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Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany with focus on small-area differentials and their changes over time. It identifies explanatory factors at individual and regional level. Mortality differences between eastern and western Germany exist, but small-area mortality differentials are often greater. Though the main spatial mortality patterns remain, this study provides evidence that some distinct changes in the small-area mortality patterns in Germany especially among women occurred within a short period of time. Mortality inequalities at younger ages and in behavior-related causes as well as differences in socioeconomic conditions contribute strongly to regional mortality differences in Germany. The book shows that the complex interplay between individual- and regional-level mortality risk factors requires a multidimensional approach to reduce regional mortality inequalities.

Demography --- Germany --- Social Sciences. --- Demography. --- Public Health. --- Human Geography. --- Social sciences. --- Public health. --- Sciences sociales --- Santé publique --- Démographie

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This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry and analyses current challenges in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behaviour. Well-known notabilities share their points of view. For example, Norbert Walter, chief economist of the Deutsche Bank, writes about the financial crisis and its impact on the tourism industry. Top executives of international operating airlines like C. Karlitekin (Turkish Airlines), J. Hunold (Air Berlin) and E. Sims (Air New Zealand) have much to say about the future of airlines and aviation management. Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the top themes to-be and therefore a focus of this book, offering the perspective of the UN Foundation and the social inclusion concept of RUHR.2010, European Capital of Culture. The articles are based on presentations and panel discussions presented at the world´s largest tourism congress, the ITB Berlin Convention.

Economics/Management Science. --- Management/Business for Professionals. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Geography. --- Human Geography. --- Economics. --- Geography. --- Regional economics. --- Industrial management. --- Economie politique --- Géographie --- Economie régionale --- Gestion d'entreprise --- Tourisme

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The various regions within the EU are marked by a high degree of disparity with regard to their economic performance and productivity, and as regards their labour markets. Facing these regional differences, the task of regional and spatial sciences is to develop concepts and strategies to reduce and prevent territorial imbalances. Thus "territorial cohesion" stands for a more balanced spatial development, and aims to improve integration throughout the EU. Although the term is used in many EU documents and strategies, its meaning remains vague and unclear. The scientific articles in this annual deal with the interpretations of this term, the challenges of European spatial development policy, and the problems and concepts involved in achieving territorial cohesion. Furthermore two short reports illustrate the implementation of territorial cohesion on the basis of two research projects.

Geography. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Geography (general). --- Civil Engineering. --- Regional Science. --- Human Geography. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Regional planning. --- Civil engineering. --- Environmental law. --- Géographie --- Aménagement du territoire --- Génie civil --- Environnement --- Droit --- European Union. --- Regional disparities -- European Union countries. --- Regionalism -- European Union countries. --- Sociology & Social History --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Social Sciences --- Regional disparities --- Regional planning --- Space in economics. --- Territory, National --- Social aspects --- Germany --- Economic conditions --- National territory --- Spatial economics --- Disparities, Regional --- Urban planning. --- Environmental policy. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Human geography. --- Geography, general. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Boundaries --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regionalism

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Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than others. A relational lens is used to critique the ongoing fixation of childhood studies with the unitary child-agent and to re-introduce the question of ontology in knowledge production. The author provides a critical account of childhood studies’ trajectory, as well as exploring the key concepts of voice, agency and participation, illustrating the potential of a reflexive stance towards knowledge production. Drawing on poststructuralist and posthumanist thinking, each of these concepts is critiqued for its conceptual limits while productive avenues are offered to reconfigure their utility. Spyrou also addresses the ethics and politics of knowledge production and considers key emerging insights which can contribute towards the development of a more reflexive and critical childhood studies. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, anthropology, sociology and geography, will find this book of interest, as well as those interested in qualitative research methodology and social theory. .

Age group sociology --- ruimtelijke ordening --- sociologie --- adolescenten --- kinderen --- gezin --- Sociologie van het gezin --- Childhood. --- Adolescence. --- Social groups. --- Family. --- Human geography. --- Childhood, Adolescence and Society. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Human Geography. --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Teen-age --- Teenagers --- Puberty --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Development --- Social aspects --- Social conditions

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CALVIN L. BEALE In considering how to introduce the subject of rural population change in st the 21 Century, I ?nd myself re?ecting on my own experience as a demographer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. When I arrived at the Department, the post-World War II modernization of farming was well under way. Each year, my colleague Gladys Bowles and I had the unpopular task of announcing how much the farm population had decreased in the prior year. It was hard to say that the phenomenon was someone’s fault. Dramatic reductions in labor requirements per unit of agricultural output were occurring everywhere and not just in the United States. But politically, blame had to be assigned, and whichever political party was not in the White House was certain to place the blame squarely on the current administration. The demographic consequences of this trend were major. In a 22-year period from 1941 to 1962, the net loss of farm population from migration and cessation of farming averaged over a million people per year. It took eight years after the war before an administration was willing to begin to talk about the need to diversify rural employment. By that time, farm residents had already become a minority of rural people. However, well into the 1970s, I continued to receive inquiries from people who still equated rural with farm or who could not envision what rural-nonfarm people did for a living.

geografie --- ruimtelijke ordening --- Economic geography --- sociologie --- demografie --- Demography --- Environmental planning --- Sociology --- Social geography --- economie --- Demographic transition --- Rural population --- 314 --- 911.373 --- Transition, Demographic --- Vital revolution (Demography) --- Population --- Vital statistics --- 314 Demografie. Bevolkingsleer --- Demografie. Bevolkingsleer --- Studie van landelijke vestigingen. Geografie van landelijke vestigingen. Plattelandsgeografie --- United States --- Rural conditions. --- Urban-rural migration --- Sociology, Rural --- Economic conditions --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Demography. --- Regional economics. --- Geography. --- Human Geography. --- Sociology, general. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Geography. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Sociology. --- Spatial economics. --- Economic geography. --- Human geography. --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Commercial geography --- Social theory --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics