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The development of intersubjectivity: Cognitive, affective and action aspects. Reducing civilian force protection casualities in stability operations: A fast and frugal heuristics-based approach. Sociomoral reasoning in children and adolescents from two collectivistic cultures. European Journal of Developmental Psychology , 12 , Do intuitive and deliberate judgments rely on two distinct neural systems?
A case study in face processing. The effect of interruptions on the diagnostic performance of residents and emergency physicians. Academic Medicine , 90 , The amplification of risk in experimental diffusion chains.
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Injury risk estimation expertise: Assessing the ACL injury risk estimation quiz. American Journal of Sports Medicine , 43 , Interdisciplinary differences in performance on the ACL injury risk estimation quiz. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine , 3 Full text Prinz, R. What counselors tell low-risk clients about HIV test performance. The power of simplicity: A fast-and-frugal heuristics approach to performance science. Mabuse , , Biased processing of ambiguous symptoms favors the initially leading hypothesis in sequential diagnostic reasoning. Experimental Psychology , 62 , Memory activation of multiple hypotheses in sequential diagnostic reasoning.
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Why does cue polarity information provide benefits in inference problems? Ecology of the forest habitats A first impression of the biology of the region will be gained through an exploration of the different forest formations, ranging from mesic forests to dry evergreen, dry deciduous, and mangrove forests. The learning objective will be to understand the underlying environmental conditions that determine forest formations within the relatively small area of Shipstern Reserve.
This includes linking climate, soil, and geology with community processes to understand the mosaic of habitat types, their distribution, form, and function. The ecology of natural resources Students will begin to explore how people use forest resources, ranging from timber, to a variety of non-timber forest products, and animals for hunting. This will lead to an evaluation of threats to species and habitats, and hence set the scene for subsequent work. Familiarisation with landscape scale dynamics We will explore the land uses in the landscape in the vicinity of Shipstern and Freshwater creeks.
This will encompass a range of land uses, including small scale to large scale agriculture, extractive forest reserves, and protected forests. In the process the students will gain a better understanding of the pressures on land and forests, and a chance to meet some of the local stakeholders involved in land use transformations.
Problem conceptualisation Working with reserve managers and local stakeholders the students will develop a conceptual understanding of the key problems in the region, including the underlying drivers of change. Integrative analysis Students, working in small groups, will analyse selected natural resource problems in greater depth. Options include biodiversity responses to habitat fragmentation, conservation management of mangrove and coral reef systems, restoration ecology, community forest management, and tourism development, among others. Students will have opportunities to collect original data across natural and social sciences, and will use different modelling approaches to explore future development trajectories.
Synthesis and presentation of results Research will be synthesised and presented to the local management community of Shipstern and Freshwater Creek reserves. The course will conclude with an afternoon allocated to discussion and debriefing, including an appraisal of the challenges of addressing natural resource management issues in complex socioecological systems, and the lessons learned. Seminar in Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Diseases.
Students of this course will discuss current topics from the field of infectious disease biology. The actual topics will change from year to year corresponding to the progress and new results occuring in the field. This is an advanced course that will require significant student participation. Students will learn how to evaluate and present scientific literature and trace the development of ideas related to understanding the ecology and evolutionary biology of infectious diseases.
Pathogens will include bacteria, viruses and fungi. Hosts will include animals, plants and humans. Publications and class notes can be downloaded from a web page announced during the lecture. Papers will be assigned and downloaded from a web page announced during the lecture. Ecological Genetics Minimum number of participants is 4. Ecological Parasitology Number of participants limited to Course focuses on the ecology and evolution of macroparasites and their hosts.
Through lectures and practical work, students learn about diversity and natural history of parasites, adaptations of parasites, ecology of host-parasite interactions, applied parasitology, and human macroparasites in the modern world. Identify common macroparasites in aquatic organisms. Understand ecological and evolutionary processes in host-parasite interactions. Diversity and natural history of parasites i.
Adaptations of parasites e. Ecology of host-parasite interactions e. Human macroparasites schistosomiasis, malaria. Examination of parasites in fish identification of species and description of parasite communities. Examination of parasites in molluscs identification and examination of host exploitation strategies. Examination of parasites in amphipods identification and examination of effects on hosts.
Landscape Genetics Number of participants limited to This six-day winter school aims at teaching advanced Master students, PhD students and postdocs on landscape genetics. It provides both theoretical background as well as hands-on exercises on major topics of contemporary landscape genetics and landscape genomics such as landscape effects on gene flow and adpative genetic variation in a landscape context. Landscape genetics is an evolving scientific field of both basic and applied interest. Researchers as well as conservation managers make increasing use of landscape genetic thinking and methods.
Landscape genetics builds on concepts and methods from landscape ecology and population genetics. This winter school introduces advanced students to major concepts and methods of landscape genetics and genomics, i. The winter school focuses on currently used methods and hands-on exercises.
