Die chronologische Liste zeigt aktuelle Veröffentlichungen aus dem Forschungsbetrieb der Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf. Zuständig ist das Zentrum für Forschung und Wissenstransfer (ZFW).
The value chain of flowering potted plants (FPP) is associated with environmental, social and economic sus-tainability challenges. Indicator-based assessment methods can provide insights into sustainability performanceof agricultural value chains. The FPP value chain is not comparable to other agricultural systems and thereforecannot be assessed with existing indicator-based tools. In this study, a framework was developed for sustain-ability assessment of the FPP value chain, from breeding to distribution. The development of the frameworkinvolved defining sustainability themes and subthemes based on the characterization of the value chain and theinvestigation of social, environmental and economic sustainability challenges. The generic sustainabilityassessment tools, Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA) and Response-InducingSustainability Evaluation (RISE), provided the foundation for indicator selection and development. The cur-rent study emphasized the need for a system-specific view, especially in unique systems such as the FPP valuechain, because generic assessment tools, such as SAFA and RISE, do not cover all sustainability subthemes. Mostof the indicators missing from generic assessment tools were environmental indicators. Environmental assess-ment is closely related to value chain stages and product-specific processes, therefore indicators were allocatedaccording to the value chain stages, breeding, production and distribution. Social sustainability themes areinfluenced by national and regional socio-economic conditions, such as government provision of healthcare and asocial safety net. Therefore, indicators are allocated based on geographical regions and stakeholder groups. Theeconomic subthemes are determined by industry structure and sector-specific conditions. The ornamental sectoris characterized by low margins and high uncertainty, related to profitability and vulnerability. Despite the initialevaluation performed in the current study, in the next step, industry actors need to determine the feasibility ofthe indicators. The implementation of the framework developed in the current study will provide further insightsinto the value chain, which will guide actors in taking actions for performance improvement and provideguidance for policy-makers in setting sustainability targets.
Human learning and intelligence work differently from the supervised pattern recognition approach adopted in most deep learning architectures. Humans seem to learn rich representations by exploration and imitation, build causal models of the world, and use both to flexibly solve new tasks. We suggest a simple but effective unsupervised model which develops such characteristics. The agent learns to represent the dynamical physical properties of its environment by intrinsically motivated exploration and performs inference on this representation to reach goals. For this, a set of self-organizing maps which represent state-action pairs is combined with a causal model for sequence prediction. The proposed system is evaluated in the cartpole environment. After an initial phase of playful exploration, the agent can execute kinematic simulations of the environment’s future and use those for action planning. We demonstrate its performance on a set of several related, but different one-shot imitation tasks, which the agent flexibly solves in an active inference style.
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Ali Sakhaee,
Anika Gebauer,
Prof. Dr. Mareike Ließ,
Axel Don
Do consumers want to reduce plastic packaging? (2021) Kurzvortrag und Posterpräsentation auf der BECC 2021, virtuell, 08.-10.11.2021 .
Dr. Thomas Decker
Was entsorgen Verbraucher:innen wie? Und warum? Ergebnisse einer Tagebuchstudie zum Entsorgungsverhalten von Lebensmittelverpackungen? (2021) Vortrag auf dem Webinar #6 : Nachhaltige Plastikverpackungen – Sortieren, Verändern Vermeiden – was geht?, 8.11.2021, virtuell .
Prof. Dr. Bernd Hertle
Die Weihenstephaner Gärten (2021) Gesellschaft der Staudenfreunde. Tübingen-Kusterdingen. 6.11.2021 .
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