Projects of the Department of Environmental and Planning Law

Current Projects

KomUR − Network of Competence on Future Challenges of Enviornmental Law

Research Field Basic Principles of Environmental Law

Legal bases for sustainability transformation

Herausforderungen für ein zukunftsfähiges Umweltrecht

Integration Platform "Societal Transformations towards Sustainability"

⇒ Environmental constitutionalism

⇒ Technical knowledge in environmental litigation

⇒ Designing Effective Measures for EU’s TRAnsition to climate neutrality – DEMETRA

Research Field Water Management and Water Resources Protection Law

Transformation towards a sustainable water resource management (platform project − PP 6.3) 

Completed Projects

EnergyLandUse

Urban Transformations

EE-Monitoring: Monitoring of nature protection implications of the expansion of renewable energy in the power sector and the development of instruments for the mitigation of impacts on nature and the scenic value of the landscape

Wissenschaftliche, rechtliche und administrative Perspektiven zur praktischen Implementierung des Flächenzertifikatehandels

Needs- and demand-based planning − Legal options for and procedural aspects of an instrument for enhanced environmental protection

Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS: "Future infrastructures for meeting energy demands. Towards sustainability and social compatibility"

(in German) InfraWass − Nachhaltigkeitsinstitutionen zur Governance langlebiger technischer Infrastruktursysteme am Beispiel der europäischen Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung unter den Bedingungen des klimatischen und demographischen Wandels
FORUM: Handel mit Flächenzertifikaten – Fachliche Vorbereitung eines überregionalen Modellversuchs
Tradable allowances for the dedication of building land
Improvement of legal and institutional framework conditions for a local and regional site recycling management
(in German) Nachhaltige Landnutzung im Spannungsfeld umweltpolitisch konfligierender Zielsetzungen am Beispiel der Windenergiegewinnung
(in German) Designoptionen und Implementation von Raumordnungsinstrumenten zur Flächenverbrauchsreduktion - DoRiF
(in German) Stadtumbau und Flächenhaushaltspolitik
(in German) Effektivierung des raumbezogenen Planungsrechts zur Reduzierung der Flächeninanspruchnahme

Fitness Check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

Development of an "Action Programme for the Implementation of the Integrated Nitrogen Strategy"

Land Use Conflicts

Comparison of ammonia regulation in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark – legal framework

Einführung einer Abgabe auf Pflanzenschutzmittel in Deutschland 

STEP − Status and Trends of European Pollinators
POLICYMIX − Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision
Nature Conservation in Climate Change
Research and development project agri-environmental law: Legal and other instruments for better protection of the environment in the agricultural sector
Stopping the Loss of Biodiversity − Biodiversity Protection in Rural Areas
ALTER-Net: A Long-term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network
(in German) INVASION − Evolutionary, ecological and social consequences of Biological Invasions
INVASIONS: The Invasion Potential of Alien Species − Identification, Assessment, and Risk Management
(in German) Auswirkungen der EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie auf den Naturschutz
Pooling of surface areas and compensation measures: Impact regulation under nature protection law as an instrument of nature protection policy at the local and regional level
Ten Years of Biodiversity Convention: an Interim Evaluation (book project)
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its relevance for Germany
(in German) FRAP − Fischwirtschaft und Biodiversitätsschutz: Nachhaltige Schutz- und Nutzungsstrategien am Beispiel von Fischotter, Kormoran und Robben