Abstract: Hunderttausende von Kilometern lang ist das weit verzweigte Netz der Fließgewässer in Deutschland. Als naturräumliche Elemente sind sie landschaftsprägend und von zentraler Bedeutung für die Aufrechterhaltung ökosystemischer Funktionen. Entsprechend ihrer wasserwirtschaftlichen...

Land-use conflicts arise if land is scarce, land-use types are mutually exclusive, and vary in their effects with regard to more than one incongruent policy objective. If these effects depend on the spatial location of the land-use measures the conflict can be mediated through an appropriate...

Among the measures discussed as remedies for CO2 emissions reduction renewable energies are prominent as they already provide marketable alternatives to fossil fuels. This holds true especially for wind power, which has multiplied more than twelve-fold on the global scale from 4,800 MW to over...

The paper examines the applicability of available scenarios, prognoses and political target-set-tings of the future development of wind power generation as guiding parameters for the re-search project "FlächEn", which focuses on ecological-economic modelling of a sustainable siting of wind...

When applying New Institutional Economics (NIE) to empirical studies one is confronted with typical problems of operationalization. To illustrate some of these problems, this paper utilizes a comparative institutional analysis of the German Water and Soil Associations and alternative governance...