3 Die Entwicklung der Röntgenspektroskopie 2.4 Durchführung einer Analyse 2.4.1 Analysenverfahren 2.4.2 Ablauf einer Analyse 3 Probenpräparation 3.1 Ziele der Probenpräparation 3.2 Präparationstechniken 3.2.1 Präparationstechniken für feste Proben 3.2.2 Ausdringtiefe 3.2.3 Kontaminationen 3.2.4 Homogenität 3.3 Präparation kompakter und homogener Materialien 3.3.1 Metalle 3.3.2 Gläser 3.4 Kleinteilige Materialien 3.4.1 Mahlen von kleinteiligen Materialien 3.4.2 Aufbereitung der Messprobe durch Schüttung 3.4.3 Aufbereitung der Messprobe durch Pressen 3.4.4 Aufbereitung der Messprobe durch Schmelzaufschluss 3.5 Flüssige Proben 3.5.1 Direkte Messung von Flüssigkeiten 3.5.2 Spezielle Aufbereitungsprozeduren für flüssige Proben 3.6 Biologische Materialien 3.7 Stäube und Aerosole 4. Gerätetypen für die Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse 4.1 Genereller Aufbau eines Röntgenspektrometers 4.2 Vergleich von wellenlängen- und energiedispersiven Gerätesystemen 4.2.1 Spektrenerfassung 4.2.2 Auflösung 4.2.3 Zählratenverträglichkeit 4.2.4 Lichtstärke 4.2.5 Spektrenartefakte 4.2.6 Mechanischer Aufwand und Betriebskosten 4.3 Geräteklassen 4.3.1 Handheld-Geräte 4.3.2 Transportable Geräte 4.3.3 Energiedispersive Spektrometer 4.3.4 Wellenlängendispersive Spektrometer 4.3.5 Sonderformen von Röntgenspektrometern

Note: Contents: PART 1: INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Corporation and Financial Markets ; 2. Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis ; 3. Financial Decision Making and the Law of One Price ; PART II: TIME, MONEY, AND INTEREST RATES ; 4. The Time Value of Money ; 5. Interest Rates ; 6. Valuing Bonds ; PART III: VALUING PROJECTS AND FIRMS ; 7. Investment Decision Rules ; 8. Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting ; 9. Valuing Stocks ; PART IV: RISK AND RETURN ; 10. Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk ; 11. Optimal Portfolio Choice and the Capital Asset Pricing Model ; 12. Estimating the Cost of Capital ; 13. Investor Behavior and Capital Market Efficiency ; PART V: CAPITAL STRUCTURE ; 14. Capital Structure in a Perfect Market ; 15. Debt and Taxes ; 16. Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information ; 17. Payout Policy ; PART VI: ADVANCED VALUATION ; 18. Capital Budgeting and Valuation with Leverage ; 19. Valuation and Financial Modeling: A Case Study ; PART VII: OPTIONS ; 20. Financial Options ; 21. Option Valuation ; 22. Real Options ; PART VIII: LONG-TERM FINANCING ; 23. Raising Equity Capital ; 24. Debt Financing ; 25. Leasing ; PART IX: SHORT-TERM FINANCING ; 26. Working Capital Management ; 27. Short-Term Financial Planning ; PART X: SPECIAL TOPICS ; 28. Mergers and Acquisitions ; 29. Corporate Governance ; 30. Risk Management ; 31. International Corporate Finance

Note: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1 - Dilemmas of collective action ; 1 The tragedy of the commons ; 2 Strategic substitution ; 3 Strategic complementarities ; Part 2 - Solutions to social dilemmas ; 4 The shadow of the future ; 5 Playing with your progeny ; 6 Playing with the wrong goals ; Part 3 - What groups want ; 7 The problem with utilitarians ; 8 Irrational majorities ; 9 There is no general will ; Part 4 - Majority rule ; 10 Majority rule aggregates knowledge ; 11 What's special about simple majority rule ; 12 Why the middle matters ; 13 Voting weight and political influence ; Part 5 - The instability of majority rule ; 14 You can't satisfy all the majorities any of the time ; 15 Naive majorities are capable of anything ; 16 How sticky are sticky rules?

