Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction to environmental management -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Aims and background -- Key terms and concepts -- Definition and scope of EM -- The evolution of EM -- Sustainable development (SD) -- EM problems and opportunities -- Encouraging EM -- Summary -- Further reading -- EM books -- SD books -- EM journals -- SD journals -- www sources -- Professional bodies -- EM courses -- Chapter 2: Environmental management: Character and goals -- Character and goals of EM -- Concept of limits to development -- Polluter-pays principle -- Precautionary principle -- EM challenges -- Need to be adaptable and resilient and to seek to reduce human vulnerability -- EM ethics and institutions -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 3: Environmental management and science -- Environment and environmental science -- Structure and function of the environment -- Trophic level and organic productivity -- The ecosystem -- Biosphere cyclic processes -- How stable and resilient are environments? -- Stability -- Resilience -- Threatening environmental events -- Biodiversity -- Environmental limits and resources -- Environmental limits -- Resources -- The Gaia hypothesis -- Environmental crisis -- Environmental and ecosystems modelling, the ecosystem concept, environmental systems and ecosystem management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to tourism, conservation and heritage management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to urban and periurban management -- Applying the ecosystem concept to conservation management -- Environmental systems and ecosystem planning and management - biogeophysical units -- Ecozones, ecoregions and ecodistricts. , Coastal zone and marine ecosystem planning and management -- River basin planning and management -- Watershed/catchment planning and management -- Bioregionalism -- Agroecosystem analysis and management -- Telecoupling -- Landscape ecology approach -- Ekistics -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 4: Environmental management background -- Environmental concern 1750 to 1960 -- Environmental concern 1960 to 1980 -- Environmental concern 1980 to the present -- Environmentalism, ecologism and the Green Movement -- Environmentalism -- Ecologism -- Green spirituality -- The Green Movement -- Dark- deep- light- and bright-greens -- Social sciences and environmentalism -- A late twentieth-century paradigm shift? -- Ethics for EM -- Women and the environment -- Social aspects of resource use -- The greening of economics -- Human capital / social capital / cultural capital / built capital -- Global environmental problems and economics -- Environmental accounts -- Estimating the value of the environment and natural resources -- Cost-benefit analysis -- BATNEEC and BPEO -- Shadow prices -- Paying for and encouraging EM -- Fair trade -- Contract farming -- Green taxes -- Pigouvian taxes -- Carbon emissions taxes and incentives -- Tradable energy quotas -- Energy use taxes -- REDD and REDD+ -- Green aid -- Natural capital and ecosystem services -- Natural capital -- Ecosystem services -- Debt, structural adjustment and the environment -- Debt-for-nature/environment swaps -- Trade and EM -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Part II: Practice -- Chapter 5: Environmental management, business and law -- The US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) - a 1970 environmental Magna Carta? -- EM and business/organisations -- Corporate visions of stewardship - a paradigm shift to EM ethics? -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR). , The triple bottom line -- Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) -- Approaches adopted to promote EM in business/organisations -- Industrial ecology -- Ecological engineering -- Green marketing -- Green consumerism and consumer protection bodies -- Eco-labelling -- Total quality management and environment -- EM systems -- Green and sustainable supply chain management -- Life-cycle assessment -- Covenants -- Small and medium enterprises/businesses and the environment -- Greenwashing -- EM and business: the current situation -- EM and law -- European law and EM -- International law and EM -- International law and sovereignty issues -- Conflict management and EM -- Indigenous peoples and environmental law -- International conferences and agreements -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 6: Participants in environmental management -- Learning from past peoples -- Stakeholders -- Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management -- Facilitators -- Citizens -- Indigenous groups -- Women -- Individuals and groups seeking change -- Individuals and groups with little power -- Displaced people -- Public -- Participatory EM -- Aarhus Convention -- Transition Towns Movement -- Funding and research bodies -- Communications -- Controllers -- Traditions and spirituality -- Accreditation -- International bodies and agreements -- NGOs and EM -- Millennium and ongoing development goals -- Unions -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 7: Environmental management approaches -- EM focus and stance -- Political ecology focus and stance -- Political economy focus and stance -- Human ecology focus and stance -- Participatory focus and stance -- Participatory appraisal -- Local, community, regional and sectoral EM -- Adaptive EM -- Tools, expert systems and decision support for EM -- Tools for EM. , Expert systems -- Decision support for EM -- Systems and network approaches for EM -- Ecosystem approaches -- Ecosystem services -- Bioregional approaches -- Agroecosystem approaches -- Urban ecosystem approaches -- SMART cities or ecosystem cities approaches -- River basin ecosystem approaches -- Watershed and catchment systems approaches -- Socio-economic and socio-economic-environmental systems -- Environmental management systems -- The state and EM -- Non-Western EM -- China -- India -- Southeast Asia -- West Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa -- Africa -- South and Central America and the Caribbean -- Transboundary and global EM -- Integrated EM -- Strategic EM -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Chapter 8: Data, standards, indicators, benchmarks, goal setting and objectives, monitoring, surveillance, models and auditing -- Tools, data, data analysis, statistics and interpretation -- Fuzzy data -- Big data -- Open data -- Data assessment/analysis -- Indicators, standards and benchmarks -- Indicators -- SD indicators -- Standards -- Benchmarks -- Setting goals and objectives and getting an overall view -- Setting goals -- Scoping -- Pilot study -- Life-cycle assessment -- Participatory assessment -- Monitoring -- Ultimate environmental threshold assessment -- Remote sensing, GIS and GPS -- Remote sensing -- GIS -- GPS -- Business and project evaluation monitoring tools -- Surveillance -- Modelling -- Environmental auditing/assessment, eco-auditing, environmental accounting, SD auditing and environmental compliance auditing -- Environmental auditing -- Eco-auditing -- Environmental accounting -- SD assessment/audit and state of the environment accounts -- Environmental assessment/appraisal -- Supply chain auditing -- Environmental compliance auditing -- Eco-footprint and carbon footprint. , Integrated environmental assessment -- Cumulative impact assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- Books -- Journals -- www sources -- Chapter 9: Proactive assessment, prediction and forecasting -- Futures studies -- Predicting future scenarios -- Forecasting -- Futures modelling and future scenario prediction -- Hazard assessment and risk assessment -- Environmental impact assessment -- Dealing with indirect and cumulative impacts -- Social impact assessment -- Other tools for assessing the potential for development and impacts of development -- Ecological impact assessment -- Habitat evaluation -- Land-use planning -- Land capability classification, evaluation and appraisal -- Land suitability assessment -- The universal soil loss equation and revised universal soil loss equations -- Agroecosystem zones -- Farming systems research -- Participatory assessment approaches -- Livelihoods assessment -- Vulnerability studies -- Technology assessment -- Health risk assessment and health impact assessment -- Computers and expert systems -- Adaptive environmental assessment and management -- Integrated, comprehensive and regional impact assessment, integrated and strategic EM -- Integrated and comprehensive impact assessment -- Integrated regional environmental assessment -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- www sources -- Part III: Global challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 10: Resources: Character, opportunities and challenges -- Resources characteristics and management issues -- Water -- Floods -- Drought and reduced river flows -- Water resources management -- Developing rivers -- Small reservoirs and tanks -- Barrages -- Large dams -- Interbasin transfers -- Shared rivers -- Lakes and ponds -- Irrigation, runoff collection and rain-fed agriculture -- Air -- Land and soil -- Wetlands -- Energy. , Food and commodities.

