ALBERT

All Library Books, journals and Electronic Records Telegrafenberg

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • Books  (36)
  • Sociology  (24)
  • Technology  (12)
Collection
Source
Language
Years
  • 1
    Unknown
    Washington, D. C. : The World Bank
    Keywords: world development
    Description / Table of Contents: Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. This book examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 266 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781464814952
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    Unknown
    London : Open Humanities Press
    Keywords: anthropology ; anthropocene ; neganthropology ; neganthropocene
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Anthropocene and Neganthropology --- 2 Escaping the Anthropocene --- 3 Symptomatology of the Month of January 2015 in France --- 4 Elements of Neganthropology --- 5 Passages to the Act, Dialogical Interactions and Short-Circuits in Interactivity --- 6 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Text for an Encounter between Bernard Stiegler and Peter Sloterdijk --- 7 Governing Towards the Neganthropocene --- 8 Five Theses after Schmitt and Bratton --- 9 Capitalism as Epistēmē and Entropocene --- 10 The Organology of Dreams and Arche-Cinema --- 11 The Writing Screen --- 12 Power, Powerlessness, Thinking and Future --- 13 What is Called Caring? Thinking Beyond the Anthropocene
    Pages: Online-Ressource (345 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781785420498
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    Keywords: Computer science ; Management ; Industrial management ; Information technology ; Business ; Data processing ; Computers ; Computer Science ; Information Systems and Communication Service ; Innovation/Technology Management ; IT in Business
    Description / Table of Contents: Modelle --- Modellierungssprachen --- Vorgehensweise von der Modellbildung zur Digitalisierung --- Vorbereitung der Prozessimplementierung --- Umsetzung --- Praxisbeispiel
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 254 Seiten) , 143 Abbildungen, 69 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783658226480
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    Unknown
    Manchester : Manchester University Press
    Keywords: Arctic ; governance ; power ; environmental cooperation ; indigenous diplomacy ; expert knowledge ; international relations ; political geography ; Russia ; Arctic Council
    Description / Table of Contents: This book seeks to pose and explore a question that sheds light on the contested but largely cooperative nature of Arctic governance in the post-Cold War period: how does power matter – and how has it mattered – in shaping cross-border cooperation and diplomacy in the Arctic? Each chapter functions as a window through which power relations in the Arctic are explored. Issues include how representing the Arctic region matters for securing preferred outcomes, how circumpolar cooperation is marked by regional hierarchies and how Arctic governance has become a global social site in its own right, replete with disciplining norms for steering diplomatic behaviour. This book draws upon Russia’s role in the Arctic Council as an extended case study and examines how Arctic cross-border governance can be understood as a site of competition over the exercise of authority.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 164 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781526131645
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 5
    Unknown
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Vieweg
    Keywords: Engineering ; Robotics ; Automation ; Industrial engineering ; Production engineering ; Economic sociology ; Engineering ; Industrial and Production Engineering ; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology ; Robotics and Automation
    Description / Table of Contents: Einleitung --- Prognostizierte Veränderungen der gestaltbaren Arbeitssystemdimensionen --- Systeme zur Assistenz und Effizienzsteigerung in manuellen Produktionsprozessen der Industrie auf Basis von Projektion und Tiefendatenerkennung --- Betriebliche Auswirkungen industrieller Servicerobotik am Beispiel der Kleinteilemontage --- Erweiterte Horizonte – Ein technischer Blick in die Zukunft der Arbeit --- Soziotechnische Assistenzsysteme für die Produktionsarbeit in der Textilbranche --- Lernförderliche Arbeitssysteme für die Arbeitswelt von morgen --- Assistenz und Wissensvermittlung am Beispiel von Montage- und Instandhaltungstätigkeiten --- Der Mensch in Interaktion mit autonomen Planungs- und Steuerungssystemen für Cyber-Physische Produktionssysteme --- ReApp – Wiederverwendbare Roboterapplikationen für flexible Roboteranlagen - Auswirkungen der Ergebnisse aus ReApp auf betriebliche Funktionen am Beispiel eines Anwendungsfalls in der Elektroindustrie --- Modellierungsansatz für ein arbeitsplatznahes Beschreibungsmodell der »Arbeitswelt Industrie 4.0 --- Die Zukunft der Arbeit im demografischen Wandel --- “Social Manufacturing and Logistics“ – Arbeit in der digitalisierten Produktion --- Lernförderliche Arbeitsorganisation in der Industrie 4.0 --- Decision Support Pipelines – Durchgängige Datenverarbeitungsinfrastrukturen für die Entscheidungen von morgen --- Gerechtigkeit in flexiblen Arbeits- und Managementprozessen --- Technologie, Organisation, Qualifikation
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 246 Seiten) , 62 Abbildungen, 56 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662492666
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 6
    Keywords: fractal geometry ; fractal analysis ; fractals ; application ; medicine ; social sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Fractal Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals Empowering the Bioengineering Knowledge by Ricardo L. Armentano, Walter Legnani and Leandro J. Cymberknop --- Chapter 2: Complex Systems with Self-Elimination of Dissipation with Implication in Bio-Structural Behavior Via Nondifferentiability by Maricel Agop, Decebal Vasincu, Daniel Timofte, Elena Simona Bacaita, Andrei Agop and Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc --- Chapter 3: The Fractal Analysis of the Images and Signals in Medical Diagnostics by Tayurskii Dmitrii Albertovich and Rusanova Inna Aleksandrovna --- Chapter 4: Polyadic Cantor Fractals: Characterization, Generation, and Application as Ultrasonic Lenses by Sergio Castiñeira-Ibañez, Daniel Tarrazó-Serrano, José Miguel Fuster, Pilar Candelas and Constanza Rubio --- Chapter 5: Fractal to Non-Fractal Morphological Transitions in Stochastic Growth Processes by José Roberto Nicolás-Carlock, Víctor Dossetti and José Luis Carrillo- Estrada --- Chapter 6: The Altepetl: Fractal Modeling of a Pre-Hispanic Human Agency by Fernando López Aguilar --- Chapter 7: Fractal Analysis Based on Hierarchical Scaling in Complex Systems by Yanguang Chen --- Chapter 8: Characterization of Cultural Traits by Means of Fractal Analysis by Sabrina Farías-Pelayo --- Chapter 9: On Self-Affine and Self-Similar Graphs of Fractal Interpolation Functions Generated from Iterated Function Systems by Sean Dillon and Vasileios Drakopoulos --- Chapter 10: Pair-Pair Angular Correlation Function by Filipe Leoncio Braga and Alexandre Barbosa de Souza
