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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: High-resolution Paleoclimatology - R. Bradley What is high-resolution paleoclimatology? What are its major achievements? What opportunities and challenges does it now face? What should dendroclimatology's role be in this? Chapter 2: Dendroclimatology in high-resolution Paleoclimatology - M. K. Hughes, H. F. Diaz and Th. W. Swetnam An overview of the development of dendroclimatology and an introduction to the questions posed in this book. Scientific bases of dendroclimatology Chapter 3: How well understood are the processes that create tree-ring records? - G. Vaganov Starting at the most basic level of the environmental control of tree-ring formation, do we have the necessary biological and ecophysiological understanding of this to support inferences about climate variability from tree rings? What are the weak points of this understanding and how might they be strengthened? Chapter 4: The state of the art of quantitative methods in dendroclimatology - E. Cook How sound are the quantitative techniques commonly used in dendroclimatology, in chronology building, identification and reconstruction of climate variables and the checking of these reconstructions? Are they appropriate to the material being analyzed and to the climatological problems being addressed? How might they be improved? Chapter 5: Detecting low-frequency change using tree rings - K. Briffa What limits the ability of tree-ring records to faithfully record climate variability at low frequencies (multi-centennial to millennial)? How might those limitations be overcome, if at all? What are the advantages and limitations of older and more novel approaches? What are the implications of these limitations? Reconstruction of climate patterns and values relative to today's climate Chapter 6: Dendroclimatology at regional and continental scales - R. Villalba What have been the major contributions of dendroclimatology to climatology so far? In what regions and for which climate problems is exciting progress now being made? What next? Chapter 7: Dendroclimatology at hemispheric and global scales - M. K. Hughes and M. Mann What are the achievements of dendroclimatology as applied at hemispheric and global scales climate patterns, circulation indices and large-scale means? What are the limitations of this approach? How might they be overcome? How might dendroclimatology contribute to the study of central pressing problems such as "How big is climate sensitivity? How has the last century, and especially recent decades, compared with earlier centuries? How faithful a representation of variability in recent centuries does the 20th century instrumental record give? Particular attention will be given to: a) identifying the most robust findings; and b) the most serious limitations. Chapter 8: Dendroclimatology, dendrohydrology and water resources management - C. Woodhouse and D. Meko How may dendroclimatology contribute to the study of water resources? How may it be used to inform modern public and decision-maker expectations of climate variability? Chapter 9: Dendroclimatology and the ecosystem impacts of climate - Th. W. SwetnamHow has dendroclimatology contributed to disturbance ecology? What is the significance of the recent changes in tree-growth-climate relationships observed in some regions, not only for dendroclimatology, but also for the understanding of the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems? Chapter 10: Dendroclimatology and the understanding of the interactions between climate variability and ancient human societies - D. Stahle and J. DeanHow has dendroclimatology contributed to understanding of the relationships between climate variability and societies in ancient times? Chapter 11: Tree rings and climate- sharpening the focus - M. K. Hughes, H. F. Diaz and Th. W. Swetnam What has been learned, using tree rings, about natural climate variability and its environmental and social impacts? What are the most significant strengths and weaknesses of dendroclimatology and the needs of, and opportunities for, future work.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume presents an overview of the current state of dendroclimatology, its contributions over the last 30 years, and its future potential. The material included is useful not only to those who generate tree-ring records of past climate-dendroclimatologists, but also to users of their results - climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists and archeologists.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; Part I - The Challenge ; 1 Global Climate Change ; 2 Justice in a Changing World ; Part II - International Justice ; 3 International Environmental Justice ; 4 International Justice and Climate Change ; Part III - Global Justice ; 5 Cosmopolitan Ethics and Justice ; 6 Affluence, Consumption and Atmospheric Pollution ; 7 Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and Climate Policy ; 8 The Unavoidability of Global Justice

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Executive summary ; PART I - Taking stock of structural policies in OECD countries ; 1. Responding to the crisis while protecting long-term growth ; 2. Responding to the going for growth policy priorities: an overview of progress since 2005 ; 3. Country notes ; 4. Structural policy indicators ; PART II - Thematic studies ; 5. A family affair: intergenerational social mobility across OECD countries ; 6. Getting it right: prudential regulation and competition in banking ; 7. Going for growth in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa

Description / Table of Contents: Informationsgesellschaft und allgegenwärtiges Internet, Information als Wettbewerbs- und Standortfaktor, diese Stichworte verdeutlichen die unternehmerische und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Information. Doch nicht nur Information allein, sondern auch die Systeme, die Informationen verarbeiten, speichern und übertragen und die Techniken, auf denen sie beruhen, verdienen Aufmerksamkeit. Informationsmanagement hat die Aufgabe, den im Hinblick auf das Unternehmensziel bestmöglichen Einsatz der Ressource Information zu gewährleisten. Das Buch vermittelt die zentrale Einsicht, dass Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken nicht nur Rationalisierungsmöglichkeiten eröffnen, sondern vor allem Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten für Organisation und neue Geschäftsmodelle bieten. Die sich daraus ergebenden Chancen stehen im Mittelpunkt des Buches. Unterstützung leistet eine an die Struktur des Buches angelehnte Übungsfallstudie. Weitere Fallstudien und Unterlagen sind unter www.informationsmanagement-online.de zu finden.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1: Forests, Conservation and Climate Change in Latin America ; Chapter 2: The Winding REDD Road ; Chapter 3: Getting Ready for REDD ; Chapter 4: REDD+ Regimes in Latin America: Leaders ; Chapter 5: REDD+ Regimes in Latin America: Latecomers ; Chapter 6: Catering for Diversity: Economic and Social Complexity ; Chapter 7: Catering for Diversity: Governance and Institutions ; Chapter 8: REDD: From Safeguards to Social Development?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; Chapter 1: Low carbon futures for all? Strategic options for global availability of environmental technologies ; Chapter 2: The puzzling persistence of the intellectual property right/climate change relationship ; Chapter 3: Failure is not an option: enhancing the use of intellectual property tools to secure wider and more equitable access to climate change technologies ; Chapter 4: Partnership and sharing: beyond mainstream mechanisms ; Chapter 5: Public-private partnerships for wider and equitable access to climate technologies ; Chapter 6: Climate change, technology transfer and intellectual property rights: a modest exercise in thinking outside the box ; Chapter 7: Access to essential environmental technologies and poor communities: why human rights should be prioritized ; Chapter 8: Achieving greater access: a new role for established legal principles? ; Chapter 9: The 'new normal': food, climate change and intellectual property ; Chapter 10: Intellectual property: property rights and the public interest ; Chapter 11: A view from inside the renewable energy industry ; Chapter 12: A private institutional investment perspective

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: governing climate relations between Europe and Asia in a restructuring world order ; PART I: The European Union, China and the global governance of climate change ; Chapter 2: The increasingly complex nature of EU-China climate relations ; Chapter 3: China, the European Union and global environmental governance: the case of climate change ; Chapter 4: Explaining the development of China's renewable energy policies: comparing wind and solar power ; Chapter 5: Cap or tax? Exploring the potential for a carbon tax or emissions trading in China ; Chapter 6: The governance of the CDM in China: achievements and deficiencies ; PART II: EU-Vietnam climate relations: a study of the Clean Development Mechanism ; Chapter 7: The role and dynamics of the Clean Development Mechanism in EU-Vietnam climate relations ; Chapter 8: The Vietnamese regulatory framework for the Clean Development Mechanism ; Chapter 9: Public-private partnerships in CDM implementation in Vietnam ; Chapter 10: Opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese enterprises involved in the CDM ; Chapter 11: Case-study of Vietnamese hydropower CDM projects: shortcomings and barriers ; Chapter 12: The governance of climate relations between Europe and Asia in the 'pivotal decade' (2010-2020): evidence from China and Vietnam