Note: Intro -- Forest and Nature Governance -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Prelude to Practice: Introducing a Practice Based Approach to Forest and Nature Governance -- 1.1…Introduction -- 1.2…Forest and Nature Governance -- 1.3…Three Models for Understanding Human Behaviour -- 1.4…The Turn to Practice in Forest and Nature Governance -- 1.5…Sensitising Concepts of the Practice Based Approach -- 1.6…Methodological Guidelines -- 1.7…The Book's Contents -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 From Practical Science to a Practice Based Approach: A Short History of Forest Policy Studies -- 2.1…Introduction -- 2.2…Practising Science: Kuhn's Disciplinary Matrix -- 2.3…Characteristics of Traditional Forestry Science -- 2.4…Forest Policy StudiesForest policy studies as Practical Science -- 2.5…Changes in Forest Policy -- 2.5.1 Emergence of New Forestry and Rural Development Policies -- 2.5.2 Embedding of Forest Policy into Environmental Policy -- 2.5.3 Incorporation of Forest Policy in Newly Emerging Governance Arrangements -- 2.5.4 Repercussions for Forest Policies -- 2.6…From Normative to Analytical Science -- 2.6.1 Changing Academic Orientation -- 2.7…Changes in the Disciplinary Matrix -- 2.8…Emergence of Critical Policy Studies -- 2.8.1 Impacts on Disciplinary Matrix -- 2.9…Conclusion -- References -- Part II Rethinking Institutions -- 3 Bricolage PracticesBricolage Practices in Local Forestry -- 3.1…Introduction -- 3.2…Critical InstitutionalismCritical Institutionalism and Institutional Bricolage -- 3.3…Bricolage PracticesBricolage Practices -- 3.4…Examples of Bricolage Practices From Different Parts of the World -- 3.5…Forest Conservation and Development in Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea -- 3.6…Logging Concessions and Indigenous Territory in BoliviaBolivia -- 3.7…Issuing Logging Permits in the DRC -- 3.8…Conclusions. , References -- 4 What Institutions Do: Grasping Participatory Practices in the Water Framework Directive -- 4.1…Introduction -- 4.2…What Participatory Institutions Do -- 4.3…Fields and Logics of Practice -- 4.4…The Practice of Participation in the WFD in the Netherlands -- 4.4.1 The Design and Organisation of Public Participation in the WFD -- 4.4.2 Extending and Improving the Public Sphere? -- 4.4.3 Changing the Logic of the Governance Network -- 4.4.4 The Economics of Participation -- 4.5…Conclusion: Grasping Participatory Practices -- Acknowledgments -- A.1. Annex 1: List and dates of interviewees cited in this chapter (all interviews were in Dutch and have been translated by the authors) -- References -- 5 Invited Spaces and Informal Practices in Participatory Community Forest Management in IndiaIndia -- 5.1…Introduction -- 5.2…Methodology and Research Context -- 5.2.1 Methodology -- 5.2.2 Selection of Research Site -- 5.2.3 Background Information on Adavipalli -- 5.2.4 Key Actors and Institutions in APCFM Intervention -- 5.2.5 GenderGender Policy in APCFM Intervention (Formal Provisions) -- 5.3…Implementation of Gender Mainstreaming -- 5.3.1 Self-ImagesSelf-images and Roles of Men and Women -- 5.3.1.1 Box 5.1 Self-imagesSelf-images of men and women of their roles in the household/community -- Box 5.2 Male and female VSS members on their practices -- 5.3.2 Actual Practices Around Womenrsquors Participation in Adavipalli VSS -- 5.4…Findings and Discussion -- 5.5…Implications for Future Gender Mainstreaming Projects -- References -- Government Orders -- Part III The Global-Local Nexus -- 6 Global Forest Governance: Multiple Practices of Policy PerformancePolicy Performance -- 6.1…Introduction -- 6.2…The Assumed Failure of GlobalGlobal Forest Governance -- 6.3…Global Forest GovernanceGlobal Forest Governance: Regime or Non-Regime?. , 6.4…InstitutionsInstitutions, Discourses, Practices -- 6.5…Multiple Practices of Policy PerformancePolicy Performance -- 6.6…Global Forest Discourses and Norms -- 6.7…ParticipatoryParticipatory Forest ManagementParticipatory Forest Management in Babati District, TanzaniaBabati District, Tanzania -- 6.8…Forest CertificationForest Certification in Kikole, TanzaniaTanzania -- 6.9…Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 The Practice of Interaction Management: Enhancing Synergies Among Multilateral REDD+REDD+ Institutions -- 7.1…Introduction -- 7.2…Conceptualisation of Interaction Management as a Practice -- 7.3…The Practice of REDD+ Interaction Management -- 7.3.1 Introducing REDD+REDD+ -- Box 7.1: The Three Global REDD+REDD+ Programmes -- 7.3.1.0 -- 7.3.2 REDD+REDD+ Interaction Management -- 7.3.2.0 Developing a Common Umbrella Framework -- 7.3.2.0 Harmonised REDD+REDD+ Readiness Support -- 7.3.2.0 Safeguards -- 7.3.2.0 Governing Bodies -- 7.4…Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 8 How do Forest Markets Work? Exploring a Practice Perspective -- 8.1…Introduction -- 8.2…The Evolution of Markets -- 8.2.1 The Origins: The Market as a Location -- 8.2.2 The Market as an Observable Interface Between Sellers and Buyers -- 8.2.3 The Market as an Abstract Concept of Exchange -- 8.2.4 Markets as Institutional Arrangements -- 8.2.5 A Sociology of Markets -- 8.2.6 And Now, How Further? -- 8.3…Towards a New Approach: Markets as Practices -- 8.3.1 What are Practices? -- 8.3.2 Markets as Practices -- 8.4…The Certified Timber Market -- 8.5…Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Representing Nature ? -- 9 Globalising Biodiversity: Scientific Practices of Scaling and Databasing -- 9.1…Global Biodiversity, Global Science -- 9.2…Databases, Standards and Categories -- 9.3…Scaling as Scientific Practice -- 9.4…The EBONEEBONE Project. , 9.5…Negotiating and Scaling Biodiversity Data -- 9.5.1 BootstrappingBootstrapping and the Use of Existing Data -- 9.5.2 Statistics -- 9.5.3 BiodiversityBiodiversity Indicators -- 9.5.4 The Network -- 9.5.5 Scaling UpScaling Up -- 9.6…Practices of Databasing and Scaling -- 9.7…Globalising Biodiversity -- References -- 10 Where Management Practices and Experiential Practices Meet: Public Support and Conflict in Ecosystem Management -- 10.1…Introduction -- 10.2…Experiential PracticeExperiential Practices -- 10.2.1 The Importance of the Material Context -- 10.2.2 The Importance of Knowing -- 10.2.3 The Importance of Emotions -- 10.2.4 RoutinesRoutines and Their Disturbance -- 10.3…Methods -- 10.3.1 Study Sites -- 10.3.2 Case Study 1---Visitor Behaviour in Dwingelderveld National ParkDwingelderveld National Park -- 10.3.3 Case Study 2---Perceived Attractiveness of Nature in Dwingelderveld National ParkDwingelderveld National Park -- 10.3.4 Case Study 3---The Emergence of Protest in Drents-Friese Wold National ParkDrents-Friese Wold National Park -- 10.4…Results -- 10.4.1 Case Study 1: The Material Context Defines Visitor Behaviour -- 10.4.2 Case Study 2: Hiking Visitors Find Restored Nature Attractive -- 10.4.3 Case Study 3: ESM Threatens Established Practices -- 10.5…Discussion -- References -- 11 Creating Scientific Narratives: Experiences in Constructing and Interweaving Empirical and Theoretical Plottheoretical plots -- 11.1…Researchers as 'Scientific' Narrators -- 11.2…Constructing Scientific Narratives and Being Accountable for Them -- 11.3…Reflection Upon Our Own Practice as Scientific Narrators -- 11.4…The Narrative of the Drentsche Aa -- 11.4.1 Setting the Scene -- 11.4.2 Eventualisation of the Case -- 11.4.3 Creating a Case Journal or Case Record -- 11.4.4 Selecting Key Events -- 11.4.5 The Hermeneutic Spiralhermeneutic spiral. , 11.4.6 Constructing the Narrative -- 11.5…Making One Narrative Out of the Narratives of the Yorkshire Dales, Doñana and the Veluwe -- 11.5.1 Setting the Scene -- 11.5.2 Selection of Cases -- 11.5.3 Eventualisation of the Case -- 11.5.4 Creating a Case Journal or Case Record -- 11.5.5 Selecting Key Themes -- 11.5.6 The Hermeneutic Spiralhermeneutic spiral -- 11.5.7 Constructing the Narrative -- 11.6…Comparing Our Experiences as Scientific Narrators -- 11.7…The Practice Based Approach and Researchers as Narrators -- References -- Part V Conclusion -- 12 The Promise of Practice: The Value of the Practice Based Approach for Forest and Nature Governance Studies -- 12.1…Introduction -- 12.2…Forest and Nature Practices -- 12.3…Revisiting the Three Sensitising Concepts -- 12.4…Establishing a Practice Based Approach -- 12.5…The Potential of the Practice Based Approach for Governance Studies -- 12.6…From Studies to Practice -- References -- Author Biographies -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter-1 -- Introducing Life Cycle Assessment and its Presentation in 'LCA Compendium' -- 1 What is Life Cycle Assessment? -- 2 LCA-How it Came About -- 2.1 The Early Time -- 2.2 Harmonisation by SETAC -- 2.3 Standardisation by ISO -- 2.4 Recent Trends -- 3 The Structure of LCA According to ISO 14040 and 14044 -- 3.1 Goal and Scope Definition -- 3.2 Life Cycle Inventory Analysis -- 3.3 Life Cycle Impact Assessment -- 3.4 Interpretation -- 4 The Structure of LCA Beyond ISO 14040 -- 4.1 Applications of Life Cycle