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535132141
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 7
    Unknown
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Vieweg
    Keywords: Engineering ; Humanities ; Digital libraries ; Educational technology ; Electrical engineering ; Engineering ; Communications Engineering, Networks ; Digital Humanities ; Technology and Digital Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Vorwort --- Einleitung --- Bürger --- Wenn Bots sich unter Leute mischen: Social Bots in den Sozialen Medien --- Digitale Partizipation in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft --- Entwicklung einer soziodigitalen Souveränität --- Unternehmen --- Digitale Souveränität – ein mehrdimensionales Handlungskonzept für die deutsche Wirtschaft --- Privatheit und digitale Souveränität in der Arbeitswelt 4.0 --- Staat --- Mehr Daten, weniger Vertrauen in Statistik – freie Fahrt für ‚alternative Fakten‘? --- Internationale Perspektiven auf digitale Souveränität --- Digitalisierung der Bildung als staatliche Aufgabe --- Ausblick
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 187 Seiten) , 40 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662557969
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 8
    Keywords: Stereotypes ; Stereotypes on scientists ; Stereotypes' removal ; Gender stereotypes in science ; Interaction-based science communication ; Young people and STEM
    Description / Table of Contents: Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of an existing perception of what a scientist should look and be like. For example, the popular image of ‘a scientist’ overlooks the presence of women almost entirely unless attributed to specific subjects and/or with narrow character depictions. The implications can be far-reaching. Young people, being heavily swayed by what they see and hear in the media, may avoid scientific careers because of these limited or unflattering portrayals of the scientific community, regardless of whether they reflect real life.Based on findings from the Light’13 project, this book examines such stereotypes and questions whether it is possible to adjust people’s perception of scientists and to increase interest in science and scientific careers through a series of specific actions and events.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 103 ppages)
    ISBN: 9781911529057
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 9
    Keywords: open science
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction 1 --- Introduction to Open (Robert Biswas-Diener and Rajiv S. Jhangiani) 3 --- A Brief History of Open Educational Resources (T. J. Bliss and M. Smith) 9 --- Open Licensing and Open Education Licensing Policy (Cable Green) 29 --- Openness and the Transformation of Education and Schooling (William G. Huitt and David M. Monetti) 43 --- What Can OER Do for Me? Evaluating the Claims for OER (Martin Weller, Beatriz de los Arcos, Rob Farrow, Rebecca Pitt and Patrick McAndrew) 67 --- Are OE Resources High Quality? (Regan A. R. Gurung) 79 --- Open Practices 87 --- Opening Science (Brian A. Nosek) 89 --- Open Course Development at the OERu (Wayne Mackintosh) 101 --- From OER to Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the Power of Open (Robin DeRosa and Scott Robison) 115 --- Opening Up Higher Education with Screencasts (David B. Miller and Addison Zhao) 125 --- Librarians in the Pursuit of Open Practices (Quill West) 139 --- A Library Viewpoint: Exploring Open Educational Practices (Anita Walz) 147 --- How to Open an Academic Department (Farhad Dastur) 163 --- Case Studies 179 --- The International Journal of Wellbeing: An Open Access Success Story (Dan Weijers and Aaron Jarden) 181 --- Iterating Toward Openness: Lessons Learned on a Personal Journey (David Wiley) 195 --- Open-Source for Educational Materials Making Textbooks Cheaper and Better (Ed Diener, Carol Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener) 209 --- Free is Not Enough (Richard Baraniuk, Nicole Finkbeiner, David Harris, Dani Nicholson and Daniel Williamson) 219 --- The BC Open Textbook Project (Mary Burgess) 227 --- TeachPsychScience.org: Sharing to Improve the Teaching of Research Methods (David B. Strohmetz, Natalie J. Ciarocco and Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.) 237 --- DIY Open Pedagogy: Freely Sharing Teaching Resources in Psychology (Jessica Hartnett) 245 --- Conclusion 255 --- You Can’t Sell Free, and Other OER Problems (Robert Biswas-Diener) 257 --- Open as Default: The Future of Education and Scholarship (Rajiv S. Jhangiani) 267 --- Index 281
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 294 pages) , Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781911529019
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 10
    Keywords: drones ; robots
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Computational Aeroelasticity of Flying Robots with Flexible Wings by Sergio Preidikman, Bruno Antonio Roccia, Marcos Leonardo Verstraete, Marcelo Federico Valdez, Dean T. Mook and Balakumar Balachandran --- Chapter 2: Overview of Coandă MAV as an Aerial Robotic Platform by Harijono Djojodihardjo --- Chapter 3: Innovative Propulsion Systems and CFD Simulation for Fixed Wings UAVs by Esteban Valencia and Victor Hidalgo --- Chapter 4: Comparison between Semiempirical and Computational Techniques in the Prediction of Aerodynamic Performance of the Rotor of a Quadcopter by Andres Mauricio Pérez Gordillo --- Chapter 5: Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Aerial Robots by Mahmut Reyhanoglu and Muhammad Rehan --- Chapter 6: Design and Development of Aerial Robotic Systems for Sampling Operations in Industrial Environment by Rodrigo Munguia, Edmundo Guerra, Sarquis Urzua, Yolanda Bolea and Antoni Grau --- Chapter 7: On-Board High-Performance Computing For Multi-Robot Aerial Systems by Leonardo Camargo Forero, Pablo Royo and Xavier Prats --- Chapter 8: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Environmental Monitoring: A Review with Applications in Coastal Habitats by Daniele Ventura, Andrea Bonifazi, Maria Flavia Gravina and Gian Domenico Ardizzone
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535134640
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 11
    Unknown
    Rijeka : InTech
    Keywords: urbanizing ; local development ; urban planning
