Natur

Während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte haben wir mit Vögeln zusammengelebt. Wir haben sie als Nahrung gejagt und domestiziert, sie in unseren Mythen, Religionen und Ritualen verehrt, sie wegen ihrer natürlichen Ressourcen ausgebeutet und uns von ihnen zu unserer Musik, Kunst und Poesie inspirieren lassen.In Zehn Vögel, die die Welt veränderten erzählt der Naturforscher und Autor Stephen Moss die fesselnde Geschichte dieser ereignisreichen Beziehung anhand von zehn Schlüsselarten. Von Odins treuen Rabengefährten bis zu Darwins Finken, vom Wildtruthahn Amerikas bis zum Kaiserpinguin als starkes Symbol der Klimakrise ist dies ein faszinierendes, aufschlussreiches und unendlich fesselndes Werk der Naturgeschichte.

This book explores state-of-art techniques based on open-source software and statistical programming and modelling in modern geospatial applications, specifically focusing on recent trends in data mining techniques and robust modelling in Geomorphological, Hydrological, Bio-physical and Social activities. The book is organized into physical, mountainous, coastal, riverine, forest, urban and biological activities, with each chapter providing a review of the current knowledge in the focus area, and evaluating where future efforts should be directed. The text compiles a collection of recent developments and rigorous applications of Geospatial computational intelligence (e.g., artificial neural network, spatial interpolation, physical and environmental modelling and machine learning algorithms etc) in geomorphic processes from a team of expert contributors. The authors address the wide range of challenges and uncertainties in the study of earth system dynamics due to climate change, and complex anthropogenic interferences where spatial modelling may be applied in the risk assessment of vulnerable geomorphological landscapes. The book will act as a guide to find recent advancements in geospatial artificial intelligence techniques and its application to natural and social hazards. This information will be helpful for students, researchers, policy makers, environmentalists, planners involved in natural hazard and disaster management, NGOs, and government organizations.

Allein über die AlpenMit Zelt und Gaskocher im Gepäck wandert die junge Schweizerin Christina Ragettli auf der herausfordernden roten Via Alpina vier Monate lang durch sechs Länder. Auf 2363 Kilometern erlebt sie einige verrückte Geschichten und Abenteuer, die sie zum Teil an ihre Grenzen bringen. Doch trotz Schmerzen, Kälte, tagelangem Regen und scheinbar unüberwindbaren Hindernissen setzt sie einfach jeden Tag einen Fuss vor den anderen, und ihre Erlebnisse auf der Via Alpina werden zu Lebenslektionen. Fernwanderungen sind nur was für Extremsportler? Von wegen! Christina Ragettli beweist, dass es auch mit pink lackierten Nägeln geht.

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG¿s). Although the world is strongly interconnected, the majority of the chapters in this volume focus on Europe or the work of European researchers. Each chapter of this book focusses on one of the 17 SDG¿s providing in-depth knowledge from a geographical perspective, fostering comprehensive research on these global targets to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change.The Sustainable Development Goals are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To achieve them, it will be necessary for all stakeholders, including citizens (civil society, doctors, teachers), governments, private sector to collaborate.

Experience Life Among the World's Northernmost PeopleThroughout history, few cultures have seemed more mysterious than the native hunter-gatherer societies of the far north. These nomadic people often thrived in unforgiving conditions on frozen, treeless terrain above the Arctic Circle, where mere survival was an everyday challenge. Known among themselves simply as the People, the Inuit men and women that Europeans called "Eskimos" existed for centuries in harmony with the unforgiving natural world around them; when times were good they prospered on natural bounties, and when times were bad they overcame the bleakest of conditions just to make it through. Prior to their contact with many other Europeans in the early twentieth century, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen befriended and lived among the Inuit in Greenland. He studied their language and ways of life firsthand, eventually marrying and having children with an Inuit woman there. Since they were a people with no written language, Freuchen's captivating observations offered the rest of the world some of the earliest eyewitness accounts of "Eskimo" lifestyle. Before his account was published, Western writers often romanticized the life of the Inuit; where others pictured a near-mythological life of hardship in an inhospitable landscape of icy bleakness, Freuchen revealed the tapestry of a rich and storied culture set in a world of raw beauty. Examining pre-westernized Inuit societies in Greenland, northern Canada, and Alaska, Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos is a rare and uniquely personal portrait of the indigenous people of the Arctic. Brimming with fascinating information, color, humor, and warmth, this classic chronicle of the everyday lives and customs of these resourceful communities and families offers a completely engaging immersion into a foreign land and an excellent introduction to the tenacious people living at the top of the world. This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648372716).

