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  • 2010-2014  (6)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (6)
  • Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
  • Biology  (6)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781139782661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (366 Seiten)
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Print version Resilience and the Cultural Landscape
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Resilience and the cultural landscape
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Cultural landscapes ; Landscape changes ; Electronic books ; Kulturlandschaftswandel ; Landnutzung ; Landschaftsgestaltung ; Landschaftsschutz
    Abstract: "All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics, and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. "--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Resilience and the Cultural Landscape: Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Note; PART I: CONCEPTUALISING LANDSCAPES AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; 1 Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience; Two views on values and changes of cultural landscapes; Challenges to cultural landscapes; Globalisation of landscapes; Landscapes of agricultural intensification and expansion; Marginalised and abandoned landscapes; Landscapes of urbanisation and land consumption; Landscapes of renewable power
    Description / Table of Contents: Nature conservation landscapesMultifunctional landscapes; Local and international action for landscapes; The cultural landscapes approach; The resilience approach; Prospects for linking landscape and resilience research; Note; References; 2 Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes; Introduction; The changing cultural landscape; Changing perspectives on landscape governance; Landscape change and resilience; Landscapes as resilient social-ecological systems; The pursuit of 'good' landscape resilience; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach?Introduction; The resilience approach to social-ecological systems; The cultural landscape concept; Similarities and differences between the two approaches; Explanation of the similarities between the two approaches; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4 Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking; Introduction; The human as conceptualised in cultural landscape thinking
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Resilience thinking versus political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapesThe problem; Small-scale farming landscapes in eastern Africa, as seen from two perspectives; Where is the boundary of the system?; What is the nature of agrarian societies?; Different conceptualisations: different world views?; Understanding European small-scale landscapes; Esch landscapes in Drenthe, the Netherlands; Bocage in Bretagne; Summer farms in Sweden; The historical evidence; Some concluding thoughts; Acknowledgements; References
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II: ANALYSING LANDSCAPE RESILIENCE
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience Tobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling; Part I. Conceptualising Landscapes and Social-Ecological Systems: 2. Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes Paul Selman; 3. From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach? Thomas Kirchoff, Fridolin Brand and Deborah Hoheisel; 4. Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking Lesley Head; 5. System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics Marie Stenseke, Regina Lindborg, Annika Dhalberg and Elin Sla;tmo; 6. Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapes Mats Widgren; Part II. Analysing Landscape Resilience: 7. In search of resilient behaviour: using the driving forces framework to study cultural landscapes Matthias Bürgi, Felix Kienast and Anna M. Hersperger; 8. Cultural landscapes as complex adaptive systems: the cases of northern Spain and northern Argentina Alejandro J. Rescia, Mari;a E. Pe;rez-Corona, Paula Arribas-Ureña and John W. Dover; 9. Linking path dependency and resilience for the analysis of landscape development Andreas Röhring and Ludger Gailing; 10. The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social-ecological system William Found and Marta Berbe;s-Blázquez; 11. Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: tracing regime shifts across scales Kira Gee and Benjamin Burkhard; Part III. Managing Landscapes for Resilience: 12. Collective efforts to manage cultural landscapes for resilience Katrin Prager; 13. Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience for the management of social-ecological systems Magnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist; 14. Ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in transhumance cultural landscapes: learning from the past, looking for a future Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Jose; A. González, Berta Marti;n-López, Ce;sar A. López and Carlos Montes; 15. The role of homegardens in strengthening social-ecological resilience: case studies from Cuba and Austria Christine Van der Stege, Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser and Christian R. Vogl; 16. Promises and pitfalls of adaptive management in resilience thinking: the lens of political ecology Bets ...
