Praxishandbuch. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Kommune gestalten. Hintergrund - Beispiele - Arbeitshilfen für den Start

Einer der zentralen Bildungsorte für die langfristige strukturelle Verankerung von Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der deutschen Bildungslandschaft ist die Kommune. Sie ist der einzige Ort, an dem alle Menschen gleichzeitig erreicht werden können. Vor diesem Hintergrund fordern Bildungsakteur:innen den Aufbau von kommunalen Bildungslandschaften mit BNE-Fokus. Doch was kennzeichnet kommunale Bildungslandschaften mit BNE-Fokus und wie werden diese erfolgreich entwickelt? Ziel des Praxishandbuchs ist es, (erste) Antworten auf diese Fragen zu geben. Akteurinnen und Akteuren auf der kommunalen Ebene werden konkrete Ansatzpunkte aufgezeigt und praktische Ideen bereitgestellt, wie auf kommunaler Ebene eine Struktur geschaffen werden kann, die allen Menschen - von Kindern bis Senior:innen - Bildungsmöglichkeiten bereitstellt, um sich das Wissen und die Kompetenzen für eine nachhaltige gesellschaftliche Entwicklung aneignen zu können. Der Inhalt dieses Praxishandbuchs speist sich aus den Erfahrungen und Erkenntnissen der Arbeit des Modellprojekts: BNE-Kompetenzzentrum: Bildung - Nachhaltigkeit - Kommune, das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert wird. In dessen Rahmen werden Modellkommunen begleitet, Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in die kommunalen Bildungslandschaften systematisch zu implementieren

A survey of visualization tools for biological network analysis

The analysis and interpretation of relationships between biological molecules, networks and concepts is becoming a major bottleneck in systems biology. Very often the pure amount of data and their heterogeneity provides a challenge for the visualization of the data. There are a wide variety of graph representations available, which most often map the data on 2D graphs to visualize biological interactions. These methods are applicable to a wide range of problems, nevertheless many of them reach a limit in terms of user friendliness when thousands of nodes and connections have to be analyzed and visualized. In this study we are reviewing visualization tools that are currently available for visualization of biological networks mainly invented in the latest past years. We comment on the functionality, the limitations and the specific strengths of these tools, and how these tools could be further developed in the direction of data integration and information sharing

Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska

Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on “the front line of climate change.” Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration, referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial applications emphasized the need for government relocation policies, it has elsewhere been applied more broadly to encompass unplanned migration as well. Some historical movements have been attributed to climate change, but closer study tends to find multiple causes, making it difficult to quantify the climate contribution. Clearer attribution might come from comparisons of migration rates among places that are similar in most respects, apart from known climatic impacts. We apply this approach using annual 1990–2014 time series on 43 Arctic Alaska towns and villages. Within-community time plots show no indication of enhanced out-migration from the most at-risk communities. More formally, there is no significant difference between net migration rates of at-risk and other places, testing several alternative classifications. Although climigration is not detectable to date, growing risks make either planned or unplanned movements unavoidable in the near future

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Power to gas energy storage system for energy self-sufficient smart cities development

The main energy challenge in the smart cities development is the optimization of the energy system to reduce energy cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The low feed-in tariff offered by the electricity retailer is another incentive to trade the energy within the project boundaries or neighbouring precincts using the Blockchain peer to peer energy trading. This study develops an energy system model for the RENeW Nexus project as part of smart city development at stage one in the City of Fremantle for a small community (Lot 1819) comprising 36 townhouses and 50 apartments. The system was developed to simulate the optimal Power to Gas (P2G) system for excess renewable energy storage in combination with shared strata battery towards an energy self-sufficiency system. The rooftop area of the townhouses in the developed precinct has been used to generate excess renewable energy from solar photovoltaic (PV) to compensate for less area available on the rooftops of the multi-story apartment's buildings in the presence of a large-scale centralised strata battery. The peer to peer energy trading takes place using Blockchain technology to achieve the energy self-sufficiency goal. The study also identifies the techno-economic viability of P2G system over the large-scale energy storage systems. The model simulation demonstrated that the initial cost of the P2G system is comparably less than the current conventional battery systems