Data publikacji: 31 May 2005 Zakres stron: 167 - 178
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Demographic change is currently posing major challenges for regions and facing them with conflicts (especially regarding the distribution of infrastructure) which call increasingly for co-operative solutions involving other territorial authorities as well as the involvement of the private sector and civil society. This broadening of the range of actors involved in turn requires a form of network-based regional governance geared increasingly to promoting cooperation. Against the background of demographic change, Regional Governance aims to initiate processes of self-organisation, i.e. to create the capacity to act autonomously at regional level, and to improve the self-organising capacity to both sub-regions and of a region in its entirety. In order to show how this capacity to act at regional level might be established, the following article takes the Braunschweig region as a case in point to illustrate the development of this type of „organising capacity“.
Data publikacji: 31 May 2005 Zakres stron: 179 - 188
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The concepts “City“ and “Nature“ are used as contrasts both in habitual language and in urban research discourses. At the same time there exist multifaceted conjunctions between these seemingly dichotomous categories: planning of municipal parks, research in urban ecology, and debates on urban sustainability are just some examples. While approaching the relationship of city and nature, urban research claims that temporarily valid understandings of nature are nothing given. Nature, especially in urban spaces, is hardly ever pristine and self-acting. Rather, the understanding and the use of “Nature“ is strongly associated to societal preferences, to Zeitgeist, and to ever changing frameworks.
The article at hand first illustrates and resumes these conjunctions, before it outlines the discussion on the “social construction of nature“. This evolving research approach aims to consider these aspects on a conceptual level.
Data publikacji: 31 May 2005 Zakres stron: 189 - 198
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A detailed study of available literature within a scientific research project revealed that neither in science nor in practice a discussion evolved concerning the impact of demographic changes on environmental and nature conservation issues to date. This is exacerbated by the fact that demographic change is only one factor amongst others that affects environment and nature. Therefore, no direct causal connection between demographic changes and the environmental condition can be drawn.
Nevertheless, an impact of the demographic changes on environmental and nature conservation issues can yet be expected for the future. In order to evaluate the chances and risks for environment and nature and to respond appropriately to them it is important to integrate environmental and nature conservation issues into today’s scientific, planning and political discussion on this topic.
Data publikacji: 31 May 2005 Zakres stron: 199 - 209
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This article develops a number of spatial-order concepts designed to steer the implementation of the quantitative adjustments that need to be made to the provision of social infrastructure close to where the users of these facilities live. Against the background of the aim to provide parity of provision throughout the entire territory, the aim of these concepts is show how such facilities might best be distributed in terms of location in the future. These concepts are based on a customised procedure for gauging the need for quantitative adjustments at the sub-urban level and on the application of a set of criteria to be used in selecting suitable locations for adjustment. The article begins by presenting an overview of current trends which can be detected in current (structural) changes in the quantitative and qualitative demand for social infrastructure, and by considering the implications these entail.
Demographic change is currently posing major challenges for regions and facing them with conflicts (especially regarding the distribution of infrastructure) which call increasingly for co-operative solutions involving other territorial authorities as well as the involvement of the private sector and civil society. This broadening of the range of actors involved in turn requires a form of network-based regional governance geared increasingly to promoting cooperation. Against the background of demographic change, Regional Governance aims to initiate processes of self-organisation, i.e. to create the capacity to act autonomously at regional level, and to improve the self-organising capacity to both sub-regions and of a region in its entirety. In order to show how this capacity to act at regional level might be established, the following article takes the Braunschweig region as a case in point to illustrate the development of this type of „organising capacity“.
The concepts “City“ and “Nature“ are used as contrasts both in habitual language and in urban research discourses. At the same time there exist multifaceted conjunctions between these seemingly dichotomous categories: planning of municipal parks, research in urban ecology, and debates on urban sustainability are just some examples. While approaching the relationship of city and nature, urban research claims that temporarily valid understandings of nature are nothing given. Nature, especially in urban spaces, is hardly ever pristine and self-acting. Rather, the understanding and the use of “Nature“ is strongly associated to societal preferences, to Zeitgeist, and to ever changing frameworks.
The article at hand first illustrates and resumes these conjunctions, before it outlines the discussion on the “social construction of nature“. This evolving research approach aims to consider these aspects on a conceptual level.
A detailed study of available literature within a scientific research project revealed that neither in science nor in practice a discussion evolved concerning the impact of demographic changes on environmental and nature conservation issues to date. This is exacerbated by the fact that demographic change is only one factor amongst others that affects environment and nature. Therefore, no direct causal connection between demographic changes and the environmental condition can be drawn.
Nevertheless, an impact of the demographic changes on environmental and nature conservation issues can yet be expected for the future. In order to evaluate the chances and risks for environment and nature and to respond appropriately to them it is important to integrate environmental and nature conservation issues into today’s scientific, planning and political discussion on this topic.
This article develops a number of spatial-order concepts designed to steer the implementation of the quantitative adjustments that need to be made to the provision of social infrastructure close to where the users of these facilities live. Against the background of the aim to provide parity of provision throughout the entire territory, the aim of these concepts is show how such facilities might best be distributed in terms of location in the future. These concepts are based on a customised procedure for gauging the need for quantitative adjustments at the sub-urban level and on the application of a set of criteria to be used in selecting suitable locations for adjustment. The article begins by presenting an overview of current trends which can be detected in current (structural) changes in the quantitative and qualitative demand for social infrastructure, and by considering the implications these entail.