It is specifically aimed at the needs of advanced students Master, PhD and postdocs. Bayesian clustering; barrier detection; kriging. The course requires 4 hours of preparatory reading of selected papers on landscape genetics. These papers will be distributed by e-mail.
Grading will be according to a short written report 4 pages on one of the themes of the course workload: Evolutionary Medicine for Infectious Diseases. This course explores infectious disease from both the host and pathogen perspective. Through short lectures, reading and active discussion, students will identify areas where evolutionary thinking can improve our understanding of infectious diseases and, ultimately, our ability to treat them effectively. Students will learn to i identify evolutionary explanations for the origins and characteristics of infectious diseases in a range of organisms and ii evaluate ways of integrating evolutionary thinking into improved strategies for treating infections of humans and animals.
This will incorporate principles that apply across any host-pathogen interaction, as well as system-specific mechanistic information, with particular emphasis on bacteria and viruses. We will cover several topics where evolutionary thinking is relevant to understanding or treating infectious diseases. Students will read the primary literature on each topic, and in places we will use the following books: A basic understanding of evolutionary biology, microbiology or parasitology will be advantageous but is not essential.
The aim of the course is to provide up-to-date knowledge on how we can study biological processes using genetic sequencing data. Computational algorithms extracting biological information from genetic sequence data are discussed, and statistical tools to understand this information in detail are introduced. Attendees will learn which information is contained in genetic sequencing data and how to extract information from them using computational tools. The main concepts introduced are: The course consists of four parts. We first introduce modern genetic sequencing technology, and algorithms to obtain sequence alignments from the output of the sequencers.
Second, we introduce mechanisms and concepts of molecular evolution, i. Third, we employ evolutionary concepts to infer ancestral relationships between organisms based on their genetic sequences, i. We finally introduce the field of phylodynamics. Throughout the class, the models and methods are illustrated on different datasets giving insight into the epidemiology and evolution of a range of infectious diseases e. Applications of the methods to the field of macroevolution provide insight into the evolution and ecology of different species clades.
Students will be trained in the algorithms and their application both on paper and in silico as part of the exercises. Slides of the lecture will be available online. The course is not based on any of the textbooks below, but they are excellent choices as accompanying material: Basic knowledge in linear algebra, analysis, and statistics will be helpful. Some programming experience will be useful for the exercises, but is not required. Programming skills will not be tested in the examination. Recent Advances in Biocommunication Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: Students will gain insight into the role of sensory cues and signals in mediating interactions within and between species.
There will be a primary, but not exclusive, focus on chemical signaling in interactions among plants, insects and microbes. The course will focus on the discussion of current literature addressing key conceptual questions and state-of-the-art research techniques and methods.
Students will engage in discussion and critical analyses of relevant papers and present their evaluations in a seminar setting. Biogeochemistry and Sustainable Management. This course focuses on the interactions between ecology, biogeochemistry and management of agro- and forest ecosystems, thus, coupled human-environmental systems. Students learn how human impacts on ecosystems via management or global change are mainly driven by effects on biogeochemical cycles and thus ecosystem functioning, but also about feedback mechanisms of terrestrial ecosystems.
Students will know and understand the complex and interacting processes of ecology, biogeochemistry and management of agro- and forest ecosystems, be able to analyze and evaluate the various impacts of different management practices under different environmental conditions, search literature, write and evaluate scientific reports, and be able to coordinate and work successfully in small interdisciplinary teams. Agroecosystems and forest ecosystems play a major role in all landscapes, either for production purposes, ecological areas or for recreation.
The human impact of any management on the environment is mainly driven by effects on biogeochemical cycles. Effects of global change impacts will also act via biogeochemistry at the soil-biosphere-atmosphere-interface. Thus, ecosystem functioning, i. Students will gain profound knowledge about nutrient cycles and population dynamics in managed and unmanaged grassland, cropland and forest ecosystems in the field and in the lab.
Responses of agro- and forest ecosystems to the environment, e. Different management practices will be investigated and assessed in terms of production and quality of yield ecosystem goods and services , but also in regard to environmental regulations including subsidies and their effect on the environment, e. Thus, students will learn about the complex interactions of a coupled human-environmental system. Attendance of introductory courses in plant ecophysiology, ecology, and grassland or forest sciences. Course will be taught in English.
Fachkenntnisse zu Labor- und Feldmethoden. Techniques Number of participants limited to 8. This course provides training for advanced students master, doctoral or post-doctoral level in how to measure and collect genetic diversity data from populations, experiments, field and laboratory. To learn and improve on standard and modern methods of genetic data collection. A course for practicioners. After an introduction one afternoon , students will have 3 weeks to work independently or in groups through different protocols.
Two afternoons are hold in the class. The lab work will be done from the students according to their timetable, but has to be finished after 3 weeks. Effort is roughly days per week, depending on the skills of the student. This course combines Limnology the study of inland waters in its broad sense with ecological and evolutionary concepts.
