Die Bevölkerung in Deutschland wird in den nächsten Jahrzehnten deutlich kleiner. Landkreise und Städte im Ruhrgebiet und im Osten Deutschlands schrumpfen schon jetzt, während Metropolen wie München und Hamburg noch kräftig zulegen. Immobilieninvestoren konzentrieren sich daher vornehmlich...

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

Especially in environmentally sensitive agricultural landscapes, agriculture cannot define its aims by itself - it has to account for a number of demands of different groups of society. For example, agriculture is expected to produce food and at the same time contribute to the protection of...

Managing landscapes as public goods: on the economics of providing for nature in cultivated landscapes in decentralized ways Political procedures aimed at solving conflicts of agriculture and the environment are becoming increasingly important. In contrast to previous research, property rights...