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

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

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

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: 1. What is functional programming? ; 2. Expressions, types and values ; 3. Numbers ; 4. Lists ; 5. A simple Sudoku solver ; 6. Proofs ; 7. Efficiency ; 8. Pretty-printing ; 9. Infinite lists ; 10. Imperative functional programming ; 11. Parsing ; 12. A simple equational calculator

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: 1 Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: A Perspective on Capability and Application in the Environmental Sciences / R. Guy Rothwell and Ian W. Croudace. - PART 1 MARINE STUDIES. - 2 Twenty Years of XRF Core Scanning Marine Sediments: What Do Geochemical Proxies Tell Us? / R. Guy Rothwell and Ian W. Croudace. - 3 Optimization of Itrax Core Scanner Measurement Conditions for Sediments from Submarine Mud Volcanoes / Isabel Rodríguez-Germade, Belén Rubio, Daniel Rey, Federico Vilas, Carmen F. López-Rodríguez, Maria Carmen Comasand Francisca Martínez-Ruiz. - 4 Use of Calibrated ITRAX XRF Data in DeterminingTurbidite Geochemistry and Provenance in Agadir Basin, Northwest African Passive Margin / James E. Hunt, Ian W. Croudace and Suzanne E. MacLachlan. - 5 Identification, Correlation and Origin of Multistage Landslide Events in Volcaniclastic Turbidites in the Moroccan Turbidite System / James E. Hunt, Russell B. Wynn and Ian W. Croudace. - 6 An Empirical Assessment of Variable Water Content and Grain-Size on X-Ray Fluorescence Core-Scanning Measurements of Deep Sea Sediments / Suzanne E. MacLachlan, James E. Hunt and Ian W. Croudace. - PART 2 LAKE AND RIVER STUDIES. - 7 Micro-XRF Core Scanning in Palaeolimnology: Recent Developments / Sarah J. Davies, Henry F. Lamb and Stephen J. Roberts. - 8 Micro-XRF Applications in Fluvial Sedimentary Environments of Britain and Ireland: Progress and Prospects / Jonathan N. Turner, Anna F. Jones, Paul A. Brewer, Mark G. Macklin and Sara M. Rassner. - 9 Estimation of Biogenic Silica Concentrations Using Scanning XRF: Insights from Studies of Lake Malawi Sediments / Erik T. Brown. - 10 Optimization of Itrax Core Scanner Protocols for the Micro X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Finely Laminated Sediment: A Case Study of Lacustrine Varved Sediment from the High Arctic / Stéphanie Cuven, Pierre Francus, Jean François Crémerand Francis Bérubé. - 11 Investigating the Use of Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence to Locate Cryptotephra in Minerogenic Lacustrine Sediment: Experimental Results / Nicholas L. Balascio, Pierre Francus, Raymond S. Bradley, Benjamin B. Schupack, Gifford H. Miller, Bjørn C. Kvisvik, Jostein Bakke and Thorvaldur Thordarson. - 12 Combined [My]-XRF and Microfacies Techniques for Lake Sediment Analyses / Peter Dulski, Achim Brauer and Clara Mangili. - 13 Experiences with XRF-Scanning of Long Sediment Records / Christian Ohlendorf, Volker Wennrich and Dirk Enters. - 14 Approaches to Water Content Correction and Calibration for [My]XRF Core Scanning: Comparing X-ray Scattering with Simple Regression of Elemental Concentrations / John F. Boyle, Richard C. Chiverrell and Dan Schillereff. - PART 3 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND FORENSIC APPLICATIONS. - 15 X-Ray Core Scanners as an Environmental Forensics Tool: A Case Study of Polluted Harbour Sediment (Augusta Bay, Sicily) / Ian W. Croudace, Elena Romano, Antonella Ausili, Luisa Bergamin and R. Guy Rothwell. - 16 Modern Pollution Signals