It deals with rivers, groundwater and lakes. This course contains a lecture part, an experimental part as well as 1-day excursions. During this course you will get an overview of the world's typical freshwater ecosystems. After this course you will be able to understand how aquatic organisms have adapted to their habitat and how the interactions e. During the experimental part of this course you will learn the principles of doing research to observe interrelations in aquatic ecosystems. You will measure and interpret biological and physical data e. The course contains a lecture part, an experimental part and field excursions.
The lecture part covers ecology and evolution of aquatic organisms in lentic and lotic waters. Adaptations, distribution patterns, biotic interactions, and conceptual paradigms in freshwater ecosystems. Important aspects regarding ecosystem metabolism and habitat properties of freshwaters. Applied case studies and experiments testing ecological and evolutionary processes in freshwaters. This course can only be taken together with " Bestimmungskurs aquatische Makroinvertebraten" and " Bestimmungskurs aquatische Mikroinvertebraten und Kryptogamen". Registration for the course until Thu The course includes mandatory field trips to Greifensee Fachkenntnisse zur biologischen Vielfalt.
In diesem Kurs werden die wichtigsten Organismengruppen der aquatischen Makroinvertebraten der Schweiz behandelt. Familie zu benennen sowie deren wichtigsten Erkennungsmerkmale zu beschreiben. Dieser taxonomische Bestimmungskurs behandelt aquatische Wirbellose z. Die Originalsprache des Kurses ist Deutsch. Die Feldexkursion findet am Dienstag Bei zu vielen Anmeldungen wird den Studierenden, welche zeitgleich die Kurse " Limnoecology" sowie " Bestimmungskurs aquatische Mikroinvertebraten und Kryptogamen" belegen, Vorrang gegeben.
Die Feldexkursion findet am Dienstagnachmittag Bestimmungskurs aquatische Mikroinvertebraten und Kryptogamen. In diesem Kurs werden die wichtigsten Organismengruppen der aquatischen Mikroinvertebraten und Kryptogamen der Schweiz behandelt. Zooplankton und Kryptogamen z. Nach diesem Kurs werden Sie in der Lage sein die wichtigsten aquatischen Artengruppen zu benennen sowie deren wichtigsten Erkennungsmerkmale zu beschreiben.
Dieser taxonomische Bestimmungskurs behandelt Mikroinvertebraten und Kryptogamen. Das Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, die typischen aquatischen Taxa der Schweiz kennenzulernen, diese zu identifizieren und eine Idee zu erhalten, wie diese Organismen in der Forschung und in der Praxis eingesetzt bzw. Die Exkursion findet am Donnerstag Bei zu vielen Anmeldungen wird den Studierende, welche zeitgleich die Kurse " Limnoecology" sowie " Bestimmungskurs aquatische Makroinvertebraten" belegen, Vorrang gegeben. Die Feldexkursion findet am Donnerstagnachmittag Fachkenntnisse zu quantitativen und rechnerischen Verfahren.
Analysis of Ecological Data. This class provides students with an overview of techniques for data analysis used in modern ecological research, as well as practical experience in running these analyses with R and interpreting the results. Topics include linear models, generalized linear models, mixed models, model selection and randomization methods. Lecture notes and additional reading will be available electronically a few days before the course.
Time schedule The course takes place over a period of nine days from Thursday Prerequisites - Basic statistical training e. Data distributions, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, linear regression, analysis of variance - Basic experience in data handling and data analysis in R Individual preparation Students without the required knowledge are asked to contact the lecturer before Christmas for support with individual preparation. Models from Tree to Globe. This course provides hands-on experience with models of vegetation dynamics across temporal and spatial scales.
The underlying principles, assets and trade-offs of the different approaches are introduced, and students work in a number of small projects with these models to gain first-hand experience. Students will - be able to understand, assess and evaluate the fundamental properties of dynamic systems using vegetation models as case studies - obtain an overview of dynamic modelling techniques from the individual plant to the global level - understand the basic assumptions of the various model types, which dictate the skill and limitations of the respective model - be able to work with such model types on their own - appreciate the methodological basis for impact assessments of future climate change and other environmental changes on ecosystems.
Models of individuals - Deriving single-plant models from inventory measurements - Plant models based on 'first principles' Models at the stand scale - Simple approaches: The course provides the student with the spatial tools to address societal challenges toward ensuring the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity. Students learn theory, tools and models during a few introductory sessions and apply this knowledge to solve a practical problem in groups related to climate change, land use change and biodiversity conservation.
Introduction to the concept of the ecological niche, and biodiversity theories. Overview of the knowledge on expected biodiversity response to global changes and conservation planning methods. Introduction to basic GIS and programming elements in the statistical environment R. Students form groups of two, and each group solves a series of applied questions independently in R using the techniques taught in the introductory classes.
