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Geoengineering

The Gamble

By: Gernot Wagner

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Stabilizing the world’s climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There’s no way around it. But what if that’s not enough? What if it’s too difficult to accomplish in the time allotted or, worse, what if it’s so late in the game that even cutting carbon emissions to zero, tomorrow, wouldn’t do? Enter solar geoengineering. The principle is simple: attempt to cool Earth by reflecting more sunlight back into space. The primary mechanism, shooting particles into the upper atmosphere, implies more pollution, not less. If that doesn’t sound scary, it should. There are lots of risks, unknowns, and unknowables. In Geoengineering: The Gamble, climate economist Gernot Wagner provides a balanced take on the possible benefits and all-too-real risks, especially the so-called “moral hazard” that researching or even just discussing (solar) geoengineering would undermine the push to cut carbon emissions in the first place. Despite those risks, he argues, solar geoengineering may only be a matter of time. Not if, but when. As the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, Wagner explores scenarios of a geoengineered future, offering an inside-view of the research already under way and the actions the world must take to guide it in a productive direction.

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1509543074

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Climate Shock

The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

By: Gernot Wagner,Martin L. Weitzman

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Climate Shock

The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

By: Gernot Wagner,Martin L. Weitzman

How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future—why not our planet? In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don't know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance—as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale. With a new preface addressing recent developments Wagner and Weitzman demonstrate that climate change can and should be dealt with—and what could happen if we don't do so—tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.

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Princeton University Press

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1400880769

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Geoengineering

The Gamble

By: Gernot Wagner

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But Will the Planet Notice?

How Smart Economics Can Save the World

By: Gernot Wagner

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But Will the Planet Notice?

How Smart Economics Can Save the World

By: Gernot Wagner

You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics. The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the planet, is now in the hands of the dismal science. Fortunately, we've been there before. Economists helped crack the acid rain problem in the 1990's (admittedly with a strong assist from a phalanx of lawyers and activists). Economists have helped get lead out of our gas, and they can explain why lobsters haven't disappeared off the coast of New England but tuna is on the verge of extinction. More disquietingly, they can take the lessons of the financial crisis and model with greater accuracy than anyone else the likelihood of environmental catastrophe, and they can help save us from global warming, if only we let them.

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1429969156

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Finite Groups Which Are Almost Groups of Lie Type in Characteristic $mathbf {p}$

By: Chris Parker,Gerald Pientka,Andreas Seidel,Gernot Stroth

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Finite Groups Which Are Almost Groups of Lie Type in Characteristic $mathbf {p}$

By: Chris Parker,Gerald Pientka,Andreas Seidel,Gernot Stroth

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American Mathematical Society

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1470467291

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Climate Shock

The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

By: Gernot Wagner,Martin L. Weitzman

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The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

By: Gernot Wagner,Martin L. Weitzman

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Invasive Technification

Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology

By: Gernot Böhme

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Invasive Technification

Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology

By: Gernot Böhme

Technology has extended its reach to the human body, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense too. Technological infrastructure and the institutions of a technified society today determine what perception is, how we communicate and what forms of human relationship with the natural world are possible. A fundamental new conception of technology is urgently needed. Technology can no longer be seen as a means for efficiently attaining pre-established ends. Rather, it must be seen as a total structure which makes new forms of human action and human relationship possible, while limiting the possibilities of others. In Invasive Technification, acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme offers a reading of technology that explores the many dimensions in which technology presents challenges for modern human beings. It is a book about the preservation of humanity and humane values under the demanding conditions of a technically advanced civilisation and makes a major contribution to the contemporary philosophy of technology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441194657

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Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

By: Joachim Reitner,Nadia-Valérie Quéric,Gernot Arp

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Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

By: Joachim Reitner,Nadia-Valérie Quéric,Gernot Arp

Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire earth history since the beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean. Stromatolites and microbialites are interpreted as biosedimentological remains of biofilms and microbial mats. These structures are important environmental and evolutionary archives which give us information about ancient habitats, biodiversity, and evolution of complex benthic ecosystems. However, many geobiological aspects of these structures are still unknown or only poorly understood. The present proceedings highlight the new ideas and information on the formation and environmental setting of stromatolites presented at the occasion of the Kalkowsky Symposium 2008, held in Göttingen, Germany.

