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Forests for Public Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Forests for Public Health

Forests have diverse values and functions that produce not only material products, but also non-material services. The health functions provided by forests have been used for a very long time, but they have only been emphasized in many fields of society in recent years. The rapid increase in urbanization and the problems of stress, sedentary occupations, and hazardous urban environmental conditions due to modern life may be factors that place great demand on forests’ health functions. Scientific research has shown that there are various psychological and physiological human health benefits of exposure to forests, parks, and green spaces. This collection of papers highlights up-to-date findings and evidence to reveal the beneficial effects of forests on human and public health. The findings provided here can be implemented in practice and policy using forests and nature for human and public health.

Halal aus Sicht der muslimischen Bevölkerung
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 121

Halal aus Sicht der muslimischen Bevölkerung

Der globale Wachstumsmarkt „Halal“ hat sich im österreichischen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel noch nicht etablieren können. Dabei liegt in der Zunahme des Anteils der Muslime in der Bevölkerung auch enormes Marktpotenzial. Mit einem prüfenden Blick auf das Einkaufsverhalten muslimischer Bevölkerungsgruppen, ihren Motiven, Werten und Einstellungen gegenüber Halal findet diese qualitative Studie praxistaugliche Antworten auf die steigende Nachfrage nach halal-konformen Lebensmitteln.

Forests for Public Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Forests for Public Health

Forests have diverse values and functions that produce not only material products, but also non-material services. The health functions provided by forests have been used for a very long time, but they have only been emphasized in many fields of society in recent years. The rapid increase in urbanization and the problems of stress, sedentary occupations, and hazardous urban environmental conditions due to modern life may be factors that place great demand on forestsâ (TM) health functions. Scientific research has shown that there are various psychological and physiological human health benefits of exposure to forests, parks, and green spaces. This collection of papers highlights up-to-date findings and evidence to reveal the beneficial effects of forests on human and public health. The findings provided here can be implemented in practice and policy using forests and nature for human and public health.

Services in Family Forestry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Services in Family Forestry

This book transfers the newest service research concepts, such as value co-creation, to family forestry context. The book is aimed at as learning material for higher-education students in Western economies, and as a handbook for forest scientists worldwide. It has a strong theoretical base, but also a practical orientation with examples of novel forest services from different regions and contexts. The five parts of the book are: I Conceptualization of Service Approaches in Family Forestry; II Market and Policy Environment; III Public Service and Business Innovations; IV Communication, Cooperation, and Organizations for Services; and V Transitions Governance. Each part begins with a chapter that is more conceptual and thus sets the stage for the subsequent chapters, which then focus on a regional perspective or some more specific theme under the part’s coverage.

A Performance Cosmology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

A Performance Cosmology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics. Contributors include: Philip Auslander, Rustom Bharucha, Tim Etchells, Jane Goodall, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jon Mckenzie, Claire MacDonald, Susan Melrose, Alphonso Lingis, Richard Schechner, Rebecca Schneider, Edward Scheer, and Freddie Rokem. A Performance Cosmology is structured as a travelogue through a matrix of strategic, imaginary, interdisciplinary field stations. This innovative framework enables readings which disrupt linearity and afford different forms of thematic engagement. The resulting volume opens entirely new vistas on the old, new, and as yet unimagined, worlds of performance.

Farming for Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Farming for Health

Farming for Health describes the use of farms, farm animals, plants and landscapes as a base for promoting human mental and physical health and social well-being. The book offers an overview of the development of ‘Farming for Health’ initiatives across Europe, resulting from changing paradigms in health care and the demand for new social and financial activities in agriculture and rural areas. The contributors are drawn from a range of countries and disciplines.

The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age

The main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research, i.e., health, competence, and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments; geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing; and epidemiology, which offers most fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three cha...

Stress Echocardiography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 758

Stress Echocardiography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

This sixth edition is enriched by over 300 figures, 150 tables and a video-companion collecting more than 100 cases also presented in the format of short movies and teaching cartoons. This extensively revised and enlarged edition of this long-seller documents the very significant advances made since the fifth (2009) edition and is entirely written by Eugenio Picano, a pioneer in the field sharing his lifetime experience with the help of an international panel of 50 contributors from 22 countries representing some of the best available knowledge and expertise in their respective field. In a societal and economic climate of increasing pressure for appropriate, justified and optimized imaging, ...

Topics in Public Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Topics in Public Economics

The evolving modern world is characterized by two opposing trends: integration and segregation. On the one hand, we witness strong forces for segregation on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, religion, and culture in the former Soviet Union, the former Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Northern Ireland, Spain, and Canada. These forces are quite strong and, in some cases, violent. On the other hand, the European Union and NAFTA represent the tendency for integration motivated primarily by economic considerations (such as gains from trade and scale economies). In fact, these opposing trends can be explained by the concepts developed in modern club theory, local public finance, and international trade.

Nowhere Ending Sky
  • Language: en

Nowhere Ending Sky

Meta opens her eyes wide, and the blue seeps into them. She keeps them open until she is fat and swollen with colour and the sky is drained pale. It is a slightly scary game: it could easily be that the sky doesn't like having its colour taken away. So she closes her eyes and sends the blue back to where it came from.