@phdthesis{Baron,
  author    = {Baron, Nicole},
  title     = {Natural Urban Resilience: Understanding general urban resilience through Addis Ababa's inner city},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4416},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210428-44166},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {This dissertation describes the urban actors and spatial practices that contribute to natural urban resilience in Addis Ababa's inner city. Natural urban resilience is a non-strategical and bottom-up, everyday form of general urban resilience - an urban system's ability to maintain its essential characteristics under any change. This study gains significance by exposing conceptual gaps in the current un-derstanding of general urban resilience and highlighting its unconvincing applicability to African cities. This study attains further relevance by highlighting the danger of the ongoing large-scale redevelopment of the inner city. The inner city has naturally formed, and its urban memory, spaces, and social cohesion contribute to its primarily low-income population's resilience. This thesis argues that the inner city's demolition poses an incalculable risk of maladaptation to future stresses and shocks for Addis Ababa. The city needs a balanced urban discourse that highlights the inner city's qualities and suggests feasible urban transformation measures. "Natural Urban Resilience" contributes an empirical study to the debate by identifying those aspects of the inner city that contribute to general resilience and identifies feasible action areas. This study develops a qualitative research design for a single case study in Addis Ababa. The data is obtained through expert interviews, interviews with resi-dents, and the analysis of street scene photos, which are abstracted using Grounded Theory. That way, this thesis provides first-time knowledge about who and what generates urban resilience in the inner city of Addis Ababa and how. Furthermore, the study complements existing theories on general urban resilience. It provides a detailed understanding of the change mechanisms in resilience, of which it identifies four: adaptation, upgrading, mitigation, and resistance. It also adapts the adaptive cycle, a widely used concept in resilience thinking, conceptually for urban environments. The study concludes that the inner city's continued redevelopment poses an incalculable threat to the entire city. Therefore, "Natural urban resilience" recommends carefully weighing any intervention in the inner city to promote Addis Ababa's overall resilience. This dissertation proposes a pattern language for natural urban resilience to support these efforts and to translate the model of natural urban resilience into practice.},
  subject      = {Stadtforschung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{JeanBaptiste,
  author    = {Jean-Baptiste, Nathalie},
  title     = {People centered approach towards food waste management in the urban environment of Mexico},
  address   = {Weimar},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2063},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20131024-20633},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {297},
  abstract  = {A more careful consideration of food waste is needed for planning the urban environment. The research signals links between the organization of individuals, the built environment and food waste management through a study conducted in Mexico. It recognizes the different scales within which solid waste management operates, explores food waste production at household levels, and investigates the urban circumstances that influence its management. This is based on the idea that sustainable food waste management in cities requires a constellation of processes through which a 'people centered' approach offers added value to technical and biological facts. This distinction addresses how urban systems react to waste and what behavioral and structural factors affect current sanitary practices in Mexico. Food waste is a resource-demanding item, which makes for a considerable amount of refuse being disposed of in landfills in developing cities. The existing data shortage on waste generation at household levels debilitates implementation strategies and there is a need for more contextual knowledge associated with waste. The evidence-based study includes an explorative phase on the culture of waste management and a more in-depth examination of domestic waste composition. Mixed data collection tools including a household based survey, a food waste diary and weighing recording system were developed to enquire into the daily practices of waste disposal in households. The contrasting urban environment of Mexico City Metropolitan Area holds indistinctive boundaries between the core and the periphery, which hinder the implementation of integrated environmental plans. External determinants are different modes of urban transformation and internal determinants are building features and their consolidation processes. At the household level, less and more affluents groups responded differently to external environmental stressors. A targeted planning proposition is required for each group. Local alternative waste management is more likely to be implement in less affluent contexts. Further, more effective demand-driven service delivery implies better integration between the formal and informal sectors. The results show that efforts toward securing long-term changes in Mexico and other cities with similar circumstances require creating synergy between education, building consolidation, local infrastructure and social engagement.},
  subject      = {Food Waste Management},
  language  = {en}
}