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Science–Policy Interfaces Related to Biodiversity and Nature Conservation: The Case of Natural Capital Germany—TEEB-DE
(2020-05-03)
Responding to the UN programme “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB), TEEB-DE (2012–2018) was a science–policy interface (SPI) set up in Germany with the objective of mobilising scientific expertise for a better consideration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in political and corporate decision-making. The aim of this paper is to contribute to an assessment of TEEB-DE by analysing its objectives, structure, processes and outputs. The analysis is guided by a theoretical framework that takes ...
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Living and Planning on the Edge: Unravelling Conflict and Claim-Making in Peri-Urban Lahore, Pakistan
(2021-05-25)
In Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, high population growth rates, decades of rural-urban migration, and rampant land and real-estate speculation have contributed to the rapid urbanization of peri-urban land and the engulfing of pre-existing rural settlements. Lahore’s spatial transformation goes hand in hand with an increasingly complex urban governance framework. Historically shaped by colonial planning institutions and decades of political instability as power alternated between military and civilian regimes, ...
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Wie mit Populisten umgehen? Demokratie- und planungstheoretische Perspektiven für Planungspraxis und Planungsforschung
(2021-06-07)
Das Erstarken populistischer Kräfte stellt die räumliche Planung vor neue Herausforderungen, weil daraus sowohl inhaltliche als auch verfahrensbezogene Konflikte entstehen können. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, drei demokratie- und planungstheoretisch begründete Perspektiven auf Populismus und Planung zu entwickeln und Schlussfolgerungen für Planungspraxis und Planungsforschung zu ziehen. Dabei handelt es sich um elitenorientierte, rational technokratische Theorien, um deliberative, beteiligungsorientierte Theorien sowie ...
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The politics of energy landscapes: the influence of local anti-wind initiatives on state policies in Saxony, Germany
(2020-01-23)
Background
In recent years, landscapes in many countries have been transformed by efforts to fight global warming, specifically the shift towards renewable energies such as wind power. This development has been met by growing opposition from local citizens and their initiatives. There is an ongoing debate about whether and how such protests have a real impact on the development of energy landscapes.
Methods
Drawing on the rare case of a state government scaling back ambitious targets for the expansion of renewables, ...