Publications
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Heizen mit dem Split-Klimagerät?
(2022)
The energy transition requires a conversion of the heating systems in almost all buildings from the fossil-dependent, fuel-powered boilers to, ideally, completely renewable heat generation. Because the development of ...
Eine Welt der Ordnungen
(2022)
This edited book offers an overview of different forms of order in 20th- and 21st-century world politics. After a general discussion of the concept of (political) order, the book discusses seven forms of order on a regional ...
An den Grenzen des Waldes und der menschlichen Siedlung
(2012)
The subalpine zone of the inner Oetz Valley (Obergurgl/Vent, Tyrol, Austria) was influenced by human activities since several thousands of years. As a consequence a high diversity of plant communities developed at formerly ...
Nicht auf Sand bauen – Herausforderungen für das soziale Engagement der Kirche in Burkina Faso
(2012)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
MEDIEN – WISSEN – BILDUNG: Freie Bildungsmedien und Digitale Archive
(2014)
Ever since digital technologies became widespread, the increasing capacities of storing, exchanging and sharing of information have given rise to optimistic scenarios of an egalitarian information society as well as to ...
Liebe im Zeichen von Lieblingsliteratur
(2009)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
Liechtenstein – Stärke durch Vielfalt
(2012)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
Die Epoche Maria Theresias bis zum Ausgleich Österreich-Ungarns aus französischer Perspektive
(2013)
In the present work, the Austrian story is the first time explicitly examined from a French perspective. The author first outlines the relevant directions of the French historical scholarship and subsequently describes ...
Der Biosphärenpark als regionales Leitinstrument. Das Große Walsertal im Spiegel der Nutzer
(2009)
This publication is based on a research project “Zukünftige Entwicklungsstrategien für den Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal (Future strategies for the development of the biosphere reserve Grosses Walsertal)”, a regional ...
« Je parle du française, où ? » Interlangue française d’un germanophone Étude longitudinale du lexique
(2013)
How to talk when you learn a foreign language? The language of the learner does not match from the beginning of the target language, it is characterized by numerous "errors" that are partially pre-programmed by the ...
Migrationsliteraturen in Europa
(2012)
Looking at literary texts, the volume opens up innovative and differentiated perspectives on the socio-politically controversial phenomenon of migration. It draws on Hartmut Böhme’s notion of literature as a discursive ...
Globalization and the City: Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present
(2013)
"The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is ...
Westliche Moderne, Christentum und Islam
(2008)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
Glaziale und periglaziale Lebensräume im Raum Obergurgl
(2010)
Glaciers and glacier forelands are the most impressive landscapes in the inner Oetz Valley (Tyrol, Austria). Since 1858, the glaciers of the area are retreating more or less continuously, releasing new areas for colonization. ...
Über Almen – zwischen Agrikultur & Trashkultur
(2008)
The book “Über Almen, zwischen Agrikultur & Trashkultur“ (About Alpine Pastures: agriculture and trash-culture) leads the reader from agricultural use of alpine meadows to touristic use and further to romanticistic views ...
Klima, Wetter, Gletscher im Wandel
(2013)
Alles unterliegt einem Wandel, so auch die klimatischen Bedingungen in den Alpen. Vor allem in den letzten Jahrzehnten war dieser Wandel gut zu beobachten: Das deutliche Abschmelzen der Gletscher ist ein unübersehbares ...
Intermedialität in der Komparatistik
(2013)
For over 40 years the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck has focused in its teaching and research work on taking stock of the concept of intermediality and the complex relations that exist ...
Ökonomische Strategien des Naturgefahrenmanagements – Konzepte, Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen
(2012)
While research on cultural dangers has a traditional focus on natural sciences the social and economic aspects of natural disasters gain increasing interest to allow for sustainable development. Hazard and loss potential ...
The Water Balance of the Alps – What do we need to protect the water resources of the Alps? Proceedings of the Conference held at Innsbruck University, 28-29 September 2006
(2007)
This book contains the proceedings of the conference “The Water Balance of the Alps. What do we need to protect the water resources of the Alps?” held in Innsbruck in September 2006. The aim of the conference was to present ...
Coole Forschung Lernen und Forschen im Internationalen Polarjahr 2007/2008
(2012)
BiPolar was a pioneer project of the sparkling Science framework. BiPolar was also a contribution to the international Polar Year 2007/2008. BiPolar is a research-educational cooperation. BiPolar is modular. Each module ...
1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I
(2014)
For the past 100 years some of the greatest historians and political scientists of the twentieth century have picked apart, analyzed and reinterpreted this sequence of events taking place within a single month in July/early ...
Karl Außerhofer – Das Kriegstagebuch eines Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg
(2010)
The diary of Karl Außerhofer, written during World War I, reports on his military service in the mountains near Pustertal (Val Pusteria)and at the southern frontline. It shows his personal perception and of the enemies. ...
Datenflut und Informationskanäle
(2014)
Digitalisation; big data; open data
Medienräume: Materialität und Regionalität
(2013)
Space; Media; Communication
Politische, kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven der nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung in den Alpen
(2006)
Conceived with the steering bodies of the Alpine Convention, DIAMONT aims to give a vital impulse to the relaunch of SOIA (System for Observation of and Information on the Alps). In consistence with SOIA’s new aims and the ...
