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The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space
by James A. TynerBetween 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died - almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, this book argues whether the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but also terracide - the erasure of space. In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous pre-colonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was thus part of a consistent sacrifice of Cambodia and its people - a brutal justification for the killing of a country and the birth of a new place, Democratic Kampuchea. While focusing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
by Richard RashkeOn November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood was driving on a deserted Oklahoma highway when her car crashed into a cement wall and she was killed. On the seat next to her were doctored quality-control negatives showing that her employer, Kerr-McGee, was manufacturing defective fuel rods filled with plutonium. She had recently discovered that more than forty pounds of plutonium were missing from the Kerr-McGee plant. Forty years later, her death is still steeped in mystery. Did she fall asleep before the accident, or did someone force her off the road? And what happened to the missing plutonium? The Killing of Karen Silkwood meticulously lays out the facts and encourages the readers to decide. Updated with the author's chilling new introduction that discusses the similarities with Edward Snowden's recent revelations, Silkwood's story is as relevant today as it was forty years ago. For this updated edition, the author has added the latest information as to what happened to the various people involved in the Silkwood case and news of the lasting effects of this underreported piece of the history of the antinuclear movement.
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment
by Corey J. A. Bradshaw Paul R. EhrlichThough separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive--the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth--and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations are on a crash course toward environmental destruction. Highly developed super consumers with enormous energy footprints and high rates of greenhouse-gas emissions, they are two of the biggest drivers of climate change per capita. As renowned ecologists Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Paul R. Ehrlich make clear in Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, both of these countries must confront the urgent question of how to stem this devastation and turn back from the brink. In this book, Bradshaw and Ehrlich provide a spirited exploration of the ways in which the United States and Australia can learn from their shared problems and combine their most successful solutions in order to find and develop new resources, lower energy consumption and waste, and grapple with the dynamic effects of climate change. Peppering the book with humor, irreverence, and extensive scientific knowledge, the authors examine how residents of both countries have irrevocably altered their natural environments, detailing the most pressing ecological issues of our time, including the continuing resource depletion caused by overpopulation. They then turn their discussion to the politics behind the failures of environmental policies in both nations and offer a blueprint for what must be dramatically changed to prevent worsening the environmental crisis. Although focused on two nations, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie clearly has global implications--the problems facing the United States and Australia are not theirs alone, and the solutions to come will benefit by being crafted in coalition. This book provides a vital opportunity to learn from both countries' leading environmental thinkers and to heed their call for a way forward together.
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment
by Paul R. Ehrlich Corey J. BradshawThough separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations are on a crash course toward environmental destruction. Highly developed super consumers with enormous energy footprints and high rates of greenhouse-gas emissions, they are two of the biggest drivers of climate change per capita. As renowned ecologists Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Paul R. Ehrlich make clear in Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, both of these countries must confront the urgent question of how to stem this devastation and turn back from the brink. In this book, Bradshaw and Ehrlich provide a spirited exploration of the ways in which the United States and Australia can learn from their shared problems and combine their most successful solutions in order to find and develop new resources, lower energy consumption and waste, and grapple with the dynamic effects of climate change. Peppering the book with humor, irreverence, and extensive scientific knowledge, the authors examine how residents of both countries have irrevocably altered their natural environments, detailing the most pressing ecological issues of our time, including the continuing resource depletion caused by overpopulation. They then turn their discussion to the politics behind the failures of environmental policies in both nations and offer a blueprint for what must be dramatically changed to prevent worsening the environmental crisis. Although focused on two nations, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie clearly has global implications—the problems facing the United States and Australia are not theirs alone, and the solutions to come will benefit by being crafted in coalition. This book provides a vital opportunity to learn from both countries’ leading environmental thinkers and to heed their call for a way forward together.
Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose
by Thom van Dooren and Matthew ChrulewThe contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin’s contributors take up Rose’s conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose’s scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide.Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright
Kinetic Atmospheres: Performance and Immersion
by Johannes BirringerThis book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, sensing perception, cognition, and trans-sensory hallucination. If landscapes are autobiographical, and atmospheres prompt us to enter blurred lines of a "forest knowledge," where light, shade, and darkness entangle us in foraging mediations of contaminated diversity, then such sensitization to elemental environments requires a focus on processual interaction. Provocative chapters probe various types of performance scenarios and immersive architectures of the real and the virtual. They break new ground in analyzing an extended choreographic – the building of hypersensorial scenographies that include a range of materialities as well as bodily and metabodily presences. Foregrounding his notion of kinetic atmospheres, the author intimates a technosomatic theory of dance, performance, and ritual processes, while engaging in a vivid cross-cultural dialogue with some of the leading digital and theatrical artists worldwide. This poetic meditation will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, performing arts as well as media arts practitioners, composers, programmers, and designers.
Kinetic Simulations of Ion Transport in Fusion Devices
by Andrés de Bustos MolinaThis thesis deals with the problem of ion confinement in thermonuclear fusion devices. It is a topic of general interest, as it helps to understand via numerical simulations the ion confinement properties in complex geometries, in order to predict their behavior and maximize the performance of future fusion reactors. The main work carried out in this thesis is the improvement and exploitation of an existing simulation code called ISDEP. This code solves the so-called ion collisional transport in arbitrary plasma geometry, improving in this sense other existing codes. Additionally, it presents outstanding portability and scalability in distributed computing architectures, such as Grid or Volunteer Computing. The main physical results can be divided into two blocks. First, the study of 3D ion transport in ITER is presented. ITER is the largest fusion reactor (under construction) and most of the simulations so far assume the axis-symmetry of the device. Unfortunately, this symmetry is only an approximation because of the discrete number of magnetic coils used. ISDEP has shown, using a simple model of the 3D magnetic field, how the ion confinement is affected by this symmetry breaking. Secondly, ISDEP has been applied successfully to the study of fast ion dynamics in fusion plasmas. The fast ions, with energies much larger than the thermal energy, are a product of the device's heating system. Thus, a numerical predictive tool can be used to improve the heating efficiency. ISDEP has been combined with the FAFNER2 code to study such ions in stellarator (TJ-II, LHD) and tokamak (ITER) geometries. It has also been validated by experimental results. In particular, comparisons with the CNPA diagnostic in the TJ-II stellarator are remarkable.
Kinetic Theory of the Inner Magnetospheric Plasma
by George V. KhazanovThe inner magnetosphere plasma is a very unique composition of different plasma particles and waves. It covers a huge energy plasma range with spatial and time variations of many orders of magnitude. In such a situation, the kinetic approach is the key element, and the starting point of the theoretical description of this plasma phenomena which requires a dedicated book to this particular area of research.
A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics
by Pavel L. Krapivsky Sidney Redner Eli Ben-NaimAimed at graduate students, this book explores some of the core phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical physics. It focuses on the development and application of theoretical methods to help students develop their problem-solving skills. The book begins with microscopic transport processes: diffusion, collision-driven phenomena, and exclusion. It then presents the kinetics of aggregation, fragmentation and adsorption, where the basic phenomenology and solution techniques are emphasized. The following chapters cover kinetic spin systems, both from a discrete and a continuum perspective, the role of disorder in non-equilibrium processes, hysteresis from the non-equilibrium perspective, the kinetics of chemical reactions, and the properties of complex networks. The book contains 200 exercises to test students' understanding of the subject. A link to a website hosted by the authors, containing supplementary material including solutions to some of the exercises, can be found at www. cambridge. org/9780521851039.
Kinetics of Evaporation (Springer Series in Surface Sciences #68)
by Eugeny I. Yurin Denis N. GerasimovThis monograph discusses the essential principles of the evaporationprocess by looking at it at the molecular and atomic level.In the first part methods of statistical physics, physical kinetics andnumerical modeling are outlined including the Maxwell’s distributionfunction, the Boltzmann kinetic equation, the Vlasov approach, and theCUDA technique.The distribution functions of evaporating particles are then defined.Experimental results on the evaporation coefficient and the temperaturejump on the evaporation surface are critically reviewed and compared tothe theory and numerical results presented in previous chapters.The book ends with a chapter devoted to evaporation in differentprocesses, such as boiling and cavitation.This monograph addressesgraduate students and researchers working on phase transitions andrelated fields.
