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Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in the Context of Climate Change
Urban resilience and building resilience are “hot topics” of research and practice on sustainability in the context of climate change. The edited volume advances the “state of art” of urban resilience research through focusing on three important processes of building resilience: knowledge integration, implementation, and learning. In the volume, knowledge integration primarily refers to the combination of specialized knowledge domains (e.g., flood risk management and urban planning). Implementation refers to realized specific changes of the building stock and related green, blue and grey infrastructures at local level (e.g., for dealing with rising temperatures and heat waves at the neighborhood scale in cities). Learning requires moving beyond single projects and experiments of resilience to enhance sustainability at city and regional scale. The editors adopt an interdisciplinary approach to this volume of the Springer series on resilience. The volume includes contributions from civil engineering, physical geography, the social sciences, and urban planning.
Transactions on Edutainment I
This volume contains contributions from Edutainment 2008, the 3rd International Conference on E-Learning and Games. It serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies in the field.
Organizing and Learning Through Gaming and Simulation
45 edited articles, originally presented at the 38th edition of the International Simulation and Gaming Association conference 2007.
NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere
Nongovernmental organizations act on behalf of citizens in politics and society. Yet many question their legitimacy and ask who they speak for. This book investigates how NGOs can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests. Sabine Lang analyzes the choices that NGOs face in their work for policy change between working in institutional settings and practicing public advocacy that incorporates constituents' voices. Whereas most books on NGOs focus on policy effectiveness, using approaches that treat accountability largely as a matter of internal performance measurements, Lang instead argues that it is ultimately several public accountabilities that inform NGO legitimacy. The case studies in this book use empirical research from the European Union, the United States and Germany to point to governments' role in redefining the conditions for NGOs' public advocacy.
Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, TIDSE 2006, held in Darmstadt, Germany in December 2006. It contains 37 papers that cover a broad spectrum, from conceptual ideas, theories, and technological questions, to best practice examples in the different storytelling application domains, with a focus on entertainment and games.
Gemeinsam leben - gemeinsam gestalten
Die integrierte Sozialraumplanung ist ein neuer Ansatz städtischer Sozialplanung. Akteure aus Politik und Verwaltung sollen dabei ressortübergreifend und gemeinsam mit Wohlfahrtsorganisationen und den Bürgern vor Ort Projekte entwickeln und realisieren. Institutionelles Wissen, praxisnahe Erfahrungen und Kompetenzen werden dadurch effektiv gebündelt. Der Band stellt das Konzept vor und eröffnet damit Perspektiven für eine bedarfsgerechte Sozial- und Stadtentwicklungspolitik.
Pragmatische Visionäre
Leitbilder stadtregionaler Planung wurden in den USA erheblich durch zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement geprägt. Diesen Akteuren gelingt es jedoch nur punktuell, die fehlende staatliche Steuerung räumlicher Entwicklung in den Metropolregionen zu kompensieren, um so Zersiedelung und sozioökonomischer Polarisierung entgegenzuwirken. Barbara Schönig untersucht die Geschichte zivilgesellschaftlicher stadtregionaler Planung und analysiert eine Fallstudie zur Regional Plan Association New York, New Jersey und Connecticut im Hinblick auf Potenziale und Ambivalenzen dieses Engagements.
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Kommunikative Planung
Kommunikative Planung- ein Schlagwort, das in den letzten Jahren in Planungstheorie und -praxis an Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Bislang kaum erforscht ist die Frage: Was kann sie leisten und wo liegen ihre Grenzen? Am Beispiel des Handlungsfeldes stadtregionaler Freiraumpolitik gibt der Band einen systematischen Überblick über Leistungspotentiale und Restriktionen kommunikativer Instrumente der Stadt- und Regionalplanung.
