Dieses Projekt untersucht, wie Luo-Migranten aus Westkenia den Maßstab ihres Handelns durch ergebnisoffenes Umherstreifen und zielorientiertes Infrastrukturieren im Rift Valley neu definieren, um an gross-skalige Intensivierungsprojekte Anschluss zu finden. Um zu erforschen, wie Luo-Migranten zwischen Zonen der Intensivierung, der Konservierung und des Zerfalls ihre Zukunft ausbilden und gestalten, liegt der Fokus der Forschung auf a) Lohnarbeit in multinationalen Firmen, b) agrikultureller Nutzbarmachung angemieteter Landflächen und c) Fischfang und Tourismus im Rift Valley.
Boosting remote-sensing companies through cross-cluster support: The PARSEC project is focused on designing sustainable services to help European SMEs raise their competitive profile globally through access to a platform providing among other things geospatial information. Taking advantage of the EU's Copernicus database and other resources, the system will provide remote-sensing companies access to support, technology, capital and markets. It will facilitate this through cross-cluster collaboration at European level, encouraging innovation and creating new markets globally. This will help innovative SMEs make better use of the vast Earth Observation geospatial information available, to provide improved productivity, a better carbon footprint and expansion into more sectors and countries. Objective: Emerging industries, as high-potential growth sectors in early stage development, can be effectively supported by cross-sectoral cluster-facilitated innovation towards the creation of new value chains and the opening up of new markets. Earth Observation-derived information has been widely proven to improve productivity (e.g. reduced fertiliser, pesticide, water, labour inputs in precision agriculture), outputs (e.g. solar farm yield), and eco-friendliness (e.g. carbon footprint monitoring of industrial activities) in the emerging food, energy and environment industries. In designing, developing and delivering sustainable services that meet the needs of these industries, European SMEs need to be supported in accessing knowledge, capital, technology and markets. Recognising this need, PARSEC aspires to build a cross-sectoral/cross-border ecosystem whereby SMEs and innovative start-ups will gain: Access to knowledge (provision of a holistic portfolio of support services, including market, technology and investment training/ information as well as tailored coaching support); Access to technology (through three large scale demonstrators, acting as enablers for the development of new EO-based products/services); Access to capital (an innovative selection and funding scheme to ensure selection of high-potential ideas); Access to market (incl. cross-border and cross-sectoral matchmaking, investment readiness, export promotion). By providing access to these resources, PARSEC will concretely contribute to the establishment of new value chains bustling with innovative SMEs that can translate the large public investments in the Copernicus programme and numerous sector specific initiatives (related to food, water, energy, climate change, biodiversity, etc.) into applications and services meeting user needs and market demands, for the benefit of European economy and society.
The CRECE project supports Cuba in the provision of regionally relevant multidisciplinary education in sustainable energy engineering and renewable energy development. This is done in order to ensure that Cuban higher education institutions (HEIs) are better equipped and able to provide high-quality experts for the ever-growing societal and energy sector development needs. The Cuban energy sector is undergoing a state-led transformation. So far, this 'Energy Revolution' has improved energy efficiency but harnessing renewable energy (RE) resources is still lagging far behind. In order to attract investors, meet the government's RE targets, and reduce CO2 emissions and environmental pollution from fossil fuels, Cuba needs national expertise and experts in RE development. CRECE answers this call by training skilled experts and enabling cross-sectoral and regional cooperation possibilities. Cuban partners will be better equipped to conduct international-level energy related research and provide sustainable energy experts to the growing labour market needs. In the long run, CRECE will impact on Cuban energy self-sufficiency and domestic growth. By harnessing Cuban RE potential, not only greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced, but also expenditures and dependency on Venezuelan oil imports will be minimised, while simultaneously improving domestic energy access and security. The project begins by creating a roadmap for addressing energy transition needs in Cuba through higher education. Following this roadmap, CRECE improves capacity and internationalisation of partner HEIs through (1) modernising learning outcomes on sustainable energy and sustainability; (2) improving teaching approaches; (3) reviewing curricula and updating learning modules; (5) improving materials, tools, equipment and facilities for quality education; (5) creating networks with relevant energy sector stakeholders; and (6) facilitating International research collaboration and partnerships. The primary objective of the project is to support Cuban partner HEIs in the provision of up-to-date and relevant education in sustainable energy systems to meet current societal and labour market needs. Regional cooperation is fostered through partnering with Costa Rica, showcasing how Costa Rican national policies have had a strong impact on prioritising renewable energy and transforming the energy sector. Cross-regional knowledge transfer is enabled by engaging European RE experts. CRECE project is funded by Erasmus+ Capacity Buiding in Higher Education.
