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If rational men cooperated and used their scientific knowledge to the full, they could now secure the economic welfare of all. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Die Gesehiehte des Landes Moe ist natiirlieh frei erfunden. Eine derart unwahr seheinliehe Gesehiehte konnte niemals wahr sein. Oder doeh? Es ist die These dieses Buehes, daB die Gesehiehte des Landes Moe wahr ist; nur die Namen wurden geandert, urn die Sehuldigen zu sehiitzen. Zeit der Hand lung ist nieht 2480 bis 2400v. Chr., sondem 1940 (A D.) bis heute. Die Industrie ist nieht eine altertiimliehe Bauindustrie, sondem unsere modeme...

A new and unique way of understanding the translation of concepts and natural language into mathematical expressions

Transforming a body of text into corresponding mathematical expressions and models is traditionally viewed and taught as a mathematical problem; it is also a task that most find difficult. The Language of Mathematics: Utilizing Math in Practice reveals a new way to view this process--not as a mathematical problem, but as a translation, or language, problem. By presenting the language of mathematics explicitly and systematically, this book helps...

Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance. We analyze how human rights are made democratically and, in particular, how they can be made with respect to environmental matters, especially those that have import beyond the confines of the modern nation state.

Deliberative democracy is well-suited to the challenges of governing in the Anthropocene. But deliberative democratic practices are only suited to these challenges to the extent that five prerequisites - empoweredness, embeddedness, experimentality, equivocality, and equitableness - are successfully institutionalized. Governance must be: created by those it addresses, applicable equally to all, capable of learning from (and adapting to) experience, rationally grounded, and internalized by those who adopt and experience it. This book analyzes these five major normative principles, pairing each...