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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Journal of environmental policy and planning 21,2019,4, Seiten 358-372
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of environmental policy and planning
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 21,2019,4, Seiten 358-372
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rainwater harvesting ; institutions ; imaginaries ; urban infrastructure ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Studies of rainwater harvesting regularly highlight the rich diversity of technologies used for rainwater harvesting in cities, but rarely devote attention to the equally diverse logics driving rainwater harvesting projects (RWHPs). To rectify this omission this paper presents research from a city – Berlin – which has a long pedigree of rainwater harvesting that has given rise, over the past 30 years, to an astonishingly varied range of schemes. We analyse and compare three cases encapsulating three distinct project types prevalent in the city: public, grassroots and commercial. The paper demonstrates the nature of diversity between the three and illustrates how diverse logics of rainwater harvesting co-exist within one city. More fundamentally, it unpacks these logics using concepts of sociotechnical imaginaries, urban infrastructures in transition and institutional obduracy and change. It is demonstrated, thereby, how each project reflects a particular imaginary of why urban rainwater should be harvested, how and for whom, and how these imaginaries have emerged out of particular institutional and infrastructural contexts in the course of Berlin’s post-reunification development. The paper concludes with reflections on the implications of this conceptually grounded, cross-case comparison for environmental research and policy.
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    Note: Originally published as: Ourania Papasozomenou, Timothy Moss & Natàlia García Soler (2019) Raindrops keep falling on my roof: imaginaries, infrastructures and institutions shaping rainwater harvesting in Berlin, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 21:4, 358-372, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623658
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Geoforum 89,2018, Seiten 96-106
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Geoforum
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 89,2018, Seiten 96-106
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rainwater harvesting ; sociotechnical imaginaries ; urban infrastructure ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Studies of rainwater harvesting regularly highlight the rich diversity of technologies used to collect, treat and reuse rainwater in cities, but rarely devote attention to the equally diverse visions that drive rainwater harvesting projects. To rectify this omission this paper presents research from a city – Berlin – which has a long pedigree of rainwater harvesting that has given rise, over the past 30 years, to an astonishingly varied range of schemes. From a database of over 250 rainwater harvesting projects we select, analyse and compare three case studies which encapsulate three distinct project types prevalent in the city: public, grassroots and commercial. The paper demonstrates the nature of diversity between the three and illustrates how diverse logics of rainwater harvesting co-exist within one city. More significantly, it shows how each scheme reflects a particular imaginary of why urban rainwater should be harvested, how and for whom, and how these imaginaries have emerged out of particular institutional and infrastructural contexts in the course of Berlin’s post-reunification development. These empirical findings are interpreted using STS concepts relating to sociotechnical imaginaries, urban infrastructures in transition and institutional obduracy and change.
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    Note: First published as: Natàlia García Soler, Timothy Moss, Ourania Papasozomenou, Rain and the city: Pathways to mainstreaming rainwater harvesting in Berlin, Geoforum, Volume 89, 2018, pp. 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.010 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Water Alternatives 10,2017,1, Seiten 22-40
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Water Alternatives
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,2017,1, Seiten 22-40
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water reuse ; TPSN ; governance ; sociospatial politics of water ; Germany ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Politikwissenschaft
    Abstract: Much social science literature on water reuse focuses on problems of acceptance and economic problems, while the spatial and political dimensions remain under-researched. This paper addresses this deficit by reformulating the issue in terms of sociospatial politics of water reuse. It does this by drawing on the work of Mollinga (2008) and the Territory Place Scale Network (TPSN) framework (Jessop et al., 2008) to develop an analytical approach to the sociospatial politics of water in general, and water reuse in particular. The paper argues that Mollinga’s understanding of water politics as contested technical/physical, organisational/ managerial and regulatory/socioeconomic planes of human interventions can be deepened through further reflection on their implications for the four sociospatial dimensions of the TPSN framework. Such a comprehensive, multidimensional approach re-imagines the politics of water reuse, providing researchers with a heuristic device to trace the interventions through which water reuse plans disrupt existing arrangements, and avoid a concern for individual preferences and simplified notions of barriers and enablers. The potential of the analytical framework is explored using an empirical illustration of water reuse politics in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in Germany.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  56,11, Seiten 2225-2241
    ISSN: 0042-0980 , 0042-0980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London, England : SAGE Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 56,11, Seiten 2225-2241
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: local politics ; nexus ; renewable energy ; urban infrastructure ; wastewater ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Infrastructures are key interfaces of urban resource use, connecting production to consumption, cities to their hinterland and energy to water and land use. They have, however, received scant attention in debates on nexus thinking in general, and the urban nexus in particular. Drawing on an emergent critical literature on the nexus in urban studies and science and technology studies, this article examines practices of (attempted) inter-sectoral infrastructure integration at the interface of urban wastewater treatment and regional energy provision in Germany. It analyses the nexus approaches and experiences of eight German cities / city-regions as so-called ‘flexibility providers’ in regional energy markets for electricity, gas and heating. It demonstrates how the practices of wastewater utilities operating in energy markets involve far more than technical adaptation, requiring in addition a major reordering of existing material, spatial and institutional configurations to both wastewater and energy systems. This is proving a deeply political process with important implications for our understanding of socio-technical transitions at the water-energy nexus.
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    In:  Social Studies of Science 46,2016,4, Seiten 559-582
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Studies of Science
    Publ. der Quelle: : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,2016,4, Seiten 559-582
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Berlin ; Germany ; infrastructure ; socio-technical transitions ; technology ; Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This article takes an historical perspective on current attempts to ‘open up’ established, centralized systems of urban infrastructure to alternative technologies designed to minimize resource use and environmental pollution. The process of introducing alternative technologies into, or alongside, centralized urban infrastructures is not a novel phenomenon, as is often assumed. The physical and institutional entrenchment of large technical systems for urban energy, water or sanitation services in industrialized countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries did not close the door completely on alternatives. I investigate a number of alternative technologies used in Berlin in the interwar period (1920–1939), in order to reveal the rationales developed around each technology and the ways in which each emerged, disappeared and re-emerged or survived across highly diverse political regimes. The selection of cases is guided by the desire to illustrate three different phenomena of alternative technology diffusion (and exclusion) experienced in Berlin: (1) technologies promoted by early pioneers and discarded by their successors (waste-to-energy), (2) technologies modifying traditional practices that were at odds with modernized systems (wastewater reuse for agriculture) and (3) technologies co-existing alongside the dominant centralized system throughout the 20th century (cogeneration). The empirical findings are interpreted with reference to their contribution to scholarship on urban socio-technical transitions.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Local environment 22,2016,3, Seiten 269-285
    ISSN: 1354-9839 , 1354-9839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Local environment
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis, 2017
    Angaben zur Quelle: 22,2016,3, Seiten 269-285
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: water–energy nexus ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; infrastructure ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Issues of connectivity between different infrastructure sectors have received surprisingly little attention in recent research. Despite huge interest in issues of sectoral integration surrounding the water–energy nexus, researchers have rarely considered what this might mean for the coupling of infrastructure systems for water/wastewater and energy services. Consequently, the implications of greater connectivity for the governance and socio-spatial constitution of infrastructures are largely unexplored. This paper addresses this research gap with a case study of an attempt to use treated wastewater to produce biomass for energy on degraded land in the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany. It takes water reuse for energy crop production as an exemplar of work at the water–energy nexus in order to explore the institutional, spatial and physical dimensions involved in connecting two infrastructure systems to this end. It argues that cross-sectoral integration reaches far beyond issues of technological compatibility, revealing often hidden but crucial differences in the institutional and spatial configuration of energy and wastewater systems. On the basis of a comparative analysis of the institutional arrangements of the region’s wastewater and energy systems together with an empirical study of initiatives to use treated wastewater to grow energy crops the paper draws conclusions, firstly, on the potential and limitations of this particular exemplar and, secondly, on the broader implications of the case for understanding institutional challenges of cross-sectoral connectivity on the one hand and prospects for reconfiguring infrastructural relations between cities and rural areas on the other.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Matthias Naumann & Katharina Krause (2017) Turning wastewater into energy: challenges of reconfiguring regional infrastructures in the Berlin–Brandenburg region, Local Environment, 22:3, 269-285, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2016.1195799
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Utilities policy 41,2016, Seiten 163-171
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (9 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Utilities policy
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 41,2016, Seiten 163-171
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
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    Note: First published as: Leslie Quitzow, Weert Canzler, Philipp Grundmann, Markus Leibenath, Timothy Moss, Tilmann Rave (2016) The German Energiewende – What’s Happening? Introducing the Special Issue. Utilities Policy 41 (August): 163-171. Doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2016.03.002 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    ISSN: 1753-5069 , 1753-5069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,1, Seiten 63-85
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: coproduction ; commons ; energy transition ; remunicipalisation ; social movements ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores new geographies of coproduction emerging in urban energy politics. It analyses processes of remunicipalisation of urban utilities, involving the re-establishment of public ownership with a strong democratic and ecological agenda for governing energy infrastructures, with case studies of the German cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Seeking ways of understanding these developments which transcend conventional binaries such as public vs. private ownership or consumer vs. producer, we interpret them in relation to debates first about coproduction and then about urban commons. This latter concept, we argue, provides deeper analytical purchase on new grassroots energy initiatives and the politics that unfold in remunicipalisation conflicts, offering a new avenue for enriching research on the coproduction of energy.
