Browsing Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Informatik by Referee "Faust, Heiko Prof. Dr."
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Sustainability Transitions in German Livestock Farming: The Role of Innovations, Incumbents, and Imagined Futures
(2023-08-10)Environmental degradation, climate change, and issues of social justice highlight the need to develop and transition to more sustainable modes of production, consumption, and living. Livestock farming in Germany is a sector ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Urbanisation, Land Use and Soil Resource: Spatio-Temporal Analyses of Trends and Environmental Effects in Two Metropolitan Regions of Ghana (West Africa)
(2020-12-23)With more than half of the world’s population already urbanised, global sustainability is partly hinged on how the urbanisation process is impacting the natural environment. Therefore, it is important to characterise, ... -
Space-time modelling of seasonal soil moisture for improved crop production – the case of the Guinea savannah region, Ghana
(2020-12-17)The upsurge in advocacy for food security in SSA implies the urgent need for improved sustainable adaptation measures that can boost food-crop production. This is of utmost concern, because, over the past decades, food ... -
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 ... -
Produktion öffentlicher Räume in indischen Megastädten
(2019-12-06)Since India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s the cities have undergone tremendous change. It goes along with conflicts about public spaces. This dissertation describes and analyzes the dynamics of mega-urban public ... -
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, ... -
Soil Properties Mapping and Land Evaluation for Potential Agricultural Land Use Types in A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province, Central Vietnam
(2019-07-03)Agriculture plays an essential role in Vietnam, especially central Vietnam, which is the least developed economically and socially compared to the other regions. Many administrative levels in Vietnam have implemented ... -
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 ... -
Werte in umweltgeschichtlichen Texten
(2017-07-11)This thesis makes a contribution to clarifying the discussion about which values dominate texts from the field of environmental history. Therefor articles from the field of environmental history are examined regarding the ... -
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 ...