Note: Contents 1 An Observational Overview of the Equatorial Ocean 1.1 The Thermocline: The Tropical Ocean as a Two-Layer Model 1.2 Equatorial Currents 1.3 The Somali Current and the Monsoon 1.4 Deep Internal Jets 1.5 The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 1.6 Upwelling in the Gulf of Guinea 1.7 Seasonal Variations of the Thermocline 1.8 Summary References 2 Basic Equations and Normal Modes 2.1 Model 2.2 Boundary Conditions 2.3 Separation of Variables 2.4 Lamb’s Parameter, Equivalent Depths, Kelvin Phase Speeds and All that 2.5 Vertical Modes and Layer Models 2.6 Nondimensionalization References 3 Kelvin, Yanai, Rossby and Gravity Waves 3.1 Latitudinal Wave Modes: An Overview 3.2 Latitudinal Wave Modes: Structure and Spatial Symmetries 3.3 Dispersion Relations: Exact and Approximate Frequencies 3.4 Analytic Approximations to Equatorial Wave Frequencies 3.4.1 Explicit Formulas 3.4.2 Long Wave Series 3.5 Separation of Time Scales 3.6 Forced Waves 3.7 How the Mixed-Rossby Gravity Wave Earned Its Name 3.8 Hough-Hermite Vector Basis 3.8.1 Introduction 3.8.2 Inner Product and Orthogonality 3.8.3 Orthonormal Basis Functions 3.9 Applications of the Hough-Hermite Basis: Linear Initial-Value Problems 3.10 Initialization Through Hough-Hermite Expansion 3.11 Energy Relationships 3.12 The Equatorial Beta-Plane as the Thin Limit of the Nonlinear Shallow Water Equations on the Sphere References 4 The “Long Wave” Approximation & Geostrophy 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Quasi-Geostrophy 4.3 The “Meridional Geostrophy”, “Low Frequency” or “Long Wave” Approximation 4.4 Boundary Conditions 4.5 Frequency Separation of Slow [Rossby/Kelvin] and Fast [Gravity] Waves 4.6 Initial Value Problems in an Unbounded Ocean, Linearized About a State of Rest, in the Long Wave Approximation 4.7 Reflection from an Eastern Boundary in the Long Wave Approximation 4.7.1 The Method of Images 4.7.2 Dilated Images 4.7.3 Zonal Velocity 4.8 Forced Problems in the Long Wave Approximation References 5 The Equator as Wall: Coastally Trapped Waves and Ray-Tracing 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Coastally-Trapped Waves 5.3 Ray-Tracing For Coastal Waves 5.4 Ray-Tracing on the Equatorial Beta-Plane 5.5 Coastal and Equatorial Kelvin Waves 5.6 Topographic and Rotational Rossby Waves and Potential Vorticity References 6 Reflections and Boundaries 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Reflection of Midlatitude Rossby Waves from a Zonal Boundary 6.3 Reflection of Equatorial Waves from a Western Boundary 6.4 Reflection from an Eastern Boundary 6.5 The Meridional Geostrophy/Long Wave Approximation and Boundaries 6.6 Quasi-normal Modes: Definition and Other Weakly Non-existent Phenomena 6.7 Quasi-normal Modes in the Long Wave Approximation: Derivation 6.8 Quasi-normal Modes in the Long Wave Approximation: Discussion 6.9 High Frequency Quasi-free Equatorial Oscillations 6.10 Scattering and Reflection from Islands References 7 Response of the Equatorial Ocean to Periodic Forcing 7.1 Introduction 7.2 A Hierarchy of Models for Time-Periodic Forcing 7.3 Description of the Model and the Problem 7.4 Numerical Models: Reflections and “Ringing” 7.5 Atlantic Versus Pacific 7.6 Summary References 8 Impulsive Forcing and Spin-Up 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Reflection of the Switched-On Kelvin Wave 8.3 Spin-Up of a Zonally-Bounded Ocean: Overview 8.4 The Interior (Yoshida) Solution 8.5 Inertial-Gravity Waves 8.6 Western Boundary Response 8.7 Sverdrup Flow on the Equatorial Beta-Plane 8.8 Spin-Up: General Considerations 8.9 Equatorial Spin-Up: Details 8.10 Equatorial Spin-Up: Summary References 9 Yoshida Jet and Theories of the Undercurrent 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Wind-Driven Circulation in an Unbounded Ocean: f-Plane 9.3 The Yoshida Jet 9.4 An Interlude: Solving Inhomogeneous Differential Equations at Low Latitudes 9.4.1 Forced Eigenoperators: Hermite Series 9.4.2 Hutton–Euler Acceleration of Slowly Converging Hermite Series 9.4.3 Regularized Forcing 9.4.4 Bessel Function Explicit Solution for the Yoshida Jet 9.4.5 Rational