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A Socio‐Spatial Extension of the Local Climate Zone Typology: Its Potential in Computational Planning Support Systems
Full text linkComputational planning support systems (CPSS) have been invaluable for the transparent and rational planning of climate‐resilient cities as they help clarify and optimise the trade‐offs between alternative choices. CPSS have shown great promise also as digital design boards for the co‐creation of new solutions. However, both as a tool and a theoretical stance to spatial planning, CPSS have suffered from top‐down representations of urban space. Bottom‐up, collective, and subjective processes essential for sustainable and climate‐resilient urbanism are often left unaccounted for. This article introduces one possible solution to this gap, namely structuring the information flows of CPSS according to the local climate zone framework, enriched with urban commons information. We illustrate our approach with data from the 29 largest Finnish municipalities. We combine OpenStreetMap and demographic information with local climate zone data to produce a socio‐spatially extended local climate zone typology of Finnish urban forms. The results delineate a Nordic angle to sustainable spatial planning - green and sparse, somewhat compact and mixed, but not comprehensively so, built environments - allowing a juxtaposition with normative ideas about sustainable cities. We furthermore propose a co‐design workflow that is based on our typology. The main practical applications of our work include vulnerability mapping and integrated impact assessment, multimodal communication of computer model output, and computationally‐assisted co‐design of built environments with a variety of stakeholders
A Decision Support Model for Assessing Co‐Creation: The Bee Path Project
Full text linkThis article presents a decision support model (DSM) for assessing the quality of co‐creation processes and critically reflects on its applicability in the context of climate change mitigation in urban settings. While cities have become pivotal in addressing climate change, often through co‐creation, tools for evaluating urban climate‐related co‐creation initiatives remain scarce. Rather than advocating for a tool specifically designed for this context, the article seeks to offer a universal DSM developed through a systematic literature review and empirical case studies within the framework of the COGOV Horizon project. The DSM incorporates 19 attributes across three phases of co‐creation: stakeholder identification and mobilisation, the act of co‐creation, and its effects. The model is tested on the Bee Path initiative of the City of Ljubljana, a successful co‐creation project aimed at fostering a bee‐friendly urban environment and promoting self‐sufficiency. The results confirm the DSM's applicability in assessing the success of co‐creation in the context of climate change policies at the city level of governance. Moreover, this tool offers a foundation model for further integration with emerging technologies to enhance decision‐making and guidance for public organisations. As such, the DSM serves as a practical tool enabling public organisations to critically reflect on their roles in co‐creation initiatives, identify areas for improvement, and enhance their capacity as co‐creators in future urban climate policies and beyond
ThemenMonitor, 4. Quartal 2024: Tabellenband
No full textErgebnisse der wöchentlichen Umfragen, welches Thema aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft die Bundesbürger persönlich am meisten beschäftigt
Addressing Misconceptions and Promoting Inclusive Care: A Comparative Review of Conventional and Traditional Medicine in Mental Health Management
Full text linkManagement of mental conditions remains challenging, especially in rural areas and among people with little or no mental health literacy. Misconceptions regarding conventional psychiatric remedies, such as the assumption that psychiatric medicine leads to lifelong dependence on medication, prevent people from getting appropriate care. By contrasting traditional medicine approaches to mental health management, this review strives to dispel myths and foster inclusive care that is culturally sensitive. This review emphasises blending conventional medical approaches to deliver comprehensive, scientifically validated care. The review also highlights the importance of community-based education, increased access to mental health services, and collaborative care models focusing on evidence-based medicine
Assembling the Situation: Situational Analysis After the Nonhuman Turn
