Die Speisung dezentraler Inselnetze mit solarer Energie ist bekanntlich mit dem Problem behaftet, dass der Energieeintrag erheblichen wetter- und tageszeitlichen Schwankungen unterliegt. Trotz ausgleichender Maßnahmen, ...

Local, regional, and global processes affect deforestation and land-use changes in the Brazilian Amazon. Characteristics are: direct conversions from forest to pasture; regional processes of indirect land-use ...

The Brazilian Amazon has experienced one of the world's highest deforestation rates in the last decades. Cattle ranching and soy expansion constitute the major drivers of deforestation, both through direct conversion and ...

Future increases in land-based production will need to focus more on sustainably intensifying existing production systems. Unfortunately, our understanding of the global patterns of land use intensity is weak, partly because ...

Die Folgen des anstehenden Klimawandels treten immer deutliche zutage. Wie inzwischen bekannt ist, sind die Klimaveränderungen auf die verstärkte Produktion des Treibhausgases CO2 zurückzuführen, was in der Hauptsache auf ...

From global monitoring to regional forest management there is an increasing demand for information about forest ecosystems. For border regions that are closely connected ecologically and economically, a key factor is the ...

Discerning the relationship between urban structure and function is crucial for sustainable city planning and requires examination of how components in urban systems are organized in three-dimensional space. The Structure ...

Therocephalia is one of the major therapsid clades and ranges from the middle Permian to Middle Triassic. The earliest therocephalians were large-bodied predators whose fossils are common in middle Permian rocks of South ...

Rapid urban expansion is a significant contributor to land cover change and poses a challenge to environmental sustainability, particularly in less developed countries. Insufficient data about urban expansion hinders ...

We introduce and analyze a simple formal thought experiment designed to reflect a qualitative decision dilemma humanity might currently face in view of anthropogenic climate change. In this exercise, each generation can ...