Dokumente Fakultät für Geowissenschaften und Geographie (inkl. GAUSS) nach Gutachter "Faust, Heiko Prof. Dr."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 -
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 ... -
Air Surface Temperature Estimation Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature Data in Northwest Vietnam
(2019-07-26)There is increasing demand for air surface temperature (Ta) data that can capture information for a large area or for a region, since this kind of data is an important parameter for a wide range of applications. However, ... -
Assessment of Drought in Grasslands: Spatio – Temporal Analyses of Soil Moisture and Extreme Climate Effects in Southwestern Mongolia
(2021-06-28)Soil moisture plays an essential key role in the assessment of hydrological and meteorological droughts that may affect a wide area of the natural grassland and the groundwater resource. The surface soil moisture distribution ... -
Biotechnology and the socio-biological production of vulnerability. Genetically engineered cotton in Telangana, India
(2022-08-12)The use of genetically engineered (GE) crops in agriculture has been the subject of fierce controversy worldwide for decades and remains so until today. The potentials and risks of the technology are still contested and ... -
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 ... -
Food and the middle class
(2020-05-25)The global food consumption today is environmentally and socially not sustainable. While greenhousegas emissions increase due to changing diets, the dubble burden of malnutrition persists especially in emerging economies ... -
Forest Landscape Restoration and Ecosystem Services in A Luoi District, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam
(2021-07-23)Abstract The Government of Vietnam has invested efforts to increase the forest cover, and to conserve biodiversity through different forest development projects and programs. Losing natural forests and landscapes in the ... -
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. ... -
Geoecological analysis of forest distribution and post-disturbance tree regrowth in the forest-steppe of central Mongolia
(2021-09-09)The Mongolian forest-steppe is an ecotone at the transition between the Siberian Taiga in the north and the Gobi Desert in the south. The highly continental, semiarid climate magnifies the importance of water availability ... -
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 ... -
Impacts of agricultural land acquisition for urbanization on smallholder agriculture and gender issues in affected communes: A case study in Huong Thuy town, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam
(2022-01-04)Abstract Agricultural Land Acquisition for Urbanization (ALAFU) is an inevitable process that has been happening around the world, especially in developing countries. It is the process by which the government acquires ... -
Impacts of rainforest transformation into oil-palm plantations on silicon pools in soils
(2023-03-30)Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. In rocks, Si primarily occurs as primary silicates. In soils, Si is present mostly as secondary silicates or amorphous silica of biogenic or pedogenic ... -
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 ... -
Kommunalismus und Raumproduktion am Beispiel der indischen Metropole Hyderabad
(2023-01-11)Hyderabad is a fast growing emerging Indian Megacity. Along with globalisation rapid and drastic changes have taken place resulting in spatial fragmentations and new conflicts. The Muslim-dominated old city of Hyderabad ... -
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 ... -
Monitoring forest fragmentation and carbon storage in the Cerrado Biome of Mato Grosso using optical and SAR satellite images
(2021-01-15)Several studies suggested that forest fragmentation, which is an effect of deforestation, and edge effect have an impact on the biomas and carbon stock in tropical forest. For Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes, most studies ...