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Sprout Lands: Tending The Everlasting Gift Of Trees
by William Bryant LoganWinner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing "This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world." —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Once, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople felled their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and diverse woodlands that we have ever known. Arborist William Bryant Logan offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach. He recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.
Sr Isotopes in Seawater: Stratigraphy, Paleo-Tectonics, Paleoclimate, and Paleoceanography (Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science)
by B. Lynn Ingram Donald J. DePaoloStudies of Sr isotopic composition of thousands of samples of marine sediments and fossils have yielded a curve of 87Sr/86Sr versus age for seawater Sr that extends back to 1 billion years. The ratio has fluctuated with large amplitude during this time period, and because the ratio is always uniform in the oceans globally at any one time, it is useful as a stratigraphic correlation and age-dating tool. The ratio also appears to reflect major tectonic and climatic events in Earth history and hence provides clues as to the causes, timing, and consequences of those events. The seawater 87Sr/86Sr ratio is generally high during periods marked by continent-continent collisions, and lower when continental topography is subdued, and seafloor generation rates are high. There is evidence that major shifts in the seawater ratio can be ascribed to specific orogenic events and correlate with large shifts in global climate.
St. Francis Dam Disaster
by John NicholsMinutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers.Built by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California's history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
Stability and Stable Oscillations in Discrete Time Systems
by Aristide Halanay Vladimir RasvanThe expertise of a professional mathmatician and a theoretical engineer provides a fresh perspective of stability and stable oscillations. The current state of affairs in stability theory, absolute stability of control systems, and stable oscillations of both periodic and almost periodic discrete systems is presented, including many applications in
Stability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems
by Jan WeilandStability and Transport in Magnetic Confinement Systems provides an advanced introduction to the fields of stability and transport in tokamaks. It serves as a reference for researchers with its highly-detailed theoretical background, and contains new results in the areas of analytical nonlinear theory of transport using kinetic theory and fluid closure. The use of fluid descriptions for advanced stability and transport problems provide the reader with a better understanding of this topic. In addition, the areas of nonlinear kinetic theory and fluid closure gives the researcher the basic knowledge of a highly relevant area to the present development of transport physics.
Stability of Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Differential Equations with Applications (Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
by Kai LiuStochastic differential equations in infinite dimensional spaces are motivated by the theory and analysis of stochastic processes and by applications such as stochastic control, population biology, and turbulence, where the analysis and control of such systems involves investigating their stability. While the theory of such equations is well establ
Stability of Slopes and Underground Excavations: Proceedings of Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020 Volume 3 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #185)
by C. N. V. Satyanarayana Reddy K. Muthukkumaran Ravikiran VaidyaThis book comprises select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2020 (IGC2020) focusing on recent developments in the field of transportation geotechnics, scour and erosion, offshore geotechnics, and environmental geotechnology. The contents are useful to academicians, researchers, practitioners and policymakers to understand and tackle the challenges in an efficient manner and to adopt appropriate sustainable geotechnical engineering solutions.
Stabilization Clauses in International Investment Law: A Sustainable Development Approach
by Jola GjuziThis book analyzes the tension between the host state’s commitment to provide regulatory stability for foreign investors – which is a tool for attracting FDI and generating economic growth – and its evolving non-economic commitments towards its citizens with regard to environmental protection and social welfare. The main thesis is that the ‘stabilization clause/regulatory power antinomy,’ as it appears in many cases, contradicts the content and rationale of sustainable development, a concept that is increasingly prevalent in national and international law and which aims at the integration and balancing of economic, environmental, and social development. To reconcile this antinomy at the decision-making and dispute settlement levels, the book employs a ‘constructive sustainable development approach,’ which is based on the integration and reconciliation imperatives of the concept of sustainable development as well as on the application of principles of law such as non-discrimination, public purpose, due process, proportionality, and more generally, good governance and rule of law. It subsequently re-conceptualizes stabilization clauses in terms of their design (ex-ante) and interpretation (ex-post), yielding stability to the benefit of foreign investors, while also mitigating their negative effects on the host state’s power to regulate.