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
by David K. RandallNew York Times best-selling author David K. Randall spins a remarkable tale of the American West and the desire of one couple to preserve paradise. Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart of this story of American grit and determinism. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she was a poor Midwestern farmer's daughter raised to be suspicious of the seasons. Yet the bond between them would shape history. The newly married couple reached Los Angeles in 1887 when it was still a frontier, and within a few years Frederick, the only heir to an immense Boston fortune, became one of the wealthiest men in the state. After his sudden death in 1905, May spent the next thirty years fighting off some of the most powerful men in the country--as well as fissures within her own family--to preserve Malibu as her private kingdom. Her struggle, one of the longest over land in California history, would culminate in a landmark Supreme Court decision and lead to the creation of the Pacific Coast Highway. The King and Queen of Malibu traces the path of one family as the country around them swept off the last vestiges of the Civil War and moved into what we would recognize as the modern age. The story of Malibu ranges from the halls of Harvard to the Old West in New Mexico to the beginnings of San Francisco's counter culture amid the Gilded Age, and culminates in the glamour of early Hollywood--all during the brief sliver of history in which the advent of railroads and the automobile traversed a beckoning American frontier and anything seemed possible.
King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life Of John Bell Hatcher And The Discoveries That Shaped Paleontology
by Lowell Dingus<P><P>The story of the extraordinary adventures behind the man who has discovered some of the amazing wonders of natural history. <P><P> Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The life of the “King of Collectors” is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. <P><P> Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, a slender-necked, long-tailed, plant-eater whose skeleton has captivated our collective imaginations for more than a century. But that wasn’t all Hatcher discovered. During a now legendary collecting campaign in Wyoming between 1889 and 1892, Hatcher discovered a 66 million-year-old horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, as well as the first scientifically significant set of skeletons from its evolutionary cousin, Triceratops. Refusing to restrict his talents to enormous dinosaurs, he also discovered the first significant sample of mammal teeth from our relatives that lived 66 million years ago. The teeth might have been minute, but this extraordinary discovery filled a key gap in humanity’s own evolutionary history. <P><P> Hatcher’s discoveries form the bases of some of the most beloved and well-known collections and institutions in the world—Yale, The Peabody Museum, Princeton University, the Carnegie Museum, and more. Nearly one hundred and twenty-five years after Hatcher’s monumental “hunts” ended, acclaimed paleontologist Lowell Dingus invites us to revisit Hatcher’s captivating expeditions and marvel at this real-life Indiana Jones and the vital role he played in our understanding of paleontology.
King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature (The\story Behind The Scenery Ser.)
by William C. TweedA naturist and historian for the National Parks Service offers a lively history of the giant sequoias of California and the love of nature they inspired. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of some of the world&’s largest and oldest trees in a narrative that travels deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the American West, and all the way to New Zealand. Along the way, he explores the American public's evolving relationship with sequoias, also known simply and affectionately as Big Trees. It&’s no surprise that the sequoia groves of Yosemite and Calaveras were early tourist destinations. The species was the embodiment of California's superlative appeal. These giant redwoods were so beloved that special protections efforts sprang up to protect them from logging interests—and so began the notion of National Parks. Later, as science evolved to consider landscapes more holistically, sequoias once again played a major role in shaping this new perspective. Featuring a fascinating cast of adventurers, researchers, politicians, and environmentalists, King Sequoia reveals how one tree species transformed Americans' connection to the natural world.
The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda (Routledge Revivals)
by Kenneth InghamFirst published in 1975, The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda describes the foundation of the Toro kingdom in the nineteenth century by the rebel prince Kaboyo, and investigates how Kasagama, Kaboyo’s grandson, was able to recreate, with little local support, a kingdom far more extensive than Kaboyo had ever envisaged. His personal authority was established by his insistence that its root were traditional, thus satisfying the requirements of ‘indirect rules’ at a time when this ill-defined concept served both as the shibboleth and the escape clause for an overstretched British colonial administration. Although Kasagama’s son, Rukidi, was able to combine authority with personal popularity and to take advantage of colonial innovations without losing control of his kingdom, the ending of colonial rule brought an end to Toro as he knew it. In an independent Uganda the particularism stressed by Toro’s rulers could not survive. This book will be of interest to students of history, colonialism, African studies and ethnic studies.
