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    Epistemologien des Umgebens (2019)
    transcript Verlag - Bielefeld University Press
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    Publication Date: 2021-12-16
    Description: The rise of the term "environment" to describe the present marks the influence that reflection on environmental relations and the possibility of engineering artificial environments have gained since the mid-nineteenth century. In closed artificial worlds such as space stations or artificial ecosystems, the entanglement of the "environment" with the surrounding organisms becomes the subject of a biopolitics that today opens up new spaces in autonomous environmental control technologies. Florian Sprenger pursues this transformation of ecological environmental knowledge with the aim of better understanding current technologies, making the term understandable and highlighting the biopolitical dimension of each ecology.
    Description: Der Aufstieg des Begriffs »Environment« zur Beschreibung der Gegenwart markiert den Einfluss, den das Nachdenken über Umgebungsrelationen und die Möglichkeit der technischen Gestaltung künstlicher Umgebungen seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gewonnen haben. In geschlossenen artifiziellen Welten wie Raumstationen oder künstlichen Ökosystemen wird die Verschränkung des »Environments« mit den umgebenen Organismen zum Gegenstand einer Biopolitik, die heute in autonomen Technologien der Umgebungskontrolle neue Räume erschließt. Florian Sprenger verfolgt diese Transformation ökologischen Umgebungswissens mit dem Ziel, gegenwärtige Technologien besser zu verstehen, den Begriff unselbstverständlich zu machen und die biopolitische Dimension jeder Ökologie herauszuarbeiten.
    Keywords: Media ; Technology ; Ecology ; Environment ; Biopolitics ; Surrounding ; Artificiality ; Organism ; Environmental Knowledge ; Science ; Media Theory ; History of Science ; Media Studies ; Medien ; Technik ; Ökologie ; Environment ; Biopolitik ; Umgebung ; Künstlichkeit ; Organismus ; Autonome Technologie ; Umgebungswissen ; Wissenschaft ; Medientheorie ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; Medienwissenschaft ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies
    Language: German
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    Quantifying the Unknown (2019)
    Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: "Copper, zinc, gold and silver mineralizations exist on the deep ocean floor, at great depths, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen. None of these mineralizations within Norwegian jurisdiction have been thoroughly investigated yet, but they are likely to contain significant amounts of minerals and metals crucial to society and the ‘Green Shift’. Should these mineralizations, which contain minerals and metals that you and I use every day, be developed and mined? The question is premature: we need to know more before we can answer it. We need to know more about the formation, location and characteristics of these potential deposits, as well as the environmental, social and financial consequences of potential extraction. We need to evaluate mining alternatives and how to process the extracted ore. How should we answer this question? The ultimate decisions will be determined politically, and knowledge will be the defining factor. Knowledge gained from proper mineral resource management. Quantifying the Unknown sets out to estimate the amount of minerals and metals on the deep ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in particular, copper, zinc, gold and silver contained in so-called ‘seafloor massive sulphide deposits’. These deposits are modern analogues of those mined worldwide on land today. The method used to quantify the amounts of these resources is known as ‘play analysis’. It shares aspects of methodologies used on land for similar purposes and has been employed extensively to assess untapped petroleum resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Play analysis enables a quantification of the potential as well as associated uncertainty. The potential is large, but the uncertainty is also significant. Whether and how this potential is realized remains to be seen."
    Keywords: Mid-Atlantic ridge ; mining ; minerals ; metals ; estimates ; quantifying ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues
    Language: English
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    Nanoinformatics (2018)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Materials science ; Spectroscopy ; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical ; Nanoscale science ; Nanoscience ; Nanostructures ; Microscopy ; Nanotechnology ; Materials Science ; Nanotechnology ; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry ; Nanoscale Science and Technology ; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials ; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry ; Spectroscopy and Microscopy
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Descriptors for Machine Learning of Materials Data --- 2. Potential Energy Surface Mapping of Charge Carriers in Ionic Conductors Based on a Gaussian Process Model --- 3. Machine learning predictions of factors affecting the activity of heterogeneous metal catalysts --- 4. Machine Learning-based Experimental Design in Materials Science --- 5. Persistent homology and materials informatics --- 6. Polyhedron and Polychoron codes for describing Atomic Arrangements --- 7. Topological Data Analysis for the Characterization of Atomic Scale Morphology from Atom Probe Tomography Images --- 8. Atomic-scale nanostructures by advanced electron microscopy and informatics --- 9. High spatial resolution hyperspectral imaging with machine-learning techniques --- 10. Fabrication, Characterization, and Modulation of Functional Nanolayers --- 11. Grain Boundary Engineering of Alumina Ceramics --- 12. Structural relaxation of oxide compounds from the high-pressure phase.-13.Synthesis and structures of novel solid-state electrolytes
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 298 pages) , 188 illustrations, 142 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789811076176
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-10-7617-6
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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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    Mercury Pollution in Minamata (2018)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; Ecotoxicology ; Pollution prevention ; Water pollution ; Environmental sociology ; Environment ; Industrial Pollution Prevention ; Environmental Sociology ; Environmental Communication ; Ecotoxicology ; Corporate Environmental Management ; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Lecture on the methylmercury poisoning occurred in Minamata (MPM) --- 3. Assignment to students
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 67 pages) , 18 illustrations, 13 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789811073922
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-10-7392-2
