E-Dissertationen: Search
Now showing items 31-40 of 51
Potenziale quantitativer Landschaftsanalysen als Monitoring-Instrument im Gebietsnaturschutz: Untersuchungen am Beispiel des Biosphärenreservats Rhön
(2017-08-25)
Im Kontext des Monitorings im Gebietsnaturschutz treten bei der Quantifizierung von Land-schaftsveränderungen auf Basis kategorialer Daten unterschiedliche methodische und inhalt-liche Probleme auf, die in der Arbeit am ...
GIS-based sustainability assessment of decentralized rural electrification in the Amazon region: case study Ecuador
(2017-09-21)
Decentralized rural electrification (DRE) is necessary for electricity supplies in remote and disadvantaged areas in the Amazon region and improvement of the living conditions of the people there. However, the sustainability ...
Mosquitoes and Maladies among Men using Marshes: Is the Contraction of Diseases in Wetlands a Question of Use?
(2017-11-09)
In environments where water is scarce, as is the case in semiarid areas in rural East Africa, fragile wetland ecosystems are increasingly being tapped in order to combat food insecurity and to provide important life-support ...
Entwicklung eines automatisierten Wolkendetektions- und Wolkenklassifizierungsverfahrens mit Hilfe von Support Vector Machines angewendet auf METEOSAT-SEVIRI-Daten für den Raum Deutschland
(2013-03-20)
Wolken stellen im Klimasystem der Erde einen zentralen Faktor dar, nicht nur in Bezug auf die Niederschlagsverteilung, sondern auch in Verbindung mit Effekten auf Strahlungsvorgänge innerhalb der Atmosphäre. Eine genaue ...
Modeling hydrological processes in a semi-arid mountainous catchment at the regional scale
(2013-04-02)
In the Upper Drâa Valley (14,988 km2) on the southern slopes of the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains, a highly variable precipitation and large evaporation losses cause major water availability problems. The combined ...
Biogeomorphic dynamics in the Turtmann glacier forefield, Switzerland
(2017-05-19)
Worldwide, glacier retreat enlarges glacier foreland areas, which are characterized by pronounced geomorphic and ecologic dynamics. Feedbacks between these dynamics are believed to drive glacier foreland landscape development, ...
Modeling climate and land use change impacts on water resources in the dano catchment (Burkina Faso, West africa)
(2016-12-20)
This study investigated the impacts of climate and land use changes on water resources in the Dano catchment combining hydrological processes understanding, hydrological simulations and climate and land use scenarios ......
Everyday governance of the waste waterscapes: A Foucauldian analysis in Delhi’s informal settlements
(2012-09-20)
Waste water governance presents a major challenge in India’s cities and megacities. High rainfall variability, partial sewer networks, and waste water discharge through often dilapidated and silted storm water drains lead ...
The governmental and non-governmental approaches to maintain medium and long-term disaster resilience after a mega-disaster: Case study: Aceh Province, Indonesia after 2004 the Indian Ocean Tsunami
(2019-07-30)
After the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, the Government of Aceh started to promote disaster risk reduction and to build disaster resilience in order to address the current challenges in disaster risk mitigation in Aceh ...
Emergent Land Commodification and Intergenerational Land Relations in Northwestern Ghana
(2019-08-05)
In the developing world, especially in Africa, land is the main livelihood resource and a communal intergenerational asset. African land tenure has come under pressure due to growing land commodification, especially under ...