Developments in China will have substantial impacts on forestry in the rest of the region. This wide-ranging country outlook study discusses a host of topics including prospects for China's afforestation/reforestation efforts, supply and demand for forest products and ecological services,…
Sustainable land management requires that water and matter (nutrients and base cations) are efficiently recycled within ecosystems so that irreversible losses of matter from topsoils are minimised. Matter losses are connected to water flow. The division of water into evapotranspiration that is…
Increased development pressures on the marine environment and the potential for multiple use conflicts, arising as a result of the current expansion of offshore wind energy, fishing and aquaculture, dredging, mineral extraction, shipping, and the need to meet international and national…
Agriculture is required to fulfil the needs and wants of society in a variety of fields: foodsupply, environmental services, landscape preservation and finally: climate mitigation.Using the example of land-use change in peatland in order to create possibilities forgreenhouse-gas reduction, a…
The scenic quality of a landscape is a natural resource that is to be preserved according to German and international law. One important indicator for the evaluation of this value is the structural diversity of the landscape. Although Landscape Metrics (LM) represent a well-known instrument for…
Decades of Soviet rule have left a heritage of environmental and social problemsin Central Asia. The demise of an entire ecosystem at unprecedented pace, the"Aral Sea Syndrome", is the most prominent of the undesired outcomes of thefocus on agricultural production that has dominated…
The framework conditions surrounding agricultural production in Germany have changed dramatically due to the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) and a sustained increase in agricultural prices. The Common Agricultural Policy, substantially reformed in the Luxemburg Compromise, will be considered in the…
Raw materials for animal feeding are highly deficient in Europe, which results in massive imports of soya beans from North and South America. These imports are connected with a number of environmental problems. Increasing the grain legume production in Europe could be a promising alternative.…
Dit artikel (Alterra) geeft een overzicht van ervaringen in een aantal omringende landen met de ontwikkeling en uitvoering van landschapsbeleid op nationaal en regionaal niveau. Het betreft: Duitsland (Noordrijn-Westfalen), Engeland, Frankrijk, België (Vlaanderen) en Nederland
We empirically analyse the determinants ofcash rent levels for agricultural land in Lower Saxony,Germany. We are the first to apply a spatialeconometrics approach that accounts for two types ofspatial dependence simultaneously to cash rent data atthe farm-level. Our empirical results underline…
The main aim of the present Act is to ensure that the entire territory of the Federal Republic of Germany and the related regions shall be developed, organized and protected by general regional plans. In so doing 1) differing requirements shall be harmonized and related conflicts shall be solved…