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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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    Hamburger Klimabericht – Wissen über Klima, Klimawandel und Auswirkungen in Hamburg und Norddeutschland : Wissen über Klima, Klimawandel und Auswirkungen in Hamburg und Norddeutschland (2018)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
    Description / Table of Contents: Klima der Region und Einfluss auf Ökosysteme --- Einleitung und Zusammenfassung / Hans von Storch, Insa Meinke, Martin Claußen / Pages 1-11 --- Klima der Region – Zustand, bisherige Entwicklung und mögliche Änderungen bis 2100 / Insa Meinke, Diana Rechid, Birger Tinz, Moritz Maneke, Christiana Lefebvre, Elke Isokeit / Pages 15-36 --- Stadtklima in Hamburg / K. Heinke Schlünzen, Wolfgang Riecke, Benjamin Bechtel, Marita Boettcher, Saskia Buchholz, David Grawe et al. / Pages 37-53 --- Deutsche Bucht mit Tideelbe und Lübecker Bucht / Birgit Klein, Rita Seiffert, Ulf Gräwe, Holger Klein, Peter Loewe, Jens Möller et al. / Pages 55-87 --- Aquatische Ökosysteme: Nordsee, Wattenmeer, Elbeästuar und Ostsee / Justus van Beusekom, Ralf Thiel, Ivo Bobsien, Maarten Boersma, Christian Buschbaum, Andreas Dänhardt et al. / Pages 89-107 --- Terrestrische und semiterrestrische Ökosysteme / Udo Schickhoff, Annette Eschenbach / Pages 109-145 --- Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in der Region --- Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei / Michael Köhl, Christian Möllmann, Jörg Fromm, Gerd Kraus, Volker Mues / Pages 149-172 --- Gesundheit / Jobst Augustin, Rolf Horstmann, Timo Homeier-Bachmann, Kai Jensen, Jörg Knieling, Anne Caroline Krefis et al. / Pages 173-192 --- Infrastrukturen (Energie- und Wasserversorgung) / Markus Groth, Julia Rose / Pages 193-208 --- Migration / Michael Brzoska, Jürgen Oßenbrügge, Christiane Fröhlich, Jürgen Scheffran / Pages 209-224 --- Hafen Hamburg, Schifffahrt und Verkehr / Birgit Weiher / Pages 225-240 --- Regionaler Klimawandel und Gesellschaft --- Klimawandel in den Medien / Michael Brüggemann, Irene Neverla, Imke Hoppe, Stefanie Walter / Pages 243-254 --- Wahrnehmung des Klimawandels in der Metropolregion Hamburg / Beate M. W. Ratter / Pages 255-264 --- Lokale Klima-Governance im Mehrebenensystem: formale und informelle Regelungsformen / Anita Engels, Martin Wickel, Jörg Knieling, Nancy Kretschmann, Kerstin Walz / Pages 265-282 --- Technischer Klimaschutz / Detlef Schulz, Thomas Weiß / Pages 283-291 --- Klimawandel, Nachhaltigkeit und Transformationsgestaltung / Harald Heinrichs / Pages 293-302
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 302 Seiten) , 92 Abbildungen, 66 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662553794
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-55379-4
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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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    Mercury Pollution in Minamata (2018)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; Ecotoxicology ; Pollution prevention ; Water pollution ; Environmental sociology ; Environment ; Industrial Pollution Prevention ; Environmental Sociology ; Environmental Communication ; Ecotoxicology ; Corporate Environmental Management ; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Lecture on the methylmercury poisoning occurred in Minamata (MPM) --- 3. Assignment to students
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 67 pages) , 18 illustrations, 13 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9789811073922
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-981-10-7392-2
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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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    Technologies for Development : From Innovation to Social Impact (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Renewable energy resources ; Renewable energy sources ; Alternate energy sources ; Green energy industries ; Environmental engineering ; Biotechnology ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Renewable and Green Energy ; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology ; Health Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction --- Part II: Humanitarian Technologies --- Part III: Medical Technologies --- Part IV: Renewable Energies --- Part V: Sustainable Habitat --- Part VI: Disaster Risk Reduction
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 225 pages) , 40 illustrations, 37 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319910680
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-91068-0
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    Proceedings of the Scientific-Practical Conference "Research and Development - 2016" (2018)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Materials science ; Life sciences ; Transportation engineering ; Traffic engineering ; Environment ; Nanotechnology ; Materials Science ; Nanotechnology ; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering ; Environment, general ; Life Sciences, general
    Description / Table of Contents: Multimodal Control System of Active Lower Limb Exoskeleton with Feedback --- Investigation and Development of Methods for Improving Robustness of Automatic Speech Recognition Algorithms in Complex Acoustic Environments --- Smart Endoscope—Firmware Complex for Real-Time Analysis and Recognition of Endoscopic Videos --- The Development of Constructive-Technological Decisions on Creation of a Family of Microelectronic Elements on the «Silicon on Insulator» (SOI) Structures to Provide the Ability to Create Sensors of External Influences of a Various Functional Purpose --- Thermopile IR Sensor Arrays --- Development Signal Processing Integrated Circuit for Position Sensors with High Resolution --- Brain-Controlled Biometric Signals Employed to Operate External Technical Devices --- Improving Talent Management with Automated Competence Assessment: Research Summary
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 730 pages) , 311 illustrations, 187 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319628707
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-62870-7
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-74953-2
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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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    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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    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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    Hamburger Klimabericht – Wissen über Klima, Klimawandel und Auswirkungen in Hamburg und Norddeutschland (2018)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