The proposed PRIMA-EF project will focus on the development of a European framework for psychosocial risk management with a special focus on work-related stress, and workplace violence (including harassment, bullying and mobbing). The objectives of the project are: a. to develop existing knowledge in reviewing available methodologies to evaluate the prevalence and impact of psychosocial risks at work and work-related stress, including physical and psychological workplace violence, harassment, bullying and mobbing; b. to identify appropriate means of collecting sensitive data in relation to these issues; c. to develop international standards and indicators on stress and violence at work; d. to develop detailed recommendations and evidence-based best-practice guidance on the management of these issues at the workplace; and e. to disseminate the results of the project to stakeholders and social partners including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The project will place special emphasis on high risk worker groups and occupational sectors and will address relevant gender issues and key issues relating to the implementation of best practice in the context of different enterprises and in particular SMEs. In addition, and in line with European policy on corporate social responsibility and social dialogue, the project will engage the social partners throughout its implementation and will link the project outcomes to these principles. Through the project consortium, the results will be disseminated widely with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Office (ILO). In addition, the consortium will work in synergy with partners in candidate and third countries and national regulatory bodies to ensure a wide impact of the project outcomes and the initiation of the development of an international network of centres of excellence in psychosocial risk management. Prime Contractor: The University of Nottingham; Nottingham; United Kingdom.
World societies experience today large transformation processes both in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. These transformations are usually described under the heading of global change, to emphasize the increasing interactions between them. The objective of the proposal is three-fold: (1) to provide significant advances in the estimation of socio-economic impacts of global challenges at Global, European and regional scale; (2) to identify optimal adaptation strategies; (3) to evaluate total costs and the optimal mix of adaptation and mitigation against global changes. Work Package (WP) 1 will examine the sources, interactions and characteristics of global changes, including the emergence of fast-growing economies, environmental degradation, competition on the use of exhaustible resources, international competitiveness issues. A primary objective of the proposal is to estimate socio-economic impacts arising from global changes by using economic models. The consortium is endowed with a large set of state-of-the-art, internationally renowned, modelling tools. Models will be further expanded and enriched in WP 3. Key areas of research will be: agriculture, forestry, land use, energy, EU competitiveness, labour, international trade. The socio-economic impact of these challenges on key sectors/areas will be examined with the enhanced set of models in WP 4 and WP 5. While in WP 4 impacts of global challenges will be studied assuming limited adaptive capacity, in WP 5 optimal adaptation strategies will be examined. WP 5 will also inform on total costs of global challenges and on the optimal mix of mitigation and adaptation. In WP 2 will develop empirical and theoretical insights on key issues which will have a value per se and will also be used to enhance models in WP 3. WP 6 will complement the analysis of WP 4 and WP 5 developing theoretical innovations concerning discounting, risk and ambiguity and by testing them numerically with models.
Climate change, population growth, land use changes and urbanisation and so forth forcing future generations to produce more with fewer resources. Hence innovative water harvesting approaches in combination with an integrated water management are urgently needed. In the past water harvesting was manly seen isolated and set into a bigger framework of a river basin. Overexploitation at one side necessarily leads to a shortage at the downstream region. This is especially true for basin closure. It is inevitable that integrated water management has to care about upstream/downstream interactions and between water harvesting and large scale irrigation at the catchment/river basin scale. The objective of this proposal is to set standards for water utilization on a basin (sub basin scale) to ensure food and water security in an equitable manner throughout the whole basin in the context of a range of dynamic global and regional pressures. There are numerous technologies for water harvesting available, but what is missing is an appropriate system design and synergies amongst farmers and other stakeholders. The concept of the project therefore is to links knowledge of water harvesting of different regions and analyse and investigate acceptance of systems. A SWOT analyses should be performed for each selected study region to have a sound base for highest investment benefits and also a risk analyses of investment. This analysis also enables the development of guidelines and criteria to transfer the various water harvesting technologies in different hydrological, biological and socio-economic conditions and to ensure integration of those technologies in the context of local and regional economical environment. The Definition of water harvesting for this project is an Integration/Synergies of/with farming systems and as a wider definition with respect to WHO, measures of conservation farming. The advantage of conservation farming is an easy to implementation, it is practical; and reduces loss of water. The prominent part of water storage with regard to water balance has to be recognized. For each basin a water balance (precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface water run off, surface and ground water interaction, subsurface storage and run off) has to be established. One of the key factors could be the water storage in sub soil. The idea of water banking will be introduced. This supports the awareness that water has a value and optimisation may have cost involved. Cost is not necessarily seen in a monetary sense, but also in providing labour hours and commitment to maintain infrastructures. Taking the above into consideration and ensuring a participatory approach at all levels and between all stakeholders and partners will lead to a sustainable production system. By taking environmental requirements and impacts into account at an early stage environmental services are becoming an appropriate value.
