Coastal and marine areas represent an increasingly important and relevant action space for spatial planning. However, to a large extent marine (or maritime) spatial planning has emerged separately from terrestrial spatial planning, constituting its own epistemic community. In particular,...

In this paper we establish how effectively EIA is currently utilised in the deployment of onshore and offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. In this context, the quality of EIA documentation and the coverage of a range of key EIA aspects of 20 developments are evaluated....

The topic of environmental protection has always been of great concern in Germany, the establishment of environmental data sources started in the 1970s. The development of environmental information system technology in Germany is outlined and two examples are given: the Environmental Planning...

Das prozedurale Grundkonzept der Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung besteht heute seit über 30 Jahren. Die Arbeit wendet sich angesichts aktueller Herausforderungen der Frage zu, inwiefern die Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung für den globalen Klimaschutz fruchtbar gemacht werden kann. Anhand von...