Approximations: Two-Point Padé Approximants and Rational Chebyshev Galerkin Methods 9.5 Unstratified Models of the Undercurrent 9.5.1 Theory of Fofonoff and Montgomery (1955) 9.5.2 Model of Stommel (1960) 9.5.3 Gill (1971) and Hidaka (1961) References 10 Stratified Models of Mean Currents 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Modal Decompositions for Linear, Stratified Flow 10.3 Different Balances of Forces 10.3.1 Bjerknes Balance 10.4 Forced Baroclinic Flow in the “Bjerknes” Approximation 10.4.1 Other Balances 10.5 The Sensitivity of the Undercurrent to Parameters 10.6 Observations of Subsurface Countercurrents (Tsuchiya Jets) 10.7 Alternate Methods for Vertical Structure with Viscosity 10.8 McPhaden’s Model of the EUC and SSCC’s: Results 10.9 A Critique of Linear Models of the Continuously-Stratified, Wind-Driven Ocean References 11 Waves and Beams in the Continuously Stratified Ocean 11.1 Introduction 11.1.1 Equatorial Beams: A Theoretical Inevitability 11.1.2 Slinky Physics and Impedance Mismatch, or How Water Can Be as Reflective as Silvered Glass 11.1.3 Shallow Barriers to Downward Beams 11.1.4 Equatorial Methodology 11.2 Alternate Form of the Vertical Structure Equation 11.3 The Thermocline as a Mirror 11.4 The Mirror-Thermocline Concept: A Critique 11.5 The Zonal Wavenumber Condition for Strong Excitation of a Mode 11.6 Kelvin Beams: Background 11.7 Equatorial Kelvin Beams: Results References 12 Stable Linearized Waves in a Shear Flow 12.1 Introduction 12.2 UðyÞ: Pure Latitudinal Shear 12.3 Neutral Waves in Flow Varying with Both Latitude and Height: Numerical Studies 12.4 Vertical Shear and the Method of Multiple Scales References 13 Inertial Instability, Pancakes and Deep Internal Jets 13.1 Introduction: Stratospheric Pancakes and Equatorial Deep Jets 13.2 Particle Argument 13.2.1 Linear Inertial Instability 13.3 Centrifugal Instability: Rayleigh’s Parcel Argument 13.4 Equatorial Gamma-Plane Approximation 13.5 Dynamical Equator 13.6 Gamma-Plane Instability 13.7 Mixed Kelvin-Inertial Instability 13.8 Summary References 14 Kelvin Wave Instability: Critical Latitudes and Exponentially Small Effects 14.1 Proxies and the Optical Theorem 14.2 Six Ways to Calculate Kelvin Instability 14.2.1 Power Series for the Eigenvalue 14.2.2 Hermite-Padé Approximants 14.2.3 Numerical Methods 14.3 Instability for the Equatorial Kelvin Wave in the Small Wavenumber Limit 14.3.1 Beyond-All-Orders Rossby Wave Instability 14.3.2 Beyond-All-Orders Kelvin Wave Instability in Weak Shear in the Long Wave Approximation 14.4 Kelvin Instability in Shear: The General Case References 15 Nonmodal Instability 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Couette and Poiseuille Flow and Subcritical Bifurcation 15.3 The Fundamental Orr Solution 15.4 Interpretation: The “Venetian Blind Effect” 15.5 Refinements to the Orr Solution 15.6 The “Checkerboard” and Bessel Solution 15.6.1 The “Checkerboard” Solution 15.7 The Dandelion Strategy 15.8 Three-Dimensional Transients 15.9 ODE Models and Nonnormal Matrices 15.10 Nonmodal Instability in the Tropics 15.11 Summary References 16 Nonlinear Equatorial Waves 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Weakly Nonlinear Multiple Scale Perturbation Theory 16.2.1 Reduction from Three Space Dimensions to One 16.2.2 Three Dimensions and Baroclinic Modes 16.3 Solitary and Cnoidal Waves 16.4 Dispersion and Waves 16.4.1 Derivation of the Group Velocity Through the Method of Multiple Scales 16.5 Integrability, Chaos and the Inverse Scattering Method 16.6 Low Order Spectral Truncation (LOST) 16.7 Nonlinear Equatorial Kelvin Waves 16.7.1 Physics of the One-Dimensional Advection (ODA) Equation: ut + cux + buux = 0 16.7.2 Post-Breaking: Overturning, Taylor Shock or “Soliton Clusters”? 16.7.3 Viscous Regularization of Kelvin Fronts: Burgers’ Equation And Matched Asymptotic Perturbation Theory 16.8 Kelvin-Gravity Wave Shortwave Resonance: Curving Fronts and Undulations 16.9 Kelvin Solitary and Cnoidal Waves 16.10 Corner Waves and the Cnoidal-Corner-Breaking Scenario 16.11 Rossby Solitary Waves 16.12 Antisymmetr

