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ExtremA 2019 : Aktueller Wissensstand zu Extremereignissen alpiner Naturgefahren in Österreich
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ISBN: 3737010927 3847110926 Year: 2020 Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Das Wissen über Auftreten, Ursachen und Folgen von Extremereignissen alpiner Naturgefahren in Österreich ist essentiell zur Entwicklung geeigneter Maßnahmen zur Risikominimierung. In der öffentlichen Berichterstattung wird oft von »noch nie dagewesenen« Naturereignissen und -katastrophen gesprochen, doch was genau sind »extreme« Ereignisse? Sie weichen stark vom Durchschnitt ab und weisen eine lange, unregelmäßige Wiederkehrperiode auf. Ursachen werden sowohl im Umweltwandel als auch in der zunehmenden intensiven Nutzung von gefährdeten Gebieten gesehen. Es ist schwer Extremereignisse vorherzusehen, sodass potentielle Naturgefahren beim Eintritt leicht zu Naturkatastrophen werden können. Dies gilt insbesondere für exponierte Regionen. Dieser Band behandelt u. a. meteorologische, hydrologische, gravitative, glaziale und periglaziale Extremereignisse sowie relevante gesellschaftliche Aspekte im österreichischen Alpenraum.  The knowledge of the occurrences, the causes and the consequences of alpine natural disasters in Austria are crucial for the development of suitable methods to minimise risks. Public reporting often refers to "unprecedented" natural events, but what exactly are "extreme" events? They differ greatly from the average and have a long, irregular return period. Environmental changes but also intensive use of endangered areas are seen as possible causes for extreme events. It's challenging to predict extreme events, so potential natural hazards can easily turn into natural disasters after their occurrence. This applies in particular to highly exposed regions such as the Alpine region. This work deals with meteorological, hydrological, gravitational, glacial and periglacial and other extreme events, as well as relevant social aspects in the Austrian Alpine region.


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The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth
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ISBN: 1608331539 1570759170 Year: 2011 Publisher: [s.l.] : Orbis Books,

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"[This book] may be the best guide yet to the work of Thomas Berry. It is as though these essays embody the bonding force he calls the Great Compassionate Curve of the universe."--Catherine Keller  "A highly readable gem."--Catholic Library World  "Inspiring, often lyrical."--St. Anthony Messenger  Like no other religious thinker, Thomas Berry has been a prophetic voice regarding Earth's destruction and the urgent need for human response from the Christian community. This book collects Berry's signature views on the interrelatedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue of the environment. He reflects insightfully on how the environment must be seen as a religious issue, not simply a scientific or economic problem. In powerful and poetic language Berry presents a compelling vision of the sacredness of the universe and the interrelatedness of the Earth community. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin he brings the Christian tradition into a cosmology of care for the whole of creation.


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Ground Truths : Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This is the first book devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can do it better. It shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing actionable data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers' relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit. The book offers a critical synthesis of relevant research in many fields, outlines the main steps in conducting community-engaged research, evaluates the major research methods used, suggests new directions, and addresses overcoming institutional barriers to scholarship in academia. The coauthors employ an original framework that shows how community-engaged research and environmental justice align, which links research on the many topics treated in the chapters-from public health, urban planning, and conservation to law and policy, community economic development, and food justice and sovereignty.


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Introduction to environmental economics
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ISBN: 9780198737230 0198737238 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

New tools for environmental protection
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ISBN: 0309084229 9786610209682 1280209682 0309501180 9780309501187 9780309084222 0305084229 0309169429 9781280209680 6610209685 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, DC National Academy Press

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The egret's plumes
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ISBN: 1611176735 9781611176735 1611176727 9781611176728 9781611176728 Year: 2016 Publisher: Columbia, SC

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"Archibald Rutledge's suspenseful story "The Egret's Plumes" is a cautionary tale exalting the virtues of good sportsmanship, conservation of the natural world, and the universality of parental instincts. Fleeing the relentless plume hunters of their native Florida, a pair of exquisite snowy egrets make a new home -- and then a new family -- in the South Carolina lowcountry swamps of Blake's Reserve. When the male egret is killed by a poacher, the female is left to defend her nest and raise their hatchlings. Will Ormond, a restless and reckless hunter and heir to the reserve's plantation, spots the surviving egrets after a day of disappointments with his original prey. As he wades into the swamp to gain a better position for his kill shot with his only remaining cartridge, Will comes to recognize elements of his relationship with his own mother in the selfless devotion of the female egret to her young. In this moment of uncharacteristic hesitation, he also realizes that he is no longer alone in the brackish waters of the reserve and that the hunter may have become the hunted. "The Egret's Plumes" is an inspiring, allegorical narrative that illuminates the pitfalls awaiting immoral acts and the saving virtues of selflessness and compassion. This short story was written for publication in an early twentieth-century boy's magazine and was first collected in the privately printed Eddy Press edition of Old Plantation Days (c. 1913). Limited to just a few hundred copies, the Eddy Press edition is highly prized by Rutledge collectors and includes five stories -- "Claws," "The Doom of Ravenswood," "The Egret's Plumes," "The Heart of Regal," and "The Ocean's Menace" -- not found in the more widely available 1921 Stokes edition of Old Plantation Days. A project of the Humanities Council SC benefiting South Carolina literary programs, this new edition of The Egret's Plumes is illustrated in handsome charcoal etchings by southern artist Stephen Chesley. Award-winning outdoors writerand noted Rutledge scholar Jim Casada provides the volume's introduction, and outdoors writer and author Jacob F. Rivers III offers an afterword."--