The book examines the issue of old age in death in contemporary Western societies in the pre-Covid-19 period and during the recent pandemic. It aims to prompt rethinking of societal obligations to the aged and to reflect on ways of handling death in old age. By exposing which values and orientations towards death in old age have been reinforced and which have been challenged by the coronavirus pandemic, the book offers a platform to debate society¿s responsibility to old people and to reflect on the legacy of the pandemic for the quality of the end of life care. It raises ethical and philosophical implications of the normalization the idea that during health crises some lives need to be prioritised over others. The book, by drawing from an extensive literature, from sociology, psychology, philosophy gerontology to death studies, throws light on the cultural values by which we understand mortality. Whilst the book¿s focus is on the UK, its argument, that the marginalization of death in old age impacts on the quality of the end of life care, has enormous implications for other cultures in terms of how old age tends to be ignored and how they were neglected during the pandemic.

Mount Kailash in Asia, the Black Hills in North America, Uluru in Australia: around the globe, numerous mountains have been and continue to be attributed sacredness. Worship of these mountains involves prayer, meditation and pilgrimage. Christianity, which long showed little interest in nature, provides a foil to these practices and was one factor in the tensions that arose in the age of colonialism. Decolonisation and the 'ecological turn' changed the religious power of interpretation and imparted new meaning to discourses about sacred mountains. This succinct and erudite study demonstrates how, globally, these mountains remain outstanding examples of cultural diversity and convergence points of issues such as gender justice and environmental protection.

Is that the nub of the world's environmental crisis: that in the business of everyday, we pass by with our connections unacknowledged?Anthropocene Days gathers 27 easy-to-read short essays about the environment and climate change in everyday life. While the world and governments are beset by the great woes of changing climate, deforestation, species extinction, air pollution, fouling oceans and so on, we go about individually and locally as best we can from day to day. Anthropocene Days contends that these two domains, so apparently separate, are essentially connected. The book looks at the diverse and mundane activities of daily life to show how the environment is experienced, and does this very personally by drawing its observations from the author's life. It is part memoir, part recent history - a medley of short essays with themes of landscape change, forests, trees, war, fire, pestilence and the domestic life of housing, dusting and clutter. Motivated by present concerns, some reach back to the 1940s. They are set in Australia, Britain, India, Singapore and America.Anthropocene Days is a deceptively easy read. It does not hector readers on what to do, but its ruminations, drawn from long engagement with environments, encourage reflection on how we pass our everyday lives while the planet changes.

How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decade's "oil shocks," Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across different sectors of society, from presidents, policy experts, and environmentalists to filmmakers, economists, and oil futures traders. He shows how the dominant meanings ascribed to the 1970s energy crisis helped to energize neoliberal visions of renewed abundance and power through free market values and approaches to energy. Deeply researched in federal archives, expert discourse, and popular culture, Energizing Neoliberalism demonstrates the central role that energy crisis narratives played in America's neoliberal turn. Wellum traces the roots of the crisis to the consumption practices and cultural narratives spawned by the petrocultural politics of Cold War capitalism. In a series of illuminating case studies--including 1970s energy conservation debates, popular car films, and the creation of oil futures trading--Wellum chronicles the consolidation of a neoliberal capitalist order in the United States through an energy politics marked by anxious futurity, petro-populist sentiment, and financialized energy markets. He shows how experiences of energy shortages and fears of future energy crises unsettled American national identity and power yet also informed Reagan-era confidence in free markets and US global leadership.In taking a cultural approach to the 1970s energy crisis, Wellum offers a challenging meditation on the status of "crisis" in modern history, contemporary life, and critical thought and how we rely on crises to make sense of the world.

This book is for scholars and practitioners across all disciplines who are interested in understanding and rethinking the management and governance of many kinds of shared resources, including natural resources, digital resources, knowledge and intellectual resources, and housing and other urban infrastructure, among others.

This book is a collection of the up-to-date experience and knowledge about the implementation of sustainable business excellence in a particular context of SMEs. The book uses empirical and practical approach to tackle this issue, which is underdeveloped in the literature. Hence, it could constitute a relevant reference for SMEs managers seeking to manage their operations sustainably, efficiently and resiliently. The book also integrates the smart component to the sustainable business excellence and proves for those who are still skeptical that SMEs could benefit from smart and digital technology in the favor of sustainability and business excellence. Overall, we build on successful initiatives we experienced in real life to guide SMEs in order to be sustainable smart and resilient in the post COVID context which is highly demanding in terms of business excellence and efficiency.

