Michael Renner – författare

Accelerating social, economic, and environmental pressures are now undermining the security of societies around the world, according to security expert Michael Renner. Since the end of the Cold War, a volatile mix of environmental degradation, inequitable distribution of land and wealth, ethnic antagonisms, and rapid population growth is producing social and political strife, and even causing the wholesale disintegration of countries.The author argues that true security has less to do with how many tanks or soldiers a country can marshal and more with how well it protects its arable lands and watersheds and how well it manages to meet peoples social and economic needs. Military means are often irrelevant or even counterproductive in this new security equation; they are a depreciating asset. At a time when the United Nations has been devoting a sharply higher share of its resources to peacekeeping, while reducing spending on basic environmental and economic development, this new book provides a wake-up call for policy makers around the world.

This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute shows in graphic form key trends that often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders, and economic experts, but should be integrated into their plans as they map out our global future. Written by the staff of the award-winning Worldwatch Institute, this book allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic, and environmental progress, or the lack of it. These authoritative data have been distilled from thousands of documents obtained from government, industry, scientists, and international organizations into forty-five "vital signs" of our times. Vital Signs 2000 presents up-to-the-minute information on environmental and sustainable development topics such as global temperature, population growth, HIV/AIDS, fossil fuel consumption, Internet use, income inequalities, grain production, and fish catch. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics, providing a thorough, well-documented, and very accessible overview.

This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.

This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.

This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world''s pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society. It highlights both alarming situations and encouraging developments. Part One is a comprehensive presentation of the key indicators in areas such as food, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economics, transport and the military. Part Two provides in-depth special feature articles on: environmental features, such as transgenic crops and paper recycling; economic features, such as environmental taxes and corporate mergers; and social features, such as tuberculosis, prisons and women in politics.

This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world''s pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society. It highlights both alarming situations and encouraging developments. Part One is a comprehensive presentation of the key indicators in areas such as food, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economics, transport and the military. Part Two provides in-depth special feature articles on: environmental features, such as transgenic crops and paper recycling; economic features, such as environmental taxes and corporate mergers; and social features, such as tuberculosis, prisons and women in politics.

The news is perplexing. Both the president and vice president of the United States have fallen ill with mysterious, flu-like symptoms. It is not long before both me receive the same devastating diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. But that is not the worst of it. Soon, many in Congress and the Supreme Court start to exhibit the same symptoms. In less than four months, the president is dead, the vice president is barely hanging onto life, and one-third of Congress is deceased. Unfortunately, the United States is not the only country ravaged by the scourge.By the time research leads medical experts to determine that only Muslims seem to be immune to the plague, most governments around the world are left with few survivors. As a Muslim takes over the presidency of the United States, he declares that the cancer spares no one except true believers in Allah. After he urges nonbelievers to convert to Islam in an effort to stop the population from dying off forever, a ban on pork and alcoholic beverages is put into place. But it is not long before experts discover what is truly causing the epidemic: a sinister virus.In this political thriller, the world is thrown into turmoil as a powerful group of evil saboteurs hold the future of humanity hostage.

This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.

Das Buch gibt Einblicke in die heilpädagogische Praxis und zeigt Ausschnitte aus der Ausbildung an der Fachschule für Heilpädagogik in Ravensburg. Die praktische Ausbildung ist dort mit einer heilpädagogischen Ambulanz für Eltern und Kinder verbunden. Anhand von Beispielen werden die theoretischen Grundlagen dieser Praxis und die Praxis selbst beschrieben und ermöglicht so einen Einblick in heilpädagogisches Denken und Handeln.Das Buch ist Pflichtlektüre für alle, die sich in Theorie und Praxis mit Fragestellungen der Heilpädagogik befassen. Anhand von konkreten Fallbeispielen erstellen die Autor:innen eine wissenschaftlich fundierte heilpädagogische Diagnose und begründen einen spezifischen Handlungsansatz.Die Praxisbeispiele beziehen sich vorwiegend auf die Arbeit mit Familien, mit Kindern und Jugendlichen, die unter Risikobedingungen aufwachsen und mit Verhaltensstörungen, Schulschwierigkeiten u.a. reagieren.

Swiss Graphic Design Histories offers an entirely new redefinition of Switzerland's graphic design landscape. Based on extensive research by scholars of design history and with a multiple and inclusive approach, it reaches beyond the usual canon and the well-know epicentres Basel and Zurich with the germanophone fathers of what has become famous as the Swiss Style in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.In three volumes it features visual artefacts and archival documents, the majority published here for the first time, alongside likewise previously unpublished conversations with designers who have forged developments of the past decades, as well as new essays discussing key terms that refer to various design practices. The complexity of the undertaking is embraced through a system of keywords, thus enabling readers to connect contents within the individual volumes. A fourth volume comprising a glossary, bibliography, and an index of the keywords rounds out this long-awaited new survey of graphic design in multi-lingual Switzerland that sheds new light on networks, practices and media largely ignored so far.

Nicht Gesten, sondern Gestisches als Vorgang und Prozess, als Disposition und Haltung steht im Mittelpunkt der Auseinandersetzungen dieses interdisziplinär angelegten Bands. Damit verschiebt sich die Frage nach der Bedeutung von Gesten auf Fragen der Wahrnehmung, Erforschung und Beschreibbarkeit von Gestischem in unterschiedlichen Kontexten. Die Autor*innen stoßen auf diese Weise inhaltlich wie formal in höchst aktuelle und zudem gesellschaftlich, philosophisch und wissenspolitisch relevante Themenfelder vor.Die Beiträge aus verschiedenen Künsten und Wissenschaften fokussieren das Gestische als spezifische Perspektive des Forschens. Sie lenken den Blick auf Bereiche, in denen gestische Phänomene bisher noch wenig untersucht oder auch kaum vermutet wurden. In jeweils fachbezogener Weise spüren die Autor*innen Gestischem als einem leibbasierten Modus nach, in dem spezifische Erfahrungen gemacht, Handlungen ermöglicht und Wissenserträge gewonnen werden können. Zugleich machen sie es sich zur Aufgabe, solche Annäherungen in künstlerischer wie wissenschaftlicher Praxis entsprechend zu reflektieren und zu formulieren.So thematisieren sie Gestisches unter anderem als Movens in der Architektur, als Suchbewegung in performativen Konstellationen, als formales Element von Sprache und Dichtung, als Duktus des Zeichnens, als Figur des Denkens oder als prägende Praxis in Dokumentation und Aufzeichnung. Neben der Untersuchung solcher Gegenstände befassen sich die hier versammelten Autor*innen vor allem auch mit den grundlegenden Konditionen und gestischen Implikationen der forschenden Praxis selbst. Dabei treffen sie nicht zuletzt auf die Frage nach der Forschungshaltung, wie sie sich etwa in der Gestaltung der Beziehung zu den Forschungsgegenständen und den an einem Forschungsprojekt Beteiligten ausprägt.

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the traditional theories of representation and mimesis, and yet it is the condition for any such theory. Various contemporary image theorists have pointed out that Plato already understood that images are not what they look like. Images have their own existence, which cannot be identified with a concept, but should be examined in terms of actions.This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images—their actions—which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do addresses the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.

This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world's pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society. It highlights both alarming situations and encouraging developments. Part One is a comprehensive presentation of the key indicators in areas such as food, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economics, transport and the military. Part Two provides in-depth special feature articles on: environmental features, such as transgenic crops and paper recycling; economic features, such as environmental taxes and corporate mergers; and social features, such as tuberculosis, prisons and women in politics.