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    Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia (2015)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Climate change ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Development economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Policy ; Social Policy ; Climate Change Management and Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia --- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance --- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence --- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan --- Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India --- Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? --- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India --- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India --- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh --- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions --- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach --- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India --- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? --- Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal --- Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines --- Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 314 pages) , 22 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789812874207
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-287-420-7
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    A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism, Volume 1 (1954)
    New York : Dover Publications
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    Keywords: Physics ; Vectors ; Electostatics ; Electostatic Instuments ; Conduction ; Resistance ; EMF ; Electolysis ; Conductance
    Description / Table of Contents: "Maxwell is without peer. This printing is an opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with the thought of the greatest of our electrical scientists." — School Science and Math Here is the final elaboration of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, including the systematic and rigorous derivation of his general equations of field theory. These equations continue to occupy a central position in the modern physicist's view of the physical world. They are a magnificent summary of the fundamental advances in electricity and magnetism, and later inspired the theories of Lorentz on the electron and Einstein on relativity. Einstein himself has said that "The formulation of these equations is the most important event in physics since Newton's time." (The Evolution of Physics.) Volume 1, Part 1, "Electrostatics," describes electrostatic phenomena and develops a mathematical theory of electricity. Maxwell discusses electrical work and energy in a system of conductors, mechanical action between two electrical systems, forms of equipotential surfaces and line of flow, spherical harmonics, the theory of electric images, and other topics. Part II, "Electrokinematics," deals with electric current conduction and resistance, electromotive force between bodies in contact, electrolysis, the mathematical theory of the distribution of electric currents, and other topics.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXII, 506 Seiten)
    Edition: 3rd unabridged ed.
    ISBN: 0486606368
    URL: http://archive.org/details/ATreatiseOnElectricityMagnetism-Volume1
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    A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism, Volume 2 (1954)
    New York : Dover Publications
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    Keywords: Physics ; Magnetism ; Induction ; Solenoids ; Measurements ; Electromagnetism ; Ampere ; Current ; Field ; Units ; Current Sheet ; Instruments ; Coil ; Light
    Description / Table of Contents: "Maxwell is without peer. This printing is an opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with the thought of the greatest of our electrical scientists." — School Science and MathHere is the final elaboration of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, including the systematic and rigorous derivation of his general equations of field theory. These equations continue to occupy a central position in the modern physicist's view of the physical world. They are a magnificent summary of the fundamental advances in electricity and magnetism, and later inspired the theories of Lorentz on the electron and Einstein on relativity. Einstein himself has said that "The formulation of these equations is the most important event in physics since Newton's time." (The Evolution of Physics.) Volume 1, Part 1, "Electrostatics," describes electrostatic phenomena and develops a mathematical theory of electricity. Maxwell discusses electrical work and energy in a system of conductors, mechanical action between two electrical systems, forms of equipotential surfaces and line of flow, spherical harmonics, the theory of electric images, and other topics. Part II, "Electrokinematics," deals with electric current conduction and resistance, electromotive force between bodies in contact, electrolysis, the mathematical theory of the distribution of electric currents, and other topics.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 500 Seiten)
    Edition: 3rd unabridged ed.
    ISBN: 0486606376
    URL: https://archive.org/details/ATreatiseOnElectricityMagnetism-Volume2
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    Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN : With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; History ; Nuclear physics ; Heavy ions ; Hadrons ; Particle acceleration ; Physics ; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics ; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics ; History of Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I Reminiscences: Rolf Hagedorn and Relativistic Heavy Ion Research.-- Part II The Hagedorn Temperature --- Part III Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks Heavy Ion Path to Quark-Gluon Plasma --- Acronyms
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 441 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319175454
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-17545-4
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    Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Complexity, Computational ; Economic theory ; Social sciences ; Physics ; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building ; Methodology of the Social Sciences ; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods ; Operations Research/Decision Theory ; Complexity ; Computational Social Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy --- Economics --- Social Psychology and Narrative Economy --- Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science --- Geography far from Equilibrium --- Cities in Disequilibrium --- The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization --- Systems, Networks, and Policy --- Towards a Complexity-Friendly Policy: breaking the vicious circle of equilibrium thinking in economic and public policy --- The Information Economy --- Complexity Science & the Art of Policy Making --- The Complexity of Government --- The Room Around the Elephant: Tackling Context-Dependency in the Social Sciences --- Global Systems Science and Policy --- Index.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 232 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319424248
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-42424-8
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    The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Mathematical physics ; Quantum physics ; Physics ; Quantum Physics ; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: I The Cellular Automaton Interpretation as a general doctrine: Motivation for this work --- Deterministic models in quantum notation --- Interpreting quantum mechanics --- Deterministic quantum mechanics --- Concise description of the CA Interpretation --- Quantum gravity --- Information loss --- More problems --- Alleys to be further investigated and open questions --- Conclusions --- II Calculation Techniques: Introduction to part II --- More on cogwheels --- The continuum limit of cogwheels, harmonic rotators and oscillators --- Locality --- Fermions --- PQ theory --- Models in two space-time dimensions without interactions --- Symmetries --- The discretised Hamiltonian formalism in PQ theory --- Quantum Field Theory --- The cellular automaton --- The problem of quantum locality --- Conclusions of part II --- Some remarks on gravity in 2+1 dimensions --- A summary of our views on Conformal Gravity --- Abbreviations.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 298 pages) , 21 illustrations, 19 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319412856
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-41285-6
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    China’s New Sources of Economic Growth : Vol. 1: Reform, Resources and Climate Change (2016)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Keywords: China ; Economic Growth ; Economic Management ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: China’s change to a new model of growth, now called the ‘new normal’, was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, the correction of overcapacity in the heavy industries that were the mainstays of the old model of growth, the hauling in of the immense debt hangover from the fiscal and monetary expansion that pulled China out of the Great Crash of 2008 would all have been hard at any time. They are harder when changes in economic policy and structure coincide with stagnation in global trade and rising protectionist sentiment in developed countries, extraordinarily rapid demographic change and recognition of the urgency of easing the environmental damage from the old model. China’s economy has slowed and there are worries that the authorities will not be able to contain the slowdown within preferred limits. This year’s Update explores the challenge of the slowdown in growth and the change in economic structure. Leading experts on China’s economy and environment review change within China’s new model of growth, and its interaction with ageing, environmental pressure, new patterns of urbanisation, and debt problems at different levels of government. It illuminates some new developments in China’s economy, including the transformational potential of internet banking, and the dynamics of financial market instability. China’s economic development since 1978 is full of exciting change, and this year’s China Update is again the way to know it as it is happening.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 517 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781760460358
    URL: http://press.anu.edu.au/node/1906
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    Rangeland Systems : Processes, Management and Challenges (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Ecology ; Climate change ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Environmental management ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice ; Ecology ; Climate Change
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Conceptual development toward a rangeland systems framework --- Part: 1 Processes --- 2. Woody plant encroachment --- 3. Ecohydrology: processes and implications for rangelands --- 4. Soil and belowground processes --- 5. Structural heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management --- 6. Non-equilibrium ecology and resilience theory --- 7. Ecological consequences of climate change on rangelands --- Part: 2 Management --- 8. Rangelands as social-ecological systems --- 9. State and transition models: theory, applications, and challenges --- 10. Livestock production systems --- 11. Adaptive management of rangeland systems --- 12. Managing the livestock-wildlife interface on rangelands --- Part: 3 Challenges --- 13. Invasive plant species and novel rangeland systems --- 14. Rangeland ecosystem services: nature´s supply and humans´ demand --- 15. Managing climate change risks in rangeland systems --- 16. Monitoring protocols: options, approaches, implementation, benefits --- 17. Rangeland systems in developing nations: conceptual advances and societal implications
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 661 pages) , 101 illustrations, 69 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319467092
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-46709-2
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    Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas : Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis (2018)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Environmental policy ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Natural resources ; Environmental Geography ; Environmental Policy ; Environmental Management ; Sustainable Development ; Natural Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: Section 1: Research Highlights and Framework --- 1. Ecosystem Services, Well-Being and Deltas: Current Knowledge and Understanding; W. Neil Adger et al. --- 2. Ecosystem Services Linked to Livelihoods and Well-Being in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger and Robert J. Nicholls --- 3. An Integrated Approach Providing Scientific and Policy Relevant Insights for South-West Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- 4. Integrative Analysis for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- Section 2: Present Status of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta --- 5. Recent Trends in Ecosystem Services in Coastal Bangladesh; John A Dearing and Sarwar Hossain --- 6. Governance of Ecosystem Services Across Scales in Bangladesh ; Andrew Allan and Michelle Lim --- 7. Health, Livelihood and Well-Being in the Coastal Delta of Bangladesh; Mofizur Rahman and Sate Ahmad --- 8. Floods and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Anisul Haque and Robert J Nicholls --- Section 3: Scenarios for Policy Analysis --- 9. Integrating Science and Policy Using Stakeholder-Engaged Scenarios; Emily J Barbour et al. --- 10. Incorporating Stakeholder Perspectives in Scenario Development; Andrew Allan, Michelle Lim and Emily J Barbour --- 11. Regional Climate Change over South Asia; John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 12. Future Scenarios of Economic Development; Alistair Hunt --- Section 4: Observations and Potential Trends --- 13. Biophysical Modelling of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Catchment; Paul G Whitehead --- 14. Marine Dynamics and Productivity in the Bay of Bengal; Susan Kay, John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 15. A Sustainable Future Supply of Fluvial Sediment for the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta; Stephen E Darby et al. --- 16. Present and Future Fluvial, Tidal and Storm Surge Flooding in Coastal Bangladesh; Anisul Haque, Susan Kay and Robert J Nicholls --- 17. Modelling Tidal River Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Lucy Bricheno and Judtih Wold --- 18. Mechanisms and Drivers of Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Mashfiqus Salehin et al. --- 19. Population Dynamics in the South-West of Bangladesh; Sylvia Szabo, Sate Ahmad and W Neil Adger --- 20. Land Cover and Land Use Analysis in Coastal Bangladesh;Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 21. Social, Economic and Environmental Dimensions and Drivers of Poverty in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Fiifi Amoako Johnson and Craig W Hutton --- 22. Defining Social-Ecological Systems in South-West Bangladesh; Helen Adams et al. --- 23. Characterising Associations Between Poverty and Ecosystem Services; Helen Adams et al. --- Section 5: Present and Future Ecosystem Services --- 24. Prospects for Agriculture under Climate Change and Soil Salinisation; Derek Clarke et al. --- 25. Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries: Trends and Prospect; Manuel Barange et al. --- 26. Dynamics of the Sundarbans Mangroves in Bangladesh Under Climate Change; Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 27. Hypertension and Malnutrition as Health Outcomes Related to Ecosystem Services; Ali Ahmed et al. Section 6: Integration and Dissemination --- 28. Integrative Analysis Spplying the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Attila N. Lázár et al. --- 29. Communicating Integrated Analysis Research Findings; Mashrekur Rahman and Munsur Rahman
    Pages: Online-Ressource (L, 593 pages) , 147 illustrations, 1 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319710938
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-71093-8
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    Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate (2016)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part 1: Asia is a key for sustainable low carbon society --- 1. GHG reduction potential in Asia --- 2. Transition to a low carbon future in China towards 2°C Global target --- 3. India’s GHG Emission Reduction and Sustainable Development --- 4. 80% reduction scenario in Japan --- 5. Potential of low carbon development in Vietnam, from practices to legal framework --- Part 2: Brigding the gap between modeling and real policy development --- 6. Designing a National Policy Framework for NAMAs -Lesson learnt from Thailand- --- 7. ‘Science-to-Action’ of the Sustainable Low Carbon City-region --- Part 3:Best parctices and recommendations in each sector to make it happen --- 8. Low Carbon Transport in India - Assessment of Best Practice Case Studies - --- 9. Potential of Reducing GHG Emission from REDD+ Activities in Indonesia --- 10. Fostering capacity development for ASIA leapfrog --- 11. Capacity development on GHG inventories in Asia -WGIA Workshop on Greenhouse gas Inventory in Asia- --- 12. Japan’s Comprehensive and Continual Support Package for the Creation of Scientific Climate Policies in Asia
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 270 pages) , 99 illustrations, 70 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789812878267
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-287-826-7
