Christina Von Haaren

Leibniz Universität Hannover · Institute of Environmental Planning

Der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien, insbesondere der Windenergie, stagniert aktuell in Deutschland. Obwohl die Energiewende insgesamt von der Bevölkerung gewünscht ist, werden konkrete Projekte vor Ort von Teilen der Bevölkerung nicht akzeptiert. Im Projekt "Lokaler Energiewendedialog", gefördert durch das Niedersächsische Ministerium für Umwelt,...

Water provision and distribution are subject to conflicts between users worldwide, with agriculture as a major driver of discords. Water sensitive ecosystems and their services are often impaired by man-made water shortage. Nevertheless, they are not sufficiently included in sustainability or risk assessments and neglected when it comes to distribu...

In landscape planning and policy-making, environmental sounds have only negative impacts on human health. The natural sounds that promote healthy and supportive environments remain neglected. Although the soundscape concept and approach have considered natural sounds as a resource, the related knowledge has not been employed in landscape planning y...

Background: With elderly people comprising a growing share of the population, landscape planners need to consider their specific requirements to enhance the opportunities for them to engage in nature-based recreation (NBR). However, few studies have spatially assessed the recreation potential, demand, and opportunities for elderly people in cities....

ie Umsetzung des Leitbildes der Nachhaltigkeit in der europäischen und nationalen Agrarpolitik stellt Landwirte vor erhöhte Anforderungen an ihr Betriebsmanagement. Für ein machhaltiges und insbesondere für ein naturschutzorientiertes Betriebsmanagement benötigen Landwirte heute in verstärktem Maße betriebsbezogene Fachinformationen, die bisher kau...

The ecosystem service (ES) concept is considered a powerful communication tool to illustrate the benefits of ecosystems to stakeholders, decision-makers and the general public. Knowledge is lacking on how best to communicate the benefits of ES, and the added value of primarily monetary ES information is scarcely studied. We contribute to this ongoi...

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is a powerful tool for communicating with stakeholders because it highlights the benefits of ecosystems for people and demonstrates their economic importance through monetized values. However, this hypothesis has rarely been substantiated in the context of local landscape planning. To investigate which ecosyst...

Over the last 40 years, a growing number of restoration projects have been implemented to improve the ecological conditions of highly degraded rivers and their floodplains. Despite considerable investment in these projects, information is still limited about the effectiveness and the success of such river restoration measures, mainly due to a lack...

Klimaveränderungen sind zu einem wichtigen Thema des Natur- und Umweltschutzes geworden. Bestimmte Ausprägungen der Landschaft können wesentliche Beiträge zum Klimaschutz leisten. Die Klimaschutzfunktion beschreibt die Leistung der Ökosysteme, in der Landschaft Kohlstoffdioxid oder andere Klimagase zu speichern oder langfristig zu binden. Die raumk...

The shapefiles display areas with low and medium spatial vulnerability to ground-mounted photovoltaic systems (Badelt et al. 2020), which can serve as a "spatial fairway" for a sustainable energy transition. It can be assumed that the expansion of ground-mounted photovoltaics in areas with low spatial vulnerability is largely possible without confl...

Dieses Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende und die Praxis bietet eine grundlegende theoretische Einordnung der Landschaftsplanung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Basismethoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Landschaftsfunktionen bzw. Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen Wege der Ableitung von raumkonkreten Zielen und Maßnahmen auf. Zahlreiche...

Ideal für den Einstieg ins Studium und die Berufspraxis! Dieses Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende und die Praxis bietet eine grundlegende theoretische Einordnung der Landschaftsplanung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Basismethoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Landschaftsfunktionen bzw. Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen Wege der Ableitun...

Ideal für den Einstieg ins Studium und die Berufspraxis! Dieses Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende und die Praxis bietet eine grundlegende theoretische Einordnung der Landschaftsplanung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Basismethoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Landschaftsfunktionen bzw. Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen Wege der Ableitun...

