Browsing Fakultät für Geowissenschaften und Geographie (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Faust, Heiko Prof. Dr."
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Contesting Knowledge of Land Access Claims in Jambi, Indonesia
(2017-04-28)Land constitutes productive space, as well as a commodity. For this reason, land has become a contestation arena for various interested actors of all scales. The strategists of knowledge construct a wide variety of ... -
A post-frontier in transformation: land relations between access, exclusion and resistance in Jambi province, Indonesia
(2017-03-02)Since the early twentieth century, forests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are converted into large plantation areas for the cultivation of boom crops, such as rubber and oil palms. This land use transformation goes ... -
Forest, Livelihoods and REDD+ implementation in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador
(2017-02-10)Forests represent vital food and income sources for rural households as well as reserves for crisis periods. Therefore, deforestation and forest degradation can endanger the livelihoods of forest dependent communities. ... -
Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia
(2016-06-10)The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism has been framed as a „win-win“-solution by donors, conservation organizations and corporate actors facilitating simultaneously forest ... -
Landscape transformation in Jambi province, Sumatra - An analysis of land tenure regulations under translational dynamics
(2016-05-23)“Translational dynamics of land tenure regulations – An analysis of landscape transformation from Jambi province, Sumatra” illuminates political and institutional impacts on cultural landscape transformation in Jambi ... -
Advancing Risk and Vulnerability Assessment for Decision-Making and Research
(2016-04-04)Making use of risk and, in particular, of vulnerability assessment, offers a wide range of opportunities to identify and enhance the differential steps of risk management decision-making. However, the benefits of these ... -
Integrated approaches of social-ecological resilience assessment and urban resilience management
(2016-02-10)The urban system is a multi-interaction system, due to the rapid urbanization and intertwined vulnerability of the ecological system. It will be a challenge to maintain a sustainable development of the urban and urbanizing ... -
Räumliches Einkaufsverhalten und Standortpolitik im Einzelhandel unter Berücksichtigung von Agglomerationseffekten
(2014-10-22)This thesis deals with spatial shopping behavior in relation to retail agglomerations, more precisely the aim is to identify demand-side agglomeration economies (urbanization economies, localization economies) in retail. ... -
The role of Islamic microfinance in poverty alleviation and environmental awareness in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia: A comparative study
(2013-08-07)Poverty is one of the greatest problems affecting developing countries. Socio-economic imbalances, created by both natural and artificial resource scarcity, restrict impoverished people’s access to economic opportunities, ... -
Partizipation in Umweltorganisationen
(2013-03-05)The thesis is about participation in environmental organisations. The Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung (DJN) and Greenpeace in Göttingen have been examined regarding to similarities and differences in the way ... -
Natural Resource Use Conflicts in Indonesia: A Challenge for Sustainable Development and Education for Sustainable Development
(2012-06-05)Many of Indonesia's natural resources are degraded due to over-utilization. Examples are over-exploitation of fish stocks or non-timber forest resources. In many cases commons dilemmas' regularly occurring in open access ... -
Adaptation to natural hazards in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia - strategies of rural households
(2011-06-14)On the global scale an increase in frequency and magnitude of potentially hazardous natural events has to be expected. Regardless of how such changes are attributed, as human systems become ... -
Building a Decision Support System for Agricultural Land Use Planning and Sustainable Management at the District Level in Vietnam
(2010-02-05)This research aims at developing a decision support system (DSS) to improve the decision-making capacity of administrators as well as other interested parties. The system will help develop ... -
Agrar-Umwelt-Maßnahmen : ihre Evaluierung und ein Weg zum institutionellen Wandel
(2009-08-04)Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are services that farmers provide on a voluntary basis. These services contribute t a sustainable development of rural