The global increase in greenhouse gases is also changing the climate conditions more severely in Germany. This particularly affects local cultivated landscapes, which cover large parts of Germany and are already experiencing a wide range of ecological problems. Although agricultural land use...

The article discusses the implementation of a new scheme for the outcome-based remuneration of environmental goods and services of agriculture that has been carried out as a case study in the period 2004 to 2006 in a German model region (county Northeim in the south of Lower-Saxony). This new...

Der Erhalt der Biodiversität zählt neben dem Klimawandel zu den größten umweltpolitischen Aufgaben unserer Zeit. Denn eine intakte Natur sichert existenzielle Lebensgrundlagen – darunter gesunde Nahrung, sauberes Wasser oder fruchtbare Böden –, sie ist aber auch unerlässliche Ressource...