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Buch
Higher Education Studies in a Global Environment
(INCHER - Kassel, Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung KasselVerlag Winfried Jenior, 2012)
This volume presents the highlights of eight master theses. The authors of the following chapters come from eight different countries: Austria, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, and Romania. The students were free to choose a topic for their Master thesis in consultation with their supervisor. The sequence of the chapters in this volume follows a particular logic related to the geographical breadth covered in the thesis.
Buch
Higher Education Institutions in Europe: Mobilized by Mobility?
(INCHER - Kassel, Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung KasselVerlag Winfried Jenior, 2010)
In the following, the study on the ERASMUS contribution to quality, openness, and modernisation of higher education will describe additional dimensions of ERASMUS impact with a focus on the institutional level.
Dissertation
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 ...
Dissertation
Modeling the interplay between land use, bioenergy production and climate change
(2010-08-09)
Land use has become a force of global importance, considering that 34% of the Earth’s ice-free surface was covered by croplands or pastures in 2000. The expected increase in global human population together with eminent climate change and associated search for energy sources other than fossil fuels can, through land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC), increase the pressure on nature’s resources, further degrade ecosystem services, and disrupt other planetary systems of key importance to humanity. This thesis presents ...
Dissertation
A Modeling Analysis of Changing Global Land Use as affected by Changing Demands for Wood Products
(2010-01-08)
The 21st century has brought new challenges for forest management at a time when globalization in world trade is increasing and global climate change is becoming increasingly apparent. In addition to various goods and services like food, feed, timber or biofuels being provided to humans, forest ecosystems are a large store of terrestrial carbon and account for a major part of the carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Depending on the stage of the ecosystems and/or management regimes, forests ...
Working paper
Soziale Ungleichheiten nach Studienabschluss?
(International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel), 2018)
Die soziale Herkunft gilt in Deutschland als starker Prädiktor des Bildungserfolgs. Deutliche Disparitäten zugunsten von Schüler/innen mit hohem sozioökonomischen Status bestehen nicht nur auf dem Weg zum Hochschulstudium, sondern zeichnen sich auch bei hochschulischen Bildungsübergängen ab – vom Bachelor- ins Masterstudium und vom Masterstudium in die Promotion. Die soziale Binnendifferenzierung der Hochschulbildung kann sich in Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt manifestieren. Bisherige Untersuchungen betrachten ...
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Assessing the Sustainability of EU Timber Consumption Trends: Comparing Consumption Scenarios with a Safe Operating Space Scenario for Global and EU Timber Supply
(2017-12-02)
The growing demand for wood to meet EU renewable energy targets has increasingly come under scrutiny for potentially increasing EU import dependence and inducing land use change abroad, with associated impacts on the climate and biodiversity. This article builds on research accounting for levels of primary timber consumption—e.g., toward forest footprints—and developing reference values for benchmarking sustainability—e.g., toward land use targets—in order to improve systemic monitoring of timber and forest use. ...
Working paper
Higher Education Research: A Compilation of Journals and Abstracts 2013
(2016)
This Compilation contains 25 pertinent, mainly international academic journals, article titles, authors and abstracts of the 2013 volumes from the interdisciplinary field of higher education research. The collection ranges from decidedly higher education research to sociological, organizational, labor-market-focused, theoretical and empirical contributions to higher education research.
Working paper
Externe und interne Qualitätssicherung von Studium und Lehre durch Akkreditierungs- und Evaluationsverfahren
(International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel), 2018)
Mit diesem Working Paper werden die wesentlichen Ergebnisse des INCHER-Forschungsprojekts „Externe und interne Qualitätssicherung von Studium und Lehre durch Akkreditierungs- und Evaluationsverfahren“ (kurz EIQSL) zusammengefasst. Dabei ging es um die Rekonstruktion und Einordnung der externen Qualitätssicherung im Rahmen der allgemeinen hochschulpolitischen Governance, das vielschichtige Qualitätsverständnis, das den Verfahren der Qualitätssicherung unterliegt, die hochschulinternen Prozesse und Strukturen der ...
Dissertation
Von der Minderheit zur Mehrheit? Psycho-soziale Einflüsse bei der Verbreitung klima-schonender Innovationen
(2016-12-21)
Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels und weiterer Zukunftsherausforderungen stellt sich in drängenderem Maße die Frage, wie der Wandel zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft gelingen kann. Im Zuge dessen rücken zunehmend solche Lösungsansätze in den Fokus, die an der Schnittstelle von technischen und sozialen Systemen nachhaltige und klimaschonende Innovationen entwickeln. Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigte sich in diesem Kontext mit der Frage, welche psychologischen und sozialen Faktoren und Mechanismen bei der ...