Ecological Economics inherently faces a challenge akin to sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. In Greek mythology these are two monsters located on opposite sides of a narrow strait, and falling victim to one or other of them is unavoidable. In the recurring process of establishing and refining...

[...] In der Umweltpolitik im Besonderen werden allgemein vier Formen einer 'New Environmental Governance‘ unterschieden: (Köck 2005: 338): 1. Zielorientierte Ansätze, die neben der ordnungsrechtlichen Normierung auch den Einsatz indirekter, etwa ökonomischer Steuerungsinstrumente zulassen,...

Im Horizont der Suche nach Zielvorgaben und Kriterien für Nachhaltigkeit beschäftigt sich der Essay mit dem Begriff der fairen Hinterlassenschaft. Kann die Beantwortung der Frage Was sollte eine gegenwärtig lebende Generation von Menschen den folgenden hinterlassen, damit diese über die ihr...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) calls for cost-effective measures to achieve a good status in all European ground, surface and coastal waters. Besides eutrophication, the degradation of hydro-morphology is the main reason for failing the WFD's objectives in Germany. In this paper , we...

The question of how to deal with uncertainty in environmental decision-making is cur-rently attracting considerable attention on the part of scientists as well as of politicians and those involved in government administration. The existence of uncertainty becomes particularly apparent in the...

One of the major scientific challenges posed by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the de-sign of a decision support process that meets the directive's requirement to achieve good status using a cost-effective combination of measures. This paper presents BASINFORM, a new decision tool for...

The European Water Framework Directive is shaping a new conception of integrative water protection. In this article, the consequences of the Water Framework Directive in respect to national environmental policy will be discussed in referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central...

An integrated ecological-economic decision-making approach is developed to help local stakeholders decide on land use in rural areas where the conflict between natural resource protection and economic development is pressing. It consists of four methodological steps. In the first step the...