Chapter 1. Introduction to Action Research -- Chapter 2. Clarifying the research questions or hypotheses -- Chapter 3. Research methods: options and issues -- Chapter 4. Thinking about the context: setting (where?) and participants (who?) -- Chapter 5. Collecting the data -- Chapter 6. Analysing the data -- Chapter 7. Discussing the data -- Chapter 8. Example studies -- Chapter 9. Presenting an…
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Legitimation Crisis of the Capitalist Market Economy?; Steffen Schneider and Henning Schmidtke -- Part I -- Chapter 2. The Legitimacy of the Capitalist Market Economy and Its Normative Foundations; Frank Nullmeier and Dominika Biegoń -- Chapter 3. Towards a Legitimation Crisis? Contours and Trajectories of National Discourses; Henning Schmidtke and Steffen Schneider …
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis ICME-13 Topical Survey reviews the state-of-the-art by first exploring the roots and scope of design science. Second, it presents two examples of current design science projects that focus on substantial learning environments including a st…
TanDEM-X DEM, Sentinel Optical and Radar Data, Landsat Surface Reflectance -- Machine Learning Using SVMs and Random Forest -- Statistical Time-Series Evaluation -- Maps of Land Use and Cover (LULC) -- Time-Series Showing the Impact of ENSO.How is the vegetation distribution influencing the erosion and surface formation in the different eco zones of Chile? To answer this question, it is mandato…
1. Introduction -- 2. Climate smart crops. 2a. Drought resistant crops 2b. Flood resistant crops 2c. Salt tolerant crops 2d. Heat resistant crops 2e. Fortified crops -- 3. Food beyond crops 3a. Livestock 3b. Fishery and aquaculture 3c. Agro-forestry -- 4. Agriculture: The new paradigms 4a. Urban agriculture 4b. Vertical agriculture and Cost effective hydroponics/aquaponics, artificial lights (L…
Introduction -- Wild cereal cultivation in Israel – Global warming: An Important Link -- Climate-Evolution: The Interrelationship -- The adaptation range of wild crop species to fluctuations in climate change -- Importance of Crop Wild Relatives -- Crop-wise comparison of domestic gene pool with wild relatives on Ecogeographic Diversity -- Relevance of wild relatives in other crops in plant b…
Forward -- Preface -- 1. The Risk to Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services: a Framework for the Ecosystem Service Atlas -- 2. The Ecosystem Service Concept: Linking Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing- 3. The Link Between Diversity, Ecosystem Functions and Ecosystem Services -- 4. Embracing Community Resilience in Ecosystem Management and Research -- 5. Risk and Uncertainty as Sources of Economic Value …
Application of clay based ion exchanger materials for treatment of harmful water pollutants -- Application of ion exchange chromatography in environmental analysis -- Applications of composite ion exchangers for the treatment of natural dyes -- Applications of composite ion exchangers for the treatment of synthetic dyes -- Composite cation exchanger for the treatment of heavy metals -- Green ap…
Introduction -- Part 1. Cities and Nature in History -- Chapter 1. Understanding Landscape: Cultural Perceptions of Environment in the UK and China -- Chapter 2. Green Wedges: the Resilience of a Planning Idea -- Chapter 3. Demystified Territories: City vs. Countryside in Andrea Branzi’s Urban Models -- Chapter 4. The Introduction of Nature in the Austrian Radicals Practice -- Chapter 5. Univ…
In the past several years, there have been significant technological advances in the field of crisis response. However, many aspects concerning the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management remain open. Improving crisis response systems and making them intelligent requires extensive collaboration between emergency …