    Description / Table of Contents: Bereits zum zweiten Mal wird im Rahmen des KlimaCampus Hamburg der aktuelle Forschungsstand zum Klimawandel in der Hamburger Metropolregion und Norddeutschland systematisch dokumentiert. Erfahren Sie auf Basis der Fachliteratur, in welchem Maße Konsens hinsichtlich des Klimawandels in Norddeutschland besteht. Inwieweit sind Entwicklungen bereits messbar, welche Auswirkungen zeigen sich bereits heute und wie kann sich die Region vor negativen Folgen des Klimawandels schützen? Die über 70 Autoren haben die Forschungsergebnisse zu diesen Fragen systematisch zusammengetragen. Die Übereinstimmung bzw. Widersprüchlichkeit des derzeitigen Wissens wurde dabei herausgearbeitet, Erkenntnisgewinne gegenüber dem ersten Hamburger Klimabericht lokalisiert und weiterhin bestehender Forschungsbedarf aufgezeigt. Alle Beiträge wurden einem wissenschaftlichen Begutachtungsprozess unterzogen, der von einem Lenkungsausschuss überwacht wurde. Die Dokumentation belegt umfassend eine bereits stattfindende Erwärmung in der Metropolregion Hamburg und in Norddeutschland sowie einen Meeresspiegelanstieg an Nord- und Ostsee. Mit der Erwärmung zeichnen sich deutliche Änderungen im Ökosystem ab. Diese bereits eingetretenen Entwicklungen können sich künftig weiter verstärken. Erfahren Sie, welche Auswirkungen dies für Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft hat. Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Acess-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC 4.0 Lizenz
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 302 Seiten) , 92 Abbildungen, 66 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662553794
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-55379-4
    Language: German
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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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    Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety : From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Engineering ethics ; Environmental sciences ; Nuclear engineering ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Environmental economics ; Environmental policy ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Nuclear Engineering ; Environmental Science and Engineering ; Environmental Policy ; Environmental Economics ; Engineering Ethics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Part I: What are damages in Nuclear Accidents?- Part II: Measurement of Damages --- Part III: Barriers against Transition into Resilience --- Part IV: Research questions for developing knowledge toward transition into resilience --- Epilogue
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 356 pages) , 62 illustrations, 48 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319587684
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-58768-4
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    Klimawandel in Deutschland : Entwicklung, Folgen, Risiken und Perspektiven (2017)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climatology ; Climate change ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Climatology
    Description / Table of Contents: Teil 1: Globale Klimaprojektionen und regionale Projektionen für Deutschland und Europa --- Teil 2: Klimawandel in Deutschland: Regionale Besonderheiten und Extreme --- Teil 3: Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Deutschland --- Teil 4: Übergreifende Risiken und Unsicherheiten --- Teil 5: Integrierte Strategien zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel.   
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 348 Seiten) , 116 Abbildungen, 50 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662503973
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-50397-3
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    Railway Ecology (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental sciences ; Urban geography ; Applied ecology ; Biodiversity ; Nature conservation ; Environment ; Nature Conservation ; Applied Ecology ; Biodiversity ; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) ; Environmental Science and Engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 --- Introduction --- 1. Railway Ecology --- 2. Wildlife Mortality in Railways --- 3. Railways as Barriers for Wildlife: Current Knowledge and Future Steps --- Part 2. Introduction --- Case Studies --- Conclusions --- What’s Next? Railway Ecology in the 21st Century
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXX, 320 pages) , 53 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319574967
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-57496-7
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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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    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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    Air Quality Integrated Assessment : A European Perspective (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Computer simulation ; Environmental monitoring ; Air pollution ; Environment ; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution ; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis ; Simulation and Modeling
    Description / Table of Contents: Air quality in Europe: today and tomorrow --- A framework for Integrated Assessment Modelling --- Current European AQ planning at regional and local scale --- Strengths and weaknesses of the current EU situation --- Two illustrative examples: Brussels and Porto --- Conclusions: A way forward
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 110 pages) , 50 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319333496
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-33349-6
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    High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environmental geography ; Ecosystems ; Conservation biology ; Ecology ; Nature conservation ; Environment ; Nature Conservation ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Conservation Biology/Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Environmental Geography
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- 1. Trade-offs in the high-mountain conservation --- 2. Present phylogeorgraphic patterns in European mountains resulting from past large climatic oscillations --- 3. The early human occupation of the high mountain --- 4. Millenial socio-ecological trajectories in high mountain and land use --- 5. Non-equilibrium in alpine plan assemblages, current shifts in summit floras --- 6. Diversity assembly in alpine plant communities --- 7. Regional forest idiosyncrasy and the response to global change --- 8. Life-history responses to the altitudinal gradient in mountain fauna --- 9. Towards a microbial conservation perspective in high-mountain lakes --- 10. On defence of fishless high mountain lakes --- 11. Atmospheric chemical loadings in the high mountain: current forcing and legacy pollution --- 12. High soil carbon stocks in mountain grasslands may be compromised by land use changes --- 13. Why recovering large carnivore populations in high mountains? --- 14. The role of environmental history in high mountain landscape conservation --- 15. Conservation lessons from long-term studies of the bearded vulture --- 16. Monitoring global change in the high mountain --- 17. Evaluating global change effects on high mountain snow and the impact on water resources --- 18. A modelling approach to the understanding of past, present and future shifts in vegetation --- 19. Challenges for conservation in a changing world, perspective from the high mountains
