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Description: Since the 1970s, climate change has dominated the international scientific and political agenda. In particular, the foundation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the end of the 1980s played a major role for the further enhancement of efforts in the field of climate change sciences. However, to understand the interaction of the worldwide coordination of climate change sciences as well as the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its consequences, it is worthwhile to take a look at the self-conception of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's tasks and work. This paper gives an idea of the history of international climate change science, its representation in public discourse and the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by comprehensively illustrating its tasks, organization and self-image. Furthermore, the article tries to argue that the hitherto accepted concept of science followed within this body fails to integrate the idea of scientific ethics. It can be concluded that the conception of science represented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has heavily influenced worldwide attention to climate change, its becoming part of the political agenda as well as the ethical consequences.

Description: The adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 was a major achievement in the endeavour to tackle the problem of global climate change at the dawn of the 21st century. After many years of involvement in the negotiation process, the book's two internationally recognised authors now offer the international community a firsthand and inside perspective of the debate on the Kyoto Protocol. The book provides a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the history and content of the Protocol itself as well as of the economic, political and legal implications of its implementation. It also presents a perspective for the further development of the climate regime. These important features make this book an indispensable working tool for policy makers, negotiators, academics and all those actively involved and interested in climate change issues in both the developed and developing world.

Description: Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment (ANSEA) is an insightful new approach to environmental evaluation, based on decision theory, policy analysis and environmental considerations. These concepts, though not new in their own fields of application, are combined and integrated in an innovative fashion. This book presents recent research on the implementation of the ANSEA approach which aims to ensure environmental values are properly integrated into the decision-making process.

Description: Carbon export; SeaWiFS; variability; upwelling; Atlantic Ocean; chlorophyll filament; SeaWiFS; SST. - The North Atlantic off NW Africa is characterized by the trade wind induced upwelling of cold and nutrient rich waters. As one of most strongest eastern boundary upwelling areas it is marked by low sea surface temperature and high bio-production, both subject to strong seasonal and interannual variations.Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) in the upper water-column were used to (a) recognize the upwelling of deep water and its distribution and mixing in the surface, (b) identify the development of phytoplankton blooms and (c) provide further insights in the characteristics of its variations.Measurements of surface Chl-a were compared to deep-sea fluxes of organic carbon in order to determine the relationship between both parameters and to further calculate the export of Corg and the export variation strength.The off-shore extension of SST-defined upwelling from 1988 through 1999 between 18ʿ and 25ʿN shows maxima in January and May/June with an average area of 140,000 km2 (standard deviation of 20,000 km2). Minima in August exhibit an extension of 43,000 km2 (15,000 km2 standard deviation). A correlation between ...

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Description: The emphasis between theoretical, global and regional geography, proportion from research to publication has changed several times during the history of Hungarian geography. Certain scholars of Hungarian geography (geo-philosophers, and some theorists) were explicitly attached to theoretical issues of geographic science, yet the majority of geographers advantaged the concrete territorial descriptions and analysis. The regional approach appeared in the Hungarian geography much earlier than the demand on clarification of the theoretic issues of landscape. The first attempt to divide the country into macro landscapes was carried out in the first half of the 1500's. From this time on the geographic science formulated a demand to analyse the internal structure of the country within the frameworks of public administration or in the framework of some other way delimited geographic macro-regions. The administrative space enjoyed for centuries a favoured role, yet the demand for analyses based on the macro regional delimitation was always represented too. On general level the issues of landscape have already been present in Hungarian geographic science (the formulation of concepts, categories, border marking theories etc.), but Hungarian geographic science concerning the territorial research of Hungary has achieved the greatest results mostly in the fields of analytical landscape research, and evaluation ...

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Description: The paper is concerned with the development stages and the spatial transformation of the Hungarian banking system in the economic transition & post-transition periods. It gives an overview of the development tendencies of the financial re-integration into the global market and particularly concentrates on the spatial polarisation factors (concentration de-concentration; centralisation decentralisation) which affect banking. The paper explores the arguments behind the extremely high centralisation of headquarter functions in Budapest and the factors that have impact on the establishment of locally-regionally based banks. This is followed by an introduction of the different organisational (institutional) and territorial (location strategies) level of the Hungarian banking system, dealing with either the domestic or the international financial central-function of Budapest and the reorganisation of the bank network and with its social consequences (financial exclusion) in the regions. The paper argues that EU membership is not a dramatic event in the integration process of the Hungarian banking sector, partly due to its particular ownership structure, the integration of the banking sector has already taken place. The paper concludes that the EMU integration could have been affected more adversely the Hungarian regions already characterised by the endogenous disparities, which are to a large extent rooted in the deficiency of their financial base.