Full text linkIn this paper, I propose a reconceptualization of human and non-human elements in qualitative research by treating them not as pre-given entities but as nested assemblages. I draw on the work of DELEUZE and GUATTARI (2004 [1980]) to integrate the metaconcept of the assemblage into situational analysis (CLARKE, FRIESE & WASHBURN, 2018), thereby addressing its limitations in handling nonhuman elements and fully aligning it with the nonhuman turn. Two heuristics-capacities and internal limits-are introduced to operationalize this approach, enabling the deconstruction of elements' perceived unity and the mapping of the modules that constitute them. I start out by exploring the nonhuman turn and the concepts of assemblages and rhizomes. I then trace the evolution of situational analysis from grounded theory methodology, highlighting inconsistencies in the treatment of nonhuman elements. By reconfiguring situational analysis's analytical space, I locate situations among other situations and treat their elements as products of heterogeneous assemblages. With this framework, I demonstrate how situational analysis can effectively analyze how nonhuman elements emerge and how they participate in situations via specific capacities.In diesem Beitrag schlage ich eine Neukonzeption menschlicher und nicht-menschlicher Elemente im Rahmen der Situationsanalyse vor, indem ich sie nicht als vorgegebene Entitäten, sondern als verschachtelte Assemblagen betrachte. Ich stütze mich dabei auf die Arbeiten von DELEUZE und GUATTARI (2004), um das Metakonzept der Assemblage in die Situationsanalyse (CLARKE, FRIESE & WASHBURN 2018) zu integrieren. Dadurch sollen deren Grenzen im Umgang mit nicht-menschlichen Elementen überwunden und die Situationsanalyse in Richtung des Nonhuman Turn weiterentwickelt werden. Zur Operationalisierung dieses Ansatzes führe ich zwei Heuristiken ein - Kapazitäten und Internal Limits -, die es ermöglichen, die wahrgenommene Ganzheit von Elementen zu dekonstruieren und die Module zu kartografieren, aus denen sie bestehen. Der Beitrag beginnt mit einer Diskussion des Nonhuman Turn sowie der Konzepte der Assemblage und des Rhizoms. Anschließend zeichne ich die Entwicklung der Situationsanalyse aus der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie nach und fokussiere dabei auf interne Widersprüche im Umgang mit nichtmenschlichen Elementen. Durch die Rekonfiguration des analytischen Raums der Situationsanalyse positioniere ich Situationen neben anderen Situationen und behandle ihre Elemente als Produkte heterogener Assemblagen. Mit dieser Rekonfiguration ermögliche ich die Analyse der Genese nichtmenschlicher Elemente sowie ihrer situativen Wirkmächtigkeit im Rahmen der Situationsanalyse
The Missing Link: International Law, Administrative Power, and European Social Rights
No full textSocial security for migrant workers was the first truly integrated European policy. The form that this "coordination" has taken since 1958 has proved remarkably stable right up to the present day. Migrant (nowadays "mobile") workers within the territory of the European Union (EU) have benefited from "deterritorialized" and "denationalized" rights in a profound break with the national and territorial logic of social states. This article shows that the implementation of this policy was the work of a small group of national civil servants. These officials imported elements from treaties and agreements negotiated in other international organizations since 1945 into the architecture of the EU. Constituted as an "administrative commission," their group acquired a transnational administrative power. They thus created one of the first international redistribution mechanisms, a sort of social state beyond borders. The article is based on the national archives of several of the founding member states of the EU (here I am drawing in particular on the French national and diplomatic archives), as well as the archives of the International Labour Organisation, the EU, and the British National Archive. The article uses scientific articles written by the civil servants it deals with and by their contemporaries as well
La pandemia y la salud mental: un estudio basado en experiencias vividas por jóvenes peruanas vulnerables
Full text linkAunque la salud mental se reconoce como derecho en las políticas públicas peruanas, persiste una escasez de evidencia que aborde las experiencias subjetivas de malestar emocional desde la perspectiva de los propios jóvenes.
Esta investigación contribuye a cerrar esta brecha mediante un enfoque cualitativo profundo, centrado en las voces de dos jóvenes mujeres que reportan afectaciones en su salud mental. A través de los datos del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio, las autoras intentan comprender la salud mental como un fenómeno multidimensional, inscrito en procesos históricos, sociales y políticos más amplios.Although mental health is recognised as a right in Peruvian public policy, there remains a paucity of evidence that addresses subjective experiences of emotional distress from the perspective of young people themselves.