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    Note: Originally published as: S. Becker, M. Naumann & T. Moss (2017) Between coproduction and commons: understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg, Urban Research & Practice, 10:1, 63-85, DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2016.1156735
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    In:  Energy research & social science 11,2015,January, Seiten 225-236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Energy research & social science
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2016
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,2015,January, Seiten 225-236
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: energy autarky ; urban energy transitions ; Berlin ; Hong Kong ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Whilst cities are widely regarded as playing a pivotal role in energy transitions, recent research is highlighting the enormous variety of urban responses. This differentiated picture of urban energy transitions is helpfully opening up the debate to the multifarious factors shaping urban energy policy. What is in danger of getting lost in these powerfully 'presentist' narratives is a sense of where these urban responses are coming from and how historical legacies of energy production and use are influencing future options. This paper uses a comparative historical analysis of two iconic 'electric cities' - Berlin and Hong Kong - to explore the legacies of past socio-technical configurations for today's attempts to realign urban energy systems. It investigates firstly, how, in response to their respective geo-political isolation prior to reunification in 1990/1997, the two cities strove to maximise local energy autarky for security reasons. The paper, secondly, demonstrates how political and economic reintegration in the 1990s has initiated a realignment of each city's energy policy, as power grids become regionalised and local generation capacity questioned. We conclude by drawing implications from these historical legacies of energy autarky and regionalisation for the cities' responses to the low carbon challenge today.
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    Note: First published as: Timothy Moss and Maria Francesch-Huidobro (2016) Realigning the electric city. Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong, Energy Research & Social Sciences 11 (January): 225-236 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.10.002 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (54 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,3
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ; Türkei ; Neoliberalismus ; Governmentality ; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ; Turkey ; neo-liberalism ; governmentality ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Diese Untersuchung soll zeigen, inwieweit die aktuellen Methoden, die sich rund um die Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) entwickeln, in den Rahmen der neoliberalen Kunst des Regierens in der Türkei eingebettet werden können. Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass seine Bedeutung im Verlauf der letzten zehn Jahre weiter gewachsen ist, findet das Konzept immer mehr Beachtung seitens verschiedener Unternehmen und der akademischen Welt auf sich. Während sich der größte Teil der Literatur damit beschäftigt, wer die Akteure der CSR sind und was diese tun, versucht diese Untersuchung darüber hinaus zu gehen und unter Anwendung von ‚Governmentality Studies' die Rationalität hinter dem Aufkommen und der Entwicklung des Konzepts in der Türkei zu erforschen.
    Abstract: The purpose of this study is to show to what extend the current practices evolving around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be placed in the realm of neo-liberal art of governing in Turkey. Having become increasingly relevant in the last decade, the concept has been attracting more and more attention from various organizations and academia. While most of the literature deals with who the CSR actors are and what they do, this study attempts to go beyond that and explore the rationality behind the emergence and development of the concept in Turkey, through the application of governmentality studies.
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    In:  International journal of river basin management 12,2014,4, Seiten 329-339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of river basin management
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 12,2014,4, Seiten 329-339
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; spatial fit ; Dongjiang River ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore how classic upstream-downstream conflicts of water resources management can be interpreted more broadly in terms of spatial misfits and disparities between the river basin, territorial jurisdictions, degrees of political influence and socio-economic conditions. It applies the analytical concept of spatial fit in order to explore issues of governance in managing water in the Dongjiang River basin, selected by virtue of the huge political and economic asymmetries existing between the upstream Jiangxi Province and the downstream Pearl River delta region. Using the concept of spatial fit, the paper explores the complex environmental, socio-economic and political geographies which frame the interdependencies of water use and management within the river basin. It analyses attempts by stakeholders at different levels and locations in the basin to advance their own water-related interests and the initiatives some are developing to share benefits and costs more equitably across the basin.
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    Note: First published as: Frederick Lee & Timothy Moss (2014) Spatial fit and water politics: managing asymmetries in the Dongjiang River basin, International Journal of River Basin Management, 12:4, 329-339, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2014.917420
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (72 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,2
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Die Linke ; Kritische Diskursanalyse ; Politische Diskurs Analyse ; Deutsche Politik ; Diskursive Strategien ; Die Linke ; critical discourse analysis ; political discourse analysis ; discursive strategies ; German politics ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die Abschlussarbeit „Die Linke: A Political Discourse Analysis“ versucht zu verstehen a) wie und mit welchen Mitteln Sprache in der Politik strategisch genutzt wird, um Wähler zu beeinflussen b) welcher sozialer und politischer Kontext sich auf die Bildung von politischen Diskursen auswirkt c) welche Art von Effekten politische Diskurse auf aktuelle ‚policy making‘ Prozesse haben. Analysiert wird die Partei Die Linke. Das Ziel der Studie ist nicht, der schon existierenden Literatur über Die Linke, welche versucht den Erfolg der Partei mit dem rückläufigen wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand der Massen und dem erfolglosen ‚policy making‘ der anderen Parteien zu erklären, zu widersprechen. Um den Aufstieg von Die Linke besser verständlich zu machen, sollen jedoch linguistische Dimensionen der Analyse hinzugefügt werden. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, untersucht die Arbeit zuerst die diskursiven Strategien eines ausgewählten Texts und diskutiert anschließend die kontextualen Auswirkungen auf die beobachteten Strategien, in dem die Grundlagen der Kritischen Diskurs Analyse herangezogen werden. Die zentrale Hypothese dieser Untersuchung ist, dass der politische Diskurs von Die Linke als Teil einer politischen Strategie betrachtet werden sollte, welche versucht gegenhegemoniale diskursive Praktiken zu kreieren und darauf abzielt Prozesse des ‚policy-making‘ zu beeinflussen. Dass Die Linke erfolgreich die Lücke im linken Spektrum füllen konnte, hängt nicht nur mit dem erfolglosen ‚policy-making‘ der anderen Parteien zusammen, sondern ist auch der Kompetenz der Partei, Wähler mit Hilfe von politischen Diskursen zu beeinflussen, geschuldet.