The students then prepare a presentation and report of the obtained results that will be discussed during a mini-symposium. Each team choses one of the following topics for the class project: Basic knowledge in statistics OLS regression, test statistics , and basic knowledge in geographic information science. Term Paper und Seminar. Individual writing of an essay-type review paper about a specialized topic in the field of ecology and evolution, based on substantial reading of original literature and discussions with a senior scientist.
Topics for the essays are proposed by the professors and lecturers of the major in Ecology and Evolution at a joint meeting at the beginning of the semester the date will be communicated by e-mail to registered students. Talks given by members of these groups and external visitors. In-depth introduction into microbial evolution and ecology, especially the aspects that are the focus of on-going research in this area at Department of Environmental Systems Science.
Alpine Ecology and Environments. The online course ALPECOLe provides a global overview of the complex ecosystems of mountain regions, and of their great diversity of habitats and organisms. The course is interdisciplinary and the various approaches are designed to help understand the past, present and future of mountain ecosystems. The online course is subdivided into - 5 lessons on abiotic factors: Moreover, all mayor alpine areas of the world can be selected on a map and then informative pictures of those landscapes and faunistic and floristic inhabitants will be shown.
Online exercises and tests allow to test the learned matter. Online course and seminar Students prepare for the seminar by working through particular lessons. Each student has to present some special aspect of one lesson. The seminar contribution is part of the performance assessment. Course language is English. Challenges in Plant Sciences Number of participants limited to The colloquium introduces students to the disciplines in plant sciences and provides integrated knowledge from the molecular level to ecosystems and from basic research to applications, making use of the synergies between the different research groups of the PSC.
The colloquium offers a unique chance to approach interdisciplinary topics as a challenge in the field of plant sciences. Major objectives of the colloquium are: Challenges in Plant Sciences will cover the following topics: Chemical communication among plants, insect and pathogens. Specificity in hormone signaling. Resilience of tropical ecosystems. Regulatory factors controlling cell wall formation. Plant Pathology I will focus on pathogen-plant interactions, epidemiology, disease assessment, and disease development in agroecosystems. Topics under the first theme will include pathogen life cycles, disease cycles, and an overview of plant pathogenic nematodes, viruses, bacteria, and fungi.
Topics under the second theme will include plant defense strategies, host range, passive and active defenses, and chemical and structural defenses. Topics under the third theme will include the disease triangle and cultural control strategies. First day of autumn semester Week 2 The nature of plant diseases, symbiosis, parasites, mutualism, biotrophs and necrotrophs, disease cycles and pathogen life cycles.
Nematode attack strategies and types of damage. Week 3 Viral pathogens, classification, reproduction and transmission, attack strategies and types of damage. Bacterial pathogens and phytoplasmas, classification, reproduction and transmission. Bacterial attack strategies and symptoms. Week 4 Fungal pathogens, classification, growth and reproduction, sexual and asexual spores, transmission. Fungal life cycles, disease cycles, infection processes, colonization, phytotoxins and mycotoxins.
Attack strategies of fungal necrotrophs and biotrophs. Week 5 Symptoms and signs of fungal infection. Week 6 Plant defense mechanisms, host range and non-host resistance. Passive structural and chemical defenses, preformed chemical defenses. Active structural defense, papillae, active chemical defense, hypersensitive response, pathogenesis-related PR proteins, phytoalexins and disease resistance.
Week 7 Pisatin and pisatin demethylase. Local and systemic acquired resistance, signal molecules. Week 8 Pathogen effects on food quality and safety. Plant effects on development of epidemics, including resistance, physiology, density, uniformity. Week 10 Disease assessment: Correlations between incidence and severity. Week 11 Molecular detection and diagnosis of pathogens. Host indexing, serology, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. Week 12 Strategies for minimizing disease risks: Week 13 Disease control strategies: Week 14 Cultural control methods: This course deepens students' knowledge of the environmental assessment methodologies and their various applications.
This course has the aim of deepening students' knowledge of the environmental assessment methodologies and their various applications. In particular, students completing the course should have the - Ability to judge the scientific quality and reliability of environmental assessment studies, the appropriateness of inventory data and modelling, and the adequacy of life cycle impact assessment models and factors - Knowledge about the current state of the scientific discussion and new research developments - Ability to properly plan, conduct and interpret environmental assessment studies - Knowledge of how to use LCA as a decision support tool for companies, public authorities, and consumers.
Lecture slides and literature will be made available on the lecture homepage. Basic knowledge of environmental assessment tools is a prerequisite for this class. Students that have not done classwork in this topic before are required to read an appropriate textbook before or at the beginning of this course e.
Jolliet, O et al. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment. ISBN Chapters Different tools and software used for environmental assessments, such as LCA are introduced. The students will have hands-on exercises in the computer rooms and will gain basic knowledge on how to apply the software and other resources in practice. Technical systems are investigated in projects, based on the software and tools introduced in the course L Advanced Env. Assessment Computer Lab I. The projects are created around a complete but simplified LCA study, where the students will learn how to answer a given question with target oriented methodologies using various software programs and data sources for env.
