Silicon Saxony - processes of transformation in the last fifteen years
Depopulation ; Development ; Economic development ; Education ; Germany ; High-tech industry ; Innovation ; Poverty ; Saxony ; Society ; Transport ; Unemployment
The eastern part of Germany functions in the European mentality as a problem area in which it is possible to observe a number of negative social and economic processes (depopulation, poverty, unemployment). Silicon Saxony is currently beginning
to change the traditional image it has had hitherto. The economic development of Saxony is correlated with that of the whole transport system, including airports and transport via inland waterways, with valuable features of the natural landscapes
and with the development of education and the tradition of innovation. Those opportunities are important factors underpinning the location of high-tech industries. Numerous examples confirm the legitimacy of the aforementioned new name. Saxony is trying to join central
Economic development ; Germany ; Migratory balance ; Regional development ; Saxony ; Saxony-Anhalt ; Thuringia
The central German region (Mitteldeutschland, comprising the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia) is loosing people since the unification with West Germany. In addition to the general German problem of low birth rates here considerable
Brandenburg ; Education ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Governance ; Peripheral region ; Saxony ; Territory
Brain drain in Eastern Germany and increasing governance paradoxes related to the outcomes of post-socialist peripheralization, new approach to educational policy in Saxony and Brandenburg. - (IfL)
Holocene floodplain evolution of small rivers in the uplands of Lower Saxony, Germany
The Holocene floodplain evolution of the river Ilme and its distal tributaries in the uplands of Lower Saxony has been reconstructed by shallow corings arranged in cross and longitudinal profiles. The AA. differentiate three Holocene fluvial units
Structural landforms and planation surfaces in southern Lower Saxony in Landforms and landform evolution in West Germany.
The areas in southern Lower Saxony provide examples of the spatial association and synchronous evolution of structural and sculptural landforms in which, under the influence of short term changes of tectonic and climatic conditions in the recent
Bank ; Economic development ; Germany ; Inner city ; Investment ; Saxony ; Urban area ; Urban development
The free state of Saxony, the European Investment Bank, the city of Leipzig and the Development Bank of Saxony (SAB) have decided to initiate an Urban Development Fund Saxony as a pilot project for the entire area of the FR of Germany to implement
Decision making process ; Flood ; Germany ; Historical geography ; Impact study ; Saxony ; Saxony-Anhalt ; Thuringia
The article presents important documents of the most disastrous high water in the Central German region (Western Saxony, Southern Saxony-Anhalt, Eastern Thuringia) from 1500 to 1900 and the substantial socio-economic effects of these catastrophes
Germany ; Region ; Regional policy ; Saxony-Anhalt
Based on empirical studies of three regions in Saxony-Anhalt, the concept of regional management was closely examined from a theoretical and practical perspective to determine the efficiency of this concept. The results of this analysis
The article describes the experiences of the ILE-process in rural space of Saxony with a view from involved stakeholders and habitants. At the moment in Saxony 33 regions exist (21 ILE-regions and 12 LEADER-regions), which can grow together to brand
Aeolian dust dynamics in agricultural land areas in Lower Saxony, Germany
The dynamics of fine aeolian dust emitted from agricultural land was investigated over 15 months near Grönheim, Lower Saxony. This study was unsertaken in the framework of WEELS (Wind Erosion on European Light Soils), an international EU project
Agricultural land use ; Germany ; Hydrology ; Modelling ; Saxony ; Soil erosion
By using the physically based simulation model “EROSION 3D”, surface runoff is systematically investigated under variable land use conditions referring to two small sub-catchments of the Striegis River in Saxony (Germany). The paper deals
This paper on the development of map-making in Central Europe, like many others contained in this issue (contributions to the national survey of Saxony by OEDER and ZIMMERMANN, Mining geodesy in the 16th century, Topography in March Brandenburg
, The development of geodetic instruments etc.), was read at a scientific symposium on the occasion of the 400th Anniversary of the beginning of the national survey of the Electorate of Saxony (21-25 october 1986 in Dresden). - (IH)