multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi …

In order to facilitate the use of biodiversity indicators in policy making at the country level, a few and well …-established indices should be suggested. Promising candidates include biodiversity-related indices of the Convention on Biological … ecosystem level have already been in use, but they are not necessarily useful measures of the state of biodiversity in their …

measures appear insufficient to prevent further biodiversity decline.. …

The objectives of this new EU Action Plan are to: • Reinforce action to halt the loss of biodiversity in the EU by 2010 … for EU biodiversity policy as it is the first time that all the relevant economic sectors and policy areas are addressed …Die Ziele dieses neuen EU-Aktionsplans sind: • verstärkte Aktivitäten zur Eindämmung des Verlustes der biologischen …