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Description: The Resource Assessment Branch of the Department of Water Land and Biodiversity Conservation (DWLBC) is currently undertaking the ‘Northern Adelaide Plains Prescribed Wells Area Well Investigation Project’ for the Northern Adelaide and Barossa Catchment Water Management Board (NABCWMB). This report provides an overview of the issues, results to date and future directions for the project. Stage 1 of the Leaky Wells Project is designed to audit and compile an accurate list of licensed irrigation wells within the Northern Adelaide Plains (NAP) Prescribed Wells Area (PWA). Of these licensed wells pumped salinity samples were to be collected by the licence holder and submitted for analysis. From a review of these wells and recorded salinity information all wells determined to be contaminating the major production aquifers were to be identified, investigated and remedial action undertaken. Stage 2 of the Leaky Wells Project aimed to assess the condition of the 2868 abandoned and disused wells throughout the NAP. As mentioned in the Administrative Agreement, it was expected that this phase of the project would be the most intensive, requiring considerable field investigations to determine the locations and current condition of these wells.

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Description: This report provides an overview of the water resources for the TintinaraCoonalpyn PWA (TCPWA) and includes: A general assessment of the groundwater resources for each of the aquifers in the PWA. A description (for both the unconfined and confined aquifers) of: The management approach adopted for the sustainable use of the resource (generally referred to as permissible annual volume) and a description of the manner in which the sustainable limits of use can be determined. Where separate management areas exist within the PWA, the adopted limits of sustainable groundwater use need to be tabulated. The assessment should identify any data deficiencies and requirements for future investigations. The historic and current demand (in terms of use) in each of the management areas within the PWA. The likely future demand for groundwater from this resource in the PWA. An assessment of whether the taking or use from the aquifers will have a detrimental effect on the quantity or quality of water that is available from any other water resource, both within and outside of the PWA; including a description of the likely nature and extent of any detrimental effects. An assessment of the current condition of the groundwater resources of both aquifers, taking into consideration available groundwater monitoring data to determine the capacity of both aquifers to meet the demands identified, on a continuing basis. This is to include recommendations for management intervention.

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Description: LOŽEK (1986) vertritt die Ansicht, dass Pupilla loessica rezent in Zentralasien vorkommt. Die vorliegende Studie hat das Ziel zu diesem Thema erste konkrete Diskussionsbeiträge zu liefern. Zu verstehen ist diese Arbeit als Grundlage für weitergehende Untersuchungen. Bei neueren Geländeaufenthalten von 1995-2006 konnten in Zentralasien im Russischen Altay, in der nördlichen Mongolei, im Baikal-Gebiet und im Tien Shan zahlreiche rezente Malakozönosen untersucht werden. An vielen Lokalitäten wurde eine bisher aus dieser Region unbeschriebene Form von Pupilla nachgewiesen, welche gehäuse-morphologisch von Pupilla loessica nicht zu unterscheiden ist. Einen Schwerpunkt der Verbreitung bildet das stark kontinental geprägte Khrebet Saylyugem im SE-Altay. Für das Vorkommen von Pupilla loessica in Zentralasien spricht neben den gehäuse-morphologischen Kriterien, die Präferenz dieser Form zu stärker kontinental geprägten Habitaten, mit Jahresdurchschnittstemperaturen, die deutlich unter 0° C liegen sowie die entsprechenden kälteangepassten Begleitfaunen, z. B. mit Columella columella, Vertigo genesii, Vallonia tenuilabris u. a., welche diese Faunen gut mit den pleistozänen kaltzeitlichen Assoziationen des mitteleuropäischen Raumes vergleichbar machen.

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Description: On the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, the ecological crisis appears in every physical and social aspect, and typically affects the rangelands on which most local people depend for their livelihood. Until today, however, changes in land use and vegetation cover on this Plateau have not yet been adequately and practically treated in studying the framework of sustainability. This thesis deals first with the basic ecological influences and interactions before reviewing their implications for development. The limitations of an ecological perspective is recognized, but this stems mainly from the misapplication of perspective and should not detract from its value. Ecology is undoubtedly the most basic and pervasive of the many determinants of the pastoral production systems of the high-frigid land. To ignore ecology or to fail to take it into account is to court disaster. The amount of literature reflects the importance of the subject but is not reviewed here in any detail; rather the aim is simply to set the scene for later discussions.

