Gisela Wachinger

DIALOGIK non profit organisation

Citizen science projects that collect natural history observations often do not have an underlying research question in mind. Thus, data generated from such projects can be considered "use-agnostic." Nevertheless, such projects can yield important insights about species distributions. Many of these projects use a class-based data schema, whereby co...

Bioenergie – das Multitalent mit den vielen verschiedenen Konversionspfaden und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten aus den vielfältigen nachwachsenden Rohstoffen! Wird ihre Rolle im Energiesystem angemessen gewürdigt? Werden ihre Funktion und ihre besonderen Potenziale im Systemzusammenhang realistisch dargestellt und analysiert? Welche Kenngrößen sind zur Abbi...

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive picture of risk governance and conceptualize an approach to dealing with multi-risks in the Metropolitan Region of Lima, Peru. We argue that the impacts of extreme events are not solely determined by a given place-based vulnerability and risk profile but are considerably influenced by cascading effects cau...

The risk perception paradox illustrates the perception of natural hazards as not directly related to a willingness to act or engage in precautionary behavior. Yet the utilization of participatory processes can help to overcome this gap. In a practical example in the watershed of the Danube River and its contributing streams in Germany, we aimed to...

New course mediation

The increasing reliance of organizations on externally produced information, such as online user-generated content (UGC) and crowdsourcing, challenges common assumptions about conceptual modeling in information systems (IS) development. We demonstrate the societal importance of UGC, analyze the distinguishing characteristics of UGC and identify spe...

Seit 2014 hat Baden-Württemberg seinen ersten und einzigen Nationalpark. Schon im Vorfeld gab es viele Konflikte, die mit einer auf Mediationskriterien basierenden Partizipation zum Teil gelöst werden konnten. Jetzt geht es um die Umsetzung des Nationalparkgesetzes vor Ort und da beginnt die Detailarbeit der Konfliktlösung: Wo wird die Natur sich...

Decisions on health-related risks affect many people personally. The public debate on hospital planning is therefore especially emotional and conflict-ridden. Due to the aging population and the high costs of constantly improving medical care, the question arises in many German rural areas as to which hospitals can be kept and developed further and...

This article reviews the main insights from selected literature on risk perception, particularly in connection with natural hazards. It includes numerous case studies on perception and social behavior dealing with floods, droughts, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, wild fires, and landslides. The review reveals that personal experience of a natural h...

Social capacity building for natural hazards is a topic increasingly gaining relevance not only for so-called developing countries but also for European welfare states which are continuously challenged by the social, economic and ecological impacts of natural hazards. Following an outline of recent governance changes with regard to natural hazards,...

Methane oxidation fluxes were monitored with the closed chamber method in eight treatment plots on a semi-wet grassland site near Giessen, Germany. The management regimes differed in the amount of nitrogen (NH4NO3) fertilizer applied and in the height of the in-ground water table. No inhibition of CH4 oxidation occurred, regardless of the amount of...

High temporal and spatial variability is a key problem when quantifying methane emissions from soils. Whereas the spatial variability on the landscape scale has been investigated in different studies, we investigated the spatial heterogeneity of CH4 production on 1 cm scale, as well as the role of organic material as a relevant factor. Undisturbed...

Recombinant purified Nef protein of HIV-1, as well as Nef protein derived from extracts of permanently HIV-1 infected glioblastoma cells and monocytes, are specifically cleaved by the HIV-1 protease. Nef cleavage products in cellular extracts treated with protease showed identical molecular weights as those obtained by digestion of purified Nef wit...

Among 180 Streptomyces strains tested, 25 were capable of hydrolyzing microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel) at 30 degrees C. Streptomyces reticuli was selected for further studies because of its ability to grow at between 30 and 50 degrees C on Avicel. Enzymatic activities degrading Avicel, carboxymethyl cellulose, and cellobiose were found both in t...

Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 1995.