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The use of pyrethroids to impregnate mosquito nets has had a good impact on the incidence of morbidity and mortality from malaria. These nets are therefore likely to be used on a large scale as an important strategy of malaria control in the future. Published information on the cost and effectiveness of mosquito nets is presented and analysed. In two examples, from Malawi and Cameroon, the per household expenditure to purchase and use impregnated mosquito nets compares favourably with the costs of malaria. Thus, we expect that the economic losses from malaria would be reduced by 37.3% over a 3-year period in Malawi. Even if the impact of malaria on productivity is not taken into account, the introduction of nets will result in gains, as shown in Cameroon; savings of 9.3% and 11.2% in two places resulted as a consequence of a diminished need for case treatment. The role of government programmes in the promotion of bednets is indirect and concerned mainly with facilitation and the dissemination of information. Much depends on the capability of the private sector and the willingness of the target population to buy the nets for a programme to be effective. Specific studies by health economists on this subject are lacking.

The field of sustainability continues to evolve as a discipline. The world is facing multiple sustainability challenges such as climate change, water depletion, ecosystem loss, and environmental racism. The Handbook of Sustainability will provide a comprehensive reference for the field that examines in depth the major themes within what are known as the three Es of sustainability: environment, equity, and economics. These three themes will serve as the main organizing body of the work. In addition, the work will include sections on history and sustainability, major figures in the development of sustainability as a discipline, and important organizations that contributed or that continue to contribute to sustainability as a field. The work is explicitly global in scope as it considers the very different issues associated with sustainability in the global north and south.

This text addresses different ways of designing and conducting qualitative interview studies and discusses how to analyze and write up the methodological procedures and research findings. This work will help its readers conduct, write, represent, understand, and critique qualitative interview research in its many forms as currently practiced.

Das Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in die wichtigsten Themenfelder einer journalistischen Ausbildung. Durchaus praxisnah gibt der Autor, Professor für Publizistik an der Hochschule Mittweida, einen Einblick in die Rahmenbedingungen, Grundlagen und den Alltag journalistischer Arbeit in Themenfindung und Recherche. Im letzten Abschnitt geht es um neue Formate wie z.B. "Storytelling"-Reportagen, aktuelle Strömungen im Journalismus wie das Bespielen von Social-Media-Kanälen und die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen durch die viel zitierten "Fake News". Veranschaulicht werden diese Zusammenhänge durch einfach gehaltene Grafiken und aktuelle Beispiele vor allem aus der Tagespresse oder Online-Angeboten. Der Band schliesst mit einem (knappen) Ausblick in die Zukunft des Journalismus, auch unter Berücksichtigung der im Zuge der Corona-Krise gestiegenen Nachfrage nach verlässlichen Informationen. Vor allem für Studierende und Berufsanfänger*innen, eventuell auch für Schulabgänger*innen an Hochschulstandorten, nach G. Hooffacker: "La Roches Einführung in den praktischen Journalismus" (ID-A 34/17). (3)

Part I. Defining our Great Global Challenges -- Chapter 1. Change Yourself and Change the World -- Chapter 2. Our Climate Change Challenge -- Chapter 3. Our Great Sustainability Challenge -- Chapter 4. Our Ethical Responsibility -- Part II. Tackling Climate Change -- Chapter 5. How You and Your Family Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint -- Chapter 6 How Your Community Can Reduce Its Greenhouse Gas Impact -- Chapter 7. How Your School, Non-Profit Organization, or Business Can Reduce Eliminate Its Carbon Footprint -- Part III. Environmental Sustainability -- Chapter 8 Moving to Green Energy -- Chapter 9. Protecting Our Water Resources -- Chapter 10. Dealing with the Garbage Around Us -- Chapter 11. Saving Ecosystems -- Part IV. Building Just and Equitable Economic and Social Systems -- Chapter 12. Building a Just and Sustainable Society -- Chapter 13. Green Your Economy -- Chapter 14. Sustainable Travel and Leisure -- Chapter 15. Tune Out, Buy Nothing, and Get Educated.

Roots of the modern sustainability movement -- Understanding natural systems -- Measuring sustainability -- Energy -- Global climate change and greenhouse gas management -- Water -- Food and agriculture -- Green building -- Transportation -- Pollution and waste -- Environmental justice -- Sustainability planning and governance -- Sustainability, economics, and the global commons -- Corporate and organizational sustainability management -- Sustainability at universities, colleges, and schools.

Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change is the first book in a new Palgrave series on Environmental Sustainability. It takes a fresh look at the dynamic field of environmental sustainability by exploring the interconnections between climate change, water, energy, waste, land use, ecosystems, food, and transportation. It also provides an extensive summary on sustainability management, data analysis, mapping, and data sources. Brinkmann highlights how environmental sustainability challenges are distinctly different in the developed world, where sustainability is largely a choice, versus the developing world, where many struggle with basic existence due to war, migration, and water or food scarcity. He takes a broad systems and historic approach to contextualize environmental sustainability prior to the 1987 Brundtland Report and utilizes many contemporary examples throughout the text, analyzing numerous case studies from many areas of the world including China, Yemen, Malaysia, Egypt, and Florida. This book questions traditional approaches to sustainability that highlight the need for an equal balance of economic development, environmental protection, and social equality to achieve sustainability. This book focuses on a new line of thinking that places environmental sustainability as the key foundation in how to manage sustainability in a time of change. Our planet is quickly becoming environmentally unsustainable due to global consumption and unsustainable economic development and it is high time for a fresh approach. This book will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and students interested in environmental sustainability from a myriad of fields including geology, geography, biology, ecology, economics, business, sociology, anthropology, and other areas that intersect the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

Verkörperungen: Leibliche Dimensionen von Kommunikationsbewegungen zwischen pädagogischen Fachkräften und Kindern in Kindertageseinrichtungen -- Geste, Stimmung und Bewegung im schulischen Lernen: Empirische Einsatzpunkte in der Videoforschung -- Zwischen Praxeologie und Phänomenologie: Eine (Auto-)Ethnographie der Verkörperung (sozial-)pädagogischer Positionierungen im Boxsporttraining -- Zur leiblichen (Re-)Produktion von Differenz im inklusiven Unterricht -- Als Teil genommen sein. Ästhetische Bildung und Inklusion -- Pädagogisches Verstehen. Zur Theorie und Empirie einer interkorporalen Ausdruckshermeneutik

Cover -- Copyright -- Preface -- Introduction: Having It All -- 1 The Sustainable Society -- The elitist trap -- Getting less than your due -- Not-so-simple living -- Miss out on what? -- Notes -- 2 Pursuing the Good -- Caring about something -- The myth of human potential -- You can't always get what you want -- Notes -- 3 The Value of Moderation -- The lily and the bird -- The moderate character in politics and ethics -- Everything in moderation -- Notes -- 4 Marshmallows and Treadmills -- The opportunist -- Welcome to the treadmill -- Defensive pessimism and positive thinking -- The tyranny of choice in a world of distractions -- Notes -- 5 The Joy of Missing Out -- The beauty of simplicity -- The disciplining of the will -- The creation of an aesthetic cultural landscape through rituals -- Notes -- End User License Agreement.