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Narratives of Migration: Complex Answers of a Society in Transformation, Ghana
(2016-06-02)
Northern Ghana, by virtue of its location in the semi-arid Savannah Ecological Zone is not only exposed to environmental risks and effects, but also generally characterised by persistent migration of people to the southern ...
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 ...
Applying Disaster Risk Governance in Dynamic Environments: Case study Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
(2021-05-17)
Between 1980 and 2015, around 1.6 billion people were killed in meteorological, geophysical, hydrological or climatological disasters. Future annual losses are estimated to reach US4 billion in the built environment alone. ...
Migration and translocal resilience = Migration und translokale Resilienz: A multi-sited analysis in/between Thailand, Singapore and Germany = Eine multilokale Analyse zwischen Thailand, Singapur und Deutschland
(2020-12-07)
Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der Rolle der transnationalen Migration für die soziale Resilienz. Die translokale Einbettung und die daraus resultierenden sozialen Praktiken, sind ein zentraler Baustein für ...
An Integrated Remote Sensing and Urban Growth Model Approach to Curb Slum Formation in Lagos Megacity
(2019-04-05)
Rapid urbanization with limited development has led to slum proliferation in many sub-Saharan African cities. Slums are recognized as a menace to planned cities, as they do not conform to planning standards, thus the need ...
Handeln in riskanten Umwelten - Überlebenssicherung um welchen Preis?: Das Beispiel der Region Atakora in Nord-Benin
(2021-08-09)
Trotz Naturschutz geht das Artensterben voran und die Klimakrise erreicht fast alle Weltregionen und verursacht aufgrund von Unvorhersehbarkeiten die Destabilisierung von sozialen und ökologischen Räumen. Um einen sicheren ...
The social priorities in unsustainable development: An empirical approach
(2023-01-31)
From the late 1980s onwards, a generally accepted conception of sustainable development as a balance between the social system, economic system and biophysical environment has emerged and serves as an underpinning for ...
Wozu Region?: Regionalisierungen als projekthaftes Organisationsgeschehen - systemtheoretisch rekonstruiert am Beispiel der Energiewende
(2022-12-23)
Die Dissertation von Claudia Kölsche mit dem Titel „Wozu Region? Regionalisierungen als projekthaftes Organisationsgeschehen – systemtheoretisch rekonstruiert am Beispiel der Energiewende“ beginnt mit der Beobachtung, dass ...