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Description: DFG, SUB Göttingen

Description: Der vorliegende Band 52 der Abhandlungen „Anthropogeographie“ des Instituts für Geographische Wissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin erfasst mit 54 Beiträgen den wissenschaftlichen Forschungsstand der IGU-Kommission “Urban Development and Urban Life”. Die vorgelegten Fassungen stellen die diskutierte und revidierte Form der Beiträge dar, die während der Jahrestagung der Kommission vom 15. bis 20. August 1994 in Berlin gehalten wurden. Die Tagung selbst stand unter dem Thema “Urban Transition and Quality of Life” und forderte damit in den jeweils zwei Einführungs- und zahlreichen weiterführenden Referaten der drei Arbeitsthemen 1) “Restructuring Urban Systems in Central and Eastern Europe“, 2) “Unemployment and Informal Economy in Cities” und 3) “Urban Identity, City Image and Urban Marketing” zu Bewertungen des Forschungsstandes bzw. kritischen Stellungnahmen durch aktuelle Forschungen heraus.

Description: 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0004.pdf"〉Titelseite〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0005.pdf"〉Titelseite〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0006.pdf"〉Vorwort〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0007.pdf"〉Foreword〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0008.pdf"〉Inhaltsverzeichnis〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0009.pdf"〉I. Introduction〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0010.pdf"〉Reflections Between Urban and University Structures and Planning〈/a〉〈br〉(Dietz, K., Braun, G. O.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0011.pdf"〉Berlin - Metropolis in Transition: The State of Urban Development in 1994〈/a〉〈br〉(Ellger, C.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0014.pdf"〉Planning for the Future of Berlin〈/a〉〈br〉(Branoner, W.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0016.pdf"〉Strategic Planning in Berlin〈/a〉〈br〉(Braun, G. O.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0019.pdf"〉Change in the Urban Structure in the Five New Länder: The Example of Eisenach〈/a〉〈br〉(Cassel, M., Schwaderer, G.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0021.pdf"〉II. Restructuring of Inter- and Intra-Urban Systems〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0022.pdf"〉Questions on Hierarchical Change in Urban Systems in Eastern and Central Europe〈/a〉〈br〉(Rey, V.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0026.pdf"〉Urban and Urban System Development in Central and Eastern Europe〈/a〉〈br〉(Grimm, F.-D., Taege, G.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0030.pdf"〉The Impact of Recent Socio-Political and Economic Changes on the Development of Slovenian Towns〈/a〉〈br〉(Pak, M.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0033.pdf"〉An Urban Evolution Model Applied to Romania's Towns〈/a〉〈br〉(Ianos, I.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0038.pdf"〉Warsaw: Development Problems and Strategies〈/a〉〈br〉(Korcelli, P., Potrykowska, A., Weclawowicz, G.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0039.pdf"〉The Urban System and Emerging Structure: An Application of Gibb's Measure to the Case of India〈/a〉〈br〉(Mookherjee, D.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0041.pdf"〉Reorganisation of the Urban System in Sri Lanka〈/a〉〈br〉(Wanasinghe, D. S.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0046.pdf"〉The Formation of an European Urban System〈/a〉〈br〉(Rozenblat, C., Pumain, D.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0051.pdf"〉On the Impact of Internationalization Process on the Finnish Settlement System〈/a〉〈br〉(Palomäki, M.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0055.pdf"〉Global Perspective of Seoul as a World City in the Region of Pacific Rims〈/a〉〈br〉(Kim, I.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0057.pdf"〉Urban Systems Dynamics: Evidence for the Toronto Urban System: 1930-1991〈/a〉〈br〉(Preston, R. E.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0060.pdf"〉The Growth of Toronto: A Market-Share Approach〈/a〉〈br〉(Simmons, J.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0064.pdf"〉Industrial Restructuring and Urban Development: An Examination in Metropolitan Detroit〈/a〉〈br〉(Sinclair, R.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0067.pdf"〉Counter-Urbanization in Perspective: Images and Reality in Settlement System Change〈/a〉〈br〉(Davies, W.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0069.pdf"〉Urban Region as a Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Unit in "A Europe of Regions"〈/a〉〈br〉(Vartiainen, P.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0070.pdf"〉The Ethnic and Social Division of a World City: The Case of London〈/a〉〈br〉(Petsimeris, P.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0075.pdf"〉Transformation in the South African Apartheid City – Residential Desegregation in Pietersburg: A Case Study〈/a〉〈br〉(Donaldson, S. E., Kotze, N. J.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0078.pdf"〉Intra-Urban Distribution of Ethnic Minorities in Munich and Duisburg〈/a〉〈br〉(Yamamoto, K.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0083.pdf"〉New Urban Poverty in the Basque Country and Navarra〈/a〉〈br〉(Ferrer, M., d’Entremont, A., Ciscar, I., Saracibar, M. A.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0085.pdf"〉Polarization and the Dutch Welfare State. The Case of Amsterdam〈/a〉〈br〉(Ostendorf, W., Musterd, S.