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Collaboration: Long-Term Partnerships for Local Development by Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber --- Chapter 2: Evolution of Marketing in Smart Cities through the Collaboration Design by Urška Starc-Peceny, Anita Maček and Rasto Ovin --- Chapter 3: Social Media Use and Citizen Engagement in Local Government of Thailand by Sataporn Roengtam --- Chapter 4: Urban Planning in Decentralization and Local Autonomy Era: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Local Government and Civic Group in Development and Budget Planning in Malang City (Indonesia) by Salahudin, Achmad Nurmandi and Jainuri --- Chapter 5: The Key Role of Integral Extension in Socio-Environmental Innovation towards Sustainable Rural Development by Aida Huerta-Barrientos --- Chapter 6: Export, Import, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions in Bangladesh: A Granger Causality Test under VAR (Restricted) Environment by Farhana Ferdousi and Md. Qamruzzaman --- Chapter 7: Water Challenges of an Urbanizing World by Sheetal Sharma --- Chapter 8: The Spatial Structure of Ecuador: Analysis Using Market Potentials by Jorge Guido Sotomayor-Pereira, Jesús López-Rodríguez and Laura Varela-Candamio --- Chapter 9: The Economic Geography of Most North-Western Region of Spain: Galicia and the Effect of Market Access on Regional Development Levels by Jesús López-Rodríguez and Guillermo Manso-Fernández --- Chapter 10: Some Perpetually Old and New Development Issues in the EU Regions: Competitiveness, Resilience, and Convergence: Where Do the New Member States Stand? by Marioara Iordan and Mihaela-Nona Chilian --- Chapter 11: Regional Analysis for European Structural and Investment Funds on the Case of Slovenia-Austria Cross-Border Cooperation 2014–2020 by Vito Bobek and Anita Maček
    Pages: Online-Ressource (226 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535136040
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 12
    Unknown
    Rijeka : InTech
    Keywords: waves ; microwave systems ; wireless communication ; antenna
    Description / Table of Contents: Microwave systems are key components of every modern wireless communication system. The main objective of this book was to collect as many different state-of-the-art studies as possible in order to cover in a single volume the main aspects of microwave systems and applications. This book contains 17 chapters written by acknowledged experts, researchers, academics, and microwave engineers, providing comprehensive information and covering a wide range of topics on all aspects of microwave systems and applications. This book is divided into four parts. The first part is devoted to microwave components. The second part deals with microwave ICs and innovative techniques for on-chip antenna design. The third part presents antenna design cases for microwave systems. Finally, the last part covers different applications of microwave systems.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (432 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535128687
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 13
    Unknown
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Vieweg
    Keywords: Engineering ; Humanities ; Digital libraries ; Computers ; Educational technology ; Electrical engineering ; Engineering ; Communications Engineering, Networks ; Information Systems and Communication Service ; Digital Humanities ; Technology and Digital Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Seit Jahren wird unser Alltag geprägt von zunehmender Automation und Vernetzung, die Digitalisierung genannt wird. Sensoren erfassen immer mehr unterschiedliche Daten und werden von intelligenten Algorithmen zunehmend präzisier analysiert. Dies führt nicht nur zu einem anderen Verhältnis im Umgang und bei der Nutzung von Daten durch Menschen und Maschinen, sondern wird auch dramatisch Aufgaben und Prozesse verändern. Die damit verbundenen Arbeitsanforderungen werden zum massiven Wandel von Berufsbildern führen, in dem einfache Tätigkeiten automatisiert und komplexe Tätigkeiten vereinfacht werden. Nicht nur das Arbeiten sondern auch das Lernen, Lehren und Forschen verändert sich durch die Digitalisierung. Die technischen Möglichkeiten wandeln die Lebenswelten mit ihren urbanen Versorgungs- und Infrastrukturen und eröffnen den Wirtschaftsräumen neue Geschäftsmodelle. Diese parallel einsetzenden Entwicklungen führen zu radikalen Umbrüchen, die in den kommenden Jahren sämtliche Aspekte der Gesellschaft verändern werden
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 199 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783662528549
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 14
    Unknown
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Vieweg
    Keywords: Engineering ; Humanities ; Digital libraries ; Educational technology ; Electrical engineering ; Engineering ; Communications Engineering, Networks ; Digital Humanities ; Technology and Digital Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Vorwort --- Einleitung --- Bürger --- Wenn Bots sich unter Leute mischen: Social Bots in den Sozialen Medien --- Digitale Partizipation in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft --- Entwicklung einer soziodigitalen Souveränität --- Unternehmen --- Digitale Souveränität – ein mehrdimensionales Handlungskonzept für die deutsche Wirtschaft --- Privatheit und digitale Souveränität in der Arbeitswelt 4.0 --- Staat --- Mehr Daten, weniger Vertrauen in Statistik – freie Fahrt für ‚alternative Fakten‘? --- Internationale Perspektiven auf digitale Souveränität --- Digitalisierung der Bildung als staatliche Aufgabe --- Ausblick
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 187 Seiten) , 40 Abbildungen in Farbe
    ISBN: 9783662557969
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 15
    Unknown
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Vieweg
    Keywords: Engineering ; Humanities ; Digital libraries ; Computers ; Educational technology ; Electrical engineering ; Engineering ; Communications Engineering, Networks ; Information Systems and Communication Service ; Digital Humanities ; Technology and Digital Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Seit Jahren wird unser Alltag geprägt von zunehmender Automation und Vernetzung, die Digitalisierung genannt wird. Sensoren erfassen immer mehr unterschiedliche Daten und werden von intelligenten Algorithmen zunehmend präzisier analysiert. Dies führt nicht nur zu einem anderen Verhältnis im Umgang und bei der Nutzung von Daten durch Menschen und Maschinen, sondern wird auch dramatisch Aufgaben und Prozesse verändern. Die damit verbundenen Arbeitsanforderungen werden zum massiven Wandel von Berufsbildern führen, in dem einfache Tätigkeiten automatisiert und komplexe Tätigkeiten vereinfacht werden. Nicht nur das Arbeiten sondern auch das Lernen, Lehren und Forschen verändert sich durch die Digitalisierung. Die technischen Möglichkeiten wandeln die Lebenswelten mit ihren urbanen Versorgungs- und Infrastrukturen und eröffnen den Wirtschaftsräumen neue Geschäftsmodelle. Diese parallel einsetzenden Entwicklungen führen zu radikalen Umbrüchen, die in den kommenden Jahren sämtliche Aspekte der Gesellschaft verändern werden
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 199 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783662528549
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 16
    Keywords: Engineering ; Project management ; Engineering design ; Automotive Engineering ; Project Management ; Engineering Design