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: KURZFASSUNG ; 1 Internationale Konjunktur: Erholung zeichnet sich ab ; 2 Konjunktur in Deutschland: Aufschwung ist angelegt ; 3 Geldpolitik und fiskalische Konsolidierung im Euro-Raum ; 4 Institutionelle Reformen für die Europäische Währungsunion: Zwischen vertiefter Wirtschafts- und Finanzunion und Maastricht 2.0 ; 5 Finanzmarkt: Deutschland auf dem Weg in die Europäische Bankenunion ; 6 Arbeitsmarkt: Institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen für mehr Flexibilität ; 7 Konsolidierung der öffentlichen Haushalte: Kein Grund zur Selbstgefälligkeit ; 8 Steuerpolitik: Vor falschen Weichenstellungen ; 9 Sozialpolitik: Die richtigen Reformen statt Leistungsausweitungen ; 10 Energiepolitik: Warten auf die dringend notwendigen Weichenstellungen ; 11 Immobilienmarkt: Kein Grund für Aktionismus ; 12 Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität ; Anhänge

Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt: Vorwort. - Die Bedeutung der Meeresfische. - Die Rolle des Fischs im Ökosystem. - Bedrohte Vielfalt. - Conclusio: Das große Ganze im Meer. - Von Fischen und Menschen. - Fisch - ein geschätztes Gut. - Das Gute im Fisch. - Conclusio: Nahrungs- und Einkommensquelle für Millionen. - Wie es um den Fisch steht. - Die weltweite Jagd nach Fisch. - Fern und gefährdet - die Tiefsee. - Die illegale Fischerei. - Conclusio: Nach der Einsicht langsame Besserung. - Die große Zukunft der Fischzucht. - Aquakultur - Proteinlieferant für die Welt. - Wege zur schonenden Aquakultur. - Conclusio: Die Zukunft des Zuchtfischs. - Fischbestände richtig managen. - Fischen am Limit. - Wege zu einem besseren Fischereimanagement. - Kehrtwende in der Fischreipolitik?. - Conclusio: Lernen aus leidvoller Erfahrung?. - Gesamt-Conclusio. - Glossar. - Abkürzungen. - Mitwirkende. - Quellenverzeichnis. - Abbildungsverzeichnis. - Index. - Partner und Danksagung. - Impressum.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface. - 1The world oceans, global climate driver. - Earth's climate system - a complex framework. - The great ocean currents - the climate engine. - Conclusion: Time to act. - 2 How climate change alters ocean chemistry. - The oceans - the largest CO2-reservoir. - The consequences of ocean acidification. - Oxygen in the ocean. - Climate change impacts on methane hydrates. - Conclusion: Material fluxes - getting the full picture. - 3 The uncertain future of the coasts. - Sea-level rise - an unavoidable threat. - How nature and humankind alter the coasts. - The battle for the coast. -Conclusion: The future of the coast - defence or orderly retreat?. - 4 Last stop: The ocean - polluting the seas. - Over-fertilization of the seas. - Organic pollutants in the marine environment. - Litter - pervading the ocean. - Oil pollution of marine habitats. - Conclusion: Much to be done .... - 5 Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. - Biological systems under stress. - Disruption to the plankton cycle. - Species encroaching on alien territories. - Marine biodiversity - a vital resource. - Conclusion: Impacts and repercussions. - 6 Exploiting a living resource: Fisheries. - Marine fisheries - the state of affairs. - The causes of overfishing. - Classic approaches to fisheries management. - Toward more sustainable fisheries. - Conclusion: Is sustainable fishing feasible?. - 7 Marine minerals and energy. - Fossil fuels. - Marine minerals. - Methane hydrates. - Renewable energies. - Conclusion: Pressure on the ocean floor is growing. - 8 Maritime highways of global trade. - Global shipping - a dynamic market. - Obstacles to global shipping: Piracy and terrorism. - Conclusion: A look at the future. - 9 Medical knowledge from the sea. - Active substances from marine creatures. - Searching for the causes of desease. - Legal issues in marine medical research. - Conclusion: The dawn of a new era?. - 10 The law of the sea: A powerful instrument. - A constitution for the seas. - The limits to the law of the sea. - Conclusion: The future of the law of the sea. - Overall conclusion. - Glossary. - Abbreviations. - Authors and partners. - Bibliography. - Index. - Table of figures. - Publication details.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1 Critique of Political Economy ; 1 Substance value ; 2 Market objectivity ; 3 Scarcity and status ; Part 2 The Institution of Value ; 4 Money ; 5 A new approach to value ; Part 3 Market Finance ; 6 Financial valuation ; 7 Liquidity and speculation ; Part IV Self-referential Finance and the Subprime Crisis ; 8 Euphoria: 2003 to 2007 ; 9 The crisis: 2007 to 2008 ; Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction ; Conceptualization ; Agency ; Architecture ; Accountability and Legitimacy ; Allocation ; Adaptiveness ; Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Reconfiguring the energy world ; 2 Upgrading the energy system of cities and regions ; 3 Optimizing energy management in homes and buildings ; 4 Energy 3.0: addressing the most fundamental challenges of the energy transformation ; Energy 3.0: adapting governance to facilitate the energy transformation ; 6 Energy 3.0: developing end-user-driven business models to advance the energy transformation ; 7 Energy 3.0: reinventing the energy sector to make the energy transformation a reality ; 8 Energy 3.0: accelerating the energy transformation

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Problemstellung ; 2 Begriffliche Abgrenzungen ; 3 Marktversagenstatbestände bei Projektfinanzierungen ; 4 Risikomanagement bei Projektfinanzierungen ; 5 Moderne Projektfinanzierung: Das magische Dreieck von Rendite, Risiko und Liquidität ; 6 Moderne Projektfinanzierung: Agenten- und Transaktionskosten ; 7 Resümee

Description / Table of Contents: Featuring chapters written by leading experts in magnetometry, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the principles, technology and diverse applications of optical magnetometry, from testing fundamental laws of nature to detecting biomagnetic fields and medical diagnostics. Readers will find a wealth of technical information, from antirelaxation-coating techniques, microfabrication and magnetic shielding to geomagnetic-field measurements, space magnetometry, detection of biomagnetic fields, detection of NMR and MRI signals and rotation sensing. The book includes an original survey of the history of optical magnetometry and a chapter on the commercial use of these technologies

Description / Table of Contents: Mit Java hat sich in der Industrie eine Programmiersprache durchgesetzt, die weit über die Konzepte traditioneller Programmiersprachen hinausgeht.Dieses Buch setzt keine Kenntnisse in anderen Programmiersprachen voraus, sondern richtet sich an jene Schüler, Studenten und Praktiker, die nicht nur in Java schnuppern, sondern die Grundlagen von Java und vielleicht auch schon die fortgeschrittenen Themen professionell erlernen wollen.Behandelt werden alle grundlegenden Sprachmittel, die zur Erstellung von Java-Programmen erforderlich sind. Alle zum Verständnis erforderlichen Hintergrundinformationen werden anschaulich und präzise dargestellt.

