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Recent special issues in various journals have focused on "urban ecosystem services". There is also an increasing amount of studies on "urban ecology", "urban tree management", "arboriculture", "urban biodiversity", and "ecosystem services" from wildland forests. This Special Issue aims to fill a void and focus on the socio-ecological diversity and the economic value of the ecosystem services from urban and peri-urban forests. Urban and peri-urban forests are tree dominated ecosystems in and near human settlements, while ecosystem services are the direct economic, social, and environmental benefits provided by their structural components and ecological functions.

Biodiversity --- Climatic factors.

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This volume offers a holistic understanding of the environmental and societal challenges that affect reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia today. Reindeer husbandry is a livelihood with a long traditional heritage and cultural importance. Like many other pastoral societies, reindeer herders are confronted with significant challenges. Covering Norway, Sweden and Finland - three countries with many differences and similarities - this volume examines how reindeer husbandry is affected by and responds to global environmental change and resource extraction in boreal and arctic social-ecological systems. Beginning with an historical overview of reindeer husbandry, the volume analyses the realities of the present from different perspectives and disciplines. Genetics, behavioural ecology of reindeer, other forms of land use, pastoralists' norms and knowledge, bio-economy and governance structures all set the stage for the complex internal and externally imposed dynamics within reindeer husbandry. In-depth analyses are devoted to particularly urgent challenges, such as land-use conflicts, climate change and predation, identified as having a high potential to shape the future pathways of the pastoral identity and productivity. These futures, with their risks and opportunities, are explored in the final section, offering a synthesis of the comparative approach between the three countries that runs as a recurring theme through the book. With its richness and depth, this volume contributes significantly to the understanding of the substantial impacts on pastoralist communities in northernmost Europe today, while highlighting viable pathways to maintaining reindeer husbandry for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of both the natural and social sciences who work on natural resource management, global environmental change, pastoralism, ecology, social-ecological systems, rangeland management and Indigenous studies.

Reindeer --- Reindeer farming --- Climatic factors

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The debate about environmental standards for museum collections has by no means been resolved. Climate change, ever increasing energy bills, the complexity of air-conditioning systems, the feasibility of alternative climate control strategies and the real effects of inappropriate indoor environments on collections pose major questions for conservation professionals.The papers in this volume , given at a major international conference, held at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich from 7 to 9 November 2012 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Doerner Institut, investigate what is known and what is not known about suitable environmental conditions for cultural heritage collections, presenting the most significant recent research on the subject. The global imperative to save energy and reduce our carbon footprint is evident. Museums and other cultural institutions are deeply implicated in these concerns as major consumers of energy, particularly those housed in modern buildings. The demand for a better understanding of the interactions between cultural heritage collections and the climate is pressing. The EU-funded research project Climate for Culture is currently investigating the influence of current and future climate change on cultural heritage objects. Serious concerns have been raised in the conservation community at recent extensions of the range of acceptable climate criteria for both permanent exhibitions and loans, and new theories such as the ‘proofed fluctuation concept’ are much discussed.Climate for Collections Standards and Uncertainties addresses these issues. By adopting broad definitions of both ‘climate‘ and ‘collection’, the subject has been expanded beyond the concerns of previous conferences such as ‘Museum Microclimates’ (Copenhagen 2007) and recent discussions such as ‘The plus/minus dilemma’ (IIC/AIC 2010). To ensure these questions are addressed in depth, the topics of climate change and sustainability have been introduced.

Conservation. Restoration --- Heating, climatisation, ventilation and air conditioning --- Museums --- Climatic factors --- Conferences - Meetings

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L’irruption de la planète dans notre vision du monde fait voler en éclat cloisons et certitudes tout en imposant sa finitude. Les phénomènes climatiques paroxysmiques entrent en résonnance avec l’alerte construite par les scientifiques du monde entier sur le changement climatique. L’illusion d’un monde technique et complètement artificialisé a fait long feu, la planète s’impose au rendez-vous des citoyens alors qu’elle avait été oubliée, gaspillée, exploitée pendant le temps de l’industrialisation du monde occidental. Cette rencontre ne se fait pas sans heurts mais pas non plus dans le malheur comme la vision médiatique du changement climatique voudrait, trop souvent, le faire croire. C’est tout le paradoxe de cette nouvelle vision du monde condamnée à faire plus et mieux avec sobriété.

Climatic changes --- Human beings --- Social aspects. --- Effect of climate on. --- Climatology --- Acclimatization --- Medical climatology --- Climatic factors --- climat --- développement durable --- environnement --- mer --- air

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Desde un fenómeno tan concreto como las condiciones climáticas en la agricultura, este autor examina la conformación de las diferentes zonas agrícolas mundiales, explica el desarrollo diferenciado de las diversas civilizaciones y ubica el proceso histórico japonés dentro de este panorama. Esta obra aporta una sólida visión ecohistórica capaz de orientar el debate actual acerca de la idiosincrasia japonesa nijondyin-ron.

History of Asia --- Japan --- Agriculture --- Crops and climate. --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Agricultural climatology --- Agroclimatology --- Climate and crops --- Crop micrometeorology --- Crops --- Plant biometeorology --- Agricultural ecology --- Bioclimatology --- Climatic factors --- Asian history