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0088.pdf"〉III. Informal Economy〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0089.pdf"〉The Labour Market and the Role of Informality in Urban Mexico〈/a〉〈br〉(Aguilar, A. G.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0092.pdf"〉The Informal Economy in Chinese Cities〈/a〉〈br〉(Qi, S. D.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0093.pdf"〉The Urban Informal Sector: A Third World Experience〈/a〉〈br〉(Geeta Reddy, A., Rajkumar, G.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0094.pdf"〉Informal Urban Economy in the Lake Chad Basin〈/a〉〈br〉(Simeu-Kamdem, M.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0095.pdf"〉IV. Recent Urban Processes〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0096.pdf"〉City Challenge: Involving the Community in UK Urban Policy? 〈/a〉〈br〉(Lewis, J. R.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0098.pdf"〉Intra-Metropolitan Relocation of Work Places: The Case of Stockholm〈/a〉〈br〉(Mahieu, R.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0102.pdf"〉Problems of Mobility and Traffic in the Ruhr〈/a〉〈br〉(Lötscher, L., Fleisgarten, S.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0103.pdf"〉Moscow 1993: The Emergence of Housing Market and the Problems of Intra-Urban Segregation〈/a〉〈br〉(Vendina, O. I.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0107.pdf"〉V. Urban Marketing, City Management, Urban Identity〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0108.pdf"〉Urban Marketing: A Review〈/a〉〈br〉(Borchert, J. G.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0109.pdf"〉Urban Identity, City Image and Urban Marketing〈/a〉〈br〉(Dematteis, G.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0110.pdf"〉The Hidden Faces of the City〈/a〉〈br〉(Racine, J.-B.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0111.pdf"〉The City of Bergen. Image and Marketing〈/a〉〈br〉(Sjøholt, P.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0113.pdf"〉Structural Underpinnings of an Olympic City Bid〈/a〉〈br〉(Davies, R. J.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0116.pdf"〉Double Cities: Identity and Marketing of a New Urban Product〈/a〉〈br〉(Buursink, J.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0118.pdf"〉Corporate Space and Emerging Spatial Order in Japan〈/a〉〈br〉(Fujita, N.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0125.pdf"〉The Development of International Tourism in Tallinn, Estonia〈/a〉〈br〉(Kuus, M.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0126.pdf"〉Conflict, Consent, Cooperation: Comprehensive Planning in Germany Beyond Market and State〈/a〉〈br〉(Helbrecht, I.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0127.pdf"〉Urban Strategies: Mega Events. A Copenhagen Perspective〈/a〉〈br〉(Thor Andersen, H., Wichmann Matthiessen, C.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0129.pdf"〉From Spaces of Planning to Places of Resistance〈/a〉〈br〉(Haarni, T.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0132.pdf"〉VI. Re-Cycling Urban Landscape〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0133.pdf"〉The Role of Gentrification in the Changing Ecology of Income: Evidence From Canadian Cities and Implications for Further Research〈/a〉〈br〉(Bourne, L. S.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0134.pdf"〉Gentrification and the Youth Movements of the 1960s〈/a〉〈br〉(Ley, D.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0135.pdf"〉Recycling Urban Landscapes - Beyond the Power〈/a〉〈br〉(Andersson, H.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0136.pdf"〉Why was the Central City Population Stabilized? The Case of Copenhagen〈/a〉〈br〉(Illeris, S.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0138.pdf"〉Toronto's Underground City: Excavating the Terms of Access〈/a〉〈br〉(Hopkins, J.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0140.pdf"〉The Interpretation of Sea in Urban Planning and Everyday Life: The Case of Helsinki〈/a〉〈br〉(Karvinen, M.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0141.pdf"〉Urban Destinies - What are the Trends?〈/a〉〈br〉(Wärneryd, O.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0142.pdf"〉VII. Urban Modelling〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0143.pdf"〉DUVA – A Concept for a Metadata Driven Statistical Production and Information System〈/a〉〈br〉(Kopp, N.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0145.pdf"〉A New Era for Urban Modelling?〈/a〉〈br〉(Pumain, D.)〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0146.pdf"〉Competing Order Parameters in a Self-Organizing City〈/a〉〈br〉(Portugali, J., Benenson, I.)〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉 〈br〉 〈html〉 〈body〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0150.pdf"〉Authors and Addresses〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈li〉〈a href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/download/pdf/PPN1030505985/LOG_0151.pdf"〉[Werbung]〈/a〉〈/li〉 〈/body〉 〈/html〉

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Description: International migration to Chile and to the Santiago Metropolitan Area (SMA), its major point of attraction, is a rather recent phenomenon which is gaining more and more attention. According to the latest population census the number of foreigners who were born abroad and permanently live in Chile, has increased by 75% between 1992 and 2002. Parallel to this, the national policy debate about immigration is becoming more intensive. However, until now there is only little evidence concerning the patterns of international migration and the characterization of the immigrants social space. This study is oriented towards reducing this deficit...

