<p>The Thesis analyzes the effecvtiveness of international environmental regimes. A case study of four of the most important river regimes in Germany - the Commissions for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR), Elbe (ICPE), Oder (ICPO) and Lake Constance (IGKB)- was conducted. The first part of the thesis explains the theoretical foundation the thesis rests upon. Neoliberal Institutionalism was the chosen theory, accompanied by aspects of regime and game theory. A definition of effectiveness was generated, taking into account a legal, a historical and a political perspective. The Thesis is a qualitative case study, which uses mainly sources from books, essays, newspapers and few in-depth interviews with people inside the Commissions. In the second part the International Commissions are analyzed. In the end the findings are compared to find out what constitutes an effective regime. All four regimes have made an significant impact though. An effective regime is - according to the findings of this thesis - characterized by different factors: a small number of actors, a strong legal basis for the daily work routines, similar background of the member states, favorable national conditions.</p>

The Thesis analyzes the effecvtiveness of international environmental regimes. A case study of four of the most important river regimes in Germany - the Commissions for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR), Elbe (ICPE), Oder (ICPO) and Lake Constance (IGKB)- was conducted. The first part of the thesis explains the theoretical foundation the thesis rests upon. Neoliberal Institutionalism was the chosen theory, accompanied by aspects of regime and game theory. A definition of effectiveness was generated, taking into account a legal, a historical and a political perspective. The Thesis is a qualitative case study, which uses mainly sources from books, essays, newspapers and few in-depth interviews with people inside the Commissions. In the second part the International Commissions are analyzed. In the end the findings are compared to find out what constitutes an effective regime. All four regimes have made an significant impact though. An effective regime is - according to the findings of this thesis - characterized by different factors: a small number of actors, a strong legal basis for the daily work routines, similar background of the member states, favorable national conditions.

Inaug.-Diss.--Munich. / Vita. Bibliography: l. vi-xx.

This dissertation examines some of the strengths and weaknesses in basin level governance particularly as it relates to three current policy priorities: adaptive governance, international frameworks for response to natural and man-made disasters, and resilience in integrated water resources management. While these priorities are well-established in the academic and policy literature, in practice the ability to implement them at multiple levels has proven challenging. Though my dissertation highlights these challenges using case studies of European river basins, the observations and lessons for improving integrated management at multiple levels of governance, in multiple sectors, and among various actors are more broadly relevant to other natural resource governance settings. The first paper of this dissertation explores adaptive governance in the Tisza sub-basin, considering both constraints and policy options for strengthening adaptive governance at the sub-basin level. The Tisza is the largest sub-basin to the Danube River basin, and faces increasing pressures exacerbated by climate change. The Tisza countries have experienced challenges with managing climate change adaptation in a nested, consistent, and effective manner pursuant to the European Union Water Framework Directive. This is due, in part, to inefficiencies in climate change adaptation, such as weakened vertical coordination. This paper examines the conceptual domains relating to adaptation in international governance, and adaptation in transboundary water management in particular, with a focus on multilevel governance. International laws and policies governing transboundary waters in the Danube basin and Tisza sub-basin are reviewed. Using interviews and document analysis, the paper highlights challenges to adaptation in the Tisza sub-basin, including policy, fiscal, institutional, and capacity. The paper concludes with an exploration of possible policy options for sub-basin management, such as the development of a sub-basin commission, the establishment of a permanent Tisza expert group to be housed at and coordinated by the ICPDR, the use of new or existing bilateral treaties, and designing a framework for managing the Tisza. The second paper analyzes the transition in international frameworks of response to natural and man-made disasters as incorporated and integrated at multiple levels of governance. It begins with a discussion of the distinctions between so-called “natural” disasters and “man-made” accidents, how and why they are treated differently, and how recent developments in international law and practice are raising questions about the merits of these historic distinctions. Anthropogenic climate change drives more extreme and sometimes cascading disasters that require complex and overlapping types of response; it is argued that the distinctions in response to natural and man-made disasters are counterproductive, outdated, and ultimately flawed. The paper examines the policy and institutional frameworks governing response to natural disasters and man-made accidents in the Danube River basin and Tisza River sub-basin. Using expert interviews and legal and policy analysis, it then explores the differences in how natural disasters and man-made accidents are monitored and how they are responded to. The paper concludes with an analysis of the implications of transitioning policies toward a more holistic framework for response, regardless of whether the cause is natural, man-made, or (as is increasingly the case) some combination. The third paper advances the concept of a new approach – resilient IWRM – and how this approach can be applied to the management practices of the Danube and Rhine River basins and other river basins around the world. Using the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the leading framework for resilience, and supported by expert interviews, the paper analyzes what resilience measures have been addressed, and what gaps remain in the basin management frameworks of the Danube and Rhine River basins. The paper concludes with a discussion of the current constraints in the resilient IWRM framework of the Danube and Rhine River basins, in addition to options for overcoming these challenges. This dissertation concludes with a discussion of crosscutting dimensions of analysis, specifically the challenges faced in integrating climate change adaptation, response to natural and man-made disasters, and resilience into multiple levels of water governance. While these conceptual elements are well-established, the ability to operationalize these elements has proven difficult from multiple perspectives highlighted in this dissertation. The difficulties suggest a more nuanced and pragmatic approach to both their framing and their operationalization.