in Sediments from Windermere, NW England, Determined by Micro-XRF and Lead Isotope Analysis / Helen Miller, Ian W. Croudace, Jonathan M. Bull, Carol J. Cotterill, Justin K. Dix and Rex N. Taylor. - 17 ITRAX Core Scanner Capabilities Combined with Other Geochemical and Radiochemical Techniques to Evaluate Environmental Changes in a Local Catchment, South Sydney, NSW, Australia / P. Gadd, H. Heijnis, C. Chagué-Goff, A. Zawadzki, D. Fierro, P. Atahan, Ian W. Croudace and J. Goralewski. - PART 4 TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS. - 18 A Geochemical Approach to Improve Radiocarbon-Based Age-Depth Models in Non-laminated Sediment Series / Fabien Arnaud and Sidonie Révillon. - 19 Limited Influence of Sediment Grain Size on Elemental XRFCore Scanner Measurements / Sébastien Bertrand, Konrad Hughen and Liviu Giosan. - 20 Standardization and Calibration of X-Radiographs Acquired with the ITRAX Core Scanner / Pierre Francus, Kinuyo Kanamaru and David Fortin. - 21 Prediction of Geochemical Composition from XRF Core Scanner Data: A New Multivariate Approach Including Automatic Selection of Calibration Samples and Quantification of Uncertainties / G. J. Weltje, M. R. Bloemsma, R. Tjallingii, D. Heslop, U. Röhl and Ian W. Croudace. - 22 Parameter Optimisation for the ITRAX Core Scanner / Stuart Jarvis, Ian W. Croudace and R. Guy Rothwell. - 23 UV-Spectral Luminescence Scanning: Technical Updates and Calibration Developments / Craig A. Grove, Alberto Rodriguez-Ramirez, Gila Merschel, Rik Tjallingii, Jens Zinke, Adriano Macia and Geert-Jan A. Brummer. - 24 An Inter-comparison of [My]XRF Scanning Analytical Methods for Lake Sediments / Daniel N. Schillereff, Richard C. Chiverrell, Ian W. Croudace and John F. Boyle. - 25 Analysis of Coal Cores Using Micro-XRF Scanning Techniques / Sarah J. Kelloway, Colin R. Ward, Christopher E. Marjo, Irene E. Wainwright and David R. Cohen. - 26 ItraxPlot: An Intuitive Flexible Program for Rapidly Visualising Itrax Data / Ian W. Croudace and R. Guy Rothwell. - PART 5 THE FUTURE OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE CORE SCANNING. - 27 Future Developments and Innovations in High-ResolutionCore Scanning / Ian W. Croudace and R. Guy Rothwell. - Index.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This volume presents papers on the use of micro-XRF core scanners in palaeoenvironmental research. It contains a broad ranging view of instrument capability and points to future developments that will help contribute to higher precision elemental data and faster core analysis. Readers will find a diverse range of research by leading experts that have used micro-XRF core scanners in a wide range of scientific applications. The book includes specific application papers reporting on the use of XRF core scanners in a variety of marine, lacustrine, and pollution studies. In addition, coverage also examines practical aspects of core scanner usage, data optimisation, and data calibration and interpretation. In a little over a decade, micro-XRF sediment core scanners have made a substantive contribution to palaeoenvironmental research. Their impact is based on their ability to rapidly, non-destructively, and automatically scan sediment cores. Not only do they rapidly provide important proxy data without damaging samples, but they can obtain environmental data at decadal, annual, and even sub-annual scales. This volume will help both experienced and new users of these non-destructive core scanners take full advantage of one of the most powerful geochemical screening tools in the environmental scientist's toolbox