For centuries sophisticated oasis agriculture and ocean fishery provided the living of the sedentary population in the mountainous desert country of Oman. Since the early 1970s, the country's political opening and commercial oil exploitation led to fundamental changes in the conditions for agricultural production. Being part of an interdisciplinary programme comprising research in social and natural sciences, the overall aim of this subproject is to quantify the bio-physical processes and socio-economic variables that determine the current crop-livestock husbandry in Omani mountain oasis settlements. To this end, nutrient and water use efficiencies in the cropping system are determined along with feeding strategies in livestock husbandry, labour needs and financial in- and outputs related to the various activities. Through bio-economic modelling land use options that are biologically and economically sustainable are identified and scenarios are developed for a socially acceptable future agricultural use of the millennia-old terrace systems with their high cultural value.
Die Arbeiten des Teilprojektes C1 thematisieren die Strategien der Risikominimierung einer in vielerlei Hinsicht unsicheren Umwelt. Der Norden Namibias ist nicht nur durch häufige Dürren und teilweise massive Degradation gekennzeichnet, sondern war über Jahrzehnte hinweg Bürgerkriegsgebiet. Ganze Bevölkerungsgruppen wurden im staatlichen Auftrag zwangsumgesiedelt, um so der Raumplanung des Apartheidsstaates neue Möglichkeiten zu schaffen. Politische Instabilität und der weitreichende Rückzug des Staates kennzeichnen die unruhige Situation im Süden Angolas. In Teilprojekt C1 wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Wege Menschen einschlagen um Gefahrenmomente zu minimieren oder ganz auszuschalten. Diese Frage wird anhand von vier Fallbeispielen verfolgt. Landbesitz und Haushaltsökonomie im Richtersveld, Republik Südafrika (Berzborn). Aufbauend auf 20monatiger Feldforschung werden Überlebensstrategien im Richtersveld (Nordwesten Südafrikas), einer ariden Region mit hoher Biodiversität, untersucht. Der dortige Nationalpark wird von der lokalen Bevölkerung und der Nationalparkbehörde gemeinsam verwaltet und darf für Viehwirtschaft genutzt werden. Die Richtersvelder - Nama und andere, während der Apartheid als 'Coloured' klassifizierte Gruppen - halten Ziegen und Schafe und betreiben Lohnarbeit in den regionalen Diamantenminen. Den vielfältigen Risiken - Dürre, unsichere Landrechte, Arbeitslosigkeit durch Minenschließungen, politische Umwälzungen - begegnen sie mit der Diversifizierung der Einkommensquellen auf Haushaltsebene, der Etablierung von sozialen Netzwerken und der Revitalisierung einer Nama-Identität, um als Gruppe Landrechte und politische Anerkennung zu erhalten. Prozesse sozialen Wandels vor dem Hintergrund staatlicher Eingriffe. Eine Fallstudie zu den Khwe in West Caprivi/Namibia (Boden, abgeschlossen). Die Khwe zählen zu den im südlichen Afrika 'San' oder 'Buschleute' genannten und als Jäger und Sammler klassifizierten Bevölkerungsgruppen. Insbesondere während der letzten vierzig Jahre haben sich ihre Lebensbedingungen durch staatliche Eingriffe entscheidend verändert. Das Projekt untersucht diese Vorgänge in vier zentralen Bereichen der Gesellschaft (Residenzgemeinschaften, Verwandtschaft, Gruppenzugehörigkeit/Identität und politische Repräsentation). Mit Hilfe einer historisch kontextualisierten und 'dichten' Beschreibung von Prozessen sozialen Wandels als Produkt des Ineinanderwirkens von lokalen und national/globalen Dynamiken einerseits und von sozialen Strukturen und individuellem Handeln andererseits sucht sie die polarisierenden Positionen Akkulturation/Untergang versus Elastizität/Entwicklungsresistenz in der Literatur über San-Gesellschaften zu überwinden. ...
Fuer ein Gebaeude, in dem ehemals eine Leiterplattenfertigung untergebracht war, wurde untersucht, ob es sinnvoll fuer folgende Zwecke genutzt werden kann: Zwischenlagerung von Gefahrstoffen, Zwischenlagerung von Sonderabfaellen, Abwasserbehandlung im Lohnbetrieb. Dazu wurden einerseits fuer das Gebaeude die rechtlichen Genehmigungsanforderungen zusammengetragen und geprueft, welcher bauliche Aenderungsbedarf sich daraus ergibt. Andererseits wurde durch eine Marktanalyse (mit Befragungen) in der Region Nordschwarzwald ermittelt, wie gross die Nachfrage nach den genannten Dienstleistungen ist. Es zeigte sich, dass diese relativ gering ist. Auf der Basis dieser beiden Komplexe von Randbedingungen wurden Empfehlungen fuer die Nutzung des Gebaeudes erarbeitet.
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