"Griechenland - Faszination einer Reise" ist eine inspirierende Reise durch eines der geschichtsträchtigsten und zugleich vielseitigsten Länder Europas. Das eBook verbindet fundiertes Wissen mit eindrucksvollen Eindrücken und lädt Leserinnen und Leser dazu ein, Griechenland in all seinen Facetten zu entdecken.Das Werk führt von den antiken Stätten Athens über die mythologischen Orte des Peloponnes bis hin zu den traumhaften Inselwelten der Ägäis und des Ionischen Meeres. Neben historischen Hintergründen beleuchtet es die lebendige Kultur des Landes – von Musik und Tanz über kulinarische Traditionen bis zu Festen und Bräuchen, die Griechenland bis heute prägen.Zahlreiche Kapitel widmen sich Naturwundern wie den Meteora-Klöstern, den türkisfarbenen Küsten Kretas oder den unberührten Landschaften des Epirus. Ergänzt wird dies durch praktische Reisetipps, Empfehlungen für Ausflüge und Einblicke in den griechischen Lebensstil, der Besucher seit Jahrhunderten begeistert.Das eBook eignet sich sowohl für Reiselustige, die ihre nächste Griechenlandreise planen, als auch für Leser, die das Land aus der Ferne kennenlernen möchten. Ein abwechslungsreicher, informativer und atmosphärischer Begleiter voller Entdeckungsmomente.

Das digitale Buch"Leipzig - Neubau, Sanierung und Verfall"stellt die Veränderung der Stadt in Wort und Bild im Zeitraum 2004 - 2025 dar. Es liegt nunmehr in der 8. Auflage vor.Auf der Grundlage des 2002 beschlossenen Programms Stadtumbau Ost wurden zielgerichtet die Maßnahmen eingeleitet, die letztendlich zu einer Verbesserung der Arbeits- und Lebensqualität in Leipzig führten.Ein Großteil der Maßnahmen ist realisiert. Einige Projekte, wie z. B. der weitere Ausbau der Gewässerlandschaft oder die Bebauung des Areals hinter dem Bayerischen Bahnhof, werden aber noch Zeit in Anspruch nehmen.Wie dem Titel bereits zu entnehmen ist, umfassen die Projekte der Stadterneuerung Neubau- und Sanierungsmaßnahmen sowie Maßnahmen zur Sicherung bzw. Wiederbelebung verfallener Industriebrachen.Gerade letzterer Komplex ist deshalb besonders interessant, weil hier ersichtlich wird, wie wertvolle Industriearchitektur aus dem 19. Jahrhundert gerettet und einer neuen Nutzung zugeführt wird.Das eBook versetzt den Besucher der Stadt in die Lage, sich einen umfassenden Überblick über das neue alte Leipzig zu verschaffen.Somit erfasst das eBook ein breites Spektrum Leipziger Geschichte der letzten Jahre!

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Constance (FB Politics/Business Administration/Department for Management), course: Metropolitan Governance - Politische Institutionen fur Grostadtregionen, language: English, abstract: The issue of cooperation in metropolitan areas has long been on the agenda of both practitioners and theorists. For instance, Major Peters of Boston claimed in an address as early as 1919 that the lack of regional unity had severe adverse effects on his city in economic, social and political terms (Wallis 1994a: 160-161). On the core of this lies the notion that many problems in urban areas cross political and administrative boundaries, thus requiring regional solutions. Some examples for such problems are environmental pollution, traffic congestion, unemployment, poverty and ghetto-building (Hamilton 1999: 280-310; see also Heinz 2000a: 509-514). In practice, various attempts have been made to solve these problems, reaching from informal cooperations in limited issue areas to strong formal regional institutions with extensive competencies (Wallis 1994a, 1994b). Among scholars, there is an ongoing debate about metropolitan cooperation which is in large parts concerned with the advantages and disadvantages of powerful regional institutions . This paper explores whether it makes sense at all to speak about the "e;power"e; of regional institutions. Even though such authorities have been considerably strengthened in legal terms in some cases, it is questionable whether this translates into increased actual power. After all, some scholars argue that state institutions in general do not have sufficient resources for policy-making in modern societies (Schneider 2000). This paper thus deals with the following question: Do attempts to legally strengthen regional institutions result in an overall increase of their power?To answer this question, two regional institutions in Germany are examined in a comparative case study, namely the "e;Verband Region Stuttgart"e; (VRS) and the "e;Region Hannover"e; (RH). The analysis is based on indicators derived from the concept of power by Stokman (1995), who models an actor's power as consisting of its voting power, resources and access to the decision-making center. It is shown that the RH is stronger than the VRS both in terms of legal strength and potential power. Legal strength of regional institutions indeed seems to translate into actual power. A possible explanation for this is found in the differing institutional surroundings of the two regional authorities. [...]