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
by Josh TickellFrom Josh Tickell, one of America&’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers, comes a &“fascinating, easy-to-follow blueprint for how eating in ways that nourish and regenerate the soil can not only help reverse global warming, but also bring greater vitality to our lives&” (Wolfgang Puck). &“A must read for anyone committed to healing our bodies and our Earth&” (Deepak Chopra), Kiss the Ground explains an incredible truth: by changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous substances that are harming our children, pets, bodies, and ultimately our planet. This &“richly visual&” (KirkusReviews) look at the impact of an underappreciated but essential resource—the very ground that feeds us—features fascinating and accessible interviews with celebrity chefs, ranchers, farmers, and top scientists. Kiss the Ground teaches you how to become an agent in humanity&’s single most important and time-sensitive mission: reverse climate change and effectively save the world—all through the choices you make in how and what to eat. Also a full-length documentary executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and narrated by Woody Harrelson, &“Kiss the Ground both informs and inspires&” (Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
A Kitchen Course in Electricity and Magnetism
by David Nightingale Christopher SpencerElectricity is all around us: cars, telephones, computers, lights -- the modern world runs entirely on electrons. But what are electrons? How do they behave? How do we control them? This book will show you how to build a battery, detect static electricity and construct a basic current meter, all using common items from your kitchen. Along the way you'll learn about the meaning of "voltage" and "current", what makes an LED work and the difference between AC and DC. The last chapter uses transistors -- the basic building blocks of every computer -- for lots of interesting experiments. With plenty of colorful illustrations, historical stories and an easy, accessible style, "A Kitchen Course in Electricity and Magnetism" will be a great start for budding and amateur scientists who want to learn more about how the world works.
Kitchen Pollutants Control and Ventilation: A Ventilation Guide to Asian & European Kitchen Environment
by Angui Li Risto KosonenThis book has been written by two experts in ventilation and indoor air quality with vast experience in the field of kitchen ventilation in both Asia and Europe. The authors share their extensive knowledge of the subject and present the results of their research programs as well those of other researchers. Discussing advanced theories of and design approaches for kitchen ventilation, it is a useful reference resource for a wide range of readers, including HVAC researchers, designers and architects.
Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
by Christine Shearer"This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what's happening to the people of Kivalina. It's a tragedy because it's unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed in some of the biggest and richest companies on earth."-Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet"Christine Shearer's Kivalina: A Climate Change Story is a fast and bumpy ride that begins with the history of outrageous corporate deceptions through public relations and legal campaigns, continuing with building of the coal-and-oil empire to fuel progress in the United States, leading to the horrendous politics of climate crisis, and finally arriving at its destination, a ground-zero of climate refugee, Kivalina-an Inupiat community along the Chukchi Sea coast of arctic Alaska. I was angry when I turned the last page. I urge you to get a copy, read it, share the story, and join the new global climate justice movement."-Subhankar Banerjee, photographer, writer, activist, and author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and LandWhile corporate funded scientists continue their effort to spread doubt about global climate change, for one native village in Alaska, the price of further denial could be the complete devastation of their homes and culture. Kivalina must be relocated to survive, but neither the oil giants nor the government have proven willing to take responsibility.Christine Shearer is a writer, journalist, activist, and academic. She is the environment and ecology editor of Economy Watch, and managing editor of the online progressive magazine Conducive. She is also a contributor to Coalswarm, part of the online corporate watch website SourceWatch.
The Kiwifruit Genome
by Raffaele Testolin Hong-Wen Huang Allan Ross FergusonThis book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights into the main gene families that characterize this species as a crop, including the genes controlling sugar and starch metabolism, pigment biosynthesis and degradation, the ascorbic-acid pathway, fruit softening and postharvest metabolism, allergens, and resistance to pests and diseases. The book offers a valuable reference guide for taxonomists, geneticists and horticulturists. Further, since information gained from the genome sequence is extraordinarily useful in assessing the breeding value of individuals based on whole-genome scans, it will especially benefit plant breeders. Accordingly, chapters are included that focus on gene introgression from wild relatives and genome-based breeding.
