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Sustainable Transformation of Regional Development and Landscape Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 10951

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Prof. Dr. Olaf Kühne

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Department of Geography, Eberhard Karls University, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Interests: landscape theory; empirical social science landscape research; regional geography; energy system change; integrative urban research; constructivism; neopragmatism; Europe; North America
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, “Sustainable Transformation of Regional Development and Landscape Management” in the journal Sustainability deals with the conceptualization, implementation and obstacles of sustainable development on a medium scale, regardless of whether the contexts are more urban or rural. Manuscripts that address the issues of sustainable transformation processes empirically, theoretically/conceptually, and also in terms of planning are welcome. Sustainable development is conceived in a broad understanding that not only refers to ecological structures and processes, but also includes economic, social, cultural, and political aspects. Concrete regional case studies are also welcome, in which the conceptions, implementations and obstacles of sustainable development are elaborated, whereby the conceptual classification is of particular importance here. Due to the complexity of the topic, researchers and research teams are also invited to submit a contribution to the Special Issue that illuminate the aforementioned topic area from an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary perspective.

Prof. Dr. Olaf Kühne
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Keywords

  • regional development
  • sustainability
  • sustainable development
  • landscape
  • landscape theory
  • landscape concepts

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Why Do UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Get Less Recognition than National Parks? A Landscape Research Perspective on Protected Area Narratives in Germany
by Erik Aschenbrand and Thomas Michler
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13647; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413647 - 10 Dec 2021
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This paper explores how landscape research can contribute to our understanding of why integrated protected area concepts like biosphere reserves get less recognition than national parks. In this regard, we analysed policy documents and online communication of biosphere reserves and national parks, conducted [...] Read more.
This paper explores how landscape research can contribute to our understanding of why integrated protected area concepts like biosphere reserves get less recognition than national parks. In this regard, we analysed policy documents and online communication of biosphere reserves and national parks, conducted qualitative interviews with conservation professionals and volunteers as well as participant observation in order to identify and compare narratives that guide the communication and perception of both protected area categories. The results show how national parks offer a clear interpretation of space by building on landscape stereotypes and creating landscape legibility and experience-ability through touristification. National Parks also experience conflicts about proper management and combine a variety of goals, often including regional development. Nevertheless, their narrative is unambiguous and powerful. Biosphere reserves, on the other hand, have an image problem that is essentially due to the difficulty of communicating their objectives. They confront the difficult task of creating a vision that combines development and conservation while integrating contrarious landscape stereotypes. We argue for a fundamental engagement with protected area narratives, as this improves understanding of protected areas’ transformative potential. Full article
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Technological Transformation Processes and Resistance—On the Conflict Potential of 5G Using the Example of 5G Network Expansion in Germany
by Corinna Jenal, Sven Endreß, Olaf Kühne and Caroline Zylka
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13550; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413550 - 7 Dec 2021
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The expansion of fifth-generation wireless technology (5G) has been assigned the significance of a ‘key technology’ in connection with technological advances in the context of the digitalization of societies, which is a central goal of current governments in leading industrialized nations. As with [...] Read more.
The expansion of fifth-generation wireless technology (5G) has been assigned the significance of a ‘key technology’ in connection with technological advances in the context of the digitalization of societies, which is a central goal of current governments in leading industrialized nations. As with other large-scale infrastructure projects such as the expansion of renewable energies as part of the energy transition in Germany, the plans for implementation are meeting with great resistance from the population, sometimes resulting in arson attacks on 5G transmission masts. Current research on 5G focuses primarily on technical–economic, health-related and, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly conspiracy-theoretical aspects, while questions of acceptance or conflict potential have received little attention to date. This article aims to address this research gap and, on the basis of a conflict-theoretical perspective according to Dahrendorf combined with a socio-economic contextualization in the sense of Bourdieu, approaches the question of the extent to which social conflict has already progressed and what regulatory possibilities socio-economic contexts assume in terms of significance. For this purpose, about 70 identifiable internet presences of citizens’ initiatives against 5G were qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated. Full article
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“... Inconceivable, Unrealistic and Inhumane”. Internet Communication on the Flood Disaster in West Germany of July 2021 between Conspiracy Theories and Moralization—A Neopragmatic Explorative Study
by Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Marie-Luise Zimmer and Greta Schäffauer
Sustainability 2021, 13(20), 11427; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011427 - 15 Oct 2021
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The aim of this article is an explorative study of the debate on the flood in the western part of Germany in July 2021, based on the comments found below the coverage of a German public television channel (ZDF) published on YouTube. Based [...] Read more.
The aim of this article is an explorative study of the debate on the flood in the western part of Germany in July 2021, based on the comments found below the coverage of a German public television channel (ZDF) published on YouTube. Based on the neopragmatic framing of the analysis by connecting morality and mass media according to Luhmann, as well as Dahrendorf’s conflict theory, four patterns of interpretation were identified which illustrate a high moralization of the conflict: conclusions drawn from the storm (e.g., of a political nature, references to COVID-19, etc.), far-reaching, predominantly negative interpretations that place the storm and its consequences in the context of other negatively interpreted aspects, as well as rational and empathetic interpretations regarding expressions of sympathy and offers of help, and, ultimately, interpretations that range from climate change and planning failures to various conspiracy-theoretical claims of responsibility for the flooding. All in all, a transformation from conflicts of interest and facts to conflicts of identity and values is taking place, revealing two utopias: the utopia in which man and nature are in harmonic unity, as well as the utopia of the satisfaction of individual (material) needs in a stable material-spatial and legal framework. Science has an instrumental application in both utopias. Full article
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