Category: Human Geography

Die Diskussion über die öffentliche Verantwortung und moralische Integrität von Spitzenma-nagern reißt nicht ab. Durch einen anhaltenden Strom von Skandalen ist die Öffentlichkeit für moralische Fragen des Managements sensibilisiert. Gleichzeitig erodiert das Vertrauen in die Führungseliten der Wirtschaft.
Angesichts dieser Entwicklung rückt Birgit Klein die Rekrutierungsprozesse für das Manage-ment in den Fokus. Das Personalauswahlverfahren hat unmittelbaren Einfluss darauf, welche Denkstile rekrutiert werden und welchen Stellenwert kulturelle, ethische und wertbasierte Haltungen haben. Daraus leitet sie folgende Fragen ab: Gelten kulturelle und moralische Ka-tegorien auf dem Weg zu Führungspositionen? Sind sie tatsächlich ähnlich wichtig wie bei-spielsweise Erfolg und Durchsetzungsfähigkeit? Und wie kann sichergestellt werden, dass eine Führungskraft auch zu den Unternehmenswerten passt?
Vor diesem Hintergrund beschreibt die Autorin die Chancen und Potenziale eines kulturba-sierten Personalauswahlverfahrens und entwickelt einen Analyserahmen, der auch kulturelle Haltungen und Wertgrundsätze berücksichtigt. Wie dies gelingt, zeigt sie in einer empirischen Studie im Rahmen des Führungsnachwuchs-Recruitings der Siemens AG. Dabei wird insbe-sondere auf tieferliegende Identitätsmerkmale von Führungsnachwuchskräften verwiesen, die für Führungsaufgaben mit weitreichender Verantwortung konstitutiv sind.

regardless of regionalism having constructed right into a worldwide phenomenon, the ecu Union (EU) continues to be mostly awarded because the ’role-model of regionalism’ whose institutional designs and norms are followed by means of different local actors and agencies as a part of a slightly passive ’downloading process’. attaining past any such Eurocentric notion, Mapping business enterprise offers an empirically wealthy ’African viewpoint’ on regionalisms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It adopts an actor-centred strategy yet departs from a slightly simplified realizing of organization as exerting strength and as an alternative scrutinizes to what volume actors really perform or are excluded from procedures of regionalism. the worth of this quantity derives from the inclusion of old dimensions, its open multi-actor method of either formal and casual approaches and its comparative viewpoint inside of but additionally past Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters supply a multifaceted photo of company past disciplinary divides the place the european is one actor among many and the place neighborhood, nationwide, neighborhood and worldwide country and non-state actors form - and infrequently holiday - strategies of regionalisms in Sub-Saharan Africa.

​Sowohl im Zuge des spatial turns in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften als auch im Zusammenhang mit der Energiewende gerät das Thema Landschaft in den Fokus wissenschaftlichen, aber auch des öffentlichen Interesses. Das Buch liefert eine Einführung in die historische Entwicklung des Landschaftsverständnisses und in die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Theoriebildungen zum Thema Landschaft. Darüber hinaus werden interkulturelle  Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der sozialen Konstruktion von Landschaft dargestellt und praktische Fragen zum Umgang mit Landschaft u.a. im Kontext von Suburbanisierungsprozessen und der Energiewende behandelt.​

targeting features of the functioning of expertise, and through taking a look at tools and at instrumental functionality, this e-book addresses the epistemological questions bobbing up from reading the technological bases to geographical exploration and data claims. Questions of geography and exploration and know-how are addressed in old and modern context and in several geographical destinations and highbrow cultures. the gathering brings jointly students within the heritage of geographical exploration, historians of technological know-how, historians of expertise and, importantly, specialists with curatorial duties for, and museological services in, significant software collections. Ranging of their concentration from stories of astronomical perform to seismography, meteorological tools and rockets, from radar to the handheld barometer, the chapters of this e-book learn the ways that tools and questions of know-how - too usually ignored hitherto - provide perception into the connections among geography and exploration.

Socio-environmental crises are at present reworking the stipulations for all times in the world, from weather swap, to source depletion, biodiversity loss and long term toxins. The huge scale of those alterations, affecting land, sea and air have caused demands the ‘ecologicalisation’ of data.

This booklet adopts a miles wanted ‘more-than-human’ framework to understand those complexities and demanding situations. It includes multidisciplinary insights and numerous methodological ways to question how one can revise, reshape and invent equipment on the way to paintings with non-humans in participatory methods. The e-book deals a framework for pondering significantly concerning the provides and possibilities of participation from inside a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its destiny improvement. it will likely be of curiosity to these operating within the environmental humanities, animal experiences, technology and know-how experiences, ecology, and anthropology.