Klastische Sedimente: Fazies und Sequenzstratigraphie
by Andreas SchäferKlastische Sedimente entstehen durch Verwitterung und Erosion von Gesteinen. In Faziesmodellen geordnet, dokumentieren sie die verschiedenen genetischen Bedingungen ihres Transports und ihrer Ablagerung. Diese werden hier anhand eigener Fallstudien und solcher aus der Literatur dargestellt und erklärt. Mit dem Arbeitskonzept der Sequenzstratigraphie werden Ablagerungsprozesse im Detail interpretiert, zeitlich fixiert und über große Entfernungen hinweg miteinander korreliert. Sie bereitet das ordnende Prinzip für die Analyse von Strukturen und Fazieskörpern in Sedimentbecken, und stellt ein hervorragendes Werkzeug für wissenschaftliche und vor allem angewandte Fragestellungen dar.Die zweite Auflage wurde aktualisiert, auf das gewachsene Arbeitsfeld der Sedimentgeologie angepasst und um regionale Beispiele ergänzt. Das moderne Layout wird durch die nunmehr farbigen Abbildungen unterstrichen. Wichtige Fachbegriffe werden sichtbar hervorgehoben.
Klima
by Gerd GanteförPanikmache oder sicheres Weltende? Was vom "Klimawandel" wirklich zu halten istKaum ein Thema erregt die Gemüter so wie die Frage, ob der Klimawandel uns alle ins Verderben stürzt oder wir nur einer Angst fördernden Kampagne hysterischer Umweltaktivisten aufsitzen. Die Diskussionen werden heiß geführt und münden oft in extreme Positionen und widersprüchliche Szenarien. Und eines ist bei alldem selten zu finden: verlässliche Orientierung. Genau diese bietet Gerd Ganteför mit seinem Buch.Orientierung durch WissenGerd Ganteför überprüft die gängigen Argumente, Mythen und Legenden: unabhängig, seriös und wissenschaftlich fundiert. So leistet er nicht nur eminent wichtige Aufklärungsarbeit, sondern fördert auch einige handfeste Überraschungen zu Tage. Der staunende Leser erfährt etwa, dass Flugreisende energieeffizienter unterwegs sind als Autofahrer, und er bekommt eine Vorstellung davon, was die Menschheit bei der nächsten Eiszeit erwartet. Ganz nebenbei vermittelt der Autor dabei fundiertes Wissen zu den zentralen Zukunftsthemen Klima und Energie.Provokation mit ArgumentenGanz bewusst tritt Gerd Ganteför der grassierenden "Lust am Untergang" entgegen. So verweist er auf die Vorteile der Klimaerwärmung, bindet Kohle- und Kernkraftwerke in eine Strategie zum Naturschutz ein und bescheinigt den Verfechtern regenerativer Energien, einem schönen Traum nachzuhängen. Selten sind solche Thesen mit so guten Argumenten vertreten worden wie in diesem Buch.
Klima und Umweltpolitik
by Ulrich RankeDer Klimawandel findet jetzt und überall statt ist. Das Buch legt die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen dar, die notwendig sind, um im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel die Emissionen unter dem notwendigen Schwellwert von 2 °C zu halten. Ohne internationale Zusammenarbeit und grenzüberschreitende Initiativen wird dieses Ziel nicht zu erreichen sein. Eine Auswahl der bedeutendsten Klimaabkommen wird in diesem Buch in den naturwissenschaftlichen Kontext der Klimagenese gestellt und auf ihre sozioökonomischen und kulturellen Auswirkungen hin beleuchtet. Dazu werden zunächst die Themenfelder Klimawirkungen und die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen des Klimageschehens beschrieben. Es werden die institutionellen und technischen Instrumente der Klimaschutzpolitik diskutiert und ausführlich ausgewählte Konferenzen unter dem Dach der Vereinten Nationen dokumentiert. Nach Paris 2015 lässt sich feststellen, dass der Klimawandel nur durch eine noch umfassendere Internationalisierung beeinflusst werden kann.
Klimabericht für die Metropolregion Hamburg
by Hans Von Storch Martin ClaussenDer Sachstandsbericht liefert einen Überblick über das wissenschaftlich gesicherte Wissen zu Klima, Klimavariabilität und Klimawandel in der Region Hamburg. Dabei beschreiben die Autoren sowohl das Wissen über die letzten 100 Jahre als auch über mögliche Veränderungen in den kommenden 100 Jahren. Es wird dargestellt, auf welchen Feldern Übereinstimmung besteht, wo Uneinigkeit oder Unwissen herrschen und wo Forschungsbedarf besteht. Der Bericht wurde im Rahmen des Exzellenzclusters CliSAP am KlimaCampus der Universität Hamburg erarbeitet.