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Joint Research Project CO2MAN (CO2MAN Reservoir Management): Continuation of Research and Development Work for CO2 Storage at the Ketzin Pilot SiteMONACO - Monitoring Approach for Geological CO2 Storage Sites Using a Hierarchical Observation Concept -- Advances in Stable Isotope Monitoring of Injected CO2 Under Elevated Pressures, Temperatures and Salinities: Selected Results from the Project CO2ISO-LABEL -- CO2BioPerm - Influence of Bio-Geochemical CO2-Transforrmation Processes on the Long-Term Permeability -- Seismic and Sub-seismic Deformation Prediction in the Context of Geological Carbon Trapping and Storage -- Long-Term Safety of Well Abandonment: First Results from Large Scale Laboratory Experiments (COBRA) -- "CO2RINA" - CO2 storage Risk Integrated Analysis -- Saltwater Monitoring Using Long-Electrode ERT -- Carbon Dioxide Storage in Eastern Brandenburg: Implications for Synergetic Geothermal Heat Recovery and Conceptualization of an Early Warning System Against Freshwater Salinization - BRINE -- Combined Natural and Social Science Approach for Regional-Scale Characterisation of CO2 Storage Formations and Brine Migration Risks (CO2Brim) -- Chances for and Limitations of Acceptance for CCS in Germany.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book explores the industrial use of secure, permanent storage technologies for carbon dioxide (CO2), especially geological CO2 storage. Readers are invited to discover how this greenhouse gas could be spared from permanent release into the atmosphere through storage in deep rock formations. Themes explored here include CO2 reservoir management, caprock formation, bio-chemical processes and fluid migration. Particular attention is given to groundwater protection, the improvement of sensor technology, borehole seals and cement quality. A collaborative work by scientists and industrial partners, this volume presents original research, it investigates several aspects of innovative technologies for medium-term use and it includes a detailed risk analysis. Coal-based power generation, energy consuming industrial processes (such as steel and cement) and the burning of biomass all result in carbon dioxide. Those involved in such industries who are considering geological storage of CO2, as well as earth scientists and engineers will value this book and the innovative monitoring methods described. Researchers in the field of computer imaging and pattern recognition will also find something of interest in these chapters.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1 - Setting the Scene ; 1 The global outlook ; 2 Tracking clean energy progress ; Part 2 - Mobilising Innovation to Accelerate Climate Action ; 3 Innovation to transform energy systems ; 4 Mainstreaming variable renewables in power markets ; 5 CCS: building on early opportunities ; 6 Global innovation for more sustainable industry ; 7 Low-carbon innovation in emerging economies ; 8 Energy technology innovation in China ; Annexes

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book aims to give an overview on the present state of volcanic lake research, covering topics such as volcano monitoring, the chemistry, dynamics and degassing of acidic crater lakes, mass-energy-chemical-isotopic balance approaches, limnology and degassing of Nyos-type lakes, the impact on the human and natural environment, the eruption products and impact of crater lake breaching eruptions, numerical modeling of gas clouds and lake eruptions, thermo-hydro-mechanical and deformation modeling, CO2 fluxes from lakes, volcanic lakes observed from space, biological activity, continuous monitoring techniques, and some aspects more. We hope to offer an updated manual on volcanic lake research, providing classic research methods, and point towards a more high-tech approach of future volcanic lake research and continuous monitoring.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Mapping Environments and Exposures of the WorldMapping Earthquake Risk of the World -- Mapping Volcano Risk of the World -- Mapping Landslide Risk of the World -- Mapping Flood Risk of the World -- Mapping Storm Surge Risk of the World -- Mapping Sand-dust Storm Risk of the World -- Mapping Tropical Cyclone Wind Risk of the World -- Mapping Heat Wave Risk of the World -- Mapping Cold Wave Risk of the World -- Mapping Drought Risk (Maize) of the World -- Mapping Drought Risk (Wheat) of the World -- Mapping Drought Risk (Rice) of the World -- Mapping Forest Wildfire Risk of the World -- Mapping Grassland Wildfire Risk of the World -- Mapping Multi-hazard Risk of the World.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 natural disasters, i.e. earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, storm surge, sand-dust storm, tropical cyclone, heat wave, cold wave, drought and wildfire, and risk mapping for multi-hazard disaster in the world. The above 11 hazards are assessed and mapped at grid unit, comparable-geographic unit and national unit, and the multi-hazard is assessed and mapped at grid unit and national unit. The expected annual mortality and/or affected population risks and expected annual economic loss and/or affected property risk of 11 hazards and multi-hazard of the world at national level are unprecedentedly derived and ranked. The atlas can be a good reference for researchers and students in the field of natural disaster risk management and risk governance, and enterpriser and risk manager as well to understand the global natural disaster risk. Prof. Peijun Shi works at Beijing Normal University, China; Prof. Roger Kasperson works at Clark University, USA.