The 6th version of the hugely successful The urban Reader juxtaposes the superior vintage and modern writings at the urban to supply the excellent mapping of the terrain of city reports and making plans previous and new. The City Reader is the anchor quantity within the Routledge city Reader sequence and is now built-in with all ten different titles within the sequence. This variation has been commonly up-to-date and elevated to mirror the most recent considering in all of the disciplinary components integrated and in topical components comparable to compact towns, city background, position making, sustainable city improvement, globalization, towns and weather swap, the area urban community, the impression of know-how on towns, resilient towns, towns in Africa and the center East, and concrete idea. The new variation locations better emphasis on towns within the constructing global, globalization and the worldwide urban approach of the long run. The plate sections were revised and up-to-date.

Sixty beneficiant choices are incorporated: forty-four from the 5th version, and 16 new decisions, together with 3 newly written completely for The urban Reader. The 6th variation retains vintage writings by way of authors similar to Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Louis Wirth, in addition to the easiest modern writings of, between others, Peter corridor, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Kenneth Jackson. as well as newly commissioned decisions by means of Yasser Elshestawy, Peter Taylor, and Lawrence Vale, new decisions in the sixth variation contain writings by way of Aristotle, Peter Calthorpe, Alberto Camarillo, Filip DeBoech, Edward Glaeser, David Owen, Henri Pirenne, The undertaking for Public areas, Jonas Rabinovich and Joseph Lietman, Doug Saunders, and Bish Sanyal.  The anthology beneficial properties basic and part introductions in addition to person introductions to the chosen articles introducing the authors, offering context, pertaining to the choice to different choice, and offering a bibliography for additional research. The 6th version contains fifty plates in 4 plate sections, considerably revised from the 5th variation.

Regional experiences are at a colourful conjuncture. ‘Regions’ proceed to supply a conceptual and analytical concentration for occasionally overlapping matters with monetary, social, political, cultural and ecological switch. within the context of elevated curiosity in inter- and multi-disciplinary methods, ‘regions’ stay an area during which synthesis throughout disciplines – economics, geography, making plans, politics and sociology – can occur. but fresh paintings has raised primary questions on how we predict approximately and examine ‘regions’ and local swap, ‘development’, governance and legislation. First, emergent conceptual rules have brought new wondering house, position and scale that translates ‘regions’ as ‘unbounded’, relational areas. This paintings has disturbed notions of ‘regions’ as bounded territories and wondered hierarchical structures of scale via extra advanced, multi-scalar methods. moment, study technique has grown in sophistication and sensitivity yet is still a little polarised among the binaries of positivist, frequently quantitative, and extra theoretically assorted, generally qualitative, ways. final, nearby governance, coverage and politics are wrestling with the conceptual, methodological and political complexities of recent modes and geographies of governance and emergent multi-agent and multi-level institutional architectures.

This ebook brings jointly very important voices in nearby reports to give a contribution to and mirror upon those present concerns and debates. whereas we're at an early degree in starting to imagine via what such conceptual, theoretical, methodological, governance, coverage and political techniques and advancements suggest for nearby reports, the value and resonance of such matters underpin the energy of analysis at the quarter.

This ebook was once released as a different factor of Regional Studies.

This book
reviews modern examine on city infrastructure in seventy six Ethiopian cities.
It examines city infrastructure concerns in those towns and covers a large range
of themes from sustainability and clever towns to investigate equipment hired by
urban infrastructure investigators in regards to Ethiopian towns. learn on
urban infrastructure legitimacies and modalities has validated its value
worldwide lately, although it truly is nonetheless relatively younger within the Ethiopian
context.

The first bankruptcy outlines ongoing problems with debate relating urban
infrastructures, together with yet no longer restricted to discourses on sustainability, smart
cities, leading edge financing tools, and power partnerships. Urban
infrastructure matters in Ethiopian towns are tested within the moment bankruptcy, while
the 3rd bankruptcy provides a evaluate of the main suitable literature for
researchers. Findings exhibit that the citations within the learn stories are
mainly from the fabrics to be had over the web, together with WHO,
UN-Habitat and unpublished neighborhood fabrics. The fourth bankruptcy identifies
patterns within the findings and suggestions of the study reviews discussed.
The effects display that there's a wider hole among provide and insist with
regard to city infrastructure in Ethiopian towns, a scenario that's further
aggravated as a result of turning out to be city inhabitants and already existing
backlogs. The 5th bankruptcy stories the basic tools hired by way of urban
infrastructure investigators in Ethiopian towns. during this regard, the cross-sectional
study technique with using survey process has been greatly followed among
investigators.

Lastly, the publication offers a precis and suggestions. It used to be saw that the
urban infrastructure increase in Ethiopia is basically targeted within the key
cities, and the present trend of city infrastructure provision does not
incorporate the idea of sustainability. therefore, the booklet demands atmosphere the
agenda of destiny study on city infrastructure and providers in Ethiopian
cities including the schools, inner most quarter and govt, who should
ideally collaborate to supply the data had to enhance caliber of life,
welfare, productiveness, and fiscal growth. 

First released in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.