    Abstract: The thesis ‘Die Linke: A Political Discourse Analysis’ tries to understand a) how and by which means language in politics can be strategically used in order to influence voters b) what kind of social and political context have an influence on the formation of political discourses and c) what kind of effects do political discourses have on actual policy making processes on the basis of the analysis of The Left Party (Die Linke in German). The overall aim of this study is not to oppose the already existing literature on Die Linke, which try to explain the party’s success with the declining economic prosperity of the masses and the unsuccessful policy making of its opponents but to add the linguistic dimension to the analysis in order to understand the rise of Die Linke more comprehensively. In order to achieve this aim, the research first identifies the discursive strategies of the selected text and then discusses the contextual impacts on the observed discursive strategies by adopting the main principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. The main hypothesis of this research is that political discourses of Die Linke should be considered as a part of the political strategy which tries to create counter-hegemonic discursive practices and aims to affect policy-making process. Die Linke’s success for filling the gap in the left is not only dependent on other parties’ unsuccessful policy-making but also on the party’s capacity to influence voters by its political discourses.
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    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,6
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rückkehrförderung ; freiwillige Rückkehr ; irreguläre Migration ; Governmentalität ; governmentality ; Fostering return ; voluntary return ; irregular migration ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, ausgehend von Michel Foucaults Theorie der „Governmentalität“, Prakti-ken der “Rückkehrförderung irregulärer Migrant_innen“ in Deutschland alsTechniken neoliberalen Regierens globaler „Migrationsströme“. „Regierung“ wird im Sinne Foucaults als „die Führung der Führungen“ konzep-tualisiert, und umfasst somit weit mehr als den Staatsapparat. Es wird eine Genealogie von Formen der Rückkehrförderung in Deutschland aufgezeichnet, welche sich heute verstärkt auf die Person des_der irregu-lären Migrant_in beziehen. Diese Genealogie wird dann zu sich verändernden Rationalisierungen von Migrati-on und globalem Raum in Relation gesetzt. Ich komme zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Einflussnahme auf als ir-regulär subjektivierte Migrant_innen in einer neoliberalen Regierungsrationalität relevant wird,weil diese den freien Fluss der „regulären“ Migrant_innen gefährden.Regulierter freier Fluss reguläre Migrant_innen wiede-rum ist in einer als globaler Raum konzeptualisierten Welt wichtig, da er einen globalen Markt für Humanka-pital darstellt.Weiterhin können aktuelle Programme der „Förderung freiwilliger Rückkehr“ als neoliberale Re-gierungstechniken interpretiert werden, die sich in dasdiskursive Feld der Migration ausbreiten. Dies bedeu-tet nicht, das souveräne Techniken wie Abschiebung durch diese Techniken ersetzt wurden; vielmehr bildet sich ein diskursives Feld des „Regierens von Rückkehr“ heraus, in dem souveräne und neoliberale Techniken logisch verknüpft sind und einander bedingen. Eine Fallstudie, die in einer der in mehreren Bundesländern speziell zur Rückkehrförerung gegründeten Institution durchgeführt wurde, untersucht schliesslich Regie-rungstechniken im Feld „Rückkehr“ auf institutioneller Ebene, und gibt einen Einblick in Subjektivierungen und Konzeptualiserungen der Arbeit und Zielsetzungen dieser Institution durch ihren Direktor. Auch hier, in einer Einrichtung, in der verschiedene (souveräne udnd liberale) Techniken der Rückkehrförderung zusam-menspielen, dominieren neoliberale Rationalisierungen der irregulären Migrant_innen und der angewandten Massnahmen.
    Abstract: Starting from Michel Foucault’s theory of governmentality, this thesis analyses practices of “fostering return of irregular migrants” in Germany as a neoliberal technique of governing global “flows of migration”. “Gov-ernment” is understood through Foucault as the “conduct of conduct”, and thus comprises far more than merely state institutions. The thesis traces a genealogy of fostering return in different forms in Germany, showing that current forms increasingly target irregular migrants. This genealogy is then set in relation to changing rationalizations of migration and world space. I conclude that exercising influence on migrants subjectivized as irregular becomes relevant within a neoliberal rationality of government, because they en-danger the free flow of “regular” migrants. A regulated, free flow of regular migrants in turn is important in a world conceptualized as a global space, because it represents a necessary global market of human capital. Furthermore, current programs of fostering “voluntary return” can be interpreted as neoliberal techniques of government, which are spreading into the discursive field of migration. This does not, however, mean that sovereign techniques such as deportation are being replaced. Rather, a discursive field of “governing return” is opened up, in which neoliberal and sovereign techniques are logically connected and depend on each oth-er. A case study, realized in one of the institutions founded specifically in order to foster return in different federal states in Germany, finally investigates upon government techniques in the field of “return” on an in-stitutional level, and offers insights into the subjectivization and conceptualizationsof the institution’s aims and work practices by its director. I find that within the institution, which is active at the intersection of dif-ferent (neoliberal and sovereign) techniques of fostering return, neoliberal rationalizations of the irregular migrants and the applied measures dominate as well.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (69 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,10
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Konstruktivismus ; Türkische Außenpolitik ; Ahmet Davutoğlu ; Balkan ; internationale Beziehungen ; Agentur-Struktur ; international relations ; Turkish foreign policy ; Ahmet Davutoğlu ; the Balkans ; constructivism ; agency-structure ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die strukturellen Determinanten der türkischen Politik auf dem Balkan in der letzten Zeit zu erklären. Es wird versucht, mit einem konstruktivistischen Ansatz der internationalen Beziehungen und Alexander Wendts Auffassung über die Agentur-Struktur-Beziehungen in der internationalen Politik fol-gende Fragen zu beantworten: Ob und inwieweit werden das traditionelle Verständnis der Außenpolitik, die Identität und das Verhalten der neuen Akteure in der türkischen Außenpolitik beeinflusst?; Welche Elemente der "alten" idealistischen Struktur können in den aktuellen Beziehungen zwischen der Türkei und dem Balkan beobachtet werden? Ich benutze die außenpolitischen Grundsätze der Türkei, welche aus der Zeit der Grün-dung der Republik bis zum Ende des Kalten Krieges wahrnehmbar sind, als eine gegebene Struktur und ver-suche zu zeigen, wie sie die Gestaltung der sogenannten neuen türkischen Außenpolitik und das Verhalten der Türkei auf dem Balkan in der Zeit von 2009, als Ahmet Davutoğlu das Amt des Außenministers nahm, beeinflussen. Ich bin der Meinung, dass diese traditionellen Prinzipien ein grundlegender Teil Davutoğlus Vorstellung über die türkischen Beziehungen mit dem Balkan bilden und dass sie in den außenpolitischen Be-ziehungen zu den Balkan-Ländern sogar noch sichtbarer sind. In diesem Sinne unterstütze ich das Argu-ment, dass keine große Veränderung in der ideellen Struktur der Außenpolitik der Türkei seit dem Amtsan-tritt Davutoğlu passiert ist und dass die seit langem etablierten Prinzipien der türkischen Außenpolitik noch immer nachvollziehbar in der AKP - Ära liegen.
    Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to use the constructivist approach to international relations and Alexander Wendt's conception of agency-structure relationships in international politics to explain structural determinants of Turkey's policy towards the Balkans in the recent period. I’ll try to answer the question of how and to what extent the traditional foreign policy understanding influences the identity and behavior of new actors in Tur-key’s foreign policy and which are the elements of the “old” ideational structure that could be observed in the current relations between Turkey and the Balkans. I take Turkey’s foreign policy principles, observable from the period of founding of the Republic till the end of the Cold War as a given structure, and try to show how they influence the formulation of what is called Turkey’s new foreign policy and the behavior of Turkey towards the Balkans in the period from 2009, when Ahmet Davutoğlu took office of Minister of Foreign Af-fairs. I argue that traditional principles constitutively participate in Davutoğlu’s imagination of Turkey’s rela-tion with the Balkans and are even more observable in its foreign policy behavior towards Balkan countries. In that sense I support the argument that there was no great shift in the ideational structure of Turkey’s for-eign policy since Davutoğlu took office and that long-established principles of Turkish foreign policy are still traceable in the AKP Era.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (72 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,7
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Diskursanalyse ; Konstruktivismus ; Poststrukturalismus ; amerikanische Außenpolitik ; U.S.-türkische Beziehungen ; Präsidentenreden ; Obama ; Erdogan ; discourse analysis ; Constructivism ; post-structuralism ; American foreign policy ; U.S.-Turkish relations ; presidential speeches ; Obama ; Erdogan ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: In dieser Masterarbeit wird eine konstruktivistische Diskursanalyse durchgeführt um die These zu unterstüt-zen, dass eine grundlegende Umgestaltung im amerikanischen Verständnis der türkisch-amerikanischen Be-ziehung unter Präsident Obama im zuge eines übergeordneten Wandels der amerikanischen Außenpolitik stattgefunden hat. Anhand einer analytischen Betrachtung diverser hochrangiger Diskurse und Präsidenten-Reden seit der Ära Ronald Reagans versucht diese Arbeit den chronologischen Weg der amerikanischen Au-ßenpolitik anhand politischer Sprache, politischem Handeln und struktureller Veränderung, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Türkei, aufzuzeigen. Die Formbarkeit dieser Beziehung soll mittels Anwendung der konstruktivistischen Theorie besonders hervorgehoben werden. Zudem wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich das Verständnis amerikanischer Führungspolitiker in Bezug auf ihre Rolle in der Welt und der Beziehung zur Türkei, abseits des strikten Kurs des Realismus, in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert hat.
    Abstract: Using a constructivist discourse analysis, this thesis argues that there has been a fundamental shift in the American understanding of the U.S.-Turkish relationship under President Obama, situated within a broader change in the nature of American foreign policy making. By analyzing presidential and other high-level dis-course beginning in the Reagan era, this thesis examines the chronological path of American foreign policy, specifically in relation to Turkey, delving into political language, actions, and structural changes. By engaging constructivist theory, this thesis highlights the fluid nature of relations, endeavoring to answer the underly-ing question of how the high-level understanding of the U.S. role in world affairs generally, and in relation to Turkey specifically, has moved beyond a strict realist foundation over the past decades.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (78 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,8
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    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Türkei ; Neoliberalismus ; Gouvernementalität ; Gesundheitswesen ; Türkische Sozialpolitik ; Social Policy ; Welfare State ; Turkey ; Health Care ; Governmentality ; Health Transformation Program ; Neoliberalism ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die (vergleichende) Wohlfahrtsstaatforschung neigt zum Gebrauch absoluter Kategorien wie „Staat“, „Markt“, „Klasse“ oder „Soziale Gerechtigkeit“, um die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Wohlfahrtsstaaten zu erklären, zu messen oder zu kategorisieren. Insbesondere auf der Grundlage der Arbeiten Michel Foucault‘s zum Thema Gouvernementalität versucht diese Masterarbeitarbeit, alternative Perspektiven auf die Trans-formation von Wohlfahrtsstaaten zu bieten und die Entwicklungen in ihrer historischen Gebundenheit und der Komplexität der sich in ihnen widerspiegelnden sozialen Beziehungen zu verstehen. Dafür werden Episoden türkischer Gesundheitspolitik seit dem späten Osmanischen Reich interpretiert. Die Kernthemen sind die sich ändernde politischen Vorstellungen von Gesundheit einerseits und andererseits Techniken und Strategien, die politische Akteure anwenden, um das Politikfeld Gesundheit zu strukturieren und das Verhalten relevan-ter Akteure zu steuern. Die Arbeit greift insbesondere auf Primärquellen, wie offizielle Regierungspapiere, Reden, oder Leitfadeninterviews mit Experten zurück. Die Analyse zeichnet den politischen Diskurs über Ge-sundheit(spolitik) nach, der von „Barmherzigkeit und Gnade“ über die „Sicherung der Stärke der Nation“ bis hin zu der Idee eines „Rechtes auf Gesundheit“ reicht, welche seit den 1980er Jahren durch neoliberales Vo-kabular wie „(minimaler) Universalismus“, „Eigenverantwortung“ oder „Effizienz und Wettbewerb“ ergänzt wird. Derweil blieben trotz der Entstehung und Ausdehnung des Politikfeldes mit zugeordnetem bürokrati-schen Apparat, viele Programme und Projekte aufgrund der gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Struktur sowie fortlaufender Konflikte zwischen unterschiedlichen Regierungsmentalitäten inkonsistent und unvollen-det. Erst mit dem sogenannten Health Transformation Program, das seit 2003 unter der Partei für Gerechtig-keit und Fortschritt (AKP) implementiert wird, scheint ein Gesundheitssystem entstanden zu sein, welches sich durchgängig auf eine neoliberale Regierungslogik bezieht und die formalen Prinzipien einer Marktwirt-schaft als Regierungsprinzip auf die Erstellung von Programmen, Projekten und Regulierungen im Gesund-heitssektor projeziert.
    Abstract: Scholars of the welfare state tend to use absolute categories such as “class”, “state”, “market” or “social jus-tice” to measure, classify and compare welfare states. Drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault’s lectures on governmentality, this master’s thesis attempts to offer alternative perspectives on the transformation of welfare states by analyzing developments in the Turkish health system in consideration of their historicity and of the complexity of social relations reflected in them. Interpreting different historical episodes of Turk-ish health policies since the late Ottoman Empire, special attention is paid not only to changing political con-ceptions of health, but also to the techniques and strategies that governments have relied on to influence the conduct of providers and receivers of health services. The study draws predominantly on primary sources such as official government papers, speeches and expert interviews. Dominant political discourses on health have reached from “charity and favor” under the Sultans over “securing the strength of the nation” in the early Republic to the idea of everybody’s “right to health”, that is eventually mixed and complemented with neoliberal vocabulary such as “(minimal) universalism”, “individual responsibility”, or “efficiency and compe-tition”. In spite of the emergence of healthcare as a policy area being attached to an expanding bureaucratic apparatus, most programs and projects have remained inconsistent and fragmentary due to the composition of Turkish society and economy and the persistent struggles between different forms of governments. The findings suggest that only with the so-called Health Transformation Program (HTP) that is implemented since 2003 under the government of the Justice and Development Party (JDP), a health system has emerged that is consistently based on a distinguished mode of government. Neoliberalism, understood as the attempt to take the formal principles of a market economy and projecting them onto a general art of government, con-stitutes the underlying tenet of the HTP’s wide net of programs, projects and regulations by which the gov-ernment attempts to create, rather actively but from a distance, a health system in which all players act ra-tional, economically and self-responsible.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (66 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,5
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Populismus ; Moschee ; Pro-Köln ; Tea-Party ; Populism ; Mosque ; Pro-Köln ; Tea-Party ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Mit Hinweis darauf, dass sich rechts-populistische Bewegungen immer mehr in der westlichen Welt verbrei-ten, ist eine Neubewertung des extrem rechten politischen Denkens und der Bereitschaft in der Bevölkerung dies zu unterstützen angesagt. Dies is besonders notwendig aufgrund der Flut des kürzlichen Tea Party-esquen Aktivismus in Nordamerika, in Form der unverhohlenen Verehrung für die von 'Menschen angeführ-ten' pro Markt Revolution und der so genannten "Minutemen" Miliz, und die umfassende Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit zwischen den verschiedenen rechtsextremen Bewegungen in den europäischen Natio-nen, bis hin zu den jüngsten Gräueltaten in Norwegen. Dieses Papier stellt einen wichtigen Schritt auf dem Weg dar, die Probleme bezüglich rechts-populistischer Tendenzen der heutigen Zeit zu addressieren, vor al-lem im sozialen Bereich, wo viele Menschen Gefahr laufen, von diesen Bewegungen stark ausgegrenzt zu werden. Durch die vergleichende Analyse wirft diese Untersuchung einen Blick auf zwei rechts-populistische Bewegungen: die Tea Party in den USA und Pro-Köln in Deutschland und wie sie sich in einer Reihe von Vari-ablen unterscheiden, auch wenn ihre Anforderungen an die Gesellschaft sehr ähnlich sind.
