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Citizen Science
Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated by evolving new technologies that connect people easily and effectively with the scientific community. Catalysed by citizens’ wishes to be actively involved in scientific processes, as a result of recent societal trends, it also offers contributions to the rise in tertiary education. In addition, citizen science provides a valuable tool for citizens to play a more active role in sustainable deve...
A Global Dataset of Crowdsourced Land Cover and Land Use Reference Data
Abstract: Global land cover is an essential climate variable and a key biophysical driver for earth system models. While remote sensing technology, particularly satellites, have played a key role in providing land cover datasets, large discrepancies have been noted among the available products. Global land use is typically more difficult to map and in many cases cannot be remotely sensed. In-situ or ground-based data and high resolution imagery are thus an important requirement for producing accurate land cover and land use datasets and this is precisely what is lacking. Here we describe the global land cover and land use reference data derived from the Geo-Wiki crowdsourcing platform via four campaigns. These global datasets provide information on human impact, land cover disagreement, wilderness and land cover and land use. Hence, they are relevant for the scientific community that requires reference data for global satellite-derived products, as well as those interested in monitoring global terrestrial ecosystems in general
CORP 2012 - Proceedings/Tagungsband
RE-MIXING THE CITY - Towards Sustainability and Resilience? There is nothing permanent except change. (Heraclitus) Cities worldwide are facing rapid social, economic, environmental, technological and cultural changes such as: rapid urbanisation, aging of society, security issues, housing emergency, new solutions on mobility, integration of immigrants, food and water shortage, etc. Especially in times of economic crisis and demographic changes in cities, it is necessary to think about how to best handle what we have, and therefore "RE-MIXING THE CITY" is a challenge to manage and re-combine the elements which make our modern cities in order to better respond to change.
Internationaler Motorenkongress 2018
Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte dieses Tagungsbandes beziehen sich auf emotionale Diskussionen um Verbrennungsmotoren um diese wieder auf eine sachlich fundierte Ebene zu führen. Effiziente Pkw-und Nfz-Motoren sind im Systemverbund mit neuen Kraftstoffen die Schlüsselentwicklung für eine CO2-neutrale individuelle Mobilität mit niedrigsten Emissionen.
Zeitlich-Räumliche Visualisierung von geografischen Metadaten anhand des IGLIS-Datenbankmodells
IGLIS ist ein von der Firma Forsthuber entwickeltes GIS. Das Datenbankmodell vom IGLIS ermöglicht die automatische Ableitung von Metadaten aus der Datenbank. Für diese Arbeit sind jene Metadatenelemente relevant, die durch eine Visualisierung eine Evaluierung der Datenfitness ermöglichen. Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Entwicklung eines Prototyps für die Visualisierung dieser Metadatenelemente. Für die Entwicklung des Prototyps wurde vorweg eine Literaturrecherche zu verschiedenen Visualisierungsmethoden und Konzepten durchgeführt. Aus den Ergebnissen dieser Recherche wurde ein Konzept entwickelt, welches für IGLIS mittels eines Prototyps umgesetzt wurde. Das durch den Prototyp erhaltene ...
Principles and Reactions of Protein Extraction, Purification, and Characterization
Principles and Reactions of Protein Extraction, Purification, and Characterization provides the mechanisms and experimental procedures for classic to cutting-edge techniques used in protein extraction, purification, and characterization. The author presents the principles and reactions behind each procedure and uses tables to compare the different
The Heart of an Ironman South Africa
This book tells the tale of the heartache that eventually resulted in participants overcoming pain, finally accepting themselves, making life-changing decisions, becoming an athlete (though possibly not yet an Ironman), or realizing a lifetime dream. It would also feature stories from the SA Triathlon Development team, physically disabled ......
The Political Economy of Sustainable Development
Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the sustainable management of the earth’s natural resources. Yet how effective are they – and do they help the planet and developing countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book investigates these important questions. Providing a comprehensive analysis and the latest research on sustainable development, the authors ...
An overview of current knowledge about the impacts of forest management certification
The often-claimed environmental and social benefits of forest certification remain to be empirically evaluated. Despite numerous publications on the impacts of tropical forest certification, virtually all are based on secondary sources of information and not on field-based measurements. This paper proposes an empirical research framework for a carefully designed field-based evaluation of the ecological, social, economic, and political impacts of tropical forest management certification taking into account location-specific contextual factors which shape certification outcomes. The paper also suggests that solid methodological quantitative and qualitative approaches be used to build proper co...
