Thomas NeiseUniversität Heidelberg · Institute of Geography
Thomas Neise
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Introduction
Thomas Neise is a research fellow of the Institute of Geography at the University Osnabrueck, Germany. Before. he was a researche fellow at the University of Cologne. Within his PhD-project he analyzed the exposure to floods and adaptation strategies of manufacturing firms in Indonesia. He studied at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena and University of Potsdam. His research interests are on economic geography, regional development, vulnerability research, climate change and adaptation.
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Gastronomiebetriebe leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung von Städten und Dörfern. Trotz ihrer soziokulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Funktionen wurde die Gastronomie in der Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, der Kommunalpolitik und der Wirtschaftsförderung lange Zeit nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt. Seit 2020 s...
Contemporary global production networks are confronted with risks due to their complexity and current global crises. Managing risk in global production networks has also become a topic in economic geography that aims to explore how risk mitigation strategies can lead to reconfiguration processes. However, the dominant objective economic understandi...
This book offers conceptual and empirical insights from economic geography to explore how uncertainties, crises, and risks, shape, reshape, and ultimately transform the spatial arrangements of companies and regions.
This book provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of economic interactions amidst contemporary challenges. It explores...
The structural changes and format shift in the German retail sector have received significant attention from academics and the public for decades. However, comparable developments in the restaurant and bar industry have garnered relatively little attention so far. This also applies to business development and city marketing agencies, which often ha...
Uncertainties, risks, and crises have become important terms in the 21st century’s economic geography, linking diverse thematic issues such as globalization processes, environmental changes, socio-political shifts, and technological advances. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the conceptualization and appearance of these terms in the econ...
Middle-income economies must prioritise human capital development to ensure long-term sustainable growth and economic upgrading. While foreign direct investment (FDI) is believed to aid this endeavour, its impact on technical vocational education and training (TVET) remains understudied. This research explores the influence of FDI by multinational...
For English version see below --- Nach einer Pause von 5 Jahren laden wir vom 13.-15. Juni 2024 erstmals wieder zu einer eigenständigen Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Geographie der Meere und Küsten (AMK) in Präsenz ein. Tagungsorte abseits der Küste haben beim AMK durchaus Tradition, und so hoffen wir, dass wir Sie zahlreich im Internationalen Wi...
Bestehende Gewerbegebiete bieten ein großes Potenzial, um lokalen Klimaschutz und eine lokale Klimaanpassung auf bestehenden Flächen umzusetzen sowie zur Erhöhung der Biodiversität und zum Erreichen anderer Nachhaltigkeitsziele beizutragen.
Jedoch ist diese Transformation insbesondere bei alten Gewerbegebieten nicht konfliktfrei, da Unternehmen übe...
Der Teeanbau in den ländlichen Gebieten West-Javas (Indonesien) wurde in der nie-
derländischen Kolonialzeit etabliert und generiert Exporteinnahmen und Einkommen
für die lokale Bevölkerung. Geringere Einnahmen infolge niedriger Investitionen und
mangelhafter Modernisierungen sowie Auswirkungen des Klimawandels, Abwanderung und fortschreitende Urba...
The collapse of the global industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how precarious the livelihoods of workers embedded in globalised industries are. In the global production network literature, moments of crisis have been addressed in the debate on 'GPN risk'. While this debate has contributed to our understanding of firms' risk mitig...
Until the so-called GPN 2.0 approach placed it on the research agenda, risk had played a subordin- ate role in the literature on global production networks (GPN). In GPN 2.0, Knight’s economic notion of risk is applied and defined as rationally calculable, in contrast to uncertainties. However, this still dominant conceptualization of risk falls sh...
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Gewerbegebiete bieten eine Fülle an Potenzialen für eine zukunftsorientierte und klimaangepasste Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung. Um eine nachhaltige Entwicklung von Gewerbegebieten zu erreichen, ist ein kontinuierliches Engagement von kommunaler Seite und die Begleitung der lokalen Unternehmen notwendig, damit die Bemühungen nicht s...
This study proposes a novel typology of adaptation to hazards-a conversion strategy as a countermeasure to manage risks in interconnected supply chains. Conversion strategies are intended to transform one or multiple supply chain functions for a different one to manage the changing environment. Supply chain disruptions due to natural hazards have b...
Die deutsche Medizintechnik gilt aufgrund hoher Spezialisierung und hochwertiger
Produkte als weltweit führend. Auch während der Corona-Pandemie konnte sie diese
Stellung behaupten. Neben ihrer lokalen Präsenz in vielen Regionen zeichnen sich die
Unternehmen hierzulande auch durch ihren hohen Vernetzungsgrad aus – sowohl auf
lokaler als auch auf in...
The COVID-19 crisis in the restaurant and bar industry is affecting an industry that has been under significant pressure before. Using the concept of organizational resilience from a spatial perspective, we analyze how individual/company factors and regional factors influence owner’s assessment of resilience in the German restaurant and bar industr...
Change triggered by natural hazards such as pluvial and coastal floods, sea-level rise as well as risks resulting from water scarcity are highly dynamic and related to the effects of ongoing climate change. Whether and how societies adapt, adjust, change, or transform because of climate change and related risks, is a currently debated topic. This q...
The two working groups "East Asia" and "Southeast Asia" within the German Geographical Society are expanding the 2022 annual conference in Osnabrück with a new additional event called "Science Week for Young Academics". With this event, the working groups want to strengthen their goals of a deep dialogue between East/Southeast Asia and Germany as w...