    Abstract: With evidence that right-wing populist movements are becoming increasingly more widespread throughout the Western world, a reevaluation of far-right political thought and their propensity for popular support is in order. This is particularly necessary given the spate of recent Tea Party-esqe ‘activism’ throughout North America, in the form of unabashed reverence for ‘people-led’ pro market revolution and so called ‘minute-men’ militia, and the extensive communication and cooperation between the various far-right movements throughout the European nations, capped by the recent atrocities in Norway. This paper shall provide an im-portant stepping stone into addressing the very real problems concerning rightwing populist trends of today, particularly in the social realm, where many people run the risk of being severely marginalized by these movements. Through comparative analysis, this exploration takes a look at two right-wing populist move-ments, The Tea Party in America and Pro-Köln in Germany, and how they differ in a range of variables, even though their demands on society are very similar.
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    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,9
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: russisch-türkische Beziehungen ; russisch-türkischer Handelsvertrag ; bilateraler Handel ; Energiediplomatie ; globales und regionales Bestreben ; russisch-türkischer Pragmatismus ; gegenseitige Abhängigkeit ; Russian-Turkish relations ; Russian-Turkish Gas Trade Partnership ; Russian-Turkish bilateral trade ; Energy diplomacy ; Global and Regional aspirations ; Russian-Turkish pragmatism and interdependence ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Natur der russisch-türkischen Handelspartnerschaft und fokussiert de-ren Kooperation im natürlichen Gas Sektor. Dabei werden die jeweiligen globalen Bestreben der Länder, ihre Strategien in der Energiepolitik und ihre Motivationen im Handel miteinander ausführlich erforscht. Ziel ist es, die Energieziele und die Zufriedenheit der beiden Länder im Rahmen einer erweiterten Energie Partner-schaft zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit zeigen, dass eine neue Ordnung in der Welt Vormachtstel-lung annimmt, die wiederrum von neoliberalen Zügen geprägt ist. Russland und die Türkei sind globale und regionale Potenzen, welche sich im internationalen freien Markt integrieren wollen. In dem sie neue Strate-gien umsetzen, suchen sie ihre Positionen als Hauptakteure in den weltweiten Märkten zu konsolidieren. Trotz signifikanter politischer Unterschiede, stellen Russland und die Türkei den „Pragmatismus“ und die „Unabhängigkeit“ an die erste Stelle ihrer Agenda. Beide Länder wissen, dass sie abhängig voneinander sind, um wirtschaftlich zu wachsen und dass eine multidimensionale ökonomische Allianz eine wichtige Perspektive in regionalen und globalen Punkten darstellt.
    Abstract: This thesis examines the nature of Russian-Turkish trade partnership with particular focus on their coopera-tion in the natural gas sector. In so doing, countries’ Global Aspirations, their Energy Strategies, the role of their National Champions in attaining countries’ broader objectives, and lastly their motivations in trading with each other are extensively explored for to understand the extent to which countries’ energy objectives are fulfilled in the framework of broader energy partnership. The findings of the research suggest that in a new world order influenced by virtues of neoliberal policy Rus-sia and Turkey, aspiring to rise as global and regional powers, are seeking to integrate themselves into the global free market system. By developing new and applicable strategies, they are aiming to consolidate their positions as major actors in the global markets. Hence, despite significant political differences, respective countries continue their trade by placing 'pragmatism' and 'interdependence' high on agenda for Russia and Turkey understand that they need each other for economic growth and that their multidimensional trade partnership holds a prospect for achieve-ment of their Regional and Global aspirations.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (73 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,1
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sicherheit ; Europäische Union ; Atommächte ; Coercive Diplomacy ; Iranisches Atomprogramm ; Security ; Coercive Diplomacy ; Nuclear Power ; Iran’s Nuclear Programme ; European Union ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Für die EU - vielleicht der wichtigste Akteur, der für das Verhindern der weiteren Ausbreitung von Massen-zerstörungswaffen eingetreten ist und immer noch eintritt - sind die Verhandlungen mit dem Iran im Zu-sammenhang mit dem iranischen Nuklear-Programm sehr wichtig; vor allem wenn man auf die zukünftigen weltweiten Sicherheitsmaβnamen blickt. Wenn aber die Resultate dieser Verhandlungen genauer betrachtet werden wird deutlich, dass sowohl die Strategien der E3, sowie der späteren EU, nur von geringer Bedeutung geblieben sind. Im Groβen und Ganzen ist es nicht gelungen den Iran dazu zu bewegen, auf die Forderungen der internationalen Gemeinschaft einzugehen. Diese Dissertation versucht das Engagement der EU näher zu diskutieren und geht im Besonderen auf die „Coercive Diplomacy“ des Irans ein, um zu untersuchen inwiefern diese Strategie in der Realpolitik des Irans sichtbar wird. Wichtig in diesem Zusammenhang ist zu erörtern, ob diese Art von Diplomatie Erfolge aufzeigt und welche möglichen negativen Konsequenzen sie mitbringt. Auf dem Gebiet der Analysen und Ausarbei-tungen der „Coercive Diplomacy“ wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit Alexander George’s Theorie als wichtigste Expertenmeinung hinzugezogen.
    Abstract: As one main actor seeking for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme looms large in the EU’s aspirations for future security matters. However, consider-ing the outcomes of the negotiation process with Iran so far, it is apparent that both the initial E3 and then the EU strategies could not manage to dissuade Iran from its non-compliance with the demands of the inter-national community. This study tries to examine the European Union’s engagement with Iran on its nuclear programme in terms of coercive diplomacy implementations of the EU over Iran. In this regard; the concep-tual framework of the coercive diplomacy theory and the practical employment of the theory into the case are respectively dealt with. Thus, the major aim of this thesis is to answer the questions of, first, to what ex-tend the EU has achieved applying a successful coercive diplomacy strategy over Iran and second, what parts of its strategy have not been meeting the conditions favoring an eventual success. With an eye to dif-ferent depictions and analyzes subscribed by scholars through time, through this study the contributions conducted by Alexander George to the theorization of coercive diplomacy will be taken as the primary meth-odological assessment.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (77 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,4
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Strukturgleichungsmodelle ; Wahlen ; Mobilisierung ; online ; offline ; Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament ; online ; mobilization ; offline ; European Parliament elections ; structural equation modeling ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die Möglichkeit von Online-Appellen zur Wählermobilisierung hat im Verlauf der letzten 10 Jahre exponentielle Nutzung erfahren. Alle großen Wahlkampagnen auf lokaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene wurden sowohl offline als auch online betrieben. Trotz dessen, fangen Wissenschaftler gerade erst an zu verstehen ob und in welchem Ausmaß Online-Appelle tatsächlich ihre intendierte Wirkung erbringen. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Auswirkung von Online-Apellen auf die Wahlbeteiligung auf der Basis von Wahlinformationen der Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament 2009 aus 15 EU-Ländern. Eine Innovation ist dabei die Möglichkeit zur Kontrolle von Offline-Mobilisierungsappellen, die die Wähler während der Kampagne erhalten haben. Anhand der Verwendung eines “Kausalitätstrichters” und einer Reihe von Strukturgleichungsmodellen kann aufgezeigt werden, dass Online-Appelle, wenn überhaupt, einen sehr begrenzten Effekt (auf die Wahlbeteiligung) haben. Unter Berücksichtigung der Politikinteressen der Befragten, sowie der Anzahl ihrer individuellen Kontaktierungen durch Parteimitglieder über Telefon, Mail, oder auch an der Türschwelle, kann kaum ein zusätzlicher Effekt von Online-Appellen festgestellt werden. Dies unterstreicht die Bedeutung der Kommunikationsform wie auch die Nutzung von Online-Nachrichten in Kampagnen, nämlich hauptsächlich zur Kontakthaltung mit dem jeweiligen eigenen Kern an Unterstützern. Die Analyse schließt mit der Herausstellung des Bedarfs weiterer Untersuchungen zu dem Thema, besonders im Zuge einer zunehmenden Weiterentwicklung von Möglichkeiten der Online-Kontaktierung. Zudem wird festgehalten, dass für den Wahlzyklus 2009 traditionelle Mobilisierungsmethoden effektiver waren als die Methode der Online-Mobilisierung.