    Description / Table of Contents: A - Die Entwicklung: Drei Erfolgsstories --- Die StreetScooter-Gründer-Story --- Die StreetScooter-Meilensteine 2008-2017 --- Die StreetScooter-Entwicklungsstory --- Die StreetScooter-Protagonisten-Story --- B - Die Lösung: Return on Engineering: Die StreetScooter-Lösungsbausteine. C - Die Perspektive: Die StreetScooter-Netzwerk-Story --- Die StreetScooter-Produktions-Story --- Die StreetScooter-Post-Story --- Die StreetScooter-Mobilitätslösung --- Die StreetScooter-Vision. A - The Development: Three Stories of Success --- The StreetScooter Founder Story --- The StreetScooter Milestones 2008-2017 --- The StreetScooter Development Story --- The StreetScooter Protagonists Story --- B - The Solution: Return on Engineering: The StreetScooter Building Blocks --- C - The Perspective: The StreetScooter Network Story --- The StreetScooter Production Story --- The StreetScooter Post Story --- The StreetScooter Mobility Solution --- The StreetScooter Vision
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 213 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783662549971
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 17
    Keywords: social transformations ; global environmental change ; Pacific Islands Countries ; social transformations ; global environmental change ; Pacific Islands Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Pazifikstaaten wie die Fidschi-Inseln sind wie kaum eine andere Region der Welt gekennzeichnet von gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen und dem globalen Umweltwandel. Auf Basis eines partizipativen Forschungsdesigns, durchgeführt in ausgewählten Küstendörfern, untersucht dieser Band die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung und des Klimawandels auf die Lebensqualität ihrer Bewohner. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass die Dorfbewohner keine passiven Opfer externer Prozesse sind, sondern aktiv ihr Leben gestalten. Mittels neo-traditioneller Bewegungen gelingt es den Bewohnern weitestgehend, ein festes Wertefundament als Grundlage ihrer kulturellen Identität zu bewahren. Eine intakte Gemeinschaft steht dabei im Zentrum spiritueller, ökonomischer und sozialer Werte. Im Zuge der gesellschaftlichen Transformation agieren die Gemeinschaften nicht mehr ortsgebunden, sondern bilden mithilfe moderner Transport- und Kommunikationstechnologien globalisierte Netzwerke – ohne dabei die Bezüge zu ihrer kulturellen Herkunft zu verlieren. Auswärts lebende Familienangehörige tragen so Wissen und materiellen Wohlstand in die Dorfgemeinschaften und erweitern die Handlungspotentiale und Lebensstandards der Küstendorfbewohner. Im Zuge der Wissensvermittlung erfolgt jedoch insbesondere die Darstellung des Klimawandels und seiner Gefahren verkürzt und nicht auf lokale Werte zurechtgeschnitten, sodass es auch zu Wahrnehmungsverzerrungen und Fehlanpassungen kommt. Im Kontext von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit rät diese Untersuchung daher zu kultureller Sensibilität und einer kritischen Reflektion ethnozentrischer Weltanschauungen, um die Lebensqualität in fidschianischen Dorfgemeinschaften nicht zu gefährden. In diesem Band werden ethnographische Ideale für eine kultur- und sozialgeographische Forschung im globalen Süden aufbereitet. Konzeptionell ist die Untersuchung in die kritische geographische Verwundbarkeits- und Transformationsforschung eingerahmt. In einem kulturräumlichen Überblick wird zunächst aus historisch-politischer Perspektive die Bedeutung postkolonialer Belastungen auf gegenwärtige Transformationsprozesse aufgezeigt. Das Herzstück bildet anschließend die ausführliche Analyse gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse auf die Lebensqualität in drei Küstendörfern der Fidschi-Inseln. | As other Pacific Islands Countries, Fiji is shaped by processes of social transformations and global environmental change. This study utilises ethnographic ideals for enhancing cultural and social geographic research in the global south. A participatory in-depth analysis of rural life in three Fijian coastal villages is at the core of this study. This is framed by a historic-political overview of the burden of Fiji's colonial past. Fijian coastal villagers are not passive victims of global social transformation and climate change. Through neo-traditional movements they actively form processes of social and cultural change. Rural Fijian norms, values and cultural identity crystallize in robust communities. Via modern forms of communication and transportation Fijians established globalised networks securing individuals' quality of life. Family members living far from their home villages remain in contact with their relatives. This way they keep their Fijian Identities as source of wellbeing and as well support the villagers' material wealth and knowledge to enhance capabilities. Merely regarding hazardous climate change impacts the passed on knowledge is spread abridged and poorly fitting into local value systems. Therefore, misperceptions and maladaptations are prevalent. In consequence this study pleads for development agencies to act culturally sensitive and to critically reflect ethnocentric worldviews in order not to harm Fijian values and wellbeing.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 232 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783863952617
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 18
    Unknown
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    Keywords: Ecocriticism ; Earthquake ; Italy ; Literary Studies ; Literary Theory ; Comparative Literature ; European Literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Naples and the porous landscapes of ecomafia and volcanic eruptions; death in Venice as a literary trope and a petrochemical curse; earthquakes and political moves that shake territories, people, and ideas cross-country; the slow pace of wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont: these are some of the texts that this book narrates and analyses. Here stories of justice, cultural visions, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, ecosystems and body cells, pollution and redemption. Ecocriticism and Italy reads Italy as a text - a compound text made of matter and imagination - always keeping in mind the link between the horizon of this country and the world’s larger ecology of ideas and matter. Challenging stereotypes and ambivalent clichés, this book uses ecocriticism as a way to give voice to the forces, wounds, and messages of creativity dispersed on Italy’s body, arguing that a literature, an art, and a criticism that are able to transform these unexpressed voices into stories - into our stories - are not only ways to resist. They are a practice of liberation. | Table of Contents: Introduction, pp. 1–12 --- Chapter 1. Bodies of Naples : A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity, pp. 13–46 --- Chapter 2. Cognitive Justice and the Truth of Biology : Death (and Life) in Venice, pp. 47–82 --- Chapter 3. Three Earthquakes : Wounds, Signs, and Resisting Arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L’Aquila, pp. 83–124 --- Chapter 4. Slow : Stories of Landscapes, Resistance, and Liberation, pp. 125–156
