TY - THES A1 - Jean-Baptiste, Nathalie T1 - People centered approach towards food waste management in the urban environment of Mexico N2 - 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. KW - Food Waste Management KW - Mexico KW - Urban Environment KW - People Approach KW - Food Waste Management KW - Latin America KW - Mexico KW - Social context KW - Built environment Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20131024-20633 CY - Weimar ER - TY - THES A1 - Ruhland, Grit T1 - FOLGELANDSCHAFT. Eine Untersuchung der Auswirkungen des Uranbergbaus auf die Landschaft um Gera/Ronneburg. N2 - Das Kernthema dieser Arbeit ist die Beschäftigung mit den Folgen des Uranbergbaus in dem Gebiet um die ehemalige Abbauregion der Wismut SAG/SDAG in Ronneburg (Ostthüringen). Dieses Thema wird unter historischen, sozialen, kulturanthropologischen und künstlerischen Aspekten betrachtet und in den Zusammenhang mit den weltweiten Voraussetzungen der Nuklearindustrie und Auswirkungen des Uranbergbaus und seiner Folgen gestellt. Die Arbeit legt dar, wie eine Uranbergbaufolgelandschaft entsteht und welches Wissen ist für ein angemessenes Verständnis des Phänomens wichtig ist. Es wird untersucht, ob Kunst bezüglich der Uranbergbaufolgelandschaft einen relevanten Beitrag leisten kann bzw. in welcher Form dies versucht wurde, bzw. stellte Arbeiten vor, die verwandete Themen bearbeitet haben. In Kombination dieser beiden Hauptaspekte geht die Arbeit der Frage nach, welche Faktoren die Uranbergbaufolgelandschaft prägen und ob es sinnvolle Beteiligungsfelder für künstlerisches Forschen oder Handeln gibt sowie welche Bedingungen hierfür erfüllt werdenmüssten. Die Kernthese der Arbeit ist, dass künstlerische Arbeiten im Themenfeld des Uranbergbaus unter bestimmten Bedingungen relevante Beiträge leisten können. N2 - This thesis is exploring the consequences of uranium mining in the area around the former mining region of the Wismut SAG / SDAG in Ronneburg (East Thuringia), East Germany. The topic is viewed from historical, social, cultural-anthropological and artistic aspects and placed in the context of the worldwide requirements of the nuclear industry and the effects of uranium mining and its consequences. The thesis explains how a uranium mining landscape is created and what knowledge is important for an adequate understanding of the phenomenon. It is examined whether art can make a relevant contribution in dealing with the uranium mining landscape. It discusses artworks that have dealt with related topics. In combination of these two main aspects, the thesis investigates the question which factors shape the uranium mining landscape and whether there are meaningful fields of participation for artistic research and which conditions would have to be met for this. The core thesis of the work is that artistic work in the field of uranium mining can make relevant contributions under certain conditions. It also contains field research, interviews and the description and application of a method called "random-structured landscape observation". KW - Uranbergbau KW - Nachbergbau KW - Geiger-Müller-Zählrohr KW - Kerntechnische Industrie KW - Nuclear Art KW - Environmental Art KW - Künstlerische Forschung KW - Artistic Research KW - Geigerzähler KW - Nuklearindustrie KW - Atomindustrie Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210906-44953 ER -