    Abstract: The use of online mobilization appeals has grown exponentially in the past decade, with all major campaigns at the local, national and European levels being fought both online and offline. For all their use, scholars are just in the incipient phases of truly understanding whether and to what extent these appeals have their intended effect. This analysis puts to the test the ability of online campaign appeals to increase a voter’s involvement in the election, by relying on information collected during the 2009 European Parliament elections in 15 EU countries. The novel aspect of the study represents the ability to control for offline mobilization attempts which voters might have received during the campaign. By making use of a “funnel of causality” design, and a series of structural equation models, the results presented here suggest that online mobilization messages have a very limited, if any, effect. When taking into account a respondent’s interest in politics, as well as the extent to which they have been personally contacted by a party worker through the phone, mail, or even at the doorstep, there is little added effect which online messages bring. This highlights both a characteristic of the medium of communication, as well as the use of online messages by the campaigns: primarily to maintain contact with their core supporters. The analysis concludes by pointing toward the need for further investigations, needed as online messages become more sophisticated, and by noting that for the 2009 election cycle traditional channels of mobilization proved more effective than online ones.
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    In:  Social Sciences 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Sciences
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: resilience ; vulnerability ; rules in use ; water conflict ; water scarcity ; institutions ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small catchment—are socially constructed; that is, how they are not given but rather the product of stakeholders’ perceptions of threats and suitable responses to them. Secondly, the paper emphasizes the role of institutions—both formal and informal—in framing these vulnerability constructions and resilience strategies. Particular attention is paid to the importance of informal ‘rules in use’ emerging in the wake of (formal) ‘institutional voids’ and how they work against collective solutions. Thirdly, by choosing a small-scale, commonplace dispute to study vulnerability and resilience, the paper seeks to redress the imbalance of resilience research (and policy) on dramatic disaster events by revealing the relevance of everyday vulnerabilities, which may be less eye-catching but are far more widespread.
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    In:  International Journal of the Commons 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International Journal of the Commons
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Ubiquity Press
    Angaben zur Quelle: 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: commons ; human geography ; place-making ; politics of scale ; property rights ; reclaiming the commons ; spatial fit ; spatial planning ; spatiality ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Geografie und Reisen
    Abstract: This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand the literature on the commons for conceiving of spatiality primarily as the local, physical context of commons use and regulation but also, on the other hand, the spatial science literature for generally neglecting the commons, both conceptually and empirically. The paper then pinpoints important exceptions in the fields of human geography and planning studies, assessing how these works contribute to a more thorough and robust understanding of the relationship between spatiality, the commons and their governance. The analysis of these select works making explicit reference to the commons is complemented with a reflection on how broader debates in the spatial sciences can enrich spatial research on the commons. The final section turns to the papers of the special feature, summarizing each of the papers in order and indicating how they each contribute to the themes developed in the editorial.
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    In:  42, Seiten 38-47
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
    Angaben zur Quelle: 42, Seiten 38-47
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; Water Framework Directive ; politics of scale ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Scholars of environmental governance are increasingly intrigued by issues of scale. Efforts to institutionalise river basin management represent a pertinent exemplar, as they aspire to strengthen hydrological vis-à-vis political-administrative scales of governance. The EU Wa-ter Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious policy initiatives worldwide to reconfigure water management planning around the hydrological scale of river basins. Whilst it is widely assumed that the WFD is rescaling water governance in Europe, few em-pirical studies have been conducted to ascertain how far this is the case, what scalar strate-gies and practices are emerging and to what effect. The paper addresses these open issues with a study analysing the multi-scalar actions of water authorities, water management or-ganisations, local authorities and interest groups involved in implementing the WFD. It in-vestigates how stakeholders are acting scalar from the local to the European scale and back to further their interests in the course of WFD implementation, focussing on the Wupper sub-basin in Germany. Drawing for conceptual insight on the human geography debate on the politics of scale and processes of rescaling, we demonstrate how all relevant stakeholders are increasingly working across scales to advance their interests but in very different ways, with different degrees of deliberation and to different effect. A typology of multi-scalar action is developed to interpret this diversity. The paper draws conclusions on how multi-scalar action is altering not only power relations between the actors but also the scalar configurations themselves.
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    Note: First published as: Frank Hüesker and Timothy Moss: The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Land Use Policy 2015, 42 (January), pp.38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.07.003 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    In:  20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Taylor & Francis : Taylor & Francis, 2015
    Angaben zur Quelle: 20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
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    Keywords: Local energy transitions ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; Ownership ; Commons ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany’s energy transition through the lens of organization and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels the paper develops a novel way of conceptualizing the institutional to urban and regional energy transitions in terms of agency and power, ideas and discourse, and commons and ownership. This analytical heuristic is applied to a two-tier empirical study of the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The first tier involves a survey of the organizational landscape of energy infrastructures and services in cities, towns and villages in Brandenburg. The second tier comprises a case study of current, competing initiatives for (re-)gaining ownership of the power grid and utility in Berlin. The paper draws conclusions on the diverse and dynamic organizational responses to the Energiewende at the local level, what these tell us about urban and regional energy governance and how they are inspired by – or in opposition to – new forms of collective ownership resonant of recent debates on reclaiming the commons. It concludes with observations on how relational approaches to institutional research and the notion of the commons can guide and inspire future research on socio-technical transitions in general, and urban energy transitions in particular.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Sören Becker & Matthias Naumann (2015) Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions, Local Environment, 20:12, 1547-1563, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2014.915799
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin
    Angaben zur Quelle: 142,1–2, Seiten 187-208
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: water ; infrastructure ; Berlin ; Brandenburg ; climate change ; global change ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren
    Abstract: Global change is posing a major challenge to existing forms of natural resource use, socio-economic development and institutional regulation. Although trends such as climate change, socio-economic transformation and institutional change are global in their scope, they have very specific regional outcomes. Regionally distinct coping strategies are required which take into account both the diversity of regional impacts of global change and the local contexts of appropriate responses. This paper explores the impacts of global change on the management of water infrastructure systems in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in terms of three concurrent and overlapping challenges: climate change, socio-economic change and institutional change. It subsequently examines how regional actors in the water sector are addressing these three dimensions of global change.
