Personnel:

Dr. Moritz Reese
Dr. Jana Bovet
Dr. Stefan Möckel
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Köck

with the collaboration of Stefan Jablonski

Status:

Project financed by the German Federal Environmental Authority

Duration:

10/2008 - 03/2010

Outline:

Even an ambitious mitigation policy to decrease greenhouse gas emissions (the so called 2-°C objective) will not be able to prevent climate change completely. This means that an adaptation will be necessary.

The requirements of adaptation to climate change strike many areas of society, for example water resources and flood management, urban land use and plant construction, agriculture and forestry, but also nature conservation, regional land use planning and coastal zone management.

Actions of the stakeholders in these sectors are controlled by rules of environmental and planning law, among others. The project's objective is to answer the question whether existing instruments of environmental and planning law are effective enough to cope with the needs of an adaptation to climate change, or whether the predicted climate change also requires legal adjustments, in the latter case options for such adjustments will have to be identified. In this process, especially regulations for knowledge generation and provision of information have to be considered.

The project focuses on the analysis of water legislation, including the law on flood protection, the protection of soil, on the approval of industrial installations, on urban land use and regional planning, and on environmental impact assessment.

Publications:

Möckel, S. (2012): Flurbereinigung als Instrument der Konfliktlösung und der dauerhaft, umweltgerechten Landschaftsgestaltung. Zeitschrift für Umwelt- und Planungsrecht (UPR), 7, 247-255.

Möckel, S. (2012): Klimaschutz und Anpassung bei landwirtschaftlichen Böden – rechtliche Berücksichtigung und Instrumente. Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt (DVBl), 7, 408-416.

Möckel, S. (2011): Agrar- und umweltrechtliche Anforderungen an Kurzumtriebsplantagen. Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht (NVwZ) 2011, 663-666.

Bovet, J. (2011): Anforderungen an einen effektiven Küstenschutz unter Berücksichtigung des Klimawandels. NordÖR 1/2011, 1-8.

Reese, M. (2011): Die Anpassung an den Klimawandel im Bewirtschaftungssystem der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie. Zeitschrift für Wasserrecht, Vol. 2, 61-82.

Reese, M. (2011): Das neue Recht des Hochwasserschutzes vor den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels. Natur und Recht (NuR) 1/2011.

Reese, M., Bovet, J., Möckel, S., Köck, W. (2010): Rechtlicher Handlungsbedarf für die Anpassung an die Folgen des Klimawandels. UBA-Berichte 1/2010, Berlin: Erich Schmidt.