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    The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016 (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Medical research ; Environmental management ; Economics ; Quality of life ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Quality of Life Research ; Environment Studies ; Economic Systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I Vulnerability of the Arctic environments. Chapter 1 Mysteries of the geological history of the Cenozoic Arctic Ocean sea ice cover --- Chapter 2 Response of Arctic alpine biota to climate change -evidence from Polar Urals GLORIA summits --- Chapter 3 The features of natural and artificial recovery in quarries of the forest-tundra zone of Western Siberia --- Chapter 4 The concept of hierarchical structure of large marine ecosystems in the zoning of Russian Arctic shelf seas --- Chapter 5 Changing climate and outbreaks of forest pest insects in a cold northern country, Finland --- Chapter 6 Wood-based energy as a strategy for climate change mitigation in the Arctic –Perspectives on assessment of climate impacts and resource efficiency with Life Cycle Assessment --- Chapter 7. Geospatial analysis of persistent organic pollutant deposits in the Arctic ecosystems and environment --- Chapter 8 Hydrological probabilistic model MARCS and its application to simulate the probability density functions of multi-year maximal runoff: the Russian Arctic as a case of study --- Chapter 9 Student contribution: Assessment of Atmospheric Circulation in the Atlantic-Eurasian Region and Arctic Using Climate Indices. The Possible Applications of these Indices in Long-term Weather Forecasts --- Chapter 10 Student contribution: Difficulties of Geological Engineering in Arctic Seas --- Part II Vulnerability of the Arctic societies. Chapter 11 The Health Transition: A challenge to indigenous peoples in the Arctic --- Chapter 12 Uncertainties in Arctic socio-economic scenarios --- Chapter 13 Importance of consideration of climate change at managing fish stocks: A case of northern Russian fisheries --- Chapter 14 Preservation of territories and traditional activities of the northern indigenous peoples in the period of the Arctic industrial development --- Chapter 15 The Arctic journey – design experiments in the north --- Chapter 16 The Bicycle and the Arctic. Resilient and sustainable transport in times of climate change --- Part III Building the long-term human capacity. Chapter 17 Human capital development in the Russian Arctic --- Chapter 18 Impact of wages on employment and migration in the High North of Russia --- chapter 19 Well-being in an Arctic city. Designing a longitudinal study on student relationships and perceived quality of life --- Chapter 20 Researching Links between Teacher Wellbeing and Educational Change: Case Studies from Kazakhstan and Sakha Republic --- chapter 21 Student contribution: Well-being at the Polish polar station, Svalbard: Adaptation to extreme environments --- Part IV Arcitc tourism. Chapter 22 Tourism futures in the Arctic --- chapter 23 Uniqueness as a draw for riding under the midnight sun --- Chapter 24 Arctic tourism: the design approach with reference to the Russian North --- Part V Arctic safety. Chapter 25 Maritime operations and emergency preparedness in the Arctic –competence standards for search and rescue operations contingencies in polar waters --- Chapter 26 Risk reduction as a result of implementation of the functional based IMO Polar Code in the Arctic cruise industry --- Chapter 27 Safety of industrial development and transportation routes in the Arctic (SITRA) -collaboration project for research and education of future High North experts --- Chapter 28 Safe Snow and Ice Construction to Arctic Conditions --- Chapter 29 The components of psychological safety of oil and gas shift workers in the Arctic --- Part VI Circumpolar, inclusive and reciprocal Arctic. Chapter 30 Where is gender? Cracking the Arctic box and its persistent “gender neutral” research agendas --- Chapter 31 Towards an Arctic awakening: Neocolonialism, sustainable development, emancipatory research, collective action, and Arctic regional policymaking
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 311 pages) , 78 illustrations, 69 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319575322
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-57532-2
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    AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : The Invisible made Visible Phase 1 (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Medicine ; Environmental monitoring ; Development economics ; Emigration and immigration ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Migration ; Medicine/Public Health, general ; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I Potted Review of Economic Theory: The Complex Evolving System --- 1. A Potted Review --- Part II Early Days: From Personal Awareness to Group Commitment --- 2. A personal story of awareness and perception --- 2.1 My first awareness breakthrough --- 2.2 Layers of awareness --- 2.3 My second burst of awareness --- 2.4 Defining a new society for myself --- 2.5 Key human values --- 2.6 Inside = outside --- 2.7 To be and to do --- 2.7 Welfare or wellbeing? --- 2.8 Business transformation --- 2.9 Leadership versus management --- 2.10 STIR Foundation - City of Tomorrow --- 2.11 Sustainocracy --- 2.12 City of Tomorrow --- 2.13 The Amsterdam internet congress --- 2.14 Key elements that define “sustainocratic” AiREAS --- 2.15 AiREAS --- 2.16 Commitment first --- 2.17 Territorial focus --- 2.18 Local AiREAS Eindhoven --- 2.19 First things first --- 2.20 Making visible the invisible --- 2.21 From idea to project --- 2.22 Conclusion about the coming about of AiREAS --- 2.23 Link with ethics and economies --- Part III “The Invisible made Visible”: science and technology --- An introduction by Marco van Lochem --- 3.1 The ILM --- 3.2. Variables measured --- 3.3.3. Instrumentation --- 3.3.1 The Airbox --- 3.3.2 PM (PM10, PM2.5, PM1) sensor --- 3.3.3 UFP sensor --- 3.3.4 Ozone sensor --- 3.3.5 NO2 sensor --- 3.3.6 Temperature sensor and relative humidity sensor --- 3.3.7 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) --- 3.3.8 Experiences and recommendations --- 4 Data quality --- 4.1 Regular calibration and preventative maintenance --- 4.2 Experiences and recommendations --- 5 Locations and spatial sampling --- 5.1 Experiences and recommendations --- 6 Data management --- 6.1 The Airbox --- 6.2 Axians (1) --- 6.3 ECN --- 6.4 Axians (2) --- 6.5 Experiences and recommendations --- 7 Results --- 7.1 Initial tests of sensors --- 7.2 Evaluation of sensor precision --- 8 Scientific projects based on the ILM --- Part IV Experiences after 5 years of AiREAS and 1 year of ILM --- 9. The way things work at AiREAS --- 9.1 The workflow in AiREAS --- 9.2 Financial routine in AiREAS --- 9.3 Confidence based interaction --- 9.4 October 2013 general AiREAS participants meeting --- 9.5 Interpreting the ILM data --- 9.6 The transition --- 9.7 Communication --- 9.8 Benchmarking and referencing our practical ideologies --- 9.9 The royalty system --- 9.10 Some of the transformative issues --- 9.11 Conclusion. Index.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 113 pages) , 47 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319269405
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-26940-5
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    Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future (2016)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Environmental management ; Environmental pollution ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Environmental Management ; Terrestrial Pollution
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Preface --- Cooperators --- Part 1 Radioactivity in the Terrestrial Environment --- Part 2 Decontamination and Radioactive Waste --- Part 3 Environmental Radiation and External Exposure --- Part 4 Radioactivity in Foods and Internal Exposure
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 232 pages) , 75 illustrations, 32 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431558484
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55848-4
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    Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks : Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident (2016)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Nuclear energy ; Natural disasters ; Probabilities ; Quality control ; Reliability ; Industrial safety ; Environmental management ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Nuclear Energy ; Natural Hazards ; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk ; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Preface --- Cooperators --- Part 1 Active Faults --- Part 2 Seismic Source Modeling and Seismic Motion --- Part 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment with External Hazards --- Part 4 Nuclear Risk Governance in Society
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 177 pages) , 74 illustrations, 36 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431558224
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55822-4
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    Time Predictions : Understanding and Avoiding Unrealism in Project Planning and Everyday Life (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Project management ; Personnel management ; Management information systems ; Behavioral economics ; Economics ; Behavioral/Experimental Economics ; Human Resource Management ; Project Management ; Software Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- 1. Introduction: 1.1 A prediction success --- 1.2 Prediction disasters --- 2. How we Predict Time Usage: 2.1 Mental time travel --- 2.2 How did you make that prediction? --- 2.3 Time predictions are everywhere --- 2.4 How good are we at predicting time? --- 3. Predictions and the Uncertainty of the Future: 3.1 Precisely wrong or roughly right? --- 3.2 Communication of time predictions --- 3.3 Probability-based time predictions --- 3.4 Right-skewed time distributions --- 3.5 Relearning to add: 2 + 2 is usually more than 4 --- 3.6 How to predict the mean time usage --- 3.7 How time predictions affect performance --- 4. Overoptimistic Predictions: 4.1 Optimism, overoptimism, and overoptimistic predictions --- 4.2 The benefits of overoptimism --- 4.3 The desire to control time --- 4.4 Motivation to make accurate time usage predictions --- 4.5 Selection bias --- 4.6 Deception --- 4.7 Who makes the most realistic time predictions? --- 5. Time Prediction Biases: 5.1 The team scaling fallacy --- 5.2 Anchoring --- 5.3 Sequence effects --- 5.4 Format effects --- 5.5 The magnitude effect --- 5.6 Length of task description --- 5.7 The time unit effect --- 6. Uncertainty of Time Predictions: 6.1 Why are we overconfident? --- 6.2 What can we do to avoid overconfidence? --- 6.2.1 The use of alternative interval prediction formats --- 6.2.2 Learning from accuracy feedback --- 7. Time Prediction Methods and Principles: 7.1 Unpacking and decomposition --- 7.2 Analogies --- 7.3 Relative predictions --- 7.4 Time prediction models --- 7.5 Consider alternative futures --- 7.6 Combinations of time predictions --- 7.7 Let other people make the prediction? --- 7.8 Removing irrelevant and misleading information --- 7.9 From Fibonacci to t-shirt sizes: Time predictions using alternative scales --- 8. Time Predictions: Matching the Method to the Situation --- 9. How to Obtain Overoptimistic Time Predictions from Others
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 110 pages) , 12 illustrations, 11 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319749532
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    Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Political science ; Wildlife ; Fish ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Political Science ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea: Identifying Key Challenges Research Topics and Analytical Approaches. Part 1: Interdisciplinary Case Studies of Environmental Governance --- Chapter 2. Eutrophication and the Ecosystem Approach to Management: A Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance --- Chapter 3. Fisheries: A Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance --- Chapter 4. Biological Invasions: a Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance --- Chapter 5. Governance of Chemicals in the Baltic Sea Region: A Study of Three Generations of Hazardous Substances --- Chapter 6. Oil Spills from Shipping: A Case Study of the Governance of Accidental Hazards and Intentional Pollution in the Baltic Sea --- Part 2: Cross-Case Analysis of Key Environmental Governance Challenges --- Chapter 7. The Ecosystem Approach to Management in Baltic Sea Governance: Towards Increased Reflexivity? --- Chapter 8. Science-Policy Interfaces in Baltic Sea Environmental Governance: Towards Regional Cooperation and Management of Uncertainty? --- Chapter 9. Risk Communication and the Role of the Public: Towards Inclusive Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea? --- Chapter 10. Seeking Pathways Towards Improved Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 253 pages) , 10 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319270067
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-27006-7
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    Applying the Kaizen in Africa : A New Avenue for Industrial Development (2018)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Leadership ; Industrial organization ; Labor economics ; Development economics ; Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Business Strategy/Leadership ; Development Economics ; African Economics ; Labor Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. How Kaizen Brightens Africa's Future? --- Chapter 2. Role of Kaizen in Japan’s Overseas Development Cooperation --- Chapter 3. Kaizen in Practice --- Chapter 4. Kaizen and Standardization --- Chapter 5. Kaizen as a Policy Instrument: The Case of Ethiopia --- Chapter 6. Kaizen as a Key Ingredient of Industrial Development Policy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 266 pages) , 37 illustrations, 6 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319914008
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-91400-8
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    Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Engineering economics ; Engineering economy ; Environmental management ; Waste management ; Sustainable development ; Industrial organization ; Environmental economics ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Waste Management/Waste Technology ; Environmental Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- General reflections --- The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: sustainability ‘after the crisis’ --- Impacts of global trade flows --- Stocks and flows in the performance economy --- The Embeddedness of carbon in UK Lifestyles --- Ethics of Industrial Ecology --- Complexity and prediction --- Urban metabolism --- Industrial Symbiosis --- Industrial Ecology and the Solidarity Economy --- Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries --- Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management --- Social sciences in Industrial Ecology --- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment --- Prospective Models of Society’s Future Metabolism --- Planetary boundaries and sustainable business --- Working with policymakers --- Portugal’s national waste plan --- The Industrial Ecology of the automobile
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 362 pages) , 43 illustrations, 34 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319205717
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-20571-7
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    Life Cycle Management (2015)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Renewable energy resources ; Environmental sciences ; Renewable energy sources ; Alternate energy sources ; Green energy industries ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Environmental Management ; Renewable and Green Energy ; Environmental Science and Engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introducing Life Cycle Management --- Introduction: Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize Sustainability Within Organizations --- How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business? --- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level —Different Approaches --- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach --- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice --- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business --- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner --- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships --- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management --- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies --- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action --- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain --- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation --- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management --- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting --- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management --- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil --- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.-Communication and Collaboration as Essential Elements for Mainstreaming Life Cycle Management.-Part V: Implementation and Case Studies of Life Cycle Management in Different Business and Industry Sector --- Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Management in the Electricity Sector --- Life Cycle Management Applied to Urban Fabric Planning --- Implementing Life Cycle Engineering in Automotive Development as a Helpful Management Tool to Support Design for Environment --- Managing Life cycle Sustainability Aspects in the Automotive Industry --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize the Creating Shared Value Concept in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 353 pages) , 49 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789401772211
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-94-017-7221-1
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    Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environmental management ; International relations ; Behavioral sciences ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Water ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice ; Environmental Management ; International Relations ; Behavioral Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction and Reflections --- 2. The Establishment of Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa with Reference to the Flussgebietsgemeinschaft Elbe: Some Practical Considerations --- 3. Towards Inclusive Water Governance: OECD Evidence and Key Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in the Water Sector --- 4. Free-Market Economics and Developmental Statism as Political Paradigms: Implications for Water Governance Theory and Practice in Developing Countries --- 5. Urban Water Governance as a Function of the “Urban Hydrosocial Transition” --- 6. Urban Water Governance for the 21st Century: A Portfolio-Based Approach to Planning and Management --- 7. Rights-Based Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century: Beyond an Exclusionary Focus on Domestic Water uses --- 8. Inclusive Transboundary Water Governance --- 9. Mechanisms for Inclusive Governance --- 10. Water Integrity - from Concept to Practice --- 11. Addressing the Groundwater Governance Challenge: A Call from the “Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Action” Project --- 12. Water Governance Futures in South Asia and Southern Africa: Déjà vu all Over Again?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 250 pages) , 39 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319433509
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-43350-9
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    Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Remote sensing ; Environmental management ; Earth Sciences ; Earth Sciences, general ; Big Data ; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry ; Environmental Management ; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Over  the  past  decades,  rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such  as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the  way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites. This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites.  