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A (1.0), San Francisco State University (College of Business), course: Individual Study: ISO 14001, language: English, abstract: Interest in environmental management has been growing strongly in the corporate world over the recent years. It has been boosted by theorists and practitioners who promised huge win- win opportunities in this area, with ecologically conscious management practices benefiting the natural environment and at the same time advancing the competitiveness of companies or even national economies (e.g., PORTER 1991). Even though this win-win rhetoric has been criticized sharply (e.g., WALLEY/WHITEHEAD 1994), environmental management remained an important part of many businesses' agenda for different motives - be it in order to exploit win-win potentials or to ensure legal compliance (AN- DREWS etal. 2001), or be it intrinsically motivated, in order to avoid doing harm to the natural environment. One way of implementing and maintaining environmental management is by institutionalizing an environmental management system (EMS). Such an EMS constitutes a structured and systematic approach for articulating goals, making choices, gathering information, measuring progress, and improving performance in the environmental field (FLOR- IDA/DAVISON 2001:64). There is a wide array of different types of EMS s, reaching from company specific solutions to standardized national (like the British BS 7750), multinational (like the European Union s EMAS), or even global approaches (like the International Organization for Standardization s ISO 14001) (KRUT/GLECKMAN 1998). The ISO 14001 standard achieved particular prominence as an EMS: In July 2003, more than 53,000 organizations all over the world had an EMS which was certified according to ISO 14001 guide lines (PEGLAU 2003; see also chapter 2.2 of this paper). Its proponents promise huge environmental and financial/operational benefits. They assume that by implementing an ISO 14001 certified EMS, a company can improve both its natural environment and its bottom- line.

"Griechenland - Faszination einer Reise" ist eine inspirierende Reise durch eines der geschichtsträchtigsten und zugleich vielseitigsten Länder Europas. Das eBook verbindet fundiertes Wissen mit eindrucksvollen Eindrücken und lädt Leserinnen und Leser dazu ein, Griechenland in all seinen Facetten zu entdecken.Das Werk führt von den antiken Stätten Athens über die mythologischen Orte des Peloponnes bis hin zu den traumhaften Inselwelten der Ägäis und des Ionischen Meeres. Neben historischen Hintergründen beleuchtet es die lebendige Kultur des Landes – von Musik und Tanz über kulinarische Traditionen bis zu Festen und Bräuchen, die Griechenland bis heute prägen.Zahlreiche Kapitel widmen sich Naturwundern wie den Meteora-Klöstern, den türkisfarbenen Küsten Kretas oder den unberührten Landschaften des Epirus. Ergänzt wird dies durch praktische Reisetipps, Empfehlungen für Ausflüge und Einblicke in den griechischen Lebensstil, der Besucher seit Jahrhunderten begeistert.Das eBook eignet sich sowohl für Reiselustige, die ihre nächste Griechenlandreise planen, als auch für Leser, die das Land aus der Ferne kennenlernen möchten. Ein abwechslungsreicher, informativer und atmosphärischer Begleiter voller Entdeckungsmomente.

Das digitale Buch"Leipzig - Neubau, Sanierung und Verfall"stellt die Veränderung der Stadt in Wort und Bild im Zeitraum 2004 - 2025 dar. Es liegt nunmehr in der 8. Auflage vor.Auf der Grundlage des 2002 beschlossenen Programms Stadtumbau Ost wurden zielgerichtet die Maßnahmen eingeleitet, die letztendlich zu einer Verbesserung der Arbeits- und Lebensqualität in Leipzig führten.Ein Großteil der Maßnahmen ist realisiert. Einige Projekte, wie z. B. der weitere Ausbau der Gewässerlandschaft oder die Bebauung des Areals hinter dem Bayerischen Bahnhof, werden aber noch Zeit in Anspruch nehmen.Wie dem Titel bereits zu entnehmen ist, umfassen die Projekte der Stadterneuerung Neubau- und Sanierungsmaßnahmen sowie Maßnahmen zur Sicherung bzw. Wiederbelebung verfallener Industriebrachen.Gerade letzterer Komplex ist deshalb besonders interessant, weil hier ersichtlich wird, wie wertvolle Industriearchitektur aus dem 19. Jahrhundert gerettet und einer neuen Nutzung zugeführt wird.Das eBook versetzt den Besucher der Stadt in die Lage, sich einen umfassenden Überblick über das neue alte Leipzig zu verschaffen.Somit erfasst das eBook ein breites Spektrum Leipziger Geschichte der letzten Jahre!

