River floods are extremely important to society because of their potential damage and fatalities. Floods are also very interesting research subjects because of the intriguing non-linear interactions and feedbacks involved, interesting issues of generalisation and the need for investigating them in an interdisciplinary way. Extreme floods are not very well understood to date but new, high resolution data and new concepts for quantifying interactions promise a major breakthrough of a body of research carried out in a coordinated way. The objective of this Research Unit is to understand in a coherent way the atmospheric, catchment and river system processes and their interactions leading to extreme river floods and how these evolve in space and time. An innovative and coherent concept has been adopted in order to maximise the potential of the cooperation between the research partners which consists of three layers of integration: research themes focusing on the science questions, subprojects revolving around specific research tasks, and a joint study object of extreme floods in Germany and Austria. Using scales as a binding element, the research plan is organised into the research themes of event processes, spatial (regional) variability, temporal (decadal) variability, and uncertainty and predictability. The members of the Research Unit have been selected to obtain a team of leading experts with expertise that is complementary in terms of processes, methods and regional knowledge. The cooperation and communication strategy will be implemented through themed cluster groups, combining several subprojects, regular meetings of the cluster groups, an annual project symposium and a private cloud facilitating data exchange on the joint study object. Equal opportunity policies will be adopted and female and early career scientists will be promoted in a major way. Overall, the outcomes of the Research Unit will constitute a step change in the understanding of the coupled system of flood processes in the atmosphere, catchments and rivers which will have major implications for a range of sciences and the society.
Entwicklung und Erprobung eines weiterbildenden Fernstudienganges Angewandte Umweltwissenschaften mit Diplomabschluss. Gestaltung eines kompletten online-Studienangebotes.
We contribute to the Landsat Science Team with a focus on long-term satellite data analysis, regional to sub-continental approaches and cross-sensor integration between Landsat and European satellite missions. Our focus is on rapidly changing land systems, including topics such as REDD+ or global land use intensification. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM provides a backbone activity in Earth observation. The European Sentinel missions, specifically Sentinel-2, and the German Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) will provide great synergies with Landsat-8 and 40 years of archived Landsat data. There are huge opportunities for synergies across sensors and scales in order to achieve better and quasi-continuous high-resolution earth observation products across time and space. At the same time, there is an urgent need to make use of these opportunities, if we wish to move global change research based on Landsat data to the next level. Our research agenda as part of the Landsat Science Team combines aspects of (1) data characterization, (2) product generation and (3) applications. Our approach seeks to maximize synergies between the exceptional depth of the Landsat archive and future European satellite missions for advancing core land system science topics. Our geographic foci include Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and South America.
Following the project idea of the International Women's University, the project area Water focused on environmental topics. The goal was to create awareness of the problems faced and seek solutions cutting across scientific disciplines and national borders. Selection of the topics in this project area was based on resolutions adopted at international conferences such as UNCED - United Nations Conference on Environments and Development, Rio de Janeiro 1992 (in line with the Agenda 21). The idea was to pursue a holistic approach to the subject-matter with a view to developing the women junior scientists' knowledge and skills. At the beginning of the project, an introductory study was conducted covering a variety of fields and disciplines including biology, chemistry, biochemistry, geology, geography, physics, agronomy economics, agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, civil engineering and educational science. This is briefly summarised in the following chapters. And to provide guidelines for further environmental studies, a manual for the analysis of soils and related materials has been compiled.
The HGF Alliance 'Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics' aims at the development and evaluation of novel bio/geo-physical information products derived from data acquired by a new generation of remote sensing satellites; and their integration in Earth system models for improving understanding and modelling ability of global environmental processes and ecosystem change. The Earth system comprises a multitude of processes that are intimately meshed through complex interactions. In times of accelerated global change, the understanding and quantification of these processes is of primary importance. Spaceborne remote sensing sensors are predestined to produce bio-geo-information products on a global scale. The upcoming generation of spaceborne remote sensing configurations will be able to provide global data sets and products with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution in the context of a consistent and systematic observation strategy. The integration of these data sets in existing environmental and climate science components will allow a new global view of the Earth system and its dynamics, initiating a performance leap in ecosystem and climate change modelling.