Assessment -- 4.2 Beyond the Classical ISO LCA -- 4.3 Life Cycle Management -- 4.4 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment -- 4.5 LCA Worldwide -- 5 Structure of 'LCA Compendium' -- 5.1 Background and Future Prospects in Life Cycle Assessment -- 5.2 Goal and Scope Definition in Life Cycle Assessment -- 5.3 Life Cycle Inventory Analysis -- 5.4 Life Cycle Impact Assessment -- 5.5 Interpretation -- and, Critical Review and Reporting -- 5.6 Overview on LCA Applications -- 5.7 Special types of Life Cycle Assessment -- 5.8 Life Cycle Management -- 5.9 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment -- 5.10 LCA Worldwide -- 6 New Developments and Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment-How Are they taken into Account? -- 7 How Scientific is LCA? -- Appendix-Glossary -- References -- Chapter-2 -- The Role of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Development and Application -- 1 Introduction-SETAC and Life Cycle Assessment -- 2 Life Before SETAC's Involvement with LCA -- 2.1 Focus on Pollution Reduction -- 2.2 Moving Beyond Pollution Control to Pollution Prevention -- 2.2.1 Duelling Diaper Debates -- 2.2.2 Mercury in Fluorescent Light Bulbs -- 2.2.3 Coca-Cola's Supply Chain Improvements -- 3 The Birth of SETAC -- 3.1 SETAC Workshops. , 3.1.1 Pellston Workshops -- 3.1.2 Technical Workshops -- 4 Early Days of SETAC 1990-1993 -- 4.1 SETAC LCA Groups -- 4.2 LCA Group Activities -- 4.2.1 A Technical Framework for Life Cycle assessment. August 18-23, 1990, Smugglers Notch, Vermont -- 4.2.2 Life Cycle Assessment: Inventory, Classification, Valuation, and Data Bases. December 2-3, 1991, Leiden, The Netherlands -- 4.2.3 A Conceptual Framework for Life Cycle Impact Assessment. February 1-7, 1992, Sandestin, Florida -- 4.2.4 Data Quality: A Conceptual Framework. October 4-9, 1992, in Wintergreen, Virginia -- 4.2.5 Code of Practice. Sesimbra, Portugal, March 31-April 3, 1993 -- 4.3 SETAC LCA Workgroups from 1994 to 2000 -- 4.4 SETAC LCA Workshops and Initiatives up from 1999 -- 4.4.1 Application of Life Cycle Assessment to Public Policy, August 14-19, 1995, Wintergreen, VA, USA -- 4.4.2 A Second Wave of LCA Workshops -- 5 SETAC and the International Organization for Standardization -- 6 On-Going SETAC Activities -- 6.1 Global Advisory Groups -- 7 UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative -- 8 SETAC's Role in Advancing the Use of LCA in the Building Sector -- 9 Future Role of SETAC -- 9.1 Expanding the Use of LCA -- 9.2 LCA Case Studies -- 9.3 Additional Pellston Workshops -- 9.4 On-Going Effort with the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative -- 9.5 Impact Assessment Advancement -- 9.6 Alternative Assessments -- 9.7 LCA in Developing Countries -- Appendix-Glossary -- References -- Chapter-3 -- The International Standards as the Constitution of Life Cycle Assessment: The ISO 14040 Series and its Offspring -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 History of LCA Standards Development -- 1.1.1 The Early Days -- 1.1.2 The First Revision -- 1.1.3 The Proliferation -- 1.2 Relevance of ISO Standards on LCA -- 1.3 ISO's Standardization Process -- 2 The Core Standards of LCA: ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 -- 3 The Spin-off Standards. , 3.1 ISO 14025-Type III Environmental Product Declarations -- 3.2 ISO 14047-Examples of Impact Assessement -- 3.3 ISO 14048-Data Documentation Format -- 3.4 ISO 14049-Examples of Inventory Analysis -- 4 The Future Standards Based on ISO 14040/44 -- 4.1 ISO 14045-Eco-Efficiency Assessment -- 4.2 ISO 14046-Water Footprint -- 4.3 ISO/TS 14067-Carbon Footprint -- 4.4 ISO 14071-Critical Review -- 4.5 ISO 14072-Organizational LCA (OLCA) -- 5 Summary and Outlook -- Appendix-Glossary -- References -- Chapter-4 -- The UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiativeand The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment -- 3 Main Contributions from 2002 to 2012 of the Life Cycle Initiative to the International Community and Best Examples Worldwide -- 3.1 Phase 1-Creating a Global Community -- 3.1.1 The Life Cycle Management Programme -- 3.1.2 The Life Cycle Inventory Programme -- 3.1.3 The Life Cycle Impact Assessment Programme -- 3.1.4 Crosscutting Activities -- 3.2 Phase 2-Becoming a Stakeholder -- 3.2.1 Overall Structure -- 3.2.2 Deliverables -- 3.2.3 Running a Multi-Stakeholder Process: Global Guidance for LCA Databases -- 4 Key Messages Based on Work Conducted During the Last 10 Years -- 4.1 Life Cycle Thinking in the Private Sector-Ahead of the Curve -- 4.2 Life Cycle Thinking in the Public Sector-Potential for Improvement -- 4.3 Life Cycle Methodologies, Impact Assessment and Data-The Foundation for Informed Decision-Making -- 4.4 Life Cycle Sustainability Approaches-Measuring Triple Bottom Line Impacts -- 4.5 Trade-Offs and Unexpected Consequences-Avoiding the Pitfalls -- 4.5.1 Trade-Offs Between Stages of the Product Value Chain -- 4.5.2 Trade-Offs Between Environmental Impact Categories -- 4.5.3 Trade-Offs Between Sustainability Pillars: Environmental, Social, Economic. , 4.5.4 Trade-Offs Between Societies/Regions -- 4.5.5 Generational Trade-Offs -- 4.5.6 Relevant Activities in Last 10 Years -- 4.6 Life Cycle Initiative Networks-Growing in Numbers and Expertise -- 4.6.1 The International Life Cycle Network -- 4.6.2 Life Cycle Jobs are Green Jobs -- 4.6.2 Accomplishments in Phases 1 and 2 -- 4.7 Communicating Life Cycle Information-The Right Story for Every Audience -- 5 The Future of Life Cycle Thinking and Phase 3 of the Life Cycle Initiative -- 5.1 Consultation Process -- 5.2 New Strategic Approach and Programmes -- 5.2.1 Programme on Data -- 5.2.2 Programme on Methodologies -- 5.2.3 Programme on Product Sustainability Information -- 5.2.4 Programme on Capacity Building and Implementation -- 5.2.5 Programme on Communication and Stakeholder Outreach -- 5.3 Setting up the Baseline for Phase 3 of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative-Monitoring Progress by Key Indicators -- 6 Conclusions and Perspectives -- Appendix-Glossary -- References -- Chapter-5 -- Life Cycle Assessment as Reflected by the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Milestones in Int J Life Cycle Assess -- 3 Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)-Impact Factor -- 4 Online Publications -- 5 The National Societies -- 5.1 LCA Society of Japan -- 5.2 Indian Society for LCA (ISLCA) -- 5.3 Korean Society for LCA (KSLCA) -- 5.4 Australian LCA Society (ALCAS) -- 5.5 Life Cycle Association of New Zealand (LCANZ) -- 5.6 Other LCA Organisations and Networks -- 5.6.1 SPOLD-Society for the Promotion of Life Cycle Development -- 5.6.2 LCANET-European Network for Strategic Life-Cycle Assessment Research and Development. A Strategic Research Programme for Life Cycle Assessment -- 5.6.3 CHAINET-European Network on Chain Analysis for Environmental Decision Support -- 5.6.4 ISOLP-International Society for LCA Practitioners. , 5.6.5 UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative -- 5.6.6 Swiss Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment -- 5.6.7 LCA Activities in Spain, Italy and Greece -- 6 Topics and Subject Areas -- 6.1 Life Cycle Management -- 6.1.1 Editorial: 'How to Communicate LCA Results' by Walter Klöpffer and Almut B. Heinrich, Int J Life Cycle Assess 5(3): 125 (2000) -- 6.1.2 Editorial: 'Two Planets and One Journal' by Walter Klöpffer and Almut B. Heinrich, Int J Life Cycle Assess 6(1) 1-3 (2001) -- 6.1.3 LCM in the Internet-Journal 'Gate to Environmental and Health Science (EHS)' and the Discussion Forum 'Global LCA Village' -- 6.1.4 Editorial: 'LCM-Integrating a New Section' by Almut B Heinrich and Walter Klöpffer, Int J Life Cycle Assess 7(6): 315-316 (2002) -- 6.1.5 The LCM Conferences -- 6.2 Life Cycle Costing (LCC) -- 6.3 Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) -- 6.4 Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) -- 7 Special Issues and Supplements -- 8 ISO Standardisation of LCA -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter-6 -- Strengths and Limitations of Life Cycle Assessment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Strengths and Limitations-Perceived and Real-in Life Cycle Assessment -- 2.1 Matching the Goal of the Assessment to the Approach -- 2.2 Gathering the Inventory Data can be Very Resource and Time Intensive -- 2.3 Missing Impact Data and Models for LCIA -- 2.4 Dealing with Data Uncertainty -- 2.5 Distinguishing between Life Cycle Impact Assessment and Risk Assessment -- 2.6 LCA Does not Always (usually) Declare a 'Winner' -- 2.7 LCA Results should be Supplemented by Other Tools in Decision Making -- 2.8 Allocating Environmental Burdens Across Co-products -- 2.9 Assigning Credit for Avoided Burden -- 2.10 Expanding the Boundaries (consequential LCA) -- 3 Life Cycle Thinking -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter-7. , Challenges in Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview of Current Gaps and Research Needs.

