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Vu Gia- Thu Bon River Basin, located in the Central Coastal Zone of Viet Nam faces water shortage problems. This is expected to be further exacerbated in the future as a result of climate change. Previous attempts in addressing water shortage in the area followed a traditional top-down, predict-then-act approach. In such an approach, General Circulation Model outputs simulating future climate conditions are downscaled then adaptation measures proposed. This approach could produce optimal adap...
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Es ist empirisch gut belegt, dass städtische Entwicklungen einen Einfluss auf Gesundheit haben. Gesundheitsförderung muss im Sinne des „Health in all Policies“-Ansatzes daher auch ein Handlungsfeld der Aktivitäten von Stadtentwicklung sein. Die Verfahren und Instrumente der Stadtplanung schöpfen jedoch nicht ihr volles Potenzial aus, um Gesundheitsbelange in Planungsprozessen zu berücksichtigen. Aktuelle Publikationen zum Thema gehen weiterhin von zu überwindenden Defiziten in der gesundheits...
Im Kontext von nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung ist die Schaffung gesunder Wohn- und Arbeitsverhältnisse ein wichtiges Ziel. Im Sinne des Subsidiaritätsprinzips kommt dabei der lokalen Ebene eine wichtige Rolle bei der Implementation übergeordneter politischer Ziele und den daraus resultieren Rechtsvorschriften zu. In der kommunalen Planung stellt der gewerbliche Immissionsschutz historisch ein zentrales Aufgabenfeld dar, denn mit der Ausübung von Gewerbe im städtischen Raum sind potenziell viel...
Green spaces and urban space are an unlikely couple. In the urban context, green areas are subordinated to functional aspects of the city like infrastructure and housing. Nevertheless, there seems to be a consensus about the relevance of green spaces for wellbeing. By stressing this relevance, central traits of urban green often stay unquestioned. In what instance does urban green get relevant or not in urban everyday life? The research investigates the everyday perception and appropriation o...
Over the past decades, mountainous areas and river valleys in Europe have frequently experienced floods and landslides. In order to reduce negative impacts, society is required to implement risk prevention measures. Decisions on where and how to develop space can significantly influence the vulnerability towards disasters. Specific risk reduction strategies and measures can be implemented at regional and local scales through spatial planning decisions. The ability to make appropriate decision...
It is expected that the changing temperatures and rising sea levels caused through global climate change will result in an aggravation of disaster risks (e.g. from heat stress, storms, flooding, landslides, air pollution, drought and water scarcity), particularly in urban areas (IPCC, 2014). This trend is exaggerated by the continuing trend of urbanization, which is projected to result in 66% of the people worldwide to live in cities in 2050 (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social ...
Although a significant number of trips in cities of developing counties are made on foot, especially in Sub Sahara Africa, the pedestrian environment has largely been neglected by most city authorities. Faced with high rates of motorization and the need to accommodate the growing requirements in increasingly urbanizing population; cities of the developing world are more preoccupied with motorised transport systems such as building arterial streets, Rapid Bus Transport systems (BRTs), fly over...
Auch wenn sich in Deutschland derzeit keine Hausmüllverbrennungsanlagen in Planung befinden, besteht global gesehen Bedarf am Ausbau dieser Infrastruktur. Im Vergleich mit anderen Behandlungsverfahren ist die Abfallverbrennung das einzige Verfahren, das der Volumenreduktion und Schadstoffelimination von Restabfällen gleichermaßen dient. Der deutschen Abfallwirtschaft wird neben einer hinreichenden Quantität auch eine hohe Qualität an Abfallverbrennungsanlagen bescheinigt. Entsprechend lassen ...
