Tropical peatlands are known not only for their high, area-based, carbon emissions in response to land-use change but also as hot spots of debate about associated data uncertainties. Perspectives are still evolving on factors underlying the variability and uncertainty. Debate includes the ways...

European integration implies a transfer of powers and responsibilities from the national to the community level, transfer that allows the development of public policy and common, respectively, of provisions, common rules across the EU. Environmental Policy in the European Union is seen as a...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert die Umsetzung der FFH-Richtlinie durch Landwirte in Sachsen. Seit 2002 hat der Freistaat Sachsen 270 FFH-Gebiete an die Europäische Kommission gemeldet und führt in diesen Gebieten systematisch FFH-Managementplanungen durch mit dem Ziel die...