@masterthesis{Bosch2016,
  type      = {Bachelor Thesis},
  author    = {Bosch, Daniel},
  title     = {Zersplitterung statt Einheit},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-97417},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {III, 40, X},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Das fr{\"u}he 20. Jahrhundert brachte in Europa eine politische Ideologie hervor, die sich rasch auf dem Kontinent ausbreitete und ihn nachhaltig pr{\"a}gte: den Faschismus. In den Fokus der Geschichtswissenschaft, aber auch der Medien und der Unterhaltungsindustrie r{\"u}ckten dabei vor allem der italienische Faschismus und der deutsche Nationalsozialismus. Doch auch in anderen europ{\"a}ischen Staaten formierten sich in der Zwischenkriegszeit faschistische Bewegungen, die in einigen F{\"a}llen mehr, in anderen F{\"a}llen weniger Erfolg hatten. Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit dem Ph{\"a}nomen Faschismus in einem dieser Staaten, der oft als Vorreiter der modernen Demokratie angesehen wird: Großbritannien. Den Untersuchungen liegt die zentrale Frage zugrunde, warum der britische Faschismus in den turbulenten Jahren zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen nicht denselben Erfolg wie in Deutschland oder Italien erringen und zu einer bestimmenden politischen Kraft aufsteigen konnte. Zur Kl{\"a}rung dieser Frage werden zwei Aspekte betrachtet. Zum einen untersucht die Arbeit eine Auswahl an faschistischen Bewegungen, die sich in dieser Zeit gebildet hatten und politisch aktiv wurden. Die pers{\"o}nlichen Einstellungen, politischen Ambitionen und gegenseitigen Differenzen der jeweiligen F{\"u}hrungsfiguren spielen dabei ebenso eine Rolle wie das politische Programm und die Erfolgsgeschichte ihrer Bewegungen. Der zweite Teil fokussiert die britische Gesellschaft und beleuchtet die Rolle der Bev{\"o}lkerung sowie die politischen und soziokulturellen Umst{\"a}nde in Großbritannien. Mithilfe dieser personenbezogenen sowie politik- und gesellschaftszentrierten Analyse sollen die Gr{\"u}nde f{\"u}r den Misserfolg des britischen Faschismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit ermittelt werden. Neben einschl{\"a}giger Sekund{\"a}rliteratur st{\"u}tzt sich die Arbeit auch auf ausgew{\"a}hltes Quellenmaterial. Zeitgen{\"o}ssische Zeitungsartikel sowie die von den zu untersuchenden Personen verfassten Werke sollen einen detaillierteren Einblick in die politischen Absichten und pers{\"o}nlichen Intentionen der Bewegungen und ihrer Protagonisten liefern.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Olonscheck2016,
  author    = {Olonscheck, Mady},
  title     = {Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-98378},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XXIV, 127},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The energy sector is both affected by climate change and a key sector for climate protection measures. Energy security is the backbone of our modern society and guarantees the functioning of most critical infrastructure. Thus, decision makers and energy suppliers of different countries should be familiar with the factors that increase or decrease the susceptibility of their electricity sector to climate change. Susceptibility means socioeconomic and structural characteristics of the electricity sector that affect the demand for and supply of electricity under climate change. Moreover, the relevant stakeholders are supposed to know whether the given national energy and climate targets are feasible and what needs to be done in order to meet these targets. In this regard, a focus should be on the residential building sector as it is one of the largest energy consumers and therefore emitters of anthropogenic CO 2 worldwide. This dissertation addresses the first aspect, namely the susceptibility of the electricity sector, by developing a ranked index which allows for quantitative comparison of the electricity sector susceptibility of 21 European countries based on 14 influencing factors. Such a ranking has not been completed to date. We applied a sensitivity analysis to test the relative effect of each influencing factor on the susceptibility index ranking. We also discuss reasons for the ranking position and thus the susceptibility of selected countries. The second objective, namely the impact of climate change on the energy demand of buildings, is tackled by means of a new model with which the heating and cooling energy demand of residential buildings can be estimated. We exemplarily applied the model to Germany and the Netherlands. It considers projections of future changes in population, climate and the insulation standards of buildings, whereas most of the existing studies only take into account fewer than three different factors that influence the future energy demand of buildings. Furthermore, we developed a comprehensive retrofitting algorithm with which the total residential building stock can be modeled for the first time for each year in the past and future. The study confirms that there is no correlation between the geographical location of a country and its position in the electricity sector susceptibility ranking. Moreover, we found no pronounced pattern of susceptibility influencing factors between countries that ranked higher or lower in the index. We illustrate that Luxembourg, Greece, Slovakia and Italy are the countries with the highest electricity sector susceptibility. The electricity sectors of Norway, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Denmark were found to be least susceptible to climate change. Knowledge about the most important factors for the poor and good ranking positions of these countries is crucial for finding adequate adaptation measures to reduce the susceptibility of the electricity sector. Therefore, these factors are described within this study. We show that the heating energy demand of residential buildings will strongly decrease in both Germany and the Netherlands in the future. The analysis for the Netherlands focused on the regional level and a finer temporal resolution which revealed strong variations in the future heating energy demand changes by province and by month. In the German study, we additionally investigated the future cooling energy demand and could demonstrate that it will only slightly increase up to the middle of this century. Thus, increases in the cooling energy demand are not expected to offset reductions in heating energy demand. The main factor for substantial heating energy demand reductions is the retrofitting of buildings. We are the first to show that the given German and Dutch energy and climate targets in the building sector can only be met if the annual retrofitting rates are substantially increased. The current rate of only about 1 \% of the total building stock per year is insufficient for reaching a nearly zero-energy demand of all residential buildings by the middle of this century. To reach this target, it would need to be at least tripled. To sum up, this thesis emphasizes that country-specific characteristics are decisive for the electricity sector susceptibility of European countries. It also shows for different scenarios how much energy is needed in the future to heat and cool residential buildings. With this information, existing climate mitigation and adaptation measures can be justified or new actions encouraged.},
  language  = {en}
}