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Promoted ContentMarch 2024
The Strategy of Rescue
The past and present of a power-political concept
by Johannes F. Lehmann
"Rescue” has two fundamentally different “existential” dimensions. One is aimed at “saving” individual lives that are in danger. Firefighters, for instance, rescue people from fires, while the sea rescue services rescue shipwrecked people from the Mediterranean. The second dimension of “rescue”, on the other hand, concerns systems – think of the bailing out of banks, the euro or the climate disaster – and so points to a larger context that creates the conditions for “life” to even be possible, or at least to be preserved. The complex subject of this stringent essay is just to what extent politics enable or prevent “rescue attempts”, to what extent it understands its actions as “rescue actions”, and how decisively the “narrative”, i.e. the “talk of rescue”, ultimately dominates our entire understanding of politics.
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Promoted ContentJuly 2024
Conservation of Dragonflies
Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation
by Michael J Samways
Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much about the environments in which we and they live. Their conservation is an important part of biodiversity conservation. One modern dragonfly species is listed as extinct, with many others currently threatened. It is now essential to increase conservation efforts towards saving these threatened species, with strategies now available for doing this. Recovery of dragonfly populations goes hand in hand with improvements to both freshwater conditions and bank vegetation quality. In contrast, some other dragonfly species have benefitted greatly from human transformation of the landscape, with artificial ponds in particular, increasing the population levels of many species. In turn, climate change is seeing many geographical range shifts. Dragonflies are variously sensitive to the health of freshwater systems, and the quality of vegetation along rivers and around ponds. Dragonflies are excellent indicators in these times of great concern over the quality of our freshwater supplies. Their wide range of sensitivities enables us to measure the extent to which freshwater ecosystems are either deteriorating or are improving when we undertake restoration. They enable us to gauge how well we are conserving freshwaters, whether ponds and lakes, streams or rivers. They are also good umbrellas for many other freshwater inhabitants, which altogether reflect the health of a freshwater system. Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation is for naturalists, citizen scientists, entomologists and conservation scientists, as well as practitioners and policy makers around the world.
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Die Dynamik des Tötens
Die Ermordung der Juden von Berditschew. Ukraine 1941-1944
by Christ, Michaela
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Der verzweifelte Versuch zu verändern
Suizidales Handeln als Problem der Seelsorge
by Christ-Friedrich, Anna
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Zwischen Religion und Geschäft
Die Basler Missions-Handlungs-Gesellschaft und ihre Unternehmensethik, 1859–1917
by Christ, Heinrich
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Kolonie im eigenen Land
Die Treuhand, Bonn und die Wirtschaftskatastrophe der fünf neuen Länder
by Christ, Peter; Neubauer, Ralf
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Meine falschen Brüder
Wie ich mich als 16-Jähriger dem Islamischen Staat anschloss
by N., Oliver; Christ, Sebastian
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Kolonie im eigenen Land
Die Treuhand, Bonn und die Wirtschaftskatastrophe der fünf neuen Länder
by Christ, Peter; Neubauer, Rald
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