We clarify the concept of responsibility – its conditions, meanings, syntax, forms, and ethical status. Our analysis of responsibility proceeds on the secondary level of ethics, i.e. it is focused on conceptual structure and insofar independent of exactly what primary ethical position one...

[Zielstellung] Das zentrale Ziel des Vorhabens besteht darin, ein Verfahren zu entwickeln, das es ermöglicht, in einem Wasserkörper mit überschaubarem Aufwand die Kosten von Maßnahmenprogrammen auf Unverhältnismäßigkeit zu prüfen, um auf diese Weise ggf. weniger strenge Umweltziele zu...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) calls for cost-effective measures to achieve a good status in all European ground, surface and coastal waters. Besides eutrophication, the degradation of hydro-morphology is the main reason for failing the WFD's objectives in Germany. In this paper , we...

Ecological Economics inherently faces a challenge akin to sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. In Greek mythology these are two monsters located on opposite sides of a narrow strait, and falling victim to one or other of them is unavoidable. In the recurring process of establishing and refining...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) calls for cost-effective measures to achieve a "good status" in all European ground, surface and coastal waters. Besides eutrophication, the degradation of hydro-morphology is the main reason for failing the WFD's objectives in Germany. In this paper , we...

Ecological Economics inherently faces a challenge akin to sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. In Greek mythology these are two monsters located on opposite sides of a narrow strait, and falling victim to one or other of them is unavoidable. In the recurring process of establishing and refining...

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) calls for cost-effective measures to achieve a good status in all European ground, surface and coastal waters. Besides eutrophication, the degradation of hydro-morphology is the main reason for failing the WFD's objectives in Germany. In this paper , we...