The protected landscape area of the White Carpathians in Czech Republic is confronted with several threats. The protection of the landscape involves instituted policies and restrictions on production. Due to the approaching EU accession and the possible subsequent institutional changes, there is...

The European Union's Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced promising changes in rewarding farmers by the implementation of conservation auctions and granting farmers' transaction costs. The...

Ethiopian montane rainforests are economically valuable repositories of biodiversity, especially of wild Coffea Arabica populations, and they are vanishing at accelerating rates. Our research results confirm theory which explains biodiversity loss by diverging private and social net benefits...

Der Umgang mit den Folgen des Klimawandels wird künftig zu den wichtigsten Aufgabenbereichen der Raumentwicklung gehören. Sowohl die Auswirkungen der fortschreitenden Klimaveränderungen als auch die damit einhergehenden Anpassungserfordernisse können eine hohe Raumrelevanz aufweisen. In der...