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This book concerns the different aspects of forest fires, the impact of fire on both forest resources (e.g. forest cover) and communities that use different forest functions. Therefore, forest fires have their environmental, economic and social consequences, and none of them is less important. Forest fires can be caused by both natural forces and anthropogenic factors, and in the latter case, it is extremely interesting to profile the potential arsonist. Forest fires may also cause conflicts, stronger or weaker, in local communities that have been using forests for years. These conflicts can be solved both by gradually changing the law itself and through education at the local level. Not les...
Silviculture is integral for the perpetuity and sustainability of forest stands and their yields. It encompasses several methods and techniques that make the bridge between individual trees and the stand. This book focuses on sustainable forest management with chapters on such topics as afforestation, thinning, pest control, and mitigation of climate change, among others.
Spatial statistics has been widely used in many environmental studies. This book is a collection of recent studies on applying spatial statistics in subjects such as demography, transportation, precision agriculture and ecology. Different subjects require different aspects of spatial statistics. In addition to quantitative statements from statistics and tests, visualization in forms of maps, drawings, and images are provided to illustrate the relationship between data and locations. This book will be valuable to researchers who are interested in applying statistics to spatial data, as well as graduate students who know statistics and want to explore how it can be applied to spatial data. With the processing part being simplified to several mouse clicks by commercial software, one should pay more attention to justification of using spatial statistics, as well as interpretation and assessment of the results. GIScience proves to be a useful tool in visualization of spatial data, and such useful technology should be utilized, as part, for the interpretation and assessment of the results.
Polnische Gegenwartskunst wurde in den späten 1950er und 1960er Jahren zu einer festen Größe im westdeutschen Ausstellungsbetrieb. Faszination für die Tauwetter-Kultur in Polen, politische Motive, aber auch eine allgemeine Internationalisierung der Kunstwelt trugen dazu bei. Lange vor der Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen entstanden dabei Netzwerke über den Eisernen Vorhang hinweg, an denen unterschiedliche Akteure aus Kultur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft beteiligt waren. Auf der Grundlage umfassender Quellenrecherchen rekonstruiert und analysiert die Autorin Hintergründe, Entstehung und Rezeption der Ausstellungen und ordnet sie in den zeithistorischen Kontext ein. Die Verflechtungen von Kultur und Politik werden dabei ebenso deutlich wie die Eigendynamik der Ausstellungskooperationen. Eines der interessantesten, aber weitgehend vergessenen Kapitel der polnisch-westdeutschen Beziehungsgeschichte wird damit erstmals erschlossen.
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