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Die digitale Neu-Vermessung touristischer Aktionsräume
(2021-12-21)
Das Wissen, wie sich Touristen zum und im Reiseziel bewegen, ist für eine nachhaltige Destinationsentwicklung unerlässlich geworden und hat durch die Covid-19-Pandemie und die damit zusammenhängende Notwendigkeit der ...
Growing Old in the Tanzanian Periphery: Elderlies’ Voices on Wellbeing and Ageing
(2020-04)
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 ...
Kooperative Energiewende: Die Bedeutung von lokalen Governance-Strukturen für Energiegenossenschaften in Deutschland
(2021-09-28)
Das auf fossilen Rohstoffen basierende Energiesystem führt zu Umweltzerstörungen und einer Verstärkung des Klimawandels. Die Notwendigkeit einer grundlegenden Transformation des Energiesystems ist daher im wissenschaftlichen ...
Modeling water availability for smallholder farming in inland valleys under climate and land use / land cover change in Dano, Burkina Faso
(2020-05-05)
Effective water management in inland valley catchments is crucial for adaptation to the adverse impact of climate change and land use and land cover change (LULCC) on smallholder farming systems, poverty reduction, attaining ...
New aspects of deglaciation in southern Norway: Climate variability derived from surface exposure ages of Late Quaternary and Holocene landforms
(2020-01-30)
The investigation of periglacial and related landforms in South Norway is of high interest for exploring timings of deglaciation and to assess their geomorphological connectivity to palaeoclimatic changes during the Late ...
Spaceborne SAR Remote Sensing for Monitoring of Vegetation Dynamics in Arid and Semi-arid Environment
(2020-04-22)
Drylands are under constant threat from multiple stresses and challenges, which occur as a result of a complex interaction of natural processes, and human-induced processes caused by unsustainable land use practices, leading ...
Die Implementierung des Themas Fernerkundung in den Schulunterricht der Sekundarstufe I durch das neue MINT-Wahlpflichtfach "Geographie-Physik": eine Studie zur praktischen Schulfachgestaltung im Differenzierungsbereich der Jahrgangsstufen 8 und 9 an Gymnasien in Nordrhein-Westfalen am Beispiel des Gymnasiums Siegburg Alleestraße
(2021-10-26)
Schülerinnen und Schüler werden in ihrer Alltagswelt seit dem letzten Jahrzehnt immer früher mit Satellitenbildern konfrontiert. Durch den Wetterbericht und die Nachrichtensendung im Fernsehen oder durch virtuelle Globen ...
Translocal resilience in a changing environment: Rural-urban migration, livelihood risks, and adaptation in Thailand
(2021-01-25)
This dissertation addresses the intersection of rural livelihoods, resilience towards risks and changes, and migration. By and large, it spotlights the migration–resilience interaction in the con-text of rural transition ...
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. ...
Impact assessment of global change on wetland-catchment interactions in a tropical East African catchment
(2020-02-27)
Water is the key to sustainable development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where a large part of the population lives on subsistence farming. Reliable knowledge of available water resources therefore is an ...