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This book introduces emergency management of barrier lakes systematically,including theories and practices, risk assessment under extremely high-riskconditions, evolution of outburst floods, analysis of anti-impact stability, andemergency management technology and assessment of risk elimination effect.It takes the Tangjiashan barrier lake as a successful case study toillustrate effective treatment of barrier lake with high risks, poor environmentalconditions, extremely urgent rescue time and high disposal difficulties. Itretains a large number of images and data of great research value for the lakerisk assessment and building technological emergency system. It provides areliable reference for the government, scientific researchers and survey anddesign team to deal with the sudden natural disaster in barrier lakes,especially caused by huge earthquake.

Zwei Schwestern kämpfengemeinsam ums Überleben Eine eisige Kälte hat ganz Deutschland im Griff, und Silke Bensdorf und ihre Schwester Rosemarie müssen von dem Bauernhof fliehen, auf dem sie untergebracht waren. Die beiden jungen Frauen schlagen sich bis nach Hamburg durch, in der Hoffnung, dort Arbeit zu finden. Doch schnell begreifen sie: Auch hier ist das Leben rau, jeder sich selbst der Nächste. Sie schaffen es kaum, genug Lebensmittel aufzutreiben, um nicht zu verhungern - bis die Schwestern zunehmend Erfolg im Schwarzmarkthandel haben und Silke sogar eine Bar für britische Soldaten eröffnen kann. Der fragile Erfolg droht jedoch zu kippen, als die Schwestern auf Händler treffen, denen die Frauen ein Dorn im Auge sind ...

100 Jahre nach dem Kanto-Erdbeben in Japan erzählt Hans Platzgumer von einem Machtvakuum, das politische Grabenkämpfe auslöst - aktueller denn je. Ein Machtvakuum, das Ideologen zu nutzen wissen. Eine Naturkatastrophe, die ein Land aus den Angeln hebt. Hans Platzgumer erzählt anhand einer Epoche der japanischen Historie eine universelle Geschichte - fesselnd und fast unheimlich heutig.Hauptmann Amakasu, strammer Diener der japanischen Geheimpolizei, blickt auf den Krieg seines Lebens zurück. Jahrzehntelang hat er im Schatten Kaiser Yoshihitos, der sich mehr für Gedichte und Pflanzen als für Politik und den Zustand seines Reichs interessierte, einen erbitterten Kampf gegen den Anarchisten und Aufrührer Sakae Ôsugi und seine Frau Itô ausgetragen. Bis das große Kantô-Erdbeben 1923 nicht nur Tokio zerstört, sondern auch politisch eine Stunde null einläutet.

Majestätisch, fürsorglich, intelligent: Elefanten, die größten noch lebenden Säugetiere der Erde, sind uns Menschen verblüffend ähnlich - und doch so anders. Die Fähigkeit, sich selbst im Spiegel zu erkennen, ihr sprichwörtliches Elefantengedächtnis, ihr Charisma, ihre unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten und Talente faszinieren uns ebenso wie ihr Umgang mit Verstorbenen. Zugleich leben sie mit ihrem imposanten, geschickten Rüssel, den großen Ohren und riesigen Stoßzähnen in einer vollkommen anderen Sinneswelt. Die renommierte Elefantenforscherin Angela Stöger nimmt uns mit auf ihre Entdeckungsreise in die Welt der Elefanten: eine fesselnde, ungeahnt vielfältige Welt, die sich zu entdecken und zu schützen lohnt. Mit vielen Videos und Hörbeispielen.

This book analyzes the complexities of energy security by studying how the United States and China approached their own supply security over a twenty-year period. Exploring these two countries and understanding how their respective grand strategies influence their approaches to energy security allows a deeper understanding of the topic.