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Description: Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) has the potential to utilise surface water resources, including urban stormwater runoff and treated wastewater that is largely wasted; thereby relieving the pressure on groundwater resources. In the broader sense, opportunities exist to use ASR to rethink our traditional water management and distribution policies, and to provide cost-effective and innovative alternatives to current methods of water supply. In South Australia, an increasing amount of stress is being placed on surface and groundwater resources to meet demands from expanding irrigated horticultural areas and urban populations. ASR can be used to reduce some of the pressure on traditional supplies of water, especially in metropolitan areas. But the sources of water for ASR must be carefully considered especially in rural areas so as not to shift the burden from one water supply source to another. A number of issues surround the use of ASR as a water management solution and these relate principally to water quality and water quantity. In rural areas, for example, the 'harvesting' of water from creeks and streams may result in extra pressure on an already stressed resource by further reducing the amount of water available to the environment. In urban areas the expanse of paved surfaces provides an ideal medium to capture large volumes of stormwater runoff. However, the volumes are often well in excess of any potential local demand. Understanding ASR technology ensures success in almost all situations ...

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Description: Groundwater is Eyre Peninsula's most precious resource and has become the sole source of reticulated water to meet potable and industrial demand. Water resources on Eyre Peninsula are scarce and fragile, particularly in the low rainfall regions, with few reliable freshwater streams and the groundwater availability is highly variable. The groundwater recharge and hence the security of the resource, is highly dependent upon local rainfall, landcover and landuse. Surface water is scarce and unreliable, and reticulated water is limited. Difficulty in accessing water resources has placed both a social and economic burden on the rural community throughout the region. The information contained on the CD will provide a vital framework for the future management planning of the available resources in the region.

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Description: Lincoln on Eyre Peninsula. It covers an area of ~70 km2 and comprises all or parts of the Hundreds of Lincoln, Wanilla, Lake Wangary, Uley, Sleaford and Flinders. The boundaries of the area are presented on Figure 1. In general water resources are limited in occurrence throughout the Eyre Peninsula. In the Southern Basins there is very little available surface water with one permanent and two ephemeral saline lakes, and two brackish lakes that feed ephemeral watercourses. However, there are moderately good supplies of groundwater resources, which provide a large part of the reticulated water supply for the Eyre Peninsula. The area is generally characterised by undulating topographic relief typical of an ancient dunal system with dramatic coastal cliffs and large internal drainage catchments. Ground level elevations range from 140 m coastal cliffs to inland depressions reaching near sea level to bedrock highs exceeding 200 m. The area incorporates the Kellidie Bay and Sleaford Mere Conservation Parks and parts of the Lincoln and Coffin Bay National Parks, which are managed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. Pursuant to this Act, park management plans have been prepared for the Lincoln and Coffin Bay National Parks and Kellidie Bay Conservation Park ...

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Description: The Saunders Creek is a tributary catchment for the River Murray which generates ephemeral flows in very wet years. Concerns have been expressed at the construction of large dams in the headwaters of the catchment, and their impacts on streamflow, and consequently recharge to aquifers. The catchment can be divided into two distinct groundwater regions: the Hills Zone and the Plains Zone. The Hills Zone comprises the consolidated basement rocks of the Mount Lofty Ranges, which form fractured rock aquifers. Borehole yields are generally low and salinities vary, apart from the western portion of the catchment where better quality water is drawn. The Plains Zone is underlain by unconsolidated sediments of the Murray Basin. The main aquifer is the Murray Group Limestone, which is utilised for domestic and stock purposes and is recharged mainly by infiltration of streamflow.

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Description: The Noora Prescribed Wells Area (PWA) lies over the deepest part of the Murray Basin in the far eastern boundary of South Australia (Fig. 1). It is bordered to the north by the River Murray, to the east by the South Australia Victoria border, to the south by the southern border of the Hundred of Bookpurnong and the west by a line parallel to and 20 km west from the South Australia Victoria border. Two aquifers are monitored in the Noora PWA: the Pliocene Sands Aquifer (topmost and unconfined) and the confined Murray Group Limestone Aquifer. Both aquifers contain mostly poor quality water with current limited use only for stock, but with potential uses for mining and industry. Groundwater flows in a westerly direction in each aquifer towards the River Murray. A third aquifer underlies the Murray Group Limestone Aquifer: the Renmark Group Aquifer. No current water level data is available for this aquifer system in the Noora PWA and it was therefore omitted from this monitoring report. There have been three main impacts of human settlement on the Noora PWA: land clearance, irrigation and the construction of the Noora Disposal Basin. All three have altered the hydrogeological balance in the Noora PWA by causing a rise in the watertable.