Global Change and Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions – Proceedings of the COST Strategic Workshop
(2009)
The Strategic Workshop „Global Change and Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions” was convened at the Congress Hall of Innsbruck, Austria, from April 7-9, 2008. The event attracted more than 350 scientists, experts, ...
Regional Economic Development Compared
(2014)
"Comparing economic development in a regional context both in the South of the United States and in the European Union today raises many fascinating questions. How much money in the form of tax credits and subsidies should ...
Refugee Narratives
(2020)
This bricolage of notes, sketches, stories, dialogues and reflections is the result of an interdisciplinary experiment based on encounters between students either of English or European Ethnology at the University of ...
Relationsadjektive im Deutschen, Französischen und Russischen
(2013)
In the classification of adjectives numerous variants are possible. A rough classification into lexical-semantic point of view, the distinction of quality and Relations adjectives. Both in German and in French and Russian, ...
Theologizing of a Christian
(2021)
The first part of the Trilogy explicates the bedrock conviction that women, men and queer realize their physical, psychic, social and spiritual integrity with the help of speech acts. I describe speech acts as social choices ...
Dirty Dancing
(2020)
Re-Imagining Peace
(2019)
In March 2017 during the armed conflict in Syria, the “Four Towns Agreement” was sealed as a reconciliation deal between the government and the armed opposition under the auspices of Iran and Qatar. Using the methodology ...
Le courage dans l’enseignement du français langue étrangère (Re-)Découverte d’une vertu démocratique à travers des récits du XXe siècle
(2013)
The advocacy of Markus Ludescher to "democratic virtue" Civil Courage is based on literary texts from different periods and geographical origins, addressing the most diverse social contexts, such as France under the ...
Aufgeklärte Apokalyptik: Religion, Gewalt und Frieden im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
(2007)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
Visuelle Kompetenz
(2011)
Connections between word and image have been addressed throughout history. As part of the ongoing medialization of life worlds issues of the production, distribution and perception of images have become especially virulent. ...
Erzählen: Reflexionen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung
(2008)
The ability to tell stories is one of the central elements of human culture. We cope with reality and give meaning to it through stories – on the level of social communication as well as on the individual level of coping ...
Reconciliation
(2021)
The 25th International Ecumenists Congress of Jesuit Ecumenists met at Clongowes Wood in County Kildare, Ireland, from July 8–13, 2019, a return to the Emerald Isle after the 18th Congress met there in 2005. This last ...
DataPolitics
(2021)
In our interaction with digital systems, we produce a great deal of data every day, which can be used for economic purposes as well as for political purposes. While democratic systems in Europe are looking for ways to deal ...
Menschmaschinen / Maschinenmenschen in der Literatur
(2023)
Artificially created (living) beings that are neither human nor machine, neither man nor woman, neither organism nor dead material, have occupied our imagination for thousands of years. For example, Aristotle complained ...
Innovative Concepts and Applications for Smart Water Cities
(2022)
Smart cities are emerging worldwide, including economic, institutional, social, and technical concepts in interaction with existing infrastructure to achieve sustainability and increase quality of life. Additionally, ...
Democracy, Religion, and Pluralism
(2022)
Democracy seems to be endangered. In the face of growing inequalities propelled by neo-liberal free-market mechanisms, hyper-nationalist movements have emerged across the world, manifesting deep-seated resentment and anger ...
Untersuchungen zum Einsatz hochauflösender bathymetrischer LIDAR Daten in der2D-Abflusssimulation und Habitatmodellierung
(2022)
In the present thesis, the use of high-resolution bathymetric survey data from Airborne LIDAR Bathymetry (ALB) in hydrodynamic-numerical (HN) modelling and physically based habitat modelling is investigated. Two near-natural ...
Sensing Mountains
(2022)
Sensing mountains by close-range and remote techniques is a challenging task. The 4th edition of the international Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2022 – Close-range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain brings ...
Ökologische Krisen und Ökologien der Kritik
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things in the last two years, including the perception of ecological crises. This does not only concern ecological dimensions of environmental damage climate dynamics, biodiversity ...
Wort – Satz – Korpus: Multimethodische digitale Forschung in der Linguistik
(2022)
Corpora, corpus linguistic methods and instruments of corpus creation have experienced an unprecedented upswing within linguistics in recent years. The present volume poses the question to what extent we can now speak of ...
Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv
(2022)
The journal "Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv" has been published regularly since the early 1980s (No. 1/1982). It provides information on the activities of the research institute Brenner-Archiv: on new estates, research ...
Naturjodel und Emotion
(2022)
This study investigated the emotional experiences of yodelers and listeners in relation to a specific type of yodeling, practiced in Unterwalden, a region in Central Switzerland. The yodels of Unterwalden are based on a ...
Ratlos vor dem Unbeherrschbaren?
(2022)
We will not get rid of Covid. Therefore, we will have to learn to live with the virus and its potential variants. The authors have tried to highlight how this might be possible from various perspectives. But beware: they ...