This book outlines the current development of geoethical thinking, proposing to the general public reflections and categories useful for understanding the ethical, cultural, and societal dimensions of anthropogenic global changes.Geoethics identifies and orients responsible behaviors and actions in the management of natural processes, redefining the human interaction with the Earth system based on a critical, scientifically grounded, and pragmatic approach. Solid scientific knowledge and a philosophical reference framework are crucial to face the current ecological disruption. The scientific perspective must be structured to help different human contexts while respecting social and cultural diversity. It is impossible to respond to global problems with disconnected local actions, which cannot be proposed as standard and effective operational models. Geoethics tries to overcome this fragmentation, presenting Earth sciences as the foundation of responsible human action toward the planet. Geoethics is conceived as a rational and multidisciplinary language that can bind and concretely support the international community, engaged in resolving global environmental imbalances and complex challenges, which have no national, cultural, or religious boundaries that require shared governance. Geoethics is proposed as a new reading key to rethinking the Earth as a system of complex relationships, in which the human being is an integral part of natural interactions.

&i>The Weather Book&/i> is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. From exhilarating electrical storms to everyday drizzle, this book is the perfect entertaining guide to our favourite topic of small talk: the weather.

Thirlmere hides a deadly secret‿Drought hits the Lake District, uncovering a skeleton at the bottom of Thirlmere reservoir. The case quickly becomes personal for DI Kelly Porter when she discovers it‿s the remains of an old classmate, missing for over twenty years. Then a day later, another body is found in a caravan park, its head broken and bloody. Kelly suspects these two crimes are linked. But if she‿s right, that means there‿s a ruthless killer somewhere in her community ‿ someone who will do anything to keep the truth buried‿A brilliantly clever, ‿finish-in-one-night‿ murder mystery starring the hugely popular DI Kelly Porter, set in the stunning mountains and valleys of the Lake District. A must-read from million copy bestseller Rachel Lynch, for fans of L. J. Ross, Carol Wyer and Angela Marsons. Praise for Silent Bones ‿I absolutely loved every minute of this. It‿s a favourite series of mine and as soon as I received this it jumped straight to the top of my tbr pile. A rollercoaster ride‿ I‿d give it 10 stars if I could.‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿Utterly amazing, brilliant addition to an excellent series.‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿This series has yet to have a book that I did not like. I could not believe the thrills from this book‿ one after the other!‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿Read it, you won‿t be disappointed. I LOVE these books. I found Rachel Lynch a few years back and she‿s now one of my favourite authors.‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿Excellent story. Lots of action and twists and turns. Well worth reading.‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿I love this series! I think I‿ve read all the books in it by now so am fully invested in the lives of the team. The characters are believable and likeable. My only problem with the book? I‿ve finished it and have to wait for the next instalment!‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿This is the eleventh in Rachel Lynch‿s excellent series and a brilliant addition. A first-class read.‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿I love this series, it‿s so well written. The descriptions of the Lake District are to die for (maybe not literally!).‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿Another cracking book from Rachel. Thrills from beginning to end.‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review‿Love this series of books, this latest addition did not disappoint. Had me gripped throughout!‿ â­?â­?â­?â­?â­? Reader review

Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora: What's Next? looks forward within the field of postcolonial studies and goes beyond the notion of hybridity and postcolonial reason beyond just portraying it. This volume offers a futuristic vision going beyond the common paradigms of postcolonility, diaspora, and globalization, speculating a framework beyond master-slave dialectic. This new paradigm locates a humanitarian space purifying ego through various forms: writing, philosophizing, and theorizing new ideas. Authors focus on writers from Mauritius to India.

First published in 1969, Water, Earth, and Man, was written to demonstrate the advantages of adopting a unified view of the earth and social sciences.

This textbook shows all the existing knowledge about coastal geology and its implications for coastal management. In the last decades, the geological sciences have been supplying exciting information about the coastal systems, not only from its dynamics but also providing a sedimentary concept to understand and interpret the preserved coastal stratigraphical record. Furthermore, recent investigations have been focused on the prevention of coastal hazards like storms, tsunamis, or sea-level fluctuation. This discipline has an increasing interest after the expanding human activities around the coasts worldwide. The present trend is that many of the problems raised by the coast-human interaction must be resolved by using the Integrated Coastal Zone Management.The chapters of this book have a double-level structure. The first part of each chapter contains the necessary information for undergraduate courses studying coastal geology. The second part includes advanced information and examples to be used by graduate students and novel professionals.

