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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2011
    Germany

    Within the framework of the project „Flood Prevention and Nature Conservation in the Weisseritz area“ („HochNatur“),
    a method including landscape metrics was developed and applied to assess and to compare different land
    use scenarios with regard to flood prevention and nature conservation. For the analysis, two sub-catchments strongly
    differing in land use within the Weisseritz catchment (Eastern Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany) were selected. The

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2016
    Germany

    European landscapes have featured considerable changes towards intensification and marginalisation.
    These major trends are expected to continue in the future. Besides, the cultivation of bioenergy crops has
    become an important factor in agricultural land use. A thorough understanding of land-use processes for
    management purposes is needed. In this study, the spatial and temporal pattern of agricultural land use
    and land-use change was classified at the scale of municipalities from 2005 to 2010. The study region was

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    April, 2014
    Germany

    The ecosystems of our intensively used European landscapes produce a variety of natural goods and services for the benefit
    of humankind, and secure the basics and quality of life. Because these ecosystems are still undergoing fundamental changes,
    the interest of the society is to know more about future developments and their ecological impacts. To describe and analyze
    these changes, scenarios can be developed and an assessment of the ecological changes can be carried out subsequently. In the

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    April, 2015
    Germany

    The paper presents empirical studies on the appreciation of nature and landscape in the Eastern Ore Mountains (Saxony, Germany) by tourism service providers (TSP) and visitors. Attractive landscape and experience of nature are the most important reasons to visit this region and to spend leisure time there. Particularly mountain meadows, raised bogs and mixed forests are highly appreciated. Deforestation, industrial development and the decline of biodiversity would reduce attractiveness for visitors.

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2007
    Germany

    E nvironmental planning is an instrument for the operationalisation of the precautionary principle in environmental law and, to this end, must rely on maps depicting the spatial patterns of ecological attributes of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and of environmental change effects, respectively. In this context, different mapping techniques are presented by example of three case studies covering terrestrial, coastal and marine environments. The first case study was selected to demonstrate how to compute an ecological land classification of Germany by means of CART.

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2015
    Germany, China

    The principle of urban-rural gradients can reveal the spatial variations of ecosystem services and socioeconomic dimensions. The interrelations between ecosystem services and socioeconomics have scarcely been considered in the context of urban-rural areas. We investigated the spatial gradients and the mutual linkages of several ecosystem services and

  7. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2010
    Austria, Europe

    This paper presents a review of the presentations and synthesis of the discussion during a Symposium on ‘Transformation
    of rural-urban cultural landscapes in Europe: Integrating approaches from ecological, socio-economic
    and planning perspectives’ held at the European IALE conference 2009 in Salzburg, Austria. The symposium
    addressed an extended and much debated subject of the landscape dynamics in Europe. The papers presented
    during the symposium showcased a broad spectrum of cutting edge research questions and challenges faced by

  8. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2014
    Germany

    As part of the planned expansion work of the motorway A8 between Rosenheim and Salzburg and the
    associated legal opportunity to develop new traffic noise protection measures, this study investigated
    properties of sustainable noise abatement in a community next to the A8. A two-stage empirical survey
    was conducted integrating a citizen and an expert Delphi survey. The results show that the noise from
    the motorway heavily affects the quality of life in health, economic and ecological respects. Sustainable

  9. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2010
    Austria, Germany

    Landscapes provide a broad range of services to society. To date, however, only few regional to continental scale
    studies assess the capacity of landscapes to provide these services under changing environmental conditions. This
    is required if the maintenance of current landscape multifunctionality remains a long-term goal. The presented
    mini review highlights and promotes the concept of landscape functions, defined as the capacity or potential of
    landscapes to provide services. Ultimately, spatially explicit landscape-function assessments may provide baseline

  10. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2014
    Germany

    The impairment of landscapes is a concern constantly raised against wind energy developments in Germany
    as in other countries. Often, landscapes or landscape types are treated in the literature as essentialist or
    at least as uncontested categories. We analyse two examples of local controversies about wind energy, in
    which “landscape” is employed by supporters and opponents alike, from a poststructuralist and discourse
    theoretical angle. The aim is to identify and compare landscape constructs produced in the micro discourses

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