This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art view of research on sustainable development. Its emphasis lies on the transformative dimension of this research: sustainable development can only be realized through a far-reaching transformation of the situation humankind finds itself in at the beginning of the third millennium. The contributions are written by leading world experts in the conceptualisation and actual practice of sustainable development. The book provides a timely overview of ideas and methods as well as a variety of original learning examples on the most innovative approaches on sustainability science.

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty. In this definitive volume, four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approaches to understanding and managing risk - the 'rational actor paradigm'. They show how risk studies must incorporate the competing interests, values, and rationalities of those involved and find a balance of trust and acceptable risk. Their work points to a comprehensive and significant new theory of risk and uncertainty and of the decision making process they require. The implications for social, political, and environmental theory and practice are enormous. Winner of the 2000-2002 Outstanding Publication Award of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association

This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art view of research on sustainable development. Its emphasis lies on the transformative dimension of this research: sustainable development can only be realized through a far-reaching transformation of the situation humankind finds itself in at the beginning of the third millennium. The contributions are written by leading world experts in the conceptualisation and actual practice of sustainable development. The book provides a timely overview of ideas and methods as well as a variety of original learning examples on the most innovative approaches on sustainability science.

The first edition of Rock Mechanics and Engineering bridged the gap between scientific research on rock mechanics and practical engineering. It was resolutely aimed at giving practical information to geologists, engineering geologists and engineers. Emphasis was placed on the lessons to be learnt from the study of case histories, with the Malpasset Dam rupture and the large Vajont rock slide amongst those described. In this second, enlarged edition the author continues to emphasise aspects of rock mechanics. Modern efforts at establishing an engineering classification of rocks are summarised and considerable attention is given to the Austrian tunnelling method. Firm in his belief that there is no better way to study the subject than by the detailed analysis of case histories, Dr Jaeger has incorporated a number of new ones, for example the discussion on the engineering classification of jointed rock masses and the required rock support is illustrated by descriptions of the second Gotthard Tunnel and the design of the third, much larger tunnel.

This revised edition puts the reader up-to-date with the many changes that have resulted in the desert, to-wit: the influx of settlers, the expansion of agriculture, the building of modern roads and towns, and the use of some of the deserts' most wild and attractive parts by the Army and Navy for testing modern weapons of warfare.

Despite the continuing popularity of egalitarian values and rhetoric, the brute facts of poverty and massive inequality remain everywhere with us. Although extreme poverty and deprivation are often associated with developing societies, recent years have witnessed rising inequality in many industrialized countries as well. If inequality persists in modern societies, however, its patterns and structures are evolving in complex ways that defy generalizations from historical experience. This is nowhere more apparent than in the field of class analysis, where some commentators contend that class-based inequalities are weakening and that the concept of class is a sociological relic, while others attend to unprecedented increases in income inequality, the rise of an underclass, and the deepening spatial divide between rich and poor. The trajectory of modern race relations has proven equally complex, with some scholars celebrating the demise of overt prejudice while others emphasize the emergence of insidious forms of symbolic racism and the intensification of racial and ethnic conflicts worldwide. The subfield of gender stratification likewise reveals a tension between scholars who observe the rise of formally egalitarian attitudes and institutional practices and those who emphasize, instead, the persistence of discrimination, sex segregation, and wage inequality. Studying the changing structure of social inequality and its underlying causes and consequences, this text encourages diverse methodologies and approaches, including conceptual and theoretical treatises, qualitative and quantitative analyses, and comparative and case-study approaches.

The participation of citizens and other stakeholders is increasingly important for policy making in sustainability and environmental development. The contributors to this book examine methods for facilitating public participation on local and international levels. Policy makers must consider a complex network of social and natural interactions. The study suggests consultation procedures integrating technical scientific modelling with democratic decision-making processes.

The participation of citizens and other stakeholders is increasingly important for policy making in sustainability and environmental development. The contributors to this book examine methods for facilitating public participation on local and international levels. Policy makers must consider a complex network of social and natural interactions. The study suggests consultation procedures integrating technical scientific modelling with democratic decision-making processes.

Den Kern des Buches bildet die Beantwortung der Frage, auf welche Weise Autonomie hervorgerufen wird und woran ihr Auftreten erkannt werden kann. Aufbauend auf dieser Untersuchung werden die Eigenschaften bekannter Architekturmuster und Architekturen dahingehend untersucht, inwiefern sie autonomes Verhalten fordern. Mit klarem Praxisbezug werden anschliessend die Schwachstellen analysiert, die typischerweise in autonomen Systemen auftreten bzw. die durch unerwunschtes autonomes Verhalten entstehen konnen, sowie Massnahmen zur Erkennung und Beseitigung solcher Schwachstellen diskutiert. Dieses Buch basiert auf den Ergebnissen der Studie "Modellierung von Autonomie in IT-Architekturen," die die Autoren im Auftrag des Bundesamts fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) erstellt haben."

