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Sustainability Indicators
While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as ...
Communicating Global Change Science to Society
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Biodiversity Change and Human Health
Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural biodiversity and human health and well-being. The five parts examine health trade-offs between competing uses of biodiversity (highlighting synergistic situations in which conservation of natural biodiversity actually promotes human health and well-being); relationships between biodiversity and qual...
New Music, New Allies
New Music, New Allies documents how American experimental music and its practitioners came to prominence in the West German cultural landscape between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. Beginning with the reeducation programs implemented by American military officers during the postwar occupation of West Germany and continuing through the cultural policies of the Cold War era, this broad history chronicles German views on American music, American composers’ pursuit of professional opportunities abroad, and the unprecedented dissemination and support their music enjoyed through West German state-subsidized radio stations, new music festivals, and international exchange programs. Framing the biographies of prominent American composer-performers within the aesthetic and ideological contexts of the second half of the twentieth century, Amy C. Beal follows the international careers of John Cage, Henry Cowell, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Conlon Nancarrow, and many others to Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, Cologne, Bremen, Berlin, and Munich.
Akademische Lehrkompetenzen im Diskurs : Theorie und Praxis
Lernendenzentrierung und Kompetenzorientierung haben an Hochschulen längst Einzug gehalten. Forschungs- und Reflexionsbedarf besteht jedoch hinsichtlich der praktischen Konsequenzen, die sich daraus ergeben. Welche Kompetenzen sind nötig, um lernendenzentrierte und kompetenzorientierte Lehre umsetzen zu können? Geht mit dem Wandel universitärer Bildungskonzepte eine Änderung des Lehrendenbildes einher? Welche Herausforderungen sind in der universitären Weiterbildung zu lokalisieren? In diesem Sinne richten die AutorInnen dieser Publikation den Blick auf die Entwicklung der Kompetenzen von Lehrenden. Präsentiert, diskutiert und reflektiert werden insbesondere theoretisch-wissenschaftli...
Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability
Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge on Indian Ocean biogeochemistry and ecology, and an introduction of new concepts and topical paradigm challenges. It also reports on the development of more extensive/frequent observational capacity being deployed in the Indian Ocean. This book The volume is derived from invited plenary talks that were presented at the initial SIBER workshop held at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa, India in October 2006. It includes contributions from some of the most esteemed oceanographers and Indian Ocean experts in the world. This volume will be valuable to academic and go...
Watersheds, Bays, and Bounded Seas
"Watersheds, Bays, and Bounded Seas provides state-of-the-science information about semi-enclosed marine systems and identifies best management practices to preserve them. With contributions by natural and social scientists, the book examines both the biophysical and political forces affecting these complex systems."--BOOK JACKET.
The Silicon Cycle
Silica, biogeosphere, vegetation, diatoms, marine food, webs.
Looking at Learning - Blicke auf das Lernen. Higher Education. Language. Place - Hochschule. Sprache. Ort
In this new decade, institutions of learning and the learning individuals who attend them are confronted with phenomena of change and transition, and with contradictions. Traditional learning and education concepts therefore have to be reevaluated and adapted to current circumstances. In this book, which comprises contributions in English and in German, authors from different scientific disciplines look at learning on the basis of three key aspects: higher education, language and place. Angekommen im neuen Jahrzehnt sehen sich Bildungsinstitutionen und lernende Individuen mit Phänomenen des Wandels und des Umbruchs sowie mit Widersprüchen konfrontiert. Traditionelle Lern- und Bildungskonzepte müssen deshalb neu überdacht und den aktuellen Begebenheiten angepasst werden. In diesem Buch, das sowohl deutsche als auch englische Beiträge versammelt, blicken AutorInnen unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen auf das Lernen anhand der Schwerpunkte Hochschule, Sprache, Ort.
Musik in Baden-Württemberg, Band 5: Jahbuch 1998
1898, vor hundert Jahren, wurde an der Universität Heidelberg mit Philipp Wolfrum der erste Professor für Musikwissenschaft im Gebiet des heutigen Bundeslandes Baden-Württemberg berufen. Aus diesem Anlaß befassen sich vier Beiträge in diesem Jahrbuch mit der Geschichte der musikwissenschaftlichen Lehre in Baden und Württemberg: Thomas Schipperges mit Heidelberg, Michael Kaufmann mit Karlsruhe, Eckhard John mit der Freiburger Ära Wilibald Gurlitts sowie Gabriela Rothmund-Gaul mit dem Amt des Tübinger Universitätsmusikdirektors. Es folgen Beiträge zu regionalgeschichtlich bedeutenden Komponisten: Hans-Bruno Ernst beschäftigt sich mit Josef Anton Laucher (1737-1813); Clytus Gottwald mit Joseph Huber (1837-1886), der zur selben Zeit wie Wagner eine eigenständige musikdramatische Form entwickelte; Lee A. Rothfarb mit August Halm (1869-1929) sowie Paul Feuchte mit dem Heidelberger Richard Franck. Neben weiteren Aufsätzen enthält der Band, wie stets, die Musikbibliographie Baden-Württemberg, die Rubrik Neue und restaurierte Orgeln" sowie einen umfangreichen Rezensionsteil zu Neuerscheinungen."