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Springer

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3642104150

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The Aesthetics of Atmospheres

By: Gernot Böhme

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The Aesthetics of Atmospheres

By: Gernot Böhme

Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they function has been only partially available to the English-speaking public. This translation of key essays along with an original introduction charts the development of Gernot Böhme's philosophy of atmospheres and how it can be applied in various contexts such as scenography, commodity aesthetics, advertising, architecture, design, and art. The phenomenological analysis of atmospheres has proved very fruitful and its most important, and successful, application has been within aesthetics. The material background of this success may be seen in the ubiquitous aestheticization of our lifeworld, or from another perspective, of the staging of everything, every event and performance. The theory of atmospheres becoming an aesthetic theory thus reveals the theatrical, not to say manipulative, character of politics, commerce, of the event-society. But, taken as a positive theory of certain phenomena, it offers new perspectives on architecture, design, and art. It made the spatial and the experience of space and places a central subject and hence rehabilitated the ephemeral in the arts. Taking its numerous impacts in many fields together, it initiated a new humanism: the individual as a living person and his or her perspective are taken seriously, and this fosters the ongoing democratization of culture, in particular the possibility for everybody to participate in art and its works.

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Taylor & Francis

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1134967918

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Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

By: Dieter Grass,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Gustav Feichtinger,Gernot Tragler,Doris A. Behrens

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Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

By: Dieter Grass,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Gustav Feichtinger,Gernot Tragler,Doris A. Behrens

Dynamic optimization is rocket science – and more. This volume teaches researchers and students alike to harness the modern theory of dynamic optimization to solve practical problems. These problems not only cover those in space flight, but also in emerging social applications such as the control of drugs, corruption, and terror. This volume is designed to be a lively introduction to the mathematics and a bridge to these hot topics in the economics of crime for current scholars. The authors celebrate Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle – that crowning intellectual achievement of human understanding. The rich theory explored here is complemented by numerical methods available through a companion web site.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540776478

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Heart Rate Variability

By: Gernot Ernst

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Heart Rate Variability

By: Gernot Ernst

This book not only discusses clinical applications, but also links HRV to systems biology and theories of complexity. This publication should be interesting for several groups of clinicians and scientists, including cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists and physiologists. Heart Rate Variability is in principle easy and cheap, making it interesting for all kind of hospitals and private practice. The book will be an example of using translational medicine (bench to bedside) where newest theoretical results are linked to newest clinical research.

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1447143094

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The Isogeometric Boundary Element Method

By: Gernot Beer,Benjamin Marussig,Christian Duenser

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The Isogeometric Boundary Element Method

By: Gernot Beer,Benjamin Marussig,Christian Duenser

This book discusses the introduction of isogeometric technology to the boundary element method (BEM) in order to establish an improved link between simulation and computer aided design (CAD) that does not require mesh generation. In the isogeometric BEM, non-uniform rational B-splines replace the Lagrange polynomials used in conventional BEM. This may seem a trivial exercise, but if implemented rigorously, it has profound implications for the programming, resulting in software that is extremely user friendly and efficient. The BEM is ideally suited for linking with CAD, as both rely on the definition of objects by boundary representation. The book shows how the isogeometric philosophy can be implemented and how its benefits can be maximised with a minimum of user effort. Using several examples, ranging from potential problems to elasticity, it demonstrates that the isogeometric approach results in a drastic reduction in the number of unknowns and an increase in the quality of the results. In some cases even exact solutions without refinement are possible. The book also presents a number of practical applications, demonstrating that the development is not only of academic interest. It then elegantly addresses heterogeneous and non-linear problems using isogeometric concepts, and tests them on several examples, including a severely non-linear problem in viscous flow. The book makes a significant contribution towards a seamless integration of CAD and simulation, which eliminates the need for tedious mesh generation and provides high-quality results with minimum user intervention and computing.

