Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Institutional Quality, ICT Infrastructure, Transportation and Sustainable Development: The Case of Lower-Income Countries -- Does globalization promote green growth? Empirical evidence from Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries -- The causal relationship between globalization and income inequality in the world: Towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Examining the long and short run asymmetric effects of climate change on food security in Tunisia -- Neoliberalism, Climate Risks, and Resilience-Building in the Caribbean -- A fuzzy approach to assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Using Choquet Integral aggregation -- Underlying the Impact of Economic, Social, and Governance Adaptation on Poverty Reduction under the Shadow of External Financial Inflows – Panel estimation from the Sub-Saharan Region.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Built Environment in the Context of the New Urban Agenda: An Overview -- The Built Environment as a Value Chain Process.-The Biophysical Environment: Key Ingredient in Shaping the Built Environment -- Geoinformatics and Land Surveying Steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe -- Spatial Planning Steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe -- Construction and Civil Engineering Steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe -- The Role of architecture in implementing the New Urban Agenda -- Sustainable Urban Mobility and the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe -- Quantity Surveying Steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe -- A review of the contribution of the real estate sector towards the attainment of the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe -- Institutions, Laws and Governance Structures for Developing and Managing the Built Environment: Elephant in the Room for Advancing the New Urban Agenda -- Climate Resilience and the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe: The Role of the Built Environment Disciplines and Practice -- The New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe: Policy and the Future .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Environmental Science -- Exploration of Resources and Environmental Protection -- Energy Economics and Management.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Geology and Tectonic Setting of the Cordillera Blanca (Hall, S.) -- Chapter 2. Geomorphological setting of the Cordillera Blanca (Vilímek, V.) -- Chapter 3. Climate of the Cordillera Blanca (Yarleque, C.) -- Chapter 4. Hydrology and hydrogeology in the Cordillera Blanca (Baraër, M.) -- Chapter 5. Lakes of the Cordillera Blanca: typology, inventory, bathymetry and evolution (Emmer, A.) -- Chapter 6. Glaciation and the environments of the Cordillera Blanca (Mark, B.G.) -- Chapter 7. Climate-morphogenetic and morphodynamic zones of the Western Cordillera in Peru (Vilímek, V.) -- Chapter 8. Landslides in the Cordillera Blanca (Klimeš, J.) -- Chapter 9. Stability of moraine and rock slopes at glacial lakes - two case studies in the Cordillera Blanca (Novotný, J.) -- Chapter 10. Glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Emmer, A.) -- Chapter 11. Current Perspectives on Community, Land, and Water in the Cordillera Blanca (Moulton, H.) -- Chapter 12. Human interaction with glacier-related hazards in the Cordillera Blanca (Wegner, S.A.) -- Chapter 13. How people feel endangered by natural hazards: interpretation of questionnaires in the Callejón de Huaylas (Vilímek, V.) -- Chapter 14. Novel proglacial landscapes and ecosystems in the Cordillera Blanca (Zimmer, A.) -- Chapter 15. Anne Smith Peck, Social Systems, and Landscape Change in the Cordillera Blanca from 1908 to the present (Polk, M.H.).

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: General introduction -- Navigating the dimensions of poverty from global goals to local realities -- Definition and importance of formal land titling -- Sub-Saharan Africa's customary practices and land titling policy reforms -- Land titling and its effects -- Is land titling beneficial for active poverty reduction?- Overcoming constraints and empowering small and medium-sized enterprises through land titling -- Summary and policy implications.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1 vulnerability of karst terranes to ground collapses and groundwater contamination -- chapter 2 monitoring and early warning of karst collapses -- chapter 3 geophysical techniques in sinkhole prediction and monitoring -- chapter 4 monitoring and early warning of karst collapses using brillouin optical time domain reflectometer -- chapter 5 hydrodynamic monitoring technique in collapse risk evaluation at datengxia water conservancy area, china -- chapter 6 detection and mitigation of groundwater contamination from highway stormwater runoff -- chapter 7 early detection of contaminant release from waste disposal facilities.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Analysis of Expenditure Benefits with Multi-Party Market Participants in the Carbon-Electricity Synergy -- Management and practice on classified hazardous waste in laboratories of universities in China -- Life cycle cost-based operation revenue evaluation of energy storage system in renewable energy aggregation stations -- Research on compressive performance of prefabricated foundation for transmission lines -- Planning and Design of Ecological Tourism Restoration of Abandoned Energy Mining Areas -- Minimizing CO and CO2 emissions by modelling the distribution of energy consumed in industrial enterprises -- Solving Combined Economic Emission Dispatch Problems using Multi-objective Hybrid Evolutionary-Barnacles Mating Optimization -- Preventing environmental impacts in national IED plants: a self-monitoring model -- A Comparative Study on the Efficiency and Economic Performance of Distributed Photovoltaics in Buildings Using Low Voltage AC and Low Voltage DC Power Distribution Systems -- Electricity-Gas Dispatch via ADMM and Nash Bargaining.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 1. Urbanization and urban climate in high-density cities -- Chapter 2. Origins and evolution of the Local Climate Zone classification system -- Chapter 3. Current popular methods for LCZ mapping -- Chapter 4. Recent improvements in supervised pixel-based LCZ classification -- Chapter 5. Application of LCZ to urban heat island studies -- Chapter 6. Application of LCZ to land use and land cover studies -- Chapter 7. Application of LCZ to wind environment studies -- Chapter 8. Application of LCZ to energy consumption and carbon emission modeling -- Chapter 9. Application of LCZ to thermal comfort and health-related studies -- Chapter 10. Application of LCZ to time-series urban morphology detection -- Chapter 11. Application of LCZ in mesoscale meteorological model simulations and climate projection -- Chapter 12. Integration of LCZ to planning strategies -- Chapter 13. Conclusions and outlook.