Walkscapes: Redefining the path network in Emscher Landscape Park

This thesis investigates the significance of leisure walking and the spatial dimensions of pleasant walking space, in the context of fragmented urban landscape. Pleasant walking experience is intended to improve the living experience of citizens, and the space for walking is seen as a tool to reduce the fragmentation. Ruhrgebiet in Germany was...

Farmers' Strategies Coping with Water Shortage: A Case Study in the Irrigation District of La Joya Antigua, Peru

Located between the Andes Mountains and the southwestern coastline of Peru, the irrigation district of La Joya Antigua has a typical sub-tropical desert climate with very little annual precipitation. Study on this irrigation district shows sufficient irrigation water on most of the farms in a wet year but a deficit of irrigation water in a dry...