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For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of modern coastal communities throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal...

The American horseshoe crab that comes ashore on the East Coast in vast numbers to mate and nest is much the same creature that haunted the coast before the time of the dinosaurs. It is among the world's most intensely studied marine invertebrates, critical to our understanding of many groups of organisms, both modern and extinct, and crucial to the ecology of large estuaries such as the Delaware Bay. Some stocks of this great survivor, whose ancestors made it through the mass extinction some 286 million years ago, have been severely depleted today because of overfishing and habitat...

Viele mittelständische Unternehmen scheitern nicht an der Qualität ihrer Ideen, sondern an unsichtbaren Hürden im eigenen System: Mitarbeitende fürchten Veränderungen und lehnen sie ab. Boni sind so stark auf Umsatz getrimmt, dass riskante Ideen liegen bleiben. Und wer Angst hat, sich mit neuen Vorschlägen zu blamieren, behält sie lieber für sich.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie solche Innovationsblockaden entstehen, welche Rolle psychologische Sicherheit dabei spielt und wie sie sich gezielt abbauen lassen. Fundiert, praxisnah und gespickt mit echten Erfahrungsberichten liefert es...

This title contains lectures that offer an introduction to modern topics in stochastic partial differential equations and bring together experts whose research is centered on the interface between Gaussian analysis, stochastic analysis, and stochastic PDEs.