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Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
(kassel university press, 2018-12)
Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the ...
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DSpace - eine Einführung
(2007-03-26)
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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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Überregionale Potentiale lokaler Innovationsimpulse
(kassel university press, 2012)
Technische und soziale Innovationen gelten als Schlüssel zur Energiewende: Sei es die Erzeugung und Nutzung von Ökostrom, die Beteiligung von Bürgern an Bürgersolaranlagen oder der Bau von Bioenergiedörfern – in den vergangenen zehn Jahren konnten sich verschiedene Neuerungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien auf dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausbreiten und damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Klimaschutz leisten. Doch wo und unter welchen Bedingungen werden zunächst kleine und lokal begrenzte Innovationsimpulse ...