Description / Table of Contents: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Vorrede. - 0. Allgemeines zu den in der Literatur dokumentierten und für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigen Erkenntnissen über die funktional definierten kleinen Hohlformen. - 1. Zur Ausschließung der heute als nicht natürlich entstanden erkennbaren kleinen Hohlformen von der eiszeitglaziologisch intendierten Betrachtung ihres Entstehens. - 2. Zu den in der Literatur dargestellten für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigen Erkenntnissen über die Kategorien der primären kleinen Hohlformen. - 2.1 Zur eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigen Literatur über die Dolinen. - 2.2 Zu den in der Literatur dargestellten eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigen Erkenntnissen über die Riesenkessel. - 2.3 Zu den in der Literatur dargestellten und für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigen Erkenntnissen über die Pingo-Narben. - 2.4 Zu den in der Literatur beschriebenen anderen primären Hohlformen. - 2.5 Zu den in der Literatur dargestellten und für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigen allgemeinen Erkenntnissen über die Sölle. - 2.6 Zu den eiszeitglaziologischen Aspekten der ökologisch-landeskulturellen Literatur über die Sölle. - 2.7 Zu den für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigen Aspekten bei WUNDERLICH'S 'Kesseln'. - 3. Zu den in der Literatur dargestellten für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigen Erkenntnissen über die in primären kleinen Hohlformen vorkommenden Fresh-water-Deposits. - 4. Kritisches zu den in der Literatur dargestellten eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigsten Erkenntnissen über die natürlich entstandenen kleinen Hohlformen. - 4.1 Kritisches zur Literatur über die Dolinen. - 4.2 Kritisches zu den eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigen Erkenntnissen der Literatur über die Riesenkessel. - 4.3 Kritisches zu den eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigen Darlegungen der Literatur über die Pingo-Narben und die Pingo-Relikte im allgemeinen. - 4.4 Kritisches zu den eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigen Aspekten der Interpretation, die SILBERSCHLAG seinen Beobachtungen widmete. - 4.5 Kritisches zu den in der Literatur dargestellten eiszeitglaziologisch wichtigsten Erkenntnissen über die Sölle. - 4.6 Kritisches zu den für die Eiszeitglaziologie wichtigsten in der Literatur dargestellten Erkenntnissen über die von Freshwater-Deposits eingenommenen kleinen Hohlformen.- 4.7 Kritisches zur ökologisch-landeskulturellen Literatur über die Sölle vom Standpunkt der Eiszeitglaziologie. - 5. Zu eiszeitglaziologischen Aspekten einer Theorie des Entstehens und Bestehens der Pingos. - 6. Zur Theorie des Entstehens der echten Sölle. - 6.0 Grundsätzliches zur Theorie des Entstehens der echten Sölle. - 6.1 Zu den eiszeitglaziologisch eminenten Aspekten des Entstehens echter Sölle. - 6.2 Zu den geologisch-elementaren Aspekten des Entstehens echter Sölle. - 6.3 Zu den geologisch-stratigraphischen Aspekten des Entstehens echter Sölle. - 6.4 Zu den geohydrologischen Voraussetzungen des Entstehens echter Sölle. - 6.5 Zu tektonischen Aspekten des Entstehens echter Sölle. - 6.6 Zu den geokryologischen Aspekten des Entstehens echter Sölle. - Teil Anmerkungen. - Teil Verzeichnisse.

Description / Table of Contents: In den jüngeren großen Kompendien zur Geomorphologie finden sich zu den sogenannten ,kleinen Hohlformen' [den außerhalb von Seen gelegenen Bodensenken] vielfältige sachliche Informationen, oft verbunden mit umfangreichen Überlegungen zum Entstehen der verschiedenen Kategorien dieser Senken. In der Literatur ist auch mancher unnütze Meinungsstreit dokumentiert, bei dem die Kontrahenten wegen Nichtbeachtung des ,feinen' zufälligen Unterschiedes zwischen einer bloß allgemeinsprachlich verschieden bezeichneten Erscheinung auf der Erdoberfläche (Vertiefung, Loch, Mulde, Wanne, Senke, Kessel etc.) und einer gesetzmäßig als Doline, Pingo-Narbe, Riesenkessel oder Soll entstandenen kleinen Hohlform aneinander vorbeiredeten. Daneben gibt es Meinungen, wie die zwar kaum [nicht hinreichend] begründete, aber nichts desto trotz über Autoren-Generationen hinweg fleißig kompilierte Spekulation, wonach viele der kleinen Hohlformen sogenannte »Toteislöcher«, das heißt, durch nacheiszeitliches Tauen einst überschütteter (schollenartiger) »Gletscherabbrüche« entstandene Einsturzstellen sein sollen [Artikel 17] . . .Der vorliegende Artikel [18] soll Klarheit darüber schaffen helfen, welche der in ehemaligen binnenländischen Vereisungsgebieten rezent vorkommenden kleinen Hohlformen glazialbedingt [durch Glazialwirkung] und welche der kleinen Hohlformen nicht durch Glazialwirkung entstanden sind bzw. in welchem Zusammenhang das Entstehen der letzteren mit dem Glazialzeitgeschehen zu sehen ist; dieser Artikel soll Insonderheit die Grundlage für eine der Wahrheit näherkommende Anerkennung der heutzutage in den Flachlandgletscher-Ausfahrgebieten der letztvergangenen Binnenlandvereisungen von Nordeuropa vorzufindenden Sölle als Indizien für die direkte oder indirekte Glazialwirkung schaffen (helfen).

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 C ritical resources in a green economy ; 3 A landscape of actors and interests for critical resources ; 4 Normative principles for fair and sustainable international resource politics ; 5 Prevailing governance and resource-market failures ; 6 N ew approaches to kick-start international resource politics ; 7 Conclusions on international resource politics

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Zusammenfassung und Vorwort ; 1 Aufgabenstellung und Methodik ; 2 Anforderungen an (kommunalen) Klimaschutz und Grundprobleme der (kommunalen) Klimasteuerung ; 3 Kommunale Klimaschutzkonzepte am Beispiel einiger Großstädte ; 4 Klimaschutzpolitik auf Landesebene

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Zum Geleit: Sozialwissenschaftliche Nachhaltigkeitsforschung ; Grundlagen einer geisteswissenschaftlichen Klimadebatte ; Klimaschutz im Gestrüpp der Interessen ; Klimawandel und historische Gerechtigkeit ; Klimaschutz aus Sorge um die Benachteiligten ; Klimakatastrophe und Apokalypseblindheit ; Klimagerechtigkeit: Neue universalistische Diskursethik, neue Freiheitstheorie, neue Abwägungstheorie ; Klimavölkerrecht und das Problem historischer Emissionen ; Restriktionen der "Generationengerechtigkeit" ; Wird der individualistische Ansatz zur intergenerationellen Gerechtigkeit durch das Non-Identity-Argument blockiert? ; Kosten und Nutzen der Anpassung an den Klimawandel - ein Verteilungsproblem

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Anmerkungen zur Thüringer Sintflut von 1613 ; Die Thüringer Sintflut vom 29. Mai 1613. Eine bisher unbekannte Quelle aus dem Sächsischen Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden ; Die Auswirkungen der Thüringischen Sintflut auf die Bevölkerung nördlich des Ettersberges ; Hochwasser im Fluss der Zeit - archivalische Quellen der Frühen Neuzeit aus dem Thüringschen Hauptstaatarchiv Weimar ; Neues zur Magdalenenflut vom Juli 1342 ; Spuren in der Landschaft: Extreme Witterungsereignisse während des Spätmittelalters und ihre Folgen ; Die Hochwassernachrichtenzentrale Thüringen (HNZ) ; Bestimmung des konvektiven Unwetterpotentials über Thüringen ; Gewitterzellenvorhersage mit CellMOS ; Sturzflutfrühwarnung - das Projekt STUWASYS ; Bewusstseinsbildung zum Hochwasserrisikomanagement durch serious gaming

