Konfliktdynamik

Many German cities are confronted with a structural conflict: they are growing and need more housing and built infrastructure, but they also need to tackle climate change by unsealing areas and providing space for more blue-green infrastructure. The...

Municipal urban planning has to deal with »wicked« problems and must deal with diffuse problem definitions, competing interests and conflicting objectives. Based on an empirical case study in the Ruhr area, Germany, the article shows how the...

Academics and practitioners trained in disciplines across the natural sciences and liberal arts have applied Occam’s razor as a model for design and explanation. Considering the value of simplicity and parsimony in the multidisciplinary fields of...

Ethnic and religious conflicts are characterized by sudden waves of escalation. Existing approaches heavily focus on invariant structural factors and highlight the pivotal role of elite-driven mobilization. Existing works inadequately capture the...