Climate change and its consequences present one of the most important threats to biodiversity and the functions of ecosystems. The stress on biodiversity is far beyond the levels imposed by the natural global climatic changes occurring in the recent evolutionary past. It includes temperature...

This paper analyses the combined use of scenario building and participatory multi-criteria analysis (PMCA) in the context of renewable energy from a methodological point of view. Scenarios have been applied increasingly in decision-making about long-term consequences by projecting different...

1. Needs, capabilities and quality of life : refocusing sustainable development / Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Fruhmann -- 2. The overshadowing of needs / John O'Neill -- 3. Sustainability as a challenge to the capability approach / Ortrud Lessmann -- 4. From individual well-being...