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 413 pages) , 114 illustrations, 86 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319559827
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-55982-7
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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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    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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    Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean : The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Business ; Management science ; Law ; Building construction ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Offshore Engineering ; Business and Management, general ; Law, general ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Foreword --- 2. Preface --- 3. Human Marine Resource Use --- 4 Species, Techniques and System Design, Environmental Impact --- 5. Aquaculture Governance --- 6. Aquaculture Economics --- 7. Case Studies --- 8. Synthesis – Pathways Towards Sustainable Ocean Food Production
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 404 pages) , 128 illustrations, 104 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319511597
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    Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Energy industries ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Energy Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Earth's Climate System --- Chapter 2. Forecasting Global Warming --- Chapter 3. Paris INDCs --- Chapter 4. Implementation.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 186 pages) , 58 illustrations, 54 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319469393
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-46939-3
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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
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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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    Air Quality Integrated Assessment : A European Perspective (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Computer simulation ; Environmental monitoring ; Air pollution ; Environment ; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution ; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis ; Simulation and Modeling
    Description / Table of Contents: Air quality in Europe: today and tomorrow --- A framework for Integrated Assessment Modelling --- Current European AQ planning at regional and local scale --- Strengths and weaknesses of the current EU situation --- Two illustrative examples: Brussels and Porto --- Conclusions: A way forward
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 110 pages) , 50 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319333496
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-33349-6
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    Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Energy industries ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Energy Economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Earth's Climate System --- Chapter 2. Forecasting Global Warming --- Chapter 3. Paris INDCs --- Chapter 4. Implementation.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 186 pages) , 58 illustrations, 54 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319469393
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-46939-3
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    Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean : The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Business ; Management science ; Law ; Building construction ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Offshore Engineering ; Business and Management, general ; Law, general ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Foreword --- 2. Preface --- 3. Human Marine Resource Use --- 4 Species, Techniques and System Design, Environmental Impact --- 5. Aquaculture Governance --- 6. Aquaculture Economics --- 7. Case Studies --- 8. Synthesis – Pathways Towards Sustainable Ocean Food Production
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 404 pages) , 128 illustrations, 104 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319511597
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-51159-7
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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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    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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    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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    Klimawandel in Deutschland : Entwicklung, Folgen, Risiken und Perspektiven (2017)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climatology ; Climate change ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Climatology
    Description / Table of Contents: Teil 1: Globale Klimaprojektionen und regionale Projektionen für Deutschland und Europa --- Teil 2: Klimawandel in Deutschland: Regionale Besonderheiten und Extreme --- Teil 3: Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Deutschland --- Teil 4: Übergreifende Risiken und Unsicherheiten --- Teil 5: Integrierte Strategien zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel.   
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 348 Seiten) , 116 Abbildungen, 50 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662503973
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-50397-3
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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
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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
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-10425-6
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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
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    Messung von Ressourceneffizienz mit der ESSENZ-Methode : Integrierte Methode zur ganzheitlichen Bewertung (2016)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; Urban ecology (Biology) ; Sustainable development ; Natural resources ; Environment ; Natural Resources ; Urban Ecology ; Sustainability Management ; Sustainable Development
    Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt --- Abkürzungsverzeichnis --- Glossar --- Zusammenfassung --- 1. Einleitung --- 1.1 Ressourceneffizienz --- 1.2 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Ressourceneffizienz-Bewertung mit der ESSENZ-Methode --- 2. Ablauf der Ressourceneffizienz-Bewertung mit der ESSENZ-Methode --- 3. Modellierung des Produktsystems --- 3.1 Ziel und Untersuchungsrahmen --- 3.2 Sachbilanz --- 4. Methodik zur Bewertung der Ressourceneffizienz-Dimensionen --- 4.1 Methodik zur Bewertung der Verfügbarkeit von Metallen und fossilen Rohstoffen --- 4.2 Methodik zur Bewertungen der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz --- 4.3 Methodik zur Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen --- 4.4 Bewertung des Nutzen --- 5. Berechnung der Ressourceneffizienz --- 5.1 Allgemeines Vorgehen --- 5.2 Berechnung der Verfügbarkeit für Metalle und fossile Rohstoffe --- 5.3 Berechnung der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz --- 5.4 Berechnungen der Umweltauswirkungen --- 5.5 Ermittlung der Ressourceneffizienz --- 6. Interpretation der Ergebnisse --- 6.1 Unsicherheiten in der Bewertung --- 6.2 Interpretation der Verfügbarkeit --- 6.3 Interpretation der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz --- 6.4 Interpretation der Umweltbewertung --- 6.5 Interpretation der ermittelten Ressourceneffizienz --- 6.6 Interpretation des Gesamtergebnisses --- 7. Aggregation zum Vergleich von Produktalternativen --- 8. Fazit und Ausblick --- 9. Referenzen --- Anhang 1 – Charakterisierungsfaktoren für Metalle und fossile Rohstoffe --- Anhang 2 - Wirkungsindikatorbeträge --- Anhang 3 – Distance-to-Target-Werte --- Anhang 4 – Globale Produktionsdaten --- Anhang 5 – Maximale normalisierte Distance-to-Target-Werte --- Anhang 6 – Normalisierte Distance-to-Target-Werte --- Anhang 7 – Auswertung der Stakeholder-Befragung --- Anhang 8 – Darstellung der Berechnung der Charakterisierungsfaktoren am Beispiel Silber
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 161 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783662492642
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-49264-2
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    Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident : The First Three Years (2016)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Agriculture ; Ecology ; Plant science ; Botany ; Environment ; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis ; Agriculture ; Plant Sciences ; Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 An Overview of Our Research --- 2 Monitoring Inspection for Radioactive Substances in Agricultural, Livestock, Forest, and Fishery Products in Fukushima Prefecture --- 3 Rice Inspections in Fukushima Prefecture --- 4 Cesium accumulation in paddy field rice grown in Fukushima from 2011 to 2013: cultivars and fertilization --- 5 Physiological verification of the effect of potassium supply on the reduction of radiocesium content in rice grain --- 6 Consecutive Field Trials of Rice Cultivation in Partially Decontaminated Paddy Fields to Reduce Radiocesium Absorption in the Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture --- 7 Effects of “clean feeding” management on livestock products contaminated with radioactive cesium due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident --- 8 Adverse effects of radiocesium on the promotion of sustainable circular agriculture including livestock due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident --- 9 Wild boars in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident: Distribution of radiocesium --- 10 Contamination of Wild Animals: Microhabitat Heterogeneity and Ecological Factors of Radioactive Cesium Exposure in Fukushima --- 11 Translocation of radiocesium in fruit trees --- 12 The effects of radioactive contamination on the forestry industry and commercial mushroom-log production in Fukushima, Japan --- 13 Radiocesium in timber of Japanese cedar, and Japanese red pine, in the forests of Minamisoma, Fukushima --- 14 Ecosystem monitoring of radiocesium redistribution dynamics in a forested catchment in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident in March 2011 --- 15 Reduction of air radiation dose by ponding paddy fields --- 16 Collaboration Structure for the Resurrection of Iitate Village, Fukushima: A Case Study of a Nonprofitable Organization --- 17 Impacts of the nuclear power plant accident and the start of trial operations in Fukushima fisheries --- 18 Consumer evaluation of foods from the disaster affected area: Change in 3 years --- 19 Imaging Techniques for Radiocesium in Soil and Plants
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 263 pages) , 148 illustrations, 76 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431558286
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55828-6
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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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    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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    The Great Mindshift : How a New Economic Paradigm and Sustainability Transformations go Hand in Hand (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; Sustainable development ; Environmental economics ; Sociology ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Sociology, general ; Environmental Economics ; Sustainability Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.Introduction --- 2. What Political Economy adds to Transformation Research --- 3. Why the Mainstream Economic Paradigm Cannot Inform Sustainability Transformations --- 4. Mapping an Emerging New Economic Paradigm in Practice --- 5. How to Work a Great Mindshift for Sustainability Transformations
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 184 pages) , 21 illustrations, 14 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319437668
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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
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    Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident : The First Three Years (2016)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Agriculture ; Ecology ; Plant science ; Botany ; Environment ; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis ; Agriculture ; Plant Sciences ; Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 An Overview of Our Research --- 2 Monitoring Inspection for Radioactive Substances in Agricultural, Livestock, Forest, and Fishery Products in Fukushima Prefecture --- 3 Rice Inspections in Fukushima Prefecture --- 4 Cesium accumulation in paddy field rice grown in Fukushima from 2011 to 2013: cultivars and fertilization --- 5 Physiological verification of the effect of potassium supply on the reduction of radiocesium content in rice grain --- 6 Consecutive Field Trials of Rice Cultivation in Partially Decontaminated Paddy Fields to Reduce Radiocesium Absorption in the Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture --- 7 Effects of “clean feeding” management on livestock products contaminated with radioactive cesium due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident --- 8 Adverse effects of radiocesium on the promotion of sustainable circular agriculture including livestock due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident --- 9 Wild boars in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident: Distribution of radiocesium --- 10 Contamination of Wild Animals: Microhabitat Heterogeneity and Ecological Factors of Radioactive Cesium Exposure in Fukushima --- 11 Translocation of radiocesium in fruit trees --- 12 The effects of radioactive contamination on the forestry industry and commercial mushroom-log production in Fukushima, Japan --- 13 Radiocesium in timber of Japanese cedar, and Japanese red pine, in the forests of Minamisoma, Fukushima --- 14 Ecosystem monitoring of radiocesium redistribution dynamics in a forested catchment in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident in March 2011 --- 15 Reduction of air radiation dose by ponding paddy fields --- 16 Collaboration Structure for the Resurrection of Iitate Village, Fukushima: A Case Study of a Nonprofitable Organization --- 17 Impacts of the nuclear power plant accident and the start of trial operations in Fukushima fisheries --- 18 Consumer evaluation of foods from the disaster affected area: Change in 3 years --- 19 Imaging Techniques for Radiocesium in Soil and Plants