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    In:  46,1, Seiten 1-6
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: New York : Springer
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,1, Seiten 1-6
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: water management ; multilevel governance ; problems of scale ; rescaling ; Natürliche Resourcen, Energie und Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Environmental governance and management are facing a multiplicity of challenges related to spatial scales and multiple levels of governance. Water management is a field particularly sensitive to issues of scale because the hydrological system with its different scalar levels from small catchments to large river basins plays such a prominent role. It thus exemplifies fundamental issues and dilemmas of scale in modern environmental management and governance. In this introductory article to an Environmental Management special feature on “Multilevel Water Governance: Coping with Problems of Scale,” we delineate our understanding of problems of scale and the dimensions of scalar politics that are central to water resource management. We provide an overview of the contributions to this special feature, concluding with a discussion of how scalar research can usefully challenge conventional wisdom on water resource management. We hope that this discussion of water governance stimulates a broader debate and inquiry relating to the scalar dimensions of environmental governance and management in general.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss & Jens Newig (2010) Multilevel Water Governance and Problems of Scale: Setting the Stage for a Broader Debate, Environmental Management, 46:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9531-1
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2009
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Medien ; Osteuropa ; Transformation ; Demokratisierung ; Mitteleuropa ; Eastern Europe ; Transformation ; Democratization ; Media ; Central Europe ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Diese Dissertation untersucht die Rolle der Massenmedien am Anfang der politischen Transformationsprozesse in den vormals realsozialistischen Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas am Fallbeispiel der DDR und Ungarn in vergleichender Perspektive. Obwohl existierende Forschungsstudien von einem Zusammenhang zwischen Medien und Demokratisierung ausgehen, fehlten bislang empirisch überzeugende Nachweise über die Rolle der Medien auf die Demokratisierungsprozesse in der Region. Somit wurde ein zentraler – jedoch bislang weitgehend vernachlässigter – Aspekt der Transformationsforschung von dieser Arbeit aufgegriffen. Die Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf die Rolle der Printmedien in der Region, und geht insbesondere der Frage nach, ob die Medien eher als „Katalysator“ der Demokratisierungsprozesse oder doch als „Mitläufer“ zu betrachten sind. Anhand einer vergleichenden Inhaltsanalyse von jeweils zwei offiziellen Tageszeitungen in beiden Ländern zwischen 1989 und 1990, wird in der Arbeit gezeigt, dass die Medien eine aktive und positive Rolle während den unmittelbaren Transformationsprozessen hatten, also als „Katalysatoren“ zu betrachten sind. Die Arbeit kommt zum Ergebnis, dass die Medien die jeweiligen Transformationen zwar selber nicht einzuleiten vermochten, sie jedoch die Ereignisse und die Dynamik, unmittelbar als die jeweilige „Wende“ eingeleitet wurde, verstärkten.
    Abstract: This thesis examines the role played by the mass media at the beginning of the political transformation of the former socialist states of central and eastern Europe, through a direct comparison of the GDR and Hungary. Although existing studies have suggested a casual relationship between the media and democratization, a lack of empirical evidence on the role of the media in democratization processes in the region still existed. Here, a central - but up to now largely neglected - aspect of the research on democratic transformation processes is thus analysed. The thesis attempts to answer the question of whether the media led or followed the democratization processes that were underway in the region by concentrating on print media. Through a comparative content analysis of two official newspapers in each country of analysis between 1989 to1990, it is suggested that the media assumed an active and positive role during the immediate transformation processes. Although the media were not able to initiate the respective transformations, they did act as a catalyst on the unfolding events as soon as the beginning of the demise of the socialist state systems were initiated.
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    In:  Environment & planning. A, Economy and space 41,2009,6, Seiten 1480-1495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (35 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Environment & planning. A, Economy and space
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 41,2009,6, Seiten 1480-1495
    DDC: 711
    Keywords: Raumplanunug ; Verwaltung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper makes the case for studying intermediary organisations as a window on the shifting governance of water and energy services in Europe today. It explores the notion of intermediaries and intermediation in a wide range of literatures and demonstrates how the governance concept can provide focus to the term, indicating how intermediaries can influence the pursuit of collective goals under shifting governance structures and processes. Against this conceptual backdrop the paper sets out the key governance challenges emerging from the ongoing transformation of socio-technical systems (addressing water and energy services) in terms of changing relations between the state and the utility, between service provider and user, between infrastructure and urban systems and between infrastructure and the environment. It subsequently provides empirical illustration of the emergence of intermediaries in the water sector across Europe, the relational nature of their work, the interests they pursue and the impacts they are having.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2009): Intermediaries and the governance of socio-technical networks in transition, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 41:6, 1480-1495, DOI: 10.1068/a4116
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    In:  International journal of urban and regional research 32,2008,2, Seiten 436-451
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of urban and regional research
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley
    Angaben zur Quelle: 32,2008,2, Seiten 436-451
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores the unfamiliar, but increasingly prevalent problem of overcapacity in urban infrastructure systems in regions subject to dramatic socio-economic restructuring. Taking the case of water supply and wastewater disposal systems in Eastern Germany as an example, it examines firstly how infrastructure overcapacities have emerged since reunification in 1990, resulting from sharply declining water consumption in the wake of ‘shrinking’ processes but also from infrastructure expansion. Secondly, the paper analyses what impact chronic overcapacity is having on the governance of water infrastructure systems. This empirical analysis is framed conceptually in terms of the current debate on the changing relationship between infrastructures and the localities they serve. It assesses specifically how far and in what ways the phenomenon of overcapacity in technical networks resonates with the ‘splintering urbanism’ thesis developed by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin. It argues that the serious technical and economic problems posed by overcapacity are intensifying spatial disparities in service quality and price and – more fundamentally –are challenging the supply-driven ‘modern infrastructural ideal’ of universal and equitable water services.
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    Note: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Timothy Moss (2008): ‘Cold spots’ of Urban Infrastructure: ‘Shrinking’ Processes in Eastern Germany and the Modern Infrastructural Ideal. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(2), pp.436-451, which has been published in final form at doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00790.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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    In:  International journal of river basin management 5,2007,2, Seiten 121-130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International journal of river basin management
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 5,2007,2, Seiten 121-130
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: floodplain restoration ; institutions ; river basin management ; policy implementation ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The task of restoring floodplains, as a means of improving flood protection or providing other benefits, poses multi-dimensional challenges to policy-makers and project managers alike. Involving essentially a reconfiguration of the interaction between a river and adjacent low-lying land, floodplain restoration affects a wide range of institutions designed to secure a variety of private and public goods associated with water and land use. A scheme to restore a floodplain requires the successful enrolment of these institutions in such a way as to create a result acceptable to the principal stakeholders. This is a highly complex process. This paper, based on EU-funded research on the policy contexts and selected pilot schemes of floodplain restoration in Germany, France and England and Wales, provides a critical appraisal of the institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration. In particular, it explores how recent shifts in problem awareness and problem-solving in a number of relevant policy fields are creating windows of opportunity for more integrated approaches to restoring floodplains. At the same time it demonstrates the emergence of a new policy delivery gap emanating from the growing complexity of new generation floodplain restoration schemes.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2007) Institutional drivers and constraints of floodplain restoration in Europe, International Journal of River Basin Management, 5:2, 121-130, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2007.9635312
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2005
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; EU ; Transformation ; Erweiterung ; Polen ; Tschechien ; Ungarn ; Konsolidierung ; Demokratisierung ; Parteiensysteme ; EU ; transformation ; enlargement ; Poland ; Czech Republic ; Hungary ; consolidation ; democratization ; party systems ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Untersuchung des institutionellen Wandels in Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn während ihres Beitrittsprozesses zur Europäischen Union. Dabei liegt das Hauptaugenmerk auf den dabei entstandenen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Parteipolitik und den Beitrittsbemühungen. Die Entwicklungen in Mittelosteuropa nach dem Ende der Blockkonfrontation zwang die neuen Demokratien in der Region in einen Zustand des demokratischen und ökonomischen Wettbewerbs um den Zutritt zu westeuropäischen Strukturen, die Wohlstand und Sicherheit versprachen. Die Mitgliedschaft in der EU wurde von ihnen als oberstes Ziel, wenn nicht sogar als Belohnung, ihrer gesellschaftlichen Transformation verstanden. Die Konsolidierung der Demokratie war - im Gegensatz zur vorherigen Demokratisierung - in diesem Zusammenhang keine explizite Anforderung, sondern eine positive Prognose, die spätestens mit der EU-Mitgliedschaft der Realität entsprechen sollte. Das Kernstück dieser Arbeit ist die komparative Dreiländerstudie, in der die innenpolitischen Ereignisse, die Motive der Akteure, die Funktionalität der jeweiligen politischen Systeme und deren Entwicklung nach der Errichtung der Demokratie verglichen werden. Außerdem werden die Strukturen untersucht, die von den Kandidatenländern erschaffen worden sind, um den Beitritt zu organisieren. Die abschließende Bewertung erfolgt hinsichtlich der Gründe, die für etwaige institutionelle Veränderungen verantwortlich waren sind und arbeitet die europapolitischen Determinanten für das Akteursverhalten heraus. Die Verknüpfung von externer Einflußnahme mit institutionellem Wandel im Inneren führt zu folgenden politikwissenschaftlich relevanten Fragen: In wie weit hat der Beitrittsprozeß einen Einfluß auf die Konsolidierung der Demokratie in den Kandidatenländern gehabt? Hatte der Beitrittsprozeß kurz- oder langfristige Veränderungen in den politischen Systemen dieser Länder zur Folge? Haben die nationalen Akteure versucht, den Beitrittsprozeß für ihre eigenen politischen Ziele zu instrumentalisieren? Die Beantwortung dieser Fragen wird helfen, die innenpolitischen Konsequenzen zukünftiger Erweiterungsrunden besser einzuschätzen, einschließlich den dabei zu erwartenden politischen Wechselwirkungen auf der nationalen Ebene der neuen Mitgliedsstaaten.