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

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

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

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project's decade-long operation, readers also gain insight into state-of-the-art techniques and most recent achievements in China's scientific drilling industry. Specifically, this work introduces the drilling engineering design, well site construction, and equipment and construction situation. It also provides a minute description on the new techniques that were developed for tackling the technical difficulties, expounds in detail the core drilling techniques for hard rock deep well, and treats diamond core drill bits, reaming drilling techniques in hard crystalline rocks, well-deviation control techniques for strong dipping strata, and much more. In summary, this book offers a valuable resource for engineers and technicians who engage in scientific drilling and a variety of resource drilling engineering; teachers and students who are interested in this field will also gain plentiful information. Prof. Da Wang, the former deputy director of China Geological Survey, was the director of the Engineering Centre, chief engineer and drill-site general director of China Continental Scientific Drilling Project.

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

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

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; 1 Randomized Trials ; 1.1 In Sickness and in Health (Insurance) ; 1.2 The Oregon Trail ; 2 Regression ; 2.1 A Tale of Two Colleges ; 2.2 Make Me a Match, Run Me a Regression ; 2.3 Ceteris Paribus? ; 3 Instrumental Variables ; 3.1 The Charter Conundrum ; 3.2 Abuse Busters ; 3.3 The Population Bomb ; 4 Regression Discontinuity Designs ; 4.1 Birthdays and Funerals ; 4.2 The Elite Illusion ; 5 Differences-in-Differences ; 5.1 A Mississippi Experiment ; 5.2 Drink, Drank, . . . ; 6 The Wages of Schooling ; 6.1 Schooling, Experience, and Earnings ; 6.2 Twins Double the Fun ; 6.3 Econometricians Are Known by Their . . . Instruments ; 6.4 Rustling Sheepskin in the Lone Star State ; Appendix: Bias from Measurement Error

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The subduction zone volatile cycle is key to understanding the petrogenesis, transport, storage and eruption of arc magmas. Volatiles control the flux of slab components into the mantle wedge, are responsible for melt generation through lowering the solidi of mantle materials and influence the crystallizing phase assemblages in the overriding crust. Further, the rates and extents of degassing during magma storage and decompression affect magma rheology, ultimately control eruption style and have consequences for the environmental impact of explosive arc volcanism. This book highlights recent progress in constraining the role of volatiles in magmatic processes. Individual book sections are devoted to tracing volatiles from the subducting slab to the overriding crust, their role in subvolcanic processes and eruption triggering, as well as magmatic-hydrothermal systems and volcanic degassing. For the first time, all aspects of the overarching theme of volatile cycling are covered in detail within a single volume.

