Intakte Flussauensind Hotspots der biologischen Vielfalt und von Ökosystemleistungen für uns Menschen. Trotz der nationalen und europäischen Bedeutung der Biodiversität des Leipziger Auensystems, sind starke Beeinträchtigungen der Lebensräume in der Aue seit vielen Jahren bekannt. Sie...

Participation is said to improve decisions on environmental conflicts. When investigating 16 case studies of participatory processes in European Water and Biodiversity Governance, which necessarily is multi-level, the picture becomes blurred: many different forms of participation can be...

Practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, land management, and biodiversity conservation are increasingly interested in using economic instruments that promise "win-win" solutions for conservation and human livelihoods. However, practitioners often lack guidance for selecting and...

Global scientific assessments increasingly reach the conclusion that transformative change of global production and consumption systems is necessary to safeguard and maintain global commons, such as biodiversity, natural forests and the ocean, and to stabilise climate at the global scale....