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 332 pages) , 116 illustrations, 111 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319656335
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-65633-5
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    Climate Smart Agriculture : Building Resilience to Climate Change (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Political Economy/Economic Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction --- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates --- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 4:  Innovation in Response to Climate Change --- Chapter 5:  Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning --- Chapter 6:  Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE --- Chapter 7 :  Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia:  The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam --- Chapter 8:  U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts --- Chapter 9:  Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts:  An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture --- Chapter 10:  Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa --- Chapter 11:  Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa --- Chapter 12:  Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 13:  Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria --- Chapter 14:  Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems --- Chapter 15:  Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate --- Chapter 16:  The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change --- Chapter 17:  A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries --- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia --- Chapter 19:  Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa --- Chapter 20:  Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change --- Chapter 21:  Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia --- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi --- Chapter 23:  Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 24:  Synthesis:  Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA --- Chapter 25:  Conclusions and Policy Implications
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 630 pages) , 107 illustrations, 97 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319611945
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-61194-5
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    Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Life sciences ; Agriculture ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Soil science ; Soil conservation ; Air pollution ; Life Sciences ; Agriculture ; Climate Change ; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution ; Soil Science & Conservation ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction to the SAMPLES Approach --- Chapter 2 Targeting Landscapes to Identify Mitigation Options --- Chapter 3 Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Associated with Land Use and Land Cover Change --- Chapter 4 Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Managed and Natural Soils --- Chapter 5 A Comparison of Methodologies for Measuring Methane Emissions from Ruminants --- Chapter 6 Quantifying Tree Biomass Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes --- Chapter 7 Methods for Smallholder Quantification of Soil Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes --- Chapter 8 Yield Estimation of Food and Non-Food Crops in Smallholder Production Systems --- Chapter 9 Scaling Point and Plot Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Balances and Intensities to Whole Farms and Landscapes --- Chapter 10 Methods for Environment-Productivity Trade-off Analysis in Agricultural Systems
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 203 pages) , 33 illustrations, 27 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319297941
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-29794-1
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    Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Remote sensing ; Environmental management ; Earth Sciences ; Earth Sciences, general ; Big Data ; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry ; Environmental Management ; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Over  the  past  decades,  rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such  as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the  way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites. This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites.  
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 332 pages) , 116 illustrations, 111 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319656335
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-65633-5
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    Rangeland Systems : Processes, Management and Challenges (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Ecology ; Climate change ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Environmental management ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice ; Ecology ; Climate Change
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Conceptual development toward a rangeland systems framework --- Part: 1 Processes --- 2. Woody plant encroachment --- 3. Ecohydrology: processes and implications for rangelands --- 4. Soil and belowground processes --- 5. Structural heterogeneity as the basis for rangeland management --- 6. Non-equilibrium ecology and resilience theory --- 7. Ecological consequences of climate change on rangelands --- Part: 2 Management --- 8. Rangelands as social-ecological systems --- 9. State and transition models: theory, applications, and challenges --- 10. Livestock production systems --- 11. Adaptive management of rangeland systems --- 12. Managing the livestock-wildlife interface on rangelands --- Part: 3 Challenges --- 13. Invasive plant species and novel rangeland systems --- 14. Rangeland ecosystem services: nature´s supply and humans´ demand --- 15. Managing climate change risks in rangeland systems --- 16. Monitoring protocols: options, approaches, implementation, benefits --- 17. Rangeland systems in developing nations: conceptual advances and societal implications
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 661 pages) , 101 illustrations, 69 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319467092
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-46709-2
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    Life Cycle Management (2015)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Renewable energy resources ; Environmental sciences ; Renewable energy sources ; Alternate energy sources ; Green energy industries ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Environmental Management ; Renewable and Green Energy ; Environmental Science and Engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introducing Life Cycle Management --- Introduction: Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize Sustainability Within Organizations --- How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business? --- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level —Different Approaches --- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach --- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice --- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business --- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner --- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships --- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management --- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies --- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action --- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain --- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation --- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management --- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting --- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management --- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil --- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.-Communication and Collaboration as Essential Elements for Mainstreaming Life Cycle Management.-Part V: Implementation and Case Studies of Life Cycle Management in Different Business and Industry Sector --- Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Management in the Electricity Sector --- Life Cycle Management Applied to Urban Fabric Planning --- Implementing Life Cycle Engineering in Automotive Development as a Helpful Management Tool to Support Design for Environment --- Managing Life cycle Sustainability Aspects in the Automotive Industry --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize the Creating Shared Value Concept in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 353 pages) , 49 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789401772211
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-94-017-7221-1
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    Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Industrial organization ; Development economics ; Economic policy ; Agricultural economics ; Environmental economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; African Economics ; Environmental Economics ; Industrial Organization ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Development Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Understanding the Challenges of the Agriculture Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa --- Part I – Improving Agricultural Productivity --- Chapter 2: Improved Seeds and Agricultural Productivity of Family Farms in Cameroon --- Chapter 3: Breaking the Traditional Trap: Assessing Drivers of Modern Technology Adoption by Smallholder Farmers in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe --- Chapter 4: Input Utilization and Agricultural Labour Productivity: A Gender Analysis --- Chapter 5: Evaluation of Women’s On-Farm Trial of Drought Tolerant Maize in Southern Guinea Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Nigeria --- Chapter 6: Impact of Bioenergy Crop Adoption on Total Crop Incomes of Farmers in Northern Ghana: The Case of Jatropha Curcas --- Part II - Addressing Climate Change Challenges --- Chapter 7: Profitability in a Sustainable Agricultural Production System: An Approach by the Soil and Water Conservation --- Chapter 8: Land Tenure and Communities’ Vulnerability to Climate Shocks: Insights from the Niger Basin of Benin --- Chapter 9: Impact of Drought Index Insurance on Supplemental Irrigation: A Randomized Controlled Trial Experimental Evidence in Northern Ghana --- Part III – Promoting Agro-Industrialization --- Chapter 10: Does the Development of the Agricultural Sector Affect the Manufacturing Sector? --- Chapter 11: Transforming African Agriculture through Special Economic Zones: Opportunities and Challenges --- Chapter 12: Global Value Chains and Upmarket of ECOWAS countries --- Chapter 13: Enhancing the Resilience and Sustainability of the Agriculture Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 302 pages) , 25 illustrations, 19 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319762227
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-76222-7
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    Competition Authorities in South Eastern Europe : Building Institutions in Emerging Markets (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Commercial law ; International law ; Industrial organization ; Law and economics ; Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Law and Economics ; Commercial Law ; European Law
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Introduction --- Western Balkans and the Design of Effective Competition Law: The Role of Economic, Institutional and Cultural Characteristics --- Middle Income Convergence Trap and the Role of Competition Policy in SEE countries --- Institutional Design of State Aid Authorities in South East Europe: The Unfit Legal Transplant and its Ramifications --- Antitrust, Mergers, State Aid and Consumer Protection Under the Same Roof: Does Political Compromise Prevail Over the Expert Approach? --- Realigning Competition Advocacy Priorities in the Context of Economic Adjustment Programmes: the Greek Case --- The role of competition advocacy: the Serbian experience --- Considerations Determining the Extent of Economic Analysis and the Choice of Legal Standards in Competition Law Enforcement --- Three Economist’s Tools for Antitrust Analysis: A Non-Technical Introduction --- Pricing Benchmark in Market Definition: Theoretical Background and Practical Application --- The Rationale for Using the Classic Cournot Mechanism in Merger Control --- Difference-in-Differences as a Tool for Ex-Post Analysis of Mergers: The Case of a Merger in the Romanian Retail Market
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 217 pages) , 27 illustrations, 24 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319766447
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-76644-7
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    Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies : From Science to Innovation (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Sustainable development ; Environmental management ; Renewable energy sources ; Industrial management-Environmen ; Sustainable Development ; Environmental Management ; Renewable and Green Energy ; Environmental Science and Engineering ; Sustainability Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introducing Life Cycle Management --- Introduction: Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize Sustainability Within Organizations --- How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business? --- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management --- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level —Different Approaches --- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach --- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice --- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business --- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner --- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships --- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management --- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies --- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action --- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain --- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation --- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management --- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting --- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management --- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil --- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.-Communication and Collaboration as Essential Elements for Mainstreaming Life Cycle Management.-Part V: Implementation and Case Studies of Life Cycle Management in Different Business and Industry Sector --- Exploring Challenges and Opportunities of Life Cycle Management in the Electricity Sector --- Life Cycle Management Applied to Urban Fabric Planning --- Implementing Life Cycle Engineering in Automotive Development as a Helpful Management Tool to Support Design for Environment --- Managing Life cycle Sustainability Aspects in the Automotive Industry --- Life Cycle Management as a Way to Operationalize the Creating Shared Value Concept in the Food and Beverage Industry: A Case Study
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 520 pages) , 106 illustrations, 27 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319669816
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-66981-6
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    Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : The Engine of Economic Development (2016)
    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Microeconomics ; International economics ; Development economics ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Microeconomics ; International Economics ; Regional/Spatial Science
    Description / Table of Contents: This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences in firm characteristics, behaviors, and strategies. By showcasing this remarkable heterogeneity, this collection challenges regional policymakers to look beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and create balanced policy mixes tailored to distinct firm needs.       This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.      