Note: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Activism! Toward a More Radical Science and Technology Education -- Navigating the Contemporary -- Building a Collection -- A Brief Overview of the Collection -- Framing a More Radical Approach to Science and Technology Education -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked in Relation to Contemporary Economic, Social, Ecological and Ma... -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked as Political Practice -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked to Support Learners as Subjects in Change and Not Objects of Ch... -- Science and Technology Education Should Be Critically Reworked as Moral and Ethical Praxis -- Partialities and Possibilities -- References -- Part I: Constituting Theories -- Preamble -- Chapter 2: The Elephant in the Room: Science Education, Neoliberalism and Resistance -- Opening -- Foucault´s Neoliberalism -- Occupy Wall Street: The Incessancy of Resistance -- Science Education, Neoliberalism and Activism/Resistance -- Not an Ending but a Beginning -- References -- Chapter 3: Science Education as a Site for Biopolitical Engagement and the Reworking of Subjectivities: Theoretical Considerat... -- A Context for Science Education -- Biopolitics and Biopower -- The ``Making of Subjects´´ -- Biopolitics and Subjectivities in Science Education -- Racisms, Colonialisms and the Power to Make Die -- Neoliberal Subjectivity -- Sex/Gender and Sexuality -- The ``Ethical Subject´´ in Science Education -- The Biosubject of Biotechnology -- Biopolitics as a Path Forward -- References -- Chapter 4: A Critical Pedagogy for STEM Education -- Introduction -- Global Capitalism -- STEM and Activism in Education -- STEM Education, Research and Practice -- A Critical Pedagogy for STEM Education -- Community and Revolution. , Theoretical Freestyle -- Analytical Freestyle in Science Education -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Becoming Part of the Solution: Learning about Activism, Learning through Activism, Learning from Activism -- Making the Case for an Action-Oriented Science Curriculum -- Building a Curriculum: Learning About the Issues -- Building a Curriculum: Learning to Care -- Engaging Emotions, Managing Emotions -- Building a Curriculum: Learning to Act -- Learning about, through and from Action -- Apprenticeship in Activism -- Further Considerations -- References -- Chapter 6: From Promoting the Techno-sciences to Activism - A Variety of Objectives Involved in the Teaching of SSIs -- Variation in Educational Objectives -- The Implications of the Educational Choices on SSIs -- Institutional Activism in Agricultural Education in France -- Scientific, Humanistic and Political Education -- References -- Chapter 7: Hopeful Practices: Activating and Enacting the Pedagogical and Political Potential in Crisis -- Science, Technology, and Society Education (STSE) -- Understanding and Learning from Crisis -- Learning from and Through Crisis: Opportunities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Using Collaborative Inquiry to Better Understand Teaching and Learning -- Science Curricula as a Central Factor in the Reform of Science Education -- Chapter Overview -- Changing Faces of Research and Science Education -- Dealing with Difference in Research on Teaching and Learning -- Participants Doing Research to Understand and Improve Practice -- Listening to and Learning from Others´ Voices -- Learning to Teach from and with Others -- Searching for and Learning from Spikes in the Curve -- Authentic Inquiry as an Overarching Methodology -- Reflections on the Changing Faces of My Research Methodologies -- References. , Chapter 9: From Knowledge to Action? Re-embedding Science Learning Within the Planet´s Web -- Introduction -- Complex Problems and the Role of Science and Technology -- A Critical Role for Science Education -- The Outline of a Science for Sustainability -- Acquiring Consciousness of Limits -- Opening Up Towards Dialogue -- The Thinking of the `Others´ -- Enhancing Life Through Cultural Diversity -- Redefining Science Education? -- From Objective and Objectifying Knowledge to a Science of Relationships -- Dealing with Conflict -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Education for Sustainable Contraction as Appropriate Response to Global Heating -- The Heating Is Happening -- Denial and Cognitive Dissonance in Response to Global Heating -- Denial and Cognitive Dissonance in the Field of Education for Sustainable Development -- Education for Sustainable Contraction (ESC): Nailing Nine Propositions to the Laboratory Door -- References -- Chapter 11: Learning to Let Go of Sustainability -- Introduction -- Sustainability as Restoring -- The Paradox of Sustainable Development -- To Hold onto, or to Let Go? -- Sustainability as Returning -- Romanticizing the Return? -- Resisting the Return -- Complicating the Return -- Learning to Let Go of Sustainability -- Letting Go of Sustainability -- Remembering Forward as a Different Way of Being in the World -- Coda: The Glass Jar -- References -- Part II: The Public Sphere -- Preamble -- Chapter 12: Street Medicine as a Science Education for Activists -- Know Your Street Medics -- States of Emergency: Where Only Street Medics Dare to Tread -- Street Medicine and the State of Exception -- Street Medicine Is Education -- The Street and the School -- References -- Chapter 13: Why Science Education Mediates the Way We Eat -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism in Science Education, In Brief. , A Pocket of Resistance-Local and Organic Food -- Organic Farmers´ Market Culture -- A Responsibly Nurtured Organic Place -- Local Knowledge -- Interdisciplinary Knowledge -- Change and Adaptability -- Embodied Change and Positionality -- Environmental Condition -- A Market Creates a Relationship with Food -- A Critique of Neoliberalism -- Implications for School Science -- References -- Chapter 14: From-Within-the-Event: A Post-constructivist Perspective on Activism, Ethics, and Science Education -- Environmental Activism at Work -- Transforming the Practices in One Municipality -- Science Education as/for Participation in the Community -- The Morality of Community-Based Activism: Is It Something to Feel Good About? -- From Activism to the Eventness of Events -- Activism -- From-Within-the-Event or the Eventness of Events -- Activism and Ethics -- Classically Understood -- From-Within-the-Event -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: #OccupyTech -- The Rise of Internetworked Social Movements -- Prefigurative Politics and Technology -- Hacking the Technical Code -- The Repertoire of Electronic Contention -- OccupyTech -- Disruptive Technologies: Building Tools for Revolution -- Communications -- From Technology to Technique: Prefiguring Change -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16: Trajectories of Socioscientific Issues in News Media: Looking into the Future -- Introduction -- The ``Black Box´´ of News Media -- The Media and Presentations of Science -- Influence of Media -- Manipulations of the Media -- Commercial Interests of the Media -- The Competency and Practices of Journalists -- Prelude to a News Story -- The J-School Experience: Insights into Media Practices Reporting Science -- Modifiers and ``Verbs of Saying´´ -- Being the ``Instant Expert´´ -- The Reducibility of Complex Relationships -- Production of a News Story. , Demonstrating the Need for Science Journalist Experts in News Media -- Connections Between the SMCC Anecdote and the Radio Workshop -- Copy Story Modification -- Analysis of Copy Story Modifications -- The Media Making Sense of Science: A Case Study of Two Publications -- Conclusions and Implications About Science in the News Media -- Implications for Understanding Science from the News Media -- Looking at the Preparation of Journalists -- Implications of Using News Media in the Classroom for Studying Socioscientific Issues -- References -- Chapter 17: The Perils, Politics, and Promises of Activist Science -- Introduction -- The Perils of Activist Science -- Historical Lessons from Ecology -- A View from the Front Lines -- All Science Is Political, but Politics Are Complicated -- Activism and Power -- References -- Chapter 18: Passive No More -- Introduction -- Awakening Dissonance -- Activism for Inaction, a Complacency That Will Kill and Destroy -- Growing Up on an Overheated Planet -- The Neoliberal Activist Attack on Climate Science and the Environment -- Disclosing Power, the Courtiers to Climate Disaster -- Reinventing Participatory Democracy -- Developing a Skeptical Way of Reading the Media -- Whose Long-Term Interests Are Being Served? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: Joining Up and Scaling Up: Analyzing Resistance to Canada´s ``Dirty Oil´´ -- Activism Against the Oilsands -- Aboriginal Activism -- Environmental Activism -- Religiously-Based Activism -- Labour Activism -- Growing the Movement (Horizontally and Vertically) -- Joining Up: Creating Coalitions Among Unlikely Allies -- Scaling Up: Crossing Borders -- Building Cross-Organizational, Cross-Border Consensus -- Assessing the Movement´s Strengths and Challenges -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Elementary and Secondary Education -- Preamble. , Chapter 20: We Got Involved and We Got to Fix It!: Action-Oriented School Science.

