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This book explores the impact of localities and regions on universities and shows how the diversity of the higher education landscape is critically affected by the geophysical character of regions and their differentiated economies and cultures; regional inequalities bear heavily on universities' strategy-making. A study of the interrelationship between higher and further education argues that from a regional perspective a change to a tertiary education system in England (following Wales) would create the conditions for better local and regional coordination. Universities make a significant contribution to 'levelling up' through technology transfer and the creation of innovation hubs but the contribution of locally or regionally based students who on graduation return to disadvantaged communities rather than seek employment elsewhere should be recognised also as a longer term step to redressing regional inequality. The book argues strongly that the time has come to decentralise the governance of a re-aligned tertiary system to regions and identifies the move to create metro mayors and combined authorities as providing the appropriate vehicle to release new initiative from regional sources. It cites the success of decentralisation to Scotland and Wales as offering relevant models for scrutiny. The authors draw on 12 UK widely differentiated university case studies, a survey of further education and a study of three continental European comparators (Germany, Ireland and Norway) to develop the argument

A discussion of the concept of Volk in the light of proposals to reform European boundaries on the basis of ethnic & regional principles to promote peace. As presently constituted, Europe's nationalist federations seem to promote conflict (eg, WWI & WWII). Ethnically homogeneous regions, with shared features promoting regional consciousness, provide a much more logical basis for societal formation than nations where boundaries are arbitrarily drawn without consideration for ethnic relatedness. The concept of regionalism has been legitimated by history & in international law & political science. However, the impracticality of allowing complete regional autonomy is overwhelming. It is suggested that nations & the European community will at present best be served by encouraging regional consciousness based on ethnically harmonious groups. D. Dunseath.

"The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models described here are either components of comprehensive models or specialist studies. Economic activities can be defined in terms of jobs or private-sector firms and public service organisations. Different levels of aggregation are used both in terms of organisational and geographical dimensions. In the case of firms and public organizations, a distinction can be made between the organizations themselves and corresponding establishments. For urban simulation models, it is the location of establishments that is important. At the more coarse levels of aggregation that are usually used in comprehensive models, firms and organizations are aggregated into sectors."--Provided by publisher

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Andrea Seidel: Prognose der Auswirkungen des Klimawandels am Beispiel des Brambacher Zipfels im Oberen Vogtland. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen für die Entwicklung von
Lebensräumen und ausgewählten Arten (1-24); Mareike Schaerffer: Die Potenziale der Flussgebietsplanung für den Umgang mit den Folgen des Klimawandels - bürgerschaftliches Engagement im Hochwasserschutz (25-43); Sven Rannow, Roland Finke: Instrumentelle Zuordnung der planerischen Aufgaben des Klimaschutzes (44-67); Michael Lülf: Bewältigung von Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung
in Städten und städtischen Agglomerationen durch die Raumplanung? (68-85); Matthias Dietz: Überraschende Untiefen: Analyse der Klimaschutzpolitik zweier Küstenbundesländer (86-107).