Integrated assessment of decisions under uncertainty for sustainable development (IANUS) is a method for aiding public decisionmaking that supports efforts towards sustainable development and has a wide range of applications. We introduce the main features of IANUS and illustrate the method by...

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...

Policy makers are dependent upon scientific knowledge. However, scientific results cannot be applied straightforwardly in practical decision making. We deploy Kant's term “power of judgment” – the human capacity to apply general insights to specific, contingent situations – to show that...

One major scientific challenge posed by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the design of a decision support process that meets the Directive’s requirement to achieve “good status” for all water bodies using a cost-effective combination of measures. This paper presents BASINFORM, a...