Landscape Development and Nature Protection
As a human habitat, the landscape is constantly subjected to development. Changing economic circumstances and various socio-cultural developments have had a strong affect on the landscape. Projects undertaken in this research area examine these changes and their causes. At the same time, they attempt to reduce the application-related negative effects of these changes and to understand the development of the landscape as a creative task at the intersection of conservation and change.
List of all projects
- How to achieve effective participation of communities in the monitoring of REDD+ projects: A case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Project module Beaver and Biodiversity
- Cooperation-project on beaver management in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Planning guidelines for the handling of landscapes in interventions
- Agroforestry with high grade wood: Agroforestry systems with an added value for society and environment
- Relevance of open canopy forests for biodiversity
- Sustainable Futures for Europe's Heritage in Cultural Landscapes (HERCULES): Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values
- Continuity or change of prehistoric roads in the Hegau landscape, Konstanz District
- Compensatory measures in forests for the conservation of biological diversity
- Integration of remote sensing techniques and information on ecosystem services to measure tropical forest degradation - A case study from the tropical rain forest of Ecuador
- Analysis of the implementation and valorisation of the concept of core areas in German Biosphere Reserves
- Forest edges - Types, ecological potential and recommendations to creation, maintenance, improvement and linking
- Collective land use as a chance for nature conservation? The case of traditional Community Forestry in Germany
- Public perceptions and preferences of urban cultural landscape - A case study in Suzhou, China
- The potential of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) for the renaturation of wetlands. - A case study in the area of the Wurzacher Ried, Baden-Württemberg.
- 50 years of beaver in Germany– Knowledge, interests and opinions
- Laser scanning as a new technology in support of landscape studies
- Assessment of participatory processes in the creation of spatial plan for the Nature Park Medvednica
- Owls and woodpeckers as indicators for close to nature forest management
- Silvicultural and ecological potentials of the eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra L.)
- Indicators for biodiversity-oriented mangement of beech forests
- Regeneration, structure and land use of decidous Quercus macrolepis forests on Lesvos (Greece)
- Feasibility study on the designation of the European Greenbelt as World Heritage Site
- Outdoor Recreation Destinations as Model Regions for Adaption to Climate Change and Protecting Biodiversity
- Evaluation of species-climate relationships in the Ethiopian moist montane forests
- EU financing for nature conservation in private forests
- Beaver recovery and adaptive management
- Impacts of the National Park Black Forest
- Floristic compositon and affinities of the Ethiopian coffee forest vegetation
- Possibilities and challenges for biodiversity assessment in the national REDD+ strategy of Ecuador
- Examinations of anthropogenic induced biodiversity and structural diversity on selected areas in the Southern Black Forest (Oberer Hotzenwald) and Swabian Alb (Mittlere Kuppenalb)
- Natural monuments
- The Sweet Chenstnut in the Upper Rhine region - a tree species connecting people, cultures and landscapes
- Protection of cultural landscapes using the example of mapping and research from Wölbäckern near Rastatt
- Hiking hut guest books as an information source for the perception of nature and landscape - A case study on the socio-cultural value of wilderness areas in the Val Grande National Park (Italy)
- Conservation of traditional fruit varieties along the upper Rhine
- Ecosystem services of forests under different ownership structures
- The protection of forests under global biodiversity and climate policy
- Cultural ecosystem services, quality of life and their role in private land use
- Landuse planning traditions and their integration with nature conservation instruments
- Multifunctionality of coppice forests in Rhineland-Palatinate: Aspects of nature conservation and tourism
- Regional development and land use changes in traditional cultural landscapes – insights from the European periphery
- Genesis and alteration of historical vineyards, current perceptions and perspectives for their development
- Historical vineyards project - winegrowing, heritage preservation and nature conservation in tandem
- Origin and development of low-mountain range cultural landscapes in Germany and Japan
- Homeland - Landscape perception and landscape utilization by migrants
- Forest quality in the southwest of Mexico City: Assessment towards ecological restoration of ecosystem services
- Restoration and extensive grazing of wetlands - ecological and sociocultural evaluation of an nature conservation measure in the Syr floodplain (Luxemburg)
- Agroforest - New options for sustainable land use
- Enhancing the value of the UNESCO World Heritage Site 'Upper German-Raetian Limesthrough landscape management
- Forest expansion versus the preservation of open landscapes in Baden-Württemberg: Processes in space and time, Impacts upon landscape ecology, political control
- Forest as cultural landscape & biodiversity:
'Revitalisation of the total dynamic of a traditional coppice with standards as a forest experience concept for recreation forests near urban centres' - Prognosis on the expected landscape changes in Mueritz National Park (Germany) and landscape perception of both residents and tourists
- Analysis of landscape character in the region southern Oberrhein
- Protection and conservation of cultural-historical elements in the Black Forest
- Study of the hydrological, ecological and silvicultural conditions that favour common alder (Alnus glutinosa L.) disease caused by Phytophthora fungus in impoundment areas
- OFFENLAND Research Association: Management of Military Training Bases in the Pleistocene Lowland Areas of Northern Germany - Fundamentals of Nature Conservation and Practical Implementation
- Alpine Landscape Change in Val Grande National Park and in the Strona Valley.
- Identification of the Social, Economic and Ecological Potential for Sustainable Regional Development Using the Apuseni Mountains in Romania as an Example
- Development of ecological criteria for forest management as a fundament for an incentive-based conservation strategy
- Development of Military Training Areas in Germany using Baumholder Military Training Base as an Example
- Historical Use, Ecological and Socio-Cultural Determinants of Natural Regeneration in Open Holm Oak Forests ( Dehesas) in Spain
- Geographical Landscape Systems in Seefelder Aach (LISA)
- Forests as a Cultural Landscape in the Context of a Future-Orientated Forestry Economy
- The Influence of Forest Grazing on Forest Dynamics
- Cultural Landscape Pilot Project in Hohenlohe, Germany
- Public Relations in Nature Protection: Participants, Strategies and Effects
- Integrated Landscape Development for the Former Rocket Base "Pydna"
- Landscape Ecology and Aesthetic Assessment of Energy Transferral Systems
- Environmental Studies in the Urban Areas of Cluj Klausenburg, Romania)