Ideal für den Einstieg ins Studium und die Berufspraxis! Dieses Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende und die Praxis bietet eine grundlegende theoretische Einordnung der Landschaftsplanung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Basismethoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Landschaftsfunktionen bzw. Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen Wege der Ableitun...

Eines der drei Ziele des Bundesnaturschutzgesetztes umfass den Schutz der Vielfalt, Eigenart und Schönheit sowie des Erholungswertes von Natur und Landschaft. Das Landschaftsbild und dessen Erhalt, Pflege und Wiederherstellung sind daher ncht nur elementarer Teil der Landschaftsplanung, sondern auch im Rahmen der Eingriffsregelung zu behandeln. Die...

Neben der Erhaltung und Sanierung von Biotopen ist auch deren Neuentwicklung eine wichtige Aufgabe der Landschaftsplanung. Damit kann ein breites Spektrum von Adressaten angesprochen werden, welches neben den Naturschutzbehörden die Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Gemeinden, Fachplanungen und andere Vorhabenträger umfasst. Diese können instrumentelle Mö...

Ideal für den Einstieg ins Studium und die Berufspraxis! Dieses Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende und die Praxis bietet eine grundlegende theoretische Einordnung der Landschaftsplanung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Basismethoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Landschaftsfunktionen bzw. Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen Wege der Ableitun...

Ideal für den Einstieg ins Studium und die Berufspraxis! Dieses Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende und die Praxis bietet eine grundlegende theoretische Einordnung der Landschaftsplanung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren stellen Basismethoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung von Landschaftsfunktionen bzw. Ökosystemleistungen vor und zeigen Wege der Ableitun...

Environmental degradation and the decrease of ecosystem service provision are currently of major concern, with current agricultural systems being a major driver. To meet our future environmental and sustainability targets a transformation of the agro-food systems and current agricultural value chain are crucial. One approach to redesign farming sys...

Die in Deutschland mensch- und naturverträglich nutzbare Fläche reicht bilanziell für eine Versorgung mit erneuerbaren Energien aus. Unklar ist, wie die Verantwortung für den Prozess von der Bundesebene auf die lokale Ebene heruntergebrochen werden kann. Mit Hilfe bundesweiter Szenarien können die Leitplanken für die Energiewende räumlich spezifizi...

A key challenge of environmental planning is to craft recommendations for future sustainable spatial development amid ubiquitous uncertainties. This paper aims to explore how different data uncertainties, usually unknown to the planner, may influence environmental planning recommendations. We apply a case study-based approach, in which we provide t...

Die Energiewende genießt in Deutschland sehr hohe Zustimmung in der Bevölkerung. Allerdings sind bei diesem Transformationsprozess auch andere Belange wie der Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt und die Interessen der Anwohnerinnen und Anwohner zu berücksichtigen. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt mit Szenarien Wege zur Lösung dieser Konflikte. Dazu wurde...

Ein schneller und sektorenübergreifender Umbau der Energieversorgung hin zu erneuerbaren Energien (EE) ist ein zentrales Handlungsfeld, um bundesweite und internationale Klimaschutzziele zu erreichen. Dabei gilt es gleichzeitig den Ansprüchen der Menschen vor Ort gerecht zu werden. Eine ebenso dringende Herausforderung ist der Rückgang der biologis...

Legumes get increasing awareness as a multi-talent in sustainable agri-food systems. They offer advantages over other crops through their nitrogen fixation ability and their possibility to diversify cropping systems. However, the share of food legumes on arable land is still very low. Market forces stimulate the specialization of cropping systems w...

The shapefiles display areas with low and medium spatial vulnerability to a prototype wind turbine (variant 2, (Thiele et al. submitted); scenario “hochaufgelöste Eingangsdaten“ (Thiele et al. in press) and scenario “no regret” (Wiehe et al. 2020)). The dataset resulted from the research project "Konkretisierung von Ansatzpunkten einer naturverträg...