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Springer Nature

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3030233391

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9783030233396

The Boundary Element Method with Programming

For Engineers and Scientists

By: Gernot Beer,Ian Smith,Christian Duenser

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The Boundary Element Method with Programming

For Engineers and Scientists

By: Gernot Beer,Ian Smith,Christian Duenser

This thorough yet understandable introduction to the boundary element method presents an attractive alternative to the finite element method. It not only explains the theory but also presents the implementation of the theory into computer code, the code in FORTRAN 95 can be freely downloaded. The book also addresses the issue of efficiently using parallel processing hardware in order to considerably speed up the computations for large systems. The applications range from problems of heat and fluid flow to static and dynamic elasto-plastic problems in continuum mechanics.

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3211715762

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Global Economics

An Introductory Course

By: Gernot Kohler

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Global Economics

An Introductory Course

By: Gernot Kohler

This book is intended as a text for an introductory course on global economics. The book assumes that the wealth or poverty of people in a specific country is not only caused within the economy of that country, but by the world economy. The unit of analysis is the world economic system, rather than any specific national economy. The student learns about the major aspects of the global economy, including environment, production, wages, profits, business cycle, trade, finance, and more. The complexity of the global economy is summarised in a diagram of three major circulatory flows, namely, circuit 1 -- physical flows, circuit 2 -- real market flows, and circuit 3 -- financial flows. The presentation is influenced by two intellectual traditions, namely, world-system analysis and post-Keynesian economics. There are no mathematical formulas, but statistical tables and graphs are included.

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Nova Publishers

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1600215467

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High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials

Fundamentals, Processing, Properties Control, Application Aspects

By: Gernot Krabbes,Günter Fuchs,Wolf-Rüdiger Canders,Hardo May,Ryszard Palka

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High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials

Fundamentals, Processing, Properties Control, Application Aspects

By: Gernot Krabbes,Günter Fuchs,Wolf-Rüdiger Canders,Hardo May,Ryszard Palka

With its comprehensive review of the current knowledge and the future requirements in the field, this book presents all the features of bulk high temperature superconducting materials. Starting from physical and chemical fundamentals, the authors move on to portray methods and problems of materials processing, thoroughly working out the characteristic properties of bulk superconductors in contrast to long conductors and films. They provide a wide range of specific materials characteristics with respect to the latest developments and future applications guiding from fundamentals to practical engineering examples. The authors are all leading international specialists involved in the field of high TC superconductor bulk materials since the beginning. Of utmost interest to engineers, scientists, and PhD students working in this field.

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3527607412

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But Will the Planet Notice?

How Smart Economics Can Save the World

By: Gernot Wagner

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But Will the Planet Notice?

How Smart Economics Can Save the World

By: Gernot Wagner

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Geoengineering

Geoengineering

Climate Shock

Climate Shock

Geoengineering

Geoengineering

But Will the Planet Notice?

But Will the Planet Notice?

Finite Groups Which Are Almost Groups of Lie Type in Characteristic $mathbf {p}$

Finite Groups Which Are Almost Groups of Lie Type in Characteristic $mathbf {p}$

Climate Shock

Climate Shock

Invasive Technification

Invasive Technification

Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology

The Aesthetics of Atmospheres

The Aesthetics of Atmospheres

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

Heart Rate Variability

Heart Rate Variability

The Isogeometric Boundary Element Method

The Isogeometric Boundary Element Method

The Boundary Element Method with Programming

The Boundary Element Method with Programming

Global Economics

Global Economics

High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials

High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials

But Will the Planet Notice?

But Will the Planet Notice?

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