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Wahrnehmungspsychologie und Landschaft
(2010-09-30)
Landschaft ist ein Wahrnehmungsphänomen und als solches kulturwissenschaftlich rekonstruiert worden. Dieser Rekonstruktion zufolge ist es eine an Gemälden gewonnene Anschauungsform, die auf das Land außerhalb von Gemälden übertragen worden ist, das wie ein Bild betrachtet wird. Dieser Erkenntnis widerspricht die Wahrnehmungspsychologie, genauer die Evolutionspsychologie, dahin gehend, dass die Landschaftswahrnehmung schon in der frühen Menschheitsentwicklung erworben wurde. Denn die heutigen landschaftlichen Präferenzen ...
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Biotopverbund und räumliche Koordination
(2010-02-12)
Die Vokabel „Biotopverbund“ bezieht sich nicht auf einen klar umrissenen Koordinationsgegenstand, sondern ist eher als eine Art metaphorischer Werkzeugkasten zu betrachten, von dem man bei raumbezogenen Kommunikations- und Koordinationsprozessen Gebrauch machen kann, aber nicht zwangsläufig muss. Zusammen mit dem Wort „Fragmentierung“ bildet „Biotopverbund“ ein Metaphernpaar, das Deskription und Präskription in suggestiver und einleuchtender Weise integriert. Durch ihre Interpretationsoffenheit erleichtert die ...
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Pharmaceutical consumption and residuals potentially relevant to nutrient cycling in Greater Accra, Ghana
(Kassel University Press, 2010)
Recycling nutrients form sanitary wastes back into agricultural ecosystems offers an option to alleviate soil depletion in regions where the use of mineral fertiliser is limited. Exemplary nutrient and water cycling approaches, including collection, treatment and use of human urine, are established at Valley View University (VVU) in Greater Accra, Ghana.
Concerns have been recently raised in regard to fate and impact of pharmaceutical residues in soils and interlinked environment. To evaluate in how far emerging ...
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Learning achievements of farmers during the transition to market-oriented organic agriculture in rural Uganda
(Kassel University Press, 2010)
Organic agriculture requires farmers with the ability to develop profitable agro-enterprises on their own. By drawing on four years of experiences with the Enabling Rural Innovation approach in Uganda, we outline how smallholder farmers transition to organic agriculture and, at the same time, increase their entrepreneurial skills and competences through learning. In order to document this learning we operationalised the Kirkpatrick learning evaluation model, which subsequently informed the collection of qualitative ...
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Smallholder group certification in Uganda - Analysis of internal control systems in two organic export companies
(Kassel University Press, 2010)
The organic agricultural sector of Uganda is among the most developed in Africa in terms of its professional institutional network and high growth rates of number of certified farmers and land area. Smallholder farmers are certified organic through contract production for export companies using a group certification scheme (internal control system - ICS). The ICS is a viable and well-accepted tool to certify small-scale producers in developing countries all over the world. Difficulties in certification are still ...
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Assessment of the strategies of organic fruit production and fruit drying in Uganda
(Kassel University Press, 2010)
Organic agriculture in Uganda is developing at a fast pace and despite this trend Uganda is still unable to produce enough fresh and dry organic fruits mainly pineapple to meet the exporters demand. This current research investigated the strategies of farmers at production level by assessing the pros and cons of fruit growing, organic agriculture and fruit drying in order to understand the underlying causal factor for the low production of organic dry fruits in a major fruit producing district of Uganda.
The study ...
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Carbon and nitrogen emissions from stored manure and cropped fields in irrigated mountain oases of Oman
(Kassel University Press, 2010)
Little is known about gaseous carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) emissions from traditional terrace agriculture in irrigated high mountain agroecosystems of the subtropics. In an effort towards filling this knowledge gap measurements of carbon dioxide (CO_2), methane (CH_4), ammonia (NH_3) and dinitrous oxide (N_2O) were taken with a mobile photoacoustic infrared multi-gas monitor on manure-filled PE-fibre storage bags and on flood-irrigated untilled and tilled fields in three mountain oases of the northen Omani Al Jabal ...