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...

An approach is present which integrates an economic and an ecological model for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes. The approach is used to develop a cost-effective compensation payment scheme for conservation of an endangered...