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Previous research has shown that products labeled as ‘Protected Designation of Origin’ (PDO) correlate positively with indicators for landscape sustainability. However, specific factors that turn PDO products into sustainable landscape management tools remain vague. We analyze interviews from six European production systems to explore the links bet...
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has repeatedly failed to meet its global targets in 2010 and 2020, pointing to persistent obstacles to implementation. National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) are the central instrument for translating global targets into actions across sectors and levels of government, also referred t...
Drivers for biodiversity loss are largely regulated by policies in non-environmental sectors. The limited mainstreaming of biodiversity into respective policies remains yet to be analysed. During the process of updating the German National Biodiversity Strategy, we conducted 33 interviews and a stakeholder workshop to analyse barriers and levers fo...
Global biodiversity targets have not been met due to weak implementation at the national level. National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) are central for mainstreaming biodiversity by translating global ambition into national policies. This study analyzes the practical role of global and national biodiversity agendas. Interviews fr...
Native trees are central elements of sustainable agriculture, providing economic futures to rural populations while safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services. We present a diagnostic methodology for (i) identifying 'incentive opportunities' for farmers to plant and manage trees on farms; (ii) proposing targeted packages of incentive and fina...
Comparing the impacts of future scenarios is essential for developing and guiding the political sustainability agenda. This review-based analysis compares six IPBES scenarios for their impacts on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 20 biodiversity targets (Aichi targets) for the Europe and Central Asia regions. The comparison is based on a...
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to develop and implement a transformative framework for the coming decades. However, the question of what transformative biodiversity governance entails an...
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to develop and implement a transformative framework for the coming decades. However, the question of what transformative biodiversity governance entails an...
The Geographical Indications (GIs) scheme is the EU's primary policy tool for increasing the market values of geographically distinct food products. Although GIs are linked to the landscapes of food production, little is known about the social-ecological values they represent, mainly due to a lack of spatial data. In this study, we, therefore, mapp...
Global scientific assessments increasingly reach the conclusion that transformative change of global production and consumption systems is necessary to safeguard and maintain global commons, such as biodiversity, natural forests and the ocean. Against this background the present study analyses the conclusions of global assessments and derives recom...
Development of practical solutions for the planning and implementation of watercourse and floodplain development measures in the European Natura 2000 network, where conflicts of objectives arise between process-oriented and "conservation-oriented" nature conservation.
Solution approaches should be suitable to increasingly implement the existing sco...
Within the framework of a research and development project funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), practical solutions for the planning and implementation of watercourse and floodplain development measures in the European Natura 2000 network are therefore to be compiled, in which conflicts of objectives between process protectio...
We analysed the current German biodiversity strategy (NBSAP) and have developed recommendations for its updating process.
Implementing the European Green Deal and transforming agricultural practices requires a wider and amplified policy toolbox. As many sustainability considerations are context-dependent, there is a need for instruments, which take individual characteristics of production landscapes into account. Food products with a particularly strong relationship t...
National and local governments need to step up efforts to effectively implement the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity to halt and reverse worsening biodiversity trends. Drawing on recent advances in interdisciplinary biodiversity science, we propose a framework for improved implementation by national...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has integrated some environmental aspects into its instruments and measures. Since the 1990s, environmental measures have been introduced and iteratively adjusted with a new funding period every four to seven years. This chapter presents four stages of the policy cycle as an analytical framework in order to asse...
Die vorliegende Publikation ist die Kurzversion der englischsprachigen Studie „Transformative change for a sustainable management of global commons. Recommendations for international cooperation based on a review of global assessment reports and project experience“ (im Erscheinen) und wurde im Rahmen des Projekts „Transformativer Wandel zum Schutz...
Most protected areas are managed based on objectives related to scientific ecological knowledge of species and ecosystems. However, a core principle of sustainability science is that understanding and including local ecological knowledge, perceptions of ecosystem service provision and landscape vulnerability will improve sustainability and resilien...
The European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has failed to achieve its aim of preserving European
farmland biodiversity, despite massive investment in subsidies to incentivise environmentally-beneficial farming
practices. This failure calls into question the design of the subsidy schemes, which are intended to either function
as a safety net...
In the face of unsustainable land-use changes including intensified agricultural production and land abandonment, agroforestry systems have the potential to support a diversity of social and ecological functions in agricultural landscapes. Mediterranean agroforestry landscapes have been conserved through traditional practices, and new concepts are...
