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Globalized tourism and local development: an apparent contradiction? A test in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy
No full textThe tourist economy is assuming a growing relevance in the actual reality, possibly becoming the most important and even the driving factor for cultural and territorial systems. The opening of markets at a global scale would possibly accelerate such scenario, since the greater is the market, presumably, the stronger it is expected to be the standardization pressure on the local scale. The Mediterranean space, in its different articulations, shows a possible counter/tendency in this process, evidencing a resistance to standardization (which the macro data describe as something more than a culturalist “common place”); it continues to represent the culture of the “slow”, of the uniqueness, of authenticity, based upon traditions and communitarian belonging, with typical natural and agricultural resources, style of life and social-cultural habits, in contrast with massification and industrialization of tourist activities. A circumstance in which it is possible to observe a contradiction, since the attention for the “small” and for the “slow” could be in contrast with the necessities of corporate and global business, which at the contrary relies on scale economics; a contradiction which needs to find, at least in part, a solution in order to assure to Mediterranean systems the necessary efficiency, at the same time preserving the authenticity of traditional cultures. In order to focus to such question – which is possibly one of the structural causes of the stagnation affecting several Mediterranean economies -, we did a test on the tourist place of Lignano, region Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG), on the Upper Adriatic coast
Parks of the future: Protected areas in Europe challenging regional and global change
No full textClimate change, declines in biodiversity, increasing consumption of resources, urbanisation, urban sprawl and demographic change continue to challenge theregions of Europe. In response to these processes of regional and global change, there has been an unmistakeable boom in parks in Europe since the 1990s. Morethan a fifth of the continent is now protected using designations such as regionalnature parks, national parks, UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and World Heritagesites. The responsibilities of these areas are usually diverse and, in addition tonature protection and the conservation of cultural landscapes, increasingly involvethe promotion of sustainable development. In the 22 chapters of this volume, 28 authors from all over Europe analyse and comment on experiences of tackling the challenges of regional and global changein parks. They illustrate discussions with selected case studies and deal with keyissues of current protected area policy: How do parks address the pending challengesand what successes have they had thus far? What pioneering approaches are there in spatial planning and regional development? Which forms of park managementand governance are most promising? This informative and well-illustratedbook also considers which tasks will be assumed by parks in the future and whatroles parks may play in the debate concerning transformations required to promotesustainability in Europe
Regional change management and collaborative regional governance as approaches tackling regional and global change in parks? Lessons learned from the Swiss model of parks of national significance
No full textProtected Areas in Europe – Challenges for Scientific Collaboration. Experiences of the Research Group NeReGro
Full text linkDer Beitrag thematisiert die Entwicklung und Erfahrungen einer internationalen Forschergruppe, die sich schwerpunktmäßig mit Fragestellungen des Gebietsschutzes in Europa befasst. Unter dem Akronym „NeReGro“ (für „Neue Regionalentwicklung in Großschutzgebieten“) pflegen vier geographische Arbeitsgruppen an Hochschulen in der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland erfolgreich eine lose, informelle Form der Kooperation, die inzwischen annähernd 20 Jahre umspannt. Zentraler Gegenstand ihrer Zusammenarbeit sind die unübersehbaren Veränderungen, die der Gebietsschutz in Europa seit geraumer Zeit erfährt. Diese Entwicklung spiegelt sich besonders anschaulich in den sogenannten Großschutzgebieten wider, von denen viele neben den klassischen Aufgaben des Naturschutzes heute zahlreiche weitere Funktionen wahrnehmen. Ein nicht geringer Teil der raumwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Großschutzgebieten erweckt den Eindruck relativ isolierter Arbeiten, die wenig Bezug zueinander haben bzw. von geringer gegenseitiger Kenntnis(nahme) zeugen. Die Entwicklung von NeReGro lässt anschaulich die Vorteile erkennen, die sich aus einer systematischen Zusammenarbeit für die Weiterentwicklung der Gebietsschutzforschung insgesamt gewinnen lassen. Diese betreffen die Entwicklung eines
international vergleichenden Forschungsansatzes, die Berücksichtigung der gesellschaftlichen Implikationen des Gebietsschutzes sowie die Ergänzung der lokal-regionalen um eine globale Forschungsperspektive. Neben dem Mehrwert von Kooperation, wie er sich in der Arbeit von NeReGro zeigt, sind auch die Grenzen der Zusammenarbeit
zu erkennen, wie sie für die Gebietsschutzforschung in Europa generell kennzeichend sind. Hieraus erwächst der Bedarf an der konsequenten Weiterentwicklung geeigneter Formen der Forschungskooperation auf europäischer Ebene, um den wachsenden Herausforderungen, die Planung und Management des Gebietsschutzes mit sich bringen, zukünftig angemessen begegnen zu können
Grossschutzgebiete als Instrumente für zukunftsorientierte Regionalentwicklung in Europa – die Sicht der Schutzgebietsverantwortlichen und Forscher am Beispiel von Partizipation und Regional Governance
No full textProtected Areas and Regional Development in Europe: Towards a New Model for the 21st Century
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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
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