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 346 pages)
    ISBN: 9781349581511
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-349-58151-1
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    Saving for Development : How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better (2016)
    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Development economics ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Policy ; Regional/Spatial Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their enterprises, employ more workers in better jobs, and produce quality goods. Governments must save to build the infrastructure required by a productive economy, provide quality services to their citizens, and assure their senior citizens a dignified, worry-free retirement. In short, countries must save not for the proverbial rainy day, but for a sunny day - a time when everyone can bask in the benefits of growth, prosperity, and well-being. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 329 pages) , 94 illustrations, 91 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9781349949298
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-349-94929-8
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    Making Medicines in Africa : The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Ethnology ; Africa ; Political economy ; International relations ; Pharmacology ; International economics ; Economic policy ; Economics ; Economic Policy ; International Relations ; Pharmacology/Toxicology ; Political Economy ; African Culture ; International Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards universal access to competent health care in Africa. The authors aim to shift the emphasis in international debate and initiatives towards sustained Africa-based and African-led initiatives to tackle this huge challenge. Without the technological, industrial, intellectual, organisational and research-related capabilities associated with competent pharmaceutical production, and without policies that pull the industrial sectors towards serving local health needs, the African sub-continent cannot generate the resources to tackle its populations' needs and demands.    Research for this book has been selected as one of the 20 best examples of the impact of UK research on development. See http://www.ukcds.org.uk/the-global-impact-of-uk-research for further details
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 334 pages)
    ISBN: 9781137546470
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-137-54647-0
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    Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Food ; Biotechnology ; International law ; Trade ; Industrial organization ; International economics ; Development economics ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; Development Economics ; Food Science ; Industrial Organization ; International Economic Law, Trade Law ; International Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Introduction --- Part I: Food Price Volatility at International Food Commodity markets --- Part II: Commodity and Financial Market Linkages --- Part 3: National and Regional Response to Food Price volatility --- Part IV: the Micro-Economics of Price risk, volatility and Price shocks: Household, Firms and Communities
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 626 pages) , 134 illustrations, 56 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319282015
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-28201-5
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    Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship : An Agenda for Europe (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Management ; Industrial management ; Evolutionary economics ; Industrial organization ; European Economic Community literature ; Economic policy ; Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Entrepreneurship ; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Innovation/Technology Management ; European Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Europe's Innovation Emergency --- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union - a Reform Agenda --- Summary and Conclusions
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 102 pages) , 18 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319550923
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-55092-3
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    Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? : Looking Over the Long Run (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Economic history ; Economic growth ; Social structure ; Social inequality ; Economics ; Economic History ; Latin American and Caribbean Economics ; Social Structure, Social Inequality ; Political Economy ; Economic Growth
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION --- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America --- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS --- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century --- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850 --- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992 --- Chapter 5. Long-run Human Development in Mexico: 1895-2010 --- Chapter 6. Inequality, Institutions, and Long-Term Development: A Perspective from Brazilian Regions --- Chapter 7. Historical perspectives on regional income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000 --- Chapter 9. Racial Inequality in Brazil from Independence to Present --- Chapter 10. The lingering face of gender inequality in Latin America --- Chapter 11. Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America since the Nineteenth Century --- PART II. THE RECENT INEQUALITY DOWNTURN --- Chapter 12. Inequality in Latin America --- Chapter 13. The Inequality Story in Latin America and the Caribbean: Searching for an Explanation --- Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Inequality at the Top in Contemporary Chile --- Chapter 15. Structural change and the fall of income inequality in Latin America - Agricultural development, inter-sectoral duality and the Kuznets curve --- Chapter 16. Fiscal policy and inequality in Latin America 1960-2012 --- Chapter 17. Challenges for Social Policy in a Less Favorable Macroeconomic Context
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 419 pages) , 90 illustrations, 59 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319446219
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-44621-9
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    Development Policies and Policy Processes in Africa : Modeling and Evaluation (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Development economics ; Agricultural economics ; Economic policy ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Development Policy ; African Economics ; Development Aid ; Agricultural Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I: Modeling Economic Policies --- Macro-Economic Models --- Micro-Economic and Micro-Macro Linked Models --- Part II: Modeling Policy Processes --- Concluding Remarks
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 351 pages) , 52 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319607146
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-60714-6
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    Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015 (2017)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Labor economics ; Economic history ; Development economics ; Economic growth ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Economic History ; European Economics ; Economic Growth ; Development Economics ; Labor Economics ; Agricultural Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This text offers a comprehensive and nuanced view of the economic development of Spain since 1850. It provides a new set of historical GDP estimates for Spain from the demand and supply sides, and presents a reconstruction of production and expenditure series for the century prior to the introduction of modern national accounts. The author splices available national accounts sets over the period 1958–2015 through interpolation, as an alternative to conventional retropolation. The resulting national accounts series are linked to the historical estimates providing yearly series for GDP and its components since 1850. On the basis of new population estimates, the author derives GDP per head, decomposed into labour productivity and the amount of work per person, and placed into international perspective. With theoretical reasoning and historiographical implications, Prados de la Escosura provides a useful methodological reference work for anyone interested in national accounting. ‘This book stands among the classics for the Kuznetian paradigm in empirical economics. This is the definitive study of Spain's transition to a modern economy.’ —Patrick Karl O'Brien, Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus of Global Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ‘The definitive account of Spanish economic growth since 1850, based firmly on a magisterial reconstruction of that country’s national accounts and an unrivalled knowledge of both Spanish and global economic history of the period.’ —Stephen Broadberry, Professor of Economic History at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford, UK
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 383 pages) , 36 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319580425
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-58042-5
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    The Ecological Scarcity Method for the European Union : A Volkswagen Research Initiative: Environmental Assessments (2018)
    Wiesbaden : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Pollution prevention ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Sustainable Development ; Industrial Pollution Prevention
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This report transfers the Ecological Scarcity Method (ESM) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and surveys the current impacts and the targets published by environmental authorities, specifically the European Environment Agency. ESM assesses environmental impacts of manufacturing sites and production processes. Developed in 1990 in Switzerland, ESM has already gained regulatory status in proving entitlements for tax exemptions. The method assesses all important impacts in air, water, energy consumption, waste generation and freshwater consumption and also supports en vironmental investment decisions. Contents Methodological Basics  Data Research and Results Eco Factors for EU28 Target Groups Practitioners in industries and public authorities in the field of Environment  Researchers and students of Ecological Sciences and Industrial Management About the Authors Dr. Stephan Ahbe is initiator and author of Swiss Ecological Scarcity Method published in 1990 and today develops Environmental Management Systems at SYRCON in Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Simon Weihofen is Environmental and Energy Manager in Group Management at E.ON SE in Essen, Germany. Dr. Steffen Wellge is an Environmental and Energy Management Specialist at the Volkswagen Group Research, Wolfsburg, Germany
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 93 pages) , 5 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783658195069
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-658-19506-9
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    Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry (2016)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Computer graphics ; Dynamics ; Ergodic theory ; Functions of complex variables ; Differential geometry ; Physics ; Mathematics ; Differential Geometry ; Functions of a Complex Variable ; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory ; Computer Graphics ; Numerical and Computational Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Discrete conformal maps: Boundary value problems, circle domains, Fuchsian and Schottky uniformization: Alexander I. Bobenko, Stefan Sechelmann, Boris Springborn --- Discrete complex analysis on planar quad-graphs: Alexander I. Bobenko and Felix Günther --- Approximation of conformal mappings using conformally equivalent triangular lattices: Ulrike Bücking --- Numerical Methods for the Discrete Map Za: Folkmar Bornemann, Alexander Its, Sheehan Olver, and Georg Wechslberger --- A variational principle for cyclic polygons with prescribed edge lengths: Hana Kourimská, Lara Skuppin, Boris Springborn --- Complex Line Bundles over Simplicial Complexes and their Applications: Felix Knöppel and Ulrich Pinkall --- Holomorphic vector fields and quadratic differentials on planar triangular meshes: Wai Yeung Lam, Ulrich Pinkall --- Vertex normals and face curvatures of triangle meshes: Xiang Sun, Caigui Jiang, Johannes Wallner, and Helmut Pottmann --- S-conical cmc surfaces. Towards a unified theory of discrete surfaces with constant mean curvature: Alexander I. Bobenko and Tim Hoffmann --- Constructing solutions to the Björling problem for isothermic surfaces by structure preserving discretization: Ulrike Bücking and Daniel Matthes --- On the Lagrangian Structure of Integrable Hierarchies: Yuri B. Suris, Mats Vermeeren --- On the variational interpretation of the discrete KP equation: Raphael Boll, Matteo Petrera, and Yuri B. Suris --- Six topics on inscribable polytopes: Arnau Padrol and Günter M. Ziegler --- DGD Gallery: Storage, sharing, and publication of digital research data: Michael Joswig, Milan Mehner, Stefan Sechelmann, Jan Techter, and Alexander I. Bobenko
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 439 pages) , 114 illustrations, 67 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783662504475
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-50447-5
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    Optics in Our Time (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Quantum optics ; Physics ; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices ; Quantum Optics ; Popular Science in Physics ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: History --- A brief history of light --- Ibn Al-Haitham – Father of modern optics --- Optical Sources --- Femtosecond light --- Laser --- LED light --- Electron optics --- Applications --- Biophotonics --- Optical communication --- Optical astronomy --- Solar cells --- Optics in Remote Sensing --- Optics in nanotechnology --- Optics in art --- Eye --- Optics in medicine --- Optical illusions --- Quantum Optics --- Optical tests of foundations of physics --- Nonlinear Optics: Historical Perspectives and New Opportunities --- Quantum communication --- Nature of photon --- Atom optics --- Coherent effects: From EIT to slow light
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 504 pages) , 355 illustrations, 277 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319319032
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-31903-2
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    Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Remote sensing ; Environmental management ; Earth Sciences ; Earth Sciences, general ; Big Data ; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry ; Environmental Management ; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Over  the  past  decades,  rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such  as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the  way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites. This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for the Earth Observation community as well as the wider data economy. It provides insight into new paradigms of Open Science and Innovation applied to space data, which are characterized by openness, access to large volume of complex data, wide availability of new community tools, new techniques for big data analytics such as Artificial Intelligence, unprecedented level of computing power, and new types of collaboration among researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. In addition, this book aims to provide readers with some reflections on the future of Earth Observation, highlighting through a series of use cases not just the new opportunities created by the New Space revolution, but also the new challenges that must be addressed in order to make the most of the large volume of complex and diverse data delivered by the new generation of satellites.  