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Description: The South Australian Government, through the Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation (DWLCB) is responsible for the management of the State's groundwater resources. As a part of its role, the DWLCB monitors and maintains an extensive statewide groundwater monitoring network. Ground water monitoring has been undertaken in parts of the South East of South Australia for more than 30 years. The two main parameters used to measure the condition of the groundwater resources are water levels and salinity. Over time, a history of the condition of the aquifers has been established from this baseline information, enabling longer term and short-term changes to be identified and correlated with either natural (e.g. climatic) or man-induced changes (e.g. irrigation, development). This report is compiled for the South East Catchment Water Management Board (SECWMB) and displays a snapshot of data collected for the South East region up until June 2002.

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Description: Concerns have been raised about the environmental weed risk of non-indigenous plants promoted for broad scale revegetation and farm forestry purposes in South Australia (SA). Environmental weeds are plant species that invade and dominate natural habitats beyond the species' native range. The wide scale planting of species for revegetation, forestry, agriculture and horticulture increases the likelihood that some species will naturalise (i.e., form a self-sustaining population) and invade native vegetation or other landuse systems. However, analyses of past invasions have shown that the majority of plant species introductions will be of negligible weed risk. In 2001 the PIRSA Revegetation Program and the State Revegetation Committee of South Australia commissioned the Animal and Plant Control Commission (APCC) to undertake a weed risk assessment of 20 plant species. Weed risk assessment is the use of standard, technical criteria to determine the relative weed threats posed by plant species ...

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Description: This paper is introducing a method for analysing the differences and dynamics of the social utilisation of space. The essence of this method lies in the registration of changes in the spatial structure of settlements through analysing the spatial shifts of settlements within settlement network hierarchy with the identification of coherent spatial units. The analysis of spatial relations, i.e. microregional planning is a very useful method as it helps in mapping the interrelationship of settlements, and their major linking points, as well as in identifying their positions in the settlement hierarchy and through the analysis of the directions of gravitational force may localise their gravitational zones as well. Hereinafter, this method will be named as spatial relationship analysis. The startup phase for the workout of this method was funded by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund's Programme titled 'The Integration Ability of Rural Spaces in Hungary's Socio-economic Process' (registration no. T 7236).

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Description: The Mt Lofty Ranges Water Resources Assessment Program is an initiative of the Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation. The purpose of the Program is to quantify and assess the condition of surface and groundwater resources of the Mt Lofty Ranges Region. The assessments undertaken within the Program include hydrological modelling, reviews of the surface water monitoring network, the construction of new streamflow gauging stations, and the determination of environmental flows. These assessments are undertaken in partnership with other relevant agencies including catchment water management boards, the Environment Protection Authority, and the South Australian Water Corporation. This study is one of several comprehensive hydrological assessments of priority catchments in the region. Being the first, it provides an important technical foundation for collated reports assessing the resources across the region. In turn, these collated reports will inform policy decisions that will be made on future management of the natural resources in the region.

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Description: The main purposes of the academic research commissioned by the Rural Development Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development were: to examine the interrelation between long-term unemployment and individual as well as family life strategies, the regional characteristics of the labour market and the territorial development of rural areas, as well as explore governmental and local ambitions to alleviate long-term unemployment and evaluate their efficiency. The basic issues of the research were as follows: 1) Which are the regions where the concentrations of long-term unemployment can be found and what are the reasons for it? 2) What kind of interrelation can be observed between long-term unemployment and the potential of the social and economic development of the regions? 3) What central and local attempts have there been to alleviate long-term unemployment? 4) What results did these initiatives have and what were the reasons for their success or failure? 5) What foreign models can be followed when trying to alleviate long-term unemployment? 6) Which are the economic sectors, in which employment of those long-term unemployed is the most possible? The research was carried out by the horizontal work-team of rural development of the Centre for Studies Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Description: Your Wetland: Hydrology Guidelines is the first of three documents developed for managers of the wetlands that enrich the River Murray of South Australia. These documents consolidate the findings from research, monitoring and experiences of managers to create an ecologically-based decision making framework for guiding wetland management. The River Murray is facing a number of challenges, not least of which is river regulation. These challenges are drivers of fundamental changes in the hydrology of the river and its adjoining wetlands. Over the past decade, motivated individuals in the Riverland community have been managing wetlands by simulating the conditions of flooding and drying cycles. As a result of their experiences, much has been learnt about what can be achieved when these relatively simple tools are applied to wetland management. Although we still cannot explain all of the responses of wetlands to these management protocols, we now have a framework for future management activities that is based on documented experiences. Our collective tasks in the coming years are to extend this knowledge in order to refine further our capacities to manage and enhance the wetlands of the River Murray. These wetlands are worthy of our best efforts.

