On the background of growing environmental problems in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea area, co-operation between the adjacent states of both sea areas has intensified during the last decades. The article gives an overview over existing international environment agreements regarding the North...

Seit 1990 sinkt die Wasserentnahme aus dem Netz der öffentlichen Wasserversorgung. 1995 betrug der Rückgang in den alten Bundesländern 1 %, in den neuen Bundesländern sogar 5 %, wobei sich dort die rückläufige Industrietätigkeit stark auswirkt. Seit einigen Jahren ist ein rationelleres...

Während in den vergangenen beiden Jahren auch für die neuen Bundesländer aussagefähige Daten ermittelt werden konnten, haben sich dort 1994 aufgrund der Umstrukturierung der ostdeutschen Wasserwirtschaft nicht genügend Wasserversorgungsunternehmen (WVU) beteiligt, um einen befriedigenden...

The disastrous effects of numerous winter storms on the marine environment in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea during the last decade show that wind waves generated by strong winds actually represent natural hazards and require high quality wave forecast systems as warning tools to avoid losses...

Storm surges in the North Sea are one of the threats for coastal infrastructure and human safety. Under an anthropogenic climate change, the threat of extreme storm surges may be enlarged due to changes in the wind climate. Possible future storm surge climates based on transient simulations...

Offshore wind projects require large investments. Therefore, they currently need governmental support to become competitive and economically attractive for investors. There is a general consensus that a feed-in premium scheme would be most adequate to support offshore wind generation in the...

In the last two decades, the fisheries of the North Sea have experienced substantial declines in the population of a number of commercially harvested species. The fisheries have also experienced the development of considerable overcapacity as a result of ineffective management and subsidies....

The “new institutional economics” has influenced the study of public (or policy) choice, e.g. via the organization and incentives of “stakeholders”, and the analysis of international and other (e.g. state-private) agreements. Stakeholders in fisheries policy include fisherman and their...