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 332 pages) , 116 illustrations, 111 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319656335
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-65633-5
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    The Early Years : Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy (2015)
    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; International economics ; Development economics ; Childhood ; Adolescence ; Social groups ; Economic development ; Social policy ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Children, Youth and Family Policy ; Development Studies ; International Economics ; Childhood, Adolescence and Society ; Sustainability Management
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.  The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that, if done well, will have very high returns, while failure to implement such programs will lower the returns on the hefty investments being made in primary, secondary, and higher education. Policies for young children belong at the core of a country's development agenda, alongside policies to develop infrastructure and strengthen institutions. However, if the services provided (or funded) by governments are to benefit children, they must be substantially better than what is currently being delivered in the region. This book offers suggestions for improving public policy in this critical area
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 262 pages)
    ISBN: 9781137536495
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-137-53649-5
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    Rewilding European Landscapes (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Applied ecology ; Biodiversity ; Landscape ecology ; Environmental management ; Nature conservation ; Environment ; Nature Conservation ; Environmental Management ; Biodiversity ; Landscape Ecology ; Applied Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I  - The Theory of Rewilding --- 1. Rewilding Abandoned Landscapes in Europe --- 2. European Wilderness in a Time of Farmland Abandonment --- 3. Ecosystem Services: the Opportunities of Rewilding in Europe --- Part II - Rewilding and Biodiversity --- 4. Bringing Large Mammals Back: Large Carnivores in Europe --- 5. Top Scavengers in a Wilder Europe --- 6. Rewilding: Pitfalls and Opportunities for Moths and Butterflies --- 7. Vegetation Restoration and Other Actions to Enhance Wildlife in European Agricultural Landscapes --- 8. Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitats.- Part III - Rewillding in Practice --- 9. Rewilding Europe: A New Strategy for an Old Continent --- 10. Preparing a New Generation of Wilderness Entrepreneurs --- 11. Towards a European Policy for Rewilding --- Index
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 227 pages) , 44 illustrations, 43 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319120393
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-12039-3
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    Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks : Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident (2016)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Nuclear energy ; Natural disasters ; Probabilities ; Quality control ; Reliability ; Industrial safety ; Environmental management ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Nuclear Energy ; Natural Hazards ; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk ; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Preface --- Cooperators --- Part 1 Active Faults --- Part 2 Seismic Source Modeling and Seismic Motion --- Part 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment with External Hazards --- Part 4 Nuclear Risk Governance in Society
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 177 pages) , 74 illustrations, 36 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431558224
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55822-4
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    Radiological Issues for Fukushima’s Revitalized Future (2016)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Environmental management ; Environmental pollution ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Environmental Management ; Terrestrial Pollution
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword --- Preface --- Cooperators --- Part 1 Radioactivity in the Terrestrial Environment --- Part 2 Decontamination and Radioactive Waste --- Part 3 Environmental Radiation and External Exposure --- Part 4 Radioactivity in Foods and Internal Exposure
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 232 pages) , 75 illustrations, 32 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431558484
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55848-4
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    Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Sustainable Development ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Action on Climate Change: What Does it Mean and Where Does it Lead To? --- Part 1. Policy --- 3. Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development --- 4. Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development --- 5. Lessons from Taking Stock of 12 years of Swiss International Cooperation on Climate Change --- 6. An Analytical Framework for Evaluating a Diverse Climate Change Portfolio --- 7. Enhancing the Joint Crediting Mechanism MRV to Contribute to Sustainable Development --- Part 2. Climate Change Mitigation --- 8. Using Mixed Methods to Assessing Trade-offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation --- 9. Methodological Approach of the GEF IEO’s Climate Change Mitigation Impact Evaluation: Assessing Progress in Market Change for Reduction of CO2 Emissions --- 10. Integrating Avoided Emissions in Climate Change Evaluation Policies for LDCs: The Case of Passive Solar Houses in Afghanistan --- 11. Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in Rural Central America --- 12. Unpacking the Black Box of Technology Distribution, Development Potential and Carbon Markets Benefits --- Part 3. Climate Change Adaptation.-13. What do Evaluations Tell Us About Climate Change Adaptation? Meta-Analysis with a Realist Approach --- 14. Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa --- 15. Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya --- 16. Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines --- 17. Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment --- 18. The Adaptation M&E Navigator: A Decision Support Tool for the Selection of Suitable Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate Adaptation to Climate Change
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 355 pages) , 44 illustrations, 36 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319437026
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-43702-6
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    Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Political science ; Wildlife ; Fish ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Political Science ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea: Identifying Key Challenges Research Topics and Analytical Approaches. Part 1: Interdisciplinary Case Studies of Environmental Governance --- Chapter 2. Eutrophication and the Ecosystem Approach to Management: A Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance --- Chapter 3. Fisheries: A Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance --- Chapter 4. Biological Invasions: a Case Study of Baltic Sea Environmental Governance --- Chapter 5. Governance of Chemicals in the Baltic Sea Region: A Study of Three Generations of Hazardous Substances --- Chapter 6. Oil Spills from Shipping: A Case Study of the Governance of Accidental Hazards and Intentional Pollution in the Baltic Sea --- Part 2: Cross-Case Analysis of Key Environmental Governance Challenges --- Chapter 7. The Ecosystem Approach to Management in Baltic Sea Governance: Towards Increased Reflexivity? --- Chapter 8. Science-Policy Interfaces in Baltic Sea Environmental Governance: Towards Regional Cooperation and Management of Uncertainty? --- Chapter 9. Risk Communication and the Role of the Public: Towards Inclusive Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea? --- Chapter 10. Seeking Pathways Towards Improved Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 253 pages) , 10 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319270067
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-27006-7
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    Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia (2015)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Climate change ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Development economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Policy ; Social Policy ; Climate Change Management and Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments --- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia --- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance --- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence --- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan --- Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India --- Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence? --- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India --- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies --- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India --- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh --- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions --- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach --- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India --- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? --- Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction --- Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal --- Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines --- Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific --- Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 314 pages) , 22 illustrations
    ISBN: 9789812874207
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-287-420-7
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    Inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit : Erkenntnisse ökonomischer Spitzenforschung prägnant zusammengefasst (2018)
    Wiesbaden : Springer Gabler
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    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Labor economics ; Economics ; Political Economy/Economic Policy ; Labor Economics ; Banking
    Description / Table of Contents: Diese Open Access Buch geht den Fragen nach, wie inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit entstehen, welche Rahmenbedingungen der Staat setzen und welche Reformen er auf den Weg bringen muss und wie sich wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen auswirken. Die besten Studierenden der Universität St. Gallen fassen prägnant und verständlich wichtige Ergebnisse der ökonomischen Spitzenforschung in führenden Fachzeitschriften zusammen. Die wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstalente bereiten die empirischen Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik für die Entscheidungsträger und die Öffentlichkeit auf und tragen zum Wissenstransfer in die wirtschaftspolitische Praxis bei. Der Inhalt Empirische Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik Forschungsergebnisse aus den Bereichen Forschung, Entwicklung & Innovation, Beschäftigung & Arbeitsmarkt, Finanzmärkte & Stabilität, Steuern & Staatsausgaben Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre sowie der Politikwissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationale Beziehungen Praktikerinnen und Praktiker in Wirtschaft, Medien, Bildung, Gesellschaft und Politik Der Herausgeber Christian Keuschnigg ist Professor für Nationalökonomie, insbesondere öffentliche Finanzen an der Universität St. Gallen sowie Initiator und Leiter des Wirtschaftspolitischen Zentrums in Wien
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 209 Seiten) , 19 Abbildungen, 3 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783658213442
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-658-21344-2
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    Formalizing the Shadow Economy in Serbia : Policy Measures and Growth Effects (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Econometrics ; Macroeconomics ; Public finance ; Economic policy ; Development economics ; Economic growth ; Economics ; Economic Policy ; Public Economics ; Economic Growth ; Econometrics ; Development Economics ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Shadow Economy: Challenges to Economic and Social Policy --- Concept of the Survey of Enterprises and Entrepreneurs Operating Informally --- Causes of the Shadow Economy --- What Is the Extent of the Shadow Economy in Serbia? --- Shadow Economy in the Enterprise and Entrepreneur Sector --- Effects of Formalization of Shadow Economy --- Analysis of the Administrative Capacity of Oversight Bodies --- Main Findings and Recommendations for Formalising the Shadow Economy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 179 pages) , 71 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319134376
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    Science and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Biotechnology ; Food ; Biotechnology ; Ethics ; Economic policy ; Nanotechnology ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Ethics ; Food Science ; Nanotechnology ; Biotechnology
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Embedding Ethics in Science and Technology Policy – A Global Perspective --- Chapter 2 Institutionalizing Ethical Debates in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: A Comparison of Europe, India and China.-Chapter 3 Public Perceptions of Science and Technology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 4 Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology --- Chapter 5 Science and Technology Governance and European Values --- Chapter 6 The Values Demonstrated in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China --- Chapter 7 Science and Technology for Socio-Economic Development and Quest for Inclusive Growth: Emerging Evidence from India --- Chapter 8 A Comparative Framework for Studying Global Ethics in Science and Technology --- Chapter 9 New Food Technologies in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 10 Discourses on Nanotechnology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 11 Discourses on Synthetic Biology in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Incorporating Ethics into Science and Technology Policy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 173 pages) , 15 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319146935
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-14693-5
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    Rewilding European Landscapes (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Applied ecology ; Biodiversity ; Landscape ecology ; Environmental management ; Nature conservation ; Environment ; Nature Conservation ; Environmental Management ; Biodiversity ; Landscape Ecology ; Applied Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I  - The Theory of Rewilding --- 1. Rewilding Abandoned Landscapes in Europe --- 2. European Wilderness in a Time of Farmland Abandonment --- 3. Ecosystem Services: the Opportunities of Rewilding in Europe --- Part II - Rewilding and Biodiversity --- 4. Bringing Large Mammals Back: Large Carnivores in Europe --- 5. Top Scavengers in a Wilder Europe --- 6. Rewilding: Pitfalls and Opportunities for Moths and Butterflies --- 7. Vegetation Restoration and Other Actions to Enhance Wildlife in European Agricultural Landscapes --- 8. Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitats.- Part III - Rewillding in Practice --- 9. Rewilding Europe: A New Strategy for an Old Continent --- 10. Preparing a New Generation of Wilderness Entrepreneurs --- 11. Towards a European Policy for Rewilding --- Index
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 227 pages) , 44 illustrations, 43 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319120393
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-12039-3
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    Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill : Volume 1: Water Quality, Sediments, Sediment Contaminants, Oil and Gas Seeps, Coastal Habitats, Offshore Plankton and Benthos, and Shellfish (2017)
    New York, NY : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.Habitats And Biota Of The Gulf Of Mexico: An Overview --- 2.Water Quality Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 3.Sediments Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 4.Sediment Contaminants Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 5.Oil And Gas Seeps In The Gulf Of Mexico.- 6.Coastal Habitats Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 7.Offshore Plankton And Benthos Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- 8.Shellfish Of The Gulf Of Mexico --- Appendix A:List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols --- Appendix B: Unit Conversion Table.-  Index
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LIX, 868 pages) , 551 illustrations, 519 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9781493934478
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-4939-3447-8
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    North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Marine Sciences ; Environmental management ; Atmospheric Sciences ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the Assessment --- Past and Current Climate Change --- Past and Current Changes in the North Sea (and interface regions) --- Climate Change Projections --- Impacts of Current and Future Climate Change in Ecosystems --- Climate Impacts on Socio-economy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLV, 528 pages) , 277 illustrations, 215 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319397450