Become acquainted with utilizing various software programs for environmental assessment to perform a Life Cycle Assessment and learn how to address the challenges when analyzing a complex system with available data and software limitations. Soziale Systeme Mikro, Makro. Every day humans interact with various systems. In the lecture, factors are investigated by basic scientific approaches. The goal of the lecture is to empower students in better understanding the applied theories, principles, and methods in various applications.
Students are expected to learn about how to enable an efficient and qualitatively high standing interaction between human and the environment, considering costs, benefits, health, and safety as well. Thus, an ergonomic design and evaluation process of products, tasks, and environments may be promoted in different disciplines. The goal is achieved in addressing a broad variety of topics and embedding the discussion in macroscopic factors such as the behavior of consumers and objectives of economy. Environmental Governance Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: The course addresses environmental policies, focusing on new steering approaches, which are generally summarized as environmental governance.
The course also provides students with tools to analyze environmental policy processes and assesses the key features of environmental governance by examining various practical environmental policy examples. To understand how an environmental problem may not become a policy and explain political processes, using basic concepts and techniques from political science.
To analyze the evolution as well as the key elements of environmental governance. To be able to identify the main challenges and opportunities for environmental governance and to critically discuss them with reference to various practical policy examples. Improvements in environmental quality and sustainable management of natural resources cannot be achieved through technical solutions alone. The quality of the environment and the achievement of sustainable development strongly depend on human behavior and specifically the human uses of nature. To influence human behavior, we rely on public policies and other societal rules, which aim to steer the way humans use natural resources and their effects on the environment.
Such steering can take place through government intervention alone. However, this often also involves governance, which includes the interplay between governmental and non-governmental actors, the use of diverse tools such as emission standards or financial incentives to steer actors' behavior and can occur at the local, regional, national or international level. In this course, we will address both the practical aspects of as well as the scientific debate on environmental governance. The course gives future environmental experts a strong basis to position themselves in the governance debate, which does not preclude government but rather involves a spectrum from government to governance.
Key questions that this course seeks to answer: What are the core characteristics of environmental challenges from a policy perspective? What are key elements of 'environmental governance' and how legitimate and effective are these approaches in addressing persistent environmental challenges? Lecture slides and additional course material will be provided throughout the semester. We will mostly work with readings from the following books: The politics of the environment: Ideas, activism, policy 2nd ed. The Challenge of Legitimacy and Effectiveness.
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. A detailed course schedule will be made available at the beginning of the semester. We recommend that students have a three-years BSc education of a technical university; b successfully completed Bachelor introductory course to environmental policy Entwicklungen nationaler Umweltpolitik or equivalent and c familiarity with key issues in environmental policy and some fundamental knowledge of one social science or humanities discipline political science, economics, sociology, history, psychology, philosophy. This course deals with how and why international cooperation in environmental politics emerges, and under what circumstances such cooperation is effective and efficient.
Based on theories of international political economy and theories of government regulation various examples of international environmental politics are discussed: The course is open to all ETH students. Participation does not require previous coursework in the social sciences. After passing an end-of-semester test requirement: The workload is around 90 hours meetings, reading assignments, preparation of test.
Registration of visiting students in the web-based system of ETH is compulsory. Assigned reading materials and slides will be available at http: Log in with your nethz name and password. All assigned papers must be read ahead of the respective meeting. Following the course on the basis of on-line slides and papers alone is not sufficient. Physical presence in the classroom is essential. Law and Policy Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. The aim of this course is to make students with a technical scientific background aware of the legal and political context of environmental policy in order to place technical solutions in their regulatory context.
The aim of this course is to equip students with a legal and regulatory skill-set that allows them to translate their technical knowledge into a policy brief directed at legally trained regulators. More generally, it aims to inform students with a technical scientific background of the legal and political context of environmental policy. The focus of the course will be on international and European issues and regulatory frameworks - where relevant, the position of Switzerland within these international networks will also be discussed.
Topics covered in lectures: Regulatory Challenges of Environment Problems c. Regulatory Tools 2 Law: International, European and national laws a. National law 3 Policy: Students will be expected to contribute to class discussions and prepare short memos on class readings. Policy brief - a maximum of 2 pages including graphs and tables ; b.
Background document to the policy brief - this document sets out a more detailed and academic overview of the topic maximum 8 pages including graphs and tables ; c. Presentation of the policy brief: The course is taught as a small interactive seminar and significant participation is expected from the students.
Participation will be capped at 15 in order to maintain the interactive nature of the classes. All classes, readings, and assignments, are in English. Teaching will take place over two weeks in September and October. The exam date will be in December. During the second week of the teaching period, students will have individual minute meetings with the lecturer to discuss their project. An electronic copy of relevant readings will be provided to the students at no cost before the start of the lectures. The course is inter related to materials discussed in Politikwissenschaft: Part I V.