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139572828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (292 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boesch, Christophe Wild cultures
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Animal behavior ; Chimpanzees -- Behavior ; Animal behavior ; Chimpanzees ; Behavior ; Electronic books ; Schimpanse ; Mensch ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
    Abstract: Cover -- Wild Cultures: A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- And the culture war started … -- Chimpanzee ethnography to uncover culture -- Cultural biases and scientific progress -- 1 Studying culture in the wild -- To study animals, all you need is love -- First steps towards chimpanzee culture -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, May 1992 -- Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, October 1989 -- About animals, ignorance, and anthropocentrism -- Time to realize that Descartes got it wrong -- Synopsis -- 2 From human culture to wild culture -- Culture and ecology in humans -- Different approaches to culture -- Animal ethnography to expose animal cultures -- Imo, the cultural innovator -- Social transmission of cultural traits -- The paradox of studying "culture outside of culture" -- Animal cultures to learn about human cultures -- Synopsis -- 3 Shaping nature into home About material culture -- Taï Forest, December 1990 -- Tool makers in evolution -- Material culture shapes one's own world -- Technology boosts chimpanzee cultural ethnography -- Cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees -- When culture and environment mix -- Material culture in other species -- History of material culture: chimpanzee Stone Age -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 4 One for all and all for one About social culture -- Taï Forest, September 1976 -- Taï Forest, October 1992 -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, April 1992 -- Hunting cultures in chimpanzees -- Cooperation: acting at the same time or acting together? -- Cooperation in high-risk situations -- Cultural altruism in chimpanzees -- Social niche construction in animals -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 5 I want to have sex with you About symbolic culture.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780511921520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxiii, 631 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Environmental education ; Environmental sciences ; Interdisziplinarität ; Umwelterziehung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Humanökologie ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Umweltwissenschaften ; Umwelterziehung ; Humanökologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Interdisziplinarität
    Abstract: In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process? These are the issues central to the concept of environmental literacy. This unique book provides a comprehensive review and analysis of environmental literacy within the context of environmental science and sustainable development. Approaching the topic from multiple perspectives, it explores the development of human understanding of the environment and human-environment interactions in the fields of biology, psychology, sociology, economics and industrial ecology. The discussion emphasises the importance of knowledge integration and transdisciplinary processes as key strategies for understanding complex human-environment systems (HES). In addition, the author defines the HES framework as a template for investigating sustainably coupled human-environment systems in the 21st century
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: List of boxes; Overview; Roadmap to environmental literacy; Part I. Invention of the Environment: Origins, Transdisciplinarity, and Theory of Science Perspectives: 1. What knowledge about what environment?; 2. From environmental literacy to transdisciplinarity; 3. Basic epistemological assumptions; Part II. History of Biological Knowledge: 4. Emerging knowledge on morphology, ecology, and evolution; 5. From molecular structures to ecosystems; Part III. Contributions of Psychology: 6. Psychological approaches to human-environment interactions; 7. Drivers of individual behavior and action; Part IV. Contributions of Sociology: 8. Traditional sociological approaches to human-environment interactions; 9. Modern sociological approaches to human-environment interactions; Part V. Contributions of Economics: 10. Origins of economic thinking and the environment; 11. Contemporary economic theories dealing with the environment; Part VI. Contributions of Industrial Ecology: 12. The emergence of industrial ecology; 13. Industrial agents and global biogeochemical dynamics; Part VII. Beyond Disciplines and Sciences: 14. Integrated systems modeling of complex human-environment systems Roland W. Scholz, Justus Gallati, Quang Bao Le and Roman Seidl; 15. Transdisciplinarity -- a tool for environmental literacy; Part VIII. A Framework for Investigating Human-Environment Systems (HES): 16. The HES postulates; 17. The HES framework Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder and Daniel J. Lang; 18. Applying the HES framework Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder, Daniel J. Lang, Timo Smieszek and Michael Stauffacher; 19. Comparing the HES framework with alternative approaches Roland W. Scholz and Fridolin Brand; Part IX. Perspectives for Environmental Literacy: 20. New horizons: environmental and sustainability sciences; Glossary; References; Index
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
    DDC: 599.93/8
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    Keywords: Humanökologie ; Hominisation
    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511781360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 562 pages)
    DDC: 304.5
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    Keywords: Soziobiologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Evolution ; Ökologie ; Genetik
    Abstract: Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 0521899656 , 9780521899659
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 289 p , ill. (some col.) , 24 cm
    DDC: 611/.0188
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    Keywords: Neuroglia ; Myelination ; Oligodendroglia physiology ; Myelin Sheath
    Abstract: "Traditionally, oligodendrocytes have been assumed to play a minor supporting role in the central nervous system and their importance has generally been overlooked. For the first time, this book provides a dedicated review of all of the major aspects of oligodendrocyte biology, including development, organization, genetics, and immunobiology. Later chapters emphasize the importance of this underestimated cell to the mammalian central nervous system by exploring the role of myelin synthesis and maintenance in neural disease and repair. Particular attention is paid to multiple sclerosis (MS), arguably the prime example of an acquired demyelinating disease, with detailed examinations of the current concepts regarding demyelination, oligodendroglial damage, and remyelination in MS lesions"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-277) and index , CNS oligarchs: the rise of the oligodendrocyte in a neuron-centric culture , Comparative biology of Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes , Control of oligodendrocyte development and myelination in the vertebrate CNS , Molecular organization of the oligodendrocyte and myelin , The genetics of oligodendrocytes , Immunobiology of the oligodendrocyte , Oligodendrocytes and disease: repair, remyelination and stem cells , Glial progenitor cells and the dynamics of the oligodendrocyte and its myelin in the aged and injured CNS , Oligodendroglial pathology in multiple sclerosis , Glutamate receptors, transporters, and periventricular leukomalacia
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