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...

Biodiversity loss in Europe is caused to a large extent by agricultural intensification. To halt this loss and to support species and habitat types in agricultural areas, agri-environment schemes have been introduced in Europe to compensate farmers for (costly) conservation measures. Currently,...

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...