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Combined Learning
(kassel university press, 2010)
Combined Learning ist eine neue Entwicklung im E-Learning-Bereich. Bei dieser werden mittels Videokonferenzsoftware interaktive Lehrveranstaltungen ermöglicht, an denen sowohl Studierende vor Ort als auch online teilnehmen können. Dabei unterscheidet sich Combined Learning von einer reinen Internetübertragung und –aufzeichnung (video lecture) darin, dass die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen über Mikrofon, Kamera und Chat in direktem Kontakt zum Veranstaltungsgeschehen vor Ort stehen.In der Erprobung von Combined Learning ...
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Umweltbezogene Gerechtigkeit und Immissionsbelastungen am Beispiel der Stadt Kassel
(kassel university press, 2008)
Die fehlende soziale Differenzierung in der Luftreinhalteplanung war einer der Anlässe für das hier beschriebene Forschungsprojekt an der Universität Kassel, das im Jahr 2006/2007 von dem Fachgebiet für Umweltmeteorologie (FG Umet) und dem Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) durchgeführt wurde. Ziel des Projektes ist es, Zusammenhänge zwischen Sozialstruktur und Umweltgüte vor dem Hintergrund umweltbezogener Gerechtigkeit in zwei Stadteilen Kassels exemplarisch zu untersuchen. Kassel bietet sich als ...
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Design and implementation of a generic modeling framework - a platform for integrated land use modeling
(kassel university press, 2008)
Land-use as “the total of arrangement, activities and inputs that people undertake in a certain land cover type”, in contrast to land-cover being the “observed physical and biological cover of the earth’s land, as vegetation or man-made features” is a crucial link between human activities and the natural environment and one of the main driving forces of global environmental change.
Given the importance of land-use, it is essential to understand the interactions between the multitude of influential factors and resulting ...
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Self-help groups for India’s financial inclusion
(kassel university press, 2017)
Ensuring accessibility to credit to the poor self-employed households is a critical concern for many developing nations. Self-help groups (SHG) formed by women in the developing countries help them to access financial intermediaries and access credit for various income-generating activities. In case of India, SHGs are formed either through state-assisted SHG-Bank Linkage Programme (SBLP) or through private initiatives of micro finance institutions (MFIs) or NGOs. Under the former, the groups access formal banking ...
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Individuelles Umwelthandeln und Klimaschutz (IndUK) – Sach- und Schlussbericht
(kassel university press, 2016)
„Es ist absehbar, dass sich aus naturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnissen allein keine Handlungsstrategien ableiten lassen, wie dem Klimawandel zu begegnen ist. Wie Menschen diesen wahrnehmen, welche Folgen er für sie hat und ob und in welcher Weise sie bereit sind, entsprechende Strategien tatsächlich umzusetzen, hängt stark von dem jeweiligen sozialen und kulturellen Umfeld ab“ (BMBF 2015; http://www.fona.de/de/9874). Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden im Rahmen der Sozial‐ökologischen Forschung im Themenschwerpunkt ...
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Solar Thermal Energy Storage System
(kassel university press, 2019)
Thermal energy storage technologies are gaining attention nowadays for uninterrupted supply of solar power in off-sunshine hours. An indigenized solar phase change material (PCM) system was developed and performance evaluated in the current study to efficiently store solar thermal power using a latent heat storage approach, which can be utilized in any subsequent decentralized food processing application. A 2.5 m2 laying Scheffler reflector is used to precisely focus the incoming direct normal irradiance (DNI) on a ...
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Economic growth and employment generation nexus: Insight from Ghana
(kassel university press, 2016)
Ghana is undoubtedly regarded as one of the leading lights in Africa in terms of strong growth performance since the wind of economic reforms blew across Africa in the 1980s.The challenge has, however, been the effect of this remarkable growth story on the creation of sufficient jobs for the increasing working age population. This paper uses arithmetic computation and econometric estimation to measure and assess the employment effect of the level and sources of growth on the employment generation. It further shows ...
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Transformations of traditional landuse systems and their effects on development opportunities and people’s livelihoods in Northern Ghana
(kassel university press, 2015)
Agricultural land in Northern Ghana was under the traditional arrangements till recent times. Small-scale farmers and their families could collect water, firewood, fodder andseasonal fruits or carried out hunting on communal lands, owned by local chiefs and fetish priests, under the provisions made by customary laws.Recent developments in this area include up-scaling of the mining industry, large scale commercial agriculture projects and cultivation of biofuel crops. All these developmentschemes are affecting access ...
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The Informal Economy and Collective Cooperation in India: Lessons from Ela Bhatt
(kassel university press, 2021-01)
Increasing informality and inequality have been recognised as the two primary outcomes of the twenty-first century globalisation. With growing intensity of the two problems, the world seems to be returning to the nineteenth-century precarious conditions in the world of work. Absence of judiciable status of the worker in informal economy has caused widespread violations of workers’ rights. Consequently, all the protective legislations and ILO standards have failed to extend the desired protection to informal workers, ...
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Right-Wing Politics in the Current Conjuncture
(2022-09)
In this working paper, the author situates the political project under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (termed the “Kurz project”) as a mode of neoliberal crisis management. The case study is conducted using a conjunctural analysis. It is argued that following the event of the Ibiza-affair in 2019 which led to a political crisis in Austria, the Kurz project managed to solidify its stance despite numerous scandals. The main findings are that on the one hand, this is due to a specific strategy employed by Sebastian Kurz, ...