Thermodynamics and the destruction of resources
This book is a unique, multidisciplinary effort to apply rigorous thermodynamics fundamentals, a disciplined scholarly approach, to problems of sustainability, energy, and resource uses. Applying thermodynamic thinking to problems of sustainable behavior is a significant advanta…
Biographical note: Robert J. Mayhew, University of Bristol, UK. Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to over…
This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies …
This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies …
Das Thema Resilienz und die Förderung von Schutzfaktoren hat in den Human- und Gesundheitswissenschaften in den letzten Jahren - verbunden mit dem Paradigmenwechsel von der Defizit- zur Ressourcenorientierung bzw. von der Pathogenese zur Salutogenese - eine zunehmende Bedeutung …
Kritische Metalle in der Großen Transformation
"That anthropogenic climate change is one of the foremost twenty-first century global security challenges is a view now firmly, if rather superficially, ensconced within Western liberal public and policy discourse. National security strategies have depicted it as 'an urgent and …
Das Zusammenleben mit psychisch kranken Eltern erhöht das Risiko, dass die Entwicklung der Kinder einen ungünstigen Verlauf nimmt. Die Kinder stellen daher eine besondere psychiatrische Risikogruppe dar. Der Leitfaden beschreibt die Schwerpunkte und Besonderheiten des diagnostis…