The expansion and intensification of agriculture as well as the associated land clearing are threatening both biodiversity and human wellbeing in tropical areas. Implementing agroforestry systems through a landscape approach has a strong potential for integrating nature conservation objectives into agricultural systems. A key challenge for implemen...
As central policies for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes in the European Union (EU), the Habitats Directive and Agri-environmental programmes (AEP) have largely failed to halt biodiversity loss. In response, the German federal state of Saxony combined the instrument of management plans with AEPs to support the implementation of...
Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing with respect to biodiversity, climate, soil, land degradation as well as socio‐economic challenges.
The European Commission's proposal for a CAP post‐2020 provides a scope for enhanced sustainability. However, it also al...
et X# signataires Rendre l'agriculture durable est un défi d'ampleur globale. En Union Européenne, la Politique Agricole Commune (PAC) est en train d'échouer en matière de biodiversité, de climat, des sols mais aussi des enjeux socio-économiques, surtout dans les zones rurales. La proposition de la Commission Européenne pour une PAC post-2020 perme...
For the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, it will no longer be sufficient to seek to limit biodiversity loss through agriculture. Instead, agriculture must become an integral element of sustainable landscapes a force for conserving biodiversity and providing vital ecosystem services to local populations and securing livelihoods.
Trees on far...
Over time the EU has developed an ever-expanding body of agricultural and nature conservation policies. This chapter analyses to what extent these two policy fields complement or contradict each other. It analyses the level of the coherence between the policy fields by looking at the interdependent elements objectives, instruments and implementatio...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) is one of the world's largest agricultural policies and the EU's longest-prevailing one. Originally focused mostly on supporting production and farm income, the CAP has progressively integrated instruments to support the environment. Nonetheless, there is considerable agreement among E...
EKLIPSE has published the report, annexes and press release on Understanding farmer uptake of measures that support biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Mainstreaming biodiversity across political sectors and levels is a central challenge to conserving global biodiversity. This article introduces biodiversity policy integration (BPI) as an analytical approach for assessing the ecological performance of nonenvironmental sectors using the following criteria: inclusion, operationalization, coherence,...
Fragmentation and destruction of ecosystems due to highways are key threats to habitat quality and biodiversity. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework and use a dynamic spatial panel data model to estimate how Austrian highway construction after 1968 has impacted the populations of roe deer, red deer and wild boar. The results indicat...
Building resilient sustainable social-ecological systems (SES) requires communities to enhance their adaptive capacities. Communal participative land-use planning (Zonificación Participativa Comunal-ZPC) is a tool designed for communities to integrating local and scientific knowledge to sustainably organize and manage their SES. Between 2006 and 20...
Agricultural landscapes in the EU are undergoing fundamental changes in land use, farm structure and management, and these in turn impose socio-economic and environmental impacts. It is often difficult to isolate the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) from other co-acting drivers, but a large number of studies attempt to do so. The lit...
Zusammenfassung: Dieser Bericht stellt die vorläufigen Ergebnisse des Fitness-Checks der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU dar. Die Autoren tragen die alleinige Verantwortung für die Inhalte.
Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) have recently been introduced as key element in the greening of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. In 2015, farmers across the EU have implemented EFAs for the first time. Data for German federal states indicate a strong variance in EFA decisions with an overall dominance of catch crops, nitrogen fixing crops and fal...
Der Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt stellt eines der größten Umweltprobleme dar. In der 1992 gegründeten Konvention zur Biologischen Vielfalt (CBD) koordinieren sich nun die bislang 196 Mitgliedsstaaten in ihrem Bestreben, die Biodiversität zu erhalten. Jedoch wurden die globalen Biodiversitätssziele für 2010 weit verfehlt. Die Analysen des viert...
Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) are one of the three new greening measures of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We used an interdisciplinary and European-scale approach to evaluate ecological effectiveness and farmers’ perception of the different EFA options. We assessed potential benefits of EFA options for biodiversity using a survey a...
Das Konzept des Greenings der Direktzahlung war zentraler Bestandteil der Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU (GAP) 2013. Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welchen Beitrag das Greening und speziell die ökologische Vorrangfläche zum Artenschutz leisten kann und welche Probleme es im Zusammenspiel mit anderen Politikinstrumenten der EU...
In the mega-diverse country Peru, a resource intensive development model collides with the interest of conserving biodiversity. Peruvian biodiversity experts have developed different lines of argumentation as to how to integrate conservation into the sustainable development of their country.
Applying grounded theory, I define five groups of conser...