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 184 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781474219488
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 19
    Keywords: Tsunami ; natural disasters ; earthquake ; Sri Lanka ; Indian Ocean Tsunami
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I --- The Tsunami: What happened and why? --- Chapter 1: Introduction / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 18 --- Chapter 2: The Indian Ocean Tsunami and its direct aftermath / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 21 --- Chapter 3: Interpreting the natural disasters and their impacts: Some theoretical considerations / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 31 --- Part II --- Hambantota Case Studies --- Chapter 4: Introducing the case studies / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 54 --- Chapter 5: The Disaster – an Act of God? / Kerenina Dansholm Kezarides, Susann Midling, Kitty Monostory, and Wopara Goodness Ruhuoma, in association with Thuwan Zulfikar Ali (HDCC co-ordinator) / p. 58 --- Chapter 6: The Golden Wave? / Sanaa Talha, Schola Busingye, Sehrish Noor, and Anne Lie Nordberg, in association with Rimzana Shazin (HDCC coordinator) / p. 72 --- Chapter 7: Bonds or Bridges? / Sandra Baldvinsson Sotkajærvi, Maria Sjuve, Pia Cecilie Wedø, Rebecca Plath, Edwin Wuadom WardenWoode and Hilary A. Enyiekere in association with Damith Priyantha (HDCC coordinator) / p. 92 --- Chapter 8: Back to business? / Brennan Purtzer, Didier Nduwayo, Harald Bang-Braaten Thoresen, Suman Nepal, and Thorbjørn Waal Lundsgaard in association with Kumara Kaldera (HDCC coordinator) / p. 112 --- Part III --- Lessons learnt and what’s next --- Chapter 9: Comparing Findings / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 130 --- Chapter 10: The next chapter / Arne Olav Øyhus and Kim Øvland / p. 147
    Pages: Online-Ressource (166 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    ISBN: 9788202568351
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 20
    Unknown
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
    Keywords: Ecocriticism ; Literature and the Environment ; Literary Studies ; Literary Theory ; Comparative Literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life. Applying this approach to works by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh, Literature as Cultural Ecology is an essential contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 302 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781474274685
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 21
    Unknown
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Keywords: change agents ; campaigners ; lobbyists ; officials ; public services ; activists ; social change ; political change ; NGOs
    Description / Table of Contents: Human society is full of would-be ‘change agents’, a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Striking then, that not many universities have a Department of Change Studies, to which social activists can turn for advice and inspiration. Instead, scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with few conversations crossing disciplinary boundaries, rarely making it onto the radars of those actively seeking change. This book aims to bridge the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world’s largest social justice NGOs, as well as insights gleaned from studying and working on international development, it tests ideas and offers the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change. Table of Contents Foreword, Ha-Joon Chang Introduction Part 1. A Power and Systems Approach 1: Systems Thinking Changes Everything 2: Power Lies at the Heart of Change 3: Shifts in Social Norms often Underpin Change Case Study: The Chiquitanos of Bolivia Part 2. Institutions and the Importance of History Introduction to Section 2 4: How States Evolve 5: The Machinery of Law 6: Accountability, Political Parties,and the Media 7: How the International System Shapes Change 8: Transnational Corporations as Drivers and Targets of Change Case Study: The December 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change Part 3. Activists Introduction to Section 3 9: Citizen Activism and Civil Society 10: Leaders and leadership 11: The Power of Advocacy 12: A Power and Systems Approach to Making Change Happen In Conclusion
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 268 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9780198785392
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 22
    Keywords: social transformations ; global environmental change ; Pacific Islands Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Pazifikstaaten wie die Fidschi-Inseln sind wie kaum eine andere Region der Welt gekennzeichnet von gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen und dem globalen Umweltwandel. Auf Basis eines partizipativen Forschungsdesigns, durchgeführt in ausgewählten Küstendörfern, untersucht dieser Band die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung und des Klimawandels auf die Lebensqualität ihrer Bewohner. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass die Dorfbewohner keine passiven Opfer externer Prozesse sind, sondern aktiv ihr Leben gestalten. Mittels neo-traditioneller Bewegungen gelingt es den Bewohnern weitestgehend, ein festes Wertefundament als Grundlage ihrer kulturellen Identität zu bewahren. Eine intakte Gemeinschaft steht dabei im Zentrum spiritueller, ökonomischer und sozialer Werte. Im Zuge der gesellschaftlichen Transformation agieren die Gemeinschaften nicht mehr ortsgebunden, sondern bilden mithilfe moderner Transport- und Kommunikationstechnologien globalisierte Netzwerke – ohne dabei die Bezüge zu ihrer kulturellen Herkunft zu verlieren. Auswärts lebende Familienangehörige tragen so Wissen und materiellen Wohlstand in die Dorfgemeinschaften und erweitern die Handlungspotentiale und Lebensstandards der Küstendorfbewohner. Im Zuge der Wissensvermittlung erfolgt jedoch insbesondere die Darstellung des Klimawandels und seiner Gefahren verkürzt und nicht auf lokale Werte zurechtgeschnitten, sodass es auch zu Wahrnehmungsverzerrungen und Fehlanpassungen kommt. Im Kontext von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit rät diese Untersuchung daher zu kultureller Sensibilität und einer kritischen Reflektion ethnozentrischer Weltanschauungen, um die Lebensqualität in fidschianischen Dorfgemeinschaften nicht zu gefährden. In diesem Band werden ethnographische Ideale für eine kultur- und sozialgeographische Forschung im globalen Süden aufbereitet. Konzeptionell ist die Untersuchung in die kritische geographische Verwundbarkeits- und Transformationsforschung eingerahmt. In einem kulturräumlichen Überblick wird zunächst aus historisch-politischer Perspektive die Bedeutung postkolonialer Belastungen auf gegenwärtige Transformationsprozesse aufgezeigt. Das Herzstück bildet anschließend die ausführliche Analyse gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse auf die Lebensqualität in drei Küstendörfern der Fidschi-Inseln. | As other Pacific Islands Countries, Fiji is shaped by processes of social transformations and global environmental change. This study utilises ethnographic ideals for enhancing cultural and social geographic research in the global south. A participatory in-depth analysis of rural life in three Fijian coastal villages is at the core of this study. This is framed by a historic-political overview of the burden of Fiji's colonial past. Fijian coastal villagers are not passive victims of global social transformation and climate change. Through neo-traditional movements they actively form processes of social and cultural change. Rural Fijian norms, values and cultural identity crystallize in robust communities. Via modern forms of communication and transportation Fijians established globalised networks securing individuals' quality of life. Family members living far from their home villages remain in contact with their relatives. This way they keep their Fijian Identities as source of wellbeing and as well support the villagers' material wealth and knowledge to enhance capabilities. Merely regarding hazardous climate change impacts the passed on knowledge is spread abridged and poorly fitting into local value systems. Therefore, misperceptions and maladaptations are prevalent. In consequence this study pleads for development agencies to act culturally sensitive and to critically reflect ethnocentric worldviews in order not to harm Fijian values and wellbeing.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 232 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783863952617
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 23
    Unknown
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
    Keywords: cartography ; society and social sciences ; society and culture: general ; media studies ; ageing ; issue mapping ; digital methods
    Description / Table of Contents: Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary welfare state. The book brings together three leading approaches to issue mapping: Bruno Latour's social cartography, Ulrich Beck's risk cartography and Jeremy Crampton's critical neo-cartography. These modes of inquiry are put into practice with digital methods for mapping the ageing agenda, including debates surrounding so-called 'old age', cultural philosophies of ageing, itinerant care workers, not to mention European anti-ageing cuisine. Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe addresses an urgent social issue with new media research tools.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (169 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789048524457
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 24
    Keywords: humanities ; archaeology ; landscape archaeology ; landscape ; biography ; history ; archaeology ; human geography
    Description / Table of Contents: ‘Landscape Biographies’ explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In ‘Landscape Biographies’, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (437 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789048517800
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 25
    Unknown
    Gembloux (Belgique) : Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, Liege University
    Keywords: Périurbain ; Périurbansiation ; Villes du Sud
    Description / Table of Contents: Nous assistons actuellement au peuplement des zones périurbaines de la planète par des centaines de millions d’individus. Cette évolution pose de redoutables problèmes et des difficultés inédites pour les politiques publiques. Si les effets de la périurbanisation sont relativement bien connus dans les pays du Nord, les analyses dédiées aux pays du Sud sont bien moins développées. L’ouvrage « Territoires périurbains : développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud » permet de lever un coin du voile sur cette problématique et sur les grands défis que la périurbanisation pose pour le Sud en général et pour l’Afrique centrale en particulier. L’ouvrage débute en cherchant à clarifier ce qu’il faut exactement entendre par « territoire périurbain ». À la suite de cette mise en contexte, il se poursuit par cinq parties organisées autour des problématiques des ressources naturelles, de la sécurité alimentaire, de la santé publique, des services publics et de l’aménagement des territoires. Pour chacune de ces problématiques, des chercheurs spécialisés issus de disciplines variées apportent des contributions qui, tout en soulignant l’ampleur des défis, permettent la mise en avant de solutions innovantes pour améliorer la gouvernance et le bien-être des populations. Cet ouvrage s’adresse d’abord aux chercheurs préoccupés par les défis du développement. En parallèle, par les pistes pour l’action publique qu’il esquisse, il ne manquera pas d’également intéresser les décideurs et les praticiens qui opèrent dans le contexte des territoires périurbains des pays du Sud.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (304 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9782870161364
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 26
    Keywords: Engineering ; Commercial law ; Automotive engineering ; Robotics ; Automation ; Community psychology ; Environmental psychology ; Engineering ; Automotive Engineering ; Robotics and Automation ; Community and Environmental Psychology ; Commercial Law
    Description / Table of Contents: Teil I Human and Machine --- Teil II Mobilität --- Teil III Verkehr --- Teil IV Sicherheit --- Teil V Recht und Haftung --- Teil VI Akzeptanz
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 732 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783662458549
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 27
    Unknown
    Warsaw, Berlin : De Gruyter Open
    Keywords: Naval Architecture ; Mechanics ; Control
    Description / Table of Contents: The propulsion system behaviour is a key aspect for the overall dynamics of a ship. However, despite its great importance, numerical methodologies for detailed investigations on marine propulsion dynamics are not yet widely covered in scientific literature. This book presents the main steps for the development of a multi-physic simulation platform, able to represent the motions of a twin screw ship in six degrees of freedom, taking into account the whole propulsion system and automation effects. A number of mathematical sub-models had been developed and calibrated by a set of experimental tests, in model and full scale. Finally, the sea trials campaign of a ship is used to validate and tune the developed simulator. The proposed simulation methodology can be used in the ship preliminary design phase, in order to plan and test the propulsion system and automation. Further applications can include the design optimization and crew training.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 104 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783110401509
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 28
    Unknown