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1: Adaptation to climate change in Asia ; Chapter 2: Vulnerable and lagging behind: the case of Hong Kong ; Chapter 3: The evolution of environmental policies in South Korea in response to climate change ; Chapter 4: Climate-proofing a concrete island: improving state and societal climate adaptation capacities in Singapore ; Chapter 5: Assessing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in China ; Chapter 6: Adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: migration, the missing link ; Chapter 7: Adaptation strategy to address climate change impacts in the mountains: the case of Nepal ; Chapter 8: Climate change adaptation in agriculture in Cambodia ; Chapter 9: Adapting Indian agriculture to climate change

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Elements of Rock Mechanics Fundamentals. Basics Notions. Geomechanical Characterisation of Rocks in the Laboratory. Modelling Rock Behaviour. Determination of in situ stresses. Geomechanical Modelling Elements. 2. Geomechanics, drilling and Production. Drilling Performance. Borehole Stability during Drilling. Sand Production. Well Stimulation by Hydraulic Fracturing. Induced Thermal Fracturing. 3. Geomechanics and Reservoir. Modelling the Geomechanical and Reservoir coupling. Environmental Aspects. Geomechanical Monitoring of Reservoirs.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: This book provides data on CO2 emission from fuel combustions from 1971 to 2010 for more than 140 countries and regions by sector and by fuel. Emissions were calculated using IEA energy databases and the default methods and emission factors from the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Einleitung - Wie aus heiterem Himmel ; Erdbebenkatastrophen - Der sichere Boden unter den Füßen ist weg ; Tsunami-Katastrophen - Eine Wand aus Wasser ; Vulkankatastrophen - Brennende Luft, Glutregen vom Himmel ; Sturmkatastrophen - Die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm ; Unwetterkatastrophen - Wolken, Blitz und Hagelschlag ; Wasserkatastrophen - Land unter ; Hitze- und Kältekatastrophen - Dürre, Waldbrände und Lawinen ; Weltweite Zunahme der Naturkatastrophen - Ein Tanz auf dem Vulkan ; Globale Umweltveränderungen und Klimawandel - Steuern wir auf eine Katastrophe zu? ; Katastrophenvorsorge - Das Unvermeidbare kontrollieren, das Unkontrollierbare vermeiden ; Ausblick - Die Zukunft ist auch nicht mehr das, was sie einmal war

Description / Table of Contents: All fluxgate magnetometers are based on the theory of H.Aschenbrenner and G.Goubau developed in 1936 and the first fluxgates developed by F.Förster.Already the early satellites like putnik 3(Dolginov-Russia,1958), Mariner 4 (NASA/USA ,1964), the first German satellite AZUR (Musmann, 1969) studying the magnetic fields of the Earth, Moon, Venus, Mars and other planets were using fluxgate magnetometers up to the latest NASA/ESA investigations on CASSINI (1998),and ESA's Rosetta (2004) and the first Ion Engine spacecraft, NASA-DEEP-SPACE-ONE (Musmann/Kuhnke,1998), (see cover.) Very precise Earth magnetic field measurements in space have been made using fluxgate magnetometers in combination with scalar magnetometers (MAGSAT-Acuna, 1979; OERSTED-Primdahl,1999; CHAMP-Lühr,2000) Only a few detailed descriptions about the theory and how to design and calibrate space fluxgate magnetometers and how to get reliable accurate magnetic field component measurements in space have been published.Therefore the worldwide small space fluxgate magnetometer community decided to document and save all their relevant know-how on space fluxgate magnetometers in this book before retirement.

Description / Table of Contents: This volume contains a collection of stratigraphic and diagenetic case studies of Mesozoic and Cenozoic carbonate sequences from the Tethyan realm. High levels of industry and academic interest in the region have generated numerous multi-disciplinary studies of these sequences, a selection of which are presented in this volume. The studies presented are based on both comprehensive subsurface datasets from important hydrocarbon-bearing strata of the Middle East and the excellent surface exposures in the region of interest.The studies presented in this volume may serve as suitable starting points in the development of age and architecture specific carbonate reference models. Such models can form the basis of internally consistent models for carbonate deposition, sequence development and reservoir performance. Ideally such models, suitably scaled, will be equally applicable to academic studies, the exploration and development phases of the field life cycle and in the prediction of future reservoir performance.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ; 1 Climate change science review ; 2 Detection and attribution ; 3 Wild species and extinction ; 4 Ecosystems ; 5 Marine ecosystems ; 6 Water ; 7 Hurricanes ; 8 Wildfires ; 9 Tropical forests of Amazonia ; 10 Global crop production and food security ; 11 Human helath ; 12 Unique and valued places ; POLICY ANALYSIS ; 13 Assessing economic impacts ; 14 Integrated assessment modeling ; 15 Risk, uncertainty, and assessing dangerous climate change ; 16 Risk perceptiona and behavior ; 17 What is the economic cost of climate change ; 18 Cost-efficiency and political feasibility ; 19 Carbon taxes, trading, and offsets ; 20 The cost of reducing CO2 emissions ; INTERNATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS ; 21 International treaties ; 22 EU climate policy ; 23Population ; 24 Inequities and imbalances ; 25 Ethics, rights, and responsibilities ; 26 Developing country perspectives ; 27 CDM and mitigation in developing countries ; 28 Measuring the Clean Development Mechanism's performance and potential ; 29 Understanding the climate challenge in China ; 30 Climate change and the new China ; 31 India ; 32 Australia ; UNITED STATES ; 33 National policy ; 34 Policy in California ; 35 California's battle for clean cars ; 36 U.S. state climate action ; 37 Policies to stimulate corporate action ; 38 Corporate initiatives ; 39 Carbonundrums: the role of the media ; 40 Newspaper and television coverage ; 41 Media and public education ; MITIGATION OPTIONS TO REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS ; 42 The road forward ; 43 Energy Efficiency ; 44 Renewable energy ; 45 Designing energy supply chains based on Hydrogen ; 46 Nuclear energy ; 47 Coal capture and storage ; 48 Tropical forests ; 49 Engineering the planet

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: KlimaKulturen ; Haben die Geisteswissenschaften die Zukunft vergessen? ; Klima des Wandels oder Wie wird die grüne Moderne möglich? ; Kultureller Wandel: Zur kulturellen Bewältigung des Klimawandels ; Globale Strukturanpassung: Weltwirtschaft und Weltpolitik in den Grenzen des Erdsystems ; Klimawandel: Das Ende der geotopologischen Identität ; Wohin mit den Klimakatastrophen? ; Klimaverantwortung als Verteilungsproblem ; Individuelles Umweltverhalten - Probleme, Chancen, Vielfalt ; Nicht hier, nicht jetzt, nicht ich - Über die symbolische Bearbeitung eines ernsten Problems ; Architektur und Städtebau im Spannungsfeld von klimakultureller Prägung und sozialökonomischer Entwicklung ; Klimaschutz durch Urban Governance ; "Die Politik ist das Schicksal" - Philosophische Bibliotheksgespräche über das Global Warming im Jahre 50 v. Chr. ; Der Pfirsich von Paris - Ein Essay über die Klimakultur des französischen Südwestens ; Das Wort für die Sache halten - Über den Begriff "Verlierer" ; Vom Klima zur Gesellschaft: Klimageschichte im 21. Jahrhundert ; Das Klima der Geschichte: Vier Thesen

Description / Table of Contents: The first comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to the fast-evolving topic of in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclides, for graduate students and practitioners.

