
Projects of the Working Group
“Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity”
Current Projects
BESTMAP – Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic
Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy
BonaRes – Soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy
⇒ CAP4GI: Leverages and potentials in the Common Agricultural Policy for improved support of Green Infrastructure, biodiversity and ecosystem services
European Nature Conservation Legislation and its implementation in Germany
INTERACT-Bio – Integrated Action for Biodiversity
⇒ International Climate Initiative (ICI), Costa Rica
⇒ TONINA − Ecosystem services in regional planning in the Orinoquia, Colombia
Completed Projects
SURFACE – International Standards and Strategies for the Reduction of Land Consumption
Integrated UFZ-Project "Land use conflicts"
NeFo – Network-forum for biodiversity research Germany
Unlocking Forest Finance in Brazil/Peru
Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE
Integrating Nature Conservation into Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers
Green Infrastructure – Creating habitats with agriculture
Enabling ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) in Melanesia and Micronesia
ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning, and practice
Grassland conservation with subsidy and regulatory law, see also NUR article, part 2
STEP – Status and Trends of European Pollinators
TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
CONNECT – Linking biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service
Nature Conservation in Climate Change
Stopping the Loss of Biodiversity – Biodiversity Protection in Rural Areas
PRESS – PEER Research on EcoSystem Services
INVASION – Evolutionary, ecological and social consequences of Biological Invasions (BMBF)
EcoTRADE – Ecological Thresholds for Reshaping Ecosystem Networks
Strategies for sustainable land use in the context of wind power generation (BMBF)
ALTER-Net – A Long-term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network (EU)
EcolEconMod: Developing a framework to assess the total cost of conservation measures (EU)
PATH – Participatory Approaches in Science and Technology (EU)
Participatory Decision Processes (UFZ/HGF)
Evaluation and Improvement of the Implementation of Political Measures to Protect Biodiversity
INVASIONS: The Invasion Potential of Alien Species – Identification, Assessment, and Risk Management (BMBF)
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and its relevance for Germany (BMU)
FRAP – Development of a Procedural Framework for Action Plans to Reconcile Conflicts between Large Vertebrate Conservation and the Use of Biological Resources: Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model Case (EU, UFZ as co-ordinator)
Ten Years of Biodiversity Convention: an Interim Evaluation (book project)
Impacts of the EU Water Framework Directive on Nature Conservation
Regional Sustainability – Bridging Resource Conservation and Economic Development
Nature in and the Nature of Multi-criteria Decision Support
→ Ecopay Romania – Producing an ecological-economic model for habitats preservation – Case study Mureș Floodplain
→ Erhaltung des Regenwaldes im brasilianischen Amazonien: Begründungen in Gesetzgebung und Rechtspolitik
→ Development of Transferable Multi-criteria Decision Tools in Environmental Management (EU)