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I : Global Problems and Mountain Regions -- Chapter 1: Scientific Research Basis for Sustainable Development of the Mountain Regions: Main Concepts and Basic Theories -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Research Base for Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions -- 1.3 "Pressure, State, Response" (PSR) and DPSIR Models Require Trans-Disciplinarity -- 1.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Solar Activity, Climate Change, and Natural Disasters in Mountain Regions -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Heliocentric Hypothesis on Forest Fires -- 2.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Mass Movement Processes Under Changing Climatic and Socioeconomic Conditions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Matrix of Mass Movement Processes and Triggering Parameters -- 3.2.1 Basics -- 3.2.2 The Event of 2005 (Communities of Gasen and Haslau, Austria) -- 3.3 Climate Change: Facts and Assumptions -- 3.4 Socioeconomic Development and Rising Disadvantages -- 3.5 Working with Scenarios: An Approach -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Part II : Nature Resources and Land Use in Mountain Regions -- Chapter 4: Mountains and Mountain Regions in Bulgaria -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Arguments -- 4.3 Criteria -- 4.4 Results -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Nature Potential of Mountains in Bulgaria and Its Sustainable Use -- 5.1 Former Studies on the Natural Potential of the Mountains in Bulgaria -- 5.2 Assessment of Nature Potential by Components for Various Economic Purposes -- 5.2.1 Assessment of Relief -- 5.2.2 Climate Assessment -- 5.2.3 Assessment of Water -- 5.2.4 Assessment of the Soils, Vegetation, and Animal World -- 5.2.5 Complex Assessment of Mountain Landscapes -- 5.3 Assessment of the Possibilities for Sustainable Utilization of the Natural Potential of Mountains -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References. , Chapter 6: Morphometry and Land Use on High Mountains in the Republic of Macedonia -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Methodology -- 6.3 Basic Morphometric Characteristics -- 6.4 Basic Land Use Characteristics -- 6.4.1 Hypsometry and Land Use -- 6.4.2 Slopes and Land Use -- 6.4.3 Aspects and Land Use -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Usage of the Mountain Areas in the Republic of Macedonia -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Methodology of Work and Data Sources -- 7.3 Population as a Precondition for Area Usage -- 7.4 Size of Villages According to Population Number -- 7.5 Usage of the Areas of Mountain Villages -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Physical Geographic Characteristics and Sustainable Development of the Mountain Area in Montenegro -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Borders and Division of the Mountain Terrain -- 8.3 Geologic Background -- 8.4 Climate Conditions -- 8.5 Hydrologic Characteristics -- 8.6 Geomorphological Characteristics -- 8.7 Geoheritage and Environmental Protection -- 8.8 Potentials and Limitations for the Application of the Concept of Sustainable Development -- 8.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Climate Variability, Soil, and Forest Ecosystem Diversity of the Dinaric Mountains -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Climate Characteristics and Observed Climate Change in Dinarides -- 9.3 Main Soil-Forming Factors -- 9.4 Characteristic Soil Types -- 9.5 Forest Vegetation of Dinarides -- 9.6 Climate Modeling and Future Climate Changes in Croatia -- 9.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Assessment of Greek Forests Protection and Management -- 10.1 Introduction: Forest Ecosystems in Greece -- 10.1.1 The General Context -- 10.1.2 Greek Diversity -- 10.2 Forests in Mountain Regions of Greece -- 10.2.1 Morphology and Diversity -- 10.2.2 Species and Formations of Forests in Mountainous Regions of Greece. , 10.3 Direct and Indirect Benefits of Forests -- 10.3.1 Direct Benefits -- 10.3.2 Indirect Benefits -- 10.4 Sustainable Forest Management -- 10.4.1 A Definition -- 10.4.2 The Global View -- 10.4.3 The European View -- 10.4.4 Greek Management -- 10.4.5 Regional Issues -- 10.4.6 The Future Approach -- 10.5 Threats and Risks of the Greek Forests -- 10.6 Restoration of Greek Forest Ecosystems -- References -- Chapter 11: Mapping Forest Fragmentation Based on Morphological Image Analysis of Mountain Regions in Bulgaria and Slovakia -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Materials and Methods -- 11.2.1 Study Areas -- 11.2.2 Data -- 11.2.3 Morphological Image Analysis -- 11.3 Results and Discussion -- 11.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Evaluation of the Avalanche Danger in Northwest Rila Mountain -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Avalanche and Avalanche Danger -- 12.3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: Management of Snow Avalanche Risk in the Ski Areas of the Southern Carpathians-Romanian Carpathians -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 General Facts of the Studied Area -- 13.3 Terrain Factors and Climatic Variables Analysis as Favorable for Ski Activities -- 13.3.1 Terrain Factors -- 13.3.2 Climatic Variables -- 13.4 Management of Snow Avalanche Risk -- 13.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: Landscape Structure and Ecosystem Services of Etropole Municipality -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Study Area -- 14.3 Materials and Methods -- 14.4 Results -- 14.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part III : Social, Economic and Regional Problems of Mountain Regions -- Chapter 15: Demographic Potential and Problems of the Settlements Network in the Mountains of Bulgaria -- References -- Chapter 16: Demographic Limits to Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions in Serbia -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 The Analysis -- 16.3 The Future -- References. , Chapter 17: Changes in the Ethnic and Demographic Profile of the Population in Eastern Stara Planina Region -- 17.1 General Notes -- 17.2 The Turkish Ethnic Group -- 17.3 The Bulgarian and the Roma Ethnic Groups -- 17.4 Classification and Grouping -- References -- Chapter 18: Small Urban Centers in the Alps and Their Development Issues -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Basic Features of Small Urban Centers in the Alps -- 18.2.1 Population Growth -- 18.2.2 Aging of the Population -- 18.2.3 Working Population -- 18.2.4 Jobs -- 18.2.5 Tourism -- 18.2.6 Transport Accessibility and Mobility -- 18.3 Survey on Contemporary Development Issues -- 18.4 Discussion -- 18.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: Impact of Macroeconomic Changes and Property Rights on Forest Degradation, Land Use, and Environmental Situation in Albania -- 19.1 Historical Land Tenure in Albania -- 19.1.1 Privatization of Agricultural Land -- 19.2 Main Land Tenure Issues -- 19.2.1 Land Fragmentation -- 19.3 Effects of Land Reforms on Land Use in Albania After 1991 -- 19.3.1 Land Cover -- 19.3.2 Forest Degradation -- 19.3.3 Pasture Degradation -- 19.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 20: Sustainable Development in the Eastern Black Sea Mountains: Present State and Perspectives -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 The Eastern Black Sea Region -- 20.2.1 Settlement System -- 20.2.2 The Economy -- 20.3 The Eastern Black Sea Regional Development Plan (DOKAP) and Sustainable Mountain Development -- 20.3.1 Legislative Basis -- 20.3.2 Design -- 20.3.3 Objectives, Rationale, and General Description -- 20.3.4 Financing -- 20.3.5 Administration of the Plan -- 20.4 The Project Achievements -- 20.4.1 Accessibility and Mountain Development -- 20.4.2 Tourism and Mountain Development -- 20.4.3 The Kaçkar Mountains National Park: A Model for Sustainable Mountain Development -- 20.5 Conclusion -- References. , Chapter 21: Regional Differences and Regional Planning of Economic Activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Methodology of Research -- 21.3 Socioeconomic Transformation and Regional Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina Since the Mid-­Twentieth Century -- 21.4 Modern Regional Development of Bosnia and Herzgovina -- 21.5 Conclusion -- References -- Journal Article -- Book -- Part IV : Nature Protection, Conservation and Monitoring -- Chapter 22: Applying Integrated Nature Conservation Management: Using Visitor Management and Monitoring to Handle Conflicts Between Winter Recreation and Grouse Species in Berchtesgaden National Park -- 22.1 Introduction and Background -- 22.2 Study Area and Study Objects -- 22.2.1 Berchtesgaden National Park -- 22.2.2 Winter Recreation: Ski-Touring and Snowshoeing -- 22.2.3 Wildlife: Grouse Species -- 22.3 Temporal and Spatial Use Characteristics of Ski-­Touring and Snowshoeing -- 22.3.1 Visitor Numbers and Temporal Use Characteristics -- 22.3.2 Spatial Use -- 22.4 Conflicts and Integrated Management Measures -- 22.4.1 Winter Season -- 22.4.2 Spring Season -- 22.5 Outlook -- References -- Chapter 23: Environmental Changes in the Maramureş Mountains Natural Park -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Environmental Changes in  Maramureş Mountains Natural Park -- Settlement Expansion -- Overgrazing -- Deforestation -- Mining Activities -- Touristic Activities -- 23.3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 24: BEO Moussala: Complex for Environmental Studies -- 24.1 Introduction -- 24.1.1 Climate Notes -- 24.1.2 The Station Chronology -- 24.2 Environmental Measurements at BEO Moussala -- 24.2.1 Vaisala Automatic Weather Station (AWS) -- 24.2.2 POPs Passive Air Sampling -- 24.2.3 Atmospheric Gas Analysis System -- 24.2.4 BEO Moussala Aerosol Measurement and Devices -- 24.2.4.1 Scanning Mobility Particles Sizer. , 24.2.4.2 Nephelometer TSI 3563.