Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states areurged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived...

Die Höhenkliniken in Davos sind als Artefakte aus einer Kurgeschichte hervorgegangen, welche im Jahre 1853 begonnen hat. Damals hat Alexander Spengler, welcher 1848 nach der badischen Revolution von Deutschland nach Davos geflohen ist, sehr bald die gesunde Wirkung des Davoser Klimas erkannt....

Die gebaute Umwelt repräsentiert immense kulturelle und wirtschaftlicheWerte. Der Marktwert der Schweizer Immobilien ohne Infrastrukturbautenübersteigt die Kapitalisierung der an der Schweizer Börse gehandelten Aktien und Obligationen bei weitem. Eine Analyse der Schweizer...

Storey (1994) reviews a number of socio-economic variables that have been widely hypothesised toimpact upon small business formation. These are:- population (change, density, age structure)unemployment, wealth, education, industrial structure, and public policy. These factors are consideredwith...

In the field of housing economics, there is a long traditionof evaluating housing outcomes for the entire populationand various subgroups by tracking four key variables, orconcepts: the physical adequacy of the occupied housingunit, the number of people living in the unit relative to thenumber...

[...]In this paper, we update this affordability debateusing data from the 1990s. We follow Gyourko and Linneman(1993) in addressing the affordability issue by asking asimple question: Is a home of a given quality from ten ortwenty years ago more or less affordable today to a householdsimilarly...

"Von den Zinsen leben, statt vom Kapital", das ist Nachhaltigkeit im eigentlichen Sinne. Und obwohl dies einleuchtend und logisch ist, tun wir uns äusserst schwer damit, diesem Prinzip nachzuleben. Gerade in der Bau- und Immobilienwelt gibt es noch viel zu tun. um dieses Ziel auch nur...

Trafford Hall offers training, support and pump-priming grants to residents andvolunteers in low income communities to help them tackle local problems within theircommunities. Since 1994 when the Centre opened, around 70,000 participants have beenon residential courses leading to action plans...

This report presents some of the mainfi ndings from our research in each areaduring 2005: most of our eighth andpart of our ninth year. It also detailsthe other activities of the Centre. Moredetail can be found in the publicationslisted in Appendix 2, which includeCASE’s own discussion paper...

The paper documents the loca impacts of government efforts to improve housing standards and demand, enhance environmental quality and foster sustainable regeneration within low-income areas. Housing, the ocal environment and physical regeneration were core concerns for Labour as it...