    London : Ubiquity Press
    Keywords: Governance ; Sustainable Development ; International development ; Public policy ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Description / Table of Contents: As we move from the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is important to consider how development agendas are set, the progress that has been made over the past 15 years, and how current debates are shaping global development efforts for the next 15. This book was, produced as part of a University College London-London International Development Centre research collaboration entitled, "Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development". The aim of the book is to provide a concise introduction to the debates in a number of vital development sectors, review progress made in each sector, and to consider how looking beyond sectors might open new opportunities for inclusive, sustainable development. Each chapter in this book was produced collaboratively by academics from a wide number of disciplines. As such, it represents a truly interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral effort, of the kind that will be necessary for successful development and implementation of future international development goals.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 110 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781909188433
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 29
    Unknown
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Vieweg
    Keywords: Engineering ; Robotics ; Automation ; Industrial engineering ; Production engineering ; Engineering economics ; Engineering economy ; Manufacturing industries ; Machines ; Tools ; Engineering ; Industrial and Production Engineering ; Robotics and Automation ; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing ; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools ; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
    Description / Table of Contents: Einordnung und Hintergründe --- Positionen der Sozialpartner --- Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen in der Industrie --- Forschungsfragen und Entwicklungsstrategien --- Ausblick
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 167 Seiten) , 38 Abbildungen
    ISBN: 9783662459157
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 30
    Keywords: global warming ; climatic changes ; Australia
    Description / Table of Contents: 1988: coming to grips with a terrifying global experiment. The Toronto conference statement made it clear that climate change would affect everyone. It called greenhouse gas atmospheric pollution an ‘uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war’. World governments were urged to swiftly develop emission reduction targets (The changing atmosphere: implications for global security, 1988). Relevant to both Australian and overseas audiences, here is the untold story of how Australia buried its knowledge on climate change science and response options during the 1990s — going from clarity to confusion and doubt after arguably leading the world in citizen understanding and a political will to act in the late 1980s. ‘What happened and why’ is a fascinating exploration drawing on the public record of how a society revised its good understanding on a critical issue affecting every citizen. It happened through political and media communication, regardless of international scientific assessments that have remained consistent in ascribing causes and risks since 1990. How could this happen? The author examines the major influences, with lessons for the present, on how the story was reframed. Key have been values and beliefs, including economic beliefs, that trumped the science, the ability of changing political leaders and the mass media to set the story for the public, as well as the role of scientists’ own communication over time and the use and misuse of uncertainty.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 215 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781925021912
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 31
    Unknown
    Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
    Keywords: landscape ; tourism
    Description / Table of Contents: Im vorliegenden Band werden ausgewählte Facetten der Landschaftsinterpretation und des Tourismus beleuchtet. Die angeführten Fallbeispiele fokussieren dabei nicht nur verschiedenartige Räume (z. B. Mittel- und Hochgebirge, pazifische Inselwelt), sondern sie entstammen auch mannigfaltigen Themenfeldern (z. B. Kultur- und Naturtourismus, Inszenierungsstrategien, Reiseerziehung). In ihrer Gesamtheit spiegeln die Beiträge der einzelnen Autorinnen und Autoren das breite Interesse tourismusassoziierter Forschung und Praxis wider. Trotz der inhaltlichen Vielfalt implizieren die Ausarbeitungen die Aspekte „Bildung“ und „Wissensvermittlung“ als Leitgedanken im Rahmen der nachhaltigen Inwertsetzung natur- und kulturräumlicher Ressourcen.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (178 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783863951672
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 32
    Keywords: Hochwasser ; Naturkatastrophen ; Rhein
    Description / Table of Contents: Katastrophen stellen eine Herausforderung für gesellschaftliches Handeln dar. Der Autor zeigt, auf welche Weise die politischen und wissenschaftlichen Strukturen des Deutschen Kaiserreiches dieser Herausforderung begegneten und sich im Sinne des Fortschrittsdenkens zu Nutze machten. Es wird deutlich, dass Naturkatastrophen wie das Jahrhunderthochwasser am Rhein für den jungen Nationalstaat nicht nur ein bedrohliches Risiko darstellten, sondern auch eine Chance für gesellschaftlichen Wandel. So stärkten sie das Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl und lieferten einen Anlass für regionale Entwicklungshilfeprogramme sowie wissenschaftliche Forschung.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (146 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783863951443
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 33
    Keywords: human ecology ; archaeology ; landscape assessment ; landscape changes ; humans ; nature ; Australia
    Description / Table of Contents: This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, creating a detailed understanding of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within a biogeographic framework one of his exceptional contributions was to explore the ways that Aboriginal people may have modified the landscape through the effects of anthropogenic burning. These ideas have had significant impacts on thinking within the fields of geomorphology, biogeography, archaeology, anthropology and history. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans to those transformations. The volume is structured in two sections. The first examines evidence for human engagement with landscape, focusing on Australia and Papua New Guinea but also dealing with the human/environmental histories of Europe and Asia. The second section contains papers that examine palaeoecology and present some of the latest research into environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Individually these papers, written by many of Australia’s prominent researchers in these fields, are significant contributions to our knowledge of Quaternary landscapes and human land use. But Peopled Landscapes also signifies the disciplinary entanglement that is archaeological and biogeographic research in this region, with archaeologists and environmental scientists contributing to both studies of human land use and palaeoecology. Peopled Landscapes reveals the interdisciplinary richness of Quaternary research in the Australasian region as well as the complexity and richness of the entangled environmental and human pasts of these lands.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (472 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781921862724