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: - A review of balanced scorecard application in public hospital setting -- Critical Success Factors in Implementing Sustainable Business Models: The ITAL case -- Earnings Conference Calls’ Tone in Just Meet-Beat Firms: Evidence from the UK -- Economic Sustainability through IPSAS: A Global Perspective -- ESG Reporting: Impacts, Benefits and Challenges -- Green Marketing Strategies: Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumer Behavior and Corporate Responsibility -- Size as a Motive for Bank Window Dressing: Evidence from an Emerging Economy -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Integrated Reporting: A Comprehensive Literature Review -- The impact of Jordanian tourism website performance on online purchase intention: Review -- Sustainability in Education -- Outstanding Support for Students Becoming a Social Entrepreneurship Course -- Environmental orientation and sustainable innovation performance: The role of dynamic capabilities -- Mapping the Landscape of Sustainable Finance: A Scopus Based Bibliometric Analysis -- Shedding Light on the Link: Salient Stakeholder Theory and Sustainability Connections -- Accounting in the Digital Era: Does Big Data add value? -- Driving Sustainability Forward: Do Fintech and Digital Transformation Matter? -- Factors affecting big data analytics in Jordanian commercial banks -- Investigating Firm-Generated Content's Influence on Digital Marketing Effectiveness in Private Hospitals – A Jordanian Perspective -- Sustainability Practices within Fin-Tech Firms: A Literature Review -- The Impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) on Food Security in Jordan -- The moderating role of accountant’s capability on the relationship AIS and the quality of financial reporting: A literature review.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Quantifying species responses to the effects of changing environmental conditions is critical for a better understanding of how climate change affects invasion, expansion, and contraction of marine coastal species. Climate change is leading to modifications in the marine coastal environment, to conditions not experienced before; climate change results in that marine organisms experience simultaneous changes in several environmental variables (=drivers: e.g. temperature, salinity, food). How simultaneous changes in multiple drivers are experienced depend on species-specific traits (e.g. physiological tolerance, developmental time); for instance, co-occurring native and non-native species may experience and respond to climate change in different ways. In addition, within species, responses to multiple drivers may vary across populations and environmental gradients. The general objective of this thesis was to quantify the effects of environmental drivers (temperature, salinity and food limitation) on performance of native and non-native species with focus on larval stages and using crabs as model systems. There were two main objectives, first to compare native and non-native species in the responses to multiple environmental drivers and to quantify larval responses to temperature across their distribution range. I focused on larvae because they play a critical role in population dynamics: larvae are important for the dispersion and connectivity of populations, and are more sensitive to changes in environmental conditions than adults. I used three ecologically relevant species of coastal areas of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean as models: Hemigrapsus sanguineus, Carcinus maenas and Hemigrapsus takanoi. C. maenas is native to Europe; Hemigrapsus spp. are both non-native species in the European coast, where they coexist with C. maenas as juveniles and adults in the benthos. I used factorial experiments rearing larvae from hatching to megalopae at different combinations of temperature and other environmental drivers (salinity, food limitation). Larval performance was quantified as survival, duration of development, and growth. The first series of result show that both non-native (Hemigrapsus spp) species had higher performance (high survival, shorter duration of development and high growth rates) than the native C. maenas at higher temperatures and at moderately low salinities (18 – 24 °C, 20 – 25 ‰). These results are comparable to another non-native species in Europe, the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis. In H. sanguineus, larvae show moderate level of tolerance to limited access to food at high temperature, which contrasted to the low tolerance shown in native C. maenas. Experiments and modelling show that the nature of the multiple driver response depends strongly on the metric used to measure time, where my emphasis is on biological time (time to metamorphosis). The results from the populations comparisons showed species and gradient-specific responses. For H. takanoi, distributed over a salinity gradient (North Sea -Baltic Sea), larvae from the North Sea populations always showed higher survival and faster development compared with those from the Baltic Sea. The population near the limit of the distribution showed very low survival, suggesting that subsidies or complex ontogenetic migration patterns are needed for population persistence. Results did not show genetic differentiation among the studied populations in the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit one gene (COI) suggesting that there is high connectivity among populations. For C. maenas distributed across a latitudinal gradient (South: Vigo, Spain; North: Bergen and Trondheim, Norway) and reared under different temperatures (range 6 to 27 °C in steps of 3 °C), there was little variation in survival and growth among populations. However, larvae from the Norwegian populations had a slightly shorter duration of development at low temperatures than those from Vigo, this response has an adaptive value in that it could sustain survival in scenarios of reduced temperature, by shortening the larval phase, when mortality rates are high. Besides, results from this experiment (as well as for the mentioned above) showed high intrapopulation variability in larval performance which has a potential to affect range expansion of the above-mentioned species. Variation in the responses of larval stages to the effects of different environmental drivers highlights the importance of using physiological descriptors to quantify the performance of marine invertebrates to changing environments. Larval responses vary in rates of survival but also in the duration of time to achieve metamorphosis, as well as the rate at which the organisms grow, with concomitant effects on post-metamorphic success, which in seasonal habitats may strongly depend on temperature. The results from the thesis highlight the importance of quantifying the responses of marine invertebrates to changing environmental conditions, considering different species and species distributed across different gradients as well as variations among and within species.