“It gives a feeling of security, when everyone is on board!” (Employee of NGO in Naivasha) Naivasha is known as an economic hub due to its flourish flower industry and divers landscape with the Lake Naivasha and several ...

This thesis explores different life situations of elderly people in rural Tanzania. It carves out how the process of ageing impacts these elderlies’ lives, highlights the heterogeneity within Africa’s older populations and ...

The present master thesis analyzes REDD+, a market-based climate mitigation instrument designed by the UNFCCC to reduce and prevent carbon dioxide emissions from tropical regions. The analysis presented hereafter aims at ...

Diese Arbeit untersucht das Ausmaß der post-politischen Strukturen in der gegenwärtigen internationalen Klimapolitik anhand der Analyse der Arbeit der Nicht-Regierungsorganisation Climate Action Network International (CAN), ...

Vor dem Hintergrund einer rasant zunehmenden Vernetzung der Welt bieten Programme wie etwa der internationale Freiwilligendienst die Möglichkeit, das Verständnis für andere als die eigenen Denk- und Handlungsmuster zu ...

Climate change adaptation (CCA) has emerged as a new paradigm of development politics. But as adaptation has turned out to be not as tangible as mitigation, controversies about the meaning and implementation have arisen ...

Mega-events connect state agendas of image production with private sector's aspirations to valorise urban spaces. In the case of Rio de Janeiro mega-events may be scrutinised in the context of Brazil's rise to the league ...