E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "Bogardi, Janos J."
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Adaptation strategies to climate change in inland valleys in Dano, Burkina Faso
Somda, Wenceslas (2021-06-16)The agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa at many locations is under-performing and lags behind the other continents in terms of yields as well as productivity. The recent progression in the produced quantities is mainly due ... -
Assessment of Social Vulnerability for River-Floods in Germany
Fekete, Alexander (2010-01-21)The assessment of social vulnerability unveils hidden weaknesses and strengths of the human society towards a certain stressor or hazard. In this study, vulnerability is analysed in its relation to the hazard posed by ... -
Coupling hydrological and irrigation schedule models for the management of surface and groundwater resources in Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Awan, Usman Khalid (2010-08-17)The irrigated agriculture in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan is characterized by huge water withdrawals from the Amu Darya River. The vast infrastructure built for extensive irrigation, together with inappropriate drainage ... -
Dimensioning Branched Water Distribution Networks for Agriculture
Costa Pedroso, Rui Miguel (2014-05-26)The implementation of water distribution networks for irrigation represents an important investment for the development of many countries and for food security. These investments are mostly executed based solely on engineering ... -
Groundwater potential to supply population demand within the Kompienga dam basin in Burkina Faso
Sandwidi, Wennegouda Jean Pierre (2007)Groundwater recharge is constrained by various factors with rainfall playing a key role. The Kompienga dam basin located in southeastern Burkina Faso displays semi-arid climatic conditions with rainfall occurring five ... -
Impacts of Climate Change and Land-use Change on the Water Resources of the Upper Kharun Catchment, Chhattisgarh, India
Kumar, Navneet (2014-12-10)The Upper Kharun Catchment (UKC) is one of the most important, economically sound and highly populated watersheds of Chhattisgarh state in India. It covers diverse land use types: urban, rural, agricultural, forest and ... -
Institutional Vulnerability and Governance of Disaster Risk Reduction: Macro, Meso and Micro Scale Assessment: With Case Studies from Indonesia
Lassa, Jonatan A. (2011-07-14)This PhD research addresses two central questions: How should institutional vulnerability that shapes disaster risks and disaster reduction policy be assessed? How does the quality of institutions and governance influence ... -
Mapping Social-Ecological Vulnerability to Flooding: A sub-national approach for Germany
Damm, Marion (2010-02-04)In the last decades river flooding has produced immense economical and ecological damages in Germany. Therefore, disaster management aims at detecting vulnerabilities and capacities in order to reduce flood disaster risk. ... -
Performance assessment of a bamboo-drip irrigation system: a contribution to water productivity improvement West Africa
Agossou, Hernaude V. K. (2018-11-28)Despite its high efficiency and productivity potential in regions subject to scarce water supply, conventional drip irrigation is still expensive and therefore only being adopted slowly in West Africa where 80% of vegetable ... -
Pesticide Use and Management in the Mekong Delta and their Residues in Surface and Drinking Water
Pham Van, Toan (2011-11-29)Pesticides are essential inputs in agricultural production to control target pests and thus to improve crop yields. Appropriate use and management of these chemicals and reduction of its negative influences on human health ... -
Prospects of Cooperation in the Eastern Nile Basin: The case of Experimental Game Application
Motlagh, Mahsa (2018-11-23)Tensions over the use of Nile waters have recently increased and no comprehensive agreement till date acceptable to all Eastern Nile Basin riparian countries exists. After years of escalating tensions between upstream and ... -
Vulnerability and adaptation to salinity intrusion in the Mekong delta of Vietnam
Binh, Nguyen Thanh (2015-06-29)The overall objective of this study is aimed at measuring the vulnerability of different social groups to salinity intrusion and related issues in coastal communities of the Mekong delta to improve our understandings on ... -
Water availability and demand analysis in the Kabul River Basin, Afghanistan
Akhtar, Fazlullah (2017-08-08)Kabul River Basin (KRB), the most populated and highly heterogenic river basin of Afghanistan is the lifeline of millions of people in terms of supplying them with water for agricultural, municipal, and industrial as well ... -
Water productivity in medium and small reservoirs in the Upper East Region (UER) of Ghana
Mdemu, Makarius Victor (2008)Improving water productivity (WP) is one important strategy for addressing future water scarcity, which is driven particularly by population growth and potential climate changes. Although an understanding of WP is required ...