Wer im Marchen dem Drachen begegnet, hat eine klare Aufgabe: ihn zu toten. Die Realitat der heutigen Weltwirtschaft ist nieht weniger eindrucks voll als die Drachen der Marchen. Und in mancher Hinsicht ist sie ebenso furchterregend. Ganze Nationen konnen zugrunde gehen, wenn sie sieh einbilden, der Obermacht der globalen Markte trotzen zu konnen. Kriege von unerhorter Grausamkeit werden mitbestimmt von wirtschaftlichen Interessen. Lokale und globale Okosysteme sind durch den aktuellen Lauf der Weltwirtschaft in ihrem Bestand bedroht, und ihre Schiidigung fallt auf uns Menschen zurtick. Da mag schon der Wunsch autkommen, der Realitat der Weltwirtschaft ein Ende zu setzen, den Drachen zu tOten. Doch die heu tige Situation stellt, so die These dieses Buches, eine andere Aufgabe: Es gilt, die marktwirtschaftlichen Institutionen so zu transformieren, daB der Nut zen, den sie stiften, nicht mehr mit ungeheurer ZerstOrung einhergeht. Es gilt, den Drachen zu zahmen. Dazu ist es notig, den Drachen Weltwirtschaft besser zu verstehen. Das ist tiber weite Strecken eine wissenschaftliche Aufgabe. Ohne die Wirt schafts- und Sozialwissenschaften konnten wir die Realitat der globalen Okonomie kaum wahrnehmen, geschweige denn verandern. Doch der heu tige Stand dieser Wissenschaften gibt erstaunlich wenig Hilfestellungen, wenn es darum geht, die bestehenden Institutionen der Marktwirtschaft weiterzuentwickeln. Urn dieser Aufgabe nieht hilflos gegentiberzustehen, gilt es, neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Diesem Ziel ist die vorliegende Studie zur Humanokologie verpflichtet Sie umfaBt, nahezu unvermeidlich, eine Mischung aus Irrttimern und Einsichten."

Das Buch geht der Frage nach, ob es in den n{chsten Jahr- zehnten in den urbanen Regionen zu einer Versch{rfung der gegenw{rtigen sozialen, |kologischen und politischen Fronten kommen wird, oder ob die postindustrielle Gesellschaft nicht neue Antworten auf die anstehenden Fragen finden kann. Dazu werden kulturhistorische, soziologische und |konomische Pro- zesse der Stadtdynamik theoretisch diskutiert und exempla- risch anhand der j}ngeren Entwicklung der Stadt Z}rich empi- risch er|rtert. Vor diesem Hintergrund kommen schlie~lich Freiheitgrade der Entwicklung zur Sprache, welche insbeson- dere durch den wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandel sowie neuere soziale Bewegungen erm|glicht werden. Eine Besonderheit des Buches ist, da~ es allgemeine theoretische ]berlegungen zur Stadtentwicklung, insbesondere von Finanzmetropolen, mit empirischen Daten kombiniert. Ein im internationalen Vergleich einmaliger Datensatz }ber die Entwicklung des Fl{chenverbrauchs verschiedener Nutzungen in der Stadt Z}rich erm|glichte eine innovative Behandlung der Bodenrente im st{dtischen Kontext. Das Buch hat das Ziel, einerseits die moderne Stadt alseine auf der Industriegesellschaft basierende Konzeption sichtbar werdenzu lassen, andererseits vor dem Hintergrund des gegenw{rtigen Umbaus der Industriegesellschaft Optionen der Siedlungs- und Stadtentwicklung zu umrei~en. Das Buch geht davon aus, da~ die Konzeption der modernen Stadtsich }berlebt hat. Dies hat viel mit der gegenw{rtigen Transformation der Industriegesellschaft in eine nachindustrielle zu tun. Die damit verbundenensozialen, |kologischen und |konomischen Probleme werden im Buch umfasssend theoretisch er|rtert und anhand des Finanzplatzes Z}richempirisch dokumentiert.

Additional Illustrator Is Sally Bancroft.

Christina Pocketon's family is poor, but when her mom finds a cheap camp deal, she leaps at the chance to go to a normal camp- or so she thinks. But, actually, within a day, the camp transforms into a spy camp full of moles, surveillance classes, and "friends" who aren't really friends. Two teams compete to capture all the pieces to the puzzle in time. The teams participate in the scavenger hunt to find the puzzle pieces, and steal pieces from each other. The only rule? Don't get caught doing it.

Focusing on the Alpine region to look at climate change's regional manifestations. Although climate change is a global problem, there is a growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such a regional approach to the Alpine region. The result of the ongoing Swiss research program Climate and Environment in the Alpine Region (CLEAR), it incorporates the work of an independent network of approximately fifty researchers from a variety of disciplines. The Alpine region is the perfect focus for such a study because of the wealth of historical and contemporary data. The contributors avoid impractical "absolute" solutions to the problem of climate change. They explicitly recognize that climate policy involves not just environmental policy but also economic, agricultural, social, and urban policy. The science required for climate policy need not provide a single definitive answer to the problem of climate change. Rather, it can contribute a variety of insights, explanations, scenarios, and open questions to the public debate. The authors aim at a science for policy that helps to develop realistic options in an ongoing debate involving scientists as well as policymakers and ordinary citizens.Topics covered include past and current climate dynamics, scenarios for future climate development, the sensitivity of plant and soil ecosystems to climate change, scenarios for future ecosytem development, and creative policy responses to mobilize regional action for industrial innovation. The topics are addressed in the spirit of Integrated Assessment (IA), a method that combines scientific and social expertise to explore political and technical strategies for dealing with environmental problems such as climate change.