Compensation schemes in which land owners receive payments for voluntarily managing their land in a biodiversity-enhancing manner have become one of the most important instruments for biodiversity conservation worldwide. One key challenge when designing such schemes is to account for the spatial...

This paper is concerned with the cost-effective allocation of habitat for endangered species under spatio-temporally heterogeneous economic development. To address the dynamic dimension of the problem we consider tradable development rights (TDR) as the instrument of choice. A particular...

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht zeigt die Ergebnisse der Prozessdokumentation und Informationsbedarfsanalyse ausgewählter medizinischer und administrativer Prozesse im Elisabeth-Krankenhaus Essen. Die Arbeiten sind Teil des Projekts Hospital Engineering und zielen auf die Identifikation von...