Stabilization of Earthen Building Materials by Select Native Binders
by Sudhakar M. RaoIncreased environmental and energy concerns have renewed global interest in raw earth as a building material. Low-energy requirements, low-cost, high availability at construction sites, and favorable engineering properties make (EBMs) an attractive alternative to conventional cement-based construction materials. Though the use of native binders to improve soil properties has garnered attention in recent literature, the available knowledge has not been covered in a single document. This book highlights the key soil properties that determine the mechanical performance of earthen building materials, importance of unsaturated soil mechanics in the engineering behavior of earthen building materials, the different types of stabilizers used to improve the engineering performance of earthen building materials including the use of select native binders, the characteristics of compressed earth blocks stabilized with cement and cement + wood ash additives and the improvement in the engineering properties of adobes stabilized with plant fibers and cow dung.
Stable Isotope Geochemistry
by Jochen HoefsStable Isotope Geochemistry is an introduction to the use of stable isotopes in the geosciences. For students and scientists alike the book will be a primary source of information with regard to how and where stable isotopes can be used to solve geological problems. It is subdivided into three parts: i) theoretical and experimental principles, ii) fractionation processes of light and heavy elements, iii) the natural variations of geologically important reservoirs. In the last decade, major advances in multicollector-ICP-mass-spectrometry enable the precise determination of a wide range of transition and heavy elements. Progress in analysing the rare isotopes of certain elements allows the distinction between mass-dependent and mass-independent fractionations. These major advances in analytical techniques make an extended new edition necessary. Special emphasis has been given to the growing field of "non-traditional" isotope systems. Many new references have been added, which will enable quick access to recent literature.
Stable Isotope Geochemistry (Minerals, Rocks And Mountains Ser. #9)
by Jochen HoefsThis classic textbook is an introduction to the systematics and the use of stable isotopes in geosciences. It is subdivided into three parts: i) theoretical and experimental principles, ii) fractionation processes of light and heavy elements, iii) the natural variations of geologically important reservoirs. Since the publication of the previous edition advances in multicollector-ICP-mass-spectrometry allow precise measurements of new isotope systems. In this new edition therefore, 42 elements with resolvable natural variations in isotope composition are discussed. New findings from non-traditional isotope systems have been incorporated. Many new references have been added, which enable quick access to recent literature.
Stable Isotope Geochemistry (Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment)
by Jochen HoefsThis classic textbook is an introduction to the systematics and the use of stable isotopes in geosciences. It is subdivided into three parts: i) theoretical and experimental principles, ii) fractionation processes of light and heavy elements, iii) the natural variations of geologically important reservoirs. Since the publication of the previous edition improvements in multi-collector ICP mass-spectrometry have increased the ability to measure isotope ratios with very high precision for many elements of the periodic table. The amount of published data has increased tremendously in the last years; thus, conclusions based on a limited database are now better constrained. In this new edition, therefore, 47 elements with resolvable natural variations in isotope composition are discussed. This increase of elements, together with advances in the calculation of equilibrium isotope fractionation using ab initio methods, has led to an unbelievable rise of publications, making substantial major revisions and extensions of the last edition necessary. Many new references have been added, which enable quick access to recent literature.
Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
by Louis DupaigneStable solutions are ubiquitous in differential equations. They represent meaningful solutions from a physical point of view and appear in many applications, including mathematical physics (combustion, phase transition theory) and geometry (minimal surfaces). Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations offers a self-contained presentation of the notion of stability in elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The central questions of regularity and classification of stable solutions are treated at length. Specialists will find a summary of the most recent developments of the theory, such as nonlocal and higher-order equations. For beginners, the book walks you through the fine versions of the maximum principle, the standard regularity theory for linear elliptic equations, and the fundamental functional inequalities commonly used in this field. The text also includes two additional topics: the inverse-square potential and some background material on submanifolds of Euclidean space.
