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Dwelling Urbanism

City Making through Corporeal Practice in Mexico City

By: Christian von Wissel

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Dwelling Urbanism

City Making through Corporeal Practice in Mexico City

By: Christian von Wissel

City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they practice the urban and through this practice shape the city-in-the-making that emerges along with them on the backs of their working bodies? Dwelling Urbanism re-thinks the urban from this perspective of corporeal making and with regard to the cityness that it bears. It delves into the thick of life in the periphery of Mexico City, uncovering the everyday actions and efforts that practitioners of space accomplish when building houses, creating jobs and putting themselves to work as infrastructure. How are consequential conjunctions, how is access to, and presence in the city actively grown? And what does such thinking the city as a verb, as citying, imply for urban planning?

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Birkhäuser

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3035618313

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9783035618310

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

By: Karin Frank,Helmut Lorek,Frank Köster,Michael Sonnenschein,Christian Wissel,Volker Grimm

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META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

By: Karin Frank,Helmut Lorek,Frank Köster,Michael Sonnenschein,Christian Wissel,Volker Grimm

Meta-X is a user-friendly computer program that allows students, teachers, and researchers to perform a metapopulation viability analysis i.e. to assess the extinction risk of (meta)populations on discrete, partially isolated patches of habitat, in a comfortable way. The CD comes with an extensive handbook which explains the basic concept of the program and takes you on a guided tour through a model experiment. It further provides the necessary scientific background on both metapopulation dynamics and population viability analysis. A special feature of Meta-X is that it supports comparative analyses of alternative scenarios. This predestines Meta-X to serve as an aid for decision making in conservation management and landscape planning. Furthermore, handbook and software together provide an invaluable help in research and teaching.

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198

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Springer

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3642557236

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9783642557231

Fixing Higher Education

A Business Manager’s Take on How to Boost Productivity in Higher Education

By: Christian Schierenbeck

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Fixing Higher Education

A Business Manager’s Take on How to Boost Productivity in Higher Education

By: Christian Schierenbeck

Christian Schierenbeck makes a provocative case that higher education across the globe suffers from a profound productivity crisis which prevents broad access to affordable and high-quality educational services. He shows how the vast productivity gap in higher education could be closed if academic managers borrowed some of the managerial practices applied by the world’s leading business enterprises. In order for this to happen in practice, the author argues for radical changes in the policy framework for higher education.

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230

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3658002131

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9783658002138

Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

By: Christian Streffer,Josef Bücker,Adrienne Cansier,Dieter Cansier,Carl Friedrich Gethmann,Robert Guderian,Gerd Hanekamp,Dietrich Henschler,Gerald Pöch,Eckard Rehbinder,Ortwin Renn,Marco Slesina,Kerstin Wuttke

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Environmental Standards

Combined Exposures and Their Effects on Human Beings and Their Environment

The rapid growth of the world population - nearly six-fold over the last hundred years - combined with the rising number of technical installations especially in the industrialized countries has lead to ever tighter and more strained living spaces on our planet. Because ofthe inevitable processes oflife, man was at first an exploiter rather than a careful preserver of the environment. Environmental awareness with the intention to conserve the environment has grown only in the last few decades. Environmental standards have been defined and limit values have been set largely guided, however, by scientific and medical data on single exposures, while public opinion, on the other hand, now increasingly calls for astronger consideration of the more complex situations following combined exposures. Furthermore, it turned out that environmental standards, while necessarily based on scientific data, must also take into account ethical, legal, economic, and sociological aspects. A task of such complexity can only be dealt with appropriately in the framework of an inter disciplinary group.

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862

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540440976

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9783540440970

The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

By: J. D. Skinner,Christian T. Chimimba

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The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

By: J. D. Skinner,Christian T. Chimimba

This comprehensive volume covers all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south of the Cunene and Zambezi rivers, and also in the subregion's coastal waters. Extensively revised and updated for the new edition, it now includes the latest data from from mammal research in southern Africa along with the radical taxonomic changes across all levels of mammalian classification. Containing contributions from specialists on each mammalian order, each species description has been reviewed by a range of independent and internationally recognised authorities. Along with the latest taxonomic information, the distribution maps and illustrations have been updated and redrawn, several new colour plates have been added, and the whole design has been enhanced to aid access to key information. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of southern-African mammals and forms an essential reference for zoologists, evolutionary biologists and anyone wanting an overview of the region's wildlife.

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900

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Cambridge University Press

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1107394058

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9781107394056

Book's by Christian von Wissel

Dwelling Urbanism

Dwelling Urbanism

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis

Fixing Higher Education

Fixing Higher Education

Environmental Standards

Environmental Standards

The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region

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