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    Housing Market Dynamics in Africa (2018)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Africa ; Politics and government ; International economics ; Social policy ; Urban economics ; Economics ; Urban Economics ; Political Economy/Economic Policy ; Social Policy ; International Economics ; African Politics
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. The Housing Sector in Africa: Setting the Scene: The Political Economy --- 3. Housing Finance in Africa --- 4. Unlocking Land Markets and the Provision of Infrastructure for Affordable Housing in Africa --- 5. The Construction Cost Conundrum in Africa --- 6. Slum Upgrading and Housing Alternatives for the Poor --- 7. Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 272 pages)
    ISBN: 9781137597922
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-137-59792-2
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    Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Sustainable Development ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Action on Climate Change: What Does it Mean and Where Does it Lead To? --- Part 1. Policy --- 3. Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development --- 4. Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development --- 5. Lessons from Taking Stock of 12 years of Swiss International Cooperation on Climate Change --- 6. An Analytical Framework for Evaluating a Diverse Climate Change Portfolio --- 7. Enhancing the Joint Crediting Mechanism MRV to Contribute to Sustainable Development --- Part 2. Climate Change Mitigation --- 8. Using Mixed Methods to Assessing Trade-offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation --- 9. Methodological Approach of the GEF IEO’s Climate Change Mitigation Impact Evaluation: Assessing Progress in Market Change for Reduction of CO2 Emissions --- 10. Integrating Avoided Emissions in Climate Change Evaluation Policies for LDCs: The Case of Passive Solar Houses in Afghanistan --- 11. Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in Rural Central America --- 12. Unpacking the Black Box of Technology Distribution, Development Potential and Carbon Markets Benefits --- Part 3. Climate Change Adaptation.-13. What do Evaluations Tell Us About Climate Change Adaptation? Meta-Analysis with a Realist Approach --- 14. Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa --- 15. Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya --- 16. Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines --- 17. Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment --- 18. The Adaptation M&E Navigator: A Decision Support Tool for the Selection of Suitable Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate Adaptation to Climate Change
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 355 pages) , 44 illustrations, 36 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319437026
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    AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Data mining ; Group theory ; Air pollution ; Welfare economics ; Development economics ; Sociology, Urban ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution ; Urban Studies/Sociology ; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice ; Group Theory and Generalizations ; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Foreword --- Chapter 1: Persuasive communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Jaap Ham --- Chapter 2: the AiREAS Proof of Principle - POP Relating air quality to health and lifestyle, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder, John Schmeitz --- Chapter 3: The backpack project, by Jean-Paul Close, Nicolette Meeder --- Chapter 4: New entrepreneurship, by John Schmeitz, Jean-Paul Close --- Chapter 5: Event linked communication, by Jean-Paul Close, Eric de Groot, Pierre Cluitmans --- Chapter 6: Multicultural context, by Jean-Paul Close, Rüstem Demir --- Chapter 7: Level 4 Sustainocratic regional development, by Jean-Paul Close
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 158 pages) , 74 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319456201
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    Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill : Volume 2: Fish Resources, Fisheries, Sea Turtles, Avian Resources, Marine Mammals, Diseases and Mortalities (2017)
    New York, NY : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Environmental Management ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. Nutrients and pollutants from coastal communities and dozens of rivers flow into the Gulf, including material from the Mississippi River watershed, which drains over one third of continental United States. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent; two of the most significant include the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in 1979 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. Unfortunately, baseline assessments of the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before these spills either were not available, or the data had not been systematically compiled in a way that would help scientists assess the potential short-term and long-term effects of such events. This 2-volume series compiles and summarizes thousands of data sets showing the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that began on April 20, 2010. Volume 1 begins with an overview of the following 13 chapters and focuses on the big picture rather than the details of habitat quality and biota.  Volume 1 covers: • Water and sediment quality and contaminants, to provide perspective on environmental conditions in the Gulf. • Natural oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, to identify natural sources of exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons. • Coastal habitats, including flora and fauna and coastal geology. • Offshore benthos and plankton, with an analysis of current knowledge on energy capture and energy flows in the Gulf. • Shellfish and finfish resources that provide the basis for commercial and recreational fisheries. Volume 2 covers: • Historical data on commercial and recreational fisheries, with an analysis of marketing trends and drivers. • Ecology, populations and risks to birds, sea turtles and marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico. • A final chapter extensively illustrated with original images on diseases and mortalities of fish and other animals that inhabit the Gulf of Mexico.  Chapters in these volumes have been peer reviewed by scientific experts in the subject areas covered.  Hopefully, the collection and analysis of such data for the Gulf of Mexico will be continued and sponsored by responsible federal and state agencies with the frequency needed to accurately assess potential damage to natural resources from ecologically harmful events that may occur in the future
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LXV, 891 pages) , 551 illustrations, 519 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9781493934560
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    Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Geography ; Climate change ; Remote sensing ; Environmental management ; Geography ; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry ; Environmental Management ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate services in the Tropics --- Climate planning in medium-size cities of the Tropics --- Setting up and managing automatic weather stations for remote sites monitoring: from Niger to Nepal --- Characterization of climate risks for rice crop in Casamance --- Climate change, drought and food security: a methodology for the vulnerability analysis. The case of the West Arsi Woreda in Ethiopia --- Visualize and communicate extreme weather risk to improve urban resilience --- Climate change adaptation and resilience in Mali --- Building resilience to drought in the Sahel by early risk identification and advices --- Risk analysis and evaluation to improve climate adaptation planning in Western Niger --- A simplified hydrological method for flood risk assessment at sub-basin level in Niger --- Socio-technical transitions and resilient infrastructure: analyzing changes in access to water following infrastructure upgrade in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania --- Monitoring and evaluating advocacy and mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in Haiti --- Knowledge for transformational adaptation planning: comparing the potential of forecasting and back casting methods for assessing people vulnerability --- Possible impact of pelletized crop residues use as a fuel for cooking in Niger --- An effective Mainstreaming DRR and Resilience approach in La Paz (Mexico) and San Jose (Costa-Rica) --- Climate vulnerability reduction credits: measuring results of adaptation; potential applicability for sub-Saharan communities --- Review of pilot projects on index-based insurance in Africa: insights and lessons Learned --- A new perspective for integrating climate change in local development plans
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 372 pages) , 91 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319590967
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    Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century (2017)
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    Keywords: Environmental management ; International relations ; Behavioral sciences ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Water ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice ; Environmental Management ; International Relations ; Behavioral Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction and Reflections --- 2. The Establishment of Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa with Reference to the Flussgebietsgemeinschaft Elbe: Some Practical Considerations --- 3. Towards Inclusive Water Governance: OECD Evidence and Key Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in the Water Sector --- 4. Free-Market Economics and Developmental Statism as Political Paradigms: Implications for Water Governance Theory and Practice in Developing Countries --- 5. Urban Water Governance as a Function of the “Urban Hydrosocial Transition” --- 6. Urban Water Governance for the 21st Century: A Portfolio-Based Approach to Planning and Management --- 7. Rights-Based Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century: Beyond an Exclusionary Focus on Domestic Water uses --- 8. Inclusive Transboundary Water Governance --- 9. Mechanisms for Inclusive Governance --- 10. Water Integrity - from Concept to Practice --- 11. Addressing the Groundwater Governance Challenge: A Call from the “Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Action” Project --- 12. Water Governance Futures in South Asia and Southern Africa: Déjà vu all Over Again?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 250 pages) , 39 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319433509
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-43350-9
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    Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Remote sensing ; Physics ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry ; Energy Efficiency ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Applied and Technical Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The Urban Heat Island – Evidence, Measures and Tools --- Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change --- Assessment Indication and Gold Standard --- Methodologies for UHI Analysis --- Decision Support Systems for Urban Planning --- Part II Pilot Actions in European Cities --- Counteracting Urban Heat Islands: Solutions for European Cities.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LIII, 400 pages) , 213 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319104256
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    Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley : Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environmental management ; Cultural heritage ; Tourism ; Management ; Nature conservation ; Sustainable development ; Development economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Sustainable Development ; Nature Conservation ; Cultural Heritage ; Tourism Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- The Jordan Valley --- Projections And Objectives --- Meeting The Strategic Planning Objectives --- The Year 2050 --- Final Conclusions And Recommendations --- Colophon.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLII, 239 pages) , 181 illustrations, 179 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319300368
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    Collider Physics within the Standard Model : A Primer (2017)
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    Keywords: Physics ; Quantum field theory ; String theory ; Elementary particles (Physics) ; Physics ; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory ; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Gauge Theories and the Standard Model --- QCD: The Theory of Strong Interactions --- The Theory of Electroweak Interactions --- References
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 173 pages) , 60 illustrations, 34 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319519203
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    Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking (2017)
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    Keywords: Physics ; Complexity, Computational ; Economic theory ; Social sciences ; Physics ; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building ; Methodology of the Social Sciences ; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods ; Operations Research/Decision Theory ; Complexity ; Computational Social Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy --- Economics --- Social Psychology and Narrative Economy --- Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science --- Geography far from Equilibrium --- Cities in Disequilibrium --- The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization --- Systems, Networks, and Policy --- Towards a Complexity-Friendly Policy: breaking the vicious circle of equilibrium thinking in economic and public policy --- The Information Economy --- Complexity Science & the Art of Policy Making --- The Complexity of Government --- The Room Around the Elephant: Tackling Context-Dependency in the Social Sciences --- Global Systems Science and Policy --- Index.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 232 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319424248
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    Science and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China (2015)
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    Keywords: Biotechnology ; Food ; Biotechnology ; Ethics ; Economic policy ; Nanotechnology ; Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Ethics ; Food Science ; Nanotechnology ; Biotechnology
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: Embedding Ethics in Science and Technology Policy – A Global Perspective --- Chapter 2 Institutionalizing Ethical Debates in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: A Comparison of Europe, India and China.-Chapter 3 Public Perceptions of Science and Technology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 4 Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology --- Chapter 5 Science and Technology Governance and European Values --- Chapter 6 The Values Demonstrated in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China --- Chapter 7 Science and Technology for Socio-Economic Development and Quest for Inclusive Growth: Emerging Evidence from India --- Chapter 8 A Comparative Framework for Studying Global Ethics in Science and Technology --- Chapter 9 New Food Technologies in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 10 Discourses on Nanotechnology in Europe, China and India --- Chapter 11 Discourses on Synthetic Biology in Europe, India and China --- Chapter 12 Conclusions: Incorporating Ethics into Science and Technology Policy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 173 pages) , 15 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319146935
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    Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate (2016)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part 1: Asia is a key for sustainable low carbon society --- 1. GHG reduction potential in Asia --- 2. Transition to a low carbon future in China towards 2°C Global target --- 3. India’s GHG Emission Reduction and Sustainable Development --- 4. 80% reduction scenario in Japan --- 5. Potential of low carbon development in Vietnam, from practices to legal framework --- Part 2: Brigding the gap between modeling and real policy development --- 6. Designing a National Policy Framework for NAMAs -Lesson learnt from Thailand- --- 7. ‘Science-to-Action’ of the Sustainable Low Carbon City-region --- Part 3:Best parctices and recommendations in each sector to make it happen --- 8. Low Carbon Transport in India - Assessment of Best Practice Case Studies - --- 9. Potential of Reducing GHG Emission from REDD+ Activities in Indonesia --- 10. Fostering capacity development for ASIA leapfrog --- 11. Capacity development on GHG inventories in Asia -WGIA Workshop on Greenhouse gas Inventory in Asia- --- 12. Japan’s Comprehensive and Continual Support Package for the Creation of Scientific Climate Policies in Asia
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 270 pages) , 99 illustrations, 70 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789812878267