Stadtentwicklung mit einem Developer Mindset: Innovation, Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in kritischen Zeiten
by Heiko AchillesIn einer Zeit großer globaler Herausforderungen und technologischer Disruptionen stehen Städte im Fokus des Wandels, sie sind Möglichkeitsräume und Reallabore. Dieses Buch bietet eine praxisnahe Orientierung in dem komplexen Gefüge aus Wirtschafts- und Stadtentwicklung. Der Autor liefert kritische Analysen aktueller Debatten und stellt effektive Strategien für mehr Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit vor. In dem Buch geht es um strategische Planung, um hilfreiche Strukturen und Prozesse - und den erforderlichen, erfolgsbestimmenden Mindset. Die aktuelle Situation in Deutschland wird mit internationalen Beispielen verglichen, nach erfolgreichen und übertragbaren Lösungsansätzen gesucht. Das Buch richtet sich an Fachleute und Entscheidungsträger aller Disziplinen der Stadtentwicklung sowie an alle, die sich für die Zukunft der Städte interessieren.
Stadtgeographie: Aktuelle Themen und Ansätze
by Yvonne Franz Anke StrüverStädte sind Gamechanger globaler wie lokaler Veränderungsprozesse geworden. Ob Klimakrise, Mobilitäts- und Energiewende, Digitalisierung oder demographischer Wandel – Städte sind nicht nur Orte, an denen diese Themen stattfinden, sie versprechen oftmals auch die notwendigen Hebelwirkungen, um Wandel, Wende und Transformation zu verorten und umzusetzen. Das im Jahr 2007 eingeläutete „urbane Zeitalter“ benennt einen zentralen globalen Wendepunkt: Weltweit leben mehr Einwohner*innen in Städten als in ländlich-peripheren Räumen.Dieser Band zeigt die Stadt als Ermöglichungsraum für gesellschaftliche Veränderung auf. Das Lehrbuch ist explizit mit interdisziplinärer Betrachtungsweise raumrelevanter Gesellschaftsprozesse konzipiert. Es erweitert die Stadtgeographie und versteht sich als Plädoyer für ein gleichermaßen komplexes wie relationales und prozessuales Denken in der stadtgeographischen Lehre und Forschung.Folgende aktuelle Themen und Ansätze der Stadtgeographie werden anhand vielschichtiger und kritischer Fragen behandelt:Welche gesellschaftlichen Alltagspraktiken prägen aktuell städtisches Zusammenleben, welche werden dominant, welche bleiben unsichtbar?Wie und wodurch findet Aneignung im urbanen Raum statt – und wer ist davon ausgeschlossen?Wie gelingt Teilhabe in der Stadt und welche Rolle spielen Infrastrukturen wie Wohnraum, Frei- und Grünräume, Verkehr und Digitalisierung?Dieses Lehrbuch unterstützt Studierende der Geographie und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Nachbardisziplinen auf Einsteiger*innen- als auch Fortgeschrittenenniveau in der Auseinandersetzung mit stadtrelevanten Themen.
Städtische Mega-Projekte in China: Der Fall Hongqiao
by Yanpeng JiangDieses Buch ist die erste systematische Darstellung von städtischen Megaprojekten in China, die sich mit deren Bau, Betrieb und Planung befasst. Es ist eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Planung und des Baus von Hongqiao und seiner Auswirkungen auf die Anwohner. Kurz gesagt, das Ziel dieses Buches ist es, den Planungs- und Entwicklungsprozess der Verkehrs- und Handelszone Hongqiao zu untersuchen, ihre Beziehung zur Stadtentwicklung und zur räumlichen Umstrukturierung in Shanghai zu erforschen und dabei die Art des städtischen Wandels im heutigen China zu kommentieren und zu kritisieren, der als eigentums- und infrastrukturgetrieben charakterisiert wird. Städtische Megaprojekte sind wohl das Symbol des unternehmerischen Urbanismus schlechthin, und es ist kein Zufall, dass sie in der ganzen Welt, nicht zuletzt in Ostasien, zu einem vertrauten Bestandteil der städtischen Szene geworden sind. Sie können sowohl als Folge der Deindustrialisierung führender Städte, zunächst in Nordamerikaund Europa und dann in Ostasien, als Reaktion auf den Übergang der Volkswirtschaften zum globalisierten Neoliberalismus betrachtet werden. Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Hauptmerkmale der in Hongqiao gebildeten landbasierten städtischen Wachstumskoalition, indem es das Hongqiao-Projekt im Detail vorstellt und das jüngste Beispiel des wettbewerbsorientierten Ansturms auf städtische Projekte in Chinas größten Städten skizziert, der zur Ausbreitung neuer Finanzdistrikte in Beijing und Guangzhou geführt hat.