Transdisciplinary Methods and Applications. The course deals with transdisciplinary td methods, concepts and their applications in the context of case studies and other problem oriented research projects. Td methods are used in research at the science-society interface and when collaborating across scientific disciplines. Students learn to apply methods within a functional framework. The format of the course is seminar-like, interactive.
At the end of the course students should: The lecture is structured as follows: This course is recommended and helpful for students participating in the Transdisciplinary Case Study The course deals with the concepts and methodologies for the analysis and assessment of sustainable development. A special focus is given to the social dimension and to social justice as a guiding principle of sustainability as well as to trade-offs between the three dimensions of sustainability. The course is seminar-like, interactive. At the end oft he course students should Know: Understand and reflect on: The course is structured as follows: Vertiefung in Umweltsysteme und Politikanalyse.
Theoretische Grundlagen der Umweltpolitikanalyse. The course focuses on processes and drivers of decision-making on natural resources management issues in developing countries. It gives insights into the relevance of ecological aspects in developing countries. It covers concepts, instruments, processes and actors in environmental politics at the example of specific environmental challenges of global importance.
After completion of the module, students will be able to: Key issues and basic concepts related to environmental politics are introduced. Then the course predominantly builds on case studies, providing information on the context, specifying problems and potentials, describing processes, illustrating the change management, discussing experiences and outcomes, successes and failures. The analysis of the cases elucidates factors for success and pitfalls in terms of processes, key elements and intervention strategies.
Different cases not only deal with different environmental problems, but also focus on different levels and degrees of formality. This ranges from local interventions with resource user groups as key stakeholders, to country level policies, to multi- and international initiatives and conventions. Linkages and interaction of the different system levels are highlighted. Special emphasis is given to natural resources management. The cases address the following issues: From degradation to sustainable use - Common property resource management forest and pasture: Collective action and property rights, community-based management - Ecosystem health integrated pest management, soil and water conservation - Payment for environmental services: Successes in natural resources management - Climate change and agriculture: Adaptation and mitigation possibilities - Biodiversity Convention: Implications for conservations and access to genetic resources - Biodiversity as a means for more secure livelihoods: Agroforestry and intercropping - The Millennium Development Goals: Interactions between poverty and the environment - Poverty and natural resources management: Poverty reduction strategies, the view of the poor themselves - Food security: Policies, causes for insecurity, the role of land grabbing - Biofuels and food security: Information concerning the case studies and specific issues illustrated therein will be provided during the course uploaded on Moodle.
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, p. Routledge, New York, p. Keeley J, Scoones I, Knowledge, power and politics: The Journal of Modern African Studies, 38 1 , The performance assessment will consist of an individual essay to be written by each student based on at least five references in addition to the sources provided in the course. Students can choose from a list of topics.
Criteria for assessment will be communicated at the beginning of the course. The seminar aims at three-fold integration: Participants of the seminar should understand how tightly connected systems lead to networked risks, and why this can imply systems we do not understand and cannot control well, thereby causing systemic risks and extreme events.
They should also be able to explain how systemic instabilities can be understood by changing the perspective from a component-oriented to an interaction- and network-oriented view, and what fundamental implications this has for the proper design and management of complex dynamical systems. Computational Social Science and Global Systems Science serve to better understand the emerging digital society with its close co-evolution of information and communication technology ICT and society.
They make current theories of crises and disasters applicable to the solution of global-scale problems, taking a data-based approach that builds on a serious collaboration between the natural, engineering, and social sciences, i. Technology and Innovation for Development. Technological change plays a crucial role in efforts to create a more sustainable future. In this context, policy decision makers must design rules that minimize its risks and maximize its benefits for society at large.
The course discusses this challenge from an interdisciplinary perspective taking into account legal, economic, historical, development and environmental aspects.. Science and Technology Policy is normally associated with the improvement of national competitiveness; yet, it is also an integral part of effective environmental and development policies. The course will discuss the challenges and opportunities of technological change in terms of sustainable development and show how public policy on the national and the international level is responding to this change.
In this context, students are to become familiar with the basic principles of political economy and New Growth Theory and how such theories help explain political decisions as well as political outcomes in the area of Science, Technology and Innovation. State interventions are either designed to regulate e. This will be illustrated by looking at different industries and different national systems of innovation. Subsequently the positive and negative consequences for society and the natural environment will be discussed from a short-term and a long-term perspective.
Reader with issue-specific articles. E-version is partly available under Link. Entrepreneurial Rights as Human Rights: The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services: From Regulation to Innovation. The role of biotechnology in combating climate change: A question of politics. Science and Public Policy, 43 1: Do Private Standards encourage or hinder trade and innovation?
