A5074608831- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Housing Market and Economics
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Risk Perception and Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Underground infrastructure and sustainability
German Environment Agency
2016-2023
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
2011-2021
Abstract. The central importance of soil for the functioning terrestrial systems is increasingly recognized. Critically relevant water quality, climate control, nutrient cycling and biodiversity, provides more functions than just basis agricultural production. Nowadays, under pressure as a limited resource production food, energy raw materials. This has led to an increasing demand concepts assessing so that they can be adequately considered in decision-making aimed at sustainable management....
Rapid expansion of settlements and related infrastructures is a global trend that comes with severe environmental, economic, social costs. Steering urbanization toward well-balanced compactness thus acknowledged as an important strategic orientation in UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG-11) via the SDG-indicator “Ratio land consumption rate to population growth rate.” The EU’s simultaneous commitment being “a frontrunner implementing […] SDGs” striving for “no net take until 2050” calls...
Urban green spaces (UGS) are essential components of sustainable cities that provide many benefits to urban residents, such as recreation or aesthetics. residents may be willing pay for some these ecosystem services. Indeed, studies investigating the formation housing prices through hedonic pricing analysis have shown UGS can influence prices. Hedonic puts units at center analysis. In this study, we investigate whether an alternative perspective provides additional insights into effects on...
In the light of global urbanization and biodiversity loss, ecosystem services provided by urban green spaces (UGS) are becoming increasingly important, not least as a recovery recreation opportunity for citizens. The valuation UGS is significant planners, who make decisions on creation or removal UGS. We analysed influence residential property prices in Leipzig, Germany, applying hedonic pricing analysis. This analysis complements existing literature considering both sale rental flats...
Europeanization research dealing with the environmental transition in Eastern Europe has focused on roles of state actors adopting European regulations. Less well understood are framings and public administration when Union regulations do not prescribe specific institutional changes. This article offers a micro perspective such several cases brownfield regeneration. Actors can play proactive role, thereby fostering change, or they moderately active passive role. We identify three...
Abstract Bioeconomy strategies have been adopted in many countries around the world. Their sustainable implementation requires a management of soils that maintains soil functions and avoids land degradation. Only then, ecosystem services can be maintained resources used efficiently. We present an analytical framework for impact assessment links policy technology driving forces decisions to processes, functional changes, their impacts on resource use efficiency, both being targets set by...
The concept of ecosystem services, especially in combination with economic valuation, can illuminate trade-offs involved soil management, policy and governance, thus support decision making. In this paper, we investigate highlight the potential limitations valuation soil-based services to inform sustainable management policy. We formulate a definition as basis for conducting review existing studies focus on inclusion choice methods. find that, so far, has covered only small number such most...
Research findings have proven that the willingness to take risks is distributed heterogeneously among individuals. In general public, there a widely held notion individuals of certain nationalities tend hold typical risk preferences. Furthermore, religious beliefs are thought explain differences in risk-preparedness on individual level. We analyze these two possible determinants attitudes: nationality and religion. First addressing study attitudes literature review, we then test our...
Who owns the soils? What seems to be a straightforward legal issue actually opens up debate about ecosystem services that can derived from soils and distribution of benefits responsibilities for sustaining functioning healthy soils. In particular, agricultural land use may constrained by lack properly defined property rights. Using new institutional economics perspective, we show multifunctionality an attribute-based rights perspective substantiate intuition implies special obligations...
The revitalization of contaminated land carries many risks and uncertainties. This paper aims to reveal drivers risk perception introduce a novel valuation method for the assessment market-perceived sites polluted by earlier use in transparent comprehensible procedure. International approaches account value deductions due contaminations resulting uncertainties are reviewed. Based on literature review national survey amongst German professional appraisers, methodology is elaborated, outlined...
Die energetische Sanierung von Wohnhäusern wird in vielen Städten vorangetrieben. Was im Hinblick auf Energieeffizienz sinnvoll ist, kann aufgrund steigender Mietkosten zu einer Verdrängung der alteingesessenen Bewohner(innen) führen. Damit nicht dazu beiträgt, soziale Ungleichheiten Stadt- und Quartiersebene erhöhen, bedarf es sozialpolitischer Regelungen Förderinstrumente. Doch fehlt noch eine fundierte Datenbasis, die erlaubt, entsprechende Empfehlungen geben.
Societies need to govern soils maintain the various ecosystem services provided humans, for instance ensuring food security, biodiversity conservation, water regulation or carbon sequestration. Developing suitable policy instruments is therefore a precondition implementing sustainable soil management practices. However, there lack of analytical tools systematically describe performance governance. This paper presents and applies an framework Governance assessed with following dimensions:...