Stadtverkehrsplanung Band 1: Grundlagen, Ziele und Perspektiven
by Dirk Vallée Barbara Engel Walter VogtDas dreibändige Standardwerk behandelt alle wesentlichen Probleme und Lösungsansätze des Stadtverkehrs. Unter Einbindung von Mobilität und Verkehr in die Stadtentwicklungsplanung geht es um Grundlagen, Ziele und Perspektiven der Planung, um Analyse und Prognose der Verkehrsentwicklung mit Hilfe von Szenarien und Modellen, um Abschätzung der Wirkungen des Verkehrs auf die humane und natürliche Umwelt einschließlich der Bewertung sowie um Bemessung, Gestaltung und Entwurf und Betrieb städtischer Verkehrsanlagen (Verkehrsmanagement und Lichtsignalsteuerung). Neue Kapitel – z.B. Mobilitätsmanagement, Multimodalität oder urbane Logistik – nehmen aktuelle Entwicklungen auf.Der erste Band des dreibändigen Fachbuchs stellt die Grundlagen, Ziele und Perspektiven der Stadtverkehrsplanung vor. Inhalte sind die Planungsgrundlagen, planungsrechtliche Verfahren, Leitbilder und neue Perspektiven für die urbane Logistik sowie zukünftige Trends im Stadtverkehr.
Stadtverkehrsplanung Band 2: Analyse, Prognose und Bewertung
by Dirk Vallée Barbara Engel Walter VogtDas dreibändige Standardwerk behandelt alle wesentlichen Probleme und Lösungsansätze des Stadtverkehrs. Unter Einbindung von Mobilität und Verkehr in die Stadtentwicklungsplanung geht es um Grundlagen, Ziele und Perspektiven der Planung, um Analyse und Prognose der Verkehrsentwicklung mit Hilfe von Szenarien und Modellen, um Abschätzung der Wirkungen des Verkehrs auf die humane und natürliche Umwelt einschließlich der Bewertung sowie um Bemessung, Gestaltung und Entwurf und Betrieb städtischer Verkehrsanlagen (Verkehrsmanagement und Lichtsignalsteuerung). Neue Kapitel – z.B. Mobilitätsmanagement, Multimodalität oder urbane Logistik – nehmen aktuelle Entwicklungen auf.Der zweite Band des dreibändigen Werks präsentiert verschiedene Analyse- und Prognoseverfahren der Stadtverkehrsplanung sowie Grundlagen der Dimensionierung und Bewertung. Betrachtet werden Verkehrserhebungen, Nachfragemodelle des Personenverkehrs, Modelle und Strategien des Güterverkehrs, Umweltwirkungen, ökologische und städtebauliche Folgen ebenso wie partizipative Verfahren.
Stadtverkehrsplanung Band 3: Entwurf, Bemessung und Betrieb
by Dirk Vallée Barbara Engel Walter VogtDas dreibändige Standardwerk behandelt alle wesentlichen Probleme und Lösungsansätze des Stadtverkehrs. Unter Einbindung von Mobilität und Verkehr in die Stadtentwicklungsplanung geht es um Grundlagen, Ziele und Perspektiven der Planung, um Analyse und Prognose der Verkehrsentwicklung mit Hilfe von Szenarien und Modellen, um Abschätzung der Wirkungen des Verkehrs auf die humane und natürliche Umwelt einschließlich der Bewertung sowie um Bemessung, Gestaltung und Entwurf und Betrieb städtischer Verkehrsanlagen (Verkehrsmanagement und Lichtsignalsteuerung). Neue Kapitel – z.B. Mobilitätsmanagement, Multimodalität oder urbane Logistik – nehmen aktuelle Entwicklungen auf.Der dritte Band des dreibändigen Fachbuchs beschreibt Bemessung, Entwurf und Gestaltung sowie Betrieb der städtischen Verkehrsinfrastruktur. Gegenstand sind die Netzplanung, Anlagen des motorisierten Individualverkehrs, der öffentliche Personennahverkehr, die Nahmobilität, die Verkehrssicherheit sowie Verkehrsmanagement und Lichtsignalsteuerung.
Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
by Johanna Kujala Anna Heikkinen Annika BlombergThe purpose of this open access edited collection is to discuss the role and importance of stakeholder engagement in a sustainable circular economy from multiple theoretical and practical perspectives. Developing and maintaining a circular economy is an essential step to a more environmentally friendly and socially inclusive society. In addition to redesigning products and business models to minimise waste and increase the reuse of materials, a transition towards a sustainable circular economy requires collaboration and co-operation between various stakeholders from all parts of society. An international team of contributors explore how stakeholder engagement can foster and support sustainable change, assessing current literature and laying out guidance for future study. The collection is of interest to academics and students of sustainability management and sustainable business models, stakeholder theory and practice, and the circular economy.
Stakeholder Politics: Social Capital, Sustainable Development, and the Corporation
by Robert BoutilierThe war is over. The largest corporations in the world are now committed to sustainability. But, behind the public relations gloss, corporate executives and managers are perplexed. The majority of them have a genuine desire to work in an ethical and sustainable manner. Yet, when they engage with their stakeholders for that purpose, they unexpectedly encounter a world of hardball politics full of hostile activists, self-interested elites and unpredictable attacks. Unfortunately, corporate management is too often unskilled in this rough-and-tumble world. While managers rely on facts and rational analysis, their self-appointed critics have mastered the arts of political discourse, issue framing and media manipulation. At the same time, as corporations extend their global reach, their third-world stakeholder communities are beset with a variety of poverty-maintaining and sustainability-thwarting conditions. In many parts of the world, communities suffer from entrenched divisions, exclusion from power, unpredictable violence and economic dependency. In order to both reduce reputational risk and to contribute to sustainable development, companies need the equivalent of roadmaps of the socio-political terrain in their stakeholder networks.This book moves on to next challenge of giving companies what they need now: namely, "how to" guides addressing the twin problems of firstly maintaining political legitimacy (talking the talk), and, secondly, promoting sustainable development (walking the walk). They need to learn how to both play stakeholder politics and collaborate with stakeholders towards sustainability goals. Most companies have already encountered or anticipated the barriers that this book addresses, and managers will recognize the dilemmas described.Stakeholder Politics is the first book to offer a method for classifying and dealing with these socio-political problems.The book presents a typology of stakeholder networks that will help managers and community leaders identify and improve the social capital patterns in their own networks. Once they know what patterns they have, they can move their networks towards those that foster sustainable community development. The author describes vivid cases in which managers and community stakeholders have already used the approach successfully. At the same time, managers get handy tools for predicting and avoiding community-level socio-political risk around stakeholder issues: most notably, the Stakeholder 360 which has been successfully used in Canada and Australia with large groups of managers learning about stakeholder engagement.The book has been written for an audience of both managers and academics. Those working in developing countries with difficult stakeholder issues will find it indispensable.
Stakeholders, Sustainable Development Policies and the Coal Mining Industry: Perspectives from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development)
by Izabela Jonek-Kowalska Radosław Wolniak Oksana A. Marinina Tatyana V. PonomarenkoThis book identifies the impact of internal and external stakeholders on the implementation of sustainable development policies in the coal mining sector in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The book assesses what activities and conditions need to be improved so that sustainable development policies can be more effectively and efficiently implemented. With a specific focus on the hard coal and lignite mining sectors, it examines a broad range of case studies from Eastern European countries and the Commonwealth of Independent States, including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Kazakhstan, Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom, among many more. Beginning with an introduction to sustainable development and stakeholder theory, Part II then examines internal stakeholders, including owners, managers, employees and trade unions. Part III examines external stakeholders, touching upon those directly related to the mining industry, such as customers and mining enterprises, and those not directly associated such as local and regional communities and environmental organisations. The book concludes by proposing a model approach to the management of stakeholders involved in mining enterprises, focusing on improving the process of implementing sustainable development in the mining sector and strengthening the effects of this process. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management and policy and sustainable development.