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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.
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.
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.
Biodiversität, Ökosystemfunktionen und Naturschutz
Der weltweite Verlust an biologischer Vielfalt, verursacht durch eine nicht nachhaltige Nutzung von Ökosystemen, birgt schwerwiegende gesamtgesellschaftliche Risiken, welche jenen des Klimawandels vergleichbar sind. Doch erst seit wenigen Jahren verstehen wir genauer, warum biologische Vielfalt eine Grundvoraussetzung für die Stabilität und das Funktionieren von Ökosystemen und damit auch für gesellschaftlichen Wohlstand ist. Das vorliegende Buch stellt in anschaulicher und allgemeinverständlicher Form das heute verfügbare Wissen über die „funktionelle Bedeutung“ der globalen biologischen Vielfalt vor und erläutert anhand von faszinierenden und vielen wissenschaftlich neuen Beis...
Cosima
"Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. Based on Deledda's own life, the work describes a young woman's struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action. Deledda's characters are poor country folk driven by some predetermined force. Their loves are tragic, their lives as hard and as rigidly controlled as nature itself in th...
Mires and Peatlands in Europe
The European continent features an impressive variety of mires and peatlands. Polygon, palsa, and aapa mires, concentric and eccentric bogs, spring and percolation fens, coastal marshes, blanket bogs, saline fens, acid, alkaline, nutrient poor, nutrient rich: the peatlands of Europe represent unique ecosystem biodiversity and harbour a large treasure of flora and fauna typical of peat forming environments. Europe is also the continent with the longest history, the highest intensity, and the largest variety of peatland use, and as a consequence it has the highest proportion of degraded peatlands worldwide. Peatland science and technology developed in parallel to exploitation and it is therefo...
Importance of irrigated agriculture to the Ethiopian economy: capturing the direct net benefits of irrigation
Irrigation development has been identified as a means to stimulate economic growth and rural development in Ethiopia. However, little attempt has been made to quantify the contribution of irrigation to national income. Using data from selected irrigation schemes, representing small, medium and large-scale schemes of modern or traditional typologies; the present coverage and planned growth of irrigation, actual and expected contributions of irrigation to the national economy were quantified following the approach of adjusted gross margin analysis. Our results show that irrigation yields 219.7% higher income compared to the rainfed system while its current and future contribution to agricultural GDP is estimated to be about 5.7 and 12% although irrigation covers about 5 and 9% of the total cultivated land area, respectively.
