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Drawing on empirical evidence from studies conducted in two human-shaped landscapes in Germany, the article aims to enhance the knowledge of how to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem services in integrated, subsequently termed ‘cultural’ landscapes. We analyze the relations between ecosystem services, policy instruments, and local quality of life, and shed light on the various context-specific aspects that need to be considered when implementing the ecosystem services approach in cultural landscapes. The authors identify how biodiversity conservation in such cultural landscapes can contribute to green economic development. First, the paper briefly summarises the key characteristics of the two cultural landscapes that are the focus of this chapter. The authors then discuss a number of important aspects that need to be understood when managing cultural landscapes. These include the spatial dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services, the existing policy instruments and ownership structures, the perspectives, knowledge, and action of local people and land-users, the multiplicity of ecosystem services, including cultural ecosystem services, and the importance for adopting a dynamic view on landscapes. Subsequently, practical and policy implications of fostering ecosystem services in integrated landscapes are presented and linkages between the landscape approach and the debate around a ‘green economy’ are explored.
Pathways, pitfalls, and perspectives 01.01.2015 Umweltrecht & Governance Bücher

Technologische, ökonomische, ökologische und politische Parameter schaffen die Voraussetzungen für die Integration von Elektrofahrzeugen in das intelligente Energienetz von morgen. Dieser Beitrag zeigt auf, welche Rolle Elektrofahrzeuge in einem zukünftigen Energiesystem einnehmen können und welche Dienstleistungen dabei relevant sein werden. Innovative Dienstleistungen und Geschäftsmodelle, die technische Gegebenheiten, Energiesystemanforderungen und Nutzerbedürfnisse in Einklang bringen, können maßgeblich zur Umsetzung von Elektromobilität im intelligenten Energienetz beitragen. Dabei geht es weniger um die Weiterentwicklung bestehender Dienstleistungen, als um die Entwicklung hochwertiger Dienstleistungen, die den Wandel zur Elektromobilität vorantreiben. Erschienen bei Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Online ISBN: 978-3-642-18438-3
E-Mobilität im intelligenten Energienetz 04.11.2012 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great potential to accelerate the energy transition and create truly sustainable societies, yet remain underexplored in policy circles. In our perspective, we emphasize sufficiency as a cornerstone for a successful energy transition and broader societal sustainability. We identify key barriers to sufficiency and sketch how policymakers, businesses, researchers, the media and arts, and civil society can help to overcome them. We note that a full transition to sufficiency, beyond individual interventions or novel practices, requires systemic changes that address underlying structural barriers, and distil four broad lessons from the field of transition studies that can help achieve these systemic changes. We call on relevant stakeholders to embrace sufficiency in order to accelerate the energy transition.
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Obwohl 1957 erstmals ein Reaktor in Deutschland kritisch wurde, ist 2016 die Frage der Endlagerung hochradioaktiver Abfälle immer noch offen. In einer früheren Artikelreihe konnten Sie lesen, was die Hintergründe sind. Mittlerweile hat die Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe („Endlagerkommission“) ihren Abschlussbericht mit Empfehlungen für den weiteren Prozess vorgelegt. Im nächsten Schritt soll das Standortauswahlverfahren anhand der „weißen Deutschlandkarte“ gestartet werden. Schon jetzt positionieren sich Bundesländer und Kommunen, um die Nicht-Eignung ihrer Region deutlich zu machen. Artikel erschienen in: sicher ist sicher – Fachzeitschrift für Sicherheitstechnik, Gesundheitsschutz und menschengerechte Arbeitsplatzgestaltung | Dezember 2016
15.12.2016 Nukleartechnik & Anlagensicherheit Bücher & Fachartikel

The Paris Agreement establishes provisions for using international carbon market mechanisms to achieve climate mitigation contributions. Environmental integrity is a key principle for using such mechanisms under the Agreement. This paper systematically identifies and categorizes issues and options to achieve environmental integrity, including how it could be defined, what influences it, and what approaches could mitigate environmental integrity risks. Here, environmental integrity is assumed to be ensured if the engagement in international transfers of carbon market units leads to the same or lower aggregated global emissions. Four factors are identified that influence environmental integrity: the accounting for international transfers; the quality of units generated, i.e. whether the mechanism ensures that the issuance or transfer of units leads to emission reductions in the transferring country; the ambition and scope of the mitigation target of the transferring country; and incentives or disincentives for future mitigation action, such as possible disincentives for transferring countries to define future mitigation targets less ambitiously or more narrowly in order to sell more units. It is recommended that policy-makers combine several approaches to address the significant risks to environmental integrity.
mechanisms under the Paris Agreement 21.09.2018 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