Durch den Klimawandel und die sich daraus ergebenden bedrohlichen Umweltfolgen stehen wir vor gewaltigen Aufgaben. Die Menschen in den Ländern der südlichen Hemissphäre unseres Planeten leiden im Vergleich zur Nordhalbkugel nicht nur an ihren geringeren Lebensstandard, sondern auch besonders unter der Klimakrise. Die Klimakrise ist ein globales Problem und betrifft uns Alle. Es besteht eine erhebliche Ungleichheit mit einer ständig wachsenden Polarität zwischen Arm und Reich. Wir können nur gemeinsam den Weg vornehmen. Die armen Länder können den vor uns stehenden Weg zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise nicht mit-gehen. Deshalb müssen wir gegen die Klimakrise zuerst die globale Ungleichheit beseitigen. Die notwendige Energiewende muss global und nicht im Alleingang durch wirtschaftsstarke Länder eingeleitet werden. Die Energiesicherheit und deren sozialen Folgen sowie die technisch und wirtschaftlich möglichen  Energie-wendemaßnahmen sind gewissenhaft durchzuführen. Es besteht eine sehr große Inflation und die erheblich steigenden Energiepreise und die Folgen für die Bevölkerung und die Unternehmen müsssen wir beachten. Die sich ergebenden hohen Kosten und die Umsatzeinbußen haben gewaltige negative Auswirkungen und es droht eine Deindustrialisierung. Die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Probleme haben unter den derzeitigen Bedingungen vor dem Klimawandel Vorrang, da die Betroffenen sofort damit konfrontiert werden. Bei Nichtbeachtung der einzuleitenden Maßnahmen ist ein Scheitern der Energiewende nicht auszuschließen.

En la historia de cada planta empieza un sendero de savia...He aquí una invitación a descubrir las historias -más o menos perdidas, más o menos olvidadas, siempre fascinantes- de las plantas que nos rodean. Basado en las primeras temporadas del pódcast etnobotánico La senda de las plantas perdidas, este libro propone un viaje de ida y vuelta -desde los huertos y jardines más familiares, hasta los bosques y las cumbres más lejanas- enhebrando las historias de veintisiete plantas cuyos relatos tocan los cinco continentes y nos conectan con nuestro pasado más remoto.De la mano de Aina S. Erice, bióloga y escritora, y siempre a la sombra de las plantas que nos servirán de guía durante el viaje, nos adentraremos en una red de senderos escritos con savia vegetal que nos deparan mil y una sorpresas.Una mirada curiosa y abierta al maravilloso mundo de la etnobotánica, que pretende aunar el rigor con la poesía y trascender las divisiones contemporáneas entre las ciencias y las letras. Equipaje imprescindible para el viaje: curiosidad, y un mínimo interés o afecto por las plantas.[La edición de bolsillo incluye las bellas ilustraciones de la artista y artesana Gavina Ligas. Para notas extendidas y textos en lengua original, ver edición en tapa dura.]

This book outlines a recommended Icelandic security force as part of the country¿s defence against sub-strategic threats such as human trafficking by criminals or border incursions by other states. It also tests the recommended security force through the development of four different hypothetical scenarios in the year 2030 designed to show the force¿s successful implementation. Melting of the Arctic ice pack, and the opening of the Transpolar Sea Route around 2025 could lead to an increase in traffic into the North Atlantic from the Pacific (and vice versa). That movement is predicted to bring a massive influx of tourists, business interests, and government entities into the region. Along with legitimate uses of the new shipping lanes, the opportunity for terrorists, criminals, and rogue states to travel in and around the Arctic could lead to increased smuggling, violence, and sovereignty disputes (i.e., seizing uninhabited terrain). A review of Iceland¿scurrent security policies indicates that the parliament provided the legal framework to create the recommended security force with the 2016 Parliamentary Resolution establishing a National Security Policy for Iceland. Many scholars and government officials believe that the Iceland public would not support a security force culturally. Yet, recent surveys reveal that many Icelanders could accept a security force to protect them from sub-strategic threats, especially if the increased security could be attained without the intervention of foreign military forces. The recommended security force utilizes Icelandic search-and-rescue volunteers and Reservists to increase the protection of the country funded by its full NATO contribution.