    Language: English
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 34
    Keywords: demography ; climate ; world alimentation
    Description / Table of Contents: Demography, climate, world alimentation. L’humanité trouvera-t-elle de quoi nourrir 9 milliards d’hommes en 2050, dans un contexte climatique probablement plus difficile ? L’inquiétude n’est pas nouvelle, mais la croissance démographique s’est emballée dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, et la crainte d’une crise alimentaire mondiale est réapparue. Certes, les progrès des technologies agricoles ont permis, au plan global, de maintenir le niveau nutritionnel moyen pendant les années de la "Révolution verte", mais la situation restait loin d’être satisfaisante, puisque environ 850 millions de personnes étaient sousalimentées au début du XXIe siècle. Or de nouvelles inquiétudes se font jour : les surfaces cultivables ne sont plus guère extensibles, la productivité des sols atteint des niveaux qui risquent de les endommager de façon irréversible, les prix de l’énergie et des intrants indispensables à l’agriculture moderne sont à la hausse... Et les perspectives de changements climatiques ne sont pas rassurantes. De nouveaux progrès technologiques permettront-ils de dépasser, une fois encore, les contraintes naturelles et démographiques ? Cet ouvrage rappelle d’abord ces contraintes démographiques, climatiques et environnementales qui pèseront sur la disponibilité de ressources à l’horizon 2050, et traite ensuite des facteurs d’évolution de la demande alimentaire, des moyens techniques et économiques d’y faire face, et enfin des conditions d’un équilibre possible. Une synthèse est proposée en début de volume. Des recommandations y sont faites, destinées aux pouvoirs publics français pour les éclairer sur leur politique nationale et internationale, mais aussi à la société civile, qui est concernée car les problèmes ne sont pas seulement scientifiques ou technologiques : ils mettent aussi en jeu les comportements individuels des producteurs et des consommateurs. Trois domaines où il faut agir sans tarder sont mis en valeur : la nutrition et les habitudes alimentaires, puis la démographie, et enfin l’économie mondiale et le commerce international. Les recommandations portent ensuite sur la production agricole et les questions d’environnement, puis sur la prévention, l’anticipation et la gestion des situations de crise, hélas quasi inévitables.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LXXXIV, 313 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9782759805815
    Language: French
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 35
    Keywords: Naturkatastrophen
    Description / Table of Contents: Naturkatastrophen bedeuten nicht nur momenthafte Zerstörung, die nach erfolgtem Wiederaufbau wieder vergessen ist. Katastrophen haben häufig nachhaltige Auswirkungen auf Politik und Gesellschaft und damit auf die menschliche Geschichte. Sie führen mitunter zu Verordnungen, Institutionenbildung, Politikwechsel und gesellschaftlichem Umdenken, können aber auch Anlass zu Aufbruchstimmung und Fortschrittsoptimismus geben. Durch die aktuelle Diskussion zum globalen Klimawandel hat sich in der Öffentlichkeit ein stärkeres Bewusstsein für die gesellschaftliche Relevanz von Naturkatastrophen entwickelt. Welche Rolle extreme Ereignisse in der Geschichte gespielt haben und welche Strategien zu ihrer Bewältigung in verschiedenen Zeiten wirksam waren, bilden die zentralen Fragen des Sammelbandes. Die Autoren untersuchen neben klassischen Naturkatastrophen auch Seuchen und Schädlingskalamitäten in historischer Perspektive und widmen sich theoretischen Fragen zu deren Genese und Auswirkungen. Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis eines Workshops, der von den Herausgebern im Rahmen des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte“ unter dem Titel „Katastrophen machen Geschichte – Umweltgeschichtliche Prozesse im Spannungsfeld von Ressourcennutzung und Extremereignis“ am 6. und 7. Mai 2009 in Göttingen veranstaltet wurde.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (198 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783941875210
    Language: German
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 36
    Keywords: climate events ; storms ; damage
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate events, storms, damage. Dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, presque tous les événements naturels extrêmes pourraient être qualifiés de désastre. Sur les 25 catastrophes les plus couteuses depuis 1970, toutes sont survenues après 1987 et 23 d'entre elles sont liées aux conditions climatiques. Et cela n'arrive pas qu'aux autres. La France, elle non plus, n'est pas épargnée : 88 morts et 9 milliards d'euros de dégats pour les tempêtes de décembre 1999, près de 15000 décès pour la canicule du 1er au 20 aout 2003. La récente tempête Xynthia, avec ses ruptures de digues, a provoqué 53 morts, s'ajoutant à tant d'autres tragédies survenues dans des zones inondables, et nous interrogeant. Sommes-nous prêts par exemple à affronter une crue comparable à celle de 1910 dans le Paris de demain? Dans le contexte actuel de changement climatique, nous savons que nous devons nous préparer à des événements extrêmes plus dangereux, quelquefois inédits. Ces événements voient leurs effets amplifiés par le développement urbain, le surpeuplement des zones littorales et l'anthropisation des milieux naturels. Ils représentent de véritables « trappes à pauvreté » pour les pays les plus pauvres de la Planète. C'est l'objet de ce rapport de l'Académie des Sciences qui analyse la question de ces événements climatiques extrêmes et de leurs conséquences prévisibles sur les systèmes économiques, sociaux, sanitaires et de sécurité.Un réel besoin d'anticipation existe donc : notre pays est-il prêt à y répondre? Participe-t-il suffi samment aux actions internationales visant à réduire les risques? Dispose-t-il d'une information scientifique appropriée?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLIV, 194 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9782759805082
    Language: French
    Location Call Number Expected Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...