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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140193603321

Autore

Costanza Robert

Titolo

Building a sustainable and desirable economy-in-society-in-nature / / Robert Costanza, Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : ANU Press, 2013

Canberra : , : ANU E Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-921862-05-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 pages) : colour illustrations

Soggetti

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Environmental policy

Natural resources

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Report to the United Nations for the 2012 Rio+20 Conference as part of the Sustainable development in the 21st century (SD21) project implemented by the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary pages; Acknowledgements; Executive Summary; 1. Rationale and Objectives; 2. What Would a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature Look Like?; 3. A Redesign of "the Economy" Recognizing Its Embeddedness in Society and Nature; 4. Example Policy Reforms; 5. Are These Policies Consistent and Feasible?; 6. Conclusions; 7. References

Sommario/riassunto

The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed in an empty world. If we are to create sustainable prosperity, if we seek “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities,” we are going to need a new vision of the



economy and its relationship to the rest of the world that is better adapted to the new conditions we face. We are going to need an economics that respects planetary boundaries, that recognizes the dependence of human well-being on social relations and fairness, and that recognizes that the ultimate goal is real, sustainable human well-being, not merely growth of material consumption. This new economics recognizes that the economy is embedded in a society and culture that are themselves embedded in an ecological life-support system, and that the economy cannot grow forever on this finite planet. In this report, we discuss the need to focus more directly on the goal of sustainable human well-being rather than merely GDP growth. This includes protecting and restoring nature, achieving social and intergenerational fairness (including poverty alleviation), stabilizing population, and recognizing the significant nonmarket contributions to human well-being from natural and social capital. To do this, we need to develop better measures of progress that go well beyond GDP and begin to measure human well-being and its sustainability more directly.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778520603321

Titolo

From temple to church [[electronic resource] ] : destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity / / edited by Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel & Ulrich Gotter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-282-39630-7

9786612396304

90-474-4373-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, , 0927-7633 ; ; v. 163

Altri autori (Persone)

HahnJohannes <1957->

EmmelStephen

GotterUlrich

Disciplina

261.2/2

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions

Temples

Religion - History

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

"From temple to church" : analysing a late antique phenomenon of transformation / Stephen Emmel, Ulrich Gotter and Johannes Hahn -- Models and evidence in the study of religion in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- Rechtgläubige-Pagane-Häretiker : Tempelzerstörungen in der Kerchengeschichtsschreibung und das bild der christlichen Kaiser / Ulrich Gotter -- From temple to cell, from gods to demons : pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt / David Brakke -- The Christianization of pagan temples in the Greek hagiographical texts / Helen Saradi -- Iconoclasm and Christianization in late antique Egypt : Christian treatments of space and image / David Frankfurter -- Shenoute of Atripe and the Christian destruction of temples in Egypt : rhetoric and reality / Stephen Emmel -- Die Zerstörung der Kulte von Philae : Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt / Johannes Hahn -- The conversion of the temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in context / Angelos Chaniotis -- Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine / Doron Bar -- Modalitäten der Zerstörung und Christianisierung pharaonischer Tempelanlagen / Peter Grossmann -- The conversion of the cult statues : the destruction of the Serapeum 392 A.D. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city / Johannes Hahn.

Sommario/riassunto

Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events’ far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in any “temple-destruction” are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate “temple-destruction” from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this phenomenon within the late antique movement “from temple to church”.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346782303321

Autore

Schönbein Miriam

Titolo

Omnidirectional Stereo Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

KIT Scientific Publishing, 2014

ISBN

1000046298

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 125 p. p.)

Collana

Schriftenreihe / Institut für Mess- und Regelungstechnik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Environment perception with cameras is an important requirement for many applications for autonomous vehicles and robots. This work presents a stereoscopic omnidirectional camera system for autonomous vehicles which resolves the problem of a limited field of view and provides a 360° panoramic view of the environment. We present a new projection model for these cameras and show that the camera setup overcomes major drawbacks of traditional perspective cameras in many applications.