Innovative Ansätze zum Schutz der Natur: Visionen für die by Karl-Heinz Erdmann,Thomas J. Mager

By Karl-Heinz Erdmann,Thomas J. Mager

Naturschutz entwickelt sich zunehmend zu einem gesellschaftsgestaltenden Aufgabenfeld, das an politischem Einfluß gewinnt. Der bislang dominierende Schutz von einzelnen Arten und Biotopen wird ergänzt um Konzepte und Strategien einer dauerhaft naturverträglichen Entwicklung. Dabei wird der Mensch als zentraler Bestandteil naturschützenden Handelns verstanden. Namhafte Autoren beschreiben hier Wege, wie die aktuellen Herausforderungen in Gegenwart und Zukunft vom Naturschutz aufgenommen und zum Wohle von Mensch und Natur gemeistert werden können.

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Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the by Dirk Schubert,Prof Dr Schubert Dirk

By Dirk Schubert,Prof Dr Schubert Dirk

Jane Jacobs's well-known ebook The loss of life and lifetime of nice American towns (1961) has challenged the self-discipline of city making plans and resulted in a paradigm shift. arguable within the Nineteen Sixties, so much of her principles grew to become usually authorised inside a decade or so after e-book, not just in North the US yet around the globe, because the articles during this quantity reveal. in response to cross-disciplinary and transnational methods, this booklet deals new insights into her advanced and infrequently contrarian mind set in addition to analyses of her influence on city making plans idea and the results for making plans perform. Now, greater than 50 years after the preliminary booklet, in a interval of swift globalisation and deregulated methods in making plans, new demanding situations come up. The contributions during this booklet argue that it's not attainable just to persist with Jane Jacobs's principles to the letter, yet as an alternative it will be important to contextualize them, to seem for suitable classes for towns and planners, and severely to reconsider why and the way a few of her rules can be up-to-date. Bringing jointly a global workforce of students and writers, this quantity develops conclusions in keeping with new examine as to how her paintings should be re-interpreted below diverse situations and used in the present debate concerning the proclaimed ‘millennium of the city’, the twenty first century.

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Governance for Pro-Poor Urban Development: Lessons from by Franklin Obeng-Odoom

By Franklin Obeng-Odoom

The international improvement associations regularly current 'urban governance' as an antidote to the so-called 'urbanisation of poverty' and 'parasitic urbanism' in Africa.



Governance for Pro-Poor city Development is a finished and systematic research of the which means, nature, and results of 'urban governance' in concept and in perform, with a spotlight on Ghana, a rustic generally considered as an island of fine governance within the sub zone. The booklet illustrates how diversified teams adventure city governance otherwise and contextualizes how this event has worsened social differentiation in cities.



This booklet might be of serious curiosity to scholars, lecturers, and researchers in improvement reports, and hugely suitable to a person with an curiosity in city stories, geography, political economic system, sociology, and African studies.

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City Project and Public Space: 14 (Urban and Landscape by Silvia Serreli

By Silvia Serreli

The ebook goals at nurturing theoretic mirrored image at the urban and the territory and dealing out and utilizing equipment and methods for bettering our actual and social landscapes. the most factor is built round the projectual measurement, with the target of visualising either town and the territory from a specific point of view, which singles out the territorial measurement because the city’s house of verbal exchange and negotiation. matters that characterise the dynamics of urban improvement should be confronted, comparable to the hot, clean kin among city societies and actual area, the fitting to the town, city fairness, the venture for the actual urban as a method to bare civitas, symptoms of recent social cohesiveness, the feel of up to date public house and the sustainability of city improvement. Authors were invited to discover subject matters that function a pluralism of disciplinary contributions learning formal and casual practices at the undertaking for town and looking conceptual and operative different types in a position to knowing and dealing with the issues inherent within the profound differences of up to date city landscapes.

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Cidades criativas (Memória e Sociedade) (Portuguese Edition) by Ana Carla Fonseca Reis

By Ana Carla Fonseca Reis

Símbolos que sintetizam e cristalizam a civilização, as cidades revelam-se como estruturas cada vez mais complexas e dinâmicas. Ao mesmo pace em que são influenciadas tanto pelo homem quanto pela geografia, também exercem uma influência irresistível sobre o que acontece em seus limites, contribuindo para a própria formação da identidade de sua população. O estudo das cidades se revela como estudo da própria humanidade. E no atual contexto desse início de milênio, esse conhecimento torna-se essencial na medida em que a partir dele é que se poderão traçar os caminhos para a evolução que é cada dia mais urgente. Ana Carla Fonseca Reis levanta essa discussão sob a luz da economia criativa e seus desdobramentos nas diversas áreas que são englobadas pelo conceito de cidade.

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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s by Dar Williams

By Dar Williams


A liked folks singer offers an impassioned account of the autumn and upward thrust of the small American cities she cherishes

Dubbed by means of the New Yorker as "one of America's best possible singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her occupation no longer in stadiums, yet traveling America's small cities. She has performed their venues, composed of their espresso outlets, and under the influence of alcohol of their bars. She has noticeable those groups fight, but additionally visible them thrive within the face of postindustrial id crises.

Here, Williams muses on why a few cities flourish whereas others fail, reading components from the importance of heritage and nature to the uniting energy of public areas and foodstuff. Drawing on her personal travels and the paintings of city theorists, Williams bargains genuine ideas to rebuild declining communities.

What i discovered in 1000 cities is greater than a love letter to America's small cities, it is a deeply own and hopeful message concerning the strength of America's vigorous and resilient communities.

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Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development: The by William Peterman

By William Peterman

Exploring the promise and bounds of grassroots techniques for neighborhood organizing, improvement and making plans, this publication appears to be like at how they are often utilized in the revitalization and upkeep of city neighborhoods. The ebook provides a couple of case reports from the U.S., studying the explanations for achievement and failure, and concludes with thoughts within the kind of a "tool equipment" for planners and neighborhood leaders.

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Sustainable Development of Multifunctional Landscapes by Katharina Helming,Hubert Wiggering

By Katharina Helming,Hubert Wiggering

New calls for on landscapes and usual assets demand multifunctional ways to land improvement. instruments are required to spot the consequences of land administration on panorama sustainability and to help the decision-making method at the multipurpose utilisation of panorama assets. Scientists from throughout Europe put in the "Landscape the next day" community to be ready for brand spanking new challenges in study to sustainable land improvement in a world perspective. This publication analyses common rules of panorama multifunctionality, develops how to check the sustainability of agricultural and forestry land administration and identifies suggestions of sustainable land management. Moreover, it contributes to the clinical foundation for destiny land improvement suggestions and is helping aid land use decision-making at the political, making plans and administration level.

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Naturnaher Wasserbau: Entwicklung und Gestaltung von by Peter Jürging,Werner Kraus

By Peter Jürging,Werner Kraus

In fachübergreifender Perspektive beschreiben die Autoren die Entwicklung der Fließgewässer mit ihren Lebensräumen und erläutern auf dieser Grundlage die Methoden des naturnahen Wasserbaus. Die three. Auflage wurde besonders im Hinblick auf die Umsetzung der EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie sowie die Änderung des Wasserhaushaltsgesetzes und des Hochwasserschutzgesetzes ergänzt. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche erläuternde Abbildungen, Grafiken und Farbtafeln, um die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten bei der Renaturierung und Pflege von Fließgewässern anschaulich zu machen.

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