Die Schweizerische Akademie der technischen Wissenschaften SATW wurde 1981 als privatrechtliche Vereinigung ins Leben gerufen. Sie will den technischen Wissenschaften und damit dem Lande dienen. Als nicht kommerziell orientierte, politisch unabhaengige Dachgesellschaft mit Einzelmitgliedern und zurzeit 39 Institutionen und Gesellschaften bildet sie einen Zusammenschluss aller technischen Richtungen der Schweiz. Sie ist die juengste der vier nationalen Akademien. Ueber ihre Mitglieder - die Fachvereinigungen, die Einzelmitglieder und ihre Korrespondierenden Mitglieder in aller Welt - bildet sie ein Forum fuer Kontakte zwischen den verschiedenen technisch-wissenschaftlichen Gebieten und ist deshalb hervorragend geeignet fuer die Durchfuehrung multidisziplinaerer Aktivitaeten im Bereich der technischen Wissenschaften. Aktive Forscher und Ingenieure aller Berufsrichtungen, der Industrie, den Schulen und den Forschungsanstalten tragen bei zur umfassenden Behandlung anstehender Fragen. Das Bundesgesetz ueber die Forschung anerkennt sie SATW formell als eine der nationalen Institutionen der Forschungsfoerderung. Es spricht ihr wichtige Aufgaben in den Bereichen Kommunikation, Austausch und Koordination auf nationaler wie internationaler Ebene zu. Die SATW beteiligt sich aktiv an der Erarbeitung der schweizerischen Wissenschaftspolitik. Projektziele: Die SATW foerdert die Entwicklung der technischen Wissenschaften in der Forschung und in der Lehre. Sie erfuellt in erster Linie Funktionen der Kommunikation und der Koordination. Einen Teil ihrer Mittel wendet die SATW fuer die Unterstuetzung wissenschaftlicher Projekte ihrer Fachgesellschaften wie auch fuer wissenschaftliche Publikationen auf. Die SATW ueberbindet Kommissionen und Arbeitsgruppen des Vorstandes oder des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates bestimmte Auftraege, die nicht selten von nationalem Interesse sind. Ueber ihre Forschungskommissionen, die zugleich Organ des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds ist, vergibt die SATW Stipendien an jungen Forscher und Absolventen einer hoeheren technischen Bildung mit dem Ziel, Aufbauarbeit in als foerderungswuerdig bekannten Gebieten zu leisten. Die SATW beteiligt sich an Planung und Koordination der schweizerischen Forschungstechnik; sie arbeitet mit den Behoerden und den anderen wissenschaftlichen Institutionen der Schweiz zusammen. Die SATW liefert Stellungnahmen und Gutachten zu Fragen, welche das Gemeinwohl betreffen, so zu Problemen der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung, der Energie oder der Umwelt. Die SSATW bemueht sich, Forschungsergebnisse bei einem breiteren Publikum bekannt zu machen. Womoeglich, traegt sie zur Popularisierung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse und Methoden bei. Die SATW regt ihre Mitglieder in der Rolle als Foerderer des technischen Fortschrittes und den damit verbundenen Auswirkungen an, ueber ihre Verantwortung, die sie der Allgemeinheit gegenueber tragen, nachzudenken.
Objective: The EU has formulated ambitious environmental policy targets in a variety of sectors aimed at forming the basis for a sustainable European growth with increasing prosperity and reduced pressure on natural resources and the environment. The overall motivation of the APRAISE (Assessment of Policy Interrelationships and Impact on Sustainability in Europe) project is to improve the decision basis for EU and national policy makers for selecting an efficient environmental policy mix leading to the transition towards a sustainable European society, including appropriate support for environmental investments. APRAISE aims to provide an improved understanding of the efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy of environmental policies impacts and their interactions at both the European and Member State level by taking into consideration the social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Furthermore, APRAISE will offer guidance on ex-ante policy impact assessment and come up with general policy recommendations. APRAISE will therefore assist policymakers in reducing inefficiencies in policy design and to create win-win situations whereby economic strength goes hand in hand with environmental protection and efficient use of natural resources. The strategy of APRAISE is to combine an empirical data collection and assessment component with model-based policy scenario analysis in order to achieve a synergetic use of a variety of empirical and model-based impact assessment tools using different sources of data. The empirical component consists of ex-post assessments of policy effects, costs and social implications as well as on an improved systems understanding including interactions between different policies. In addition, the effects of environmental policies on technology development and deployment will be empirically analyzed through the use of both top-down and bottom-up models. Furthermore, stakeholder consultations will provide input through their diverse perspectives that exist within industry and government and validate the relevance of the different model components, in particular the outputs from model-based scenario analysis. Exchanges between the empiric and model-based components and their results integration of APRAISE will lead to methodological and policy recommendations. The overarching motivation of the APRAISE project is to contribute to the research and application of sustainability oriented policymaking by building a more usw.
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