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Die gängigen Ratgeber zum Thema Indoor Air Pollution, wie "Gift im Wohnzimmer" (BA 11/94), "Innenraumluft" (ID 38/93), "Zimmerluft - dicke Luft" (BA 4/93), haben ihren Schwerpunkt im privaten Wohnbereich. Welche Faktoren und Ursachen das aus der Innenraum-Luftverschmutzung entstehende Sick Building Syndrom (SBS) vor allem auch im gewerblichen Bereich hat, wird hier umfassend von 3 Experten beschrieben. Zunächst sind die Grundlagen der Luft- und Wohnungshygiene mit ihren chemischen, pysikalischen und physiologischen Kenndaten, Norm- und Toleranzwerten behandelt (MAK/BAT). Des weiteren werden die verschiedenen Schadstoffe im Innenraum - Verbrennungsprodukte, flüchtige organische Verbindungen sowie Stäube, Fasern und Bioaerosole - hinsichtlich ihrer toxikologischen Wirkung bewertet. Schließlich werden die nachweisbaren somatischen wie psychosomatischen Reaktionen des Menschen auf die verschiedenen Belastungen beschrieben und daraus die komplexe Symptomatik des SBS abgeleitet. - Vorrangig für Fachleute (Ärzte, Architekten, Gebäudeverwalter usw.). (3) (Uwe-F. Obsen)

Commodification of nature refers to the expansion of market trade to previously non-marketed spheres. This is a contested issue both in the scientific literature and in policy deliberations. The aim of this paper is to analytically clarify and distinguish between different purposes and degrees of commodification and to focus attention to the safeguards: the detailed institutional design. We identify six degrees of commodification and find that all ecosystem services policies are associated with some degree of commodification but only the two highest degrees can properly be associated with neoliberalisation of nature. For example, most payments for ecosystem services (PES) are subsidy-like government compensations not based on monetary valuation of nature. Biodiversity offsets can be designed as market schemes or non-market regulations; the cost-effectiveness of markets cannot be assumed. To avoid the confusion around the concept 'market-based instrument' we suggest replacing it with 'economic instruments' since relying on the price signal is not the same thing as relying on the market. We provide a comprehensive framework emphasising the diversity in institutional design, valuation approaches and role of markets. This provides flexibility and options for policy integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in different countries according to their political and cultural context.

Conservation scientists, national governments, and international conservation groups seek to devise, and implement, governance strategies that mitigate human impact on the environment. However, few studies to date have systematically investigated the performance of different systems of governance in achieving successful conservation outcomes. Here, we use a newly-developed analytic framework to conduct analyses of a suite of case studies, linking different governance strategies to standardized scores for delivering ecosystem services, achieving sustainable use of natural resources, and conserving biodiversity, at both local and international levels. Our results: (i) confirm the benefits of adaptive management; and (ii) reveal strong associations for the role of leadership. Our work provides a critical step toward implementing empirically justified governance strategies that are capable of improving the management of human-altered environments, with benefits for both biodiversity and people.

EU ; Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) of Austria ; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) ; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) ; FCT ; MEC ; FEDER ; DURSI ; European Union ; Spanish MCYT ; Junta de Andaluc a ; CICYT ; APART ; European Community through a Marie Curie Fellowship ; MEC Ramon y Cajal ; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ; Fermi Research Alliance ; LLC ; Belgian Federal Science Policy ; RFFI ; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) ; EU: MRTN-CT2004-503369 ; EU: MRTN-CT-2006-035505 ; EU: HPRN-CT-2000149 ; EU: HPRN-CT-2000-00152 ; EU: MRTN-CT-2006-035482 ; Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) of Austria: P18959-N16 ; RFBR: 07-02-00256 ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT): SFRH/BD/13936/2003 ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT): SFRH/BD/18762/2004 ; FCT: POCI/FIS/59741/2004 ; FCT: SFRH/BPD/5575/2001 ; FCT: SFRH/BPD/23427/2005 ; FEDER: 2004-04582-C02-01 ; DURSI: 2005SGR00564 ; DURSI: 2001SGR-00188 ; European Union: MEIF-CT2003-500030 ; Spanish MCYT: FPA2003-09298-C02-01 ; Junta de Andaluc a: FQM-101 ; CICYT: FPA2002- 00648 ; LLC: DE-AC0207CH11359 ; Belgian Federal Science Policy: IAP 6/11 ; RFFI: N 07-02-00256 ; German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): 05HT6WWA ; This chapter of the "Flavor in the era of LHC" workshop report discusses flavor-related issues in the production and decays of heavy states at the LHC at high momentum transfer Q, both from the experimental and the theoretical perspective. We review top quark physics, and discuss the flavor aspects of several extensions of the standard model, such as supersymmetry, little Higgs models or models with extra dimensions. This includes discovery aspects, as well as the measurement of several properties of these heavy states. We also present publicly available computational tools related to this topic.

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched, as an international collaboration hosted by CERN. This study covers a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee) and an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), which could, successively, be installed in the same 100 km tunnel. The scientific capabilities of the integrated FCC programme would serve the worldwide community throughout the 21st century. The FCC study also investigates an LHC energy upgrade, using FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the second volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the electron-positron collider FCC-ee. After summarizing the physics discovery opportunities, it presents the accelerator design, performance reach, a staged operation scenario, the underlying technologies, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, and an implementation plan. FCC-ee can be built with today's technology. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure could be reused for FCC-hh. Combining concepts from past and present lepton colliders and adding a few novel elements, the FCC-ee design promises outstandingly high luminosity. This will make the FCC-ee a unique precision instrument to study the heaviest known particles (Z, W and H bosons and the top quark), offering great direct and indirect sensitivity to new physics. ; European Union [654305, 764879, 730871, 777563]; FP7 [312453] ; Open access article ; This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.