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2017-09-07Zeitschriftenartikel

Regionalentwicklung in einem postkolonialen Inselstaat im Globalen Süden: eine empirische Analyse der Republik Mauritius mit Zensus- und Surveydaten

Dirksmeier, Peter

Die im südlichen Indischen Ozean gelegene, postkoloniale Inselrepublik Mauritius ist gegenwärtig Herausforderungen in ihrer Regionalentwicklung ausgesetzt, die in der Transformation der Insel von einer agrikulturellen, ...

2021-11-18Zeitschriftenartikel

Mapping European Spruce Bark Beetle Infestation at Its Early Phase Using Gyrocopter-Mounted Hyperspectral Data and Field Measurements

Hellwig, Florian; Stelmaszczuk-Górska, Martyna A.; Dubois, Clémence; Wolsza, Marco; Truckenbrodt, Sina C.; Sagichewski, Herbert; Chmara, Sergej; Bannehr, Lutz; Lausch, Angela; Schmullius, Christiane

The prolonged drought of recent years combined with the steadily increasing bark beetle infestation (Ips typographus) is causing enormous damage in Germany’s spruce forests. This preliminary study investigates whether early ...

2020-02-21Zeitschriftenartikel

Multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning point clouds for thaw subsidence observation at Arctic permafrost monitoring sites

Anders, Katharina; Marx, Sabrina; Boike, Julia; Herfort, Benjamin; Wilcox, Evan J; Langer, Moritz; Marsh, Philip; Höfle, Bernhard

This paper investigates different methods for quantifying thaw subsidence using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds. Thaw subsidence is a slow (millimetre to centimetre per year) vertical displacement of the ...

2020-11-10Zeitschriftenartikel

Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces

Lausch, Angela; Schaepman, Michael; Skidmore, Andrew; Truckenbrodt, Sina C.; Hacker, Jörg M.; Baade, Jussi; Bannehr, Lutz; Borg, Erik; Bumberger, Jan; Dietrich, Peter; Gläßer, Cornelia; Haase, Dagmar; Heurich, Marco; Jagdhuber, Thomas; Jany, Sven;

The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at local, regional, and global scales is not ...

2020-02-09Zeitschriftenartikel

Urban governance in Ghana: the participation of traders in the redevelopment of Kotokuraba Market in Cape Coast

Asante, Lewis Abedi

This article contributes to the discourse of participatory urban governance through a qualitative analysis of the redevelopment of a market infrastructure in Cape Coast, Ghana. It demonstrates that problems arise with the ...

2015-04-15Zeitschriftenartikel

Three centuries of dual pressure from land use and climate change on the biosphere

Ostberg, Sebastian; Schaphoff, Sibyll; Lucht, Wolfgang; Gerten, Dieter

Human land use and anthropogenic climate change (CC) are placing mounting pressure on natural ecosystems worldwide, with impacts on biodiversity, water resources, nutrient and carbon cycles. Here, we present a quantitative ...

2022-05-24Zeitschriftenartikel

A GIS-based spatiotemporal impact assessment of droughts in the hyper-saline Urmia Lake Basin on the hydro-geochemical quality of nearby aquifers

Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar; Abdollahi, Zahra; Shokati, Behzad

Urmia Lake is a hyper-saline lake in northwestern Iran that has been drying up since 2005. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the water quality in aquifers that are the main source of fresh water for the ...

2021-07-16Zeitschriftenartikel

Monitoring the Transformation of Arctic Landscapes: Automated Shoreline Change Detection of Lakes Using Very High Resolution Imagery

Kaiser, Soraya; Grosse, Guido; Boike, Julia; Langer, Moritz

Water bodies are a highly abundant feature of Arctic permafrost ecosystems and strongly influence their hydrology, ecology and biogeochemical cycling. While very high resolution satellite images enable detailed mapping of ...

2022Zeitschriftenartikel

Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces

Wolff, Manuel; Mascarenhas, André; Haase, Annegret; Haase, Dagmar; Andersson, Erik; Borgström, Sara T.; Kronenberg, Jakub; Łaszkiewicz, Edyta; Biernacka, Magdalena

Although potential urban green space accessibility is being discussed widely, specific barriers that affect accessibility are often under-estimated. They do not equate to limited or uneven accessibility nor are they ...

2021-12-30Zeitschriftenartikel

What influences the implementation of natural climate solutions? A systematic map and review of the evidence

Schulte, Ingrid; Eggers, Juliana; Nielsen, Jonas; Fuss, Sabine

Emergingresearch points to large greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities for activities that are focused on the preservation and maintenance of ecosystems, also known as natural climate solutions (NCS). Despite large ...

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