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    Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry (2016)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Computer graphics ; Dynamics ; Ergodic theory ; Functions of complex variables ; Differential geometry ; Physics ; Mathematics ; Differential Geometry ; Functions of a Complex Variable ; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory ; Computer Graphics ; Numerical and Computational Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Discrete conformal maps: Boundary value problems, circle domains, Fuchsian and Schottky uniformization: Alexander I. Bobenko, Stefan Sechelmann, Boris Springborn --- Discrete complex analysis on planar quad-graphs: Alexander I. Bobenko and Felix Günther --- Approximation of conformal mappings using conformally equivalent triangular lattices: Ulrike Bücking --- Numerical Methods for the Discrete Map Za: Folkmar Bornemann, Alexander Its, Sheehan Olver, and Georg Wechslberger --- A variational principle for cyclic polygons with prescribed edge lengths: Hana Kourimská, Lara Skuppin, Boris Springborn --- Complex Line Bundles over Simplicial Complexes and their Applications: Felix Knöppel and Ulrich Pinkall --- Holomorphic vector fields and quadratic differentials on planar triangular meshes: Wai Yeung Lam, Ulrich Pinkall --- Vertex normals and face curvatures of triangle meshes: Xiang Sun, Caigui Jiang, Johannes Wallner, and Helmut Pottmann --- S-conical cmc surfaces. Towards a unified theory of discrete surfaces with constant mean curvature: Alexander I. Bobenko and Tim Hoffmann --- Constructing solutions to the Björling problem for isothermic surfaces by structure preserving discretization: Ulrike Bücking and Daniel Matthes --- On the Lagrangian Structure of Integrable Hierarchies: Yuri B. Suris, Mats Vermeeren --- On the variational interpretation of the discrete KP equation: Raphael Boll, Matteo Petrera, and Yuri B. Suris --- Six topics on inscribable polytopes: Arnau Padrol and Günter M. Ziegler --- DGD Gallery: Storage, sharing, and publication of digital research data: Michael Joswig, Milan Mehner, Stefan Sechelmann, Jan Techter, and Alexander I. Bobenko
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 439 pages) , 114 illustrations, 67 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783662504475
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    Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environmental economics ; Economics ; Environmental Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I: Concepts and Methods --- Methods --- Institutional Framework of Taking Action Against Land Degradation --- Part II: Global --- Global Extent Of Land Degradation --- Ground-Truthing of Land Degradation Mapping --- The Global Cost of Land Degradation --- Global Drivers of Land Degradation --- ELD in Global Rangelands --- Part III: Regional --- ELD in Sub-Saharan Africa --- ELD in Central Asia --- Part IV: Country Case Studies: Cost, Drivers and Action Against of Land Degradation --- Argentina --- Bhutan --- China --- Ethiopia --- India --- Kenya --- Niger --- Russia --- Senegal --- Tanzania and Malawi.-Uzbekistan --- Part V: Lessons Learnt and Implications --- What Can We Learn from the Cost of Inaction Against Land Degradation? --- What Can We Learn from the Success Stories of Addressing or Preventing Land Degradation? --- What are the Low-hanging Fruits for Addressing Land Degradation?.-What the World Needs to do to Build Momentum of Addressing Land Degradation?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 686 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319191683
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    Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Remote sensing ; Physics ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry ; Energy Efficiency ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Applied and Technical Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The Urban Heat Island – Evidence, Measures and Tools --- Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change --- Assessment Indication and Gold Standard --- Methodologies for UHI Analysis --- Decision Support Systems for Urban Planning --- Part II Pilot Actions in European Cities --- Counteracting Urban Heat Islands: Solutions for European Cities.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LIII, 400 pages) , 213 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319104256
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    AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : The Invisible made Visible Phase 1 (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Medicine ; Environmental monitoring ; Development economics ; Emigration and immigration ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Migration ; Medicine/Public Health, general ; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I Potted Review of Economic Theory: The Complex Evolving System --- 1. A Potted Review --- Part II Early Days: From Personal Awareness to Group Commitment --- 2. A personal story of awareness and perception --- 2.1 My first awareness breakthrough --- 2.2 Layers of awareness --- 2.3 My second burst of awareness --- 2.4 Defining a new society for myself --- 2.5 Key human values --- 2.6 Inside = outside --- 2.7 To be and to do --- 2.7 Welfare or wellbeing? --- 2.8 Business transformation --- 2.9 Leadership versus management --- 2.10 STIR Foundation - City of Tomorrow --- 2.11 Sustainocracy --- 2.12 City of Tomorrow --- 2.13 The Amsterdam internet congress --- 2.14 Key elements that define “sustainocratic” AiREAS --- 2.15 AiREAS --- 2.16 Commitment first --- 2.17 Territorial focus --- 2.18 Local AiREAS Eindhoven --- 2.19 First things first --- 2.20 Making visible the invisible --- 2.21 From idea to project --- 2.22 Conclusion about the coming about of AiREAS --- 2.23 Link with ethics and economies --- Part III “The Invisible made Visible”: science and technology --- An introduction by Marco van Lochem --- 3.1 The ILM --- 3.2. Variables measured --- 3.3.3. Instrumentation --- 3.3.1 The Airbox --- 3.3.2 PM (PM10, PM2.5, PM1) sensor --- 3.3.3 UFP sensor --- 3.3.4 Ozone sensor --- 3.3.5 NO2 sensor --- 3.3.6 Temperature sensor and relative humidity sensor --- 3.3.7 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) --- 3.3.8 Experiences and recommendations --- 4 Data quality --- 4.1 Regular calibration and preventative maintenance --- 4.2 Experiences and recommendations --- 5 Locations and spatial sampling --- 5.1 Experiences and recommendations --- 6 Data management --- 6.1 The Airbox --- 6.2 Axians (1) --- 6.3 ECN --- 6.4 Axians (2) --- 6.5 Experiences and recommendations --- 7 Results --- 7.1 Initial tests of sensors --- 7.2 Evaluation of sensor precision --- 8 Scientific projects based on the ILM --- Part IV Experiences after 5 years of AiREAS and 1 year of ILM --- 9. The way things work at AiREAS --- 9.1 The workflow in AiREAS --- 9.2 Financial routine in AiREAS --- 9.3 Confidence based interaction --- 9.4 October 2013 general AiREAS participants meeting --- 9.5 Interpreting the ILM data --- 9.6 The transition --- 9.7 Communication --- 9.8 Benchmarking and referencing our practical ideologies --- 9.9 The royalty system --- 9.10 Some of the transformative issues --- 9.11 Conclusion. Index.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 113 pages) , 47 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319269405
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    North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment (2016)
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    Keywords: Marine Sciences ; Environmental management ; Atmospheric Sciences ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the Assessment --- Past and Current Climate Change --- Past and Current Changes in the North Sea (and interface regions) --- Climate Change Projections --- Impacts of Current and Future Climate Change in Ecosystems --- Climate Impacts on Socio-economy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLV, 528 pages) , 277 illustrations, 215 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319397450
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    Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley : Final Report of the Regional NGO Master Plan (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environmental management ; Cultural heritage ; Tourism ; Management ; Nature conservation ; Sustainable development ; Development economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Sustainable Development ; Nature Conservation ; Cultural Heritage ; Tourism Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- The Jordan Valley --- Projections And Objectives --- Meeting The Strategic Planning Objectives --- The Year 2050 --- Final Conclusions And Recommendations --- Colophon.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLII, 239 pages) , 181 illustrations, 179 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319300368
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-30036-8
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    Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Life sciences ; Agriculture ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Soil science ; Soil conservation ; Air pollution ; Life Sciences ; Agriculture ; Climate Change ; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution ; Soil Science & Conservation ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction to the SAMPLES Approach --- Chapter 2 Targeting Landscapes to Identify Mitigation Options --- Chapter 3 Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Associated with Land Use and Land Cover Change --- Chapter 4 Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Managed and Natural Soils --- Chapter 5 A Comparison of Methodologies for Measuring Methane Emissions from Ruminants --- Chapter 6 Quantifying Tree Biomass Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes --- Chapter 7 Methods for Smallholder Quantification of Soil Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes --- Chapter 8 Yield Estimation of Food and Non-Food Crops in Smallholder Production Systems --- Chapter 9 Scaling Point and Plot Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Balances and Intensities to Whole Farms and Landscapes --- Chapter 10 Methods for Environment-Productivity Trade-off Analysis in Agricultural Systems
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 203 pages) , 33 illustrations, 27 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319297941
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-29794-1
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    Socioeconomics of Agriculture (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Agriculture ; Agricultural economics ; Economic sociology ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology ; Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do). Socioeconomic concepts are subsequently used to structure agricultural issues with regard to the three governance mechanisms (hierarchy, markets, and cooperation), and different agricultural systems are presented and compared. The book will be of interest to social scientists with various backgrounds, and seeks to break down the barriers of single-disciplinary thinking
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 106 pages) , 12 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319741413
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-74141-3
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    Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environmental economics ; Economics ; Environmental Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I: Concepts and Methods --- Methods --- Institutional Framework of Taking Action Against Land Degradation --- Part II: Global --- Global Extent Of Land Degradation --- Ground-Truthing of Land Degradation Mapping --- The Global Cost of Land Degradation --- Global Drivers of Land Degradation --- ELD in Global Rangelands --- Part III: Regional --- ELD in Sub-Saharan Africa --- ELD in Central Asia --- Part IV: Country Case Studies: Cost, Drivers and Action Against of Land Degradation --- Argentina --- Bhutan --- China --- Ethiopia --- India --- Kenya --- Niger --- Russia --- Senegal --- Tanzania and Malawi.-Uzbekistan --- Part V: Lessons Learnt and Implications --- What Can We Learn from the Cost of Inaction Against Land Degradation? --- What Can We Learn from the Success Stories of Addressing or Preventing Land Degradation? --- What are the Low-hanging Fruits for Addressing Land Degradation?.-What the World Needs to do to Build Momentum of Addressing Land Degradation?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 686 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319191683
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-19168-3
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    A Fair Share of Tax : A Fiscal Anthropology of Contemporary Sweden (2018)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Tax accounting ; Tax laws ; Behavioral economics ; Public finance ; Culture - Economic aspects ; Ethnography ; Economics ; Cultural Economics ; Business Taxation/Tax Law ; Ethnography ; Behavioral/Experimental Economics ; Public Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Exchanges create relations --- Chapter 2: Taxpayers’ relation to their state --- Chapter 3: Taxpayer to taxpayer relation --- Chapter 4: Tensions between Paying and Receiving --- Chapter 5: Making tax compliant
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 136 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319697727
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-69772-7
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    Climate Smart Agriculture : Building Resilience to Climate Change (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Agricultural economics ; Economics ; Agricultural Economics ; R & D/Technology Policy ; Political Economy/Economic Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction --- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates --- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 4:  Innovation in Response to Climate Change --- Chapter 5:  Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning --- Chapter 6:  Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE --- Chapter 7 :  Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia:  The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam --- Chapter 8:  U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts --- Chapter 9:  Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts:  An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture --- Chapter 10:  Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa --- Chapter 11:  Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa --- Chapter 12:  Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 13:  Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria --- Chapter 14:  Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems --- Chapter 15:  Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate --- Chapter 16:  The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change --- Chapter 17:  A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries --- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia --- Chapter 19:  Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa --- Chapter 20:  Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change --- Chapter 21:  Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia --- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi --- Chapter 23:  Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture --- Chapter 24:  Synthesis:  Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA --- Chapter 25:  Conclusions and Policy Implications
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 630 pages) , 107 illustrations, 97 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319611945
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-61194-5
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    Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities : A Comparative Analysis of European Convergence Regions (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Economics ; Management science ; Economic policy ; Economics ; Economic Policy ; Economics, general
    Description / Table of Contents: In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of capacity building and structural funds in public managing authorities for the microcredit sector. It presents two surveys to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the managing authorities' capacity building. The first survey investigates the authorities' need for and interests in capacity building activities, assessing the areas in which capacity building support is needed, and explores the different types of support offered. The second survey analyses the results of the microcredit and microfinance programming activity, investigating its target groups and other operational features. It examines the key monitoring and reporting issues involved in this activity, before analysing the regulatory framework of the microcredit and microfinance sector. This book presents an in-depth analysis of structural funds and their management by policy-makers in the European convergence regions. It explores the interests of managing authorities, microcredit institutions, operators and other financial intermediaries involved in microcredit programming activities, and offers some core strategic and operational recommendations for the use of structural funds in the microcredit sector
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXX, 286 pages)
    ISBN: 9781137536020
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-137-53602-0