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Description: This paper examines the impact of the Hungarian banking system on regional and urban development in the early 20th century, when local banks were important territorial elements of the financial space developing close links to regional economic structures. The basic concept of the study is that there is closer connection not only between the banking sector and the economy as a whole, but between the banking sector and urban development as well. This is coincided with the argument of the American Historical Geographical school (Conzen, 1977) says that the features of the urban network are in strong correlation with the spatial structure of banking system and the diffusion of financial innovations. We considered the spatial breakdown of capital flows are one of the most important indicators of the regional and urban transformation (Gál, 2005). The Hungarian banking system looks back to a history of more than 160 years. Examining the impact of the banking system on regional and urban development is reasonable in the second half of the 19th century, since in Hungary developed an extensive financial system with a well researchable statistical database (Vargha, 1913). The Hungarian banking system was well developed in comparison to international standards by the first decade of the 20th century (Kövér, 1991; Tomka, 1996). Moreover, it became one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the domestic economy of that time ...

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Description: Considering the importance of migration research and the dearth in literature on migration, the following study has been done, with the intention of examining the complex interrelation between internal migration and the development process in Bangladesh. Thereby, emphasis has been given to the investigation and analysis of the causes of rural-urban migration and its spatial as well as socioeconomic consequences, with examples from Dhaka. To construct a framework for the present study, some consideration has been given to both theoretical as well as empirical studies on internal migration. The discussion of general theories which follows in the next section, has mainly been done to assess the validity of these in the analysis of internal migration in the Third World countries.

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Description: The focus of this research is on the socio-political effects of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Namibia. CBNRM transfers responsibility for and profits from wildlife to the local level. This is expected to have ecological, economic and socio-political effects. The main aim of this research was to assess the effects on local resource use governance. The institutional framework was analysed in relation to actor-specific factors. To this end an interactive visualisation tool (the power game) was developed. While CBNRM devolved power from the national to the local level, elite capture was prevalent locally. Interviewees saw the following problems: A gap between CBNRM actors and the rest of the community, an unclear and explosive role of the traditional authorities, a tense relations between NGOs and government, both following complementary goals but competing for power, high expectations that overburdened the projects

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Description: Das industrielle Erbe des Ruhrgebiets ist ein Zukunftspotential dieses altindustriellen Raums. Die Industriekultur stellt daher eins der Leitthemen der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt 2010. Industriekultur ist mehr als das bauliche Erbe des Industriezeitalters, sie ist die Entstehung der industriellen Kulturlandschaft, die Sozial- und Alltagsgeschichte der Region und ihre Mentalitätengeschichte. Zu ihrer Präsentation mangelt es an Grundlagenforschung, weshalb die Potentiale eines Teilraums untersucht wurden: Die Zechenlandschaft Hannover-Hannibal-Königsgrube im Bochum-Herner Grenzsaum weist im vierten Jahrzehnt nach Schließung dieser drei kruppschen Bergwerke aufgrund eines nur geringen Neunutzungsdrucks eine Fülle aussagefähiger Zeugnisse auf, die dokumentiert wurden. Nicht die Zechen, sondern die Entstehung der typischen Stadtlandschaft und die bergmännische Alltagskultur sind die potentiellen Präsentationsthemen dieses Raums, der sich als städtetouristisch noch nahezu ungenutzt erwies.

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Description: South Australia's natural resources are fundamental to the economic and social wellbeing of the state. One of the state's most precious natural resources, water is a basic requirement of all living organisms and is one of the essential elements ensuring biological diversity of life at all levels. In pristine or undeveloped situations, the condition of water resources reflects the equilibrium between rainfall, vegetation and other physical parameters. Development of these resources changes the natural balance and may cause degradation. If degradation is small, and the resource retains its utility, the community may assess these changes as being acceptable. However, significant stress will impact on the ability of a resource to continue to meet the needs of users and the environment. Understanding the cause and effect relationship between the various stresses imposed on the natural resources is paramount to developing effective management strategies. Reports of investigations into the availability and quality of water supplies throughout the state aim to build upon the existing knowledge base, enabling the community to make informed decisions concerning the future management of the natural resources, thus ensuring conservation of biological diversity.

