Das Ziel der Studie war es, die Reaktionen der Protagonisten an den Kinder-und Ju-gendsportschulen der DDR auf die gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen der Wendejahre zu eruieren. Es sollte herausgefunden werden, inwieweit diese Ereignisse die Bildungs-merkmale beeinflussten. Dazu wurden historische Archivdokumente analysiert und in 28 qualitativen Interviews 33 Zeitzeugen befragt. Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis war, dass die Arbeit an den KJS bis in das Jahr 1991 hinein nahezu unverändert fortgeführt wur-de. Durch eine partielle Ausdehnung der Thematik auf die heutigen Eliteschulen des Sports leistet der Text einen Beitrag zur Diskussion über den Leistungssport in Deutsch-land und dessen Spezialschulen. Die Arbeit richtet sich neben Wissenschaftlern an leistungssportlich und bildungspoli-tisch interessierte Eltern, Pädagogen, Trainer und Verantwortungsträger.

Though environmental inequality research has gained extensive interest in the United States, it has received far less attention in Europe and Germany. The main objective of this book is to extend the research on environmental inequality in Germany. This book aims to shed more light on the question of whether minorities in Germany are affected by a disproportionately high burden of environmental pollution, and to increase the general knowledge about the causal mechanisms, which contribute to the unequal distribution of environmental hazards across the population. To improve our knowledge about environmental inequality in Germany, this book extends previous research in several ways. First, to evaluate the extent of environmental inequality, this book relies on two different data sources. On the on hand, it uses household-level survey data and self-reports about the impairment through air pollution. On the other hand, it combines aggregated census data and objective register-based measures of industrial air pollution by using geographic information systems (GIS). Consequently, this book offers the first analysis of environmental inequality on the national level that uses objective measures of air pollution in Germany. Second, to evaluate the causes of environmental inequality, this book applies a panel data analysis on the household level, thereby offering the first longitudinal analysis of selective migration processes outside the United States. Third, it compares the level of environmental inequality between German metropolitan areas and evaluates to which extent the theoretical arguments of environmental inequality can explain differing levels of environmental inequality across the country. By doing so, this book not only investigates the impact of indicators derived by the standard strand of theoretical reasoning but also includes structural characteristics of the urban space. All studies presented in this book confirm the disproportionate exposure of minorities to environmental pollution. Minorities live in more polluted areas in Germany but also in more polluted parts of the communities, and this disadvantage is most severe in metropolitan regions. Though this book finds evidence for selective migration processes contributing to the disproportionate exposure of minorities to environmental pollution, it also stresses the importance of urban conditions. Especially cities with centrally located industrial facilities yield a high level of environmental inequality. This poses the question of whether environmental inequality might be the result of two independent processes: 1) urban infrastructure confines residential choices of minorities to the urban core, and 2) urban infrastructure facilitates centrally located industries. In combination, both processes lead to a disproportionate burden of minority households.