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 263 pages) , 148 illustrations, 76 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431558286
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55828-6
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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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    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
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-45620-1
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-10425-6
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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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    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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    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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    Messung von Ressourceneffizienz mit der ESSENZ-Methode : Integrierte Methode zur ganzheitlichen Bewertung (2016)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; Urban ecology (Biology) ; Sustainable development ; Natural resources ; Environment ; Natural Resources ; Urban Ecology ; Sustainability Management ; Sustainable Development
    Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt --- Abkürzungsverzeichnis --- Glossar --- Zusammenfassung --- 1. Einleitung --- 1.1 Ressourceneffizienz --- 1.2 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Ressourceneffizienz-Bewertung mit der ESSENZ-Methode --- 2. Ablauf der Ressourceneffizienz-Bewertung mit der ESSENZ-Methode --- 3. Modellierung des Produktsystems --- 3.1 Ziel und Untersuchungsrahmen --- 3.2 Sachbilanz --- 4. Methodik zur Bewertung der Ressourceneffizienz-Dimensionen --- 4.1 Methodik zur Bewertung der Verfügbarkeit von Metallen und fossilen Rohstoffen --- 4.2 Methodik zur Bewertungen der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz --- 4.3 Methodik zur Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen --- 4.4 Bewertung des Nutzen --- 5. Berechnung der Ressourceneffizienz --- 5.1 Allgemeines Vorgehen --- 5.2 Berechnung der Verfügbarkeit für Metalle und fossile Rohstoffe --- 5.3 Berechnung der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz --- 5.4 Berechnungen der Umweltauswirkungen --- 5.5 Ermittlung der Ressourceneffizienz --- 6. Interpretation der Ergebnisse --- 6.1 Unsicherheiten in der Bewertung --- 6.2 Interpretation der Verfügbarkeit --- 6.3 Interpretation der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz --- 6.4 Interpretation der Umweltbewertung --- 6.5 Interpretation der ermittelten Ressourceneffizienz --- 6.6 Interpretation des Gesamtergebnisses --- 7. Aggregation zum Vergleich von Produktalternativen --- 8. Fazit und Ausblick --- 9. Referenzen --- Anhang 1 – Charakterisierungsfaktoren für Metalle und fossile Rohstoffe --- Anhang 2 - Wirkungsindikatorbeträge --- Anhang 3 – Distance-to-Target-Werte --- Anhang 4 – Globale Produktionsdaten --- Anhang 5 – Maximale normalisierte Distance-to-Target-Werte --- Anhang 6 – Normalisierte Distance-to-Target-Werte --- Anhang 7 – Auswertung der Stakeholder-Befragung --- Anhang 8 – Darstellung der Berechnung der Charakterisierungsfaktoren am Beispiel Silber
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 161 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783662492642
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-49264-2
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    The Great Mindshift : How a New Economic Paradigm and Sustainability Transformations go Hand in Hand (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Industrial management ; Environmental aspects ; Sustainable development ; Environmental economics ; Sociology ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Sociology, general ; Environmental Economics ; Sustainability Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.Introduction --- 2. What Political Economy adds to Transformation Research --- 3. Why the Mainstream Economic Paradigm Cannot Inform Sustainability Transformations --- 4. Mapping an Emerging New Economic Paradigm in Practice --- 5. How to Work a Great Mindshift for Sustainability Transformations
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 184 pages) , 21 illustrations, 14 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319437668
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-43766-8
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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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    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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    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
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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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    Eating, Drinking: Surviving : The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Nutrition ; Medical research ; Agriculture ; Sustainable development ; Quality of life ; Environment ; Sustainable Development ; Quality of Life Research ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Agriculture ; Nutrition
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Understanding the Complexities of Eating, Drinking, and Surviving --- Globalization and Malnutrition: Geographical Perspectives on Its Paradoxes --- Drinking Water --- The Politics and Consequences of Virtual Water Export --- Integrated Water Resources Management as a New Approach to Water Security --- Surviving as an Unequal Community: WASH for Those on the Margins --- Challenges to Food Security in a Changing World --- Moral Economies of Food in the Socialist/Post-socialist World --- The Nutrition Transition in Developing Asia: Dietary Change, Drivers and Health Impacts. Food Sovereignty and the Possibilities for an Equitable, Just and Sustainable Food System --- Food Security and Food Waste
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 105 pages) , 32 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319424682
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-42468-2
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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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    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
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-13437-6
