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Matej Sande: Growing up in Risk Society

In the third millennium young people have inherited global society, which can be defined in terms of consumption, relative abundance, and a growing speed of information flow. Young people thus form a part of society in which free time and entertainment represent dominant values in the social structure. In contrast to social values, which are directed towards production and work, free time (free...

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Bog. interface-//Culture

reemphasized a classic issue within political and cultural theory – the relationship between individual human agency and social structure: to what extent do local actions reproduce or transform global structures? Several early accounts of the internet expressed high hopes, not least, regarding its participatory potential and transformative capacity. Could clicks cumulatively change the world? –...

Greenhouse gases German bog

Environmental controls of greenhouse gas release in a restoring peat bog in NW Germany S. Glatzel, I. Forbrich, C. Krüger, S. Lemke, and G. Gerold University of Rostock, Institute for the Management of Rural Areas, Landscape Ecology and Land Evaluation, Justus von Liebig Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer S...

European Bog Bodies: From the Iron Age Peat Bog to the 21st Century

Well preserved bodies dating from the prehistoric era to the 19th century have been found across northwestern Europe; specifically in the peat bogs of Ireland, Great Britain and Denmark. These discoveries were especially prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when mass peat extraction was at its height. Many of these finds have been dated to the Iron Age and have previously been at...