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Das Buch präsentiert eine disziplinäre Vielfalt an Perspektiven auf Unsicherheit in der Wissenschaft. Schwerpunkte sind Klimaforschung, Umweltwissenschaft und Technikfolgenabschätzung. Die Beiträge diskutieren Gründe und Folgen wissenschaftlicher Unsicherheit und einer entsprechenden Verantwortung der Wissenschaft. Vertreten sind Kommunikationswissenschaft, Linguistik, Philosophie, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Volkswirtschaftslehre sowie Chemie und Klimawissenschaft.Der Band dokumentiert die ungewöhnliche Kooperation zweier Schwerpunktprogramme der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft – «Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit» und «Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities?» –, die sich auf einer Tagung an der TU Darmstadt mit weiteren WissenschaftlerInnen zu Austausch und kritischer Reflexion getroffen haben.

Semantics, discourse analysis, etc --- Information theory --- Risk assessment --- Research methods: general --- Applied ecology

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The kingfisher, one of the most "exotic" European birds by its colors, has always aroused the wonder of those who manage to observe it. A predator of small fry, it needs, to complete its life cycle, aquatic environments rich in fish and especially soft banks with a vertical or slightly concave profile where it can dig the burrow in which the eggs are laid. Formerly destroyed by man because of the damage to fish farms of which it was accused, it is now protected by law, but its nesting sites are not sufficiently respected. Many rivers are seriously polluted, their banks reprofiled, rectified, coated, even concreted: so many attacks on the capacity of the environment for the kingfisher. The book tells, in a few chapters, the scientific elements to understand the life of the kingfisher. After the rigorous presentations (etymology, ancient history, zoological classification, morphology), we dive into the intimate life of the bird: reproduction cycle, ecological perspective, but also ethology. Demography (births and deaths) plays a crucial role in understanding fluctuations in numbers, which are closely linked to winter mortality and the production of young. Behavioral plasticity is revealed by particular cases, notably by means of molecular genetics. Finally, movement and migration, diet, social systems and predators are discussed in this book. / Le martin-pêcheur, un des oiseaux européens les plus « exotiques » par ses couleurs, a toujours suscité l’émerveillement de ceux qui parviennent à l’observer. Prédateur de menu fretin, il a besoin, pour boucler son cycle de vie, de milieux aquatiques riches en poissons et surtout de berges meubles au profil vertical ou légèrement concave où il peut creuser le terrier dans lequel les oeufs sont pondus. Jadis détruit par l’homme en raison des dégâts aux piscicultures dont il était accusé, il est maintenant protégé par la loi, mais ses sites de nidification ne sont pas suffisamment respectés. Nombre de rivières sont gravement polluées, leurs berges reprofilées, rectifiées, enrochées, voire bétonnées : autant d’atteintes à la capacité d’accueil des milieux pour le roi-pêcheur. Le livre conte, en quelques chapitres, les éléments scientifiques pour comprendre la vie du martin-pêcheur. Après les présentations de rigueur (étymologie, histoire ancienne, classification zoologique, morphologie), on plonge dans la vie intime de l’oiseau : cycle de reproduction, perspective écologique, mais aussi éthologie. La démographie (naissance et décès) joue un rôle crucial pour comprendre les fluctuations des effectifs, qui dépendent étroitement de la mortalité hivernale et de la production de jeunes. La plasticité comportementale est révélée par des cas particuliers, notamment au moyen de la génétique moléculaire. Finalement, déplacements et migration, régime alimentaire, système social ou encore prédateurs sont autant de thèmes abordés dans cet ouvrage.

Birds (ornithology) --- Applied ecology --- Biology, life sciences --- Alcedo --- Oiseaux --- Ecologie --- Ethologie

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The rapid development and growth of UAVs as a remote sensing platform, as well as advances in the miniaturization of instrumentation and data systems, are catalyzing a renaissance in remote sensing in a variety of fields and disciplines from precision agriculture to ecology, atmospheric research, and disaster response. This Special Issue was open for submissions that highlight advances in the development and use of sensors deployed on UAVs. Topics include, but were not limited, to: - Optical, multi-spectral, hyperspectral, laser, and optical SAR technologies - Gas analyzers and sensors - Artificial intelligence and data mining based strategies from UAVs - UAV onboard data storage, transmission, and retrieval - Collaborative strategies and mechanisms to control multiple UAVs and sensor networks - UAV sensor applications: precision agriculture; pest detection, forestry, mammal species tracking search and rescue; target tracking, the monitoring of the atmosphere; chemical, biological, and natural disaster phenomena; fire prevention, flood prevention; volcanic monitoring, pollution monitoring, micro-climates and land use.

Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Measurement --- Monitoring

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The growing awareness of an impending environmental crisis coupled with a series of national and regional environmental disasters led, in the 1960s and 1970s, to the birth of the global environmental movement and the widespread recognition of the need to protect the environment for both current and future generations. Against this backdrop the concept of 'environmental rights' surfaced as a means by which claims relating to the environment could be formulated in legal terms and thereby safeguarded. In the decades that followed, this concept has come to encompass many different variations of legal rights, which this book seeks to investigate and assess

Civil rights --- Environmental law --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality

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This book offers a critical analysis of core concepts that have influenced contemporary conversations about environment-society relations in academic, political, and civil circles. Considering these conceptualizations are currently shaping responses to environmental crises in fundamental ways, critical reflections on concepts such as the Anthropocene, metabolism, risk, resilience, environmental governance, environmental justice and others, are well-warranted. Contributors to this volume, working across a multitude of areas within environmental social science, scrutinize underlying worldviews and assumptions, asking a common set of key questions: What are the different concepts able to explain? How do they take into account society-environment relations? What social, cultural, or geo-political biases and blinders are inherent? What actions or practices do the concepts inspire? The transdisciplinary engagement and reflexivity regarding concepts of environment-society relations represented in these chapters is needed in all spheres of society—in academia, policy and practice—not the least to confront current tendencies of anti-reflexivity and denialism. .

Social sciences. --- Environmental geography. --- Applied ecology. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Environmental Sociology. --- Environmental Geography. --- Environmental Management. --- Applied Ecology. --- Environmental sciences --- Environmentalism --- Sociology --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Ecology --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Geography --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Social aspects