Problem-based interdisciplinaryfield-based courses: reflections from southern African experiences
This paper reports upon seven field-based problem-oriented, interdisciplinary, university courses held within southern Africa concerning natural resource management and sustainable land use. The long-term commitment to the development
Providing a Latin American cultural field experience
Evaluation by instructors involved of an interdisciplinaryfield course to Latin America, including classroom component, field component and logistics.―(DWG)
The author presents the regional studies as an interdisciplinaryfield, incorporating seven areas: economic, town planning, geographical, sociological, antropological, historical and iuridicoinstitutional. The paper presents different evaluations
In the article the A. describes the history of interdisciplinary planning. He comments the development and the state-of-the-arts in this field. He gives his own proposal for the new generation of comprehensive plans in Slovenia in terms
of interdisciplinary approach. In a large table the key spatial indicators are described together with its links with economic, social and ecological indicators. The method is demonstrated on three practical cases in a form of flow charts. Strategic evaluations
Experimentation at the interface of fluvial geomorphology, stream ecology and hydraulic engineering and the develoment of an effective, interdisciplinary river science
These issues are illustrated here using 2 examples from flume experiments designed (1) to understand how the movement behaviours of aquatic insects through the near-bed flow field of gravelly river beds may allow them to survive flood events, and (2
) how an understanding of the way in which fish behaviours and swimming capability are affected by flow conditions around artificial structures can lead to the design of effective fish passages. In each case, an interdisciplinary approach has been
Cartography is old as a field of activity, but young as a science discipline. First was a phase of preparation (1795-1900), then a phase of initiatives (1900-1945), the phase of institutionalisation (1945-1970) and then the phase of integration
(1970-1990). Since 1990 we experience the phase of interdisciplinary and global interaction. The paper deals with the history of cartography, the scientific cartography and the theoretical cartography. - (IfL)
The geographical school cartography is described as one branch of school cartography in general, possessing a clearly defined interdisciplinaryfield of research. - (IH)
School cartography is a special theory of designing and using maps within the more general system of theoretical cartography. In the G.D.R., school cartography has developed into an interdisciplinary research field of its own through close
Spatiotemporal budgeting of soil erosion in the abandoned fields area of the “Rahnstätter Hof” near Michelbach (Taunus Mts., Western Germany)
This interdisciplinary study comprises archaeological findings as well as historical records. The “Rahnstätter Hof” manor of 82 ha of fields, meadows and forests was abandoned in 1870. The total amount of soil erosion on the former farmland has been
calculated, 65% of it as sheet erosion, the remaining 27% as gully erosion, leading to the deposition of colluvium on and behind field balks and of colluvial filling in small valleys. Soil erosion mainly took place during the Early Modern Era, in response
to intensified agriculture by the improved three-field crop rotation system and the overexploitation of forest lands in the pre-industrial era. A gully system studied was found to have developed since Early Medieval times. Soil erosion was found not to have
. This interdisciplinaryfield calls for a meeting of the minds between geomorphology, soil science, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology and plate tectonics.
In order to study the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic landscape development of the eastern part of the South German Scarplands, the AA. compiled the present data available from the literature and their own field work in the surroundings of the Franconian
Alb. The integration of interdisciplinary data on different scales allows a picture of the present cuesta structures and of the long-term evolution of 5 morphotectonically different subareas. In these areas, temporal and spatial independent vertical
The biogeosciences cover all fields of the biological sciences and their interactions with the relevant Earth spheres (i.e. atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere), and are studied over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. The notion
of multidisciplinary versus interdisciplinary research is considered herein. It is by following an approach of explanation-based science that the complex interplay of biological and environmental processes can be understood best. Understanding of system behaviour
Here, the AA. 1) briefly review the history of macroecology, with emphasis on cultural, scientific and technological innovations that made this approach possible, 2) highlight current develoments in the field, including its increasing linkages
with biogeography and other disciplines, and 3) point to likely future directions. They also touch upon methodological, statistical and institutional challenges faced by this and other highly interdisciplinary approaches. This review of macroecology is especially
Disaster reduction through environmental management is a complex issue that requires interdisciplinary applied research related to the natural environment as well as to the socio-economic situation of the endangered societies. In fact
-industrial disasters and also the, often neglected, ecological disasters should be considered. Humanitarian disasters are, unfortunately, largely outside the field of science. - (NF)
Integrating Archaeology and Landscape Analysis for the Cultural Heritage Management of a World War I Militarised Landscape: The German Field Defences in Antwerp
effective and sustainable heritage management. In addition, there is need for interdisciplinary research on how war and socio-natural landscapes reciprocally reproduce each other in time and space. The focus of this paper is a WWI defence system
sedimentation history. The results are based on joint Indian-German field research carried out in the area since 2004. This included geological and geomorphological mapping, differential GPS measurements, drilling, echo-sounding and stratigraphic analyses
[b1] Freie Universität Berlin, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia, Berlin, Allemagne
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