Browsing Fakultät für Geowissenschaften und Geographie (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor "Faust, Heiko Prof. Dr."
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Political Change and Urban Growth in a Medium-sized Outer Island Capital in Indonesia: The Case of Palu, Central Sulawesi
(2022-11-28)Purpose: This study examines how Palu’s urban development was affected by centralization and subsequent decentralization policies as well as how these shaped the local government and society. This study also explores local ... -
Agrarian change and hydro-social transformations. The socio-natural production of water, risk and inequality in Jambi province, Indonesia
(2021-02-23)The production of palm oil, pulpwood and rubber has caused a large-scale expansion of agro-industrial plantation systems in Southeast Asia in recent years. This development is highly contested and has sparked conflict over ... -
Governance systems of yarshagumba collection and trade in the border region of India, Nepal and China
(2019-06-04)Worldwide, the commercial collection of non-timber forest products (NTFP) has increased, with growing demands on domestic and international markets. This provides income opportunities for local people and links usually ... -
Perspectives of Sustainable Collaborative Management: A Case Study in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra-Indonesia
(2017-05-02)A conservation area is a natural resource in which management uses the resources based on the principles of protecting and preserving by utilizing wisely and minimizing inflicted damage. Although the damage resulting from ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...