Industrial heritage in tourism marketing:legitimizing post-industrial development strategies of the Ruhr Region, Germany

Many post-industrial regions reinterpret their industrial past as a heritage resource for marketing purposes. This paper explores how two sites in the Ruhr area in Germany, Zollverein and Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, are narrated in marketing brochures with selective industrial heritage narratives. Industrial heritage is utilized for both immediate marketing purposes and as a tool for memory and identity politics. Through thematic analysis, we uncover that industrial heritage legitimizes the Ruhr–Europe’s largest post-industrial region–as a distinct region by providing a seemingly uncontested, neutral and universal industrial history targeted at a wide audience. Simultaneously, the established narratives reinterpret industrial heritage as places of consumption, valued for their aesthetics and facilities for sports, arts and leisure. Such a marketing practice attempts to tap into the growing demand for postmodern consumption of culture, and simultaneously justifies and institutionalizes a specific, consumption-driven post-industrial development strategy for the Ruhr. The study reveals how the marketing of a post-industrial region promotes a select set of industrial heritage narratives that aim to strengthen the region’s economic position in a neoliberal setting of interregional economic competition

Gebieden met bijzondere ecologische waarden op het Nederlands Continentaal Plat

Coproductie van Rijkswaterstaat RIKZ en Alterra Texel, met medewerking van RIVO en NIOZ, in opdracht van Verkeer en Waterstaat (directie Water) en LNV (directie Natuur). In navolging van wat Nota Ruimte aangeeft, komen de territoriale wateren van Noordzee in aanmerking voor beschermd gebied. Dit onderzoek zal meegenomen worden in het medio 2005 uit te brengen Integraal Beheerplan Noordzee 2015. Dit onderzoek behandelt namelijk de nadere begrenzing van het aan te wijzen gebied, aan de hand van internationaal in EU en OSPAR kader overeengekomen criteri

Development of a knowledge management system for the NOMAD instrument onboard the ExoMars TGO spacecraft

Purpose This paper aims to describe the development of a knowledge management system (KMS) for the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) instrument on board the ESA/Roscosmos 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft. The KMS collects knowledge acquired during the engineering process that involved over 30 project partners. In addition to the documentation and technical data (explicit knowledge), a dedicated effort was made to collect the gained experience (tacit knowledge) that is crucial for the operational phase of the TGO mission and also for future projects. The system is now in service and provides valuable information for the scientists and engineers working with NOMAD Design/methodology/approach The NOMAD KMS was built around six areas: official documentation, technical specifications and test results, lessons learned, management data (proposals, deliverables, progress reports and minutes of meetings), picture files and movie files. Today, the KMS contains 110 GB of data spread over 11,000 documents and more than 13,000 media files. A computer-aided design (CAD) library contains a model of the full instrument as well as exported sub-parts in different formats. A context search engine for both documents and media files was implemented. Findings The conceived KMS design is basic, flexible and very robust. It can be adapted to future projects of a similar size. Practical implications The paper provides practical guidelines on how to retain the knowledge from a larger aerospace project. The KMS tool presented here works offline, requires no maintenance and conforms to data protection standards. Originality/value This paper shows how knowledge management requirements for space missions can be fulfilled. The paper demonstrates how to transform the large collection of project data into a useful tool and how to address usability aspects