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Bundle Project Urban Climate: Development of a Powerful Urban Climate Model (Module A), MOSAIK, SP 02: Urban Radiation and Building Parameterization

Schneider, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 06/2016 - 08/2019

Within the joint research project MOSAIK a new urban climate model of unprecedented spatial resolution and computational performance will be developed. The core of this new model (working title: PACE), will be based on the modern, highly parallelized ...

Event: Atlas of Anthopocene: Critical Geography in Tumultuous Times

Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Knowledge and Cultural History)

Duration of project: 06/2019 - 10/2019

This two-day graduate symposium will offer a critical geographical exploration of the Anthropocene by charting shifts in the ways that humans move through, dwell in, and dream of space and place in a world where our grasp on the nature of nature has ...

Event: Atlas of the Anthropocene: Critical Geography in Tumultuous Times

Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Knowledge and Cultural History)

Duration of project: 06/2019 - 08/2019

This two-day graduate symposium will offer a critical geographical exploration of the Anthropocene by charting shifts in the ways that humans move through, dwell in, and dream of space and place in a world where our grasp on the nature of nature has ...

Future teachers for the planet. Powerful knowledge for a better ESD in teacher training

Bagoly-Simó, Péter, Prof. Dr. (Didactics of Geography)

Duration of project: 10/2019 - 06/2021

BUA gefördertes Forschungsprojekt zur Lehrkräftebildung im Kontext mit Klimawandel und BNE mit der University of Melbourne

Glacial lake outburst floods in the Halji region, Nepal

Schneider, Christoph, Prof. Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 01/2021 - 08/2023

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (KHK) region in general, and Nepal in particular, are largely affected by glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). Many studies argue that the occurrence of GLOFs is, at least partly, linked to climate change and subsequent glaci ...

How are vegetables and fruits delivered to supermarkets in the Global South? The interrelations between the expansion of supermarket-chains and the development of procurement systems/intermediaries for fresh products

Kulke, Elmar, Prof. Dr. (Economic Geography)

Duration of project: 02/2017 - 04/2020

The planned project will analyse the interdependencies between the spatial-temporal expansion process of national supermarket-chains and the development of procurement systems/intermediaries for fresh products based on case studies in Kenya and Tanza ...

the KNOWledge politics of experimentING with smart urbanism

Moss, Timothy, Dr. (Department of Geography)

Duration of project: 05/2017 - 09/2020

The aim of the proposed research project is to develop theoretical and empicial understanding of how smart urbanism experiment are re-shaping urban knowledge politics in European citires. The project proposes a symmetrical analysis of formal, corpora ...

Urban Climate Under Change [UC]2, second phase

Schubert, Sebastian, Dr. (Climate Geography)

Duration of project: 09/2019 - 12/2022

During the second phase of the research programme "Urban Climate Under Change" [UC]2 it is the goal to further develop the new urban climate model PALM-4U (developed in the first phase) into a product that meets the needs of municipalities and other ...

Urban rainwater harvesting from niche to mainstream: challenges and opportunities for planning

van der Linden, Sebastian, Dr. (Geomatics)

Duration of project: 06/2016 - 12/2017

URBES – Urban biodiversity and ecosystem services

Haase, Dagmar, Prof. Dr. (Landscape Ecology and Biogeography)

Duration of project: 01/2012 - 12/2014

URBES addresses significant scientific knowledge gaps on the role of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services for human well-being. This is of importance for building the ability of European cities to adapt to climate change and reduce their ecologi ...