Eine der Methoden, die aktuell in der Stadtentwicklung angewendet wird, ist die kulturelle Erneuerung. Diese soll die Lebensqualität in Städten durch die Entwicklung der individuellen sowie einzigartigen Eigenschaften einen Ortes und seiner Bewohner wiederherstellen und verbessern. Im Irak wurde die Notwendigkeit und Relevanz dieser Entwicklung in der Erhöhung des Lebensstandards sowie der Verbesserung der Umweltbedingungen bisher nicht erkannt. Darüber hinaus belegen vorherige Studien, die s...
In recent years there has been a booming and unguided ‘modern’ residential housing investments in most of the villages on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. This was a phenomenon which motivated me to conduct this study in order to investigate the motives behind such investments, including the spatial and environmental challenges contribute by such investments. The idea is to conserve the nature in the villages on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, including the mountain and its forest...
Kooperation gilt als ein probates Mittel für Unternehmen, um Netzwerkeffekte zu heben und so Herausforderungen besser meistern zu können. Im Ruhrgebiet hat kooperatives Vorgehen durchaus Tradition, gleichzeitig ist das „Revier“ eine Region, der es an Herausforderungen nicht mangelt – beispielsweise bei der Bewältigung des wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandels, des demografischen Wandels und damit einher gehender sozialer Verwerfungen. Kommunalen Wohnungsunternehmen kommt in Bezug auf diese Herausf...
Spatial restructuring processes occurred in many economically advanced countries with opposing forces of concentration and deconcentration leading to the emergence of polycentric urban configurations. However, diverging empirical approaches are applied in several studies – a matter that contributes to conceptual confusion and a ‘fuzzy’ use of the term polycentricity. Against that background, a discussion is held to what extent this conceptual fuzziness can be narrowed down to derive a worki...
A large amount of housing units was constructed in the suburban areas of Japan in the 1950s and 1960s in order to meet the needs of the rapid population growth, which often resulted in uncontrolled urban expansion. Census data from the year 2000 indicated that the ratio of the aged population in some of Kobe’s suburban housing areas developed during this early stage of suburbanization was higher than the city average. A discussion on older “New Towns” has been initiated with a number of studi...
Seit Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel herrscht wissenschaftlicher und planungspolitischer Konsens darüber, dass die Regionalplanung zur Implementation von Klimaanpassungsinhalten befähigt ist. Inwieweit die formelle Regionalplanung dieser Befähigung gegenwärtig nachkommt, ist zentraler Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses Artikels. Die Analyse ist eine Vollerhebung für die Regionalplanungsgebiete Deutschlands. Deren Regionalpläne werden auf Vorhandensein und V...
The central questions of the study are: Which adaptation strategies need to be taken in order to achieve integrated urban planning in German residential districts from the 1950s and to allow the elderly a self-determined and independent life within these neighborhoods, and which conceptual approaches arise in the three fields of action “dwelling”, “residential environment” and “social”. The empirical study area is Hattingen’s Südstadt, a typical district from the 1950s. Hattingen is a mid-siz...
Urban waterscapes are today a key element of revitalization strategies as locations for highscale office and housing estates as well as tourism and leisure amenities. Their renaissance is not only related to economic transformations; it also goes hand in hand with the re-establishment of urban waterscapes as important parts of the urban imagery and identity after years of neglect and ecologic devastation. We argue that new urban waterscapes have been and are being constructed as emblematic pl...
In the discourse surrounding the prospects of districts of single-family housing built between the 1950s to the 1970s1, their assumed perspectives range from dramatic vacancy scenarios all the way to successful self-regulation of the market. A uniform trend is not recognizable in one direction or in the other. It is clear, however, that not all neighborhoods from this period will be able to accomplish a problem-free change of generations and that upheavals and therefore also new challeng...
It is often said that two-thirds of Japan’s national land area consists of mountains, and the habitable area covers only 34% of the total area. The habitable and plain land is located mainly along the shoreline. As a result, urban spaces are geographically limited and population density is particularly high, compared with countries in Europe and North America, for example. This geographical limitation is considered to be one of the reasons why regulations to control rapid urbanization ar...
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