Patrick Küpper
Biographic Data
| ID | 331427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Küpper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Küpper |
| SIGNATURE | KÜPPER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5733-8617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unity in Diversity? Nature Conservation in the Habsburg Empire
This article recovers the neglected history of nature conservation in the Habsburg Monarchy and situates it within a European context. Focusing on the Monarchy’s western half (Cisleithania), we trace how debates after 1900 reached Austria’s highest politics unusually early – beginning with a 1901 Reichsrat motion and an empire-wide 1903 survey – yet failed to yield implementation. We examine why this initiative stalled, how it affected the format…
Local and vertical networking as drivers of innovativeness and growth in rural businesses
Entrepreneurial regions at a dead end: Competition, management by objectives and decentralization less effective, efficient and legitimate
Regions are often viewed like businesses that compete with each other for people, investments and jobs. Private-sector instruments are being adopted in this context without providing evidence for positive management outcomes and clarifying the conditions under which their application is meaningful. Against this background, the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) tested three instruments as part of a pilot programme: the selecti…
Historicizing renewables: Issues and challenges
The essay discusses some main challenges involved in historicizing renewables. It highlights three approaches that we regard as central for re- and deconstructing the history of renewables, and which show potential for rethinking familiar narratives in both the history of technology and environmental history. First, we argue that the adoption or rejection of renewables was specific to place and time and thus can only be understood within a framew…
Potential and Impediments to Senior Citizens' Volunteering to Maintain Basic Services in Shrinking Regions
Against the background of demographic change and municipal austerity, policy-makers are evoking the crucial role that younger retirees could play in supplementing the provision of basic services through volunteering. This article ties into this discussion, critically questioning the potential of (younger) senior citizens' volunteering as a way of maintaining basic services in shrinking regions. Qualitative interviews from two regional case studie…
Adapt and Cope: Strategies for Safeguarding the Quality of Life in a Shrinking Ageing Region
This article examines the adaptation and coping strategies that are in place to safeguard the quality of life in a shrinking ageing region. In particular, it is investigated which resources are available to local policy-makers and the older population in order to pursue this goal. Following an introduction to the debate of regional science about demographic change and its consequences, we introduce a theoretical differentiation between adaptation…
Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Civilizing Nature
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usu…
Civilizing nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
"National Parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of this multitude of ecological as well as political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting th…
Regionale Reaktionen auf den demographischen Wandel in dünn besiedelten, peripheren Räumen: Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten Befragung
Sparsely populated, peripheral areas are particularly affected by demographic changes. Regional policy offers a framework for reacting to the resulting challenges. The research question is: how does regional policy in sparsely populated, peripheral areas react to the challenges of demographic change? The contribution presents empirical survey data of the current practice. For this purpose, always one representative of regional development initiat…
Science and the National Parks: A Transatlantic Perspective on the Interwar Years
The years between the two World Wars were a vital period in the global diffusion and the transnational modification and multiplication of the national park idea. It was during these decades that the American national park system took its distinct shape and the first national parks in Europe were established. At the same time, the science of ecology and ecological attitudes achieved prominence and offered a challenge as well as a new scientific un…
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Science and the National Parks: A Transatlantic Perspective on the Interwar Years
The years between the two World Wars were a vital period in the global diffusion and the transnational modification and multiplication of the national park idea. It was during these decades that the American national park system took its distinct shape and the first national parks in Europe were established. At the same time, the science of ecology and ecological attitudes achieved prominence and offered a challenge as well as a new scientific un…
Adapt and Cope: Strategies for Safeguarding the Quality of Life in a Shrinking Ageing Region
This article examines the adaptation and coping strategies that are in place to safeguard the quality of life in a shrinking ageing region. In particular, it is investigated which resources are available to local policy-makers and the older population in order to pursue this goal. Following an introduction to the debate of regional science about demographic change and its consequences, we introduce a theoretical differentiation between adaptation…
Potential and Impediments to Senior Citizens' Volunteering to Maintain Basic Services in Shrinking Regions
Against the background of demographic change and municipal austerity, policy-makers are evoking the crucial role that younger retirees could play in supplementing the provision of basic services through volunteering. This article ties into this discussion, critically questioning the potential of (younger) senior citizens' volunteering as a way of maintaining basic services in shrinking regions. Qualitative interviews from two regional case studie…
Local and vertical networking as drivers of innovativeness and growth in rural businesses
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation
Science and the National Parks: A Transatlantic Perspective on the Interwar Years
The years between the two World Wars were a vital period in the global diffusion and the transnational modification and multiplication of the national park idea. It was during these decades that the American national park system took its distinct shape and the first national parks in Europe were established. At the same time, the science of ecology and ecological attitudes achieved prominence and offered a challenge as well as a new scientific un…
Regionale Reaktionen auf den demographischen Wandel in dünn besiedelten, peripheren Räumen: Ergebnisse einer deutschlandweiten Befragung
Sparsely populated, peripheral areas are particularly affected by demographic changes. Regional policy offers a framework for reacting to the resulting challenges. The research question is: how does regional policy in sparsely populated, peripheral areas react to the challenges of demographic change? The contribution presents empirical survey data of the current practice. For this purpose, always one representative of regional development initiat…
Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Civilizing Nature
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usu…
Civilizing nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
"National Parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of this multitude of ecological as well as political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting th…
Adapt and Cope: Strategies for Safeguarding the Quality of Life in a Shrinking Ageing Region
This article examines the adaptation and coping strategies that are in place to safeguard the quality of life in a shrinking ageing region. In particular, it is investigated which resources are available to local policy-makers and the older population in order to pursue this goal. Following an introduction to the debate of regional science about demographic change and its consequences, we introduce a theoretical differentiation between adaptation…
Potential and Impediments to Senior Citizens' Volunteering to Maintain Basic Services in Shrinking Regions
Against the background of demographic change and municipal austerity, policy-makers are evoking the crucial role that younger retirees could play in supplementing the provision of basic services through volunteering. This article ties into this discussion, critically questioning the potential of (younger) senior citizens' volunteering as a way of maintaining basic services in shrinking regions. Qualitative interviews from two regional case studie…
Entrepreneurial regions at a dead end: Competition, management by objectives and decentralization less effective, efficient and legitimate
Regions are often viewed like businesses that compete with each other for people, investments and jobs. Private-sector instruments are being adopted in this context without providing evidence for positive management outcomes and clarifying the conditions under which their application is meaningful. Against this background, the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) tested three instruments as part of a pilot programme: the selecti…
Historicizing renewables: Issues and challenges
The essay discusses some main challenges involved in historicizing renewables. It highlights three approaches that we regard as central for re- and deconstructing the history of renewables, and which show potential for rethinking familiar narratives in both the history of technology and environmental history. First, we argue that the adoption or rejection of renewables was specific to place and time and thus can only be understood within a framew…
Local and vertical networking as drivers of innovativeness and growth in rural businesses
Unity in Diversity? Nature Conservation in the Habsburg Empire
This article recovers the neglected history of nature conservation in the Habsburg Monarchy and situates it within a European context. Focusing on the Monarchy’s western half (Cisleithania), we trace how debates after 1900 reached Austria’s highest politics unusually early – beginning with a 1901 Reichsrat motion and an empire-wide 1903 survey – yet failed to yield implementation. We examine why this initiative stalled, how it affected the format…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Rural development and sustainability (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Marketing (3 works)