What is Sustainable Agriculture? Ecological Economics 68 6: ATDF Journal 4 2: Risk, Regulation and Innovation: The Case of Aquaculture and Transgenic Fish. The Nature of Technology. The Patent Crisis and How to Solve it. University of Chicago Press. Patent Reform in the United States: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. Harper Business, New York. The World Until Yesterday: Guns, Germs and Steel. The University of Chicago Press, Supermarkets and imperial knowledge. Cultural Geographies, 14 3: Johansson eds Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions.
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism. Nature Biotechnology 33 8: Innovation and its Enemies. International Cooperation in the 21th century. Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations. The 2-hour course p. The course materials will be available in form of an electronic Reader at the beginning of the semester. The class will be taught in English.
Students will be asked to give a a presentation 15 Minutes or write a review paper based on a article selected from the electronic script, and b they will have to pass a written test at the end of the course in order to obtain 3 credit points in the ECTS System. Governing the Energy Transition Number of participants limited to This course addresses the role of policy and its underlying politics in the transformation of the energy sector.
It covers historical, socio-economic, and political perspectives and applies various theoretical concepts to specific aspects of governing the energy transition. Climate change, access to energy and other societal challenges are directly linked to the way we use and create energy. Both the recent United Nations Paris climate change agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals make a fast and extensive transition of the energy system necessary.
This course introduces the social and environmental challenges involved in the energy sector and discusses the implications of these challenges for the rate and direction of technical change in the energy sector. It compares the current situation with historical socio-technical transitions and derives the consequences for policy-making. It then introduces theoretical frameworks and concepts for studying innovation and transitions. It then focuses on the role of policy and policy change in governing the energy transition, considering the role of political actors, institutions and policy feedback.
The course has a highly interactive seminar-like character. Students are expected to actively engage in the weekly discussions and to give a presentation minutes on one of the weekly topics during that particular session. Slides and reading material will be made available via moodle. A reading list will be provided via moodle.
This course is particularly suited for students of the following programmes: Modellierung und statistische Datenanalyse.
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Die Veranstaltung behandelt multivariate statistische Methoden wie lineare Regression, Varianzanalyse, Clusteranalyse, Faktorenanalyse und logistische Regression. Es folgen die zwei strukturierenden Verfahren Clusteranalyse und Faktorenanalyse. Agent Based Modeling in Transportation.
The main topics of the lecture are: The objective of this course is to make the students familiar with agent-based models and in particular with the software MATSim. They will learn the pros and cons of this type of approach versus traditional transport models and will learn to use the simulation. They will design a policy study and run simulations to evaluate the impacts of the proposed policies.
The main topics are: There are no strict preconditions in terms of which lectures the students should have previously attended. However, it is expected that the students have some experience with some high level programming language i. If this is not the case, attending the additional java exercises U is strongly encouraged. Systems Dynamics and Complexity.
Vensim software, feedback cycles, control parameters, instabilities, chaos, oscillations and cycles, supply and demand, production functions, investment and consumption. A successful participant of the course is able to: Why are problems not simple? Why do some systems behave in an unintended way? How can we model and control their dynamics? The course provides answers to these questions by using a broad range of methods encompassing systems oriented management, classical systems dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and macroeconomic modeling.
The course is structured along three main tasks: Controlling solutions PART 1 introduces complexity as a system immanent property that cannot be simplified. It introduces the problem solving cycle, used in systems oriented management, as an approach to structure problems and to find solutions. PART 2 discusses selected problems of project management when implementing solutions.
Methods for identifying the critical path of subtasks in a project and for calculating the allocation of resources are provided. The role of quality control as an additional feedback loop and the consequences of small changes are discussed. PART 3, by far the largest part of the course, provides more insight into the dynamics of existing systems.
Examples come from biology population dynamics , management inventory modeling, technology adoption, production systems and economics supply and demand, investment and consumption. For economic models analytical approaches, also used in nonlinear dynamics and control theory, are applied. These together provide a systematic understanding of the role of feedback loops and instabilities in the dynamics of systems.
Emphasis is on oscillating phenomena, such as business cycles and other life cycles. Weekly self-study tasks are used to apply the concepts introduced in the lectures and to come to grips with the software program VENSIM. The lecture slides are provided as handouts - including notes and literature sources - to registered students only. All material is to be found on the Moodle platform. More details during the first lecture. Self-study tasks discussion exercises, Vensim exercises are provided as home work. Weekly exercise sessions 45 min are used to discuss selected solutions.
Regular participation in the exercises is an efficient way to understand the concepts relevant for the final exam. Quantitative Policy Analysis and Modeling. The lectures will introduce students to the principles of quantitative policy analysis, namely the methods to predict and evaluate the social, economic, and environmental effects of alternative strategies to achieve public objectives. A series of graded assignments will give students an opportunity for students to apply those methods to a set of case studies. The objectives of this course are to develop the following key skills necessary for policy analysts: The course will proceed through a series of policy analysis and modeling exercises, involving real-world or hypothetical problems.
