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- Carsten, Hobohm, et al.
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Land Use Change and the Future of Biodiversity
- 2021
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Ingår i: Perspectives for Biodiversity and Ecosystems. - Cham : Springer. - 2214-2827 .- 2214-2835. - 9783030577094 ; , s. 451-483
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This synthesis report is a meta-analysis of perspectives for biodiversity and ecosystems, with a strong focus on human impacts on the environment, and a work order to enable and manage the protection, survival and evolution of all species on Earth. The goal is to protect nature without any further species loss (Zero Extinction). With this report, we assess alarming signals from the environment; determine the needs of threatened biota and the required actions to manage and protect landscapes and ecosystems; and identify some inescapable tendencies, challenges but also possibilities. The story of humans on Earth is at a critical juncture. Human behaviour is inherently dependent on physical and societal relations, including orientation and positioning within the physical environment. There is no single cultural benefit that is independent of provisioning through ecosystem services. Humans are part of the environment, acquire all needs from it and, as such, depend on its integrity and management for life and well-being. Moreover, if human impacts to the environment continue to increase the risk of rebound effects impacting human life and health will increase as well. Whenever a biome, ecosystem, habitat or species is heavily impacted or threatened with irreversible transformation or extinction, prevailing environmental conditions are relevant and should be observed, analysed and remedied as necessary and where possible. Ecology examines the evolutionary, historical and more recent interplay between biological life and the abiotic environment, while the role of social science and the humanities is to question the physical and social landscape, and how and why it should be protected or influenced, e.g. by nature conservation measures under political and economic, ethical and legal considerations. Thus, for all inter-relationships between natural and sociocultural processes, a joint venture in the form of social-ecological thinking is necessary to combine natural sciences and the humanities. With this contribution, we combine ecological knowledge with social science knowledge (s.l.) through the participation of scientists of many different disciplines. We analyse history and current processes to assess risks, threats and possibilities, and call for an array of regulations and measures that can contribute to halting of biodiversity loss and that assist in achieving a sustainable future. Regulations comprise creativity, cultural incentives, social norms, environmental education and economic investments—such as payments for sustainable agriculture, forestry, and fishery; investments in water, soil and air purity; and much clearer and stronger legal restrictions and consequences around waste streams and environmental degradation. Moreover, a gradual change from profit-oriented economies in the short-run to environmentally-sensitive policies that include systematic environmental programmes in the long term might help to decrease pressure on ecosystems and biota. Such economics might also include the real costs of consumerism, including the impacts of particular products on the environment and on human health. The greatest hurdle for the continued existence of many critically endangered species is the impact of widespread anthropogenic-driven change in the usage of water, air and land, and industry intensification in agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, urbanisation, transportation and mining sectors. However, there is not one simple solution to solve these issues. We conclude that many of the current developments have to be adjusted or gradually altered in a step-wise manner, especially with respect to existing sociocultural behaviours. Therefore, various concepts, decisions and measures should be discussed and implemented at all scales from local to supranational and among researchers, practitioners and politicians.
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- Gullberg, Marianne, et al.
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Gestures and second language acquisition
- 2014
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Ingår i: Body, language, communication: an international handbook on multimodality in human interaction. ; 2, s. 1868-1875
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedMost people in the world speak more than one language and many learn it as adolescents or adults. The study of second language acquisition (meaning any language learnt after the first language) is concerned with how a new language develops in the presence of an existing one. Since gestures are an integral part of communication, subject to crosslinguistic, socio- and psycholinguistic variation, they become a natural extension of second language (L2), foreign language (FL) and bilingualism studies. Gestures can be examined as a system to be acquired in its own right (the acquisition of gestures), as a window on language development (gestures in acquisition), and as a medium of development (the effect of gestures on acquisition).
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- Hearn, Jeff, et al.
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Configurations of Europe
- 2006
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Ingår i: European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities. National and Transnational Approaches. - Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave macmillan. - 1403918139 ; , s. 184-199
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- Hearn, Jeff, et al.
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Home and Work
- 2006
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Ingår i: European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities. National and Transnational Approaches. - Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York : Palgrave macmillan. - 1403918139
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- Hearn, Jeff, et al.
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Home and Work
- 2006
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Ingår i: European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities. - London : Palgrave, London. - 1403918139 ; , s. 115-136
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- Huijbens, Edward H., et al.
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The socio-spatial articulations of tourism studies in nordic geography
- 2022
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Ingår i: Socio-spatial theory in nordic geography. - Cham : Springer. - 9783031042331 - 9783031042362 - 9783031042348 ; , s. 169-190
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter will focus on geographical contributions to tourism studies in Nordic scholarship. The chapter provides a thematised overview of the ways in which tourism dynamics and developments have been understood and researched by Nordic geographers. The themes are drawn from a bibliometric analysis and are arranged around the key geographical concepts of place, space and time. As such the chapter is not aspiring to provide a comprehensive listing of, or detailing all Nordic geographers who have addressed issues of tourism, nor exhaustively cover all topics, but to gauge the socio-spatial articulations of tourism studies in Nordic geography. Part one will look at how places are articulated as sites of tourism experiences, social relations and tourism industry dynamics in Nordic geography. Part two will look at how spatial flows and global ideas constitutive of tourism destinations are understood. Part three will focus on how Nordic tourism geography scholarship has developed through and on what looks to be promising future oriented studies therein. As such the chapter will contribute to the theorisations of geography and the development of socio-spatial theories within Nordic geography from a tourism studies perspective.
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- Liu, Yiming, et al.
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Dissipative Mechano-Electro-Magnetism Simulations in Electronic Components
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sixty Shades of Generalized Continua. - Cham : Springer. - 9783031261855 - 9783031261886 - 9783031261862 ; , s. 463-478
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- Especially at high frequencies, as they occur in 5G or relevant applications, electromagnetism in electronic components plays a significant role in system behavior. Moreover, dissipative effects are triggered by mechanical deformation. Indeed, dissipation is an energy loss and thus the industry tries to minimize this effect by optimizing the design. We examine this justification by using multiphysics simulations by means of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and solve deformation and dissipative dielectric material equations for a simple electronic component in a monolithic manner.
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- Lundmark, Linda, 1975-, et al.
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New issues in polar tourism : conclusion
- 2013
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Ingår i: New issues in polar tourism. - Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. - 9789400758834 - 9789400758841 ; , s. 217-220
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the goal of this book was not to pursue a distinct research question but rather illustrate the multitude of thematic issues that are currently being investigated in the polar Norths, two topics: the governance of ecological resources, and the ways in which polar communities manage to create agency through various development strategies emerged throughout the book. In-order to illustrate this agency, the content of this book has been divided into three parts: Conceptualizing Polar Tourism and Polar Regions, Politics and the Environment and Business and Community Perspectives thus without a separation between Arctic and Antarctic research. In this concluding chapter a summary of the issues in polar tourism highlighted in this book is made and a comment on the current state of the research field is offered, with some suggestions for future research.
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