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Knowledge and the Economy
The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional knowledge, the transfer of knowledge via networks, and the complex interplay between knowledge, location and economic development are all live academic issues. This book, the fifth volume in Springer’s Knowledge and Space series, focuses on the last of these: the multiple relationships between knowledge, the economy, and space. It reflects the conceptual and methodological multidisciplinarity e...
The Age of Em
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Robin Hanson draws on decades of expertise in economics, physics, and computer science to paint a detailed picture of this next great era in human (and machine) evolution - the age of em.
Economic Behaviour
The current economy is more complex and surprising than ever before: global and local factors combine to shape a very diverse framework, where organizations and management practices are challenged. This book presents a selection of studies that deal with economic behavior, both at the macro and micro level. It presents some well-defined aspects and builds on a new understanding of decision-making and economic development based on ethics and knowledge. It also emphasizes the human factor in shaping business and economic strategies as part of the international competition and interdependencies.
Embodied Narratives
As increasing quantities of health and biological information are generated, the need for us all to consider the human impacts of its ubiquity becomes more urgent than ever. This book explains the ethical imperative to take seriously the potential impacts on our identities of encountering bioinformation about ourselves.
Inequalities in Creative Cities
This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of “ordinary cities” as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness. The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such cities – Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK), Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) – now experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation, neglect of the poor, racial and ethnic strife. To date planners, academics, and policy analysts have paid little attention to the connections between this drive in these cities to be more creative and the inequalities that have followed. This book, keenly making these connections, highlights the limited visions that have been applied in this planning drive to make these cities more creative and ultimately more globally competitive.
Schwerpunktthema: Weg(e) mit dem Stottern
Das 12. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Weg(e) mit dem Stottern: Therapie und Selbsthilfe für Kinder und Erwachsene« fand am 24.11.2018 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 jährlich vom Verband für Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgeführt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Vorträge zum Schwerpunktthema sowie Beiträge der Posterpräsentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis. The Twelfth Autumn Meeting Patholinguistics (Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik) with its main topic »Away/A way with stuttering: Therapy and self-help for children and adults« took place in Potsdam on November 24 2018. This annual meeting has been organised since 2007 by the Association for Patholinguistics (Verband für Patholinguistik e.V./vpl). The present proceedings contain all talks on the main topic as well as contributions from the poster session covering a broad range of areas in speech/language therapy research and practice.
Migrant Citizenship from Below
Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's welfare, care, and migration regimes and the Philippines' gendered politics of overseas employment. Despite the predominant representation of these workers as invisible, these spatially immobile migrants maintain sustained transnational engagements through parenting and religious practices. Shinozaki studies the reverse-gendered process of international reproductive labor migration, in which women traveled first and were later joined by men. Despite their structural vulnerability, participant observations and biographical interviews with the migrants demonstrate that they enact and negotiate migrant citizenship in the workplace, transnational households, religious practices and through accessing health provisions.
Regeln, Institutionen und Ordnungen
Regeln, Institutionen und Ordnungen stellen die Grundstrukturen okonomischen Handelns dar. Ihre Aktualitat zeigt sich nicht zuletzt in der Staatsschuldenkrise Griechenlands oder den Verhandlungen zum Brexit. Bei wirtschaftspolitischen Reformen ist ihre Berucksichtigung daher unabdingbar. Die Nobelpreistrager Hayek und North analysieren die institutionellen Strukturen von Gesellschaften und setzen sie in Beziehung zu ihrer Kultur. In der Auseinandersetzung mit Hayeks und Norths Forschung sowie weiterer okonomischer Literatur dazu zeigt Johanna Hochloff die Funktionsweise, die Entstehung und den Wandel von Regeln, Institutionen und Ordnungen. Zudem zieht sie Kahnemans und Tverskys Verhaltensokonomik, Searles Theorie der Gesellschaft, Banduras sozialkognitive Lerntheorie sowie Halls und Soskices "Varieties of Capitalism"-Ansatz heran, um das Verstandnis institutioneller Strukturen nach Hayek und North zu erweitern.
Naturparke als Manager einer nachhaltigen Regionalentwicklung
Naturparke sind die älteste Schutzgebietskategorie in Deutschland, sie nehmen jedoch im Vergleich zu Nationalparken und Biosphärenreservaten in der Außenwahrnehmung einen eher nachgeordneten Platz ein. Durch das Bundesnaturschutzgesetz wurde ihnen die komplexe Aufgabe der nachhaltigen Regionalentwicklung zugesprochen. Friedericke Weber analysiert auf der Basis eines handlungstheoretischen Ansatzes, der die Strukturationstheorie von Giddens mit dem akteurzentrierten Institutionalismus von Mayntz und Scharpf verbindet, Probleme, die Naturparke daran hindern (können), nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung zu betreiben. Sie arbeitet ihre Potenziale heraus und skizziert Lösungen, wie Naturparke ihre Aufgabe als Regionalmanager erfüllen können.
