The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing consumption of goods and services has severe ecological consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption in the next fifty years, the growing trade of biofuels and other commodities is a global challenge as the economic activities in the primary sector (i.e. mining, fisheries, aquaculture, forestry and agriculture) can damage biodiversity and ecosystem services. This should be taken into account in the decision-making affecting the global value chains linking consumer, retailer, processor, and producer in the North and the South. To cover the topic of ecosystem services and global trade this book is organized into four major parts. Part 1 gives the theoretical framework from an ecological, economic and political perspectives. Part 2 explores how internationally traded biophysical commodities from agriculture, forestry and fisheries translates into a virtual flow of land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Part 3 describes how two widely used accounting tools (i.e., Life Cycle Assessment and Green National Accounts) deal with international aspects of ecosystem services, and Part 4 shows how instruments like labelling, bans, or payments for ecosystem services in the private and public sector can influence trade patterns and the management of ecosystem services. This collection is a valuable contribution to the global change science dealing with ecosystem services. It illustrates the consequences of international trade on global ecosystem services and provides an overview of accounting tools and of market-based policy instruments to address negative and positive externalities. The book is certainly innovative, because it brings together research findings from distinct disciplines especially Industrial Ecology and Ecosystem Sciences, as well as Environmental Economics and Political Science.

The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing consumption of goods and services has severe ecological consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption in the next fifty years, the growing trade of biofuels and other commodities is a global challenge as the economic activities in the primary sector (i.e. mining, fisheries, aquaculture, forestry and agriculture) can damage biodiversity and ecosystem services. This should be taken into account in the decision-making affecting the global value chains linking consumer, retailer, processor, and producer in the North and the South. To cover the topic of ecosystem services and global trade this book is organized into four major parts. Part 1 gives the theoretical framework from an ecological, economic and political perspectives. Part 2 explores how internationally traded biophysical commodities from agriculture, forestry and fisheries translates into a virtual flow of land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Part 3 describes how two widely used accounting tools (i.e., Life Cycle Assessment and Green National Accounts) deal with international aspects of ecosystem services, and Part 4 shows how instruments like labelling, bans, or payments for ecosystem services in the private and public sector can influence trade patterns and the management of ecosystem services. This collection is a valuable contribution to the global change science dealing with ecosystem services. It illustrates the consequences of international trade on global ecosystem services and provides an overview of accounting tools and of market-based policy instruments to address negative and positive externalities. The book is certainly innovative, because it brings together research findings from distinct disciplines especially Industrial Ecology and Ecosystem Sciences, as well as Environmental Economics and Political Science.

"Architecture that dances. Building that deconstruct, reconnect, disected by frames, twisted into unreasonable shapes, reassembled into yet another grid, and then printed with more than a hint of Cubism, trying to take something that is three-dimensional and flatten it into a two-dimensional plane. Indeed, as we can see, even in this early work, Thomas Kellner succeeded at breaking apart spaces." Harris Fogel Thomas Kellners artworks of art are especially known for an intensive interaction of light and color. His works in black and white reflect the beginning of his career as an artist. Kellner's black & white photography does not only refer to his beginning as an Artist, but also to the root of photography. In his early black-and-white images, the observer can see how he focuses on the structure itself. The balance between the object and its visual form are at the center of his creations. Kellner developed his unique visual language of multiple perspectives and the deconstructive approach in a sequence mounted on a contact sheet of 35-mm roll of film.

For over two decades, German photographer Thomas Kellner (b.1966) has explored the pictorial possibilities of the contact sheet, drawing particular inspiration from cityscapes, architecture and landscapes. In his new series called Tango Metropolis, he focuses his camera on the world's most famous monuments. These iconic buildings are well-known, but his deconstructed, fractured images invite the viewer to discover them anew. Rolf Sachsse, a photographer, author, and curator, has contributed an essay for this book that links Kellner's work to both mannerism and cubism.

For many years, Thomas Kellner has been working with architecture and sights from all over the world, but in this work, created in the summer of 2014, he turns to one of the most breath taking landscape motifs on earth: the Grand Canyon. Kellner photographs the subject from several perspectives and thus breaks it down into its individual parts. He then assembles the contact sheets in their original size to create an overall composition. The Big Picture consists of 60 films with 36 shots each, i.e. 2160 pictures taken one after the other. The work of art is more than 4 meters wide. The limited two-image catalog presents the work of art at an impressive 1.50 m and thus in the format 1: 3.7. Two-image catalogue presenting the work of art at an impressive 1.50 m and thus in the format 1: 3.7. The Grand Canyon in big format. Limited Edition consists of 60 films with 36 shots each, i.e. 2160 pictures taken one after the other.

My intention is to bring the material 35mm fi lm] into the image itself: "As in a painting, where you see the stroke of the brush and the pigment on the canvas." Thomas Kellner has been making photographs professionally since 1996 when he finished his studies at the university of Siegen and was awarded the Kodak germany Young Professionals Prize.

Der Lebensstandard der westlichen Zivilisation w re ohne Energie nicht in dieser Form m glich: Wir ben tigen Energie unter anderem zur Zubereitung unserer Speisen, zur K rperpflege, zur Fortbewegung und nicht zuletzt zum Heizen unserer H user. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt am Beispiel der Gebirgsregion Pinzgau, welche regenerativen Energietr ger nicht nur theoretisch, sondern auch praktisch f r Mehrfamilienwohnanlagen eingesetzt werden k nnen. Zun chst werden hierf r die Besonderheiten und klimatischen Bedingungen (Heizgradtage, Sonneneinstrahlung) der Region Pinzgau n her erl utert. Im Anschluss werden die theoretisch zur Verf gung stehenden regenerativen Energietr ger untersucht: Biomasse, Wasserkraft zur Stromgewinnung, Erdw rme, Umgebungsenergie, Solarenergie und Windenergie zur Stromgewinnung. Das Buch macht deutlich, dass von den theoretisch zur Verf gung stehenden Energiequellen nur drei Energietr ger wirklich f r Mehrfamilienh user im Pinzgau und in vergleichbaren Regionen geeignet sind.