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Beware of smart people! Redefining the smart city paradigm towards inclusive urbanism
The Smart City paradigm aims at resource efficient urban development by means of ICT implementation. Cities where we work and conduct our research are building Smart City strategies and that research institutions increasingly fund research into the development of smart infrastructure and. Smart Cities are considered a radical paradigm shift and motors of technological innovation: economic growth, higher quality of life, efficiency and risk control in the face of shrinking resources and impending climate change. This smartification is contrasted by increasing calls by civil society and urban social movements for more encompassing inclusion in decision-making. New urban actors are acquiring ag...
Orchestrating Local Climate Policy in the European Union
Can we sidestep tedious climate policy negotiations and forge a coalition of the willing instead? Many international organizations and scholars hope to spur local climate action by orchestration, indirect and voluntary governance arrangements. Lena Bendlin looks beyond the apparent success of voluntary initiatives using the example of the Covenant of Mayors, often heralded as an exemplary multi-level EU initiative. Five in-depth case studies show why, how, and with what difficulties local governments engage in this voluntary commitment scheme. The analysis identifies durability, intensity, and causality as crucial building blocks for more cautious orchestration theorizing and derives recommendations for appropriate incentives and support at the regional, national, and international level.
Modernizing Democracy
Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the “meso level of society” and as the “basic elements of democracy”. They are important providers of welfare services and play an important role between the individual and political spheres. In recent years the environment of associations and associating has changed dramatically. Individualization, commercialization and globalization are challenging both democracy and the capability of associations to fulfill the functions attributed to them by social sciences. This change provides the central question of t...
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Seebadsaison
Seebäderforschung als eigenständiges wissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld gibt es erst seit den 1990er Jahren. Mit "Seebadsaison" wird ein Werk vorgelegt, das den Leser die Besonderheiten und Geheimnisse des Kulturraums Seebad - ausgehend von den Umbrüchen in den Seebädern der DDR-Ostseeküste ab den 1990er Jahren - entdecken lässt. Der breit gefasste historische Rahmen des Buchs vermittelt - über fünf politische Formationen der deutschen Historie hinweg - ein umfangreiches Bild des Heil- und Kurbadens und der europäischen Körperreinigungsriten und -sitten, auch vor dem Hintergrund von Technik- und Ideengeschichte.
Lexicography in the Borderland between Knowledge and Non-Knowledge
The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners’ dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.
Statement of Disbursements of the House
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
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