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Alexander von Humboldt
(2022)
This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences—spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental impact of humans, erosion, and climate change. From the very beginning, he paved the way for a modern, integrated earth system science approach to decipher, characterize, and model the different forcing factors and their feedback mechanisms. It becomes obvious that Humboldt’s holistic approach is far beyond simple description and empiric data collection. As documented and analyzed in the different texts of this volume, he combines observation and analysis with emotions and subjective perceptions in a very affectionate way. However, this publication does not intend to add another encyclopedic text compilation but to observe and critically analyze this unique personality´s relevance in a modern context, particularly in discussing environmental and social key issues in the twenty-first century.
Palaeoseismic records and seismological data from continental interiors increasingly show that these areas of slow strain accumulation are more subject to seismic and associated natural hazards than previously thought. Moreover, some of our instincts developed for assessing hazards at plate boundaries might not apply here. Hence assessing hazards and drawing implications for the future is challenging, and how well it can be done heavily depends on the ability to assess the spatiotemporal distribution of past large earthquakes. This book explores some key issues in understanding hazards in slowly deforming areas. Examples include classic intraplate regions, such as Central and Northern Europe, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Australia, and North and South America, and regions of widely distributed strain, such as the Tien Shan Mountains in Central Asia. The papers in this volume are grouped into two sections. The first section deals with instrumental and historical earthquake data and associated hazard assessments. The second section covers methods from structural geology, palaeoseismology and tectonic geomorphology, and incorporates field evidence
Python is used in a wide range of geoscientific applications, such as in processing images for remote sensing, in generating and processing digital elevation models, and in analyzing time series. This book introduces methods of data analysis in the geosciences using Python that include basic statistics for univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data sets, time series analysis, and signal processing; the analysis of spatial and directional data; and image analysis. The text includes numerous examples that demonstrate how Python can be used on data sets from the earth sciences. The supplementary electronic material (available online through Springer Link) contains the example data as well as recipes that include all the Python commands featured in the book.
"In spite of ever-increasing research into natural hazards, the reported damage from natural disasters continues to rise, increasingly disrupting human activities. We, as scientists who study the way in which the part of Earth most relevant to society- the surface-behaves, are disturbed and frustrated by this trend. It appears that the large amounts of funding devoted each year to research into reducing the impacts of natural disasters could be much more effective in producing useful results. At the same time we are aware that society, as represented by its decision makers, while increasingly concerned at the impacts of natural disasters on lives and economies, is reluctant to acknowledge the intrinsic activity of Earth's surface and to take steps to adapt societal behaviour to minimise the impacts of natural disasters. Understanding and managing natural hazards and disasters are beyond matters of applied earth science, and also involve considering human societal, economic and political decisions"
Der Klimawandel
(2020)
Hydrologie
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Dieses Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen des Wasserkreislaufs mit seinen räumlichen und zeitlichen Mustern. Dabei werden u.a. der Einfluss der Landnutzung und des Klimas beschrieben, landschaftliche und regionale Besonderheiten erläutert und ein Einblick in die hydrologische Praxis der Bewässerung, der Risikovorsorge und des Flussgebietsmanagements gegeben. Rund 200 Abbildungen und 45 Tabellen veranschaulichen die komplexen Sachverhalte.
Geographien des Fußballs
(2018)
In Deutschland erscheint Fußball als omnipräsent: Fußballprofis gelten als Vorbilder und Werbeträger, Fußballvereine fungieren als regionale und teilweise als globale Wirtschaftsunternehmen, Fußballspiele als gesellschaftliche Ereignisse und Fußballmannschaften – sowohl auf regionaler als auch auf nationaler Ebene – als identitätsstiftend. Unbestritten weist das Phänomen Fußball eine große Gesellschaftsrelevanz auf, und so verwundert es nicht, dass es als Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher und eben auch geographischer Abhandlungen fungiert.
Der vorliegende Band richtet sich nun an Geographiestudenten und Fußballinteressierte, die sich verwundert fragen mögen, was Geographien des Fußballs bedeuten könnte. Der Band veranschaulicht exemplarisch, was geographische Perspektiven auf den Forschungsgegenstand Fußball auszeichnen und welche Themenfelder und Fragestellungen sich für eine Erforschung anbieten. Dabei reicht das in diesem Band vorgestellte Themenspektrum von raumbezogenen Sprachcodierungen in Spielanalysen über Stadionatmosphäre und Fanidentitäten bis hin zu medial erzeugten Unsicherheitsräumen.