Aim of this paper is to describe the present status of using statistics by metropolitan and regional governments in the Federal Republic of Germany FRG in order to promote or prevent special decisions. Methodological approach is: Exemplarily it is focused an actual planning procedure going over...

Aim of this paper is to describe the present status of using social indicators within planning and decision procedures of public administrations in the Federal Republic of Germany. Methodological approach is: Exemplarily it is focused an actual planning procedure going over several years but now...

Dieses Diskussionspapier basiert auf einer Studie für das Stadtplanungsamt der Stadt Dresden.

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Climate change has developed into a key concern of a globalised world, with huge attentionin popular and media discourses and with consequences in virtually all fields ofscience and politics. As a cross-cutting issue, climate change is connecting distant andsometimes highly controversial fields....

Die Studie zur Wahrnehmung des Klimawandels im Alltag und seiner Folgen für Konsumverhaltenund Vulnerabilität in der Nordwest-Region ist Teil des Forschungsverbundes „nordwest2050 -Perspektiven für klimaangepasste Innovationsprozesse in der Metropolregion Bremen-Oldenburgim Nordwesten“....

Die steigende Nachfrage nach Energie, gleichzeitig immer knapper werdende fossile Ressourcen und der fortschreitende Klimawandel führen dazu, dass auf europäischer und nationaler Ebene politische Zielsetzungen zur Reduktion des CO2-Ausstoßes sowie zur Erhöhung des Anteils erneuerbarer...

With only weeks to go untilthe United Nations climate change conferencein Copenhagen, the world is looking for itsleaders to strike a deal that will be farreachingenough to curb catastrophic climatechange from occurring. For the insuranceindustry this agreement is about more thanpreparing for a...

Back in the eighteenth century, the insurance industry in London incentivised widespread behaviour to mitigate fire risk by introducing the world’s first building fire codes in the form of fire marks, and then creating the world’s first organised fire services. Now 350 years later, the...