Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel betrachtet ökologische Innovationen als Grundlage nachhaltiger Wettbewerbsvorteile für touristische Destinationen. Er behandelt einerseits die zunehmende Nachfrage nach umweltverantwortlichen Reiseangeboten aufgrund sich verändernder Initialfaktoren....

Zusammenfassung Der Gesundheitssektor in Deutschland ist durch eine steigende Präsenz von Frauen im traditionell von Männern dominierten ärztlichen Berufsfeld und eine leichte Zunahme von Fachkräften mit akademischer Ausbildung in der von Frauen dominierten Kranken- und Altenpflege...

Summary The most popular explanation for greater job creation in the US than in Germany is that greater dispersion of wages coupled with less regulations governing the labour market and the product market in the US has induced firms to employ many less skilled workers. While popular, these...

A crucial factor for prevention and immediate confrontation of destructive fires and their socioeconomic and environmental consequences constitutes the early detection and spatial localization of fire ignitions, so that the firefighting forces to be activated and act within the critical time of...

The North Carolina wine industry is growing at a fast pace. Many new vineyards are being planted with European varieties. Vitis vinifera varieties in general are the most challenging species of grape grown, requiring considerable effort to consistently produce yields of appropriate volume and...

This paper presents the work of the WCS with the A'i Indigenous people in Colombia as part of a USAID-funded project between 2009 and 2011. The project had several dimensions that make it unusual. Unlike conventional “counter-mapping” attempts to represent Indigenous land claims as a counter...