Description / Table of Contents: An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet despite rapid advances in earthquake science, seismologists still can't predict when the Big One will hit. 'Predicting the Unpredictable' is the first book to explain why, exploring the fact and fiction behind the science - and pseudoscience - of earthquake prediction. Susan Hough traces the continuing quest by seismologists to forecast the time, location, and magnitude of future quakes - a quest fraught with controversies, spectacular failures, and occasional apparent successes. She brings readers into the laboratory and out into the field with the pioneers who have sought to develop reliable methods based on observable phenomena such as small earthquake patterns and electromagnetic signals. Hough describes attempts that have raised hopes only to collapse under scrutiny, as well as approaches that seem to hold future promise.She recounts stories of strange occurrences preceding massive quakes, such as changes in well water levels and mysterious ground fogs. She also ventures to the fringes of pseudoscience to consider ideas outside the scientific mainstream, from the enduring belief that animals can sense impending earthquakes to amateur YouTube videos purporting to show earthquake lights prior to large quakes. This book is an entertaining and accessible foray into the world of earthquake prediction, one that illuminates the unique challenges of predicting the unpredictable.

Description / Table of Contents: [...] In diesem Band werden aus dem Arbeitsgebiet von Prof. Klaus Dethloff interessante Ergebnisse und neue Entwicklungen vorgestellt. Zu vielen dieser wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte hat er selber direkt oder indirekt beigetragen. [...]

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Teil I - Historischer Kontext ; 1 Rechnen - Motor der Wissenschaft und Technik ; 2 Vom Experiment zum Computerexperiment ; 3 Entstehung der Computational Sciences ; Teil II - Wissenschaftsforschung ; 1 Von einfachen Modellen zu Erdsystemen ; 2 Forschen mit Algorithmen ; 3 Professionalisierung der Modellierung ; Teil III - Philosophische Verortung ; 1 Computerexperimente ; 2 Denken in mathematischen Möglichkeitsräumen ; 3 Simulation als neue symbolische Form des Forschens

Description / Table of Contents: [...] Diese Broschüre gibt einen Überblick über die Infrastruktur des AWI und wichtige Themen in den Jahren 2008/2009. Einige ausgewählte Beiträge stellen in knapper Form typische Projekte vor, die das wissenschaftliche Profil des AWI charakterisieren. Sie können einen Einblick erhalten, welche Fragen die Polar- und Meeresforschung in der heutigen Zeit bewegen, welche Motive zu den Forschungsthemen geführt haben und welche Beiträge sie zur modernen Umweltforschung leisten kann.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Reciprocity equations of convolution and correlation types; 3. VSP SWP correlation transform; 4. VSP SSP correlation transform; 5. VSP SSP convolution transform; 6. SSP SSP correlation transform; 7. VSP VSP correlation transform; 8. SSP VSP SWP transforms; 9. Traveltime interferometry; 10. Stochastic interferometry; 11. Interferometric source estimation; 12. Body wave earthquake interferometry; References; Index

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Der Klimawandel als ethische Herausforderung ; Teil 1 - Müssen wir überhaupt etwas tun? Handlungsbedarf moralisch begründen ; 2 Dreifache Skepsis gegenüber der Pflicht zum Klimaschutz ; 3 Grundsätzliche Zweifel an unserer Zukunftsverantwortung ; 4 Klimaschutz, Anpassung oder Climate Engineering - führen viele Wege ans Ziel? ; Teil 2 - Wie viel müssen wir tun? Intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit ; 5 Gleich viel für unsere Nachfahren ; 6 Mehr für unsere Nachfahren ; 7 Ausreichen viel für unsere Nachfahren ; 8 Unsicherheit und das Vorsorgeprinzip ; 9 Ungleichheit und ein Zwischenfazit ; Teil 3 - Wie sollen wir die Pflichten verteilen? Globale Gerechtigkeit ; 10 Die größte Umverteilung der Menschheitsgeschichte ; 11 Grandfathering: wer hat, dem wird gegeben ; 12 Das Verursacherprinzip: für die eigenen Taten geradestehen ; 13 Das Nutznießerprinzip: wer profitiert muss zahlen ; 14 Das Prinzip der Zahlungsfähigkeit: jeder nach seinen Möglichkeiten ; 15 Emissionsegalitarismus: den Kuchen gleich aufteilen ; 16 Ein weiterer Vorschlag ; Teil 4 - Von der ethischen Theorie zur politischen Praxis ; 17 Nicht-ideale Theorie: Was tun, wenn andere ihren Beitrag nicht leisten? ; 18 Bevölkerung, Technologie, Wohlstand: Drei Strategien zur Emissionsreduktion ; 19 Der Markt für Emissionen: ein moderner Ablasshandel?

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Summary for policy makers ; Technical summary ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Observations: atmosphere and surface ; 3. Observations: ocean ; 4. Observations: cryosphere ; 5. Information from paleoclimate archives ; 6. Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles ; 7. Clouds and aerosols ; 8. Anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing ; 9. Evaluation of climate models ; 10. Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional ; 11. Near-term climate change: projections and predictability ; 12. Long-term climate change: projections, commitments and irreversibility ; 13. Sea level change ; 14. Climate phenomena and their relevance for future regional climate change ; Annex I. Atlas of global and regional climate projections ; Annex II. Climate system scenario tables ; Annex III. Glossary ; Annex IV. Acronyms ; Annex V. Contributors ; Annex VI. Expert reviewers