EIN ATLAS ZUM STAUNEN UND ENTDECKEN Unter der Oberfläche Deutschlands liegen die Reste unzähliger verschwundener Städte, Handelszentren, Dörfer und Industrieanlagen: ein versunkenes, unbekanntes Deutschland. Pia Volk hat sich auf die Suche nach diesen Orten gemacht. Sie erzählt von ihrer einstigen Bedeutung und ihrem Untergang und besichtigt in Wäldern, auf Feldern, im Watt oder in Asphaltwüsten die Überreste einstiger Größe. Ein kurzweiliger Atlas für alle, die schon immer ahnten, dass unter unseren Füßen eine versunkene Welt liegt. Auf dem Grund des Bodensees finden sich Reste großer Pfahlbausiedlungen aus prähistorischer Zeit. An der Ostsee lag die kosmopolitische Siedlung Haithabu, ein Knotenpunkt zwischen Skandinavien, dem Baltikum und Westeuropa. Die nordfriesische Stadt Rungholt versank im 14. Jahrhundert in einer Sturmflut. Als man schon glaubte, sie existiere nur in den Sagen, fand man ihre Überreste im Watt. Von dem großen jüdischen Ghetto an der Außenseite der Frankfurter Stadtmauer, das bis ins 19. Jahrhundert existierte, sind heute nur noch Reste erhalten. Im 20. Jahrhundert mussten Ortschaften der innerdeutschen Grenze oder Stauseen weichen, und bis heute werden Dörfer für den Braunkohleabbau weggebaggert. Pia Volk beschreibt kenntnisreich das Schicksal von dreißig exemplarischen Orten, die von unseren Landkarten verschwunden sind, und lässt uns über ein versunkenes Deutschland staunen, das hier und da noch an die Oberfläche ragt. Pia Volk besucht 30 exemplarische Orte in Deutschland, die von der Landkarte verschwunden sind Von versunkenen Siedlungen der Steinzeit bis zu abgebaggerten Dörfern der Gegenwart: Die etwas andere Geschichte Deutschlands Ein kurzweiliger Fremdenführer für Einheimische

"Deadwood Gold...is a graphic well written story of the doings of people in the early days of Deadwood and the Black Hills...Stokes was a pioneer of Deadwood, was a miner." -The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times, August 24, 1922"Stokes was a pioneer in the Black Hills coming from Denver...in the winter of '75...mined for a time in Palmer gulch...his narrative brings an understanding of the methods of prospecting and mining and the conditions under which the pioneers labored." -Rapid City Journal, October 11, 1922"Deadwood Gold is the first-person account of Stokes's activities as a Deadwood prospector, merchant, and news reporter." -Deadwood: The Golden Years (1981)"Deadwood pioneer merchant George Stokes said that a six-gun takes the place of courts, judges, and jury." -Crime, Justice, and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900 (2017)In 1926, prospector and miner George W. Stokes would publish a narrative of his time as a Black Hills and Deadwood pioneer in his book titled "Deadwood Gold: A Story of the Black Hills."While Stokes was working as a young man in old Denver, the call of the Black Hills came to him. Slipping round the soldier guard, with other adventurous young American companions, he was among the first to get to the new gold diggings. The stirring days he spent in the Black Hills were kept in vivid recollection during all his later years. His book covers the Black Hills, Deadwood Gold Rush, noted characters of Deadwood and past times, Homestake mine, mining trade tricks, the burning of old Deadwood, and much more of the exciting early days of Deadwood.

With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture. In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices. Drawing on contributions from authors within a variety of fields, this contribution presents a trans-disciplinary perspective on the problems and pathways through which multi-level interventions can lead to sustainable solutions within the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector. This book hereby constitutes an informed and timely contribution to the important debates about Brazil¿s potential role in confronting environmental problems. More broadly, this volume also sheds light on the process of agricultural transitions in the Global South, and how food security concerns may be reconciled with sustainable production.

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical and socio-political reality. These researchers also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well as, of course, environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved?Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far, there been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of biogeophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but which is also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written.