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of journals -- 1 Environmental science on the move -- 2 The sustainability debate -- 3 Environmental politics and policy processes -- 4 Environmental and ecological economics -- 5 Biodiversity and ethics -- 6 Population, adaptation and resilience -- 7 Climate change -- 8 Managing the oceans -- 9 Coastal processes and management -- 10 GIS and environmental management -- 11 Soil erosion and land degradation -- 12 River processes and management -- 13 Groundwater pollution and protection -- 14 Marine and estuarine pollution -- 15 Urban air pollution and public health -- 16 Preventing disease -- 17 Environmental risk management -- 18 Waste management -- 19 Managing the global commons -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- An Overview of Conservation Paleobiology -- 1 Defining and Establishing Conservation Paleobiologyas a Discipline -- 2 Data in Conservation Paleobiology -- 3 Looking Forward -- References -- Should Conservation Paleobiologists Save the World on Their Own Time? -- 1 Always Academicize? -- 2 To Advocate, or Not to Advocate -- 3 Speaking Honestly to Power -- 4 From Pure Scientist to Honest Broker -- 5 Keeping It Real -- 6 Overcoming the Fear Factor -- 7 Later Is Too Late -- References -- Conceptions of Long-Term Data Among Marine Conservation Biologists and What Conservation Paleobiologists Need to Know -- 1 What is "Long Term"? -- 2 Survey Implementation -- 3 Survey Responses and What They Mean for Conservation Paleobiologists -- Conservation Goals -- Long-Term Data -- Environmental Stressors -- Baselines -- Challenges -- 4 Takeaways for Conservation Paleobiologists -- 5 Moving Forward -- Appendix 1: Survey Questions -- Appendix 2: Survey Population Selection -- Appendix 3: Categorization of Responses -- References -- Effectively Connecting Conservation Paleobiological Research to Environmental Management: Examples from Greater Everglades' Restoration of Southwest Florida -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining the Problem -- 3 Ensuring Success as a Conservation Paleobiologist -- Developing Partnerships and Collaborative Teams -- Becoming or Engaging a Liaison -- Participate in "Management Collaboratives" -- Compose Technical Reports in Addition to Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles -- Present Your Findings to Stake Holder Groups -- Attend and Present at Environmental Science and Restoration Conferences -- Train our Students -- Reward Faculty for Conducting Community-Engaged Scholarship -- Promote and Reward Community Service for Work with Environmental Agencies and NGOs. , 4 Case Studies from Greater Everglades' Restoration -- Case Study 1: Water Management of the Caloosahatchee River -- Case Study 2: Picayune Strand Restoration Project -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Using the Fossil Record to Establish a Baseline and Recommendations for Oyster Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- Pleistocene Localities -- Field and Museum Sampling -- Oyster Size and Abundance Data -- Reconstructing Paleotemperature and Salinity -- Modern and Colonial Data -- 3 Results -- Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Holland Point -- Paleotemperature -- Paleosalinity -- Shell Height -- Growth Rate -- 4 Discussion -- Comparing Pleistocene to Modern Oysters -- Environmental Controls on Oyster Size -- Human Factors Influencing Oyster Size -- Implications for Restoration -- A Role for Conservation Paleobiology -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Coral Reefs in Crisis: The Reliability of Deep-Time Food Web Reconstructions as Analogs for the Present -- 1 Introduction -- Preserving the Past -- Endangered Coral Reefs -- 2 Fossilizing a Coral Reef -- Dietary Breadth -- Trophic Chains and Levels -- Modularity -- 3 Guild Structure and Diversity -- Identifying Guilds in a Food Web -- 4 Reconstructing the Community -- Diversity and Evenness -- Simulated Food Webs -- 5 Summary -- Appendix 1 -- Hypergeometric Variance -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Exploring the Species -Area Relationship Within a Paleontological Context, and the Implications for Modern Conservation Biology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Geological Setting -- 3 Methods -- 4 Results -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Marine Refugia Past, Present, and Future: Lessons from Ancient Geologic Crises for Modern Marine Ecosystem Conservation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Refugium. , A Species Must Have a Range Contraction, Range Shift, or Migration in Order to Escape the Onset of Global Environmental Degradation That Would Otherwise Cause Extinction of That Species -- Range Shifts -- Habitat Shifts -- Isolated Geographic Refugia -- Life History Refugia -- Cryptic Refugia -- Harvest Refugia -- The Environmental Conditions of a Refugium Are Sufficiently Habitable Such That the Species' Population Remains Viable During Its Time in the Refugium -- A Species' Population Is Smaller in the Refugium Than Its Pre-environmental Perturbation Size -- The Species Remains in the Refugium for Many Generations -- After the Environmental Crisis Ends, the Species Recovers by Inhabiting Newly Re-opened Habitats, Either Through Population Expansion or Through Adaptive Radiation -- Otherwise, the Refugium Became a Trap -- 3 Identifying Ancient Refugia -- Fossil Data -- Phylogeographic Studies -- Species Distribution Models -- 4 Lessons from the Past for Identifying Future Refugia -- As the Marine Environment Continues to Change, Refugia May Need to Shift -- Refugial Size and Connectivity Can Enhance Survivorship, But Can Also Have Evolutionary Consequences -- Conditions Inside Refugia May Not Necessarily Remain Pristine, But Will Need to Be of Sufficiently Lower Magnitude of Total Stress to Maintain Viable Populations -- Beware the Refugial Trap -- 5 Future Directions for Investigating Ancient Refugia -- 6 Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Training Tomorrow's Conservation Paleobiologists -- 1 Business As Usual Is Not Enough -- 2 A Call to Action -- 3 Bridging the Gap -- Recommendation 1 -- Recommendation 2 -- Recommendation 3 -- Recommendation 4 -- Recommendation 5 -- Recommendation 6 -- 4 Okay, But… -- 5 In the Meantime… -- 6 A Bright Future -- References -- A Conceptual Map of Conservation Paleobiology: Visualizinga Discipline. , 1 Determining the Current State and Structure of Conservation Paleobiology -- 2 Mapping a Discipline -- Bibliographic Co-Authorship Visualizations -- Text Co-Occurrence Visualizations -- Bibliographic Co-Citation Visualizations -- Bibliographic Coupling Visualizations -- 3 Bibliometric Networks -- Bibliographic Co-Authorship Networks -- Text Co-Occurrence Networks -- Bibliographic Co-Citation Networks -- Bibliometric Coupling Networks -- 4 The Intellectual Landscape -- 5 Emerging Frontiers -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ecological Informatics: An Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Data Management -- 1.3 Analysis and Synthesis -- 1.4 Communicating and Informing Decisions -- 1.5 Case Studies -- References -- Part II: Managing Ecological Data -- Chapter 2: Project Data Management Planning -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Components of a Data Management Plan -- 2.2.1 Context -- 2.2.2 Data Collection and Acquisition -- 2.2.3 Data Organization -- 2.2.4 Quality Assurance/Quality Control -- 2.2.5 Documentation -- 2.2.6 Storage and Preservation -- 2.2.7 Data Integration, Analysis, Modeling and Visualization -- 2.2.8 Data Policies -- Box 2.1 Recommended Data Citation Guidelines from Dryad Digital Repository (2016) -- 2.2.9 Communication and Dissemination of Research Outputs -- 2.2.10 Roles and Responsibilities -- 2.2.11 Budget -- 2.3 Developing and Using a Data Management Plan -- 2.3.1 Best Practices for Creating the Plan -- 2.3.2 Using the Plan -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Scientific Databases for Environmental Research -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Challenges for Scientific Databases -- 3.3 Examples of Scientific Databases -- 3.3.1 A Useful Analogy -- 3.3.2 Examples of Databases -- 3.4 Evolving a Database -- 3.4.1 A Strategy for Evolving a Database -- 3.4.2 Choosing Software -- 3.4.3 Database Management System (DBMS) Types -- 3.4.4 Data Models and Normalization -- 3.4.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a DBMS -- 3.5 Interlinking Information Resources -- 3.5.1 A Database Related to the Human Genome Project -- 3.5.2 Environmental Databases for Sharing Data -- 3.5.3 Tools for Interlinking Information -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Quality Assurance -- 4.3 Quality Control -- 4.3.1 Data Filters. , 4.3.2 Graphical QC -- 4.3.3 Statistical QC -- 4.3.4 Treatment of Errors and Outliers -- 4.4 Implementing QA/QC -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Metadata -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Metadata Descriptors -- 5.3 Metadata Standards -- 5.3.1 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative -- 5.3.2 Darwin Core -- 5.3.3 Ecological Metadata Language -- 5.3.4 GBIF Metadata Profile -- 5.3.5 FGDC CSDGM -- 5.3.6 ISO 19115 -- 5.4 Metadata Management -- 5.4.1 Metadata Tools -- 5.4.2 Best Practices for Creating and Managing Metadata -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Preserve: Protecting Data for Long-Term Use -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 Preservation and Its Benefits -- 6.2 Practices for Preserving Ecological Data -- 6.2.1 Define the Contents of Your Data Files -- 6.2.2 Define the Parameters -- 6.2.3 Use Consistent Data Organization -- 6.2.4 Use Stable File Formats -- 6.2.5 Specify Spatial Information -- 6.2.6 Assign Descriptive File Names -- 6.2.7 Document Processing Information -- 6.2.8 Perform Quality Assurance -- 6.2.9 Provide Documentation -- 6.2.10 Protect Your Data -- 6.3 Prepare Your Data for Archival -- 6.4 What the Archive Does -- 6.4.1 Quality Assurance -- 6.4.2 Documentation and Metadata -- 6.4.3 Release of a Data Set -- 6.5 Data Users -- 6.6 Conclusions -- Appendix: Example R-Script for Processing Data -- References -- Chapter 7: Data Discovery -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Discovering Data Created by Others -- 7.2.1 Internet Search Engines -- 7.2.2 Data Repositories -- 7.2.3 Data Directories -- 7.2.4 Data Aggregators -- 7.3 Best Practices for Promoting Data Discovery and Reuse -- 7.3.1 Data Products -- Box 7.1 DataCite Recommendations for Data Citation -- Box 7.2 Dryad Digital Repository Data Citation Recommendations -- 7.3.2 Scientific Code -- References -- Chapter 8: Data Integration: Principles and Practice. , 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Essential Characteristics of All Data -- 8.3 Data as Records About Reality -- 8.4 Record-Keeping and Prose Documents as Data Integration Challenges -- 8.5 Formal Data Structures Facilitate Integration -- 8.5.1 Sets and Sequences -- 8.5.2 Matrices -- 8.5.3 Cross-classifications -- 8.5.4 Tables -- 8.5.5 Tables or Spreadsheets? -- 8.5.6 Tables or Cross-classifications? -- 8.5.7 Modeling True Tables -- 8.5.8 Need for Global Keys -- 8.6 Merging or JOINing Tables -- 8.6.1 APPENDING or Unioning -- 8.6.2 JOINs -- 8.7 The Datum Is the Atom -- 8.8 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Analysis, Synthesis and Forecasting of Ecological Data -- Chapter 9: Inferential Modelling of Population Dynamics -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Inferential Modelling of Ecological Data by the Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm -- 9.2.1 Population Dynamics of the Cyanobacterium Microcystis in Lake Müggelsee (Germany) -- 9.2.2 Meta-Analysis of Population Dynamics of the Cyanobacterium -- 9.3 Inferential Modelling of Ecological Data by Regression Trees -- 9.3.1 Induction Algorithm of Regression Trees -- 9.3.2 Pruning of Regression Trees -- 9.3.3 Diatom Populations in Lake Prespa (Mazedonia) -- 9.3.4 Vegetation Status of Selected Land Sites in Victoria (Australia) -- 9.