Note: Table of Contents Preface Part I. Foundations of Data Systems 1. Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications Thinking About Data Systems Reliability Hardware Faults Software Errors Human Errors How Important Is Reliability? Scalability Describing Load Describing Performance Approaches for Coping with Load Maintainability Operability: Making Life Easy for Operations Simplicity: Managing Complexity Evolvability: Making Change Easy Summary 2. Data Models and Query Languages Relational Model Versus Document Model The Birth of NoSQL The Object-Relational Mismatch Many-to-One and Many-to-Many Relationships Are Document Databases Repeating History? Relational Versus Document Databases Today Query Languages for Data Declarative Queries on the Web MapReduce Querying Graph-Like Data Models Property Graphs The Cypher Query Language Graph Queries in SQL Triple-Stores and SPARQL The Foundation: Datalog Summary 3. Storage and Retrieval Data Structures That Power Your Database Hash Indexes SSTables and LSM-Trees B-Trees Comparing B-Trees and LSM-Trees Other Indexing Structures Transaction Processing or Analytics? Data Warehousing Stars and Snowflakes: Schemas for Analytics Column-Oriented Storage Column Compression Sort Order in Column Storage Writing to Column-Oriented Storage Aggregation: Data Cubes and Materialized Views Summary 4. Encoding and Evolution Formats for Encoding Data Language-Specific Formats JSON, XML, and Binary Variants Thrift and Protocol Buffers Avro The Merits of Schemas Modes of Dataflow Dataflow Through Databases Dataflow Through Services: REST and RPC Message-Passing Dataflow Summary Part II. Distributed Data 5. Replication Leaders and Followers Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Replication Setting Up New Followers Handling Node Outages Implementation of Replication Logs Problems with Replication Lag Reading Your Own Writes Monotonic Reads Consistent Prefix Reads Solutions for Replication Lag Multi-Leader Replication Use Cases for Multi-Leader Replication Handling Write Conflicts Multi-Leader Replication Topologies Leaderless Replication Writing to the Database When a Node Is Down Limitations of Quorum Consistency Sloppy Quorums and Hinted Handoff Detecting Concurrent Writes Summary 6. Partitioning Partitioning and Replication Partitioning of Key-Value Data Partitioning by Key Range Partitioning by Hash of Key Skewed Workloads and Relieving Hot Spots Partitioning and Secondary Indexes Partitioning Secondary Indexes by Document Partitioning Secondary Indexes by Term Rebalancing Partitions Strategies for Rebalancing Operations: Automatic or Manual Rebalancing Request Routing Parallel Query Execution Summary 7. Transactions The Slippery Concept of a Transaction The Meaning of ACID Single-Object and Multi-Object Operations Weak Isolation Levels Read Committed Snapshot Isolation and Repeatable Read Preventing Lost Updates Write Skew and Phantoms Serializability Actual Serial Execution Two-Phase Locking (2PL) Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI) Summary 8. The Trouble with Distributed Systems Faults and Partial Failures Cloud Computing and Supercomputing Unreliable Networks Network Faults in Practice Detecting Faults Timeouts and Unbounded Delays Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Networks Unreliable Clocks Monotonic Versus Time-of-Day Clocks Clock Synchronization and Accuracy Relying on Synchronized Clocks Process Pauses Knowledge, Truth, and Lies The Truth Is Defined by the Majority Byzantine Faults System Model and Reality Summary 9. Consistency and Consensus Consistency Guarantees Linearizability What Makes a System Linearizable? Relying on Linearizability Implementing Linearizable Systems The Cost of Linearizability Ordering Guarantees Ordering and Causality Sequence Number Ordering Total Order Broadcast Distributed Transactions and Consensus Atomic Commit and Two-Phase Commit (2PC) Distributed Transactions in Practice Fault-Tolerant Consensus Membership and Coordination Services Summary Part III. Derived Data 10. Batch Processing Batch Processing with Unix Tools Simple Log Analysis The Unix Philosophy MapReduce and Distributed Filesystems MapReduce Job