Nature-based recreation presents a key ecosystem service that people derive from landscapes. While numerous studies exist on the valuation of nature-based recreation for specific sites or regions, scientific knowledge gaps remain regarding the economic significance of nature-based recreation at national levels. This study aims to quantify the volum...

Continuous agricultural intensification severely threatens water ecosystems, their services and biodiversity of agricultural landscapes. Increased irrigation drains streams, lakes, floodplains and wetlands beyond their carrying capacity. International legislation and agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promote sustainability st...

The expansion of renewable energies (RE), particularly wind energy, is currently stagnating in Germany. The year 2019 recorded the lowest increase in installed capacity for wind energy in more than 20 years. Wind power plants with a total electrical capacity of 958 MW were installed in 2019, this represents a 77% decrease in newly installed plant c...

Water is becoming an increasingly contested resource. Today, the sustainability of water use is assessed with different indicator frameworks that usually refer to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or other norms. Classifying international norms and the subsequent indicators for assessment according to their legitimacy will increase the pract...

*** english version below *** Die kulturelle Ökosystemleistung Naherholung hat gerade in dicht besiedelten Industrieländern wie Deutschland eine hohe gesundheitliche, soziale und ökonomische Bedeutung. Der vorgestellte Ansatz zur räumlichen Erfassung und Bewertung dieser Leistung auf nationaler Ebene bewertet zunächst die Eignung der Landschaft für...

The INSIDE project is a joint project of the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH) and Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning (IUP) and Institute of Solid State Physics (FKP). The project explored options to increase the acceptance of solar parcs in Lower Saxony and thus enable the strong expansion of solar...

Eine artenreiche Flora und Fauna ist in den heutigen Agrarlandschaften kaum noch zu finden. Um Landwirte dabei zu unterstützen, die Artenvielfalt auf ihren Betrieben effizient zu verbessern, haben Wissenschaftler*innen vom Institut für Umweltplanung das Managementsystem MANUELA entwickelt.

For the restoration of medium and small rivers, the reintroduction of large wood (LW) is crucial. Despite the wide communication of the ecological key functions of LW, residents rejected its reintroduction in a restoration project at the river Mulde (Dessau‐Roßlau, Germany). To determine whether this is a local or widespread phenomenon in Germany,...

Although the transition to energy supply through renewables (RE) is, in general, politically accepted in Germany, its progress is slowed by conflicting interests, primarily nature conservation and protesting residents. This study aims to find ways to solve these conflicts in Germany. To this end, the researchers developed a geospatial model that ca...

Although assessing green space provisions is essential to understand environmental justice, few studies have focused on the age perspective and the inequality in access regarding elderly people. This study aims at understanding the spatial disparity in access to urban green and blue infrastructure (UGBI), with a special focus on the elderly. An enh...

Rivers and floodplains provide many regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services (ES) such as flood risk regulation, crop production or recreation. Intensive use of resources such as hydropower production, construction of detention basins and intensive agriculture substantially change ecosystems and may affect their capacity to provide...

Nature-based recreation is widely recognized as an important ecosystem service that individuals and societies derive from landscapes, especially in industrialized countries. Despite its societal importance, few empirical studies quantify citizens' utilization or estimate the economic significance of recreational ecosystem services. This study asses...

River landscapes offer diverse cultural ecosystem services. Providing more information on the quantity that river landscapes provide in terms of offered cultural ecosystem services could contribute to river landscape planning. Offered cultural ecosystem services are ecosystem contribution that may provide benefits to humans. The aim of this study i...

Background The transition of the energy system to renewable energy depends on how successfully the national objectives can be implemented at the lower planning levels. Germany pursues an incentive-oriented policy that is not spatially targeted and lets regional and local stakeholders determine where and how renewable energies are used. A core quest...

China’s national territory spatial planning is undergoing structural reform. Its updated planning-making system requires insights and methodologies from landscape architecture. This study provides a primer on German landscape planning and reflections on its relevance for China by summarizing relevant literature. Germany practices the spatial planni...