This research contributes to closing this gap through an in-depth qualitative approach, focusing on the voices of two young women who report mental health distress. Through data from the longitudinal study Young Lives Matter, the authors seek to understand mental health as a multidimensional phenomenon, embedded in broader historical, social and political processes
Neubauinduziertes Umzugsgeschehen in schrumpfenden Städten: Analysen am Beispiel von Remscheid
Full text linkBislang wurden die Wirkungen von Neubauprojekten nur selten in Städten mit entspanntem Wohnungsmarkt untersucht. Im Beitrag wird am Beispiel der Stadt Remscheid der Frage nachgegangen, welches Umzugsgeschehen die Errichtung von Neubausiedlungen in den Bestandsquartieren einer (lange) schrumpfenden Stadt auslöst. Ausgangspunkt der präsentierten Analysen sind zwei ganz unterschiedlich geartete Gebiete: ein größeres städtebauliches Entwicklungsgebiet mit zeitlich gestaffelter Errichtung und Grundstücksvergabe durch die Kommune und ein kleineres reines Wohngebiet mit Online-Vermarktung über einen Investor. Mithilfe kleinräumiger Umzugsdaten über zehn Jahre werden drei aus dem bisherigen Stand der Forschung abgeleitete Hypothesen geprüft. Untersucht wird, ob die Neubaugebiete von den dorthin Umziehenden zum "Hochwohnen" genutzt werden, ob der Zuzugvor allem aus nahegelegenen Stadtteilen erfolgt und ob die in die Neubausiedlungen ziehenden älteren Menschen größere Wohnungen für Familien freimachen.Up to now, the effects of new-build projects have only rarely been analysed in cities with a relaxed housing market. Using the city of Remscheid (Germany) as an example, this paper examines the relocation behaviour that is triggered by the construction of new housing estates in the existing neighbourhoods of a (long) shrinking city. The analyses presented here are based on two very different areas: a larger urban development area with staggered construction and land allocation by the municipality and a smaller purely residential area with online marketing via an investor. With the help of small-scale relocation data over ten years, three hypotheses derived from the current state of research are tested. It is being investigated whether the new housing estates are being used by those moving in to improve their housing situation, whether the influx is mainly coming from the surrounding quarters and whether the influx of older people into the new housing estates is freeing up larger apartments for families
The Governance of European Labor Mobility: The Case of Low-Wage Migrant Work in Germany after 2020
No full textSince the COVID-scandals in German abattoirs, employment and working conditions of migrant workers have been the subject of intense debate. Applying a Polanyian framework of social embeddedness, the question is posed whether the working conditions of migrant seasonal, posted, or subcontracting workers have improved after 2020 and whether a process of social (re)embedding can be observed. Data, reports, and documentations of the responsible authorities and leading trade unions in this field as well as plenary documents and protocols of the German Bundestag are analyzed. Once one moves away from the narrow focus on the meat producing sectors, it becomes apparent that overall progress has been made after 2020, but that these improvements are still quite singular and low-key. The legal steps to improve the working conditions of migrant workers in the low-wage sector and control their enforcement are extremely arduous with only very limited effects given the incremental approach on the one hand and employers' strategy to shift between the different labor law options depending on the legal situation on the other hand
Beyond EU Exceptionalism: Digging into Europe's Mobility Archive.
No full textThis postface examines the crisis of free movement of people in the European Union by challenging the long-held view of "EU exceptionalism" in this field. While free movement has long been presented as a fundamental and distinctive pillar of the European project, the last decade has witnessed a multiplication of border controls and mobility restrictions. In light of the papers brought together by the Symposium, it appears clearly that the current crisis cannot be reduced to a mere "backlash." By exploring the rich European Archive (in the Foucault sense) of mobility regimes, it reveals that the EU's free movement regime was never entirely novel, perfectly coherent, or unconditional. Rather, it is part of a long tradition of differentiated mobility management, marked by colonial continuities, national exceptions, and social hierarchies. The paper concludes by praising the added value of the volume which enables a rethinking of European mobility governmentality beyond teleological integration narratives. It highlights the multiple technologies of government, actors, and practices that contribute to producing, framing, and hierarchizing mobilities within the European space