The specific examples around which work will be done will concern the environment, energy, health, and natural hazards management. Vertiefung in Wald- und Landschaftsmanagement. In-depth understanding of concepts, insight into current research and experience with methods of Forest Pathology based on selected pathosystems. To know current biological and ecological research on selected diseases, to be able to comment on it and to understand the methods. To understand the dynamics of selected pathosystems and disturbance processes.
To be able to diagnose tree diseases and injuries. To know forest protection strategies and to be able to comment on them. Stress and disease, virulence and resistance, disease diagnosis and damage assessment, tree disease epidemiology, disease management, ecosystem pathology. Air pollution and trees, endophytic fungi, mycorrhiza, wood decay, conifer- root rot, Phytophthora diseases, chestnut canker and its hypoviruses, urban trees, complex diseases, emerging diseases.
Forest Health and protection. From genes to landscapes. The course is composed of introductory lectures, practical work, discussions and reading. The participants should have basic knowledge in forest pathology corresponding to the course "Wald- und Baumkrankheiten, see teaching book of H. Tree diseases and disorders, Oxford University Press This course presents a process-based view of the hydrology, biogeochemistry, and geomorphology of mountain streams. Students learn how to integrate process knowledge, data, and models to understand how landscapes regulate the fluxes of water, sediment, nutrients, and pollutants in streams, and to anticipate how streams will respond to changes in land use, atmospheric deposition, and climate.
Students will have a broad understanding of the hydrological, biogeochemical, and geomorphological functioning of mountain catchments. They will practice using data and models to frame and test hypotheses about connections between streams and landscapes. Streams are integrated monitors of the health and functioning of their surrounding landscapes.
Streams integrate the fluxes of water, solutes, and sediment from their contributing catchment area; thus they reflect the spatially integrated hydrological, ecophysiological, biogeochemical, and geomorphological processes in the surrounding landscape. At a practical level, there is a significant public interest in managing forested upland landscapes to provide a reliable supply of high-quality surface water and to minimize the risk of catastrophic flooding and debris flows, but the scientific background for such management advice is still evolving.
Using a combination of lectures, field exercises, and data analysis, we explore the processes controlling the delivery of water, solutes, and sediment to streams, and how those processes are affected by changes in land cover, land use, and climate. We review the connections between process understanding and predictive modeling in these complex environmental systems.
How well can we understand the processes controlling watershed-scale phenomena, and what uncertainties are unavoidable? What are the relative advantages of top-down versus bottom-up approaches? How much can "black box" analyses reveal about what is happening inside the black box? Conversely, can small-scale, micro-mechanistic approaches be successfully "scaled up" to predict whole-watershed behavior?
Practical problems to be considered include the effects of land use, atmospheric deposition, and climate on streamflow, water quality, and sediment dynamics, illustrated with data from experimental watersheds in North America, Scandinavia, and Europe. Recommended and required reading will be specified at the first class session with possible modifications as the semester proceeds.
Literaturempfehlungen werden in der Vorlesung abgegeben Ein Quellenverzeichnis zur Vorlesung kann heruntergeladen werden. Entscheidungsfindung, Politik und Planung. Die koordinierte Anwendung von umweltschutz- und raumplanungsrechtlichen Vorgaben steht dabei im Vordergrund. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie man komplexe Situationen, insbesondere raumbezogene Planungen rechtlich aus ganzheitlicher Sicht angeht.
Ein besonderes Ziel stellt die Analyse von themenspezifischen Gerichtsurteilen dar. Der Einzelfall wird dabei in den Gesamtzusammenhang gestellt. Der Kurs bietet eine Vertiefung in folgende Rechtsgebiete: Waldrecht - Natur- und Landschaftsschutzrecht - Wasserrecht - Raumplanungsrecht - Umweltschutzrecht - Verfahrensrecht Unterrichtssprache: Bunbdesgerichtliche Rechtsprechung - Raumplanungs-, Bau- und Umweltrecht. Der Besuch des Kurses "Umweltrecht: Konzepte und Rechtsgebiete" wird empfohlen. A highly interactive learning experience with real world exposure to the challenges associated with conservation and management of tropical forest systems.
Designed as a complementary course to Rain Forest Ecology L. Students will gain first-hand experience of tropical forest landscapes and the challenges associated with conducting ecological research in this fascinating environment. The course will have four core learning objectives: Specifically through design and implementation an Adaptive Management approach to tropical forest landscapes. Students will present their Adaptive Management Plans to senior Forest Researchers in the forest department at the FRC Sabah and engage in dialogue regarding diverse perspectives in forest and landscape management.
Proposed topics to be covered within the scope of the projects and based upon the expertise of the course lecturers: Tropical Forest management and restoration. Conservation biology, Animal behaviour, tropical entomology. Biodiversity and ecosystem function. Resilience and Adaptive Management. Entscheidung, Politk und Planung. Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories. Introduction to design and model assisted sampling theory for finite populations as well as to the infinite population model for forest inventory.
Two-phase two-stage forest inventories with simple or cluster sampling.