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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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    Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake : Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages (2015)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Natural disasters ; Agriculture ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Natural Hazards ; Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The Road to Reconstruction from the Tsunami and Radioactive Contamination: Two and a Half Years On --- 1 Dealing with Disasters of Unprecedented Magnitude: The Local Government’s Tribulations and the Road to Reconstruction (Hidekiyo Tachiya) --- 2 Tokyo University of Agriculture East Japan Assistance Project Assisting with Reconstruction: Guiding Principles, Planning, and Propagation of Benefits (Toshiyuki Monma) --- 3 Characteristics of the Agricultural and Forestry Industries in the Soma Area and Damage Sustained as a Result of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Takahiro Yamada, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, and Toshiyuki Monma) --- Part II Reconstruction from Tsunami Damage --- 4 Reconstruction Support for the Farmland Struck by Tsunami (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) --- 5 Tsunami Damage to Farming Operations and the New Generation of Farmers and Farm Management (Yukio Shibuya, Takahiro Yamada, Nyamkhuu Batdelger, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Gentaro Suzumura, and Toshiyuki Monma) --- 6 Presenting a Model for Revival of Rural Communities in Japan’s Disaster Zones (Shigeyuki Miyabayashi, Yasushi Takeuchi, Hiromu Okazawa, Tomonori Fujikawa, and Yutaka Sasaki) --- 7 Contributing to Restoration of Tidal Flats in Miyagi Prefecture’s Moune Bay Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Susumu Chiba, Takeshi Sonoda, Makoto Hatakeyama, and Katsuhide Yokoyama) --- Part III Reconstruction from Radioactive Contamination --- 8 Initiatives by the Soil Fertilization Team to Develop Agricultural Technologies for Paddy Fields with Radioactive Contamination (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) --- 9 The Potential for Producing Rice for Feed and Whole Crop Rice Silage in Radiation-Contaminated Areas (Seiji Nobuoka) --- 10 Developing and Trialing a System to Monitor Radionuclide in Individual Plots of Farmland to Help Reconstruction Farming in Contaminated Areas (Toshiyuki Monma, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Youichi Kawano, Dambii Byambasuren, Yuta Ono, and Quar Evine) --- 11 New Decontamination Methods for Parks and Other Areas in Which Radionuclide Have Accumulated (Mitsuo Kondo and Chizuko Mizuniwa) --- 12 Forest Restoration (Takahisa Hayashi) --- 13 Nuclear Radiation Levels in the Forest at Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture (Iwao Uehara, Tomoko Seyama, Fumio Eguchi, Ryuichi Tachibana, Yukito Nakamura, and Hiroya Obayashi ) --- 14 Radioactive Contamination of Ostriches in a Potentially Permanent Evacuation Zone (Hiroshi Ogawa, Hidehiko Uchiyama, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Sasaki, Tadao Watanabe, Toshiaki Tomizawa, and Schu Kawashima) --- 15 The Radioactive Contamination in Some Arthropod Species in Fukushima (Tarô Adati and Sota Tanaka) --- 16 A Consumer Survey Approach to Reputation-Based Damage Affecting Agricultural Products and How to Overcome It (Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Shizuka Matsumoto, Makoto Hoshi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, and Toshiyuki Monma) --- Part IV Activities and Impressions of Students and Farmers Who Supported the Project --- 17 Staking Recovery Hopes on Soma Revival Rice (Kaisei Inagaki, Tomoko Ninagi, Saburo Sasaki, and Akiko Sato) --- 18 Impression of the Students Participated in the Radioactivity Monitoring System of Farmland (Volodymyr Ganzha, Keiji Kanamori, Hana Fujimoto, and Ryo Itakura) --- 19 Impression of the Forestry managers and students participated in the Radioactivity Damage Investigation of Forests (Eihachi Horiuchi, Kiyoaki Sasaki, Masaaki Itakura, Chisato Yasukawa, and Chihiro Kinoshita)
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 264 pages) , 141 illustrations, 65 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431555582
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55558-2
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    Nils Petter Gleditsch: Pioneer in the Analysis of War and Peace (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; International relations ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Environment ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice ; International Relations ; Climate Change Management and Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: A Life in Peace Research --- Bibliography --- Time Differences and International Interaction --- Democracy and Peace --- The Treholt Case --- Armed Conflict and the Environment. Double-blind but More Transparent --- The Liberal Moment Fifteen Years on --- Whither the Weather? --- The Decline of War – The Main Issues --- The IPCC, Conflict, and Human Security
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 171 pages) , 22 illustrations, 11 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319038209
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-03820-9
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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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    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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    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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    Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal : Beyond the Fukushima Accident (2015)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Nuclear physics ; Nuclear engineering ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Waste management ; Pollution prevention ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Nuclear Engineering ; Particle and Nuclear Physics ; Waste Management/Waste Technology ; Industrial Pollution Prevention
    Description / Table of Contents: This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control is growing. The Japanese policy on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle is still unpredictable in the aftermath of the accident. Therefore, research and development for enhancing the safety of various processes involved in nuclear energy production are being actively pursued worldwide. In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident. This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator-driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand-new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle. How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment, and geological disposal policy. State-of-the-art technologies for overall back-end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here. The chapter authors are actively involved in the development of ADSs and transmutation-related technologies. The future of the back-end issues in Japan is very uncertain after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, and this book provides an opportunity for readers to consider the future direction of those issues