This Master Thesis gives an insight of railroad infrastructure at a regional level of European importance through a case-study within the Rhine-Neckar region in Germany. Administrative competences are hard to overcome from the planning point of view, consequently regions rely on informal planning tools to achieve a broader transnational and integrated transport strategy in Europe. Beside that metropolitan regions have in a scientific sense four different functions. One of them is the gateway function in a polycentric European development. Therefore this thesis analyze the new high-speed railway track between Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim. Furthermore the thesis draws an outlook of the further development of the new high-speed railway and their expected problems out of a regional planning point of view. The conclusion give an insight, if all four scientific metropolitan functions can be found within the region and what their approach of a cooperative federalism is about. All four metropolitan functions can be found within the region in terms of the new high-speed railway. The innovation function is given through the INTERREG IVB-NWE project CODE24, which was elected as a strategic initiative and was of European importance. The decision-making and control function is given through the established European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation, as it gives the whole initiative an European legal form. The symbol function can be found particularly in a footnote of the German Federal Train Track Expansion Act back in 2004, as the region achieved a legal boundary at the federal level. The last function, the gateway function, is given as the corridor between those two agglomerations has the highest traffic volume in Germany.

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Störungszonen in den karbonatischen Wechselfolgen des Muschelkalks (Mittlere Trias) sind potenzielle Ziele für hydrothermale Projekte im Oberrheingraben (ORG). Es wurden verschiedene Methoden miteinander kombiniert, um die Permeabilitäts-Strukturen solcher Störungszonen, deren Spannungszustände und lokale Spannungsfelder abzuschätzen. Diese Arbeit kann damit zur Exploration von störungsgebundenen Muschelkalk-Reservoiren im ORG beitragen. Sie vergleicht diese mit einem bereits erfolgreich getesteten (störungsgebundenen) hydrothermalen Reservoir, den Sandsteinen des Buntsandsteins. Um für den Muschelkalk die Charakteristika von Störungszonen zu definieren und die zugehörige Permeabilitätsstruktur abzuschätzen, wurden verschiedene Störungszonentypen (z.B. Abschiebungen, invertierte Störungszonen, Schrägabschiebung) mit unterschiedlichen Maßstäben (Versatz: mittel-skalig 1-10 m, groß-skalig >10 m) detailliert untersucht. Eine Aufschlussanalogstudie zu einer groß-skaligen Störungszone (Schrägabschiebung) in dickbankigen Sandsteinen (Buntsandstein, Untere Trias) wurde zum Vergleich herangezogen. Der besondere Schwerpunkt lag jeweils auf der Charakterisierung von Bruchzone und Störungskern sowie des assoziierten Bruchsystems (Bruchdichte, Öffnungsweitenverteilung, Vernetzungsgrad, vertikale Ausdehnung). Die Daten zeigen, dass Bruchsysteme in eher homogenen Einheiten einen positiven Effekt auf die Reservoir-Permeabilität haben. Sie bieten, vor allem in der Nähe des Störungskerns, potenzielle Fließwege auch über mehrere Schichten und zeigen eine starke Vernetzung zwischen vergleichsweise kurzen Brüchen. Im Gegensatz dazu scheinen störungsgebundene Bruchsysteme in Einheiten mit einer starken mechanischen Schichtung einen geringeren Einfluss auf die Reservoirpermeabilität zu haben. Störungskerne zeigen stellenweise eine signifikante Komplexität, da sie vor allem abdichtende aber stellenweise auch durchlässige Strukturen aufweisen. Groß-skalige Störungszonen (im Reservoir-Maßstab) lassen sich für beide potenzielle Reservoirhorizonte am besten