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    Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas : Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis (2018)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    Keywords: Environmental policy ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Natural resources ; Environmental Geography ; Environmental Policy ; Environmental Management ; Sustainable Development ; Natural Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: Section 1: Research Highlights and Framework --- 1. Ecosystem Services, Well-Being and Deltas: Current Knowledge and Understanding; W. Neil Adger et al. --- 2. Ecosystem Services Linked to Livelihoods and Well-Being in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Helen Adams, W. Neil Adger and Robert J. Nicholls --- 3. An Integrated Approach Providing Scientific and Policy Relevant Insights for South-West Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- 4. Integrative Analysis for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh; Robert J Nicholls et al. --- Section 2: Present Status of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta --- 5. Recent Trends in Ecosystem Services in Coastal Bangladesh; John A Dearing and Sarwar Hossain --- 6. Governance of Ecosystem Services Across Scales in Bangladesh ; Andrew Allan and Michelle Lim --- 7. Health, Livelihood and Well-Being in the Coastal Delta of Bangladesh; Mofizur Rahman and Sate Ahmad --- 8. Floods and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta; Anisul Haque and Robert J Nicholls --- Section 3: Scenarios for Policy Analysis --- 9. Integrating Science and Policy Using Stakeholder-Engaged Scenarios; Emily J Barbour et al. --- 10. Incorporating Stakeholder Perspectives in Scenario Development; Andrew Allan, Michelle Lim and Emily J Barbour --- 11. Regional Climate Change over South Asia; John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 12. Future Scenarios of Economic Development; Alistair Hunt --- Section 4: Observations and Potential Trends --- 13. Biophysical Modelling of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Catchment; Paul G Whitehead --- 14. Marine Dynamics and Productivity in the Bay of Bengal; Susan Kay, John Caesar and Tamara Janes --- 15. A Sustainable Future Supply of Fluvial Sediment for the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta; Stephen E Darby et al. --- 16. Present and Future Fluvial, Tidal and Storm Surge Flooding in Coastal Bangladesh; Anisul Haque, Susan Kay and Robert J Nicholls --- 17. Modelling Tidal River Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Lucy Bricheno and Judtih Wold --- 18. Mechanisms and Drivers of Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh; Mashfiqus Salehin et al. --- 19. Population Dynamics in the South-West of Bangladesh; Sylvia Szabo, Sate Ahmad and W Neil Adger --- 20. Land Cover and Land Use Analysis in Coastal Bangladesh;Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 21. Social, Economic and Environmental Dimensions and Drivers of Poverty in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Fiifi Amoako Johnson and Craig W Hutton --- 22. Defining Social-Ecological Systems in South-West Bangladesh; Helen Adams et al. --- 23. Characterising Associations Between Poverty and Ecosystem Services; Helen Adams et al. --- Section 5: Present and Future Ecosystem Services --- 24. Prospects for Agriculture under Climate Change and Soil Salinisation; Derek Clarke et al. --- 25. Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries: Trends and Prospect; Manuel Barange et al. --- 26. Dynamics of the Sundarbans Mangroves in Bangladesh Under Climate Change; Anirban Mukhopadhyay et al. --- 27. Hypertension and Malnutrition as Health Outcomes Related to Ecosystem Services; Ali Ahmed et al. Section 6: Integration and Dissemination --- 28. Integrative Analysis Spplying the Delta Dynamic Integrated Emulator Model in South-West Coastal Bangladesh; Attila N. Lázár et al. --- 29. Communicating Integrated Analysis Research Findings; Mashrekur Rahman and Munsur Rahman
    Pages: Online-Ressource (L, 593 pages) , 147 illustrations, 1 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319710938
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-71093-8
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    Observing the Volcano World : Volcano Crisis Communication (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Geology ; Natural disasters ; Environmental management ; Communication ; Earth Sciences ; Natural Hazards ; Geology ; Environmental Management ; Communication Studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Bill McGuire --- Volcano Crisis Communication: Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century --- Volcanic Gases: Silent Killers --- The Communication and Risk Management of Volcanic Ballistic Hazards --- Part One Summary: Adapting Warnings for Volcanic Hazards --- Part II: Gill Jolly --- Volcanic Unrest and Hazard Communication in Long Valley Volcanic Region, California --- Organisational Response to the 2007 Ruapehu Crater Lake Dam-Break Lahar in New Zealand: Use of Communication in Creating an Effective Response --- Social Representation of Human Resettlement Associated with Risk from Volcán de Colima, Mexico --- Part Two Summary: Observing Volcanic Crises --- Part III: Deanne Bird and Kat Haynes --- Communicating Information on Eruptions and Their Impacts from the Earliest Times Until the Late Twentieth Century --- “There’s no Plastic in Our Volcano”: A Story About Losing and Finding a Path to Participatory Volcanic Risk Management in Colombia --- Challenges of Volcanic Crises on Small Islands States --- Living with an Active Volcano: Informal and Community Learning for Preparedness in South of Japan --- Part Three Summary: Communicating into the Future. Volcanic Crisis Communication: Where Do We Go from Here?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 771 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319440972
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-44097-2
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    Biofuels and Sustainability : Holistic Perspectives for Policy-making (2018)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Renewable energy resources ; Energy policy ; Energy and state ; Ecosystems ; Renewable energy sources ; Alternate energy sources ; Green energy industries ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Energy Policy, Economics and Management ; Ecosystems ; Environmental Management ; Renewable and Green Energy ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface.-Introduction.-Part 1: Biofuels and Sustainability Conceptual Framework --- Chapter 1. Sustainability Science Perspective for Biofuels [Takeuchi, Matsuda] --- Chapter 2. Stakeholder perspectives and Multilevel Governance [Shiroyama, Matsuura] --- Chapter 3. Applying stakeholder perspectives to sustainable biofuel strategy: a summary of our analyses [Shiroyama, Matsuura].-Part 2: Impacts on land use and ecosystem services --- Chapter 4. Global Economic and Environmental Impacts - Economic Impacts of biofuels and related policy [Suzuki and Takahashi] --- Chapter 5. Global Economic and Environmental Impacts - Environmental impacts of biofuel production on the GHG emission reduction [Hanaki] --- Chapter 6. Impacts at the National & Regional Scales - Land use change impacts [Hayashi] --- Chapter 7. Impacts at the National & Regional Scales - Socioeconomic impacts in East Asia [Elder, Kozima, Sano and Hayashi] --- Chapter 8. Social, Economic and Political Impacts - Socio-Political impacts to the roles of stakeholders [Shiroyama and Matsuura ] --- Chapter 9. Social, Economic and Political Impacts - Impacts on ecosystem services [Alexandros and Stromberg] --- Part 3: Sustainable biofuels strategy options --- Chapter 10. Roadmap for building sustainable strategy options - Developing sustainable strategy options [Shiroyama and Matsuura] --- Chapter 11. Roadmap for building sustainable strategy options - Application of Ontology for developing strategy options [Kozaki, Mizoguchi and Saito] --- Chapter 12. Key strategies for policy makers - Global Strategies options [Arai, Matsuda and Suzuki] --- Chapter 13. Key strategies for policy makers - Regional Strategy options for East Asia [Elder, Kozima, Sano and Hayashi] --- Chapter 14. Key strategies for policy makers - National strategy options for Japan [Shiroyama, Matsuura and Saito]
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 265 pages) , 72 illustrations, 22 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431548959
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-54895-9
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    Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN : With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; History ; Nuclear physics ; Heavy ions ; Hadrons ; Particle acceleration ; Physics ; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics ; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics ; History of Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I Reminiscences: Rolf Hagedorn and Relativistic Heavy Ion Research.-- Part II The Hagedorn Temperature --- Part III Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks Heavy Ion Path to Quark-Gluon Plasma --- Acronyms
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 441 pages)
    ISBN: 9783319175454
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    Advancing Energy Policy : Lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (2018)
    Cham : Palgrave Pivot
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    Keywords: Energy ; Energy policy ; Energy and state ; Environmental geography ; Environmental management ; Energy ; Energy Policy, Economics and Management ; Environment Studies ; Environmental Geography ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword 1. Making Multiple Views Count – Why Energy Research Needs to Be Interdisciplinary; Gerd Schönwälder --- Foreword 2. Multidisciplinary Partnerships for Access to Energy; Lidia Borrell-Damián --- Foreword 3. Energy Policies Outside the Silos; Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker --- Chapter 1. Introduction: Mobilising the Energy-Related Social Sciences and Humanities; Chris Foulds, Rosie Robison --- Part I. Energy as a Social Issue --- Chapter 2. Plugging the Gap Between Energy Policy and the Lived Experience of Energy Poverty: Five Principles for a Multidisciplinary Approach; Lucie Middlemiss, Ross Gillard, Victoria Pellicer, Koen Straver --- Chapter 3. Shaping Blue Growth: Social Sciences at the Nexus Between Marine Renewables and Energy Policy; Sandy Kerr, Laura Watts, Ruth Brennan, Rhys Howell, Marcello Graziano, Anne Marie O’Hagan, Dan van der Horst, Stephanie Weir, Glen Wright, Brian Wynne --- Chapter 4. Looking for Perspectives! EU Energy Policy in Context; Anna Åberg, Johanna Höffken, Susanna Lidström --- Part II. Social Sciences and Humanities in Interdisciplinary Endeavours --- Chapter 5. Achieving Data Synergy: The Socio-Technical Process of Handling Data; Sarah Higginson, Marina Topouzi, Carlos Andrade-Cabrera, Ciara O’Dwyer, Sarah Darby, Donal Finn --- Chapter 6. Building Governance and Energy Efficiency: Mapping the Interdisciplinary Challenge; Frankie McCarthy, Susan Bright, Tina Fawcett --- Chapter 7. Crossing Borders: Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives on European Energy Systems Integration; Antti Silvast, Ronan Bolton, Vincent Lagendijk, Kacper Szulecki --- Chapter 8. A Complementary Understanding of Residential Energy Demand, Consumption and Services; Ralitsa Hiteva, Matthew Ives, Margot Weijnen, Igor Nikolic --- Part III. Interplay with Energy Policymaking Environments --- Chapter 9. Imaginaries and Practices: Learning from ‘ENERGISE’ About the Integration of Social Sciences with the EU Energy Union; Audley Genus, Frances Fahy, Gary Goggins, Marfuga Iskandarova, Senja Laakso --- Chapter 10. Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe; Bruno Turnheim, Joeri H. Wesseling, Bernhard Truffer, Harald Rohracher, Luis Carvalho, Claudia R. Binder --- Chapter 11. Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy; Gavin Bridge, Stefania Barca, Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, Ryan Wyeth --- Afterword 1. Important Contributions Towards Renewal of a Stubborn Energy Research and Policy Agenda; Harold Wilhite --- Afterword 2. A New Energy Storyline; Inês Campos
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 193 pages) , 11 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319990972
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-99097-2
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    International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation–60 Years of IAEA and EURATOM : Proceedings of the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, October 9-10, 2017 (2018)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Nuclear energy ; International relations ; Physics ; Applied and Technical Physics ; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education ; Nuclear Energy ; International Relations
    Description / Table of Contents: This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and fostering progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world. The book opens by addressing important political, institutional, and legal dimensions. Current challenges are discussed and attempts made to identify possible solutions and future improvements. Subsequent sections consider scientific developments that have the potential to increase the effectiveness of implementation of international regimes, particularly in critical areas, technology foresight, and the ongoing evaluation of current capabilities. The closing sections examine scientific and technical challenges and discuss the role of international cooperation and actions of the scientific community in leading the world toward peace and security. The book – which celebrates 60 years of IAEA Atoms for Peace and Development and the EURATOM Treaty – comprises contributions presented at the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, where eminent scientists, diplomats, and policymakers were able to compare national perspectives and update international collaborations
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 220 pages) , 16 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783662573662
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-57366-2
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    Physical (A)Causality : Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Epistemology ; Philosophy and science ; Probabilities ; Physics ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics ; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics ; Epistemology ; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes ; Philosophy of Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I Embedded observers, reflexive perception and representation: Intrinsic and extrinsic observation mode --- Embedded observers and self-expression --- Reflexive measurement --- Intrinsic self-representation --- Part II Provable unknowns: On what is entirely hopeless --- Forecasting and unpredictability --- Induction by rule inference --- Other types of recursion theoretic unknowables --- What if there are no laws? Emergence of laws --- Part III Quantum unknowns: "Shut up and calculate" --- Evolution by permutation --- Quantum mechanics in a nutshell --- Quantum oracles --- Vacuum fluctuations --- Radioactive decay --- Part IV Exotic unknowns: Classical continua and infinities --- Classical (in)determinism --- Deterministic chaos --- Partition logics, finite automata and generalized urn models --- Part V Transcendence: Miracles --- Dualistic interfaces --- Part VI Executive summary: Executive summary --- Appendix A: Formal (in)computability and randomness --- B: Two particle correlations and expectations
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 219 pages) , 32 illustrations, 24 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319708157
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-70815-7
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    Foundations of Quantum Theory : From Classical Concepts to Operator Algebras (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Matrix theory ; Algebra ; Mathematical physics ; Quantum physics ; Physics ; Quantum Physics ; Mathematical Physics ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics ; Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Matrix Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I Co(X) and B(H): Classical physics on a finite phase space --- Quantum mechanics on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space --- Classical physics on a general phase space --- Quantum physics on a general Hilbert space --- Symmetry in quantum mechanics --- Part II Between Co(X) and B(H): Classical models of quantum mechanics --- Limits: Small hbar --- Limits: large N --- Symmetry in algebraic quantum theory --- Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking --- The Measurement Problem --- Topos theory and quantum logic --- Appendix A: Finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces --- Appendix B: Basic functional analysis --- Appendix C: Operator algebras --- Appendix D: Lattices and logic --- Appendix E: Category theory and topos theory --- References
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 861 pages) , 9 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319517773
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-51777-3
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    The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Physics ; Mathematical physics ; Quantum physics ; Physics ; Quantum Physics ; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences ; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: I The Cellular Automaton Interpretation as a general doctrine: Motivation for this work --- Deterministic models in quantum notation --- Interpreting quantum mechanics --- Deterministic quantum mechanics --- Concise description of the CA Interpretation --- Quantum gravity --- Information loss --- More problems --- Alleys to be further investigated and open questions --- Conclusions --- II Calculation Techniques: Introduction to part II --- More on cogwheels --- The continuum limit of cogwheels, harmonic rotators and oscillators --- Locality --- Fermions --- PQ theory --- Models in two space-time dimensions without interactions --- Symmetries --- The discretised Hamiltonian formalism in PQ theory --- Quantum Field Theory --- The cellular automaton --- The problem of quantum locality --- Conclusions of part II --- Some remarks on gravity in 2+1 dimensions --- A summary of our views on Conformal Gravity --- Abbreviations.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 298 pages) , 21 illustrations, 19 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319412856
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-41285-6
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