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Constance (FB Politics/Business Administration/Department for Management), course: Metropolitan Governance - Politische Institutionen fur Grostadtregionen, language: English, abstract: The issue of cooperation in metropolitan areas has long been on the agenda of both practitioners and theorists. For instance, Major Peters of Boston claimed in an address as early as 1919 that the lack of regional unity had severe adverse effects on his city in economic, social and political terms (Wallis 1994a: 160-161). On the core of this lies the notion that many problems in urban areas cross political and administrative boundaries, thus requiring regional solutions. Some examples for such problems are environmental pollution, traffic congestion, unemployment, poverty and ghetto-building (Hamilton 1999: 280-310; see also Heinz 2000a: 509-514). In practice, various attempts have been made to solve these problems, reaching from informal cooperations in limited issue areas to strong formal regional institutions with extensive competencies (Wallis 1994a, 1994b). Among scholars, there is an ongoing debate about metropolitan cooperation which is in large parts concerned with the advantages and disadvantages of powerful regional institutions . This paper explores whether it makes sense at all to speak about the "e;power"e; of regional institutions. Even though such authorities have been considerably strengthened in legal terms in some cases, it is questionable whether this translates into increased actual power. After all, some scholars argue that state institutions in general do not have sufficient resources for policy-making in modern societies (Schneider 2000). This paper thus deals with the following question: Do attempts to legally strengthen regional institutions result in an overall increase of their power?To answer this question, two regional institutions in Germany are examined in a comparative case study, namely the "e;Verband Region Stuttgart"e; (VRS) and the "e;Region Hannover"e; (RH). The analysis is based on indicators derived from the concept of power by Stokman (1995), who models an actor's power as consisting of its voting power, resources and access to the decision-making center. It is shown that the RH is stronger than the VRS both in terms of legal strength and potential power. Legal strength of regional institutions indeed seems to translate into actual power. A possible explanation for this is found in the differing institutional surroundings of the two regional authorities. [...]

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A (1.0), San Francisco State University (College of Business), course: Individual Study: ISO 14001, language: English, abstract: Interest in environmental management has been growing strongly in the corporate world over the recent years. It has been boosted by theorists and practitioners who promised huge win- win opportunities in this area, with ecologically conscious management practices benefiting the natural environment and at the same time advancing the competitiveness of companies or even national economies (e.g., PORTER 1991). Even though this win-win rhetoric has been criticized sharply (e.g., WALLEY/WHITEHEAD 1994), environmental management remained an important part of many businesses' agenda for different motives - be it in order to exploit win-win potentials or to ensure legal compliance (AN- DREWS etal. 2001), or be it intrinsically motivated, in order to avoid doing harm to the natural environment. One way of implementing and maintaining environmental management is by institutionalizing an environmental management system (EMS). Such an EMS constitutes a structured and systematic approach for articulating goals, making choices, gathering information, measuring progress, and improving performance in the environmental field (FLOR- IDA/DAVISON 2001:64). There is a wide array of different types of EMS s, reaching from company specific solutions to standardized national (like the British BS 7750), multinational (like the European Union s EMAS), or even global approaches (like the International Organization for Standardization s ISO 14001) (KRUT/GLECKMAN 1998). The ISO 14001 standard achieved particular prominence as an EMS: In July 2003, more than 53,000 organizations all over the world had an EMS which was certified according to ISO 14001 guide lines (PEGLAU 2003; see also chapter 2.2 of this paper). Its proponents promise huge environmental and financial/operational benefits. They assume that by implementing an ISO 14001 certified EMS, a company can improve both its natural environment and its bottom- line.