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Dissertation
The timber footprint of the German bioeconomy
(2024)
More than ever before, global forests are expected to provide solutions to the increasingly common problems associated with human overexploitation of the planet. Forests are expected to function as carbon sinks, provide materials and food, serve as habitats for a significant portion of global terrestrial biodiversity, and be accessible to humans as recreational areas. Given these challenges, it is necessary to monitor global wood use and forest potential in order to derive clear sustainability limits and to plan ...
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Decision‐Making in Public Good Dilemmas: Theory and Agent‐Based Simulation
(2013-05-14)
In many real world contexts individuals find themselves in situations where they have to decide between options of behaviour that serve a collective purpose or behaviours which satisfy one’s private interests, ignoring the collective. In some cases the underlying social dilemma (Dawes, 1980) is solved and we observe collective action (Olson, 1965). In others social mobilisation is unsuccessful. The central topic of social dilemma research is the identification and understanding of mechanisms which yield to the observed ...
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Advancement of the water footprint of Products and Regions in Concept, Operationalisation and Consideration of Spatially Explicit Water Availability
(2024)
The supply of clean freshwater already poses challenges to some regions of the world and this situation is expected to worsen in the future. Improving water security is considered one of the major tasks of the 21st century. The Water Footprint (WF), used as umbrella term for established approaches, can contribute to this by correlating physical water use and water pollution with regional water availability and thus highlighting overuse. In order to derive directionally sound and meaningful recommendations for action, ...