Description / Table of Contents: Soderžanie: Ot prostogo k složnomy ne iskažaja real'nosti / V. P. Mel'nikov, V. N. Koniščev, V. E. Romanovskij, D. S. Drozbov, V. N. Kubejarov. - Otklik global'nych klimatičeskich izmenenij prošlogo v prirodnych ob''ektach kriolitozony / I. D. Streleckaja. - Torfjanye krugi kriolitozony / O. A. Ogneva, K. V. Matyšak. - Ch meždunarodnaja konferencija po merzlotovedeniju / R. Ju. Fedorov. - Kak v severnoj tajge zapadnoj sibiri menjalsja klimat, i k čemu eto privelo / N. G. Moskalenko, O. E. Ponomareva, E. V. Ustinova, A. G. Gravis, N. M. Berdnikov. - Novaja arktičeskaja naučno-issledovatel'skaja stancija "Ostrov Samojlovskij" v del'te Leny: prirodnye uslovija, perspektivy meždunarodnych i mul'tidisciplinarnych rabot v regione / M. N. Grigor'ev. - O lednikach altaja, gde sneg nikogda ne taet; o gornom chrebte kodare, tekuščej s nego reke čare, i o tom, kak studenty praktiku vosprinimajut / V. S. Šejnktan. - Novoe primenenie diatomitov / V. P. Mel'nikov, K. S. Ivanov. - V poiskach tradicionnych i al'ternativnych istočnikov ±energii zapadnoj sibiri / A. R. Kurčikov. - Ispol'zovanie teplovizora pri geokriologičeskich issledovanijach / D. O. Sergeev, Ju. V. Stanilovskaja, K. V. Savel'ev. - Bez počvy žit' nel'zja na svete, net! / V. N. Kudejarov. - Buket ot Mamonta / S. V. Gubin, S. G. Jasina. - Pis'ma iz prošlogo (k 140-letiju M. I. Sumgina - osnovopoložnika otečestvennogo merzlotovedenija) / I. V. Klimovskij. - Vot tak vse i načinalos' (vospominanie kadrovika o zaroždenii Tjumenskogo naučnogo centra) / V. Ja. Kolesova.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Council Staff . - Acknowledgments. - Boxes. - Tables. - Figures. - Acronyms and Abbreviations. - Summary. - Introduction. - 1 The Oceans in the Anthropocene. - 1.1 Use of the oceans. - 1.1.1 The legendary sea and its cultural meanings. - 1.1.2 Food from the sea. - 1.1.3 Ocean shipping and maritime trade. - 1.1.4 The sea as a dump for waste and waste water. - 1.1.5 Energy from the sea. - 1.1.6 Marine mining and resource extraction. - 1.1.7 The economic value of marine ecosystems. - 1.2 Threats to the oceans. - 1.2.1 Physical destruction of ecosystems. - 1.2.2 Overfishing. - 1.2.3 Impacts of marine pollution. - 1.2.3.1 Results of chemical pollution. - 1.2.3.2 Results of plastic pollution. - 1.2.3.3 Radioactive contamination. - 1.2.4 Warming. - 1.2.5 CO2 input and acidification. - 1.2.6 Low-oxygen zones. - 1.2.7 Sea-level rise. - 1.2.8 Aggregated effects. - 1.3 Possible new uses. - 1.3.1 Renewable energy. - 1.3.2 Raw materials. - 1.3.3 Marine genetic resources. - 1.3.4 New developments in marine aquaculture. - 1.4 Shaping the future of the marine ecosystem. - 1.4.1 Primary principles and values. - 1.4.2 Guiding principle for human interaction with the oceans. - 1.4.2.1 Think systemically: Regard and maintain the sea as an ecosystem and aspart of the Earth system. - 1.4.2.2 Act in a precautionary way: Take uncertainty and ignorance into account. - 1.4.2.3 Cooperate: overcoming the tragedy of the commons. - 1.4.3 Exemplary specification of the guiding principle for the sustainable stewardship of the marine ecosystem. - 2 Global Society and Social Contract. - 2.1 Global society and world's oceans. - 2.1.1 The global society in the Anthropocene. - 2.1.2 The emerging global society and global society theory. - 2.1.3 The cosmopolitan challenge. - 2.1.4 Global appreciation of the oceans. - 2.2 A social contract for the seas. - 2.2.1 A social contract as a basis for the Great Transformation. - 2.2.2 Reform of ocean governance. - 3 Governance of Human Ocean Use. - 3.1 Specifics of the seas. - 3.1.1 Oceans as part of the Earth system. - 3.1.2 Demands on marine policy caused by knowledge gaps. - 3.1.3 Oceans as a global public and common good. - 3.1.4 Touchstones for assessing the existing governanceof the oceans. - 3.1.5 Common heritage of mankind. - 3.2 Ocean governance in international law: UNCLOS. - 3.2.1 Zoning of the oceans by UNCLOS. - 3.2.1.1 Territorial sea. - 3.2.1.2 Contiguous zone. - 3.2.1.3 Exclusive economic zone. - 3.2.1.4 Continental shelf. - 3.2.1.5 High seas. - 3.2.1.6 The Area. - 3.2.2 Regulations of UNCLOS on the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans. - 3.2.3 Institutions of UNCLOS. - 3.2.3.1 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. - 3.2.3.2 International Seabed Authority and the seabed regime. - 3.2.4 Assessment of UNCLOS. - 3.2.4.1 Systemic perspective. - 3.2.4.2 Precautionary principle. - 3.2.4.3 Adaptive management. - 3.2.4.4 Incentives for innovation. - 3.2.4.5 Assignment of rights of use. - 3.2.4.6 Cooperation. - 3.2.4.7 Subsidiary decision-making structures. - 3.2.4.8 Transparent information. - 3.2.4.9 Participative decision-making structures. - 3.2.4.10 Fair distribution mechanisms. - 3.2.4.11 Conflict-resolution mechanisms. - 3.2.4.12 Enforcement mechanisms. - 3.2.5 Core problems and challenges of future ocean governance. - 3.3 Global ocean governance: UN institutions and activities. - 3.3.1 Actors: UN bodies and specialized organizations. - 3.3.1.1 UN General Assembly and UNSecretary-General. - 23.3.1.2 Rio Process. - 3.3.1.3 International Maritime Organization. - 3.3.1.4 UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission. - 3.3.1.5 UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). - 3.3.1.6 UN-Oceans. - 3.3.1.7 Global Environment Facility (GEF). - 3.3.1.8 World Bank Group. - 3.3.2 UN conventions relating to the oceans. - 3.3.2.1 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). - 3.3.2.2 Negotiations on a new implementing agreement on marine biodiversityon the high seas. - 3.3.2.3 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). - 3.3.2.4 UNESCO World Heritage Convention and World Heritage Marine Programme. - 3.3.2.5 MARPOL and SOLAS. - 3.3.2.6 London Convention and London Protocol. - 3.4 Regional ocean governance. - 3.4.1 UNEP Regional Seas Programme. - 3.4.2 Regional seas agreements. - 3.4.2.1 Task areas. - 3.4.2.2 Institutionalization: governance mechanisms and capacity. - 3.4.2.3 Cooperation, coordination, coherence and complementarity. - 3.4.3 EU marine policy. - 3.5 Private ocean governance. - 3.5.1 Options and limitations. - 3.5.2 Example: eco-labels and sustainability labels. - 3.6 Selected instruments. - 3.6.1 Environmental monitoring. - 3.6.2 Marine protected areas and marine spatial planning. - 3.6.2.1 Marine protected areas. - 3.6.2.2 Marine spatial planning. - 3.6.3 Integrated coastal-zone management.. - 3.6.4 Environmental standards. - 3.6.5 Environmental liability. - 3.6.6 Sanctions. - 3.6.7 Class actions. - 3.6.8 International financial transfers. - 3.7 Conclusions. - 4 Food from the Sea. - 4.1 Marine fishery. - 4.1.1 Status and trends of fisheries. - 4.1.2 Importance and effects of fisheries. - 4.1.2.1 Food and food security. - 4.1.2.2 Socioeconomic significance and effects. - 4.1.2.3 Ecological significance and effects. - 4.1.2.4 Small-scale marine fisheries in the global context. - 4.1.3 Sustainable fisheries management: methods and instruments. - 4.1.3.1 Ecosystem approach and precautionary principle as the basis for sustainable fishing. - 4.1.3.2 Knowledge-based fisheries management. - 4.1.3.3 Instruments for the sustainable management of fish-stocks. - 4.1.3.4 Minimizing the ecological risks and side effects of fisheries. - 4.1.3.5 Monitoring and enforcement. - 4.1.3.6 Costs and financing the transition towards sustainable fisheries. - 4.1.4 International fisheries governance: institutions and focal points. - 4.1.4.1 Political objectives. - 4.1.4.2 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. - 4.1.4.3 The FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. - 4.1.4.4 Fisheries governance on the high seas: the UN Fish Stocks Agreement and regional fisheries management organizations. - 4.1.4.5 Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. - 4.1.4.6 The external dimension of the EU Common Fisheries Policy. - 4.1.4.7 Subsidies in the fishing industry. - 4.1.4.8 International trade and trade policy. - 4.2 Aquaculture. - 4.2.1 Definitions and principles. - 4.2.2 State of aquaculture and trends. - 4.2.2.1 Growth and regional overview. - 4.2.2.2 Contribution to food security and poverty reduction. - 4.2.2.3 Environmental risks from aquaculture and conflicts over use at the coasts. - 4.2.2.4 Promoting ecologically sustainable aquaculture. - 4.2.3 Governance of aquaculture. - 4.2.3.1 Fundamental prerequisites for a sustainable form of aquaculture. - 4.2.3.2 Selected instruments for promoting sustainable aquaculture. - 4.2.3.3 Research and development for sustainable aquaculture. - 4.2.4 International and regional governance in aquaculture. - 4.2.4.1 International level. - 4.2.4.2 European Union. - 4.2.4.3 Regional seas agreements. - 4.3 Interactions between fisheries and aquaculture. - 4.3.1 Forage fisheries and breeding from wild-caught fish. - 4.3.2 Competition between uses. - 4.3.3 Reducing the proportion of fishmeal and fish oil used in aquaculture feeds. - 4.4 Systemic effects: land/sea interactions and feedbackloops with the Earth system. - 4.4.1 Climate change. - 4.4.2 Acidification. - 4.4.3 Low-oxygen zones and eutrophication. - 4.4.4 Anthropogenic pollution. - 4.4.5 Synergistic effects. - 4.5 Conclusions. - 5 Energy from the sea. - 5.1 Fossil energy carriers from the sea. - 5.1.1 Resource availability of fossil energy carriers. - 5.1.2 Technologies of offshore extraction. - 5.1.3 Environmental impact of fossil energy use. - 5.1.4 Infrastructure. - 5.1.4.1 Mineral oil. - 5.1.4.2 Natural gas. - 5.1.4.3 Carbon dioxide. - 5.1.5 Costs. - 5.1.6 Prospects of fossil-fuel extraction in the oceans. - 5.1.7 Conclusions. - 5.2 Renewable energy. - 5.2.1 Technological possibilities of offshore wind energy and marine energies. - 5.2.1.1 Development status of offshore wind energy. - 5.2.1.2 Development status of marine-energy technologies. - 5.2.2 Global potential of sea-based renewable power generation. - 5.2.2.1 Offshore wind energy. - 5.2.2.2 Marine energies. - 5.2.3 Environmental impact of marine renewable-energy generation. - 5.2.4 Infrastructure. - 5.2.4.1 Offshore logistics for renewable energy. - 5.2.4.2 Offshore storage technologies. - 5.2.5 Costs. - 5.2.5.1 Offshore wind energy. - 5.2.5.2 Marine energies. - 5.3 Vision of a future marine energy system. - 5.3.1 The status quo of marine energy generation. - 5.3.2 A future renewable marine energy system. - 5.3.3 Transformation of the marine energy system - from the status quo to the futureenergy system. - 5.4 Governance. - 5.4.1 Energy policy. - 5.4.2 Marine policy. - 5.4.2.1 Marine spatial planning. - 5.4.2.2 Construction of installations in the sea. - 5.4.2.3 Regulation of oil and gas production. - 5.4.2.4 Regulations on the storage of CO2 in the sea or the seabed. - 5.4.3 Promotion of innovation. - 5.4.3.1 Promotion of systemic innovation. - 5.4.3.2 Technology development. - 5.4.3.3 Innovation potential. - 5.4.3.4 Measures. - 5.5 Conclusions. - 6 Synthesis: The Blue Revolution. - 6.1 The oceans as the common heritage of mankind. - 6.2 Expansion into the oceans. - 6.3 A new initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of the seas. - 6.4 Elements of a new marine policy. - 7 Recommendations for Action. - 7.1 Guiding principles for future ocean governance. - 7.1.1 The oceans as the 'common heritage of mankind'. - 7.1.2 The systemic approach. - 7.1.3 The precautionary principle. - 7.1.4 Ten criteria for a future system of ocean governance. - 7.1.5 Implementation and enforcement. - 7.1.6 A social contract for the seas. - 7.2 The WBGU's vision of a comprehensive reform of the international law of the sea. - 7.2.1 The common heritage of mankind, the systemic approach and the precautionaryprinciple: three guiding principles for ocean management. - 7.2.2 Institutional changes. - 7.2.2.1 A global steward of the seas: the World Oceans Organization. - 7.2.2.2 Regional stewards of the seas: Regional Marine Management Organizations. - 7.2.2.3 Extend the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. - 7.2.3 Rights and duties of states parties on the high seas and in EEZs. - 7.2.3.1 Conservation and sustainable use of the high seas. - 7.2.3.2 Conservation and sustainable use of the Exclusive Economic Zones. - 7.2.4 Instruments. - 7.3 Recommendations for action: the road to a comprehensivereform of the law of the sea. - 7.3.1 Strengthen the knowledge and action base of ocean governance. - 7.3.1.1 Improve marine environmental monitoring. - 7.3.1.2 Process scientific knowledge for policy-makers and support the Regular Process. - 7.3.1.3 Set up a multi-stakeholder forum. - 7.3.2 Create the necessary conditions for sustainable management. - 7.3.3 Develop strategies for future ocean governance. - 7.3.3.1 Develop the Oceans Compact into an Integrated World Oceans Strategy. - 7.3.3.2 Ratify regional, national and local marine strategies. - 7.3.3.3 Take on a pioneering role - forge subglobal alliances. - 7.3.4 Support and flesh out the international law of the sea. - 7.3.4.1 Promote the signing, ratification and implementation of UNCLOS. - 7.3.4.2 Reach a new implementing agreement on biological diversity on the high seas. - 7.3.4.3 Advance the UN Fish Stocks Agreement and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs). - 7.3.5 Strengthen regional ocean governance. - 7.3.5.1 Strengthen and expand the UNEP Regional Seas Programme. - 7.3.5.2 Strengthen regional seas agreements. - 7.3.5.3 Improve dovetailing in regional ocean governance. - 7.3.6 Develop concepts for the joint funding of ocean governance. - 7.3.6.1 Strengthen international financing mechanisms. - 7.3.6.2 Use the mechanisms of the Framework Convention on Climate Change for funding. - 7.3.6.3 Utilize user charges as a source of funding. - 7.3.7 Employ incentive instruments and funding structures. - 7.3.7.1 Create economic incentives for sustainable uses. - 7.3.7.2 Develop funding structures for long-term-oriented investments. - 7.3.8 Strengthen and expand private governance. - 7.3.8.1 Introduce a standardized Europe-wide system of certification for wild-caught fish and seafood. - 7.3.8.2 Improve legal certainty on the WTO-conformity of sustainability standards. - 7.3.9 Considerably expand marine protected areas and spatial planning. - 7.3.9.1 Expand marine protected areas. - 7.3.9.2 Expand cross-border marine spatial planning. - 7.3.10 Promote the harmonization of existing liability regimes. - 7.4 Food from the sea. - 7.4.1 Recommendations for action on marine fisheries. - 7.4.1.1 Overall recommendations for a change of course in fisheries. - 7.4.1.2 Improve the preconditions for knowledge-based fishery. - 7.4.1.3 Reduce subsidies. - 7.4.1.4 Stop wastefulness. - 7.4.1.5 Combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. - 7.4.1.6 Take into account climate change, ocean acidification and other systemic effects. - 7.4.1.7 Reform the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. - 7.4.1.8 Marine small-scale fisheries in the global context. - 7.4.2 Recommendations for action on aquaculture. - 7.4.2.1 Improve knowledge and data resources. - 7.4.2.2 Promote the development of sustainable aquaculture systems. - 7.4.2.3 Implement international and EU-wide recommendations. - 7.4.2.4 Strengthen economic policy supporting sustainable aquaculture. - 7.4.2.5 Promote cooperation, prevent conflicts. - 7.4.3 Fishing and aquaculture as elements of integrated strategies for food security. - 7.5 Use of energy from the sea for the energy-system transformation. - 7.5.1 Integrated energy, marine and innovation policiesfor the energy-system transformation. - 7.5.1.1 Energy policy. - 7.5.1.2 Marine policy. - 7.5.1.3 Innovation policy. - 7.5.2 Build an offshore supergrid. - 7.5.3 Refrain from marine methane hydrate mining. - 7.5.4 Develop regulations for sub-seabed CCS. - 8 Recommendations for Research and Education. - 8.1 Research in the context of the transformation towards sustainability. - 8.1.1 Key types of research. - 8.1.2 Innovative approaches in German marine research. - 8.2 Transformation research for the oceans. - 8.2.1 Conceptual background. - 8.2.2 Research recommendations. - 8.3 Transformative research for the seas. - 8.3.1 Research on global change. - 8.3.2 Ocean governance. - 8.3.2.1 Ocean governance for the transformation towards sustainability. - 8.3.2.2 Policy instruments for new challenges. - 8.3.3 Food from the sea. - 8.3.3.1 Fisheries. - 8.3.3.2 Aquaculture. - 8.3.3.3 Overarching issues. - 8.3.4 Energy from the sea. - 8.3.4.1 Technology research. - 8.3.4.2 Research on environmental hazards and risks. - 8.4 Recommendations on research policy. - 8.4.1 Stronger integration of interdisciplinary marine research into research programmes. - 8.4.2 Stronger institutionalization of interdisciplinary marine research. - 8.4.3 Strengthening of the interface between science and society in marine research. - 9 References. - 10 Glossary.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 The Japanese Asset Price Bubble: A Heterogeneous Approach ; 3 Time of Troubles: The Yen and Japan's Economy, 1985-2008 ; 4 The Japan-US Exchange Rate, Productivity, and the Competitiveness of Japanese Industries ; 5 International Financial Integration and Japanese EconomicPerformance ; 6 Consumption, Land Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Japan ; 7 The Japanese Employment System after the Bubble Burst: New Evidence ; 8 Labor Immobility in Japan: Its Causes and Consequences ; 9 The Changing Role of Main Banks in Aiding Distressed Firms in Japan ; 10 Corporate Restructuring in Japan during the Lost Decade ; 11 An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