Execution Reduce-Side Joins and Grouping Map-Side Joins The Output of Batch Workflows Comparing Hadoop to Distributed Databases Beyond MapReduce Materialization of Intermediate State Graphs and Iterative Processing High-Level APIs and Languages Summary 11. Stream Processing Transmitting Event Streams Messaging Systems Partitioned Logs Databases and Streams Keeping Systems in Sync Change Data Capture Event Sourcing State, Streams, and Immutability Processing Streams Uses of Stream Processing Reasoning About Time Stream Joins Fault Tolerance Summary 12. The Future of Data Systems Data Integration Combining Specialized Tools by Deriving Data Batch and Stream Processing Unbundling Databases Composing Data Storage Technologies Designing Applications Around Dataflow Observing Derived State Aiming for Correctness The End-to-End Argument for Databases Enforcing Constraints Timeliness and Integrity Trust, but Verify Doing the Right Thing Predictive Analytics Privacy and Tracking Summary Glossary Index

Note: Contents Realistic Benchmarks for Point Cloud Data Management Systems / Peter van Oosterom, Oscar Martinez-Rubi, Theo Tijssen and Romulo Gonçalves Does a Finer Level of Detail of a 3D City Model Bring an Improvement for Estimating Shadows? / Filip Biljecki, Hugo Ledoux and Jantien Stoter Interactive and View-Dependent See-Through Lenses for Massive 3D Point Clouds / Sören Discher, Rico Richter and Jürgen Döllner Representation of CityGML Instance Models in BaseX / Sabine Koch and Marc-O. Löwner A Spatio-Semantic Query Language for the Integrated Analysis of City Models and Building Information Models / S. Daum, A. Borrmann and T.H. Kolbe A Methodology for Modelling of 3D Spatial Constraints / Daniel Xu, Peter van Oosterom and Sisi Zlatanova Reconstructing 3D Building Models with the 2D Cadastre for Semantic Enhancement / Frédéric Pedrinis and Gilles Gesquière A 3D LADM Prototype Implementation in INTERLIS / Eftychia Kalogianni, Efi Dimopoulou and Peter van Oosterom Web-Based Tool for the Sustainable Refurbishment in Historic Districts Based on 3D City Model / Iñaki Prieto, Jose Luis Izkara and Rubén Béjar Terrestrial Laser Scanners Self-calibration Study: Datum Constraints Analyses for Network Configurations / Mohd Azwan Abbas, Halim Setan, Zulkepli Majid, Albert K. Chong, Lau Chong Luh, Khairulnizam M. Idris and Mohd Farid Mohd Ariff Managing Versions and History Within Semantic 3D City Models for the Next Generation of CityGML / Kanishk Chaturvedi, Carl Stephen Smyth, Gilles Gesquière, Tatjana Kutzner and Thomas H. Kolbe Cartographic Enrichment of 3D City Models—State of the Art and Research Perspectives / Stefan Peters, Mathias Jahnke, Christian E. Murphy, Liqiu Meng and Alias Abdul-Rahman Comparison of 2D & 3D Parameter-Based Models in Urban Fine Dust Distribution Modelling / Yahya Ghassoun and M.-O. Löwner Investigating Semantic Functionality of 3D Geometry for Land Administration / George Floros, Eva Tsiliakou, Dimitrios Kitsakis, Ioannis Pispidikis and Efi Dimopoulou 3D Complete Traffic Noise Analysis Based on CityGML / Lu Lu, Thomas Becker and Marc-Oliver Löwner Highly Efficient Computer Oriented Octree Data Structure and Neighbours Search in 3D GIS / Noraidah Keling, Izham Mohamad Yusoff, Habibah Lateh and Uznir Ujang Framework for on an Open 3D Urban Analysis / Marc-O. Löwner and Thomas Becker Usability Assessment of a Virtual Globe-Based 4D Archaeological GIS / Berdien De Roo, Jean Bourgeois and Philippe De Maeyer Temporal and Spatial Database Support for Geothermal Sub-surface Applications / M. Jahn, M. Breunig, E. Butwilowski, P.V. Kuper, A. Thomsen, M. Al-Doori and E. Schill Automatic Semantic and Geometric Enrichment of CityGML Building Models Using HOG-Based Template Matching / Jon Slade, Christopher B. Jones and Paul L. Rosin Stochastic Buildings Generation to Assist in the Design of Right to Build Plans / Mickaël Brasebin, Julien Perret and Romain Reuillon 3D Marine Administration System Based on LADM / Aikaterini Athanasiou, Ioannis Pispidikis and Efi Dimopoulou Assessing the Suitability of Using Google Glass in Designing 3D Geographic Information for Navigation / Kelvin