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.
A Virtual Hydrologic Environment (VHE) shall be developed to close the current gap between surface and subsurface hydrological modelling. A VHE is a generic representation of the physical processes that take place in the hydrological system (HS). The HS can be subdivided into surface water as well as water in soil and aquifer compartments (Fig 1) which form the subsurface system. The corresponding hydrological processes inside a HS are flow processes at the surface, like lakes, rivers and overland flow, flow processes in the soil, like unsaturated flow in soils and groundwater flow in porous and fractured media. The VHE is defined as an integrated data and model environment. Compared with the data-centred Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or physical process based numerical simulators, VHE has the ability to store geological and hydrological information in a common understandable GeoHydro/DataBase (GH/DB) structure. The GH/DB will contain the data components of the surface and subsurface in a consistent manner, which has not been achieved before as commonly both parts were only considered separately in hydrological databases and modelling. In addition, VHE can be combined with the capabilities of GIS software and remote sensing technology and facilitates the integration with numerical models, e.g. physics-based hydrological simulator GeoSys/RockFlow as it is planned for the present project. As the inherent coupled processes make the hydrologic interactions difficult to simulate, a multi-disciplinary approach is encouraged that enables a broadening of the hydrologic perspective and the advancement of hydrologic science through the integration with other related sciences and the through cross-fertilization across disciplinary boundaries. VHE as a bridge between surface and subsurface hydrology can improve our understanding of the hydrologic cycle, the interactions between water, earth, ecosystems and man and its role in the context of climate change. This is an interdisciplinary research proposal, and the following disciplines are involved: geography, hydrology, geology, scientific computing, and information technology. The proposed integration of databases and modeling from the different geo-sciences by the use of methods from scientific computing and information technology will lead to a comprehensive and consistent representation of the HS in hydrological modeling, and thus will enhance our understanding about the interactions and coupling processes between the different compartments of the HS. This research program plans to take Poyang Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in China, as an application area in an international collaborative framework.
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.
Objective: ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT aims to improve co-operation between the new member states, applicant countries as well as Russia, Ukraine and Turkey in the maritime fields. ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT has two general strategic objectives:- to support the integration of the new member states, applicant countries, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey into the European Maritime Research Area, thus supporting EU policies and the formation of ERA- to support the goals defined in the maritime part of the Sustainable Surface Priority of the 6 th Framework Programme. To support integration, ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT will help to jointly use R&D potentials and resources.ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT will promote a culture of innovation and fertilize participation of SMEs in European research. Technically, enhan ced exchange of information, technology transfer and research cooperation initiated by the project will help to meet demands of European transport policy and to the objectives of the sustainable surface transportpriority. Particular focus will be on:- S hipbuilding and -repair, including ship equipment manufacturers and maritime service providers,- Waterborne (long-haul, short sea and inland waters) transport in Europe.- Maritime Transport safety will especially focus on transport of dangerous goods to a void environmental- hazards in European waters, the Baltic and Mediterranean and Black Sea.- Efficient transport of marine natural resources is in the focus as well. The following activities will be undertaken:- Creation of a Network of Maritime R&D N ational Contact Points.- Inform about potentials and activities of European research in the new member states and neighbours of the EU by workshops in those countries. Inform research community and industry about the potential of countries not yet integra ted in European research.
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.
Eine auf ökologisch-ökonomische Nachhaltigkeit abzielende Entwicklung muss sich mindestens aus zwei Gründen mit Innovationen und den Möglichkeiten ihrer Förderung und Beeinflussung auseinandersetzen: Zum ersten sind Innovationen eine zentrale Triebkraft der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und legen damit das erreichbare Wohlstandsniveau einer Gesellschaft fest. Zum zweiten werden in immer stärker werdendem Maße umweltunverträgliche Nebenwirkungen der herkömmlichen Entwicklungsdynamik offenkundig. Vielfach werden ökologische Krisen durch das gegenwärtige Fortschrittsmodell eher ver- als entschärft. Für eine nachhaltige Zukunftsentwicklung wird sich die Frage dementsprechend als zwangsläufig erweisen, ob und in welcher Weise wissenschaftliche Disziplinen in der Lage sind, adäquate und überzeugende Hypothesen über die zukünftige Qualität der Technologieentwicklung zu formulieren. Innerhalb der um Nachhaltigkeit bemühten wirtschaftwissenschaftlichen Fachdisziplin wird dabei die zentrale Rolle der technologischen Entwicklung nur sehr wenig diskutiert, dennoch lassen sich derzeit zwei Grundeinstellungen zum Thema konstatieren. Die neoklassische Ökonomik stellt überwiegend die Vorteile und Steuerbarkeit des Innovationsprozess heraus, während die fundamentalistische Ökologische-Ökonomik die Probleme und Nachteile technischer Entwicklungen hervorhebt. Beide Ansätze geben indessen ein unzureichendes Bild der Realität wieder. Im Rahmen der Zwei-Welten-Theorien ist weder die dynamische Komplexität, die sowohl technische als auch ökologische Entwicklungen prägt, zu erfassen, noch die Formulierung erweiterter Lösungsmöglichkeiten für ein in sich verträglicheres Mensch-Natur-Technik-Gefüge denkbar. Dagegen verspricht, neuerdings in der Wirtschaftswissenschaften diskutierte Ansatz der koevolutorisichen Entwicklung, ein realitätsnäheres Bild des technischen Forschritts zu zeichnen. Dieses Konzept soll das zentrale Moment des angestrebten Promotionsvorhabens zur Erörterung nachhaltiger Zukunftspotentiale darstellen. Der Innovationsprozeß innerhalb dieser Theorie vollzieht sich dabei meist innerhalb sog. technologischer Regime, die geprägt sind durch die Anfangsbedingungen und eine starke Selbstorganisationsstruktur und insofern zu stabilen dynamischen Strukturen (Pfadabhängigkeit) führen. Die dynamische Betrachtungsweise dieses Ansatzes führt aber auch zu einem spezifischen Zeitverhalten, das in Form komplexer Verzweigungen neue Handlungsoptionen und damit instabile Übergänge mit neuartigen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten eröffnet. Ein wesentliches Merkmal der zugrunde liegenden Theorie ist somit, dass sich der eigentliche Innovationsprozess nicht mit linear-kausal Methoden abbilden lässt, sondern geeigneter mit komplex-dynamischen, nichtlinearen sowie evolutionären Darstellungs- und Analyseformen beschreibbar ist. ...
BLUEPRINT is the short name for 'Blueprints for an Integration of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy'. The network was designed to examine the relationship between S&T and environmental policies considering the complexity of factors influencing innovation and environmental decisions in firms. The objective of the network was to promote dialogue between the socio-economic research community, policy makers, industry and intermediate organisations in Europe in order to enhance policy coherence in addressing sustainable development issues.The final report on 'Blueprints for an Integration of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy' as a result of the final conference is planned to stimulate new policy initiatives in this area. The final report can be downloaded from the project website Commissioned by
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