The changing intensity and frequency of hydro-meteorological (interpreted roughly as "water-related ") hazards and the risk of extreme hazardous events is highly variable, riddled with uncertainty, and requires flexibility in the updating and revision of risk assessment and management strategies. These strategies must overcome challenges posed by a changing environment, and require a place-based approach for establishing an understanding of the local context for disaster risk reduction (DRR) ...

Das Zentrale-Orte-Konzept (ZOK) ist heute in allen Raumordnungsplänen und -programmen der Flächenländer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Säule der Raumordnung verankert. Gegenüber anderen raumordnerischen Konzeptionen kann es ein Theoriefundament aufweisen, was die Bekanntheit und Nachvollziehbarkeit gegenüber anderen Fachplanungen und der Politik gestärkt hat. Darüber hinaus ist das Instrument der Zentralen Orte seit dessen erster Erlassung im Jahr 1965 fester Bestandteil des Raumordn...

Gefördert von entsprechenden Förderprogrammen haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten in vielen ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands sogenannte lokale Partnerschaften gebildet, in denen Akteure aus unterschiedlichen Gesellschaftsbereichen gemeinsam Strategien und Projekte zur Entwicklung ihrer Region planen und umsetzen. Allerdings gibt es nur wenige über Einzelfallbeschreibungen hinausgehende und wissenschaftlich fundierte Untersuchungen über die besonderen Wirkungen von lokalen Partnerschaften. ...

Metropole ist ein schillernder Begriff. Er verspricht Urbanität, Modernität, Kreativität, Vielfalt und ruft bestimmte Wünsche, Sehnsüchte und Weltstadtbilder hervor. Als Inbegriff des Urbanen erlebt das Diskursphänomen „Metropole“ in gesellschaftlichen, stadtpolitischen und wissenschaftlichen Kontexten seit nunmehr zwei bis drei Jahrzehnten eine fortwährende Konjunktur. Realer Hintergrund der Metropolendiskurse sind funktionale, sozialräumliche und politische Transformationen, welche vor all...

The multidisciplinarity of spatial planning leads it to address all spatially relevant issues present on a territory. Among them, the question of natural hazards and risks gained a particular attention in the last decades. Despite the permanent deepening of knowledge about natural hazards and risks, and the various strategies adopted to reduce their impact on societies, natural disasters are still causing considerable damages and taking lives. Obviously, the traditional approaches have r...

Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is one of the fastest growing urban agglomerations in Africa and projected to become a megacity (i.e., a city with more than 5 mio. inhabitants) by 2025. Rapid urban growth under poverty has outstripped the capacities of planning authorities to cope with the enormous pace of urban expansion. As a consequence informal settlements absorb almost all urban settlers leading to rapid urban sprawl into the unplanned periphery. But still only little is known about the d...

ESPON project 2.3.2Governance of Territorial and Urban Policies from EU to Local Level holds an important position in the definition and elaboration of a common ground for investigating the institutional, instrumental ans procedural aspects of territorial and urban policies in Europe. The project focuses on the question how effective different systems are, e.g. considering a policy mix of spatial planning (in different forms implemented by Member States), local government powers and taxation ...

Between 2004 and 2006 IRPUD participated in two projects of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network, in short ESPON. Both projects fall into the policy impact studies of ESPON, trying to understand and identify the various effects of territorial policies implemented by the EU and its various bodies. The ESPON project 2.3.1 ??Application and Effects of the ESDP in Member States?? focused on the European Spatial Development Perspective and tried to analyse, which effects this bottom-u...

"Aspatial Peripherality, Innovation and the Rural Economy" (AsPIRE) was a European research project funded by the EU Fifth Framework Programme concerned with the changing nature of peripheral regions. Recent advances in transport and communication technology have created the potential for fundamental changes in relationships between highly accessible "core" and less accessible "peripheral" regions. Some peripheral regions have taken advantage of these new opportunities, while others perhaps m...

Das Ziel des VuGIS-Projekts war die Entwicklung eines GIS-basierten Analyse- und Informationssystem zur Entscheidungsunterstützung in der Verkehrsplanung. Ausgehend von den praktischen Anforderungen von Verkehrsplanern lag die Schwerpunktsetzung in der Entwicklung einer auf Metaphern basierten Benutzerschnittstelle, in der Integration von Verkehrs- und Umweltmodellen mit Geoinformationssystemen und in der Nutzbarmachung heterogen vorliegender Datenquellen. Das entwickelte VuGIS-System vereint...

The objective of the project 'Sustainable Mobility in Cities' was to advance an approach for identifying policy packages for sustainable mobility. The study combined qualitative and quantitative methodological components: In the qualitative part of the analysis, market segmentation techniques were used to identify groups and locations positively or negatively affected by transport-related policy instruments. In the quantitative part of the study, a method for developing a synthetic population...

The goal of the project IASON (Integrated Appraisal of Spatial Economic and Network Effects of Transport Investments and Policies) of the 5th RTD Framework Programme of the European Commission is to improve the understanding of the impacts of transport policies on short- and long-term spatial development in the EU by developing a unified assessment framework for transport project and transport policies at the European level integrating network, regional economic and macroeconomic impacts. One...

The goal of the project IASON (Integrated Appraisal of Spatial Economic and Network Effects of Transport Investments and Policies) of the 5th RTD Framework Programme of the European Commission is to improve the understanding of the impacts of transport policies on short- and long-term spatial development in the EU by developing a unified assessment framework for transport project and transport policies at the European level integrating network, regional economic and macroeconomic impacts. One...

Accessibility and peripherality indicators are used to measure the location performance of cities and regions. In particular after the improvements of the pan-European transport networks it becomes an important political issue to measure the success and effectiveness of these projects to identify those regions, whose accessibility is still low and who still need additional political assistance. The first part of the final report gives a short problem statement (Chapter 1) and general introduc...

Accessibility and peripherality indicators are used to measure the location performance of cities and regions. In particular after the improvements of the pan-European transport networks it becomes an important political issue to measure the success and effectiveness of these projects to identify those regions, whose accessibility is still low and who still need additional political assistance. The user manual describes the software system developed for the calculation of the indices in detai...

This report describes the results of demonstration scenario simulations done with the SASI model (see the other SASI reports in the SASI Home Page), i.e. the application of the model with different assumptions on TEN infrastructure investments and network imnprovements and their likely socio-economic impacts on the European regions. As a case study, the likely impacts of the Oeresund fixed link between Denmark and Sweden were examined. The report shows that the model is able to model the deve...

The SASI model is a recursive simulation model of socio-economic development of 201 regions in Europe subject to exogenous assumptions about the economic and demographic development of the European Union as a whole and transport infrastructure investments and transport system improvements of the TETN (see the other SASI reports in the SASI Home Page). This report describes the software of the SASI model i.e. tools for network scenario generation, the input files, database and output files of ...

The task of the SASI project was to identify the way transport infrastructure contributes to regional socio-economic development in different regional contexts. For this purpose an interactive computer simulation model for forecasting the impacts of transport infrastructure investments and transport system improvements of the trans-European transport networks on socio-economic activities in the regions of Europe was developed (see the other SASI reports in the SASI Home Page). This report des...