    Abstract: The present work deals with the research of institutional change in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary during the accession process to the European Union. The main emphasis rests on the interaction between domestic party politics and accession efforts that took place during this period. The developments in Central Eastern Europe after the end of the East-West conflict forced the new democracies of the region into a state of economic competition for entry to West European structures that promised wealth and security. The membership in the EU was perceived as the main foreign policy objective if not as the reward for their societal transformation. The consolidation of democracy - in contrast to the previous democratization that took place - wasn''t a specific requirement in this context. Instead it was a positive prediction which was believed to come true with the EU-membership at the latest. The central element of this work is a comparative three country study, analyzing the domestic political events, the motives of the actors, the functionality of the given political systems and their development after the initial establishment of institutional democracy. Furthermore it includes an examination of the structures that have been created by the candidate countries for organizing their accession to the EU. The final evaluation is done in regard to the reasons responsible for domestic institutional changes and means an attempt to work out the Europe centered determinants of the domestic actors'' behaviours. The linking of external influence to domestic institutional change leads to the following questions relevant to political science: To what extent the accession process had an impact on the consolidation of democracy in the candidate countries? Has the accession process caused any short or long term changes in the political systems of these countries? Have the domestic actors tried to utilize the accession process for their own political interests? The answers to these questions will help evaluating the domestic consequences of future enlargement rounds, including the correlations on the national level of the new member states.
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    In:  Innovation 17,2004,1, Seiten 11-23
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (13 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Innovation
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 17,2004,1, Seiten 11-23
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper summarises the main results from a study into methods of imple-menting sustainable development principles in EU Structural programmes. It demon-strates how 12 pilot regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications which are compatible with structural funding procedures, rele-vant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to programme partner-ships. The selected regions – from France, Germany, the UK, Sweden and the Neth-erlands – vary considerably in terms of their size and structural characteristics. These differences had an important bearing on the paths they chose to integrate sustainable development principles into their Structural Funds programmes and management practices. Conclusions are drawn on how other regions might promote sustainable devel-opment in the context of Structural Funds programmes on the basis of these experi-ences in terms of developing new methodologies, redesigning programme objectives, adapting management tools and opening up procedures to greater participation and dialogue.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss and Heidi Fichter (2004) Promoting Sustainable Development in EU Struc-tural Funds Programmes: Lessons from Regional Case Studies, Innovation - European Jour-nal of Social Science Research 17:1, 11-23 https://doi.org/10.1080/1351161042000190718
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    In:  Land use policy 21,2003,1, Seiten 85-94
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Land use policy
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 21,2003,1, Seiten 85-94
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; Water Framework Directive ; institutional change ; land use ; governance ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper examines the prospects for the interactive governance of water and land use following an initiative to institutionalise integrated river basin management. Taking an institutionalist perspective it first presents river basin management as a tool for overcoming problems of spatial fit and institutional interplay over water and land use. A case study of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Germany then explores opportunities and requirements for governance in future water management. On the basis of these findings the paper tests the validity of the thesis that the success of EU policy reform depends on the degree of ‘fit’ with existing institutional structures and practices.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2004) The governance of land use in river basins: prospects for overcoming problems of institutional interplay with the EU Water Framework Directive. Land Use Policy 21:1, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.10.001 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    In:  Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 35,2003,3, Seiten 511-529
    ISSN: 0308-518X , 0308-518X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (39 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 35,2003,3, Seiten 511-529
    DDC: 710
    Keywords: Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper explores the interrelationships between urban land use, resource consumption and utility service provision with a study of brownfield regeneration from an infrastructure perspective. Drawing on recent research into the spatial strategies of utility companies following liberalisation and privatisation the paper identifies disused industrial sites as “cold-spots” of infrastructure systems where energy and water consumption has recently collapsed. A case study of Berlin analyses first the challenges facing the city’s three major utilities as a result of shifting patterns of resource consumption and over-capacity in parts of their networks. The second part examines the responses of the three utilities to these challenges in the context of recent institutional changes to infrastructure provision, examining how the utilities are moving towards greater spatial differentiation in their network management and what interest they have in brownfield regeneration.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2003) Utilities, land-use change and urban development: Brownfield sites as “cold-spots” of infrastructure networks in Berlin, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 35:3, 511-529, DOI: 10.1068/a3548
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    In:  Sustainable development 11,2003,1, Seiten 56-65
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Sustainable development
    Publ. der Quelle: New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,2003,1, Seiten 56-65
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper assesses and compares the experiences of 12 Objective 1 and 2 regions across the EU which conducted pilot projects on methods of promoting sustainable development by means of Structural Funds programmes. It demonstrates how the regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications which are compatible with structural funding procedures, relevant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to programme partnerships. The paper analyses their experiences in terms of developing new methodologies, redesigning programme objectives, adapting management tools and opening up procedures to greater participation and dialogue. A central argument is that the success of the efforts to promote sustainable development via structural funding depends to a considerable extent on the ability of those involved to address local or regional issues of concern, to build on existing procedures and objectives of programme management and to respect the institutional framework of operation.
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    Note: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Timothy Moss and Heidi Fichter (2003) Lessons in promoting sustainable development in EU Structural Funds programmes, Sustainable Development 11:1, 56-65, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.204. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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    In:  19,5, Seiten 473-479
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (7 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 19,5, Seiten 473-479
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
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    Note: First published as: Jens Newig & Timothy Moss (2017) Scale in environmental governance: moving from con-cepts and cases to consolidation, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 19:5, 473-479, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2017.1390926
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    In:  Journal of urban technology 7,2000,1, Seiten 63-84
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of urban technology
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Carfax, Taylor & Francis
    Angaben zur Quelle: 7,2000,1, Seiten 63-84
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: waste water ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss (2000) Unearthing Water Flows, Uncovering Social Relations: Introducing New Waste Water Technologies in Berlin, Journal of Urban Technology, 7:1, 63-84, DOI: 10.1080/713684106
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