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Process-Based Modeling of Nutrient Cycles and Food-Web Dynamics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Zero- and One-Dimensional Lake Models -- 10.2.1 Zero-Dimensional Model for the Phosphorus Cycle in a Hypereutrophic Wetland -- 10.2.2 One-Dimensional Model for Nutrient Cycles and Plankton Dynamics in Lakes and Reservoirs -- 10.3 Multi-dimensional Lake Models -- 10.3.1 Horizontal and Vertical Transport of Nutrients and Organisms -- 10.3.2 Multi-segment Lake Model for Studying Dreissenids and Macrophytes -- 10.4 Concluding Remarks -- References. , Chapter 11: Uncertainty Analysis by Bayesian Inference -- 11.1 Does Uncertainty Really Matter? -- 11.2 Hamilton Harbour -- 11.2.1 Introduction -- 11.2.2 Eutrophication Modeling to Elucidate the Role of Lower Food Web -- 11.2.3 Nutrient Export Modeling for the Hamilton Harbour Watershed -- 11.3 Bay of Quinte -- 11.3.1 Introduction -- 11.3.2 Modeling the Relationship Among Watershed Physiography, Land Use Patterns, and Phosphorus Loading -- 11.3.3 Eutrophication Risk Assessment with Process-Based Modeling and Determination of Water Quality Criteria -- 11.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 12: Multivariate Data Analysis by Means of Self-Organizing Maps -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Properties of a Self-Organizing Map -- 12.3 Data Preparation -- 12.3.1 Missing Values and Outliers -- 12.3.2 Data Transformation -- 12.3.3 Distance Measure -- 12.4 Self-Organizing Maps -- 12.4.1 Architecture -- 12.4.2 Learning Algorithm -- Box 12.1 Sequential Learning Algorithm of an SOM -- 12.4.3 Evaluation of Trained Map Quality -- 12.4.4 Optimum Map Size -- 12.4.5 Clustering SOM Units -- 12.4.6 Evaluation of Input Variables -- 12.4.7 Relations Between Biological and Environmental Variables -- 12.5 Application in Ecological Modelling -- 12.6 SOM Tools -- 12.7 Example of SOM Application -- 12.8 Advantages and Disadvantages -- 12.8.1 Utility for Training and Information Extraction -- 12.8.2 Visualization and Recognition -- 12.8.3 Architecture Flexibility -- 12.8.4 Flexibility in Combining with Other Models -- 12.8.5 Constraints on Measure Consistency and Output Variability -- 12.8.6 Necessity of Sufficient Data -- 12.9 Future Development -- 12.10 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: GIS-Based Data Synthesis and Visualization -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Synthesizing Species Distributions by Virtual Species. , 13.3 Cartograms to Synthesize and Visualize Sampling Effort Bias -- 13.4 Fuzzy Methods to Synthesize Species Distribution Uncertainty -- 13.5 Synthesis of Remote Sensing Data -- 13.5.1 Exploratory Data Analysis -- 13.5.1.1 Correlation of Remotely Sensed Bands by Hexagon Binning -- 13.5.1.2 Correlation Among Several Layers by Texture Measures -- 13.5.2 Fourier Transformations -- 13.6 Synthesizing Diversity Measurements from Space: The Case of Generalized Entropy -- 13.7 Neutral Landscapes -- 13.8 Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Communicating and Informing Decisions -- Chapter 14: Communicating and Disseminating Research Findings -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Publishing Research Findings -- 14.2.1 Scholarly Publications -- 14.2.1.1 Journal Articles -- 14.2.1.2 Abstracts -- 14.2.1.3 Technical Reports -- 14.2.1.4 Books and Book Chapters -- 14.2.2 Newspaper and Magazine Articles for General Audiences -- 14.2.3 Designing Effective Figures -- 14.3 Communicating Research Findings Outside of Publications -- 14.3.1 Simple Steps for Giving an Effective Presentation -- 14.3.2 Best Practices for Slides -- 14.3.2.1 Slide Design -- 14.3.2.2 Text Slides -- 14.3.2.3 Graphics -- 14.3.3 Handouts -- 14.3.4 Posters -- 14.4 Communication in a Virtual Environment -- 14.4.1 Websites -- 14.4.2 Types and Uses of Different Social Media -- 14.4.3 Simple Steps for Effective Use of Social Media -- 14.4.4 Understanding Your Social Media Impact -- 14.5 Metrics and Altmetrics -- 14.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: Operational Forecasting in Ecology by Inferential Models and Remote Sensing -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Early Warning of HABs Based on Inferential Modelling -- 15.2.1 Cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis in Lake Wivenhoe (Australia) -- 15.2.2 Cyanotoxin Microcystins in Lake Vaal (South Africa) -- 15.3 Early Warning of HABs Based on Remotely-Sensed Data. , 15.3.1 Earth Observation of Water Quality Parameters.

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Note -- Board of Advisers -- Contributors -- Alphabetical List of Entries -- Thematic List -- Reader's Guide to the History of Science -- A -- Académie des Sciences -- Accademia dei Lincei -- Accademia del Cimento -- Accountability -- Accountancy -- Acoustics -- Acupuncture -- Adler, Alfred -- Aether -- Affinity -- Africa: south of the Sahara -- Africa: health and healing -- Age of the Earth -- Agrícola, Georgius -- Agriculture -- AIDS -- Alchemy -- Algebra -- Alienation -- Almanacs -- Anatomy -- Anthropology -- Anthropometry -- Anti-Vivisection -- Arabic Science -- Archaeology -- Archimedes -- Aristotle -- Arithmetic -- Artificial Intelligence -- Astrolabes -- Astrology -- Astronomical Instruments -- Astronomy: general works -- Astronomy: non-European -- Astrophysics -- Asylums -- Atomic Theory -- Atomic Weapons -- Atomism -- Australia and New Zealand -- Automobiles -- Avogadro, Amedeo -- Axiomatics -- B -- Bacon, Francis -- Bacteriology -- Baer, Karl Ernst von -- Baeyer, Adolf von -- Banks, Joseph -- Bateson, Gregory -- Bauer, Georg -- Behring, Emil von -- Bernard, Claude -- Berthollet, Claude-Louis, Comte de -- Berzelius, Jöns Jacob -- Bichat, Marie François Xavier -- Big Bang Theory -- Big Science -- Biochemistry -- Biometrics, Statistical Biology, and Mathematical Statistics -- Biotechnology -- Birth Control -- Blowpipe -- Boas, Franz -- The Body -- Boerhaave, Herman -- Bohr, Niels -- Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard -- Botanical and Zoological Gardens -- Botanical Gardens -- Zoological Gardens -- Botany: general works -- Botany: Britain -- Boyle, Robert -- Brahe, Tycho -- Brazil -- British Association for the Advancement of Science -- Buckland, William -- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclere, Comte de -- C -- Calculating Devices -- Canada -- Cancer -- Cantor, Georg. , Capitalism and Science -- Cardiology -- Cartesianism -- Cartography -- CERN -- Chaos Theory -- Charcot, Jean-Martin -- Chemical Analysis -- Chemical Revolution -- Chemistry -- China: general works -- China: agriculture -- China: astronomy and mathematics -- China: medicine -- China: natural history -- Clinical Science -- Clinical Trials -- Clocks -- Colloid Chemistry -- Colonialism and Science -- Complementary Medicine -- Computing -- Comte, Auguste -- Continental Drift -- Copernicanism -- Copernicus, Nicolaus -- Cosmology -- Court Society -- Cryogenics -- Curie, Marie -- Cuvier, Georges -- D -- Darwin, Charles -- Darwinism -- Darwinism in Germany -- Davy, Humphry -- Dee, John -- Degeneration -- Denmark -- Dentistry -- Descartes, René -- Dialectical Materialism -- Discipline -- Discovery -- DNA -- Doctor-Patient Relationship -- Drugs -- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie -- Durkheim, Émile -- Dyestuffs -- E -- École Polytechnique -- Ecology -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Education -- Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Ehrlich, Paul -- Einstein, Albert -- Electrical Engineering -- Electrical Instruments -- 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Hospitals -- Human Genome Project -- Human Sciences -- Humanism -- Humboldt, Alexander von -- Hungary -- Hunter, John -- Hutton, James -- Huxley, Thomas -- Huygens, Christiaan -- Hysteria -- I -- Ideology -- Immunology -- India: general works -- India: medicine -- Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Industrial Chemistry -- Information -- Instrument as Embodied Theory -- Instrument Makers -- Internalism versus Externalism -- International Science -- J -- Japan: general works -- Japan: medicine -- Japan: technology -- Jesuits -- Journals -- Jung, Carl Gustav -- K -- Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kepler, Johannes. , Keynes, John Maynard -- Klein, Melanie -- Knowledge and Power -- Koch, Robert -- L -- Latin America -- Laue, Max von -- Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent -- Lawrence, Ernest Orlando -- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Lévi-Strauss, Claude -- Liebig, Justus von -- Linguistics -- Linné, Carl von -- Linnaeus, Carl -- Lister, Joseph -- Literature and Science -- Lorenz, Konrad -- Lyell, Charles -- Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich -- M -- Mach, Ernst -- Madness -- Magnetism -- Malaria -- Malthus, Thomas -- Malthusianism -- Management Sciences -- Marey, Etienne-Jules -- Marshall, Alfred -- Martineau, Harriet -- Marx, Karl -- Marxism and Science -- Materials Science -- Mathematical Instruments -- Mathematical Modernity -- Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de -- Maxwell, James Clerk -- Measurement -- Mechanization -- Medical Ethics -- Medical Instruments -- Medical Specialization -- Medicine and Law -- Medicine, Disease, and Health -- Medieval Science and Medicine -- Meitner, Lise -- Mendel, Gregor -- Mendeleev, Dmitrii Ivanovich -- Mersenne, Marin -- Merton Thesis -- Mesmerism -- Metallurgy -- Metaphor -- Meteorological Instruments -- Meteorology -- Metrology -- Michelson, Albert A. -- Microscopes -- Midwifery -- Mill, John Stuart -- Millikan, Robert Andrews -- Mills and Waterwheels -- The Mind -- Molecular Biology -- Monge, Gaspard -- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle -- Museums -- Music and Science: antiquity to 1700 -- Music and Science: since 1700 -- N -- Napier, John -- National Styles of Reasoning -- Natural Law -- Natural Selection -- Nature -- Navigational Instruments -- Nernst, Walther -- Netherlands: technology -- Neumann, Salomon -- Neurosciences -- Newton, Isaac -- Newtonianism -- Nobel Institution -- Nuclear Physics -- Number Theory -- Nursing -- Nutrition -- O -- Objectivity -- Observation -- Obstetrics and Midwifery -- Occult Sciences. , Oceanography -- Oppenheimer, J. Robert -- Optics -- Organic Chemistry -- Orientalism -- Ornithology -- Ørsted, Hans Christian -- Ostwald, Wilhelm -- P -- Pain -- Paleontology -- Paracelsus -- Paradigm -- Particle Physics -- Pasteur, Louis -- Pathology -- Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich -- Pearson, Karl -- Performance -- Pharmacology -- Pharmacy -- Philosophy of Science -- Photography -- Phrenology -- Physical Chemistry -- Physical and Human Geography -- Physics: 20th century -- Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt -- Physiology: France -- Physiology: Germany -- Piaget, Jean -- Plague -- Planck, Max -- Plastic Surgery -- Plastics and Polymers -- Plato -- Poincaré, Jules Henri -- Polar Science -- Political Economy -- Popularization -- Positivism -- Practice -- Prehistory: archaeology and anthropology -- Priestley, Joseph -- Printing -- Probability -- Professionalization -- Progress -- Psychiatry -- Psychoanalysis: conceptual -- Psychoanalysis: gender -- Psychoanalysis: institutional -- Psychology -- Psychophysics -- Public and the Private -- Public Health -- Pythagoras 6th century BC -- Q -- Quackery -- Quantification -- Quantum Mechanics -- Quantum Theory -- Quételet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques -- R -- Race -- Radioactivity -- Radiology -- Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata -- Ramón y Cajal, Santiago -- Rationality -- Rational Mechanics -- Reading Culture and Science -- Relativity -- Religion and Science: general works -- Religion and Science: Islam -- Religion and Science: Medieval -- Religion and Science: Renaissance -- Representation -- Reproductive Medicine -- Research and Development -- Respiration -- Rhetoric -- Rittenhouse, David -- Rockefeller Foundation -- Romanticism -- Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad -- Rowland, Henry Augustus -- Royal Institution -- Royal Society of London -- Russia -- Russian Academy of Sciences -- Rutherford, Ernest -- S. , Scheele, Carl Wilhelm.

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Pamirian Spaces: Mapping Process Geographies in the Mountainous Periphery -- Introduction -- Protection of Indigenous Rights? -- Alai and Pamirs: Environmental Niche and Hub of Ecological Resources -- Border Processes -- Scope of the Volume -- References -- Pamir or Pamirs: Perceptions and Interpretations -- Introduction -- Colonial Exploration of the Pamirian Void -- Classification of Exclusion and Inclusion -- The Pamir Highway: An Internal Artery Motivating Cross-­Border Road Construction -- Regionalisation of the Pamirs: Introduction of the Various Pamirian Regions -- Importance of the Pamirian Knot -- References -- Archival Records -- Who Is Mapping the Pamirs? A Review on Plant and Vegetation Sciences -- Introduction -- Data Collection -- Discussion of the Dataset -- Results -- Paper Statistics -- Journal Statistics -- Author Statistics -- Coauthor Networks -- Discussion -- References -- Geomorphic Features of the Eastern Pamirs, with a Focus on the Occurrence of Intermontane Basins -- Introduction -- Regional Setting -- Tectonic Features -- Present and Past Climatic Features -- Intermontane Basins in the Eastern Pamirs -- Tectonic Basins -- Basins Related to Downstream Damming -- Glaciated Basins -- Alichur Pamir -- Great Pamir -- Little Pamir -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Water of the Pamir - Potential and Constraints -- Introduction -- Observed Glacier Changes -- Observed Runoff Changes -- Future Trends -- Conclusions -- References -- Khans, Kings, Communists, Warlords and Presidents: Afghan Kirghiz Socioeconomic Strategies for Extorting and Extracting from the State -- Introduction -- State-Society Relations: The Kirghiz Experience -- Political Capital -- Non-state Sources of Patronage -- A Direct Line to Kabul. , The Politics of State Patronage -- A Last Migration for the Afghan Kirghiz? -- References -- Changes in the Relationship Between Borders and Pastoral Mobility in Mountain Regions of Central Asia -- National Independence: An Obstacle for Transboundary Pastoral Mobility in Central Asia? -- Spatial Boundaries and Pastoral Mobility: A Tricky Relationship -- 'Containment of Chaotic Land Use' under Russia's Colonial Rule -- 'Nationalisation of the Means of Production' and Planned Economy in Soviet Times -- Contemporary Suppressed Transboundary Mobility -- Conclusion: Effects and Risks of Resource-Related 'Othering' Strategies -- Interview Partners -- References -- Seasonal Pasture Use and Vegetation Cover Changes in the Alai Valley, Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction -- Study Area -- Data Set and Methods -- Interviews -- Satellite-Based Vegetation Index Data -- Grazing Intensity -- GIS -- Results -- Seasonal Pasture Use -- Changes in Vegetated Cover -- Analysis of Grazing Intensity -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Diversity of Seasonal Migration of Livestock in the Eastern Alai Valley, Southern Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction -- Study Area and Method -- Movement Patterns of Livestock Grazing in the Eastern Alai Valley -- Sary-Tash -- Taldy-Suu -- Seasonal Pastoral Practise and Natural Environments in the Eastern and Western Alai Valley -- Discussion -- Comparison Between the Eastern and Western Valleys -- Inequality of Pastureland Use and Future Sustainability -- Conclusions -- References -- Kezüü and Novad: A Form of Pastoralism in the Eastern Alai Valley, Southern Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction -- Development of the Cooperative Daily Grazing System of Kezüü/Novad in the Alai Valley -- Study Area and Method -- The Cooperative Daily Grazing System of Kezüü in Sary-Tash and Taldy-Suu -- Kezüü in Sary-Tash AA -- Kezüü in Taldy-Suu AA. , Types of Kezüü and Novad Throughout the Entire Alai Valley -- Types of Kezüü and Novad Throughout the Entire Alai Valley -- References -- External Support and Local Agency: Uncertain Transformations of Livelihoods in the Pamirian Borderland of Tajikistan -- Introduction -- Borderlands as Social Space -- Historic Legacy: The Pamirs as a Soviet Borderland -- Persistence and Change in Tajikistan's Borderland During the Transition Period -- Russian Border Forces: Persisting Role after the Soviet Dissolution -- Post-Soviet Economic Realities: Humanitarian Relief and Dissolution of Exchange Relations -- Livelihood Trajectories in the Border District -- Less Urgency for Economic Success -- 'Hidden' Emergency Assistance -- Exclusive Buffer Zone Access -- Conclusions -- Interview Partners -- References -- The Current Status of Lifestyle and Occupations in the Wakhan Area of Tajikistan -- Introduction -- General Description of the Wakhan Area and Its Inhabitants -- Status of Agriculture and Local Society -- Agriculture and Other Employment -- Infrastructure and Education -- Introducing Sustainable Tourism -- Conclusions -- References -- Political Ecology of Human-Environment Change in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan -- Introduction -- Legal and Constitutional Liminality -- Global Conservation -- Transnational Ismailism -- Road Infrastructure -- The Attabad Landslide -- Conclusion -- References -- The Changes in Regional Structure and Land Use Related to External Factors in Hussaini Village, Northern Pakistan -- Introduction -- Changes in the Regional Structure and Farmland Use in Hussaini Village -- The Period of Isolation before the Opening of the Karakoram Highway -- The Period of Opening Up: The 1980s Until the Late 2000s -- The Period between 2010 and the Present after the Emergence of the Dammed Lake -- Conclusions -- References. , Humanitarianism Across Mountain Valleys: "Shia Aid" and Development Encounters in Northern Pakistan and Eastern Tajikistan -- Introduction -- Entering Contact Zones -- Developing Hunza -- Education for Nagar -- Saving and Substituting in the State in Gorno-Badakhshan -- Worldly Duties and Sectarian Aims -- Conclusion -- References -- History of the Development of the Pamir Region of Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan) -- Introduction -- Early Development History -- Nineteenth-Century Russian Exploration -- Permanent Russian Presence and Early Development Activities -- Population Growth -- Soviet Period -- Socialist Revolution in a Muslim Country -- Food Production -- The Post-Soviet Period and the Aga Khan Foundation -- A New Paradigm -- Sustainable Solutions -- Health -- Emergency Needs -- Pharmaceuticals -- Essential Hospital Services -- Health Management Information System (HMIS) -- Education -- Agricultural Reform -- Food Diversification -- Village-Level Autonomy -- Gender and Social Equality -- Energy -- Challenges and Future Prospects -- References -- Conclusions: Why Do We Need to Make Efforts to Map the Transition? -- Introduction -- Transitions: Driven by External Pressures or Internal Efforts? -- The Next Step -- References.