Institute of Urban and Cultural Area Research

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute for Urban and Cultural Area Research is part of the School of Culture and Society at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. It is divided into the departments of Building Culture, Cultural Geography and Tourism Studies.

Main research areas

Department Cultural Geography

In the Department of Cultural Geography, the question of the relation to space plays a major role. From this geographical perspective, cultural landscape research is conducted, also in the historical-geographical sense. Not only from a historical perspective urban spaces are examined in urban-geographical contexts. Further focal points are geographic transport research and economic-geographic issues.

An overview of the fields of research:

-    Transport Geography
-    Economic Geography
-    City Geography
-    (Historical) Cultural Landscape Research

Department of Building Culture

Overview of the research fields:

-    Digital and haptic architecture models
-    Computer integration in the creative planning process
-    Revitalization - Cultural heritage
-    Perception of city and space

Department of Tourism Studies

The research of the Department of Tourism Studies covers the following areas:

-    Travel/holidays as leisure activity and appropriation of space
-    Leisure as a late-modern phenomenon
-    Touristification of rooms
-    Control of destination tourism areas
-    Travel behavior and security
-    Tourism marketing/-management
-    Room consumption

  1. Published

    Präferenzen und Prädiktoren für umweltschonendes Verhalten von Urlaubern

    Wöhler, K., 03.1996, In: Gruppendynamik. 27, 1, p. 21-32 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  2. Published

    Tourism management in a global and transnational perspective

    Wöhler, K., 2006, New perspectives and values in world tourism & tourism management in the future. Aktas, A., Kesgin, M., Cengiz, E. & Yenialp, E. (eds.). Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Alanya Faculty of Business, Vol. 1. p. 32-43 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  3. Published

    Abhängigkeiten und Ausnützen von Verhaltensspielräumen: Zur Entwicklung von Anreizsystemen und Kooperationsbeziehungen in Arbeitsverhältnissen im Tourismus

    Wöhler, K. & Saretzki, A., 1998, Personalmanagement im Tourismus: Konzepte und Strategien. Weiermair, K. & Wöhler, K. (eds.). Limburgerhof: FBV Medien-Verlags GmbH , p. 65-94 30 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published
  5. Published

    Eine ökonomische Analyse des Tourismus

    Wöhler, K., 1998, Auf dem Weg zu einer Theorie des Tourismus. Burmeister, H.-P. (ed.). Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, p. 101-135 35 p. (Loccumer Protokolle; vol. 5/98).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  6. Published

    Sozialwissenschaftliche Tourismusforschung im vorparadigmatischen Zustand?

    Wöhler, K., 1998, Der durchschaute Tourist: Arbeiten zur Tourismusforschung. Bachleitner, R., Kagelmann, H. J. & Keul, A. G. (eds.). München/Wien: Profil Verlag, p. 29-36 8 p. (Tourismuswissenschaftliche Manuskripte; vol. 3).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Organisationsentwicklung als Personalentwicklung: Begründungszusammenhang einer prozeßorientierten Arbeitsorganisation im Tourismus

    Wöhler, K., 1998, Personalmanagement im Tourismus: Konzepte und Strategien. Weiermair, K. & Wöhler, K. (eds.). Limburgerhof: FBV Medien-Verlags GmbH , p. 23-63 41 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Marktorientiertes Tourismusmanagement 1: Tourismusorte: Leitbild, Nachfrage- und Konkurrenzanalyse

    Wöhler, K., 1997, Berlin et al.: Springer. 391 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  9. Published

    Personalmanagement im Tourismus: Konzepte und Strategien

    Weiermair, K. & Wöhler, K. (Editor), 1998, 1. ed. Limburgerhof: FBV Medien-Verlags GmbH . 302 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Kulturangebote zwischen Authentizität und Inszenierung: Kommt der raumlose Tourismus?

    Wöhler, K., 1999, Lüneburg: Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Lüneburg, 13 p. (Materialien zur angewandten Tourismuswissenschaft; no. 28).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

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Publications

  1. Effectiveness of an internet-based intervention to improve sleep difficulties in a culturally diverse sample of international students
  2. Deepening or losing trust: towards partnerships between refugee parents and educators in early childhood education and care in Germany
  3. Integrating sense of place in planning and management of multifunctional river landscapes: experiences from five European case studies
  4. Geochemical Assessment of Sediment Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Ennore Creek, North of Chennai, SE Coast of India.
  5. Law and authority in British legal history, 1200–1900, edited by Mark Godfrey,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-12227-7
  6. Analysis of nutrition-relevant trace elements in human blood and serum by means of total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) spectroscopy
  7. Gelingens- und Misslingensfaktoren bei Projekten zur systematischen Förderung der Lehrergesundheit: Erfahrungen aus einem Modellprojekt
  8. „See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me“: Definitionen, Verhältnisbeschreibungen und Anwendungsempfehlungen zwischen Musik, Gefühlen und Pädagogik.
  9. Deal or no deal? How round vs precise percentage offers and price-ending mimicry affect impasse risk in over 25 million eBay negotiations
  10. The distribution of self-reported psychotic-like experiences in non-psychotic help-seeking mental health patients in the general population
  11. Investitionen junger Unternehmen - Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Investitionsmuster deutscher Unternehmensgründungen
  12. Summer temperatures from the Middle Pleistocene site Schöningen 13 II, northern Germany, determined from subfossil chironomid assemblages
  13. Risk or Resilience? The Role of Trade Integration and Foreign Ownership for the Survival of German Enterprises during the Crisis 2008-2010
  14. Fatty acid feedstock preparation and lactic acid production as integrated processes in mixed restaurant food and bakery wastes treatment