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Description: Our study analyses changes undergoing in the relation system of metropolitan areas2 and the issues of social and economic relations arising from the restructuring of spatial and regional disparity systems. Global-scale economic, social and political integration, the processes of global urbanisation, globalising urban networks and the transformation of their subsystems are increasing the importance of large cities and their metropolitan areas. They are squeezing out the earlier systems of spatial relations having shaped up behind nation-state boundaries in the past. All these trends are also manifested by the vigorously increasing importance of cities (Barta, 1998; Cséfalvay, 1999; Enyedi, 2001, 2003, 2006; Knox, 2002). The spatial structuring force of cities and metropolitan areas is leaving its marks on the relation system of cities and their urban areas as well. The earlier hierarchical, mono-centric and core-periphery3 based spatial disparity model of urban areas is now in transition (Ascher, 1995; Baron et al., 2005; Barta - Beluszky, 1999; Enyedi, 2003; Merlin, 2003; Mirloup, 2002; Szirmai et al. 2007). The social, economic and environmental impacts of the newly structured and urbanised regions (Enyedi, 2001, 2003) will reconfigure the system of earlier spatial disparities (Beckouche et al. 1997; Marcuse, 1989; Szirmai, 2004). Besides (and partly instead of) monocentric and hierarchical schemed relations, horizontal cooperation models based on the functional division of labour and networked organisational systems will operate as the driving engines of spatial organisation ...

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Description: Territory as we know it is in constant change; distances shorten, new synergies are established, and new challenges make mankind search for answers and ways to develop in a sustainable and environment-friendly way. New contacts with people having different experiences are important because they give the opportunity to learn from others. The European Union is a great example of what is described above. Borders are open, people can freely move within the Schengen Area, territorial harmonisation is an objective of this community in order to provide better living conditions for all citizens, strengthen the economy and equilibrate disparities among regions in each country and all European members. The present study is a result of a European programme called Leonardo da Vinci, which offers work experience for post-graduates. In this case the synergy is between Letters Faculty of Lisbon University and Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Transdanubian Research Institute). The objective of the report is to provide a comparative work on the Portuguese and Hungarian territorial planning system. It is divided into three parts: first, the explanation and comprehension of the Portuguese territorial management system, its instruments and institutions are presented, which is followed by the discussion of the same issues for the Hungarian territory we identify instruments and institutions responsible for territorial organisation in connection with planning; and finally, a comparison of the two systems is given.

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Description: With the concept generally known as Wider Europe, the European Union has mapped out an ambitious vision of regional Neighbourhood that goes beyond cooperation to involve a significant measure of integration. Furthermore, the EU sees this new quality of regional interaction and partnership as bringing enormous gains to all involved in terms of increased stability, security and well being. The EUDIMENSIONS (Local Dimensions of a Wider European Neighbourhood: Developing Political Community through Practices and Discourses of Cross-Border Co-operation) research project, financed under the European Union 6th Framework Programme, priority 7, chapter 4.2.1 (New Borders, New Visions of Neighbourhood), has sought to map and analyse crossborder cooperation and political contact-building between the European Union and neighbouring states, with a special emphasis on the development of civil society, economic interaction and the specific issue of gender in the crossborder relationship network. Crossborder cooperation in this respect has been understood as subject to changing political constellation and rhetoric, involving considerable tension between inclusion, or Neighbourhood (the European Union's efforts to integrate its wider neighbourhood in various forms of political and economic partnership) and exclusion, or Fortress Europe (the increasing securitisation of Europe's external borders in order to protect the community from unregulated flows of goods and people) ...

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Description: Prescribed Wells Area (PWA) was established in the early 1960s, in order to monitor groundwater levels and salinity (Fig. 1). The number of wells monitoring water levels, particularly in the Tertiary Aquifers (T1 and T2) has been increasing in response to groundwater extraction for irrigation purposes. In the last two years the observation network was upgraded with 20 new and two replacement observation wells completed into T1 and T2 Aquifers. The purpose of a successful network is to identify areas that may be under stress because of over-pumping of groundwater or areas that may be at risk from salinisation. The introduction of the reclaimed water through the Virginia pipeline scheme required establishment of an observation network (1999), which targeted the area in which the bulk of the recycled water is to be applied and therefore should provide sufficient early warning should there be any unacceptable accessions to the perched watertable and Q1 Aquifer. During OctoberNovember 2001, this network was upgraded by thirteen shallow monitoring wells (perched watertable and Q1 Aquifer), which were installed as a part of a hydrogeological investigation in response to reports of rising shallow watertables in the area northwest of Virginia. These wells were included in the existing network and are monitored every three months. Four wells from this network are equipped with data loggers. Currently, a total of 165 wells throughout the NAP PWA and Kangaroo Flat Restricted Area are monitoring groundwater levels ...

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