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 341 pages) , 163 illustrations, 129 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431551119
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55111-9
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    Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake : Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages (2015)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Natural disasters ; Agriculture ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Natural Hazards ; Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The Road to Reconstruction from the Tsunami and Radioactive Contamination: Two and a Half Years On --- 1 Dealing with Disasters of Unprecedented Magnitude: The Local Government’s Tribulations and the Road to Reconstruction (Hidekiyo Tachiya) --- 2 Tokyo University of Agriculture East Japan Assistance Project Assisting with Reconstruction: Guiding Principles, Planning, and Propagation of Benefits (Toshiyuki Monma) --- 3 Characteristics of the Agricultural and Forestry Industries in the Soma Area and Damage Sustained as a Result of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Takahiro Yamada, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, and Toshiyuki Monma) --- Part II Reconstruction from Tsunami Damage --- 4 Reconstruction Support for the Farmland Struck by Tsunami (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) --- 5 Tsunami Damage to Farming Operations and the New Generation of Farmers and Farm Management (Yukio Shibuya, Takahiro Yamada, Nyamkhuu Batdelger, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Gentaro Suzumura, and Toshiyuki Monma) --- 6 Presenting a Model for Revival of Rural Communities in Japan’s Disaster Zones (Shigeyuki Miyabayashi, Yasushi Takeuchi, Hiromu Okazawa, Tomonori Fujikawa, and Yutaka Sasaki) --- 7 Contributing to Restoration of Tidal Flats in Miyagi Prefecture’s Moune Bay Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Susumu Chiba, Takeshi Sonoda, Makoto Hatakeyama, and Katsuhide Yokoyama) --- Part III Reconstruction from Radioactive Contamination --- 8 Initiatives by the Soil Fertilization Team to Develop Agricultural Technologies for Paddy Fields with Radioactive Contamination (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) --- 9 The Potential for Producing Rice for Feed and Whole Crop Rice Silage in Radiation-Contaminated Areas (Seiji Nobuoka) --- 10 Developing and Trialing a System to Monitor Radionuclide in Individual Plots of Farmland to Help Reconstruction Farming in Contaminated Areas (Toshiyuki Monma, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Youichi Kawano, Dambii Byambasuren, Yuta Ono, and Quar Evine) --- 11 New Decontamination Methods for Parks and Other Areas in Which Radionuclide Have Accumulated (Mitsuo Kondo and Chizuko Mizuniwa) --- 12 Forest Restoration (Takahisa Hayashi) --- 13 Nuclear Radiation Levels in the Forest at Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture (Iwao Uehara, Tomoko Seyama, Fumio Eguchi, Ryuichi Tachibana, Yukito Nakamura, and Hiroya Obayashi ) --- 14 Radioactive Contamination of Ostriches in a Potentially Permanent Evacuation Zone (Hiroshi Ogawa, Hidehiko Uchiyama, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Sasaki, Tadao Watanabe, Toshiaki Tomizawa, and Schu Kawashima) --- 15 The Radioactive Contamination in Some Arthropod Species in Fukushima (Tarô Adati and Sota Tanaka) --- 16 A Consumer Survey Approach to Reputation-Based Damage Affecting Agricultural Products and How to Overcome It (Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Shizuka Matsumoto, Makoto Hoshi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, and Toshiyuki Monma) --- Part IV Activities and Impressions of Students and Farmers Who Supported the Project --- 17 Staking Recovery Hopes on Soma Revival Rice (Kaisei Inagaki, Tomoko Ninagi, Saburo Sasaki, and Akiko Sato) --- 18 Impression of the Students Participated in the Radioactivity Monitoring System of Farmland (Volodymyr Ganzha, Keiji Kanamori, Hana Fujimoto, and Ryo Itakura) --- 19 Impression of the Forestry managers and students participated in the Radioactivity Damage Investigation of Forests (Eihachi Horiuchi, Kiyoaki Sasaki, Masaaki Itakura, Chisato Yasukawa, and Chihiro Kinoshita)
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 264 pages) , 141 illustrations, 65 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431555582
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55558-2
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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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    Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal : Beyond the Fukushima Accident (2015)
    Tokyo : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Nuclear physics ; Nuclear engineering ; Radiation protection ; Radiation ; Safety measures ; Waste management ; Pollution prevention ; Environment ; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection ; Nuclear Engineering ; Particle and Nuclear Physics ; Waste Management/Waste Technology ; Industrial Pollution Prevention
    Description / Table of Contents: This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control is growing. The Japanese policy on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle is still unpredictable in the aftermath of the accident. Therefore, research and development for enhancing the safety of various processes involved in nuclear energy production are being actively pursued worldwide. In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident. This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator-driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand-new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle. How to reduce nuclear wastes or how to treat them including the debris from TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power stations is discussed; and 3) Environmental radioactivity, radioactive waste treatment, and geological disposal policy. State-of-the-art technologies for overall back-end issues of the nuclear fuel cycle as well as the technologies of transmutation are presented here. The chapter authors are actively involved in the development of ADSs and transmutation-related technologies. The future of the back-end issues in Japan is very uncertain after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, and this book provides an opportunity for readers to consider the future direction of those issues
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 341 pages) , 163 illustrations, 129 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9784431551119
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-4-431-55111-9
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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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    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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    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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