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

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

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents: Introduction ; OVERVIEW ; Spatial Self-Organization ; Spatial Ecology ; Modeling Ecosystems ; PATTERN FORMATION THEORY ; Pattern Formation Analysis: Basic Methods ; Pattern Formation Analysis: Advanced Methods ; Basic Mechanisms of Pattern Formation ; External Modulations of Pattern Forming Systems ; APPLICATIONS TO ECOLOGY ; Modeling Water-Limited Vegetation ; Vegetation Pattern Formation ; Regime Shifts and Desertification ; Species Coexistence and Diversity in Plant Communities

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

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

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Vorwort. - Inhaltsverzeichnis. - Zusammenfassung. - Summary. - 1. Einführung. - 2. Problemstellung. - 3. Arbeitsgebiete. - 3.1. Norwegische Finnmark (Finnmarksküste und Finnmarksvidda). - 3.1.1. Karlebotn - Varangerbotn. - 3.1.2. Bugöyfjord - Neiden. - 3.1.3. Skallelv - Komagelv. - 3.1.4. Lakselv -Kistrand. - 3.1.5. Börselv. - 3.1.6. Sennaland. - 3.1.7. Gargia - Grönåsen. - 3.1.8. Corgosjokka. - 3.1.9. Bidjovagge - Stuorajavri. - 3.1.10. Vuoddasjåkka - Cuovdatmåkki. - 3.2. Schwedisches Hochgebirge (Skanden und östliches Vorland). - 3.2.1. Abisko - Björkliden. - 3.2.2. Staloluokta (Padjelanta). - 3.2.3. Råstojaure - Kilpisjärvi. - 3.2.4. Tavvavuoma-Pulsujärvi. - 4. Permafrosthügel-Morphodynamik. - 4.1. Palsas (Segregationseishügel). - 4.1.1. Verbreitung. - 4.1.2. Bauplan. - 4.1.3. Aggradation und Degradation. - 4.1.4. Entwicklungsverlauf. - 4.2. Pingoähnliche Hügel (Injektionseishügel). - 4.2.1. Verbreitung. - 4.2.2. Bauplan. - 4.2.3. Aggradation und Degradation. - 4.2.4. Entwicklungsverlauf. - 4.3. Mehrjährige Frostblister (Injektionseishügel). - 4.3.1. Verbreitung. - 4.3.2. Bauplan. - 4.3.3. Aggradation und Degradation. - 4.3.4. Entwicklungsverlauf. - 5. Kontrollfaktoren der Permafrosthügel-Verbreitung. - 5.1. Klima. - 5.2. Substrat. - 5.3. Relief und Gewässer. - 5.4. Vegetation. - 6. Altersstellung der Permafrosthügel. - 7. Permafrosthügel-Klassifikation und -Terminologie. - 8. Permafrosthügel als Klimaindikatoren. - 9. Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick. - 10. Literaturverzeichnis. - 11. Kartenverzeichnis. - 11.1. Quartärgeologische Karten. - 11.2. Topographische Karten. - 12. Luftbild- und Satellitenbild-Verzeichnis. - 12.1. Luftbilder von Finnmark (NORSK LUFTFOTO OG FJERNMÅLING). - 12.2. Luftbilder von Norrbotten. - 12.3. Satellitenbilder von Finnmark und Norrbotten. - Anhang (CD) 1. Klimakurven 2. Klimatabellen & Vegetationstabellen (Stetigkeitstabellen)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Seismic Wave Analysis for Near Surface Applications presents the foundational tools necessary to properly analyze surface waves acquired according to both active and passive techniques. Applications range from seismic hazard studies, geotechnical surveys and the exploration of extra-terrestrial bodies. Surface waves have become critical to near-surface geophysics both for geotechnical goals and seismic-hazard studies. Included in this book are the related theories, approaches and applications which the lead editor has assembled from a range of authored contributions carefully selected from the latest developments in research. A unique blend of theory and practice, the book's concepts are based on exhaustive field research conducted over the past decade from the world's leading seismologists and geophysicists. * Edited by a geophysicist with nearly 20 years of experience in research, consulting, and geoscience software development.*Nearly 100 figures, photographs, and examples aid in the understanding of fundamental concepts and techniques* Presents the latest research in seismic wave characteristics and analysis, the fundamentals of signal processing, wave data acquisition and inversion, and the latest developments in horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR).* Each chapter features a real-world case study-13 in all-to bring the book's key principles to life.

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