Biomasse umgibt uns im alltäglichen Leben. Man stößt überall auf nachwachsende Rohstoffe in den unterschiedlichsten Erscheinungsformen. So gehören Nahrungsmittel genauso zur Biomasse wie Papierprodukte, Biokunststoffe oder Textilien. Auch die Bioenergie ist eine wichtige Nutzungsform der Biomasse, stellt sie doch 80 Prozent der weltweit genutzten regenerativen Energien dar. Der häufige Einsatz von Biomasse hat seinen Grund: Sie hat ein sehr großes Spektrum von Verwendungen und ist scheinbar unendlich verfügbar, weil sie nachwächst. Doch die vielseitigen Vorteile der Rohstoffe sind mit Vorsicht zu genießen. Der Anbau von Energiepflanzen zur Erzeugung von Biogas oder Biokraftstoffen verspricht beispielsweise eine Reduktion von Kohlendioxid in den Sektoren Wärme oder Verkehr. Er steht indes in direkter Konkurrenz zum Anbau von Lebensmitteln – in Deutschland und weltweit.
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While it is widely acknowledged that carbon pricing plays an important role in driving the transition towards a low-carbon energy system, its interaction with complementary instruments is discussed controversially. The analysis of combining carbon pricing with complementary policies has been mostly focused on the electricity sector, while the role of carbon pricing in the buildings sector has received only minor interest. In view of the newly introduced carbon pricing scheme for the buildings and transport sector in Germany, we analyze the interactions between the carbon pricing scheme with the existing policy instruments and assess the consistency of the policy mix for decarbonizing the buildings sector. Our analysis finds that the introduction of carbon pricing has a reinforcing effect on the instrument mix and adds to the consistency of the policy mix. The results highlight the importance of complementary policies in order to achieve deep decarbonization in the buildings sector. We conclude that carbon pricing, preferably implemented as a tax with a predictable and increasing price level, needs to be supplemented with a powerful mix of complementary measures.
for Decarbonizing Buildings in Germany 01.11.2021 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

Once transitions progress beyond the start-up phase, niche technologies diffuse more widely to generate important knock-on effects in a focal sector. This entails a need for moving beyond niches to embrace a ‚whole system perspective‘. In the power sector, this perspective puts electricity networks in a more central position. This paper analyses how the governance of power networks is challenged by the energy transition. We integrate insights from network regulation and transition studies to propose a framework for understanding such challenges. With this framework we assess recent regulatory innovations in Norway. The paper shows how the regulatory toolbox can be amended to tackle innovation and transition. The Norwegian case shows that the regulator has taken up the energy transition challenges. It also shows the difficulties of making these new instruments effective, including the tension between a regulatory cost-efficiency focus on the one hand, and transformative change on the other. Published in:Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Volume 37, December 2020, Pages 318-331
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Social acceptance is increasingly becoming a limiting factor in implementing the energy transition in Germany. From today’s perspective, the expansion of wind energy and future transmission grids is only somewhat a technical or economic challenge rather than a social one. Since political decisions on the energy system transformation are often derived from findings of energy system modeling, it seems necessary to increasingly integrate the effects of socio-ecological aspects, such as acceptance issues in energy models. In this paper, an approach is introduced to address effects of social acceptance in energy system models by comparing the influence of different distribution scenarios of wind energy in Germany on the expansion need for future transmission lines. The results show that a socio-ecologic distribution of onshore wind installations according to a balanced burden of the German society does not reduce the grid expansion need significantly compared to an economic siting. An actual reduction of planned transmission grids could just be achieved by a more decentral scenario, including decentral market design. The sensitivity of regionalization is an opportunity to consider local acceptance issues within energy system models and should move more into focus inside the procedure of the current grid development process in Germany.
and the Transmission Grid in Germany 07.08.2021 Energie & Klimaschutz Bücher

Best practice policy design and harmonisation of support schemes for electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) within the European Union have been discussed controversially for years. In contrast, policies for improving renewable heating (RES-H) penetration in the European Member States and options for best practice instruments are still being developed. The objective of this paper is to analyse different levels of policy harmonisation for target compliance and the economics of renewable heating and cooling. After presenting the degree of RES-H policy harmonisation resulting from Directive 2009/28/EC, a quantitative assessment is performed of the costs and benefits of different harmonisation scenarios. This selects the obligation to use renewable heating in buildings as the common policy instrument against which the effects of harmonisation are analysed. The paper shows that economic benefits can result from implementing best practice design options for use obligations in EU Member States. Published in:Energy Policy, Volume 59, August 2013, Pages 59-70
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