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Politisierung der Alpen : Umweltbewegungen in der Ära der Europäischen Integration (1970-2000)
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ISBN: 3412521361 3412521345 Year: 2021 Publisher: [s.l.] : Böhlau Verlag Köln,

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Seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert gelten die Alpen als schützenswert. Naturschützerinnen und Landschaftsschützer aus den Städten im »Flachland« versuchten, die Flora und Fauna sowie das Landschaftsbild in den Alpen zu konservieren - bis in den 1980er Jahren junge Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten aus den Alpenregionen selbst begannen, die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen im Alpenraum vor dem Hintergrund der »Grenzen des Wachstums« zu hinterfragen. Sie forderten Selbstbestimmung über ihren Lebens- und Wirtschaftsraum mitsamt seiner Naturschönheit und kulturellen Eigenständigkeit. Ihre Debatten standen im Kontext der Diskussionen über die Rolle der Alpen als »Naturraum« in Europa und waren eng verwoben mit dem Prozess der Europäischen Integration. Rasch wurden die Alpen zum Europäischen Politikum. Das vorliegende Buch bettet diese Politisierung(en), ihre Akteurinnen und Akteure, die transnationalen Netzwerke und Diskurse in ihre Geschichte ein.


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The Age of the Soybean : An Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration
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ISBN: 1912186659 1912186640 Year: 2022 Publisher: Winwick, Cambs. : The White Horse Press,

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"The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world's most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite the crop's potential as a cheap source of vegetal protein for human consumers, most industrial soybean production has fuelled the global meat industrial complex, as animal feed. Soybean is thus, paradoxically, still a relatively 'invisible' crop to the public at large, although its global yields continue to increase at stupendous rates, lining the pockets of agribusiness and to the detriment of traditional agriculture. The transnational socio-ecological and economic entanglements characterising this versatile legume's global expansion have prompted scholarly attention as researchers around the world have begun to unveil the main historical drivers behind the rise of the soybean in the global food chain. This book aims to expand the analysis, offering the most significant effort so far at an environmental history of soybeans. Interrogating the socioeconomic and ecological transformations determined by (and determining) the rise of soy in international food chains during the Great Acceleration, the volume gathers contributions from an international cast of researchers, working in numerous geographical contexts, from Japan and China, to India, African nations, the Southern Cone of Latin America, Northern Europe and the United States. Soybean farming, breeding, processing and marketing have bound together the histories of these diverse regions and altered beyond recognition their ecological and socio-economic contexts."


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Green Development or Greenwashing? : Environmental Histories of Finland
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ISBN: 1912186772 1912186764 Year: 2023 Publisher: [s.l.] : The White Horse Press,

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Finland has often been labelled a 'green superpower', lauded as one of the world's cleanest and greenest countries. Nordic countries in general have tended to be idealised as 'pristine and green', in contrast to the rest of the rapidly contaminating world where the race for markets and profits has enormously accelerated consumption, imposing on the environment an alarming level of extraction and commerce, and a wide array of new and old forms of pollution. Environmental historians, however, can perceive that the reputed 'greenness' of the Nordic countries is partly an illusion. Authors in this volume argue that Finland, similarly to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has evolved into a green superpower at the cost of considerable environmental problems. Ironically, Finland's current leading position in sustainable development has been built on the heavy use of natural resources and by sacrificing ecosystem health. This volume thus seeks to acquaint the reader with many stories of long-lasting negative environmental impacts in and around Finland: old-growth forests have been replaced by intensive forest farming for lumber and pulp industries; most wetlands have been drained for agriculture, forest cultivation and peat extraction; wild animal populations have been decimated; and Finland today is confined to the south and west by arguably the most polluted sea in the world.There are lessons for the future to be learnt from Finland's tendency to rest on the laurels of a positive environmental reputation built at least in part on myth. In the twenty-first century, the world badly needs less greenwashing and a truer commitment to green-ness.


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Biodiversity, access and benefit-sharing : global case studies
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ISBN: 9780415714273 0415714273 Year: 2015 Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is rapidly receiving signatures and ratifications. Many countries are preparing to implement the protocol through national research permit systems and/or biodiversity laws. Yet there is still considerable confusion about how to implement the Protocol, regarding access and benefit-sharing (ABS) procedures, and minimal experience in many countries. This book seeks to remedy this gap in understanding by analysing a number of ABS case studies in light of the Nagoya Protocol. The case studies are wide-ranging, with examples of plants for medicinal, cosmetic, biotech and food products from or for development in Australia, North Africa, Madagascar, Switzerland, Thailand, USA and Oceania. These will encourage countries to develop national systems which maximise their benefits (both monetary and non-monetary) towards conservation and support for local communities that hold traditional knowledge. In addition, the author analyses new expectations raised by the Nagoya Protocol, such as the encouragement of the development of community protocols by indigenous and local communities. As a result, stakeholders and policy-makers will be able to learn the steps involved in establishing ABS agreements, issues that arise between stakeholders, and the types of benefits that might be realistic. "-- "The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is rapidly receiving signatures and ratifications. Many countries are preparing to implement the protocol through national research permit systems and/or biodiversity laws. Yet there is still considerable confusion about how to implement the Protocol, regarding access and benefit-sharing (ABS) procedures, and minimal experience in many countries. This book seeks to remedy this gap in understanding by analysing a number of ABS case studies in light of the Nagoya Protocol"--

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