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Federal state planning and regional planning Brandenburg

Designation of Cental Pat the beginning of the 1990ties
e.g. size, services and commuting area of potential basic and medium-sized centre,
development of the aims in the Federal State of Brandenburg, comparison with so-called Siedlungszentren in the GDR,

Reorganisation of districts in the Federal State of Brandenburg
versions of possible combination of districts to larger districts according to criteria like homogeneity and heterogeneity,

Types of community
development of a typification of communities for the State of Brandenburg based on inventory and the aims of  
the district planning authorities as well as types of community in other regions (1992, contract for work with the Brandenburg Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Spatial Planning),

Locations of Air Traffic in the State of Brandenburg
Spatial analysis of the economic importance of the existing locations of air traffic in the State of Brandenburg (1992, contract for work with the WIB Weltrauminstitut Berlin).

Tourism development and assessment

Study for local recreation and tourism in the southwest surroundings of Berlin (1991), in particular analysis and valuation of recreational and leisure areas,

Tourism concept "Obere Havel" (1992):
e.g. conceptions and expectations of user groups, analysis of strengths and weaknesses of tourism potential,

Valuation of tourism, recreation and leisure time activities 
e.g. valuation of landscape attraktiveness for recreation, preferences of different user groups as well as selected forms of tourism and leisure time activities, identification of touristic junctions,

Types of holiday maker and day-tripper,

Model of touristic junctions and touristic moving space,

Sustainanle regional development with tourism, e.g. contribution to strategy paper "Sustainable development with tourism" (1994), 

Cross-border touristic map in the three border region Carinthia - Slovenia - Italy
(2007, scale 1:50 000). 

Recreational areas in former brown-coal mining areas

Importance landscape oriented recreation and local recreation of the urban population in the Lower Lusatia, 
identification of user preferences,

Characterisation of recreation potential and development possibilities in the Lower Lusatian former brown-coal mining area, Integration into existing recreation areas,

Analysis and valuation of local and regional planning and project concepts for recreational use in the Lower Lusatian brown-coal mining redevelopment area (e.g. IBA Fürst Pückler Land),

Scenarios and suggestions for potential recreation areas (e.g. future lakes, large leisure and recreation centre)
in due consideration of user preferences of regional population and the projects of IBA Fürst Pückler Land. 

Conflicts between recreational use and nature conservation in national parks and biosphere reserves

Operationalisation and identification of landscape and usage-induced conflict potentials between tourism respectively recreational use and Nnture conservation or landscape preservation,

Role of conflicts in national parks and biosphere reserves,

Conflict handling and overcoming,

Types of spatial-use conflicts and goal conflicts between recreational use and nature conservation or between national park management / biosphere reserve management, inhabitants and users,

Framework between conflicts (e.g. between spatial-use and goal conflicts, hierarchies of conflicts, complex conflict situations, conflict experiences),

Relations between conflict handling and akzeptance of protected areas,

Approaches for a tourism oriented public traffic in national park and biosphere reserve regions as contribution for the solution of Konflikten um den motorisierten Individualverkehr,

Relations between the strategy of sustainable regional development and conflict handling between recreational use and nature conservation,

Vertices of a regional and predictive conflict strategy for the national park and biosphere reserve management. 

National parks and biosphere reserves - sustainable regional development

Aims and tasks of national parks and biosphere reserves,
biosphere reserves as model regions for sustainable regional development, implementation of Seville Strategy, sustainable development in national park regions,

Biosphere parks in Austria
redesigning and enlargement of the Biosphere Park Neusiedler See, 
transformation of the National Park Nockberge into a biosphere park,

Regional identity and protected areas.

Regional development in the Alps Adriatic Region

Cross-border economic cooperation between Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli Venezia Giulia, below it economic cooperation of slovene-speaking Carinthian entrepreneurs to Slovenia,

City functions and city networks, e.g. Villach as so-called Alpenstadt, 

"Carta de Amicitiae" - cross-border touristic map of the communities Malborghetto-Valbrunna and Tarvisio in Italy, Arnoldstein and Finkenstein in Austria as well as Kranjska Gora and Bovec in Slovenia (2007),

 Cross-border leisure time activities of Carinthians in Italy and Slovenia.

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Last update 19.4.2009