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.
Das Projekt untersucht die Forschung zum globalen Klimawandel, sowohl vergleichend auf der Ebene von vier europäischen Staaten (Deutschland, Großbritannien, Schweden, Niederlande) als auch auf der EU-Ebene. An der Klimaforschung interessiert insbesondere (a) die Bewältigung der erheblichen wissenschaftlichen Unsicherheit der Problemlage sowie (b) die Frage der Integration diverser wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen und Forschungskulturen in einem 'post-normalen Forschungsfeld. Zweiter Schwerpunkt ist die Interaktion zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik, d. h. wie die Politik die Erkenntnisansprüche der Wissenschaft wahrnimmt, verarbeitet und in politische (In)aktivität umsetzt, andererseits aber auch wie die Forschung durch politische Kriterien in ihrer Entwicklung beeinflußt wird.
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.
Interdisziplinärer Forschungsschwerpunkt an der Wirtschaftsuniversität. Für nähere Informationen siehe http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/vw1/gee/.
Clean Coal Technologies sind aufgrund einer zu erwartenden steigenden Energienachfrage, insbesondere in Schwellenländern, und hoher Kohlevorkommen in vielen Ländern ein essentielles Mittel, um die Treibhausgasemissionen dieses fossilen Brennstoffs spürbar zu senken. Anhand von Patentdaten werden in diesem Projekt Innovationsdeterminanten dieser Technologien untersucht. Weiterhin soll eine potentielle Wissensdiffusion im Bereich dieser Technologieklasse analysiert werden.
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.
General Information: The proposed project has three main objectives: (1) to develop quantitative indicators for the environmental performance of manufacturing firms; (2) to apply these indicators in deepening understanding of the causes of changes in industrial environmental performance, and (3) to assess the effectiveness of different policy instruments in improving firms' overall environmental performance. The overall framework will be designed by scientific researchers, with the support of policy makers and firms. The study focuses on quantitative indicators of environmental performance at the process and firm level (materials and energy use, and waste emissions), rather than on qualitative 'effort' indicators. Physically-based quantitative indicators can serve as the basis for the collection of 'pressure' indicators by public authorities, while also serving as benchmarks for corporate environmental reporting and management. The project aims to encourage a convergence between voluntary and mandated environmental performance evaluation (EPE) by firms, and the needs of policy makers for comparable and comprehensive information on the sources of environmental pressures and impacts associated with industrial activities. More uniform quantitative environmental performance indicators (EPI) will also provide a platform for cross-sectoral and international comparisons of industrial environmental performance by scientific researchers. The project would have six operational aims: - to bring together and normalise available physical data for firms in six industrial sectors in six EU member states (MS); - to harmonise physical, economic and sustainability indicators for quantifying the integrated environmental performance of firms; - to apply these indicators in describing the environmental performance of firms; - to investigate the pattern and dynamics of environmental performance of firms across EU MS; - to analyse in detail the causes of change and differences between firms; - to evaluate national and EU initiatives on industrial 'pressure' and 'impacts' indicators; and - to identify policy measures, at an EU, national and regional level, which will accelerate improvements in integrated industrial environmental performance. There will be four closely related work packages: a) characterisation, collection and normalisation of physical and industrial data at the firm level in six industrial sectors; b) development of scientifically-based, reliable, practicable and relevant sector-specific physical, economic and sustainability EPIs for firms in these sectors; c) mapping and measuring of patterns and dynamics of industrial environmental performance, and an analysis of the causes of measured variability using a targeted case study approach; and d) analysis of the use of environmental performance indicators in improving public and corporate ... Prime Contractor: University of sussec, Science and Technology Policy Research; Falmer-Brighton; UK.
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