In light of decreasing species richness on farmland and an increasing awareness of biodiversity issues among customers and food companies, concepts and models to evaluate and enhance farmland biodiversity are greatly needed. It is important that the models are easy to apply as they have to be utilized by practitioners such as farmers and their cons...

Compared to other countries, in Germany landscape planning was developed early and has many variations in different federal states. This has generated many experiences with different planning arrangements. Additionally, it makes Germany an interesting example for learning about the strengths and pitfalls of landscape planning under certain framewor...

The development of targets and measures is one of the core tasks of landscape planning. This chapter introduces requirements, distinguishes between different types, and provides an overview of the basic modules for developing targets and measures in landscape planning. The chapter begins with an explanation of the context dependence of objective de...

The habitat development potential (HDP), as presented here, is the capability of the abiotic components of the ecosystem to produce biodiversity. We present a method for classifying sites with reference to the value of their possible habitats, including their phytocenosis. The method is based on the observation that the greatest chance for developi...

Supplementing planning measures with design approaches is a way of generating both new measures as well as communicating nature conservation to decision makers and the public. This chapter characterises the design approach with a focus on features that are different from planning. Furthermore, a framework is provided that identifies opportunities f...

Landscapes provide a broad range of ecosystem services that are crucial for many aspects of human well-being. However, this provision is increasingly under threat from a variety of economic, social and environmental changes. Many of these are manifested in unsustainable land uses. Integrative and proactive environmental planning is needed to addres...

This chapter explores established theoretical and empirical work to identify possible indicators to represent landscape aesthetics capacity (LAC) in landscape planning. Throughout this chapter we argue that visual concepts from landscape perception/preferences studies (formed either on an individual or collective basis), together with experiences f...

This chapter introduces approaches for developing targets and measures to enhance the visual quality and the recreation potential of landscapes. It begins by introducing recommendations for the enhancement of visual quality as the context within which all recreational activities take place. Subsequently, options for enhancing recreation potential a...

This chapter summarises the main themes discussed in previous chapters of the book. In particular, it emphasizes how the assessment and enhancement of ecosystem services can be facilitated though landscape planning. The chapter also outlines possible future roles for landscape planning in Europe and how technological changes might influence how the...

Response measures for safeguarding and increasing biodiversity can be derived from biodiversity assessments. They may aim to maintain and protect the valuable well-functioning areas, to mitigate or eliminate damaging influences or develop or restore the sites with the best potential for success. The choice of these measures depends on the habitat d...

The objective of this book is to provide an introduction and overview of relevant concepts, methods and techniques for landscape planning with ecosystem services in Europe. It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the enviro...

This chapter introduces the key theoretical and methodological concepts for landscape planning in Europe. A short portrait of landscape planning and its contribution to supporting sustainable landscape development provides insights into the capabilities of an integrative environmental planning tool that cuts across different sectors and levels of d...

A range of different societal values need to be considered when evaluating ecosystem services and their changes in relation to both landscape planning and assessing specific planning proposals. These are typically expressed through legislative or preference-based frameworks, the latter involving economic or social methodologies. This chapter descri...

The legal and governance context for landscape planning in countries outside the EU can differ greatly from their EU counterparts. We propose a framework for characterizing that context in order to enable readers from non-EU countries to relate their planning systems to the European baseline for landscape planning. Methodologies for the assessment...

This chapter introduces the concepts of ‘Leitbilder’ and scenarios in landscape planning. Leitbilder can be understood as descriptions of target states that diverse stakeholders can agree on. Scenarios represent plausible descriptions of pathways of change that can help explore resulting future land use changes (alternative futures) and their respe...

River ecosystems are widely considered to be of high value for nature conservation. This judgment has been validated for biodiversity and regulating ecosystem services. However, little is known about the role of landscape aesthetic quality (LAQ) of river landscapes compared to other landscapes. The objective of this paper is to assess river landsca...