In the COVID 19 post-pandemic era, sustainable financial systems are increasingly getting the attention they deserve, and policymakers are now moving toward investment and financing decisions based on sustainable development. Green finance plays an important role in mobilizing financial resources and hedging against environmental risk to achieve financially sustainable systems. Moreover, green financial instruments offer viable alternatives for investors and regulators with regard to portfolio management and risk minimization. Over the last few years, financial technology (FinTech) has grown to become one of the most topical areas in the global financial services industry. The development of distributed ledger technology, big data, smart contracts, peer-to-peer lending platforms, biometrics, and new digital has sparked innovation in the financial services industry and the development of new financing and investment strategies. The combination of sustainability and FinTech can help policymakers to achieve ESG targets when making investment and financing decisions.This book showcases a collection of recent advances in green finance and FinTech and explores their impact in achieving sustainable finance, investment strategy-making, and portfolio management. Presenting theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical studies in the field of green finance and FinTech, it offers a valuable asset for academics, professionals, policymakers, regulators, and investors who want to understand in-depth the impact of green finance and FinTech on future investment and financing strategies in the post-pandemic era.

This edited book, by Rosalina Díaz, represents a radical form of ethnography, as it presents the voices of academic scholars and scientists side by side with those of grassroots activists, native healers and community herbalists, in addressing issues of cultural and indigenous identity, agroecology, sustainability and self-determination in the Greater Antillean region of the Caribbean. "In Decolonizing Paradise, Rosalina Díaz blends the voices of scientists with local healers and activists to explore a radical ethnography of plants and people in the Caribbean. Through their lived experiences in this crucially important bioregion, herbalists, brujas, and western-trained scientists resurrect and reveal indigenous and diasporic plant wisdom that has long been denigrated. This collection is an important ethnobotanical starting point for the colonized people of the Caribbean to redress centuries of cultural and environmental injustice."-Robert Voeks, Author of The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative "At a time when the world is intensely focused on finding solutions to complex and existential environmental issues, Decolonizing Paradise is an indispensable tool for those wanting to engage in collective action in the Caribbean. This timely anthology of scholars, scientists, farmers, grassroots activists and environmentalists provides both historical context and an agenda for the sustainable environmental future of the region, with a particular emphasis on Puerto Rico.Decolonizing Paradise will quickly become essential reading for those interested in the Caribbean's environmental struggles, particularly as understood and analyzed by those who are currently in the trenches. Decolonizing Paradise also provides hope and inspiration for all those-students, policy makers, activists and scholars-who want to see change happen in the Caribbean."-Felix V Matos Rodriguez, Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY), Author of Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868 "Decolonizing Paradise is a must-read primer for anyone interested in an insider perspective of environmental stewardship in the Caribbean region, as told by the voices of those currently active in the movement. In recognizing the long-standing environmental conflicts, clashes and actions of local activists and community groups, this book rectifies historical omissions and misperceptions, and challenges the still prevailing narrative of inaction and dependence that has wrongly stigmatized this population for centuries." -Alexis Massol-Gonzalez, Founding Director of Casa Pueblo of Adjuntas; Recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize (2002)

This book covers methodology of the study for all aspects of human geography. As a comprehensive geography textbook, it consists of detailed research methodology for research in human geography including a few selected case studies in Asia. It explores different approaches, methodological possibilities, and challenges in conducting geographical research in human geography. New digital geographic data sources and GIS applications can help researchers to receive clearer concepts and obtain better measurements of the relevant attributes changes. Furthermore, the book provides an opportunity to critically examine the conceptualization and identification of the field in geographical research and how digital media has not only expanded the scope of what constitutes the field but has redefined the field in itself as well as the practices of observing, knowing, and analyzing the real world. The uniqueness of this book is due to the contribution of several professors and subject experts from South East and East Asia with special particular reference to cases studies from this region of the world.

An energy expert shows why hydrogen can fight climate change and become the fuel of the future

This book documents rich conversations with regular migrants and refugees to critically consider migration history, human rights, place, self, and mobilities studies.

This book explores power in international relations, in a world of growing competition of major powers for smaller nations. Focusing on the major powers and smaller countries of Eurasia, it argues that power in international relations is different from coercion and is rather a social contract between a leader state and follower states.

This textbook introduces physical geodesy. It treats the boundary-value theories of the discipline comprehensively, and provides insights to the theory of gravity reduction based on a spherical Earth model. This book is for students who wish to thoroughly understand the material and to expand their knowledge and skills in mathematics for more advanced study and research in this discipline. The details of mathematical derivations included are a useful asset for instructors and researchers.