Description / Table of Contents: This book examines atmospheric effects in space geodesy. It explains how atmospheric effects are best reduced and modelled to improve the accuracy of space geodetic measurements. Various effects of the atmosphere have to be considered in space geodesy and all of them are described and treated consistently in this textbook. Two chapters are concerned with ionospheric and tropospheric path delays of microwave and optical signals used by space geodetic techniques, such as the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), or Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR). It is explained how these effects are best reduced and modelled to improve the accuracy of space geodetic measurements. Other chapters are on the deformation of the Earth's crust due to atmospheric loading, on atmospheric excitation of Earth rotation, and on atmospheric effects on gravity field measurements from special satellite missions such as CHAMP, GRACE, and GOCE. All chapters have been written by staff members of the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at TU Wien who are experts in the particular fields.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Six Reasons for Invoking Evolution in Decision Theory ; Biological and Cognitive Prerequisites ; 2 Putting Mechanisms into Behavioral Ecology ; 3 Machinery of Cognition ; 4 Building Blocks of Human Decision Making ; 5 Error Management ; 6 Neuroethology of Decision Making ; 7 Decision Making: What Can Evolution Do for Us? ; Robustness in a Variable Environment ; 8 Robustness in Biological and Social Systems ; 9 Robust Neural Decision Making ; 10 Advantages of Cognitive Limitations ; 11 Modularity and Decision Making ; 12 Robustness in a Variable Environment ; Variation in Decision Making ; 13 Biological Analogs of Personality ; 14 Sources of Variation within the Individual ; 15 Variation in Decision Making ; Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition ; 16 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Social Behavior: Selectivity in Social Cognition ; 17 Early Social Cognition: How Psychological Mechanisms Can Inform Models of Decision Making ; 18 Who Cares? Other-Regarding Concerns - Decisions with Feeling ; 19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior ; 20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Emerging professions and expertise ; Market strategies and structures ; Operational, organizational, and cultural change ; Perceptions, frames, and narratives ; Perspectives on the future

