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The airport city
No full textThe chapter focuses on the airport city concept. Questions such as what is an airport city, why do we need this concept and whether the concept can be contested are discussed in this chapter. The chapter firstly introduces aeromobilities research as a theoretical foundation for understanding and analysing airport cities. Secondly, the changing historical role of airports within the contemporary society is explored. Thirdly, a number of conceptual notions of the airport city are analysed, including some of the more problematic perspectives of the concept. Here, the chapter argues for a holistic, interdisciplinary and future-orientated approach to airport city development. Finally, the chapter’s concluding remarks are made
The paradox of a transit hub:Hirtshals as case of local life and global flow
No full textUsing the port of Hirtshals, Denmark as a case, the author shows how the same place is being perceived and (e)valuated very differently concerning scale-dependent points of view. Based primarily on interviews and document analysis, it is revealed how local citizens in the case of Hirtshals appreciate a strong community as well as physical vicinity and easy access to nature and the surrounding landscapes, whereas politicians, businesses and other stakeholders operating on a municipal, regional or national level often assess the same place more as a strategic node in a global network. Thus, the chapter concerns the consequences of investments and priorities made on larger scales to the local environment. The author questions the correlation between global mobility and local places and asks for whom value is created. It is argued that a greater awareness of the differences is key in the professional mobile management of places and that it is important to identify and work with potentials of both mobility and place-specific concerns to develop such places in a viable way. This chapter contributes to unfolding knowledge on how place managers can cope with the challenges of managing global flows to provide liveable local places in the future
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Challenges of the environmental aspects of CSR
No full textThis project examines the complex issues businesses encounter when addressing the environmental aspects of corporate sustainability reporting in Denmark. The project elucidates difficulties involved in establishing environmental indicators and various qualitative and quantitative facets of environmental data. Managing external pressures and meeting the information needs of stakeholders while navigating the ever-changing regulatory and commercial landscapes also present a significant obstacle. Additionally, the need for developing a culture of continuous organizational learning, creating new organizational routines, and training staff on reporting principles is highlighted as well. The compounding factors of securing managerial commitment and navigating through uncertainties add layers of complexity to these challenges. Ultimately, the project shows that companies must allocate resources, utilize digital solutions, and foster efficient communication and knowledge sharing to effectively address these complex issues
Light rails more than from A to B?
No full textDette projekt bygger på to grundlæggende forståelser, hvor den først forståelse er at bæredygtig transportudvikling er afhængig af at løse alle tre dimensioner af bæredygtighed den økonomiske, miljømæssige og sociale. Men transportvur-deringer synes for det meste at være fokuseret på de adresserende aspekter i forbin¬delse med de økonomiske og miljømæssige dimensioner, mens den sociale dimension får mindre opmærksomhed. Der har imidlertid i de senere år været en stigende anerkendelse inden for transport forskning af betydningen af transpor-tens sociale aspekter, især med den voksende litteratur inden for mobilitetsparadigmet. Den anden forståelse handler om, hvordan letbaner har fået en form for genfødsel i mange europæiske byer inden for de sidste 20 år, da der er en voksende anerkendelse af forbindelsen mellem letbaner og byudvikling. Rationalerne for bygning af letbaner er ikke kun at etablere et højklasset transportmiddel, der kan bringe folk fra A til B, men fremmes i stedet for at tjene et bredere formål som en del af større byfornyelsesprojekter. Dette har også været blandt de vigtigste rationaler for letbanerne i Aarhus og Odense og som er de cases der er undersøgt i dette projekt. Det er ud fra disse ovenstående forståelser, at projektets formål er at identificere, hvordan det sociale aspekt forstås og har været operationaliseret i forhold til planlægningsprocessen for to danske letbaner.Letbane projekterne analyseres gennem et kvalitativt undersøgelsesdesign med en teoretisk ramme med fokus på begrebet bæredygtighed, paradigmet for bæredygtig mobilitet og definition af sociale påvirkninger. Hvor fokus er er at identificere, hvordan den sociale dimension er blevet operationaliseret og at få en forståelse for, hvordan praktikere opfatter og forstår bæredygtighed, den sociale dimension og potentielle sociale påvirkninger fra letbaner.Resultaterne viser, at de to letbaner har haft forskellige tilgange til, hvordan bæredygtighed er brugt i planlægningsprocessen, men at etableringen af letbanerne kan betragtes som en del af en bæredygtig mobilitetstilgang. Resultaterne viser desuden, at der er en bottom-up anerkendelse af vigtigheden af at evaluere sociale aspekter, og at en passende tilgang til evaluering af sociale påvirkninger bør være i et kvalitativt vurderingsformat som for eksempel multi-kriterie analyse (MCA). Men det blev også identificeret, at en sådan tilgang er udfordret i dansk planlægningskontekst, fordi sociale aspekter endnu ikke anerkendes fra et top-down perspektiv.Sustainable transport development relies on addressing all three dimensions of sustainability; economic, environmental and social. But transport appraisals seem to be mostly focused on the addressing aspects related to the economic and environmental dimensions, while the social dimension receives little attention. It is from this general conception that the objective of the project is to identify how the social aspect is understood and operationalised in relation to the planning process for two Danish light rail cases. The cases are analysed through a qualitative study design with a theoretical framework focusing on the concept of sustainability, the sustainable mobilities paradigm and definition of social impacts. The purpose of the qualitative study design is to identify how the social dimension have been operationalised and to gain an understanding of how practitioners perceive and understand sustainability, the social dimension and potential social impacts of light rail systems.The findings show that the two light rail cases have had different approaches to how sustainability have been used in the planning process, but that both cases can be considered as a part of a sustainable mobility approach. The findings furthermore show that there is a bottom-up acknowledged of the importance of evaluating social aspects, but that social aspects are yet to be acknowledged from a top-down perspective. <br/
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