Wong and Claire Ellul Review and Assessment of Current Cadastral Data Models for 3D Cadastral Applications / Ali Aien, Abbas Rajabifard, Mohsen Kalantari and Ian Williamson The Hierarchical Three-Dimensional (3D) Dynamic Water Infiltration on Multi-layers of Soil According to Voronoi Sequence Nodes Based on the Three-Dimensional Triangular Irregular Network (3D TIN) / Siti Nurbaidzuri Reli, Izham Mohamad Yusoff, Habibah Lateh and Uznir Ujang A Data Model for the Interactive Construction and Correction of 3D Building Geometry Based on Planar Half-Spaces / Martin Kada, Andreas Wichmann, Nina Manzke and Yevgeniya Filippovska The Potential of the 3D Dual Half-Edge (DHE) Data Structure for Integrated 2D-Space and Scale Modelling: A Review / Hairi Karim, Alias Abdul Rahman, Pawel Boguslawski, Martijn Meijers and Peter van Oosterom Towards Integrating BIM and GIS—An End-to-End Example from Point Cloud to Analysis / Claire Ellul, Gareth Boyes, Charles Thomson and Dietmar Backes

Note: Contents 1. Introduction 2. Postglacial uplift rates 3. Climatic sea level rise 4. Exponential effect 5. Mean sea level effect 6. Calculation of historical shore level and its uncertainty 7. Applications to the Aland Island, Gamla Uppsala and Birka 8. A note to the near future References

Note: Contents 1. Introduction 2. Gravity measurements 3. Gravity values 4. Gravity errors 5. Conclusions References

Note: Contents Preface Introduction to the second edition What this book is about How the book is organized Why R? Updates Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Getting and Getting Acquainted with R 1.1 Getting started 1.2 Getting R 1.3 Getting R Studio 1.4 Let's play 1.5 Usin g R as a giant calculator (the size of your computer) 1.6 Your first script 1.7 Intermezzo remarks 1.8 Important functionality: packages 1.9 Getting help 1.10 A mini-practical - some in-depth play 1.11 Some more top tips and hints for a successful first (and more) R experience Appendix 1a Mini-tutorial solutions Appendix 1b File extensions and operating systems Chapter 2: Getting Your Data into R 2.1 Getting data ready for R 2.2 Getting your data into R 2.3 Checking that your data are your data 2.4 Basic troubleshooting while importing data 2.5 Summing up Appendix Advanced activity: dealing with untidy data Chapter 3: Data Management, Manipulation, and Exploration with dplyr 3.1 Summary statistics for each variable 3.2 dplyr verbs 3.3 Subsetting 3.4 Transforming 3.5 Sorting 3.6 Mini-summary and two top tips 3.7 Calculating summary statistics about groups of your data 3.8 What have you learned ... lots Appendix 3a Comparing classic methods and dplyr Appendix 3b Advanced dplyr Chapter 4: Visualizing Your Data 4.1 The first step in every data analysis — making a picture 4.2 ggplot2: a grammar for graphics 4.3 Box-and-whisker plots 4.4 Distributions: making histograms of numeric variables 4.5 Saving your graphs for presentation, documents, etc. 4.6 Closing remarks Chapter 5: Introducing Statistics in R 5.1 Getting started doing statistics in R 5.2 x2 contingency table analysis 5.3 Two-sample t-test 5.4 Introducing ... linear models 5.5 Simple linear regression 5.6 Analysis of variance: the one-way ANOVA 5.7 Wrapping up Appendix Getting packages not on CRAN Chapter 6: Advancing Your Statistics in R 6.1 Getting started with more advanced statistics 6.2 The two-way ANOVA 6.3 Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) 6.4 Overview: an analysis workflow Chapter 7: Getting Started with Generalized Linear Models 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Counts and rates — Poisson GLMs 7.3 Doing it wrong 7.4 Doing it right — the Poisson GLM 7.5 When a Poisson GLM isn’t good for counts 7.6 Summary, and beyond simple Poisson regression Chapter 8: Pimping Your Plots: Scales and Themes in ggplot2 8.1 What you already know about graphs 8.2 Preparation 8.3 What you may want to customize 8.4 Axis labels, axis limits, and annotation 8.5 Scales 8.6 The theme 8.7 Summing up Chapter 9: Closing Remarks: Final Comments and Encouragement General Appendices Appendix 1 Data Sources Appendix 2 Further Reading Appendix 3 R Markdown Index