als kombinierte Barriere-Leiter-Systeme beschreiben. Diese Barriere-Leiter-Systeme zeichnen sich durch ein potenziell hydraulisch durchlässiges Bruchsystem in der Bruchzone (und im Buntsandstein zusätzlich in der Übergangszone) sowie einen schwach durchlässigen bis abdichtenden Störungskern aus. Um die Kenntnisse zum lokalen Spannungsfeld in Störungszonen im geschichteten Muschelkalk (Reservoirtiefe: 2.900 m) zu verbessern, wurden mit der Finite-Elemente-Software COMSOL Multiphysics® numerische 3D-Modelle erstellt. Es wurden deutliche Unterschiede des lokalen Spannungsfelds in Abhängigkeit von (1) der Orientierung, (2) dem Einfluss der maximalen Horizontalspannung SH im Spannungsregime, (3) Störungszonen-Maßstab und (4) den Kontrasten der mechanischen Eigenschaften festgestellt. In Spannungsregimen mit starker horizontaler Kompression wurde für Spannungsmagnituden und Versatz eine deutliche Abhängigkeit von der Orientierung der Störungszone festgestellt. Vor allem groß-skalige Störungszonen mit einem 30°-Winkel zu SH scheinen einen SH-induzierten Horizontalversatz innerhalb weicher Störungszoneneinheiten zu begünstigen; in dieser wurden die höchsten Versatzbeträge festgestellt. Die typische Abnahme von Spannungsmagnituden in weicheren Störungszoneneinheiten verringert sich in Richtung von Störungszonen, die senkrecht zu SH streichen. Der Einfluss der mechanischen Schichtung steigt mit zunehmender horizontaler Kompression, was zu einem vertikal heterogenen Spannungsfeld führt. Um Annahmen zu einer möglichen hydraulischen Aktivität einer Störungszone zu treffen, werden für die untersuchten Störungszonen analytische Abschätzungen zu Bewegungs- und Dehnungstendenzen unter Reservoir-Bedingungen präsentiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unterschiedliche Spannungszustände der analysierten Störungszonen, die auf das rezente Übergangsregime sowie unterschiedliche Orientierungen der maximalen Horizontalspannungen SH zurückzuführen sind. In dieser Arbeit präsentierte Ergebnisse von Aufschlussanalogstudien helfen dabei, fundierte Annahmen zur Permeabilitätsstruktur von Störungszonen zu treffen und damit vielversprechende Bohrziele im ORG zu definieren. In diesem Zusammenhang konnten sedimentäre Wechselfolgen identifiziert werden, die als potenzielle geothermische Reservoire ausgeschlossen werden können. Die Ergebnisse der numerischen 3D-Modellierungen können dazu beitragen, möglicherweise nötige Stimulationsmaßnahmen im Muschelkalk Reservoir optimal auszulegen. Darüber hinaus bieten die Ergebnisse die Möglichkeit, Einblick in potenzielle Probleme während der Bohrungsherstellung in Muschelkalk-Reservoiren zu bekommen, wie zum Beispiel die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines vertikal heterogenen Spannungsfeldes.

La 1re Armée française commandée par le général de Lattre de Tassigny souffre d'un déficit mémoriel auprès de la société française alors qu'elle a libéré une grande partie du territoire national. L'association Rhin et Danube porteur naturel de la mémoire de la 1re Armée française a échoué dans la diffusion de celle-ci. La concurrence d'autres mémoires de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le rôle de l'Etat, de l'Education nationale... ont progressivement fait oublier l'action de l'Armée de Lattre dans la Libération depuis le débarquement de Provence. / The 1st French Army under General de Lattre de Tassigny's command is fading from the collective memory of French society, despite having freed a large portion of France. The “Rhine and Danube” association, the natural guardian of the 1st French Army's legacy, failed to disseminate its story. Competition with other memorable events of the Second World War, the role of the State, the Ministry of Education ... overshadowed the significant contribution of the de Lattre Army to the Liberation of France, from the landing in Provence and onward.

The Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-49, was intended to transform the war-torn Third Reich into a peaceable nation through a series of far-reaching political, economic, and social reforms. But amid the growing tensions between East and West these radical plans would be significantly altered, culminating in the formation of two German states in 1949. Historians have tended to view the occupation as a backdrop to the nascent Cold War or a transitional period in the history of modern Germany. Yet this thesis suggests that British participation in the Allied occupation was, in fact, much more than simply an exercise in political pragmatism or a contribution to the rebuilding of war-torn Europe. Rather, this undertaking catalysed Britain's political and public confrontation with Nazism, laying some of the most significant and durable foundations of the postwar Anglo-German relationship. This research utilises contemporary mass media sources and official records to explore British images and perceptions of Germany under occupation, scrutinising the interactions of decision-makers, the media, and the public. It begins with an examination of the pervasive culture war that emerged in wartime Britain over the precise interpretation and resolution of the so-called 'German problem'. The thesis then goes on to consider public portrayals of the occupation vis-à-vis the evolution of official policy, beginning in the summer of 1945 when British policymakers responded to popular demands for a 'hard peace' and approved a rigorous programme of denazification, re-education, and demilitarisation. In the coming years, scandals engulfed the public image of the British occupiers, threatening to undermine Britain's claims on 'winning the peace' and even prompting an official public relations campaign. The mass market press led calls for an abrupt end to the occupation, fearing it was undermining the nation's prestige while failing to adequately address the threat still posed by Germany. At around the same time, Britain's political and military leaders reassessed their position in the face of the Cold War, turning towards the reconstruction and rehabilitation of western Germany. By 1949, a clear dichotomy had emerged, with implications reaching far beyond the immediate postwar period: while anxieties over the 'German problem' remained largely intact amongst substantial sections of the British press and public, with many regarding the occupation as an abject failure, policymakers were firmly set on the path towards Anglo-German reconciliation and alliance.

Le renouvellement de la documentation lié au dynamisme de l’archéologie préventive, ainsi que la reprise systématique des données issues de fouilles anciennes et inédites ont permis de poser un regard neuf sur le Bronze moyen du sud de la plaine du Rhin supérieur. Le corpus, réuni pour ce travail, offre des données variées (objets métalliques, résineux et céramiques) d’origines diverses (habitats, sépultures, dépôts, objets isolés) qui ne se résument plus uniquement au matériel des nécropoles de la forêt de Haguenau. Les mobiliers métalliques et céramiques ont fait l’objet d’une étude distincte. Leur classement typologique associé à des analyses statistiques ont révélé sept étapes depuis fin du Bronze ancien (BA III/Bz A2b) jusqu’au début du Bronze final (BF 1/Bz D2). La phase moyenne du Bronze moyen (fin du BM I-début du BM II/Bz B2-C1) reste mal définie et semble quasi absente dans la région. La corrélation avec les dates absolues disponibles pour la région indique un intervalle chronologique situé entre 1600 et 1300 avant notre ère environ. Durant la phase ancienne, les contacts extérieurs sont centrés sur le sud du Bade-Wurtemberg, le Jura souabe et la Suisse occidentale. Puis les échanges gagnent en intensité, se diversifient et se tournent également en direction du nord, vers la région du Rhin moyen. / The renewal of documentation about the preventive archaeology dynamism, as well as the systematic recovery of datas from old or unpublished excavations have resulted in a fresh perspective at the Middle Bronze Age of the upper Rhine’s south plain. The corpus, joined in this work, gives varied datas (metallic, resinous objects, pottery), from various sources (settlements, graves, deposits, isolated objects), which is not limited to Haguenau’s cemeteries, anymore. Metallic materials and pottery had been examined individually. The determined typology, combined with statistical analysis show seven stages since the end of the Early Bronze Age (BA III/Bz A2b) to the beginning of Late Bronze Age (BF 1/Bz D2). The middle phase of the Middle Bronze Age (end of BM I-beginning of BM II/Bz B2-C1) remains uncleared and seems not to be in the Upper Rhine. The correlation with well-known absolute dates in the Upper Rhine comes to a time interval between 1600 and 1300 Before J-C, approximately. During the first stage, the interactions are located in the South of Baden-Württemberg, in the Swabian Alb and in the western Switzerland. Then, interactions continue to intensify, become more diverses towards the North, near the Middle Rhine.