Extensive research has addressed the question of why some countries are able to attract a large amount of foreign direct investment (FDI), while others are not. Until now, this research mostly neglected natural disasters as a business risk. In the realm of natural disaster research, some studies have investigated the effect of natural disasters on...
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Die fortschreitende Urbanisierung und erste Auswirkungen des Klimawandels verstärken das Überschwemmungsrisiko in küstennahen südostasiatischen Megastädten. Lokale Industriebetriebe sind insbesondere in ihrer Funktions- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit betroffen. Gleichzeitig wird in den Debatten zu Klimawandelanpassung und Katastrophenrisi...
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally impacted the restaurant and bar industry. Simultaneously, this industry is already undergoing structural change. Using the concept of organisational resilience, we analyse the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on owner’s assessment of resilience in the German restaurant and bar industry. Findings from an online s...
This article shows possibilities of sustainable transformation of old industrial areas. Based on findings of the research project “Grey goes Green – Transformation of Industrial Areas” with case studies in Germany we showcase that network building helps to overcome major challenges and enhances sustainable transition. The project analyses and suppo...
Deutsche Medizintechnikunternehmen gelten in Fachkreisen weltweit als Innovationsführer. Mitder massiven Nachfrage nach Beatmungsgeräten und Testausstattungen ist die Branche seit Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie auchin den Fokus der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung gerückt
URL: http://aktuell.nationalatlas.de/medizintechnik-1_03_2021-0-html/
Flood risk in urban coastal areas is on the rise due to increased population , urban growth, environmental degradation, and climate change impacts. State authorities are often overstrained to provide adequate flood risk reduction, including for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs), the backbone of urban economies in Indonesia. SM...
Die Ankündigung des Elektroautopioniers Tesla, eine "Gigafabrik" in Brandenburg zu errichten, löste bei der regionalen Politik große Freude aus, während die Standortwahl in anderen deutschen Regionen für Erstaunen sorgte. Bislang ist die Metropolregion Berlin-Brandenburg nicht als eines der Automobilzentren Deutschlands bekannt. Mit Tesla bietet si...
Nach jahrzehntelangen Debatten hat die indonesische Regierung entschieden, eine neue Hauptstadt auf Borneo zu errichten. Als Sinnbild eines vereinigten modernen Indonesien soll die neue Hauptstadt zugleich die administrativen Funktionen von der stau-und hochwassergeplagten Megastadt Jakarta übernehmen. Angesichts der enormen Kosten und der Folgen f...
Das schwere Erdbeben (Mw = 7,5) am 28. September 2018 in Zentral-Sulawesi führte zu massiven Schäden und vielen Todesopfern in der Provinzhauptstadt Palu und den umliegenden Gebieten. Während die Behörden mit internationaler Hilfe große Anstrengungen beim Wiederaufbau unternommen haben, zeigt sich ein Jahr nach der Katastrophe, dass die Bewohner we...
In developing countries, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) often cannot substantially reduce their exposure to floods on their own. As state authorities also have difficulty in providing sufficient flood protection, experts argue that collective adaptation initiated by firms can compensate for these shortcomings. However, private...
Many manufacturing firms collocate within coastal urban areas in Indonesia. At these locations, they are severely affected by the most occurring environmental hazard, floods. Although research on firms’ adaptation to environmental hazards is burgeoning, the focus still lies on damage evaluation, support for disaster relief, or on how firms can supp...
Many industrial sites in developing countries and emerging economies face increasing exposure to
environmental hazards, e.g. in coastal locations, while being situated within the territory of state
authorities which lack in capacity to provide adaptation solutions. It is therefore relevant to ask,
whether and how firms engage in adaptation, both in...
Moritz Breul and Thomas Neise share some reflections on the 2018 meeting of the Young Economic Geographers Network (YEGN) workshop and set an exciting agenda for future events to be held by the network.
Indonesia′s coastal cities are constantly affected by flooding. In these typical flood-prone areas a high amount of manufacturing firms is located and thus very susceptible to business disruptions. Therefore, this dissertation thesis contributes to the literature by elaborating firms′ role in adaptation on two perspectives: First, it is examined ho...
Manufacturing firms are primarily concentrated in coastal cities like Jakarta and Semarang,
where they are affected by floods. Firms are trying to adapt individually to the floods and
engage partly in collective adaptation efforts like the construction of large pump systems.
Also, city authorities are attempting to reduce the flood risk with intern...
Küstenstädte in Indonesien sind extrem von Überschwemmungen betroffen.
Dabei verlieren Menschen nicht nur ihr Hab und Gut, sondern oft auch
ihren Job, weil ihre Arbeitgeber die Produktion stoppen müssen. Während
Sofortmaßnahmen in der Regel auf die Bevölkerung abzielen, werden
Betriebe oft sich selbst überlassen. Da der indonesische Staat angesicht...
The importance of private sector engagement on risk reduction is increasingly mentioned over the last years. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 stresses that the private sector should be a crucial partner in achieving disaster resilience. However, the contribution by the private sector is still rare and mostly undertaken by...
Jakarta has long been affected by floods and the social and economic impacts are enormous. There has been extensive research focusing on the impacts and actions by the government. However, flood adaptation strategies by manufacturing firms, as the most affected business sector, have been largely neglected. This chapter fills the gap firstly, by exa...