A better understanding of the general mechanisms influencing individual choices and of the specific rationales of politicians could help to put greater emphasis on environmental planning information in political decision-making. The aim of this paper is to show, in the context of landscape planning, how the uptake of environmental concerns could be...

Arbeitspapier, Stand 20.02.2018, Institut für Umweltplanung, Hannover. English version available at: https://www.umwelt.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/institut/Forschungsprojekte/FFV_Workingpaper_eng_20180220_end_copyprotec.pdf

Naturverträgliche Energieversorgung aus 100 % erneuerbaren Energien 2050 (EE100) Anhang zum BfN-Skript 501 (https://www.bfn.de/fileadmin/BfN/service/Dokumente/skripten/Skript501.pdf)

Fig. 3.3 in Chapter 3 and Fig. 30.1 in Chapter 30 were initially published with errors. The correct presentation is given here.

Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which humans benefit. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses. Particular threats exist to those public goods whose values are not well-represented in markets...

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The planning and implementation of management measures to improve the status of freshwaters and the natural flood retention potential of rivers and floodplains (Water Framework Directive, Natura2000, Floods directive) are often challenging due to the various users and diverse legal frameworks involved. The decision-making process could benefit from...

Das Projekt Wilde Mulde verfolgt das Ziel mittels Einbringung von Raubäumen, der Wiederherstellung eines Naturufers und der Anbindung eines Seitenarms hydromorphologische Prozesse im Fluss und in angebundenen Altwässern zu initiieren. Ferner sollen eine nachhaltige Revitalisierung des Fluss-Auen-Ökosystems Untere Mulde und die Förderung seiner biol...

Die Planung und die Umsetzung von Bewirtschaftungsmaßnahmen zur Verbesserung des Gewässerzustands und des natürlichen Hochwasserrückhalts an Flüssen und Auen gemäß EG-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (EU-WRRL), Flora-Fauna-Rahmenrichtlinie (FFH-RL) und Hochwasser-Risiko-Management-Richtlinie (HWRM-RL) sind häufig schwierig. Gründe dafür sind verschiedene Nut...

We conducted a nationwide survey in germany with an integrated choice experiment to find out, how different ecosystem service representations effect the acceptability for introducing deadwood into a river.

Context Although uncertainties are ubiquitous in landscape planning, so far, no systematic understanding exists regarding how they should be assessed, appropriately communicated and what impacts they yield on decision support. With increasing interest in the role of uncertainties in science and policy, a synthesis of relevant knowledge is needed to...

Recreational ecosystem services (RES), understood as the numerous benefits people obtain from landscapes and the natural environment, are a topical area of policy, research and society. This Editorial introduces the current state of RES research, provides an overview of the 21 contributions comprising this Special Issue of Ecosystem Services, and o...

he increase in global population and rapid change in human diets are putting enormous pressure on agricultural production, which already has a limited expansion capacity. By outlining possibilities for the sustainable intensification of agriculture, the research community can make a valuable contribution to alleviating some of these environmental e...

The increase in global population and rapid change in human diets are putting enormous pressure on agricultural production, which already has a limited expansion capacity. By outlining possibilities for the sustainable intensification of agriculture, the research community can make a valuable contribution to alleviating some of these environmental...

A high landscape aesthetic quality (LAQ) arguably is an important ecosystem service that positively affects humans’ health and well-being. It is strongly appreciated by citizens and provides the backdrop and precondition for many outdoor activities. The objective of this paper is to map and assess the LAQ of landscapes across Germany. We developed...

As demographic changes abound, landscape planners should increase their understanding of both elderly people’s preferences concerning nature-based recreation and approaches to consider those preferences in planning. This study aims to synthesize existing knowledge about elderly people’s preferences, namely, how they interact with green spaces, what...

Abstract The transition to energy supply from renewables is one of the central challenges of the 21st century. It is a major component of any strategy for achieving the goals of the Paris climate protection agreement. However, energy transition must not be realized at the expense of other sustainability goals. The energy transition and the goals fo...