Research Focus: 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.

Current Projects:

 

Completed Projects:

  • 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 Limes' through 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. (Mutamenti dei paesaggi alpini nel Parco Nazionale della Val Grande e nella Valle Strona, versione italiana)
  • 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)

 




 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Aktualisiert: 11.08.10 bie