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Three Different Theories ; 2 Neoclassical Theory ; 3 Keynesian Theory ; 4 Marxian Theory ; 5 Late Neoclassical Theory ; 6 Oscillations in Capitalism and among Economic Theories ; 7 The Importance of Theoretical Differences

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Post-Globalization: Complexity in the Governance of a NetworkedGlobal Socicty ; 2 Opening the Doors of Complexity ; 3 Economic Incentives and the Replication of Social Complexity ; 4 Coevolution versus Liberal Internationalism ; 5 Promises and Pitfalls of New Institutional Economics ; 6 Dancing Landscapes: How Interdependency Shapes theOptimization Challcnge of Globalization ; 7 Accelerators of "Stateness": System Structure and Network Behavior in the Making of the Modern State ; 8 Democracy's Hybrid Architecture ; 9 Achieving State Capacity: Parallel Political Modernization in China and Europe ; 10 Does China Challenge the Global Legitimacy of Liberalism? ; 11 No Captain at the Helm

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 Linear Spatial Dependence Models for Cross-Section Data ; 3 Spatial Panel Data Models ; 4 Dynamic Spatial Panels: Models, Methods and Inferences

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 Introduction ; 2 System impacts of VRE deployment ; 3 Technical flexibility assessment of case study regions ; 4 Costs and benefits: the value of variable renewable energy ; 5 System-friendly VRE deployment ; 6 Operational measures for VRE integration ; 7 Flexibility investment options ; 8 System transformation and market design ; Conclusions and recommendations

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1 The modern macroeconomic approach, and the arrow-debreu-mckenzie model ; 2 Prices, efficiency, and macroeconomics ; 3 Macroeconomists, efficiency, and inequality ; 4 Macroeconomic shortcuts ; 5 Benchmark macroeconomic models and policy advice ; 6 Macroeconomic theory and recent events

Description / Table of Contents: Content: Introduction; 1. Extension and reception of paleomagnetic/paleoclimatic support for mobilism, 1960 to 1966; 2. Reception of the paleomagnetic case for mobilism by several notables, 1957 to 1965; 3. Seafloor spreading, the first version: Harry Hess develops seafloor spreading; 4. Another version of seafloor spreading: Robert Dietz; 5. The Pacific as seen from Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Menard's changing views about the origin and evolution of the ocean floor; 6. Fixism and Earth expansion at Lamont Geological Observatory; References; Index

Description / Table of Contents: Content: Wissens- und Technologietransfer.- Technologietransfer-GmbH.- Technologietransfer-Dezernat.- Gemeinnützigkeit.- Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des Wissens- und Technologietransfers.