This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on intercropping.The first chapter summarises data from over 50 field experiments undertaken since 2001 on cereal-grain legume intercropping using spring and winter cereal-grain legume intercrops. The chapter addresses the effects of intercropping on yields and quality, the agronomical performance of intercropping and cultivation practices in intercropping.The second chapter reviews the existing evidence on systems productivity, resource capture and use efficiency, between intercrops and sole crops for maize-legume-dominated cropping systems. The chapter also considers intercropping under different conditions, including those with heightened or reduced levels of moisture and nitrogen.The third chapter considers the effects of crop rotation and intercropping management practices on soil health, focussing on their impact on crop productivity, soil health enhancement and stability. The chapter also highlights the importance of leguminous crops and soil organic matter in maintaining healthy soils, sustaining crop productivity and enhancing biodiversity.The final chapter provides an overview of the economic and ecological benefits, challenges and major considerations of implementing alley cropping systems within North America. A case study detailing the performance evaluation of a pecan-cotton alley cropping system is also included.

The Climate Change in Southeast Asia Workshop and Compendium Series is a platform to facilitate and promote research on climate-related issues in the Southeast Asian region. Organized by the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme at the ISEAS ¿ Yusof Ishak Institute, the objective of this platform is to facilitate knowledge exchange and share best practices to deepen understanding of the complex and multidimensional nature of climate change. This inaugural publication sheds light on varied and contextual experiences of Southeast Asian urban communities in addressing climate challenges and scenarios for future policy making.

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Liest man in guten alten Werken über Heilpflanzen, so erfährt man zu seiner Verwunderung, daß unsere heimische Garten- und Wildflora viel mehr Heilkräuter schenkt, als wir noch in unseren Apothekerlisten finden. Nichts spricht dafür, daß unsere Vorfahren, naturnäher als wir Heutigen, sich über die Heilkraft ihrer Pflanzen getäuscht haben sollten. Wahrscheinlich hatten sie mehr Geduld mit ihren Kräutern, während wir bei Anwendung in kranken Tagen eine rasche Wirkung verspüren wollen. Vergessen wurden auch viele Würzkräuter. Gewürze aber verfeinern die Nahrung, veredeln den Geschmack und vervollkommnen mit feinen Kräften die Speisen. Sie sind auch heilsam, verbessern das Blut, regen die Organe an, stärken die Nerven: sie erwärmen, reinigen, treiben, verteilen und regeln.Es ist staunenswürdig und wie geheimnisvoll, daß die Pflanzen eine so merkwürdig lebensinnige, naturgegebene Beziehung zum Menschen und den Organen seines Körpers haben.Der Band erschien erstmals 1936 in der Insel-Bücherei.

Would you like to grow mushrooms, organically and profitably, in your home? Cultivating Mushrooms is the complete guide to understanding how to grow mushrooms at home efficiently, even if you have no experience in the sector. In this practical guide, you will discover how mushrooms develop, cultivation techniques, ideal soil and climatic conditions, the best species to grow at home, and the exceptional health benefits of some varieties. Not many know how easy it is to grow tasty mushrooms, independently, in your own home. Most people prefer to buy mushrooms of dubious origin in shopping malls, rather than organically self-producing the healthiest and tastiest species. The mushrooms you buy at the local supermarket are conventionally grown abroad and cheaply imported from foreign markets. These varieties are of mediocre quality, due to both the cultivation method used and for the type of packaging in which they are sold (Mushrooms do not like plastic packaging at all). For these reasons, the flavor is poor. Find out how to become an expert mushroom grower! Self-produce and sell the most requested species on the market. In this book you will learn: The advantages of mushroom cultivation All you need to know before starting How to grow mushrooms The tastiest and healthiest species How to start a home grown mushroom business. ... and much more! So, if you want to become a mushroom expert and start a home grow, click on "Buy Now" and get the complete guide that will open the doors to this fantastic business!

Investigating metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, this book analyses the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe. This book establishes a current inventory and appr

This book analyses problems of governance, development and environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation and implementation.

PLANTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF INDIAN CULTURE. THEY ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF EVERY INDIAN'S LIFE, WITHOUT WHICH WE ARE INCOMPLETE. YET WE NEVER TAKE THE TIME TO KNOW THEM. THEREFORE, I HAVE COMPILED SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE MOST COMMON PLANTS OF INDIA WHICH ARE VERY CLOE TO PEOPLE'S LIVES.