The annual meeting of the ARL's Junges Forum (forum for young professionals) on 6-8 October 2016 in Leipzig addressed various aspects of the energy transition - when, where, how and why? The Junges Forum, a platform for both academics and practitioners, met for three days of discussion about the...

Planning for retirement and subsequent execution of the plan are difficult, but essential for financial security in old age. To formally analyse the interplay between planning and self-control, I introduce cognitive costs of formulating a plan into the dual-self model of impulse control. The...

What can be understood by spatial transformation, how does it manifest itself and what are the characteristics of transformation processes? This Research Report addresses these questions and presents current research projects and approaches from an academic and practical (planning) perspective....

The objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between leadership styles and executive functions of planning and decision-making, in chief officers of the Argentine Navy, who are working as students of the Command and General Staff course at the Naval War School. A survey was...

Germany and France offer two different models of political and administrative organisation: a federal state on one side of the Rhine and a unitary state on the other, albeit one that has become more decentralised over the last 40 years. Thus, the French régions have reduced capacities for...

What can be understood by spatial transformation, how does it manifest itself and what are the characteristics of transformation processes? This Research Report addresses these questions and presents current research projects and approaches from an academic and practical (planning) perspective....

The annual meeting of the ARL's Junges Forum (forum for young professionals) on 6-8 October 2016 in Leipzig addressed various aspects of the energy transition - when, where, how and why? The Junges Forum, a platform for both academics and practitioners, met for three days of discussion about the...

Superlatives are commonplace in descriptions of traditional budgeting. Within managerial accounting techniques, it is one of the most frequently used, the most researched, but also the most criticized. While academics are largely united in criticism of traditional budgeting practices due to...

Planning for retirement and subsequent execution of the plan are difficult, but essential for financial security in old age. To formally analyse the interplay between planning and self-control, I introduce cognitive costs of formulating a plan into the dual-self model of impulse control. The...

Synchrony of transportation planning with revealed public preferences and expectations has traditionally been difficult to achieve. In other domains, such as manufacturing and design, frameworks have been developed using data-driven analytic processes to extract customer preferences and...

The objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between leadership styles and executive functions of planning and decision-making, in chief officers of the Argentine Navy, who are working as students of the Command and General Staff course at the Naval War School. A survey was...

During the lockdown imposed due to the first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, there were several media reports of citizens flouting the lockdown rules in the United States. Upon closer investigation it was found that the rules were flouted mostly so that people could spend...

Germany and France offer two different models of political and administrative organisation: a federal state on one side of the Rhine and a unitary state on the other, albeit one that has become more decentralised over the last 40 years. Thus, the French régions have reduced capacities for...

As economic planners sought to rebuild Europe in the unstable postwar period, economic expertise was called upon to help in the drawing of national budgets and to inform economic and planning policies. A tool that circulated from academia to economic administrations was the input-output...

Am Beispiel des kollektiven Alkoholkonsums einer Szene von Drogen- und Alkoholabhängigen im Kieler Stadtteil Gaarden wurde untersucht, inwiefern auf den ersten Blick banal erscheinende Praktiken wie das gemeinsame Konsumieren alkoholhaltiger Getränke einen Beitrag zur sozialen und materiellen...

This study deals with state action through the analysis of the main administrative instruments with planning and budgeting, aiming to illustrate the different characteristics between the planning and budgeting instruments under the multi-annual perspective and to present possible risks of...

Am Beispiel des kollektiven Alkoholkonsums einer Szene von Drogen- und Alkoholabhängigen im Kieler Stadtteil Gaarden wurde untersucht, inwiefern auf den ersten Blick banal erscheinende Praktiken wie das gemeinsame Konsumieren alkoholhaltiger Getränke einen Beitrag zur sozialen und materiellen...

Tourism is a vital component of the Welsh economy and the need to incorporate sustainability principles into new and more responsible forms of tourism development is now widely accepted. Sustainability in a tourism context is multi-faceted, involving consideration of the economic, sociocultural...

In mid 2020 people vigorously debated which Corona virus-management strategy should be implemented - "total Lockdown", "Partial Lockdown" or "do Nothing". For success, the chosen strategy would need considerable public support. So here we demonstrate how support, or otherwise, could have been...

Since 2006, when the Emma Maersk broke into the world of shipping, the growth in containership size has remained a continuous trend.For the last 14 years, since 2006, the enlargement of fullcontainerships size has remained a continuous trend since Emma Maersk broke into the world of shipping....

Background: The slot planning problem is a container allocation problem within a certain location on a vessel. It is considered a sub-problem of a successful decomposition approach for the container vessel stowage planning problem. This decision has a direct effect on container handling...

Background: E-business and Information Technology (IT) are critical components in the improvement of logistics functions. As logistics contributes to the entire strategic planning of a firm, e-business and IT applications support the implementation of strategic planning in a more efficient and...

The race towards smart city status, influenced by the perceived benefits of innovation and sustainability in smart city concepts, has engendered the need to measure the smartness/smart development levels of developing countries' cities to improve upon urban infrastructures. However, various...

This study deals with state action through the analysis of the main administrative instruments with planning and budgeting, aiming to illustrate the different characteristics between the planning and budgeting instruments under the multi-annual perspective and to present possible risks of...

Globalization has facilitated productivity gains and economic growth and for decades. It has helped integrate emerging economies, spread technology, knowledge, culture, and created an interconnected global community. Smart cities depend on a robust and flexible mobile network foundation, and...

Around 20 years ago, Tanzania adopted the policy of participatory forest management (PFM) to create incentives for increasing villagers’ participation in forest management. The timing is thus fitting to reflect on the achievements and challenges of the PFM process so far. There have certainly...

In this article the research results of application of back-to-back HVDC system in the Tomsk electric power system are presented. Historically, power transmission between the South to the North parts of the Tomsk electric power system is realized via the long double-circuit 220 kV overhead...

In this article the research results of application of back-to-back HVDC system in the Tomsk electric power system are presented. Historically, power transmission between the South to the North parts of the Tomsk electric power system is realized via the long double-circuit 220 kV overhead...