KlimaIng - Planung klimagerechter Fabriken: Problembasiertes Lernen In Den Ingenieurwissenschaften
by Uwe Dombrowski Sabine MarxDie mit dem Klimawandel verbundenen Risiken haben auch Konsequenzen für produzierende Unternehmen und ihre Produktionsstätten. Daher widmet sich das Buch der klimagerechten Planung von Fabriken und verknüpft dieses ingenieurwissenschaftliche Fachgebiet mit Grundlagenwissen zur Planung und Durchführung problembasierter Lehrveranstaltungen an Hochschulen. Im ersten Teil beschreiben die Autoren die Grundlagen des Klimawandels und der Fabrikplanung. Sie stellen zum einen die Vorgehensweisen zur Identifizierung von Klimarisiken und zum anderen Planungsansätze zu deren Reduzierung vor. Der zweite Teil verknüpft diese ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Aufgabenstellungen mit dem Konzept problembasierten Lernens. Dabei wird problembasiertes Lernen als Lehrmethode zum Erwerb und zur Anwendung praxisrelevanten Fachwissens verstanden, die stets die Lernenden in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Neben theoretischen Grundlagen und aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen zur Wirksamkeit problembasierten Lernens erhalten Leser hier auch Hinweise für die Implementation in der Praxis. Am Beispiel einer problembasierten Lehrveranstaltung, die im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes entwickelt wurde, wird eine didaktische Konzeption zur Planung und Durchführung problembasierter Lernumgebungen vorgestellt. Diese Modell-Lehrveranstaltung ist so aufbereitet, dass das Konzept ohne viel Aufwand auf andere Themengebiete der Ingenieurwissenschaften übertragen werden kann. Der dritte Teil des Buchs bietet eine Fallsammlung zu unterschiedlichen Lernzielen. Diese dienen Nutzern als Vorlage, um selbst geeignete Fälle für problembasierte Lernumgebungen zu konstruieren. Das Buch richtet sich an Lehrkräfte in ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen, insbesondere solche mit dem Schwerpunkt Klimawandel und Fabrikplanung.
Klimaneutralität in der Industrie: Aktuelle Entwicklungen – Praxisberichte – Handlungsempfehlungen
by Ulrike Böhm Alexandra Hildebrandt Stefanie KästleNachhaltigkeit und der Umbau der Wirtschaft zur Klimaneutralität sind große historische Kraftanstrengungen und Umwälzungen. Vieles läuft dabei parallel: die Bewältigung von Krisen, Effizienz und Innovationen sowie Technologieschübe. Zur Erreichung der Klimaneutralität braucht es vor allem einen ganzheitlichen Strukturwandel der Industrie. Dieses Buch unterstützt Unternehmen, ihren eigenen Weg zu planen und mit passenden Strategien und Maßnahmen zu unterlegen, denn mit den Klimaneutralitätszielen bis 2045 sind sie zum Handeln aufgefordert. Es versteht sich als Transfer- und Praxisbuch zum Thema Klimaneutralität in der Industrie mit dem Ziel, anwendbare und praxiserprobte Handlungsmöglichkeiten aufzuzeigen. Präsentiert werden Empfehlungen und ein Instrumentenmix, der Klimaschutz entlang der gesamten industriellen Wertschöpfungskette forciert. Gezeigt werden auch Risiken, die sich aus dem Klimawandel für Produktion, Betriebsabläufe und Lieferketten ergeben sowie mögliche Chancen, die sich durch die Veränderung der Rahmenbedingungen bieten.Das Buch verbindet außerdem unternehmensspezifische Ansätze mit politischen und gesellschaftlichen Debatten über Klimaneutralität, stellt die wichtigen Initiativen zur Klimaneutralität vor und widmet sich der Frage, wie sich Unternehmen durch Transparenz, Glaubwürdigkeit und Kommunikation der eigenen Klimastrategie aktiv im Markt positionieren. Das Werk richtet sich an Unternehmer*innen, CSR- und Nachhaltigkeitsbeauftragte, Fach- und Führungskräfte in Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsverbänden und -organisationen sowie Industrie- und Unternehmensverbände. Es eignet sich auch für Studierende und Dozierende im Bereich Management.