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Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar context
Peatlands in the Nordic Baltic region and elsewhere in the world store large amounts of carbon and are at the same time important for conservation of biodiversity. Thus peatlands are space-effective carbon stocks, but when drained carbon and nitrogen are released as greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and as nitrate to the surface water, while methane will be released when rewetting. New knowledge reveals that one of the most efficient means to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are the restoration of drained peatlands by reestablish former high water tables on organic soils.This project on synergies between climate change mitigation and the restoration of peatlands has been conducted under a regional Ramsar initiative covering the Nordic and Baltic countries (NorBalWet), with support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report contains chapters on peatlands and their role in climate change mitigation, individual country chapters and the role of the Ramsar Convention.
Transitioning to Sustainable Life on Land
Sustainable Life on Land, the fifteenth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15), calls for the protection, restoration and promotion of the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. Among others, it requires societies to sustainably manage forests, halt and reverse land degradation, combat desertification, and halt biodiversity loss. Despite the fact that protection of terrestrial ecosystems is on the rise worldwide and forest loss has slowed, the recent IPBES report concluded that “nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history”. Consequently, the United Nations General Assembly recently declared 2021–2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. There is no dou...
Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services
An interdisciplinary book tackling the challenges of managing peatlands and their ecosystem services in the face of climate change.
Kulturpoetik des Moores
Moor hat Konjunktur. Renaturierungsprojekte, die Moore wieder in frühere Zustände zurückversetzen sollen, werden durch den Umweltschutz und die Hoffnung motiviert, durch die Wiederherstellung des CO2-Speichers Moor, dem anthropogenen Klimawandel entgegenzuwirken. Zugleich wagte die Literatur in den vergangenen Jahren zahlreiche Moorgänge. Hierbei wird einerseits an Traditionen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, etwa Anette von Droste-Hülshofs „Knaben in Moor" angeknüpft, zugleich werden neue Formen des Nature Writings aber auch der Etablierung devianter literarischer Räume erprobt. Der Band vereint Beiträge unterschiedlicher Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, die neben Texten der Urbarmachungsbestrebungen des 18. Jahrhundert, den literarischen Moorsemantiken der Romantik und der Lyrik des späten 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhunderts auch Beispiele der südamerikanischen, russischen und belgischen Literatur versammelt. Er bietet damit erstmals eine umfassende literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Sondage dieses bislang kaum erforschten literarischen Feldes.
Peatlands
"Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme, October 2012."
Beyond Carbon Neutral
Beyond Carbon Neutral: How We Fix the Climate Crisis Now, details, step-by-step, what we need to do right now to avert disaster, showing that there is still hope for solving climate change. This important book hopes to instill the passion and clarity for overcoming such a major problem. Author Dr. Samuel M. Goodman provides a tool to help you gain the understanding needed to advocate for a future free of this looming catastrophe in this thought-provoking work. Beyond Carbon Neutral speaks to everyone concerned about climate change. It’s designed to give the reader the information they’ll need to understand the road ahead. You'll read about: - Making a balanced and renewable power grid that provides energy year-round; - Sequestering carbon dioxide in scalable and practical ways; - Using the powers of societal institutions to make change happen; and - Getting involved and make choices that make a difference. Worried about climate change? Beyond Carbon Neutral contains a wealth of information to help turn innovative concepts into reality.
Intersektionen von race, class, gender, body
Soziale Arbeit hat sich seit ihren Anfängen als Reaktion auf Ungleichheitsverhältnisse etabliert, die nun mit den Möglichkeiten des Intersektionalitätsdiskurses neu analysiert werden. Der vorliegende Band enthält in jedem seiner Beiträge dreierlei Zugänge: - Die Leser*innen werden eingeführt in den Diskurs der Intersektionalität. - Sie werden exemplarisch in die von den Herausgeber*innen definierten vier zentralen Felder der Sozialen Arbeit eingeführt. - Sie erhalten Einblick in die unterschiedlichen qualitativen Forschungszugänge zur sozialen Wirklichkeit. Durch diese spezifischen Zugänge ist der Band ein Beitrag für rekonstruktive Sozialforschung, der entlang der Handlungsfelder Urbanität/Stadt, Transnationalisierung, Familie und Jugend adäquate Forschungsverfahren präsentiert.
Peatlands mapping and monitoring
Integration of peatlands into land-use monitoring systems is central to the conservation of their carbon storage – be they conserved, degraded or restored. Healthy peatlands mitigate climate change, enhance adaptive capacity and maintain ecosystem services and biodiversity. Albeit peatlands are starting to receive a high level of attention and the scientific basis for their monitoring has quickly developed over the last few years. Robust and practical approaches and tools for developing and integrating peatland-monitoring into national monitoring and reporting frameworks is an important opportunity for countries to limit global warming to 2 °C.
