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Die Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchung (UVU) beinhaltet den wissenschaftlichen Kern einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP). In der Fachliteratur wurden bisher fast ausschließlich die rechtlichen und administrativen Aspekte der UVP diskutiert. Mit diesem Buch liegt nun erstmals eine systematisch fundierte Methodendarstellung der UVU vor, die sowohl den historischen Kontext als auch internationale Entwicklungstendenzen in den Vordergrund rückt. Von Interesse sind dabei vor allem die USA und Kanada, von wo die weltweite Verbreitung der UVP Anfang der 70er Jahre ihren Ausgang nahm. Das Buch erläutert Theorien, fachliche Zusammenhänge und Anwendungsschwerpunkte. Zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele bieten Anregungen für die Durchführung von Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchungen in der Praxis.

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2+ (B), Ruhr-University of Bochum (English Seminar), course: Hauptseminar Trevor Griffiths: Comedians, language: English, abstract: The question of whether and how to combine left-wing political commitmentand writing for the stage has been causing considerable doubt among radicalplaywrights for some time. Radical Marxists tend to point out that writing for apredominantly bourgeois audience of playgoers is incompatible with the Marxistclaim to address the proletariat and form a class consciousness that, for them, isthe necessary precursor to revolutionary change, while others support an interventionist position of Marxists in bourgeois cultures.1 This dilemma hasled the playwright Trevor Griffiths away from writing for the stage. Instead, hehas focused his output on television productions that are supposed to be watchedby a mass audience rather than an elitist one, although it has to be conceded thatproductions like these are often scheduled at late-night times where workingclassaudiences are likely to miss them, while prime-time entertainment, whichusually works against the interests of the proletariat, is rendered more easilyaccessible.2 Nevertheless Griffiths has produced a number of plays for the stage,the most notable of which, Comedians (1976), will be discussed in this paper. In his introduction to Plays One, Griffiths remarks about this drama that iteschews political theory, professional ideologues and historically sourced discourse onpolitical revolution [ ] in favour of a more or less unmediated address on a range ofparticular contemporary issues including class, gender, race and society in modernBritain.3Unlike in his earlier plays, Griffiths tries to present an analysis of the wayrepressive ideologies work not merely by filtering them through the ideas andtheories of sophisticated and educated characters, but instead by exposing theway these ideologies function in contemporary British society. This society isrepresented by a class of aspiring comedians in an evening school in aManchester suburb. [...]1 Cf. Catherine Itzin, Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain Since 1968 (London:Eyre Methuen, 1980), pp. 165, 169f. 2 Griffiths points out that he chose to work in those modes because I have to work with thepopular imagination I am not interested in talking to thirty-eight university graduates in acellar in Soho. Quoted after Itzin, Stages in the Revolution (cit. note 1), p. 169. 3 Trevor Griffiths, Plays One (London: Faber and Faber, 1996), p. viii.

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), Ruhr-University of Bochum (Faculty for Philology), language: English, abstract: The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a time ofaccelerating cultural, social, economic, and political change. The outbreakof the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the first Reform Bill in1832 are the political cornerstones of an age that saw the promotion ofhuman rights and civil liberties against established systems of absolutistgovernments and limited possibilities of political participation. Democratic ideas that form the constitutional basis of modern Westernsocieties were developed and circulated in a highly-charged political andcultural climate, represented, defended and contested in a bourgeoispublic sphere that had only come into being as a space of rationalcontestation in England in the century between the Glorious Revolutionand the French Revolution.1In philosophy, perhaps the most far-reaching development in theeighteenth century was the exploration of the individual psyche. JohnLocke s empiricist epistemology was based on the idea that the mind ofthe infant is like a tabula rasa and that there are no innate ideas or moralprinciples. Instead, Locke argued, the individual s knowledge springsfrom his or her own sensory perceptions. This epistemology carried withit a serious social problem: in effect perceivers were deprived of sharedviews and, isolated in their own perceptions, were cut off from theenvironment that had produced their knowledge. Equally isolated fromobjects and from others, Lockian perceivers can be certain of only theirindividual mental processes. [ ] Certainty, knowledge, and truth become,at best, relational. 2The problem of the individual s position in and relation to a society thatwas already perceptibly fragmenting as a result of economic developments and increased social mobility was debated by philosophersthroughout the eighteenth century. David Berkeley, the Earl ofShaftesbury, and Adam Smith all in their own ways tried to find a solutionto the empirical dilemma they had inherited from Locke and sought torelocate the individual in a social context.3 [...]1 Cf. Jurgen Habermas, Strukturwandel der Offentlichkeit: Untersuchungen zu einerKategorie der burgerlichen Gesellschaft (Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1962). 2 Regina Hewitt, Wordsworth and the Empirical Dilemma (New York et al.: Peter Lang,1990), 5f. 3 Ibid., 7-32.

Die Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchung (UVU) beinhaltet den wissenschaftlichen Kern einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP). In der Fachliteratur wurden bisher fast ausschließlich die rechtlichen und administrativen Aspekte der UVP diskutiert. Mit diesem Buch liegt nun erstmals eine systematisch fundierte Methodendarstellung der UVU vor, die sowohl den historischen Kontext als auch internationale Entwicklungstendenzen in den Vordergrund rückt. Von Interesse sind dabei vor allem die USA und Kanada, von wo die weltweite Verbreitung der UVP Anfang der 70er Jahre ihren Ausgang nahm. Das Buch erläutert Theorien, fachliche Zusammenhänge und Anwendungsschwerpunkte. Zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele bieten Anregungen für die Durchführung von Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchungen in der Praxis.