The Rise of a Container Region

Prof. Dr. Winfried Osthorst

doi:10.5771/9783845222561

Summary

Das Buch geht am Beispiel der boomenden Containerhäfen Hamburg und Bremen der Frage nach, ob und wie Umweltqualität unter Bedingungen der Globalisierung geschützt werden kann.

Um eine führende Position im europäischen Hafen- und Logistiksystem zu erringen, versuchen beide Regionen, sich an veränderte wirtschaftliche Bedingungen anzupassen und das Wachstum ihrer Infrastrukturen sicherzustellen. Das Buch legt den Schwerpunkt auf Konflikte mit Umweltakteuren. Untersucht werden politische Prozesse auf verschiedenen Ebenen und in verschiedenen Arenen, die die Beziehungen zwischen Hafenpolitik und Umweltpolitik bestimmen. Hieraus werden Aussagen über die Wirkung europäischer, nationaler und regionaler Umweltregularien und über ihr Zusammenwirken im EU-Mehrebenensystem abgeleitet. Die Studie belegt, dass die Kapazität der bestehenden Institutionen zur Bewahrung wichtiger Umweltgüter den Herausforderungen einer wirtschaftlichen wie ökologischen Transformation nicht gewachsen ist.

Der Autor, Professor für Politikmanagement an der Hochschule Bremen, verbindet in dieser Arbeit Fragen zur Regionalentwicklung mit der Umweltpolitikforschung und der Debatte um Multi-Level-Governance.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-5416-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-2256-1
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 416
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 7
Figures No access Pages 8 - 8
Abbreviations No access Pages 9 - 12
1. The rise of the container economy in Northwest Germany: A case of regional transformation No access Pages 13 - 22
2. Controlling regional socio-environmental profiles: An actor-oriented perspective on regulation, governance and policy integration No access Pages 22 - 30
3. Investigating a case of multi-level policy making and regulation: Methodological approach No access Pages 30 - 34
1. 1. Globalization No access Pages 35 - 42
  2. European integration in global perspective No access Pages 42 - 45
  3. The Europeanization of governance No access Pages 45 - 54
2. 1. Governance as a contested concept No access Pages 54 - 60
  2. The institutional environment for sustainable governance No access Pages 60 - 74
3. 1. The evolution of environmental policy No access Pages 74 - 82
  2. New challenges: Environmental governance in an interdependent multi-level system No access Pages 82 - 93
  3. Competing perspectives on multi-level interactions and the future of environmental policy No access Pages 93 - 96
1. The region within globalization No access Pages 97 - 107
2. 1. Government layers from a local policy research perspective No access Pages 107 - 118
  2. Regions as subjects of spatial restructuring No access Pages 118 - 128
  3. The local arena’s environment No access Pages 128 - 137
  4. Regions and regulative quality: Challenges and changes No access Pages 137 - 152
1. Institutionalism and institutional change No access Pages 153 - 162
2. Linking institutionalism to discourse analysis No access Pages 162 - 171
3. Socio-environmental arrangements as a research concept No access Pages 171 - 178
1. Overview No access Pages 179 - 185
2. Strategies in the container industry: Technological trends, economic forces and actors No access Pages 185 - 192
3. North Range and South Range: Competition and dynamics in the European transport chain No access Pages 192 - 197
4. Changing faces: The restructuring of European ports and their hinterlands No access Pages 197 - 204
1. The Northwest in the Federal Republic of Germany: A socio-economic and institutional overview No access Pages 205 - 223
2. 1. Political and administrative coordination within the planning system No access Pages 223 - 229
  2. Nature conservation No access Pages 229 - 232
  3. Wind energy No access Pages 232 - 234
  4. Mining No access Pages 234 - 235
  5. Coastal protection No access Pages 235 - 236
  6. Fishing No access Pages 236 - 237
3. 1. From growth to crisis: The maritime cluster in the German hubs until 1990 No access Pages 237 - 246
  2. Port extension policy under conditions of structural change No access Pages 246 - 249
4. 1. Hamburg No access Pages 249 - 256
  2. Bremen and Bremerhaven No access Pages 256 - 263
  3. From competition to cooperation? Choosing the location for a third German hub No access Pages 263 - 273
  4. Accelerated growth and renewed extensions No access Pages 273 - 278
  5. Reconfiguration of procedural risks No access Pages 278 - 287
5. Involving the federal level: National coordination and the promotion of coastal infrastructure development No access Pages 287 - 303
6. Playing the European card: National and regional actors between compliance and reinterpretation of European regulations No access Pages 303 - 324
1. 1. The regional level No access Pages 325 - 342
  2. The national level No access Pages 342 - 346
  3. The European level No access Pages 346 - 348
  4. Amalgamation No access Pages 348 - 353
2. Regulating regional transformation? A theoretical conclusion No access Pages 353 - 372
Literature No access Pages 373 - 416